2024 Outstanding Senior Engineering Award recipients
Congratulations to the following Students! Rahul Ayanampudi – Aerospace Engineering Anish Easwaran – Biomedical Engineering Bailey Faulk – Electrical Engineering Jacob Isakson – Mechanical Engineering John Lehan – Computer Science Diego Ross – Nuclear Engineering; Minors in Business and English Sarah Voon – Biomedical Engineering; Minor in Mathematics Griffyn Young – Electrical Engineering […]
Brown Scholars Vibha Velur and Ananya Bhawsinka Win Outstanding Intern Award and Ananya Wins the Leadership Award at the conclusion of the 2024 Houston Methodist Summer Undergraduate Research Internship
At the conclusion of The Houston Methodist Summer Undergraduate Research Internship, Brown Scholars Vibha Velur and Anaya Bhawsinka received the Outstanding Intern Award. This award recognizes interns who demonstrate unparalleled dedication, initiative and outstanding performance during the 10-week internship. Ananya also received the Leadership Award for her initiative and group leader volunteering efforts. Vibha’s […]
Brown Scholar Theresa Tran Wins 1st Place at the 2024 Houston Methodist MAPTA Summer Symposium Poster Presentation at the conclusion of the Houston Methodist Summer Undergraduate Research Internship
Brown Scholar Theresa Tran won 1st place at the Houston Methodist MAPTA Summer Symposium Poster Presentation at the conclusion of the 10-week Houston Methodist Summer Undergraduate Research Internship among 75+ interns. Theresa’s research in the Horner Lab investigated the use of ventral spinal stimulation (VSS) in rats to improve motor function after spinal cord […]
Brown Scholar Melody Yeh Wins 1st Place at the A&M Undergraduate Summer Research Program (REU) Program Poster Presentation
Brown Scholar Melody Yeh won 1st place among 60+ student competitors at the 10-week A&M Undergraduate Summer Research Program Poster Presentation. Melody’s research focused on optimizing the speed and efficiency of a novel, affordable and tunable computational microscope for luminescence lifetime imaging, an important biomarker for understanding the molecular microenvironment in cells and tissues. The […]
Trenton Watson, Nacho Durante, Daniel Alexander, and Rahul Ayanampudi place 10th overall at Spaceport America Cup
Brown Scholars Nacho (Juan) Durante, Trenton Watson, Daniel Alexander, and Rahul Ayanampudi competed in the Spaceport America Cup competition in Las Cruces, New Mexico against 152 teams including 62 international teams. The team developed a camera payload for live video transmission and telemetry during and after launch and a radar payload that measures altitude […]
Carson Benner and His Team Win Engineering Project Showcase and 2nd Place at SICK $10K Challenge
Brown Scholar and incoming EnMed student Carson Benner and his team won 1st place overall in the Engineering Project Showcase (300 engineering design capstone teams and 1,400 students). Their invention improves surgical lighting by applying SICK LiDAR sensing technology to an autonomous operating room light. The team also won 2nd place in the $10K […]
Brown Scholar Rishith Ramamurthy and His Team Win 2nd Place At the Biomedical Engineering Project Showcase
Brown Scholar Rishith Ramamurthy and his team won 2nd place at the Biomedical Engineering Project Showcase for their design of a novel Type I diabetes treatment that combines two separate subcutaneous devices- a continuous glucose monitor and an insulin infusion set. The device provides continuous glucose monitoring and tracks blood sugar while delivering insulin in […]
Brown Scholars Catherine Gunawan, Kaitlyn Hawkins, Melody Yeh, and Megan Guy Win 2nd Place at Aggies Invent – Para-Athletes
Brown Scholars Catherine Gunawan, Kaitlyn Hawkins, Melody Yeh, and Megan Guy won 2nd place at Aggies Invent- Para-Athletes. Engineering competitors had 48 hours to develop adaptive technologies, prosthetics, and equipment to allow para-athletes to better compete in events. The team created individualized equipment for para-cyclists with imbalanced leg strengths to improve their strength, reduce strain, and […]
Adam Zheng and his team Win Best Overall project in the NASA Pale Blue Dot: Visualization Challenge
Adam Zheng (codename: Atomic Tiger) and his international team, Viva Aqua , participated in the NASA Pale Blue Dot: Visualization Challenge, and was one of five teams who achieved 1st place among 1,600 world-wide participants from 100 different countries with 130+ submissions. Viva Aqua’s goal was to reduce costs associated with hydrogeological surveying by using […]
Brown Scholars Abhinaya Murugandandham, Fouzul Kansul, And Rachel Kurian Win 3rd Place At Aggie Pitch For Spoon-track
Brown Scholars Abhinaya Murugandandham, Fouzul Kansul, and Rachel Kurian won 3rd place at Aggie Pitch for their design of Spoon-Track, a medical adherence device for organ transplant patients that tracks medication consumption and flags non-compliance for immediate physician intervention. Their design was created in response to medication noncompliance, a leading cause of organ rejection in the […]
