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awards

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Dean's list for pair
For the second straight
semester
Kimberly
Hobbs, ME
program
support
technician,
has made
the Dean's
List (GPA
above 3.5) at
Liberty University where
she is earning a degree in

interdisciplinary studies.
Joining her on the LU
Dean's List is Amanda
Collins, ME program
support technician who is
working toward a bachelor's degree in accounting. Hobbs will graduate
in July and Collins in
2017.

Alum made Sr Fellow
William T.
(Bill) Cousins,
principal
research
engineer

in aerodynamics with
United Technologies
Research Center in East
Hartford, Connecticut,
is a three-time alum of
Virginia Tech, earning
his BS in 1978, an MS in
1979, and a PhD in 1997;
will be named a Senior
Fellow of the UTRC. This
prestigious position is
held by only a few UTRC
researchers. Cousins is
also a member of the
department's Industrial
Advisory Board.

BWXT joins list of senior design team sponsors

Eric Camper, (ME '98) SGHX Engineering Unit Manager with BWXT in Lynchburg, presents a check
to Azim Eskandarian, ME department head, May 24 to be used for the Senior Design program.
From left: Matt Blanks, an ME senior interning with BWXT, Eskandarian, Camper, Kevin Harter
(BSCE '11) BWXT process engineer, and Robin Ott, associate professor of practice.

Fall
semester
classes
begin
Aug. 22
Graduate earns
Timothy Owens
Shepherd Award
for leadership
Maurice
Hensel,
who
graduated
in May,
received
the
Timothy
Owens Shepherd Award
for demonstrating outstanding leadership in
Cooperative Education.
Awards are presented
to students with extraordinary character
and unquestionable
integrity as well as academic excellence. The
award is given through
the Virginia Tech Cooperative Education and
Internship Program.

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