Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 3 No. 2 Summer 2018 | Page 5

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The senior design and competition team 2LoudVT earned two world records in National Sound Pressure League competition this spring . Their scores of 163.5dB in the kick and 160.3dB on the dash beat their own record . The team has qualified for the NSPL world finals in September . To see more team-produced videos from senior design , go to the ME YouTube page .
Roop Mahajan , the Lewis A . Hester Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering , received the university ' s 2018 Alumni Award for Excellence in International Outreach . Read the entire story at VTNews .
Congratulations to ME ' s own Lauren Mills , a program support technician with the Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems . Lauren received her Masters in Public Health May 10 .
Arvid Myklebust , right , professor emeritus of mechanical engineering , received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Florida . Myklebust received his BS , MS , and Ph . D degrees from UF , and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology . MOMENTUM SUMMER 2018 PAGE 5