Student Award Spotlights
2021
Undergraduate Students Awards Ceremony (February 22, 2021)
2020
2020 American Welding Society Posters Competition - our students won 50% of the posters
Michael Moodispaw - Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Student
Steven J. Harmon Scholarship from the North American Die Casting Association
Rebecca Vilcheck - Materials Science and Engineering Student
National scholarship from the Foundry Educational Foundation
Cheng-Han Li - Materials science and Engineering grad student
Presidential Fellowship from the graduate school of Ohio State.
Atomic-scale characterization of structure-properties relationships in automotive catalysts
Dr. Joerg Jinschek, Professor
Fateh Mikaelli - PhD and Graduate Research Assistant, MSE
Best poster at the NSF Nanotechnology forum
Edward Orton Jr. Chair Perena Gouma, Advisor
Allison Whitney - Materials Science and Engineering major
Honorable mention at the eleventh annual Undergraduate Research Forum for Engineering and Architecture
Development of Textured Antireflective Coatings for Optical Path Length Enhancement in Solar Cells
Materials Science and Engineering Professor Tyler Grassman, Advisor
Patricia Loughney - Materials Science and Engineering PhD student
2020 Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) fellowship award
Identification of Structure-Processing-Property Relationships for Designing New Functional Polymer-Derived Ceramics
Assistant Professor Vicky Doan-Nguyen, Collaborator
2019
Noah Talisa - Graduate Student (Physics)
Best Student presentation award at SPIE Laser Damage Conference
Single-shot femtosecond laser-induced damage and ablation of HfO2/SiO2-based optical thin films: a comparison between few-cycle pulses and 110 fs pulses
Assistant Professor Enam Chowdhury, Advisor
Fateh Mikaeili - PhD Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant, MSE
Best poster at the NSF Nanotechnology forum
Orton Chair Perena Gouma, Advisor

Wichurat Sakulpaptong, DDS and PhD Candidate in Division of Biosciences
1st place in the Basic Science category at the American Academy of Periodontology
Associate Professor Heather Powell (MSE and Biomedical Engineering), Advisor
Molly Baumann (Biomedical Engineering)
Presidential Fellow beginning in 2020
Ablative Lasers for Burn Scar Remodeling
Associate Professor Heather Powell (MSE and Biomedical Engineering), Advisor
Associate Professor Heather Powell (MSE and Biomedical Engineering), Advisor

Sam Luther - Welding Engineering PhD Candidate
First place for artistic microscopy in 2019 International Metallographic Contest

Milind Pawar - Materials Science and Engineering PhD Candidate

Michael Moodispaw- Fourth Year dual Materials Science and Engineering undergrad and graduate student
5th Place at World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering

John Jamison- Materials Science and Engineering PhD Candidate
2019 ENGIE-Axium Scholarship Award