ALUMNI
Ashish Bagai (B.S. ’90, M.S. ’92, and Ph.D. ’95, aerospace engineering [AE]) was inducted into the Clark School’s Innovation Hall of Fame for his work on the Sikorsky X2 demonstrator aircraft.
 Veronica Davis (B.S. '01, civil
engineering [CEE]) was honored by the White House as a Transportation Champion of
Change.
 Dan Janiak (B.S. '04 and Ph.D. '09,
materials science and engineering) was awarded a Kauffman Fellowship, which includes
admission into an elite, two-year program designed to educate the world's most promising,
up-and-coming venture capitalists.
 Harish Bhaskaran (M.S. ’02 and Ph.D.
’06, mechanical engineering [ME]) received a Fellowship in Manufacturing awarded by the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Bhaskaran was among four recipients
of £1 million ($1.6 million) to fund innovative manufacturing projects over five
years.
 Yu-Hsin Chen (Ph.D. ’11, electrical
engineering [EE]), a former doctoral student advised by Professor Howard Milchberg, won the
2012 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award from the American Physical
Society's Division of Plasma Physics.
 David L. Vanhoy (M.S. '88, AE) received
the 2012 Kelly Johnson Award for excellence and outstanding achievement in flight test
engineering from the Society of Flight Test Engineers.
 Steven Acenbrak (M.S. '88, CEE) was
recently designated a Public Works Leadership Fellow by the American Public Works
Association.
 AE alumni Keith Allen (B.S. '07, pictured) and
Kevin Schoonover (B.S. '06) were included on this year's
Aviation Week & Space Technology
"40 Under Forty" list of "rising stars in the global aerospace and defense industry."
 James P. Begley (B.S. '96, fire
protection engineering) was listed among Consulting-Specifying Engineer's 2012 "40 Under
40."
 Farhan Gandhi (M.S. ’92 and Ph.D.
’95, AE) joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the Rosalind and John J. Redfern
Jr. ’33 Professor of Engineering and a tenured full professor in the Department of
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering.
 AE alumnus Nikhil Koratkar (M.S. '98 and
Ph.D. '00) was named the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of
Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
 Jie Chen (Ph.D. '98, EE) was promoted
to full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University
of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).
 Zhu Han (M.S. '99 and Ph.D. '03, EE)
received tenure as an associate professor at the University of Houston.
 Steven DeCaluwe (Ph.D. ’09, ME)
joined the mechanical engineering faculty as assistant professor at the Colorado School of
Mines.
 Sophoria Westmoreland (M.S. ’11 and
Ph.D. ’12, ME) accepted a position as assistant research professor in the Mechanical
Engineering Department at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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KEY LEGEND:
AE:
BioE:
ChBE:
CEE:
ECE:
EE:
FPE:
MSE:
ME: |
aerospace
engineering
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
chemical and bimolecular engineering
civil and environmental engineering
electrical and computer engineering
electrical engineering
fire protection engineering
materials and science engineering
mechanical engineering |
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