Student Award Spotlights

2021

2021 AWS Poster Competition winners (September)

Samuel Luther - 2nd place, graduate student track
Chris Hickman, Amber Johnson, Colleen Woidke - 1st place, undergraduate student track
Todd Anderson, Christopher Harman, Lewis Nerone, Michael Xu - 2nd place, undergraduate student track
Jacque Berkson, Claire Cary, Allina Mlinaro, Scott Sheffield - 3rd place, undergraduate student track
Evan Butler (WE student intern) - 1st place, high school track

William Siefert, Ph.D. WE 2024, awarded an AWS Graduate Research Fellowship (September)

Hayden Beatty, B.S. MSE 2024, Best Student Poster Award at LaserNetUS (U.S. Department of Energy Consortium) annual meeting.

"Ultra-intense laser plasma interaction with silica microspheres" focused on creating warm-dense-matter states (believed to be the state of matter at the core of super-earths, Jovian planets, etc.) in the laboratory to understand their properties better (August)

Thomas Avey, MSE doctoral student, awarded best student oral presentation award at Mg 2021 conference (July)

Binbin Wang, MSE doctoral student, awarded Presidential Fellowship (May)

Jianxiong Li, WE doctoral student, awarded Presidential Fellowship (May)

Jacque Berkson, WE senior, 1st place at Denman Undergraduate Research Forum (May)

Category - Engineering: Physical Sciences category

Presented on the effects of implementing a binary argon-helium gas mixture within the Laser-Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing process

Tessa Gilmore, MSE Senior, 2nd place at Denman Undergraduate Research Forum (May)

Category - Innovations in Technology, Mathematics, and Physics

Presented the process she developed that uses electrospinning to create both uniaxial and randomly oriented fibers at a high throughput rate. This innovative procedure has the potential to increase fiber production for commercial applications, meaning smart fabrics will be lighter and more versatile than what is on the market today.

Undergraduate Students Awards Ceremony (February 22)

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