Today Matt Williams was announced as a recipient of the MAE department's "Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award" for 2011. Below is the announcement sent out by the department chair, Dr. Balachandar:
Dear Faculty, students and staff:
The following are the department awards for 2011 and they will be
distributed at the Awards Banquet on April 8th. I want to thank the
Awards Committee for their evaluation of the nominations:
Faculty Awards:
Teacher of the Year: Carl Crane
Researcher of the Year: Ghatu Subhash
Staff Awards:
Staff of the Year: Jennifer Brown
Outstanding Graduate Researcher Awards:
SMDM: Brandon Krick AND Shawn English
DSC: Shubendu Bhasin
TSFD: Matthew Williams
Best dissertation award (2010):
SMDM: Nathan Branch
DSC: Nitin Sharma
TSFD: Manoj Parmar
Best TAs:
Tim Elmore and Ira Hill (both worked in the Controls lab)