UNDERGRADUATE and GRADUATE
 The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale has certified that the Clark School’s Gamera human-powered helicopter team set world records earlier this year for flight duration and flight duration with a female pilot. In addition, the Gamera team was recognized with the annual American Helicopter Museum and Education Center Achievement Award for 2011. This award is presented to a person or organization that has made a significant impact to furthering rotary-wing aviation during the past year.
 Members of the Clark School's Terps Racing team are the 2011 Sports Car Club of America Solo National Champions in the Formula SAE Class. Drivers from the team came in first and third, setting the fastest time by almost three seconds at the event. The team's drivers were Michael Stanley (M.S. '10, electrical engineering [EE]) and David Eng (B.S. '11, mechanical engineering [ME]).
 Clark School Corporate Partner Company L-3 Communications has selected its 2011-2012 class of graduate fellowship and undergraduate scholarship recipients. The awards are part of a $1 million gift to the Clark School by L-3 Communications last year.
The 2011-2012 L-3 Graduate Fellows are:
• Ryan Robinson (aerospace engineering [AE])
• Gregory Gremillion (AE)
• Keith Gregorczyk (materials science and engineering [MSE])
• Jessica Sheehan (ME)
• Nicholas Willard (ME)
The 2011-2012 L-3 Undergraduate Scholars are:
• Elena Shrestha (AE)
• Laura Miles (AE)
• Matt Rich (AE)
• Rebecca Bair (electrical and computer engineering [ECE])
• John Garvey (ECE)
• Saara Khan (ECE)
• Alex Sposoti (MSE)
• Jillian Buchheim (ME)
• Andrew Sabelhaus (ME)
The L-3 Corporate Partner Scholars are:
• Harrison Chau (AE)
• Li Peng Liang (AE)
• Prateek Kukreja (ECE)
• Ben Flom (ECE)
• Elizabeth Sauerbrunn (ME)
GRADUATE
 Clark School AE students came in first place in the 28th American Helicopter Society Student Design Competition graduate category with Excalibur, a variable diameter tiltrotor. Clark School students have placed first in this competition 11 times in 14 years.
 Six Clark School students are among NASA's inaugural class of Space Technology Research Fellowships. Only MIT and Georgia Tech had more fellows, with seven per school. The fellows are:
• Michael Bustamante (fire protection engineering [FPE], pictured)
• Timothy Creech (ECE)
• Jaemi Lee Herzberger (ME)
• Jeremy Knittel (AE)
• Alex Scammell (ME)
• John Vitucci (AE)
 ME doctoral student J. Edmon Lee Perkins has received a 2011 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. Ford Foundation Fellowships are offered at the predoctoral, dissertation and postdoctoral levels and provide three years of support for individuals engaged in graduate study leading to a Ph.D. or Doctor of Science degree.
Ph.D. candidate Andrew Becnel (MS ’11, aerospace engineering), of the Composites Research Laboratory, received the
2011 Jerry Bauer Award from the Society for the Advancement of Materials Processing and
Engineering (SAMPE) National Student Research Symposium. His presentation was titled
“Magnetorheological Fluid Composites for Crashworthiness Applications.”
Anthony
Melchiorri, graduate student in the Fischell Department of
Bioengineering (BioE), is the latest recipient of the Fischell Fellowship
in Biomedical Engineering. The Fischell Fellowship is awarded annually to
talented and innovative graduate students interested in applied research and
product design in the biomedical industry.
BioE graduate student Rasa Ghaffarian, advised by Assistant Professor Silvia Muro (joint, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research), won the Best Poster Award at the third annual meeting of the American Society of Nanomedicine. Ghaffarian took top honors for the presentation of her work on a safer method of transporting drugs across the epithelial barrier lining the gastrointestinal tract.
BioE postdoctoral fellow Tridib Bhowmick (also advised by Muro) and his collaborators received the Controlled Release Society's highly recognized 2011 Outstanding Consumer and Diversified Products Paper Award for "ICAM-1-Targeted Nanocarriers Provide Efficient Targeting, Transport Across the BBB, and Uniform Distribution and Effects of Therapeutic Enzymes in the Brain" during the society's 38th Annual Meeting & Exposition. Bhowmick’s collaborators were Janet Hsu (BioE); Rajwinder Dhami and Edward Schuchman (genetics and genomic sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine); and Scott Burks and Joseph Kao (Center for Biomedical Engineering & Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore).
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) graduate student Deepa Subramanian, advised by Professor Mikhail Anisimov, received the Gilbert Ling Poster Award at the Sixth Annual Water Conference. Subramanian's poster was titled "Resolving the Nanoscale Inhomogeneities in Aqueous Solutions of Tertiary Butyl Alcohol.” She also won the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics Student Poster Award at the European Symposium on Applied Thermodynamics for her presentation titled "Self-assembly of small organic molecules in aqueous solutions."
ECE graduate student Wei Zhao received the best poster award at the 2011 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium. Zhao, who co-authored the paper with Kwagsik Choi, Zeynep Dilli, Scott Bauman, Tom Salter and Professor Martin Peckerar (ECE), was selected from 89 competitors for the award. Zhao’s paper was titled “Design of a Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting System for an Unmanned Airplane.”
Environmental engineering graduate student Qiang Huang won the American Chemical Society (ACS) Agro Educational Award sponsored by Bayer CropScience to present his work titled “Raman Microscopic Analysis of PM10 for Assessing Source Distributions from Agricultural Operations” at the 2011 Fall ACS National meeting.
Domenic Forte, an ECE graduate student, won the 2011 Best Student Paper Award at the NASA/European Space Agency Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems for “Adaptable Video Compression and Transmission Using Lossy and Workload Balancing
Techniques.”
ME Ph.D. candidate Magnus Eisele, Professor Yunho Hwang (associate director of the Center for Environmental Energy Engineering [CEEE]); and Professor Reinhard Radermacher (director of CEEE) received the Best Technical Paper Award at the Society of Automotive Engineers/Institution of Mechanical Engineers Vehicle Thermal Management Systems Conference. The award-winning paper was titled “Small-scale Dynamic Test Facility for Automotive Thermal Management Systems.”
Gilbert Haddad, ME Ph.D. student with the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), and Professor Peter Sandborn (ME) won the award for "Overall Best Paper from Academia" at the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management for "Using Real Options to Manage Condition-Based Maintenance Enabled by PHM."
CALCE’s Moon-Hwan Chang (Ph.D. student), Faculty Research Associate Diganta Das and Professor Michael Pecht won the 2011 Outstanding Paper Award at the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society Mid-Atlantic Microelectronics Conference for their paper, "Junction Temperature Characterization of High Power Light Emitting Diodes."
Two graduate students associated with the National Center of Excellence in Aviation Operations Research have received Federal Aviation Administration graduate research awards for 2011-2012. Kleoniki Vlachou (civil and environmental engineering) received the grant for the topic, “Equitable Resource Allocation Mechanisms During Reduced Airspace Capacity,” while Prem Swaroop (business) will be researching “Service Expectations Setting in Air Traffic Flow Management: A Consensus-Building Mechanism.”
Mohamed Helaly, a student in the Master of Engineering in Project Management program, was included in the American Society for Quality’s Quality Progress magazine “40 New Voices of Quality” list.
Byungseok Yoo (AE) took first place in the graduate category of the Student Paper Award competition at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region 1-Mid-Atlantic 11th Young Professional, Student and Education Conference for his presentation “Guided Lamb Ware Based Spiral Phased Array for Damage Detection of Thin Composite
Panels.”
Natasha Andrade (civil and environmental engineering [CEE]) received a 2011 Student Travel Award from the board of directors of the Chesapeake and Potomac Regional Chapter of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry for her work titled “Utilizing thin-film SPE methodology to assess DDT and dieldrin bioavailability to
earthworms.”
Zheng Jia (ME) received the Haythornwaite Foundation Travel Award to attend the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition and present his recent research on in situ experiments and mechanics modeling of tensile cracking in indium tin oxide thin films on polyimide
substrates.
Entering ECE Ph.D. students Xiangyang Liu and Faheng Zang received the inaugural Jimmy H. C. Lin Graduate Scholarship in recognition of their outstanding academic records while at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Lin's alma mater.
ChBE graduate student Szu-Ting (Justin) Chou has received two travel scholarships: the University of Maryland's Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant and an American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy Travel Grant.
UNDERGRADUATE
 Meenu Singh, a sophomore CEE student, has won the 2011 Leading Women Scholarship presented by the Maryland Daily Record.
 Erin Strittmatter, a CEE undergraduate, has received a 2011-2012 Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation Scholarship from the Department of Defense.
 ChBE senior Matthew Conway won first place in the Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering category of the undergraduate student poster competition at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' annual meeting. His poster was titled "Does Genome-Scale Flux Balance Analysis Predict Metabolic Fluxes in Yeast As Accurately As Isotope-Assisted Metabolic Flux Analysis?”
Chad Lannon, FPE sophomore, received the Fire Apparatus Manufacturer’s Association 2011 Phillip L. Turner Fire Protection Engineering
Scholarship.
AE students Bryan Lowry and Patrick Hearn have received U.S. Navy Nuclear Power Officer Candidate Scholarships.
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