2021-2022 Graduate Student Awards
Our department is home to award-winning graduate students who are propelling the future of mechanical engineering. Here is a list of this academic year's award winners.
Congratulations to all of these hard-working students. You make ME proud!
FELLOWSHIPS
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) 2021
Arun Balakrishna
Matthew Kubala
Cara (Piazza) Herbers
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2021
Kedar Nawathe
Yilin Liu — alternate
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Finalists 2022
Andrew Alegria
Dingbin Huang
Guanyu Song
Zichang Xiong
Yingying Zhang
Peng Zhou
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship
Sai Ranjeet Narayanan
Frontera Computational Science Fellowship
Hongyuan Zhang
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellow
Jeremy Simmons
Renewable Energy Commercialization Fellowship
Grey Boyce-Erickson
Charles Song Fellowship from SAFL
Jiaqi Li
Heinz G. Stefan Fellowship at SAFL
Sida He
Graduate Teaching Fellowship
Ankit Saini
Jeremy Simmons
Minnesota ARCS Scholar Nominee
Orla Gotthelf
TRAVEL GRANTS
Joachim and Yuko Heberlein Travel Grant Award
Rana Backnak
Carolyn Bernemann
Taaresh Sanjeev Taneja
Yuanfu Yue
Kedar Nawathe
ASME Gas Turbine Division Travel Award
Kedar Nawathe
PAPER AWARDS
Best Paper Award at International Conference on Bond Graph Modeling and Simulation
Biswaranjan Mohanty
Editor's Pick & Featured Article in Physics of Fluids
Sai Ranjeet Narayanan
Best Student Poster Award for Materials Research Society Fall Meeting
Yingying Zhang
Conference on Smart Materials and Structures/Non-Destructive Evaluation (SPIE SMS/NDE) Best Student Paper Competition
Atharva Mahabaleshwarkar
OTHER AWARDS
Goldstein Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
Jonathan Lemke
UMII Graduate Assistantship Award as an MnDRIVE Fellow
Taaresh Sanjeev Taneja
President's Student Leadership & Service Awards
Sankar Muthukrishnan
Aaron Tucker
Iron Lion Design Challenge Winner
Akash Dhotre
3 Minute Thesis Competition
Yaling Liu — 2nd Place in ME competition and winner of CSE competition
Amey Joshi — Winner of ME competition
Iaroslav Makhnenko — People’s Choice
ME Best Dissertation Award
Ruitao Su