Awards and Honors

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Computer science and engineering doctoral candidates Joe Bolinger and Guoqing (Harry) Xu have received IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards for this academic year. Bolinger, ’05 CSE, designs methodologies for collaborative tools that help service organizations prevent the costly errors that result from unplanned downtime or resource mismanagement. Xu is interested in approaches to help programmers write and maintain reliable and reusable software.

Andrew Crowelland Brent Miller, doctoral students in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Fellowships from the U.S. Department of Defense. Crowell, ’08 B.S., ’09 M.S. AAE, was selected for the fellowship by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Patuxent River, Md., and will continue his research on reduced order modeling of computational aerothermodynamics for improved aerothermoelastic analysis of hypersonic vehicles. Miller, ’09 B.S.,’10 M.S. AAE, was selected by the Missile and Space Intelligence Center at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. He studies dynamic fluid-thermal-structural interactions of hypersonic structures. In addition to the SMART fellowships, Crowell and Miller received AFRL/DAGSI Student-Faculty Fellowships; Crowell also received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded mechanical engineering master’s student Kathryn Gabet of Canton, Ohio, and economics and mechanical engineering ’10 alumnus John Hanson of Columbus three-year graduate fellowships. Gabet is exploring turbulent combustion dynamics with state-of-the-art, high-speed laser diagnostics. Hanson is continuing his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to advance nuclear power as an integral part of the solution to our nation’s energy challenges.

Jose Gutierrez, an electrical and computer engineering major and cadet in Ohio State’s ROTC Detachment 645, earned the 2010 Military ROTC Cadet Award for his achievements from the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Awards Corp., a non-profit organization promoting careers in science, technology, engineering and math in underserved communities.

Integrated systems engineering graduate student Wei-Ting Yen received the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society AgingTechnical Group’s first researchscholarship award for his study of the effects of interface design on grasp and torque production capabilities of older people with hand pain and impairment.

Tyler Merz,a junior majoring in engineering physics, was named a 2010 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, the most prestigious national award for undergraduate researchers in science, math and engineering. Merz plans to pursue a career researching novel electronic materials in industry or at a government laboratory.

Seven engineering students and alumni received National Science Foundation 2010 Graduate Research Fellowships: Matt Limmer, ’09 ENV; Eric Ryan Sacia, ’09 CHE; Ehsan Sadeghipour, ’09 ME; Kenton Williams, ’08 ME; Kathryn Gabet, a mechanical engineering master’s student;  Kevin James Disotell, ’10 AAE; and Rebecca Linn Rouston, an undergraduate majoring in mechanical engineering.

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