STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS
SOARING HIGH Mark Dawson
Russ College electrical engineering students won the Institute of Navigation’s (ION) annual autonomous snowplow competition the second year running. Senior Ryan Kollar and graduate students Samantha Craig, B.S.E.E. ’12, and Pengfei Duan Kuangmin Li, M.S. ’10, took home a $3,000 award, as well the Golden Pen award for best final report and the Golden Shovel award for best student final presentation. A team member will present their paper at ION’s Satellite Division Conference this fall.
The Flying Bobcats at the regional NIFA SAFECON competition.
The Ohio Society of Professional Engineers awarded John Linser, B.S.C.S. ’12, the $1,000 Systems Research Laboratories (SRL) scholarship. Linser interned at AK Steel in Mansfield, Ohio, and at Lockheed Martin facilities in Akron, Ohio; Lufkin, Texas; and Camden, Arkansas. SRL was founded by Fritz, B.S.E.E. ’42, HON ’75, and Dolores Russ. OHIO’s Front Room Coffeehouse in Baker University Center was renovated according to a design created by industrial and systems engineering June 2012 graduates Moniquea Grier, Zach Phillipi, Dereck Smith, and Kyler Torrence. The group had studied the Front Room’s layout and service challenges as part of their two-part senior design course. The Ohio University Flying Bobcats won first place in flying events and second in safety for the second year running at the Region III National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference held last October at Ohio University. Travis Fisher, B.S.A. ’12, and J.D. Quint, B.S.A. ’12, placed first and second, respectively, in power-off landings; Jordan Bidwell, B.S.A. ’12, and Chris Gatz, B.S.A. ’12, won second place in the message drop. The team also took second place in safety at the national competition in May.
Linchong Mai at the 220th Electrochemical Society Meeting.
Five industrial and systems engineering majors placed second of 29 teams nationwide in an ergonomics evaluation software competition in fall 2011 sponsored by Auburn Engineers, Inc., of Auburn, Alabama. The team used Auburn Engineers’ eTools software to diagnose potential musculoskeletal problems among marching band members.
SOARI Chemical and biomolecular engineering graduate student Linchong Mai, B.S.Ch.E. ’12, became the first undergraduate ever to win a prize in the student poster competition last October at the 220th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Boston. Mai’s poster, “Studies on the Bulk Reactions During Ammonia Oxidation,” took second place.
The Avionics Engineering Center presented the McCall Awards of Excellence to Adam Naab-Levy, B.S.E.E. ’12, and Kuangmin Li, M.S. ’10; the Richard H. McFarland Scholarship to Ryan Kollar; the AIAA DATC Graduate Scholarship to Paul Stocklin; the Dayton Section of the Institute of Navigation award to doctoral students Scott Nykl, M.S.C.S. ’09, and Chad Mourning B.S.C.S. ’06, M.S ’09; and the AIAA Cary R. Spitzer Memorial Award to doctoral candidate Phil Duan, M.S. ‘11.
Courtney Sterrick, a junior in chemical and biomolecular engineering, received the American Council of Engineering Companies’ 2012–13 Ohio University Student Scholarship. The $2,000 award is offered to a junior or senior Russ College student considering consulting engineering as a career choice.
Chemical engineering senior Luis Delgadillo, B.S.Ch.E. ’12, won first place in the tissue and protein engineering division in the undergraduate research poster competition at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) student regionals in April. Delgadillo was honored for
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