An ME undergraduate senior, Joe Mullenbach, and his partners were one of three finalists in this years Minnesota Cup. Their company is called NewWater.
Mullenbach also spent last summer in Washington, D.C. with the ASME WISE Internship Program. The program brings engineering students from across the country to "learn how government officials make decisions on complex technological issues and how engineers can contribute to legislative and regulatory public policy decisions." He was one of two ME students this summer. As part of the internship Mullenbach wrote a policy recommendation paper on improving innovation policies within the Department of Energy. The paper is viewable online in the journal.
2009 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships were awarded to ME students, Adam Boies, Zachary Holman, Vishard Ragoonanan, and Nicholas Stanley.
An Interdisciplinary Fellowship was awarded to Julia Haltiwanger.
A NSEDG Fellowship was awarded to Derrick Oberreit.
Two graduate assistants were given the Outstanding TA Award at the ME Graduation Ceremony on May 8, 2009. Mark Brandl and Benjamin Adams were TA's for Professor Peter McMurry in the Measurements course and lab.
Graduate Students Luke Venstrom and Ariel Chatman were awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to support their graduate studies and research over the next three years. Luke, who is advised by Professor Jane Davidson, works in the Solar Energy Lab on a two-step solar thermochemical cycle for the production of hydrogen. Ariel is advised by Professor Uwe Kortshagen and her research focuses on the use of semiconductor nanoparticles for high efficiency thermoelectric materials.
Prof. Tianhong Cui and his Ph.D. student Dongjin Lee's paper titled "Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Based Ion-Sensitive Conductometric Glucose Biosensors" was featured on the cover of the most recent issue of IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3. April, 2009.
Graduate student Julie Whitcomb, was awarded the Louise T. Dosdall Fellowship, April, 2009.
Graduate student Zachary Holman, won a $1500 scholarship from the Minnesota Particle Society in September, 2008. The selection criteria for the award included coursework, publications, advisor comments, and career goals. The main focus was on the research Zach has done to date, and its potential to influence the course of particle science and engineering.
Undergraduate student George Mallin, has been appointed the Student Consultant for the ASHRAE Student Activities Committee at their Winter Meeting in Chicago, January 23-24, 2009. For more information, see ASHRAE.
Graduate Student, Jacob Hanna, received the Best Poster Award for his poster "Cell Motion in a Two-stream Microfluidic Channel" at the Lifescience Alley Conference and Expo, December 10, 2008. The award was sponsored by the Institute of Technology.
Graduate students, Luke Venstrom and Julia Haltiwanger received the People's Choice Award for their poster, "A Two-Step Solar Thermochemical Process to Produce Hydrogen from Water" at the E3 2008 Conference, the midwest's premier energy, economic and environmental conference, held November 18, 2008 at the St. Paul River Center. Their advisor is Professor Jane Davidson.
Thomas Shepard won the Mechanical Engineering 2008-09 Teaching Fellowship and is teaching ME 3332, Fluid Mechanics.
Iman Borazjani (Ph.D 2008). His poster titled "Patient-specific Simulations of Bi-leaflet Mechanical Heart Valve (BMHV) in an Anatomic Aorta" won one of the best poster prizes at the MSI open house on April 23, 2008.
Shyam Sivaramakrishnan, a doctoral student working with Prof. Rajesh Rajamani, has been selected as one of five student semi-finalists for the 4th Annual Minnesota Cup. The Minnesota Cup is an annual statewide entrepreneur challenge with finalists presenting their business plans to leaders in the entrepreneurial business community. The selected business proposal aims to commercialize a new wireless carbon dioxide sensing technology for accurate low-cost carbon dioxide monitoring. The University's Office of Technology Commercialization has filed a provisional patent application on this technology.
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships were awarded to three ME students for 2008:
Shyam Sivaramakrishnan
Chin-Yi Liu
Weon Gyu Shin
Jason Trask received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2008.
Post-Doc Tareq Abu Hamed won the Dan David Prize Scholarship, $15,000, for the Present Time Dimension in the field of Social Responsibility with Particular Emphasis on the Environment. He works with Professor Jane Davidson. The Dan David Prize recognizes and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. It aims to foster universal values of excellence, creativity, justice, democracy and progress and to promote the scientific, technological and humanistic achievements that advance and improve our world.
Julie Whitcomb, a Ph.D. student has received a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany for 2007-08. Her project addresses an urgent problem in vision biology: the interplay between retinal blood flow and retinal blood vessel elasticity and how it might be used in the fight to prevent blindness. She received her M.S. degree from the University in 2006.
Ehsan Elahi received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2007.
Lavanya Ravi was named the 2007-08 Teaching Fellow.
July 2006. Alex Kossett, mechanical engineering junior, received a Mercury 7 Astronaut Scholarship of $10,000. He was one of 18 engineering and science college students nationally to receive the scholarship, which was founded in 1984 by the six surviving members of the Mercury 7 astronauts. Kossett plans to attend graduate school to get his masters degree in mechanical engineering.
A. Serdan Sezen has won the Outstanding TA Award for 2006.
Michael Hallberg is the ME Teaching Fellow for the 2006-07 academic year.
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