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EE graduate
student has best paper
Marshall
Prizes presented
Louise
Conroy '03 and Lavinia Ursescu '03 won first place for the John
Marshall II Memorial Prize 2003. Their project is titled "An
Investigation into the Properties of the Ti-46.5A1-4(Cr,Nb,Ta,B)
Alloy: Crack Nucleation and Propagation Mechanisms," and
their adviser is Professor Wolé Soboyejo.
The
team of Ryan Kiskis '03 and Joseph Sarokhan '03 won second
place for their project titled "Hovercraft Demonstration
of a Satellite Formation Flying Control System." Their
adviser is Assistant Professor Jeremy Kasdin '85.
Andrew Patton '03 received an honorable
mention for his project titled "Using Morphable Tetrahedral
Structures as Deformable Mirror Elements for the Terrestrial
Planet Finder Project." He is advised by Professors Kasdin
and Michael Littman, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Professor Jean-Hervé Prévost, and D.R. Mumm
of the Princeton Materials Institute.
The John Marshall II Memorial Prize was
established in memory of Mr. Marshall '72, who was killed
in the crash of an experimental helicopter. The prize provides
financial support for research expenses and preference is
given to projects in the field of aerospace engineering.
Weidong Wang, a graduate student in the
Department of Electrical Engineering, received the Best Student
Paper Award from the International Conference on VLSI Design
held in January. His paper, titled "High-level synthesis
of multi-process behavioral descriptions," was co-authored
with Anand Raghunathan from NEC and Professors Niraj K. Jha,
and Sujit Dey from the University of California at San Diego.
McKinzie
Prize winners selected
Shannon Okuyama '03 placed first for the
Morgan W. McKinzie '93 Senior Thesis Fund Prize 2003 for her
project titled "An Experimental and Chemical Kinetic
Study of Ignition in Lean Mixtures at Elevated Pressures."
Her adviser is Professor Ed Law.
The team of Kristina Alemany '03 and Kristen
Bethke '03 placed second for their project titled "Integrated
Robotic Team for Martian Water Collection." Professor
Dan Nosenchuck is their adviser.
The Morgan W. McKinzie '93 Senior
Thesis Fund Prize, established in honor of Morgan W. McKinzie
'93, provides financial support to seniors in the Department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for expenses associated
with the conduct of research. Preference is given to students
with projects in aircraft design and propulsion.
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