Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 2 No. 3 Fall 2017 | Página 5

briefly
More than a dozen
girls from the Mid-
dle East and North-
ern Africa took a
tour of ME facilities
in July as part of the
Tech Girls program
hosted by the
Center for Enhance-
ment of Engineer-
ing Diversity.
Postdoctoral researcher Yuan
Lin gets involved in the solar
eclipse festivities Aug. 21
New College of Engineering Dean Julia Ross (left) gets a look at the Hy-
brid Electric Vehicle Team's EcoCar3 Camaro before the Virginia Tech vs.
West Virginia University football game Sept. 3 at FedEx Field in Maryland.
The Hokies won the game 31-24. The HEVT team enters the 2017-2018
year having had two second place finishes in the first three years of the
four-year event. With Ross is faculty advisor Professor Doug Nelson, and
Anna Kulbaski, a senior in electrical engineering who is an electrical sub-
team member of the HEVT team.
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Emilio Jimenez was awarded the
ASME VT Memorial Scholarship
in June. Each year a graduate
student who is an ASME member
is selected for the award. Jimenez
is a doctoral student with Profes-
sor Corina Sandu. "I feel honored
to represent Virginia Tech...my
educational pursuits would not be
possible without generous sup-
port from scholarship sponsors,"
Jimenez said.