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REA gives more than $50,000 in awards
More than $50,000 in awards were given to students in the George R. Brown School of Engineering during the 2007 Rice Engineering Alumni Student Awards Picnic.
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On April 21, these juniors won REA Merit Awards: Stephen Wallace, bioengineering; Jesse Chan, computational and applied math; Hilary Robinson, civil and environmental engineering; Sean McCudden, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Brad Dodson, computer science; Nicholas Berndsen, electrical and computer engineering; and Eric Max, mechanical engineering and materials science.
Senior Merit Awards went to Martin Bost, bioengineering; Katherine Zodrow, civil and environmental engineering; Kush Mathur, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Amanda Cruess, computer science; Jessica Wu, electrical and computer engineering; Michael Holcomb, mechanical engineering and materials science; and Diane Shao, statistics.
Dania Daye of bioengineering won the Outstanding Senior Award. Distinguished Junior Awards went to Laura Campo, mechanical engineering and materials science, and Jennifer Gillenwater, electrical and computer engineering. Geng Chen, chemical and biomolecular engineering and Austin Ginnings, bioengineering, won Distinguished Senior Awards.
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Jon Allison, junior in mechanical engineering, won one of two Buckley-Sartwelle scholarships.
Awards were presented by Clayton Finney, chair of the Student Awards Committee. |
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| Laura Campo, junior mechanical engineering major, also won a Buckley-Sartwelle scholarship. |
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The Buckley-Sartwelle Scholarship went to Jon Allison and Laura Campo. It was endowed in 1994 by Jack Boyd Buckley '48 and Helen Sartwelle Buckley '44 in memory of their parents. Each year it goes to junior mechanical engineering students and amounts to at least 30 percent of tuition for the year.
The Bob Dickson Prize for 2007, which went to Brian Schwab, is given by deForest and Martha Ralph in memory of Bob Dickson, who died in a plane crash in 1953 while returning from a training program for Naval ROTC students. The award goes to students using engineering skills on projects of social benefit. Additional funding comes from Dale Dickson Johnson and others.
The Herbert Allen Outstanding Junior Award went to Diana Yen of statistics. The award was endowed in honor of Herbert Allen '29, a mechanical engineer, CEO of Cameron Works, a Rice Governor, and recipient of the 1975 Outstanding Rice Engineering Alumnus Award.
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| Clint Corcoran, senior mechanical engineering major, won the Alan J. Chapman Award. |
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The Alan J. Chapman Award went to Clint Corcoran, a senior. The award was endowed in 1989 by Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock in honor of Chapman for excellence in mechanical engineering. The recipient is chosen by faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.
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| Environmental engineering graduate student, heather Shipley, won the Ralph Budd Award for the Best Engineering Thesis. |
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Heather Shipley, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, won the Ralph Budd Award for Best Engineering Thesis. The award is given in memory of Ralph Budd, Rice's commencement speaker in 1935, who asked that his honorarium be used to benefit Rice students.
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| Dharmpal Takhar, electrical engineering graduate student, accepted the Hershel M. Rich Invention Award as one of a team of professors and students who shared the award. |
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The 2007 Hershel M. Rich Invention Award went to the team of faculty and students who developed the single-pixel camera based on compressive sensing, including Kevin Kelly, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The student honorees are Mark Davenport, Marco Duarte, Jason Laska, Ting Sun, Dharmpal Takhar, and Mike Wakin, all graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The award is endowed by Hershel M. Rich '45, and goes to students or faculty who create an original invention.
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| Drew Bryant, bioengineering senior, won the James S. Waters Creativity Award for unusually creativity in independent work. |
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Drew Bryant, a senior in bioengineering, won the James S. Waters Creativity Award, endowed in 1968 by an anonymous donor in honor of James S. Waters '17, who was a faculty member at Rice for more than 50 years. The award is given annually to an engineering undergraduate who shows unusual creativity in independent work.
The Budd, Rich, and Waters awards are selected by a faculty committee representing each engineering department.
In addition, the REA and engineering school give $5,000 scholarships to Houston-area high school students who win the Houston Science Fair. This year’s REA recipient was Deepika Satish, a junior at Clements High School in Sugarland. The school of engineering winner was Ryann Rupp, a sophomore at Ball High School in Galveston.
If you are interested in enlarging the scholarship program or endowing a scholarship, contact the REA at engalum@rice.edu or go to http://alumni.rice.edu/rea/index.html.
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