Tau Bates in the News, October 2009, Part II

The results are in from the 2009 Solar Decathlon held at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., October 9-13.

The winners of this year’s U.S. Department of Energy and Solar Decathlon are Team Germany (1st), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2nd), and Team California (3rd).

First time competitors from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette were the “People’s Choice Award Winners” for their house, BeauSoleil. Read more

Τ

Popular Science has selected there annual “Brilliant 10, a selection of the brightest young researchers in the country.”

Dennis Hong, WI A ’94, an associate professor at Virginia Tech University was selected for his work with robots.

Hong is currently working on CHARLI – for Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence.
Read Hong’s profile

Also selected was Jerome Lynch, NY I ’97, associate professor at the University of Michigan.

Lynch is a civil engineer whose research focuses on continuously monitoring bridges for structural failures with his “sensor skin.” Read more

Β

The Society of Women Engineers is recognizing employees of Northrop Grumman Corporation “for their contributions to the engineering community and professional excellence.”

Martha Addison, AL B 2009, has received the 2009 Collegiate Member Award.

Addison is currently a design engineer at Grumman’s Aerospace Systems. While at the University of Alabama she was president of her collegiate chapter of SWE, a member of Tau Beta Pi, and a member of AIAA. She was recognized at WE09, the Society’s Annual Conference.
Read press release

Π