Middle School Girls Watch the Llano Estacado RoboRaiders Team 1817 Robot in Action

SWE Hosts "Catch the Engineering Bug" for Middle School Girls

The Texas Tech chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), in partnership with Texas Instruments, recently hosted an event for girls from middle schools in the Lubbock area called “Catch the Engineering Bug.” The event was designed to encourage and educate girls about career possibilities in the engineering field.

The day included a series of demonstrations from various engineering disciplines with help from Texas Tech graduate students and professors. Other student groups, including the Llano Estacado RoboRaiders Team 1817, participated in the demonstrations. The middle school students were encouraged to participate in hands-on group activities, including designing a newspaper bridge, participating in an egg drop activity, and competing in a tallest tower event. Texas Instruments provided electrical engineering demonstrations and hands-on activities for students to learn how engineering interacts in everyday life. More than 80 middle school students attended the event and prizes and giveaways were available for participants.

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Wan Wins Second Place in GENSIPS Paper Competition

Qian Wan, a graduate student in the Computer Vision & Image Analysis Laboratory (CVIAL) within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently won second place in the paper competition at the 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (IEEE GENSIPS) in November 2013. The paper was titled “A Multivariate Random Forest Based Framework for Drug Sensitivity Prediction,” and was written with his advisor, Dr. Ranadip Pal, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

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Simon Selected to Receive SPE Research/Engineering Technology Award

Dr. Sindee Simon, Whitacre Department Chair and Horn Professor of chemical engineering, has been selected to receive the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) 2014 Research/Engineering Technology award for research and technology developments in polymers and polymer composites and for her pioneering contributions in thermal analysis of polymers. She will accept the award at the Annual Technical Conference (ANTEC) in April 2014.

This award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions in the fields of polymeric material development, processing, design, the innovative application of polymer engineering principles, and/or the fundamental understanding of the science of polymeric materials and their behavior (creation of new polymer structures, characterization and understanding of polymer structures, properties, performance and processing).

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Vanapalli Receives Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award

Dr. Siva A. Vanapalli, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, has been named a recipient of a Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award, part of the 13th annual Chancellor’s Council distinguished faculty awards.

Recognizing excellence in teaching, research, and commercialization, these awards represent the most prestigious honors granted to faculty members throughout the Texas Tech University System. The Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Research award recognizes outstanding research, scholarship, and creative activity of faculty members in the developmental stages of their careers.

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Gale Receives HON Faculty Appreciation Award

Dr. Richard Gale, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named a recipient of a 2013 Eta Omicron Nu (HON) Faculty Appreciation Award. Nominations were accepted from individuals and/or organizations on the Texas Tech campus and winning recipients were selected for having qualities that exceed or stand out from other professors, among other factors.

Although not required to be in the Honors College, HON members must be students that are maintaining a 3.25 GPA throughout their involvement with the organization. HON serves primarily as a social and community service fraternity and emphasizes student involvement with the Lubbock community, the Honors College, Honors faculty, and other students on campus.

November 12, 2013 – December 16, 2013

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