3 BME Graduate Students Honored in College of Engineering Awards

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce the graduate students selected for the 2024-25 Fitch H. Beach Award, 2024-25 3 Minute Thesis (3MT), and the 2024-25 Outstanding PhD Students in each program.

Fitch H. Beach Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research

The Fitch Beach Award is the most prestigious research competition in the College of Engineering. Established by Janet M. Beatty in honor of her uncle, Fitch H. Beach, this award recognizes the most outstanding PhD student researchers within the College of Engineering. The faculty within each department selects one nominee, and the award is judged based on nominees’ records and presentations. Winners receive stipends, a certificate, and a medal to be worn at graduation. The Fitch H. Beach competition will be live-streamed via Zoom (https://msu.zoom.us/j/99070019800 , passcode EGSC) on Friday, April 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

On behalf of the College of Engineering, I am pleased to announce the 2024-25 departmental nominees for the Fitch H. Beach Award for Outstanding PhD Research:

Kay Hadrick, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Taeho Kim)
Anthony James Franco, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Evangelyn Alocilja)
Ashiq Shawon, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science (Advisor: Alexandra Zevalkink)
Poornachandra Vaddy, Civil & Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Muhammed Emin Kutay)
Avrajit Ghosh, Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering (Advisors: Saiprasad Ravishankar and Rongrong Wang)
Yihua Zhang, Computer Science & Engineering (Advisor: Sijia Liu)
Aniwat Juhong, Electrical & Computer Engineering (Advisor: Zhen Qiu)
Aakash Khandelwal, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Ranjan Mukherjee)

Outstanding Graduate Student Awards

This annual award recognizes the most outstanding graduate student from each doctoral program in the College of Engineering. These outstanding PhD students were selected by the faculty within their program, and each receive a $1,000 stipend, certificate, and a medal to be worn at graduation. They are listed here alphabetically by program.

Jacob Reynolds, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Brian Johnson)
Kieron Moller, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Amirpouyan Nejadhashemi)
Mayson Whipple, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Robert Ferrier)
Ehsan Kamjoo, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Ali Zockaie)
Siddhant Gautam, Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering (Advisor: Saiprasad Ravishankar)
Minchul Kim, Computer Science & Engineering (Advisor: Xiaoming Liu)
Amit Bhuyan, Electrical & Computer Engineering (Advisor: Subir Biswas)
Francis Hanna, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Annick Anctil)
Yu-Hsiu Lin, Materials Science (Advisor: Jose Mendoza Cortes)
Jiabin Liu, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Shaoting Lin)

3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Graduate Student Awards

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students around the world. Developed by The University of Queensland, the competition cultivates graduate students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills.

The faculty within each department selects one nominee, and the award is judged based on nominees’ 3MT presentations. Winners receive stipends and a certificate. The 3MT competition will take place during the Engineering Graduate Student Symposium on Thursday, May 8 at 3:00 in 1345 Engineering Building.

On behalf of the College of Engineering, I am pleased to announce the 2024-25 departmental nominees for the 3 Minute Thesis:

Colin O’Hern, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Aitor Aguirre)
Narindra Randriamiarintsoa, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Bradley Marks)
Joelle Eaves, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science (Advisor: Daniel Woldring)
Farish Jazlan, Civil & Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Ali Zockaie)
Xinyi (Elena) Wang, Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering (Advisor: Elizabeth Munch)
Yiwen Hu, Computer Science & Engineering (Advisors: Li Xiao and Guan-Hua Tu)
Ankur Kamboj (Ankur), Electrical & Computer Engineering (Advisor: Vaibhav Srivastava)
Adam Chrzan, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Tamara Bush)