On Friday, May 8th, the Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Office hosted an online event celebrating the achievements and successes of all their M.S. and Ph.D. students. Each year the office recognizes their graduate students' many outstanding accomplishments.
THIS YEAR'S AWARD RECIPIENTS:
Best Paper Awards Sara Lyon and Paul Nation
$500 Scholarship Award Preethi Ravula
Irwin Centennial Research Committee Travel Awards Jonathan Kordell, Jack (Yu-Hsiang) Yang and Artur Roman
American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) $20,000 Graduate Fellowship Seyed Fouad Karimian
HULKA Energy Research Fellowship for 2019-20 Kiran Raj Goud Burra
Ann Wylie Fellowship (2020) Kiran Raj Goud Burra
Best Poster Award in Component-Level Thermal Management Track Sevket Umut Yuruker
Best Student Presenter Awards Gargi Kailkhura and Sai Vathsavai
Engie Chuck Edwards Memorial Fellowship James Tancabel
Best Student Presentation Award Ellery Klein
Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship Han Zhou
Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) 2019 Best Community Service Devashis Shrestha (President of Student Chapter)
University of Maryland Three-Minute Thesis CompetitionAward Star (Byeol) Kim
Outstanding Research Assistance Award/Clark School Future Faculty Fellow Harnoor Singh Sachar
Clark School Future Faculty Fellow/GSG Outstanding Representative Award/Kulkarni Fellowship/Goldhar Travel Award Guarav Kumar
Summer Research Fellowship David Catalini
First Prize for Artistic Merit – 2019 Combustion Art Competition Sriram Bharath Hariharan
Authored Papers Turash Haque Pial
T. H. Pial, Y. Wang, and S. Das, “Non-Monotonic Dependence of Fluid Dissipation on Fluid Density in Fluid-Coupled Nanoresonators.” Applied Physics Letters, 115, 251601 (2019).
H. S. Sachar, T. H. Pial, P. R. Desai, S. A. Etha, Y. Wang, P. W. Chung, and S. Das, “Densely Grafted Polyelectrolyte Brushes Trigger “Water-in-Salt” like Scenarios and Ultraconfinement Effect.” Matter, 2020.
University of Maryland Three-Minute Thesis Competition Finalist Austin Lewis
Lewis, Austin & Groth, Katrina. (2020). A Dynamic Bayesian Network Structure for Joint Diagnostics and Prognostics of Complex Engineering Systems Algorithms. 13. 64. 10.3390/a13030064.
CEEE Best Student Consortium Presentation Award Fabio Battaglia
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship Award Graduate School’s Outstanding Research Assistant Award Azin Mousavi
Congratulations to all of this year’s graduates!
“We know students who are graduating this semester are facing special challenges, but you are not alone, it’s a worldwide problem and we are all here to help work through this together with you,” said Professor Abhijit Dasgupta, director of graduate studies. “We are all in this together for the long haul. Which means a lot of sustained hard work, teamwork, dedication, collaboration. All of us together.”
