2014 MAE Undergraduate Class

MAE Acting Chair Professor Jeremy Kasdin and Undergraduate Representative Prof. Michael Littman

Nigel Brauser: The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering UndergraduateSupport Award

Co-Winners of the George Bienkowski Award: Kyle O’Neil, Dan Santillan, andKaren Wang

Chris Odabashian and Buse Aktas: The Enoch J. Durbin Prize for Engineering Innovation

Peter Na, Sean Bonar, Eric Carlson, Katie Skinner, Elliot Jung: Co-Winners John Marshall II Memorial Award for The Guardian: Unmanned Seaplane for Coastal Search and Rescue

Albert Boohene, Timothy Trieu, David Newill-Smith : Co-Winners John Marshall II Memorial Award for Asteroid Exploratory Robot (AER)

Karen Wang: 3rd Place The Donald Janssen Dike Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for Towards Turbulent Drag Reduction on a Superhydrophobic Aluminum SLIPS Surface

Tanner DeVoe I 2nd place The Donald Janssen Dike Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for Design of a Shape Memory Alloy Actuated Morphing Wing

Katie Cavanagh 1st place The Donald Janssen Dike Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for Analysis and Development of a Low-Order Wavefront Sensor for Exoplanet Detection Applications

John Davis: co-winner Morgan W. McKinzie ’93 Senior Thesis Prize for Conceptual Design of a Mobile Platform for Venus Atmospheric Study

Laurel Paxton: co-winner Morgan W. McKinzie ’93 Senior Thesis Prize for Weakly Buoyant Spherical Diffusion Flames: Properties of Hydrogen-CO/Ethylene Flames

The 2014 co-winners of the Sau-Hai Lam*58 Prize for Academic Excellence in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Diana Chin and Alex Creely

Laurel Paxton, Jeremy KasdinKatie Cavanagh

Dan Santillan, Ben Fisher, Tanner DeVoe, Alex Creely

Dan Sanitllan, Ben Fisher, Tanner DeVoe