| News from Arkansas State University For Release: May 5, 2003 |
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| News from Arkansas State University For Release: May 5, 2003 |
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University Communications Office Jonesboro, Arkansas Staff: Tom Moore Virginia Adams 870-972-3056 fax 870-972-3069 Send mail: ASUnews@astate.edu Links: List of News/Announcements Upcoming Events About ASU ASU Home Page |
Engineering
students awarded prestigious fellowship grants Anil Baral of Katmandu, Nepal, and Randy Stidham of Wynne, student research assistants working under the direction of Dr. Robert Engelken, professor of electrical engineering, recently were awarded prestigious fellowship grants to support their continuing research. Baral, a candidate for the Ph.D. in Environmental Science, was one of only two national winners of a competitive $10,000 graduate student research grant from the Institute of Hazardous Materials Management in Rockville, Md. The grant award was in response to a proposal that he and Dr. Engelken had previously submitted and will support his ongoing Ph.D. research on development and regulatory compliance of low toxicity and low environmental impact trivalent chromium baths for electroplating of industrial-grade chromium films. Stidham, an undergraduate electrical, computer, and information engineering major, was recently awarded a $6,500 NASA Workforce Development Fellowship through the NASA/Arkansas Space Grant Consortium. The grant will help support his ongoing work on deposition of thin films of low toxicity and low environmental impact semiconductors, such as indium sulfide and bismuth sulfide for light sensing and other optoelectronic applications. Both students have also made multiple presentations on their research. Both made presentations recently at regional conferences. Baral presented at the annual meeting of the Arkansas Academy of Science in Fayetteville and also recently won the second place award and a $300 prize for the best student presentation at the Arkansas Water Works and Water Environmental Association Conference in Hot Springs. Stidham, as well as fellow undergraduate research assistants Richard Tanner, Gustavo Rehder, and Brandon Passmore in Dr. Engelken's group, made presentations at the Arkansas Academy of Science meeting, the annual Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference in Arkadelphia, and the ASU Undergraduate Scholars Day. # # # |
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