Grad Students Continue To Deliver Their "Best"
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Two graduate students from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have earned "best" awards from notable industry organizations this month.
Kyle Metzroth, a PhD candidate in nuclear engineering won the Best Student Paper Award at the American Nuclear Society's International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis, which took place in Wilmington, NC, March 13-17, 2011. The title of his paper is “Dynamic Event Tree Analysis of Competing Creep Failure Mechanisms in a Station Blackout Accident”. Metzroth's faculty advisor is Professor Tunc Aldemir.
Matt McCrink, an aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate student, was awarded Best Presentation at the Dayton Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium (DCASS). His presentation entitled "Simulation of a Nanosecond Plasma Actuator in a Quiescent Environment" was selected as the best presentation in CFD Applications. McCrink will be recognized at the Dayton-Cincinnati Section Awards Banquet, May 26th at the University of Dayton. McCrink's faculty advisor is Professor Datta Gaitonde.
Category: Graduate
