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Third-year Bridgette Kim was awarded the highly competitive DoD SMART Scholarship, which provides students with full tuition for up to five years, summer internships, a stipend, and full-time employment with the Department of Defense after graduation.

The award is presented to a mentor within one of the AEOP apprenticeship programs who goes beyond the call of duty to support students in their STEM educations and career pursuits.

The Robbins prize was instigated in 2020 to recognize outstandingly talented PhD students who reflect Dr. Robbins contributions to computational science and engineering.

Katz was selected on the basis of his extensive publications on rotating flows with applications to gas turbine technology and air-sea interactions.

Kang will work with AFRL researchers to design and fabricate programmable aerospace structures that can morph to various shapes in response to dynamically changing mission environments in energy-efficient ways.

Rau, a third-year engineering mechanics major, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for his research and achievements in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.

Sung Hoon Kang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a fellow in the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, has received a grant through the Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund.…

For advancing both the theoretical and practical understanding of turbulence through groundbreaking modeling techniques and applications of Large Eddy Simulation (LES).

“Telerobotics for Remote Control of Medical Equipment in Contagious Environments” won the Best Innovation Award at the inaugural Medical Robotics for Contagious Diseases Challenge 2020.

Awarded every three years by the European Association for the Promotion of Research into the Dynamic Behavior of Materials and Its Applications (DYMAT), this award recognizes outstanding effort and creative work in the science and technology of dynamic processes in materials and related applications.

Rau has been awarded the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for his project titled “Atomistic Simulations of Dislocation Mechanisms in Nanotwinned Ni-Mo-W Alloys.”

Frérot received the award for his thesis was on “Bridging Scales in Wear Modeling with Volume Integral Methods for Elastic-Plastic Contact.”