2007 - Kathryn van Werkhoven, a doctoral
degree candidate in civil engineering working with Dr. Thorsten
Wagener, received an outstanding student paper award from
the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for a poster presented
at the 2006 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco. The poster
was entitled “A sensitivity-guided strategy for distributed
watershed model calibration” with co-authors Thorsten
Wagener, Yong Tang and Patrick Reed. This award is typically
given to less than 5 percent of student papers presented at
a National AGU meeting.
2007 - Douglas Call, doctoral degree candidate
in environmental engineering, was awarded a National Science
Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) and a
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
(NDSEG).
2007 - Rachel Wagner, a doctoral degree
candidate in environmental engineering, was awarded a National
Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF).
The GRF provides three years of support for those pursuing
research-based master's or doctoral degrees, and is intended
for students who are at the early stages of their graduate
study. The awards are given to candidates who demonstrate
their potential to successfully complete graduate degree programs
in disciplines relevant to the mission of the NSF.
2006 - Brian Swartz, BSCE Penn State 2006
and currently an MS student in the structures area, received
the ACI (American Concrete Institute) Fellowship for the 06-07
academic year. As the winner, he receives $10,000, travel
to three ACI Conventions, and a paid internship in the Concrete
area. Brian also received the Wire Reinforcement Institute
Scholarship of $5000 for the 06-07 academic year. He was chosen
from over 280 applicants.
2006 - Three graduate students from Penn
State are among 13 chosen as fellows for the International
Road Federation's Executive Leadership Program. The students,
all from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
are Shivprakash Iyer, Tanmay Kumar and Dongmin
Lee. The Executive Leadership Program is designed
to teach leadership skills in an intensive format. Students
are nominated by their academic departments and must be in
their final year of study before returning to their home
country. The weeklong program takes place in Washington,
D.C., in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Transportation
Research Board.
2006 - Carlos Coronado, a doctoral candidate
in civil engineering of Dr. Maria del Mar Lopez de Murphy,
received a third-place honor at the 2006
Graduate Exhibition. Coronado
was recognized
for
his project, "Characterization and Modeling of the Interface
Between Concrete and Repair Materials." Projects are
judged by faculty, alumni, and students. Established by The
Graduate
School, the annual Graduate Exhibition offers graduate students
the opportunity to present their work to the general public.
2006 - Chaitali R. Mehta, a Masters degree
student in civil engineering of Dr. Sunil Sinha, was awarded “Rain
for Rent” NASTT Student Chapter Scholarship at the
2006 No-Dig Conference held on March 26-30, Nashville, TN.
2006 - Carol Tan, a
former graduate student in civil engineering, has received
the Pikarsky Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in
Science and Technology from the Council of University Transportation
Centers. Tan's dissertation was titled "An Investigation
of Comfortable Lateral Acceleration of Horizontal Curves." The
study examined both passenger comfort and the safety margin
against skidding on horizontal curves. Before 2004, design
values were based on studies conducted in the 1930s and 1940s.
Tan received her doctorate in civil engineering in 2005.
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