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Film Cooling Recognized by Vid-Terp 2009
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A snapshot of Film Cooling's Vid/Terp entry.
Now in its third year, Vid/Terp is a campus-wide video competition hosted by the Office of University Communications. The competition offers undergraduate and graduate students a chance to win prizes for making a three-minute video highlighting an area of study or research or interesting, exciting or impactful aspects of life at Maryland.
In addition to award-winning videos, Film Cooling Research Group has also participated in events and been recognized with several honors including:
- Andrew Voegele receiving a 2008 NASA GSRP fellowship, which was renewed in 2009. Under this program, Andrew will work with NASA engineers at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center on the development of the J2-X engine during the summer.
- Daanish Maqbool obtaining the Minta Martin Fellowship upon his entry into the aerospace graduate program in 2008.
- Three way tie First Place in the November 2008 AIAA Region I YPSE conference between fellow aerospace department students Fernando Raffan, Supratik Datta and Ben Woods.
- Fernando Raffan receiving a 2009 College of Engineering's Future Faculty Fellowship. Under this program, Fernando will participate in three seminars and two practicums aimed at preparing him for a successful faculty career upon graduation.
- Fernando Raffan and Andrew Voegele obtaining 2nd Place in the 2009 Vid/Terp video competition.
- Fernando Raffan and Andrew Voegele obtaining 1st Place in the 2009 Engineering Sustainability video competition; Kiran Dellimore obtaining 3rd place after a close vote in the same competition.
See Film Cooling's award winning video.
Visit the Film Cooling website: www.filmcooling.umd.edu
Contributed by Fernando Raffan
additional sources: http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/vidterp/webcopy/Winners2009.cfm
Published May 27, 2009