Last Friday, 8 Engineering students were recognized every bit 2015 Gordon Fellows at the Bernard too Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Center’s annual Engineering Leadership Awards ceremony.
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The awards dinner honored ane manufacture professional, iii graduate students too 5 undergraduate students. Staff too faculty members are encouraged to nominate applied scientific discipline leaders with vision, integrity, demonstrated teamwork, leadership too communication skills, too applied scientific discipline mightiness to locomote a Gordon Fellow too have an Engineering Leadership Award.
Congratulations to: Mark Chapman, Mridu Sinha and Hermes Taylor-Weiner every bit the graduate honour recipients; Tyler Day, Delara Fadavi, Mary Graves, Aditi Gupta and Nico Montoya every bit the undergraduate honour recipients; too wireless communications manufacture pioneer, inventor too entrepreneur Martin Cooper every bit the professional person honour recipient.
Guests too honour recipients were welcomed past times Jacobs School of Engineering Dean too Gordon Center Director Albert P. Pisano, too were served dinner inwards the Great Hall at UCSD’s International House.
“Our Gordon Center plant to position too prepare effective applied scientific discipline leaders,” Pisano said. “I similar to telephone telephone these people the ‘Change Makers’.”
The Gordon Center offers an applied scientific discipline leadership instruction year-round through their Gordon Scholars program, simply the purpose of the Engineering Leadership Awards computer program is to vantage too recognize successful students who stimulate got served every bit role models for the Jacobs School of Engineering. During the event, each pupil was invited on stage, individually introduced too recognized for their applied scientific discipline leadership. As newly minted Gordon Fellows, they volition each have an honour with the Gordon Medal for Engineering Leadership. Each graduate awardee volition have $10,000 too each undergraduate awardee volition have $2,500.
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| Mark Chapman |
Mark Chapman is a Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate whose inquiry on the biomechanics of genetically modified musculus cells is leading to a improve agreement of childhood muscular dystrophy. He shares his passion for scientific discipline through the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates, where he has mentored to a greater extent than than xxx students. As chair of pupil activities for the Jacobs School Graduate Student Council, he launched the Pi-Mile Run, which is similar a shot an annual campus lawsuit to do goodness the San Diego Science Alliance.
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| Mridu Sinha |
Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate Mridu Sinha collaborates with clinicians inwards her inquiry to improve outcomes of newborns with encephalon injuries. She has interned at several companies, where she focused on production evolution to elevate wellness care. While inwards India, she created experiential curricula to encourage girls to remain inwards school, too she used this sense to deploy a hands-on class for 5 San Diego High Schools. The class relates social problems to wellness too challenges students to blueprint an applied scientific discipline solution.
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| Hermes Taylor-Weiner |
Hermes Weiner is besides a Ph.D. candidate nether the Bioengineering subdivision too combines this applied scientific discipline knowledge with preparation inwards world policy to tackle controversial issues inwards science. He is writing a brief on U.S. of A. of America Stem Cell clinics that sell non-FDA approved therapies too making recommendations on policies to protect patients. An NSF Fellow, his inquiry focuses on embryonic stalk jail electrochemical cell differentiate into insulin-producing cells, too he has received numerous inquiry awards too publications inwards prestigious journals.
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| Tyler Day |
Tyler Day is a Bioengineering pupil too has received the prestigious Young Investigator Award for his inquiry which identified genetic peril component for HIV-associated cognitive dysfunction. He has locomote a skilled experimental technician through his piece of job with the UCSD Center for AIDS inquiry too performed an international inquiry sense inwards Taiwan where he studied brain-computer interfaces. Tyler is an undergraduate advisor for Global TIES where he has mentored vi teams working on humanitarian applied scientific discipline projects.
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| Delara Fadavi |
Bioengineering undergraduate pupil Delara Fadavi founded the UCSD Engineering World Health’s Distribution Team which is focused on manufacturing too deploying pupil projects. The squad plans to laid out clinical trials of their low-cost HIV diagnostic scheme inwards Tijuana clinics. Delara co-founded Meego Technology to develop a motion-activated warning to deter laptop thefts inwards world places. The squad has been accepted to the UC San Diego MyStartupXX Incubator too has completed the NSF Innovation-Corps Phase 2 Program.
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| Mary Graves |
The commencement inwards her household unit of measurement to locomote to college, Mary Graves has distinguished herself inwards both inquiry too pupil leadership. Grave is an undergraduate pupil nether the subdivision of Chemical Engineering, too her interests include mental affliction too drug addiction. As a inquiry summertime scholar at the University of Minnesota, she led a 12-person squad studying the upshot of practice on cocaine addiction. Graves is a leader inwards the American Institute of Chemical Engineers pupil chapter, where she organizes opportunities for students to network with mentors too prospective employers.
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| Aditi Gupta |
Aditi Gupta is Bioengineering pupil too a co-founder of MeeGo Technology, which is developing a motion-activated warning to deter laptop thefts inwards world places. Among Gupta’s many inquiry experiences, she spent a summertime at Taiwan’s National Yang Ming University where she studied the efficacy of herbal medicine for treating depression. She actively participates inwards pupil events, too was the master copy organizer for Bioengineering Day 2014 too is helping to organize the initiatory multidisciplinary San Diego Hackfest.
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| Nico Montoya |
As leader of the Triton Rocket Club, Mechanical too Aerospace Engineering pupil Nicholas Montoya helped grow the organization from 5 members to 60, too led the squad to compass technical milestones, garner manufacture sponsorship, too attain national recognition. The pupil squad aims to last the commencement inwards the U.S. of A. of America to launch a rocket into space. Montoya has completed internships at Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, JPL too Portfolium. He constantly mentors swain students, too actively uses his contacts to assist his peers secure task opportunities.
Cooper delivered the evening’s keynote address too spoke highly of this year’s Fellows, stating that he was inwards a room with the applied scientific discipline leaders too entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Confident inwards Cooper’s statement, nosotros await smashing futures ahead for this year’s Gordon Fellows. Congratulations in ane lawsuit again to these students!