the catholic university of america fall 2007 issue - the School of ...

cuaengineerAwards■ Judge, J.A., Charles H. Kaman Award forExcellence in Teaching, Catholic UniversitySchool of Engineering, 2006.■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., dean, Certificate of SpecialCongressional Recognition from Viet Bao and congresswomanLoretta Sanchez for “outstandingachievements, wonderful service and exemplarycontribution to the community of California,”Westminster, California, Aug. 27, 2006.■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., dean, Member Resolution No.2580 from the California Legislature Assembly fordedication and contributions in the area of educationto the people of the State of California,Westminster, Calif., Aug. 2006.■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., dean, 10th Anniversary Awardfrom the International Journal of IntelligentAutomation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft), for contributionas founder, past editor in chief, foundingeditor and advisory board chair of AutoSoft, WAC2006, Budapest, Hungary, July 2006.■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., dean, Honorary professorshipfrom Southeast University, Nanjing, China, Nov.2006.■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., dean, 2006 CommunityService Award from the Vietnamese AmericanMedical Research Foundation, Garden Grove, Calif.,Feb. 2007.■ Regalia, P. A., Charles H. Kaman award forExcellence in Teaching, Catholic University, 2006.■ Sun, L., CAREER Award, National ScienceFoundation, January 2007.■ Sun, L., Award University Provost Award forExcellence in Research and Scholarship, TheCatholic University of America, 2006.■ Ucak, A., Tsopelas, P., “Effect of Soil StructureInteraction in Seismic Isolated Bridges,” 3rd Prizein paper competition. Proceedings of the 23rdSoutheastern Conference on Theoretical andApplied Mechanics, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, May21–23, (2006). (presented by Ucak, A.).StudentsActivities and Awards■ Gregory S. Cook, junior, civil engineering, AmericanConcrete Institute National Capital Chapter AnnualStudent Award, 2006.■ Timothy J. Garland, junior, civil engineering, GlenConstruction Company Endowment Scholarshipthrough Associated Builders and ContractorsMetropolitan Washington Chapter, 2006. He alsoreceived the 2007 ASCE-NCS Outstanding StudentAward and the 2007 Dennis F. McCahill Award forService in civil engineering.■ Max Tsala, senior, civil engineering, 2007 TimothyW. Kao Award for Academic Excellence in civil engineering.■ Christopher P. Logsdon, junior, civil engineering,Associated Builders and Contractors MetropolitanWashington Chapter Scholarship, 2006.■ Cathryn Jensen, senior, Megan Payne, senior,Stephen Sizer, senior, and Caitlyn Matyas, junior,biomedical engineering were named 2006–07Nagel Scholars. They all also received the 2006–07Tau Beta Pi scholarships.■ Afshin Nabili, Roland Dinga, and Megan Payne,seniors in biomedical engineering, received 3rdPlace in the 2006 National Accessible MedicalInstrumentation Design Competition for their designproject entitled: “PITS: Portable Imaging TransferSystem.” Tran served as their faculty supervisor onthe project.■ Megan Payne, senior, biomedical engineering,received the 2007 CUA President’s Award, thehighest honor to a graduating student by TheCatholic University of America.■ Cathryn Jensen, senior in biomedical engineering,received the 2007 H.T. Atabek Award for AcademicExcellence. She also received the 2007 BMESAward for Service Excellence to the Department ofBiomedical Engineering.■ Alper Ucak, master’s degree candidate, civil engineering,3rd Prize of the Paper Competition in the23rd Southeastern Conference on Theoretical andApplied Mechanics, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, May21–23, (2006). for the paper: “Effect of SoilStructure Interaction in Seismic Isolated Bridges,”Proceedings of the 23rd Southeastern Conferenceon Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Mayagüez,Puerto Rico, May 21–23, (2006). He also took secondplace in the Poster Paper Competition inPresentation at the annual meeting of The NewMadrid Chapter of the Earthquake EngineeringResearch Institute, St. Louis University, St. Louis,MO, Feb. 1, 2007, for the paper “Emerging Issuesin Seismic Isolated Bridges: Effect Of Soil-StructureInteraction” Earthquake-Hazard Poster Competition,The New Madrid Chapter of the EarthquakeEngineering Research Institute, St. Louis University,St. Louis, MO Feb. 1, (2007), Alper Ucak, Xu, D.■ Erica Gonzalez, sophomore, civil engineering,received the 2007 ASCE-NCS Hathaway Memorial,in the amount of $1,500.■ Boshra Iravani, sophomore, civil engineering, wonthe 2007 ASCE-NCS Williams Memorial in theamount of $1,500.■ Alexander N. Walendziak, junior, civil engineering,won a $1,000, ASCE-NCS Scholarship.■ Kathryn Kazior, sophomore, civil engineering,received an $8,000 National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration (NOAA) 2007 NOAAHollings Scholarship.■ Rose Lucas, junior, civil engineering, received a$6,000 National Science Foundation ResearchExperience for Undergraduates Award through Dr.Sun, which she will use to study in China.■ Kelly A. McDonald, junior, civil engineering, won a$2,500 Construction Financial ManagementAssociation Scholarship (through AssociatedBuilders and Contractors Metropolitan WashingtonChapter).■ Matthew T. Brady, sophomore, civil engineering,received an Associated Builders and ContractorsMetropolitan Washington scholarship in the amountof $1,500.■ Michael J. Kuklinski, sophomore, civil engineering,received an Associated Builders and ContractorsMetropolitan Washington Chapter 2007 ABCScholarship for $1,000.■ Andrew R. Kalna, sophomore, civil engineering,won a $1,000 2007 ABC Scholarship fromAssociated Builders and Contractors MetropolitanWashington Chapter.■ Hassan Taherinejad, graduate student, civil engineering,received a scholarship of $1,000 fromAssociated Builders and Contractors MetropolitanWashington Chapter.■ Brian Logsdon, senior, civil engineering, received a2007 ABC Scholarship for $1,000 from AssociatedBuilders and Contractors Metropolitan WashingtonChapter.■ Erica C. Gonzalez, sophomore, civil engineering,received a 2007 CMAA National Capital ChapterScholarship for $1,000 from ConstructionManagement Association of America NationalCapital Chapter.■ Michael J. Kuklinski, freshman, civil engineering,won a 2007 CMAA National Capital ChapterScholarship for $1,000 from the ConstructionManagement Association of America NationalCapital Chapter.■ Matthew T. Brady, freshman, civil engineering, wasawarded a $1,000 2007 CMAA National CapitalChapter Scholarship from the ConstructionManagement Association of America NationalCapital Chapter.■ Paul de Vuyst, freshman, civil engineering, receiveda $1,000 2007 CMAA National Capital ChapterScholarship from the Construction ManagementAssociation of America National Capital Chapter.■ Kathryn Kazior, sophomore in civil engineering,received from Construction ManagementAssociation of America National Capital Chapter a2007 CMAA National Capital Chapter Scholarshipfor $1,000.24 | cuaengineer