Projects funded through Norman D. Kurtz '58 Fund for Innovation in Engineering Education

December 20, 2006 by Bob Monsour (permalink)   

This year, through the Norman D. Kurtz '58 Fund for Innovation in Engineering Education, the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education is pleased to offer funds to support "engineering students pursuing projects that offer exposure to engineering applications outside the classroom". Listed below are the students, the projects, and the project advisers for those projects awarded funding for this academic year.

• Project: Efficient Wood Burning Stoves and Future Projects for Huamanzaña, Peru
• Students: Christopher Pritchard '07, Edward Segal GS, Shannon Brink '09
• Advisor: George Scherer

• Project: Assessment Trip for Arsi Negelle
• Students: Justin Wend-Boma Karfo '09, Emily Stehr '08, Andrew Soroka '08
• Advisor: George Scherer

• Project: Optimizing Operation of Quantum Cascade Lasers for Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy
• Student: Tiffany Ko '09
• Advisor: Claire Gmachl

• Project: Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering
• Students: Alex Downey '08, Gordon Franken '08, Brendan Collins '08
• Advisor: Alain Kornhauser

• Project: EPICS Green Building Project (Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Assn. Project)
• Students: Alain Chicoine '07, Elizabeth Allaway '07, Dobromir Parushev '10, Pandora Chua '10, Gregory Hiller '08, Joshua Loehrer '08, Sam Borchard '10, Wing Chun Eric Hui '09
• Advisor: Catherine Peters

• Project: Clean Water Engineering Solutions
• Students: Katherine Barteau '09, Ishani Sud '08
• Advisor: Winston Soboyejo

• Project: Mathematical Contest In Modeling Team
• Student: Jeff Tang '09
• Advisor: Robert Calderbank