Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 3 No. 3 Fall 2018 | Page 10

Underwood earns degree
Johnny Underwood, equipment
and facilities specialist for me-
chanical engineering, received his
BA in Accounting from Liberty
University.
Li hosts conference
Underwood
Hurtado wins best paper award
Mark Hurtado, a graduate
researcher, received the INCE-
USA Student Paper Award at the
Inter-NOISE 2018 Conference in
Chicago for the paper, Low speed
control vortex axial fan design
Hurtado
for minimum noise. Hurtado is
advised by Professor Ricardo Burdisso.
Assistant Professor Ling Li will
co-organize the first International
Conference on Nature-Inspired
Surface Engineering June 12-14,
Li
2019 at the Steven's Institute of
Technology in Hoboken, New
Jersey. The deadline for abstract submission
is Jan. 31, 2019 and details can be found at the
NISE-2019 website.
Hibbler earns research fellowship
Brianna Hibbler, a doctoral student in the
lab of Professor Michael Roan, received a Na-
tional Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship. The five year fellowship provides
financial support for three years and a student
stipend.
President Sands' 2018 State of the University
https://youtu.be/M6aB8wqqAXI
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