Several graduating senior undergraduate students were honored with 2022 MSE Senior Awards recognizing academic excellence. The awards were announced at the MSE Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 29, 2022, in the Statler Hall Auditorium.
The awards and awardees are:
Senior Lab Award
In recognition of an outstanding senior lab project.
Team members: Tiffany Chui, Samuel Karunwi, Gary Wang Project: "Analysis of degradation of medical devices due to manual wiping an processing in a plasma-based disinfection system"
2022 MSE Senior Lab Award Winners (left to right): Professor Kit Umbach, Hui Ning Tiffany Chui and Gary Wang.
Senior Thesis Award
In recognition of an outstanding senior thesis.
Awardee: Hongjin Du Thesis title: “Simulating Pressure-Driven solid-Solid Phase Transformations across Crystal Structure Types”
2022 MSE Senior Thesis Award Winner (left to right): Professor R. Bruce van Dover and Hongjin Du
Senior Thesis Poster Award
In recognition of an outstanding senior thesis poster.
Awardee: Jessica Xiang Thesis title: “Investigating the Non-classical Nucleation Pathways of Coccolith via Synthetic Systems”
2022 MSE Senior Thesis Poster Award Winner (left to right): Professor R. Bruce van Dover and Jiaxin Xiang.
MSE Jeffrey Design Award
In recognition of an outstanding senior design project.
Team members: Hongjin Du; Alex Peng; Zezette Pflaum; Luka Radosavljevic; and Alaina Zanardi Design: Cozy Toezies - Advancing Piezoelectric Shoe Sole Inserts; A Foot Heating Solution
2022 MSE Jeffrey Design Award Winners (left to right): Hongjin Du, Alex Peng, Zezette Pflaum, Professor Marty Murtagh, Alaina Zanardi, and Luka Radosavljevic.