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Smead Aerospace Class of 2022 Awards

Award winning students


Congratulations to the Smead Aerospace Class of 2022! As part of our annual graduation ceremonies, we are recognizing numerous students and teams for special achievements. These honors were announced during a special reception May 5.

AIAA Most Outstanding Senior

  • Carter Mak

Chancellor’s Recognition Award (4.0 GPA)

  • Carter Mak

Graduate Student Awards

Vise Award (Four Winners)

  • John Martin, Advisor: Hanspeter Schaub
  • Samuel Albert, Advisor: Hanspeter Schaub
  • Sage Sherman, Advisor: Allison Anderson
  • Tim Dittmann, Advisor: Jade Morton

The John A. Vise awards are presented annually to aerospace PhD students for demonstrated excellence in academics, research, and community service.

Graduate Award for Teaching

  • Emma Markovich, Advisor: Francisco Lopez Jimenez

Graduate Award for Professional Service

  • Jordan Dixon, Advisor: Torin Clark

Graduate Award for Research

  • Alvaro Romero-Calvo, Advisor: Hanspeter Schaub
  • Riley Reid, Advisor: Robert Marshall

Senior Project Team Awards

Best Engineering Understanding

  • GUST (Adam Buencamino, Eric Cervantes, Luke Engelken, Alex Kenyon, Chris Krebs, Nic Mayhan, Jake Miles-Colthup, Anand Trehan, Billy Weigl)
  • DROPS (Ben Capeloto, Alex Karas, Cody Watson, Nate Kuczun, Daniel GutierrezMendoza, Joshua Schmitz, Ian Chakraborty, Caroline Dixon, Sid Arora, Mia Abouhamad, Dominic Dougherty, Rafael Figueroa)

Best Systems Engineering Process

  • TALON (Zac Vanlangendonck, Patrick Tippens, Christian Williams, Collin Kasunic, John Oliver, Anthony Danna, Selmo Almeida, Slava Rychenko, Jason Peloquin, Dante Vigil, Ethan Fleer, Nicholas Boender)
  • GOATSES (Cody Wheeler, Quentin Morton, August Hauter, Elena Salgado, Gracie Antonucci, Isaac Timko, Nickolas Taylor, Jack Harrison, Ben Foehr)
  • SBMS (Ian Adler, Shreeyash Nadella, Evan Meany, Benjamin Gavin, Nathan Zhao, Jamie Henault, Richard Folsom, Joseph Harrell, Devin Geegan)

Best Technical Communication

  • BACCHUS (Connor Baldwin, Ben Chupik, William Gravel, Elijah Vance, Tanisha Anand, Bryce Glacken, David Shaw, Thyme Zuschlag, Kailey Rex, Libby Moore, Derrick Choi, Leah Selman)
  • DROPS (Ben Capeloto, Alex Karas, Cody Watson, Nate Kuczun, Daniel GutierrezMendoza, Joshua Schmitz, Ian Chakraborty, Caroline Dixon, Sid Arora, Mia Abouhamad, Dominic Dougherty, Rafael Figueroa)

Best Verification and Validation

  • NanoSAM III (Donny Wolfe, Austin Bathgate, Evan Hiemstra, Andrew Haskett, Alex Israel, Robert MacFarland, Peter Dicerbo, Amanda Nelson, Raymie Fotherby)

Senior Project Individual Awards

Most Effective Project Manager

  • Jasmin Chadha (SP4CE)
  • Emerson Beinhauer (NELDA)
  • Grace Antonucci (GOATSES)
  • Jamie Henault (SBMS)

Most Effective Systems Engineer

  • Shawn Stone (CROACS)
  • Emily Mitzak (AEROSS)

Technical Leadership - Mechanical

  • Connor Baldwin (BACCHUS)
  • Kenlyn Darrah (SPACEMOD)
  • Nate Kuczun (DROPS)

Technical Leadership - Electrical

  • Slava Rychenko (TALON)
  • Trey Taylor (GRASS)
  • Austin Bathgate (NanoSAMIII)

Technical Leadership - Software

  • Zach Harris (SPECTER)
  • Sam Packard (GRASS)
  • Andreas Brecl (RALPHIE)

Technical Leadership - Modeling Analysis & Simulation

  • Maria Callas (CUBIST)
  • Gina Staimer (RALPHIE)
  • Honorable Mention: Peter DiCerbo (NanoSAMIII)

Technical Leadership – Testing

  • Hanna Galimanis (SPECTER)
  • Caroline Dixon (DROPS)

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