2014 MAE
Undergraduate Class
MAE Acting Chair Professor Jeremy Kasdin and
Undergraduate Representative Prof. Michael
Littman
Nigel Brauser: The
Mechanical and
Aerospace
Engineering
Undergraduate
Support Award
Co-Winners of the George Bienkowski
Award: Kyle O’Neil, Dan Santillan, and
Karen 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 Kasdin
Katie Cavanagh
Dan Santillan, Ben
Fisher, Tanner DeVoe,
Alex Creely
Dan Sanitllan, Ben Fisher,
Tanner DeVoe