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Clark School Senior Named Marshall Scholar
University of Maryland Senior Erin Hylton, a civil engineering major in the A. James Clark School of Engineering who focuses her academic and professional pursuits on water resource engineering, has been named a 2014 Marshall Scholar and will receive a scholarship which fully supports two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.

Schmaus Awarded Sikorsky Aircraft Fellowship
Graduate student Joseph Schmaus (AE) has been selected to receive the 2013-2014 Sikorsky Aircraft Fellowship. The fellowship awards the recipient $10,000 to support educational expenses. Schmaus is pursuing his Ph.D. in rotorcraft at the University of Maryland, where his research interests include high-speed coaxial helicopters and the Gamera human powered helicopter.

Undergraduate

Three Clark School Students Named 2013-2014 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars
Kathleen Rohrbach (Materials Science and Engineering) mentored by Department of Mathematics Professor C. Robert Warner and high school Latin teacher, Mrs. Patricia Davis; Nelson Yanes (Aerospace Engineering) mentored by Department of Aerospace Engineering Professor Christopher Cadou and high school honors chemistry teacher, Mr. Joe ‘Mag’ Magdelinskas; and Rebecca Yep (Mechanical Engineering) mentored by Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Chandra Thamire and high school French teacher, Ms. Vicki Clem were named 2013-2014 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars.

Aerospace Student Selected for Lend for America Fellowship
Department of Aerospace Engineering student Atin Mittra was selected to receive Lend for America’s Growing National Initiative fellowship intended for young student leaders interested in microfinance.

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Competition Teams and Student Organizations

UMD Wins First Place in Hackathon Season
The University of Maryland's Terrapin Hackers team has been named champion of the Fall 2013 Hackathon Season by Major League Hacking (MLH). The first place title was earned based on merit and attendance at five MLH hackathons, where students collaborate to innovate software, hardware, apps, or working prototypes of a product.

UMD's Team Mulciber Places First in Emissions in Wood Stove Decathlon
Team Mulciber, a group of students from the University of Maryland, competed as one of twelve finalists in the inaugural Alliance for Green Heat Wood Stove Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Mulciber won first place in the “Particulate Matter Emissions” category, and their wood stove design has been featured by Popular Mechanics and National Geographic.

UMD Team Wins First Place in MaxTech Competition
For the second straight year, a team of University of Maryland (UMD) students advised by Dr. Yunho Hwang, associate director of UMD's Center for Environmental Energy Engineering, has won the Max Tech and Beyond Design Competition for Ultra-Low-Energy-Use Appliances and Equipment. The team, UMD Dryer, received the first place gold medal for developing an energy saving, two-stage heat pump clothes dryer. The student team was led by Tao Cao and included students Zhang Zhilu, Peter Wadeson, Richard Sams, Abbad Malik, Jeffrey Sze, John Calderone, Thomas Magnuson, Thomas Busch, Alexander Kim, Alan Louie, Lin Xiaojie, Peng Cong, Peter Anto, Amer A. R. Charbaji, Laeun Kwon, Ning Yang, and Xinchen Liu.

ECE Students Take Top Prize at Michigan Hackathon for Intelligent Trashcan
Second year students in Electrical and Computer Engineering Andres Toro, Zachary Lawrence and Joshua Drubin won first prize at the Fall 2013 MHacks, competition for building an intelligent trash can that sorts recyclables from garbage, at the world's largest college hackathon.

UMD Team Wins AHS Student Design Competition
The Department of Aerospace Engineering's Student Design Team (SDT) won first place in the graduate division of the American Helicopter Society's (AHS) 30th Annual Student Design Competition with their HeliX design.

MDSE Sends Team to Sierra Leone to Support Community Projects
Maryland Sustainability Engineering (MDSE) sent six members of the Sierra Leone Project team to Africa on an in-country assessment trip to investigate and collect data pertaining to three upcoming projects the organization plans to work on for Calaba Town, a small community on the outskirts of Freetown. Kathryn Connolly, a senior chemical engineering student, led the team, which was comprised of Civil Engineering Professor Dr. David Lovell, professional engineer Ed Miller, and engineering students Ethan Schindel (materials engineering), Henry Ko (bioengineering), and Christopher Lawler (mechanical engineering), on the week-long trip to Sierra Leone.

Maryland's EWB Team Spends July in Addis Alem, Ethiopia
The University of Maryland's Engineers Without Borders (EWB) team made its eighth trip to Ethiopia in continued partnership with the town of Addis Alem assessing new ways to manage stormwater drainage, improve general sanitation, and construct more robust infrastructure that will culminate in a better market environment for both vendors and consumers. The team consisted of Civil Engineering Professor Barton Forman, professional engineer Ed Elder, Cathy O’Riordan, Ph.D, and students Yoseph Fehesa (aerospace engineering), Nicholas Valdez (civil and environmental engineering), and Abigail Henningsgaard (bioengineering).  The team was led by senior civil and environmental engineering student Brett Jansen, who has been involved with Maryland’s EWB team since 2010.

UMD's Team Gamera Sets New Record for Human Powered Helicopter Flight Duration
University of Maryland students from Team Gamera have unofficially set a world record of 97 seconds for the duration of a human powered helicopter flight, chasing the AHS Sikorsky Prize.

UMD Team Wins 2013 American Public Health Association's Affordable Care Act Codeathon
An interdisciplinary team from the University of Maryland (UMD) won first place in the 2013 American Public Health Association's (APHA) Codeathon aimed at helping to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at APHA's Annual Meeting and Exposition. The team was led by Kenyon Crowley, deputy director of CHIDS, and included Department of Mechanical Engineering graduate student Luis Santos from the Hybrid-System Integration and Simulation Lab and graduate student Maia Naftali from the College of Information Studies iSchool's Human Computer Interaction Laboratory.

Electrochemical Society Student Chapter Wins Chapter Award
The University of Maryland's student chapter of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) has received the organization's first Outstanding Student Chapter Award.

UMD Steel Bridge Team Meets Members of Congress at AISI Steel Day in DC
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Steel Bridge Team was invited to participate in American Iron and Steel Institute's "Steel Day" event held in Washington, D.C. The event, a collaboration between AISA, the National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA) and the House and Senate Steel Caucuses, featured the University of Maryland's large-scale bridge model in addition to models from the University of Akron, University of Delaware and the University of California-Berkeley.

Robotics @ Maryland Takes Fourth Place in International RoboSub Competition
The University of Maryland's student-run robotics team, Robotics @ Maryland, took fourth place in the 16th International RoboSub Competition at the Transducer Evaluation Center (TRANSDEC) Pool in San Diego, Calif., with this year’s robot, Tortuga IV, an AUV with multiple sensors that can record information about itself and its environment. The Robotics @ Maryland team included Chris Carlsen, Donald Gregorich, Julian Hylton, Justin Kanga, Nicholas Limparis, Johnny Mao, Leslie Pang, Josh Pugh, Eliot Rudnick-Cohen, Rajath Shetty, Nicholas Arnold-Medabalimi, Kate McBryan, and Stephen Christian.

Terps Racing Showcased at the Grand Prix of Baltimore
University of Maryland students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering's Terps Racing teams were invited to showcase their Baja and SAE Formula vehicles at the 2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore Labor Day weekend in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The event attracted more than 130,000 attendees who could see the UMD team featured in the Family Fun Zone, where attendees had the chance to view Terps Racings’ Baja and SAE Formula racing cars up close and get the opportunity to talk with the students who helped design them.

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