2011 Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research Competition Winners 

• Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani, ChE
• Soroush Saghafian, IOE
• Peng Zhang, NERS

2011 Engineering Graduate Symposium Technical Session Winners

• Civil and Environmental Engineering
  •  First Place: Honghao Li
  • Second Place: Sara Rimer
• Design & Manufacturing
  • First Place: Sarang Supeka
  • Second Place: Steven Hoffenson
• Earth Sciences & Remote Sensing
  • First Place: Catherine Walker
  • Second Place: Michael Benson
• Energy
  • First Place: Lohit Reddy Yerv
  • Second Place: Chiao-Ting Li
• Engineering in Biological Systems
  • First Place: Erik Yusk
  • Second Place: Nicholas Clifone
• Engineering in Medicine
  • First Place: Sakib Elah
  • Second Place: Jing Liu and Asish Misra
• IOE & Financial Engineering
  • First Place: Nadine Moacdieh and Zohar Strinka
• Material & Chemical Technology
  • First Place: Jeremy Feldblyu
  • Second Place: JongDoo Ju
• MEMS & Mechatronics
  • First Place: Vikrant Gokhale
  • Second Place: Anurag Tripathi
• Nuclear Energy, Science & Engineering
  • First Place: Jeffrey Katalenich
  • Second Place: Wei Tian and Matthew Weis
• Photonics & Applied Physics
  • First Place: Vasudev Lal
  • Second Place: Leslie Upton
• Power & Control
  • First Place: Mads Almassalkhi
  • Second Place: Sina Sadeghi Baghsorkhi and Kan Zhou
• RF & Applied Electromagnetics
  • First Place: Young Jun Song
  • Second Place: Felipe Andreas Valdes Valenzuela
• Signal Processing & Computer Vision
  • First Place: Matt Prelee
  • Second Place: Se Un Park
• Software & Intelligent Systems
  • First Place: Feng Qian
  • Second Place: Quang Duong
• Solid-State Materials, Devices, and Physics
  •  First Place: Anne Itsuno
  • Second Place: Ting Chang
• Systems Engineering, Control & Communication
  • First Place: Yang Liu
  • Second Place: Shang-Pin Sheng
• Space Research & Aerospace Engineering
  • First Place: Peter Zhoujie Lu
  • Second Place: David Liaw
• Thermal Sciences, Fluids, Acoustics, and Vibrations
  • First Place: Seid Sadat
  • Second Place: Brandon Scott Patterson