Congratulations to our student award winners at the 2017 AIAA Region VI Student Conference March 17 -19 in San Jose, California. As they did in 2016, this year’s graduate students made a clean sweep in the Master’s Research category:

• 1st Place – Balakumaran Gopalarethinam (Prof. JK Yang, adviser; Hiromi Yasuda, mentor)
• 2nd Place – Eric Wheeler (Prof. Carl Knowlen and Prof. Mitsuru Kurosaka, advisers)
• 3rd Place (tie) – Trever Byrd (Prof. Carl Knowlen, adviser) and Wei-Siang Lay (Dr. Roger Raman, adviser)

Our students also took the top two prizes in the Undergraduate Research category:

• 1st Place – Greg Derk and Angela Kimber (Prof. Carl Knowlen, adviser)
• 2nd Place - Chayanat Wanitthananon (Prof. JK Yang, adviser; Seunghyun Ko, mentor)

We are proud of our students’ continued achievement at the AIAA Region VI Conferences.