Student Award Spotlights
2023
Ashton Egan, MSE postdoc, received the Humboldt Research Fellowship to investigate cobalt-based superalloys (August)
Samantha Mendez, MSE graduate student, Outstanding Leader in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Service Award as part of the 2023 College of Engineering Graduate Awards (July)
Alivia Mourot, WE graduate student, receives Best Graduate Student Poster Award at Ohio State Materials & Manufacturing Conference for her research on the process-property-structure relationship in additively manufactured materials. (May)
Daniel Hong, MSE doctoral student, selected as DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program to continue research on nanoindentation of NiTi Shape Memory Alloys (May)
Rogine Gomez, MSE doctoral student, receives Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation (May)
Giacomo Melaragno, WE doctoral student receives NSF fellowship for additive manufacturing research (April)
Undergraduate Student Awards Banquet (April)
Jiayuwen Qi, MSE doctoral student, awarded 2022-2023 Presidential Fellowship (January)
2022
Nicole Yarris, WE Senior, 2022 Homecoming Court (September)
ASM International's IMAT 2022 (September)
- Andy Planitz, B.S. MSE - Third place in the IMC Student Division - "An investigation of Acoustic Guitar String Processing"
- Fontana's Finest members Greg Janas (team captain), Graham Clark, Nathan Heniken and David Wynn, Team advisor, Dr. Elvin Beach - First place in the 2022 Heat Treating Society (HTS) Strong Bar Competition
Brandi Wooten, MSE doctoral student, 2022 Tillman Scholar (June)
Paul Cuillier MSE doctoral candidate, receives DOE SCGSR award to study critical energy storage (June)
In-person undergraduate awards banquet returns to honor seniors (April)
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Karl Graff Award- Kevin McIllvaine
- Alan J. Markworth Memorial Award - Brandon Layer
- John Lippold Award - Sam Casto
- Doug Rhoda Award - Maddie Wilkins
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EWI Award - Emma Brunst
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Outstanding WE Junior. -Carlos Henao Gelada
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Outstanding MSE Junior - Hanna Fenstermaker
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Department Chair's Award - Giamcomo Melaragno
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Advisor's Choice Award (MSE) - Sam Gillespie
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John Lannutti Memorial Award - Zachary Everett
MSE doctoral student Cheng-Han Li, Professor Carolin Fink, & Professor Emeritus John Lippold, TMS poster contest for materials characterization - 2022 EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award (February)
Menglin Zhu, MSE doctoral student, awarded 2022 Presidential Fellowship (January)
2021
2021 AWS Poster Competition winners (September)
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Samuel Luther - 2nd place, graduate student track
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Chris Hickman, Amber Johnson, Colleen Woidke - 1st place, undergraduate student track
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Todd Anderson, Christopher Harman, Lewis Nerone, Michael Xu - 2nd place, undergraduate student track
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Jacque Berkson, Claire Cary, Allina Mlinaro, Scott Sheffield - 3rd place, undergraduate student track
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Evan Butler (WE student intern) - 1st place, high school track
William Siefert, Ph.D. WE 2024, awarded an AWS Graduate Research Fellowship (September)
"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)
Presented on the effects of implementing a binary argon-helium gas mixture within the Laser-Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing process
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
Cheng-Han Li - Materials science and Engineering grad student
Allison Whitney - Materials Science and Engineering major
Patricia Loughney - Materials Science and Engineering PhD student
2019
Noah Talisa - Graduate Student (Physics)
Fateh Mikaeili - PhD Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant, MSE
Wichurat Sakulpaptong, DDS and PhD Candidate in Division of Biosciences
Molly Baumann (Biomedical Engineering)
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