Student Award Spotlights

2023

Jiayuwen Qi, MSE doctoral student, awarded 2022-2023 Presidential Fellowship (January)

Samantha Mendez, MSE doctoral student - 2022 Women of Color National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) Student Leadership Award (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)

Karl Graff Award- Kevin McIllvaine
Alan J. Markworth Memorial Award - Brandon Layer
John Lippold Award - Sam Casto
Doug Rhoda Award - Maddie Wilkins
EWI Award - Emma Brunst
Outstanding WE Junior. -Carlos Henao Gelada
Outstanding MSE Junior - Hanna Fenstermaker
Department Chair's Award - Giamcomo Melaragno
Advisor's Choice Award (MSE) - Sam Gillespie
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)

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