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NewsMechanical Engineering Alumnus Wins Fulbright AwardA Whitacre College of Engineering alumnus was awarded a Fulbright Student Grant from the U.S. Student Fulbright program to further satellite communications technology. Sean Hannon, a mechanical engineering graduate from Midland, will venture to Germany for one academic year. He will study aerospace engineering at the Technische Universität München (TUM), focusing on a project titled, “Computerized Model of a Telepresence Enabling Satellite Communication System.” Hannon said the Fulbright Student Grant will enable him to work on a space technology project in collaboration with the German Space Agency. Dr. Tanja Karp, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, guided Hannon through the rigorous application process. Karp has served as a member of the Student Fulbright Scholarship Committee at Texas Tech for more than five years. Karp said although the program is very competitive, the best applicants each year are successful in securing the fellowship to spend a year abroad in the country and university of their choice. Hannon will leave for Germany in late August and begin the program in September. Faculty RecognitionsMorse Wins ASCE Region 6 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award Dr. Audra Morse, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2010 ASCE Region 6 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award. She was nominated by Texas Tech ASCE student officers through a supplement to the 2009 annual report of activities. Morse also won the ASCE Region 6 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2007. Grants and Contracts04-19-2010 - 05-12-2010Chemical Engineering
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Center for Pulsed Power and Power Electronics
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Student AccomplishmentsTexas Tech Team Wins Sandia MEMS CompetitionTexas Tech competed at the MEMS University Alliance Design Competition at Sandia National Laboratories and won the novel design category for 2010. The MEMS University Alliance Design Competition offers participating universities the opportunity to take part in an exciting program geared around MEMS design, fabrication and testing. The novel design category emphasizes concepts for use in Sandia’s SUMMiT V process, while the other category will emphasize unique structure design and its use as an educational tool for MEMS or science education. University participants had the opportunity to receive fabricated devices of their selected design. Texas Tech won the "Characterization, Reliability and Nano-Scale Phenomena" category in 2009, the characterization category in 2006, and the novel design category in 2005. ASCE Student Places Second in Student Paper CompetitionBrice Campbell, a civil and environmental engineering major, placed second in the Student Paper Contest at the ASCE Texas-Mexico Student Conference in Austin on April 11-13. His paper and presentation were titled "Environmental Ethics." AlumniDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Inducts Academy MembersDr. Jon R. Mayes is the CEO and principal investigator of Applied Physical Electronics, L.C. (APELC), and has obtained more than $12 million in research and development for more than 16 SBIR Phase 1 and 6 Phase II efforts. He has also obtained more than $7 million in commercialization funding to move APELC’s technology toward Department of Defense use. Mayes has more than 17 years of Pulsed Power experience in the design of ultra-high speed hv-pulsed power systems. His company has 22 employees and approximately $1 million in annual sales. Richard M. Ness is president of Ness Engineering, Inc., a corporation that provides services in state-of-the-art power modulator technology. For the last five years, he has worked to develop critical technologies for water-cooled thermal management of 6 kHz magnetic switch assemblies for Cymer, Inc. Before that time, he developed an extreme ultraviolet light source that included a high voltage power supply for next-generation lithography systems. He also pioneered the development of a master oscillator power amplifier for high-power industrial lasers. Dr. Micheal Parten was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech from 1974 to 2008. He pioneered the design laboratory course sequence and also established the Advanced Vehicle Laboratory with mechanical engineering professor Dr. Tim Maxwell. Allen Howard graduated from Texas Tech with an electrical engineering degree in 1978. He is now the president and CEO of NuTech Energy Alliance, Ltd., a provider of advanced petrophysical, geological and engineering solutions to oil and gas companies worldwide. NuTech has used its proprietary software and modeling processes to evaluate more than 30,000 wells for more than 450 oil and gas companies worldwide. Allen Howard is a 2010 recipient of the Distinguished Engineer Award. Events of Interest
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