Recipients of Graduate Student Awards for 1996-97

Graduate School Fellowship

April Russell - National Graduate Feeder, Program Fellowship

Janet Foster, CIC/GE Predoctoral Fellowship

Donald Johnson, National Graduate Feeder, Program Fellowship

Minnesota Space Grant Consortium Fellowships

Donald Johnson, AEM

Gloria Martizez-Arizala, Physics

Janet Foster, AEM

April Russel, AEM

Control Science and Dynamical Systems Fellowships

Jiecai Lui

Graduate Student Notes

Wendy Grebner was awarded an Engineering Dissertation Fellowship by the American Association of University Women. The working title of her dissertation is "Experimental Investigatoin of the Strain Field Near a Notch Tip in Metallic Single Crystals".

The Opportunities Day for Girls, sponsored by the Program for Women in the Institute of Technology, focused on Looking Towards the Future on April 19th. It was organized by graduate students Wendy Grebner, Alexandra Naughton, and Kosti Hennighausen. The event brings elementary school and junior high girls to campus for a half-day of hands-on activities. This year, the girls participated in either fluids or solids experiments. The solid mechanics group performed experiments on composite materials, where they learned how fiber orientation affects strength. The fluids group watched a wind tunnel demonstration and performed experiments in the water channel. The girls were able to make hypotheses about flow behavior and test these hypotheses with flow visualization. The department presenters included Greg Weirs, Shing Ngan, Kevin Hane, Manoj Nagulapally, Pam Schumacher, Ryan Vartanian, and Jenny Cordina.

Alexandra Naughton, a graduate student in the AEM Department, worked on recruiting female graduate students during winter quarter. She also organized seminars for graduate students on presentation skills and career options.

Deb Olejniczak and Wendy Grebner visited Roosevelt Elementary School for a career exploration day, Wendy Grebner and Alexandra Naughton spoke at classes at Roseville High School.

Scott Doudrick and Jerry Brenden talked to three classes at a St. Paul School about Aerospace.

During IT Week, Jerry Brenden did a wind tunnel demonstration and Scott Doudrick did a rocket demonstration for part of the Department tours for about 200 high school students.

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