STUDENT HONORS, AWARDS AND OTHER NOTEWORTHY ITEMS
Recipients of Undergraduate Student Awards 1994-95
- Boeing Scholarship Awardees
- Kortney Rivard
- Todd Krinke
- Boeing Summer Internship Recipients
- Kortney Rivard
- Sarah Braasch
- R. Minkin Aerospace Engineering Scholarship Awardees
- Andres Mediavilla
- Michael M. Ondrey
- Institute of Technology Undergraduate Assistantship/Chester Gaskell
Aeronautical Engineering Scholarships
- Paul Mattson
- Derek Grefroh
- Institute of Technology Undergraduate Assistantship/Minnesota Space
Grant Consortium Scholarship
- Steven Sherman
- Mercury Seven Foundation Scholarship Awardee
- Sarah Brassch
- NASA Summer Academy Participants
- Laura Sachi
- Jonathan Fields (UMD)
Other Undergraduate Notes
The National Kidney Foundation of the Upper Midwest, Inc., sponsored
The Great Airplane Toss at the Minnesota Twins/Texas Rangers Game,
Friday, May 26, l995. The airplane design for the contest was provided
by the AEM Department and our design students provided assistance during
the event.
Sebastien Menuisier, exchange student from the Ecol National
Superieure de Aeronautique et de l'Espace in Toulouse, France, spent
spring quarter and summer working with Professor Gary Balas on the the
control of flexible structures.
- AEM Undergraduates Receiving NSF Graduate Fellowships
- Laura Sachi
- Dawn Hastreiter
- Daniel Scharf
- AIAA Student Officers
- President, Shawn Dockter
- Vice President, Michael Stram
- Secretary, Troy Beyer
- Treasurer, Eric Engebretsen
- Sigma Gamma Tau Officers
- President, Steve Ford
- Vice President, Matt Reetz
- Secretary, Martin Annett
- Treasurer, Kristine Geske
AEM Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
Participants
- Sarah Braasch, Professor Joseph advisor.
- Andrew Krolnik, Professor Longmire advisor.
- Robert Miller, Professor Vano advisor.
- John Buch, Professor Alving advisor.
- Michael Stram, Professor Balas advisor.
- Eric Engebretson, Professor Candler advisor.
RECIPIENTS OF GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS FOR 1994-95
- NASA Graduate Fellowship
- Andrew Wissink
- NSF Fellowship
- Darren Mason
- Graduate School Fellowship
- Wendy Grebner
- Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Jing-Tao Feng
- Minnesota Space Grant Consortium Fellowships
- Paul Blue, Mechanical Engineering
- Ramon Cajina, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
- Kim Marsh, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
- Darren Mason, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
- Gloria Martinez-Arizala, Physics
- Laura Weyer, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
- Control Science and Dynamical Systems Fellowships
- Ian Fialho, Electrical Engineering
- Huseyin Hakan Fer, Aerospace Engineering and
Mechanics
- USAF Palace Knight Fellowships/Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
- Jim Buffington
- USAF Foulois Award for 1993 for Scientific
Research/Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
- Jim Buffington
- Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education Fellowship
- Greg Weirs
- 1995 Institute of Technology Academic Mentoring Award
- Wendy Grebner
Other Graduate Notes
Maria (Pino) Martin was involved in recruiting female
graduate students to the department through the efforts of women in the
Institute of Technology.
Steve Anderson presented a paper at the Twelfth U.S.
National Congress of Applied Mechanics in Seattle, WA.
Abbas Alahyari gave a talk on his work at the 47th Annual
Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics,
Atlanta, GA.
Ph.D. student in Control Sciences and Dynamical Systems, Jim
Buffington, was one of the co-authors of the paper which won the
Best Paper Award for the 1994 AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control
Conference. The paper entitled "Active Vortex Control for VISTA
F-16 Envelope Expansion" was co-authored by Richard Adams, James
Buffington and Siva Banda. Jim and his co-authors received their award
at the 1995 GNC meeting in Baltimore, MD. Jim is a participant in the
distinguished Palace Knights, Program of the U.S. Air Force and is doing
his Ph.D. with Professor Dale Enns as his advisor.