Student Awards

Taylor Allred:

2014 Perry Fellow

2015 NDSEG Fellowship

2019 College of Engineering Conference Travel Grant

2019 InterPACK Nasser Grayeli Best Student Poster Award

Ravi Annapragada:

2016 ASME EPPD Young Engineer of the Year

2009 Best Poster Prize for "Forces acting on Sessile Droplet on Inclined Surfaces," by SR Annapragada, JY Murthy and SV Garimella, at The ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of Micro, Nano, and Electronic Systems (InterPACK '09), San Francisco.

2009 InterPACK travel grant award, InterPACK 09, San Francisco, CA

2009 Outstanding Service Scholarship, Purdue University

2009 Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Service Scholarship, Purdue University

2008 Best Paper Award in Heat Transfer, for "Permeability and Thermal Transport in Compressed Open-Celled Foams," by SR Annapragada, JY Murthy and SV Garimella, at the 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Jacksonville, Florida.

2008 NSF Fundamental Research Supplement Award

2008 Invited journal paper, S. R. Annapragada, D. Sun and S. V. Garimella, "Analysis and Suppression of Base Separation in the Casting of a Cylindrical Ingot," Heat Transfer Engineering Vol. 29(4), pp. 385-394.

2007 Top 20 Research Poster, SURF Symposium, Purdue University

2006 NSF travel grant for ASME ISHMT conference.

Vaibhav Bahadur:

Andrews Fellow, Adelberg Fellow

Soumya Bandyopadhyay:

2020 Winner of ASME K-16/IEEE EPS Heat Sink Design Competition

2019 Finalist for Purdue Engineering 2169 Health and Longevity pitch competition

2018 Andrews Fellow

Kalind Baraya:

2017 Ross Fellow

Karthik Bodla:

2008 Ross Doctoral Fellowship

2013 Best Paper Award, Indiana Chapter of IMAPS Mini-symposium

Craig Bradshaw:

2011 Lambert Teaching Fellowship

2009 ASHRAE Grant-in-Aid Award Winner

Manohar Bongarala:

2018 Ross Fellowship

Alex Bruce:

2014 NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship

2014 Purdue Women in Engineering Program Travel Grant

2016 Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Service Scholarship

Aaditya Candadai:

2019 ITherm Outstanding Paper Award in Emerging Technologies & Fundamentals track

2019 ITherm Best Poster Award in Emerging Technologies & Fundamentals track

2019 ITherm Best Art-in-Science Entry

2019 PGSG Travel Grant

2019 College of Engineering Travel Grant for InterPack conference

Payton Case:

2020 Jacobs Space Tech Challenge

Julian Castillo:

2013 Fulbright/Colciencias Jase de Caldas Fellow

Aditya Chandramohan:

2014 Cordier Fellowship

Matt Clark:

2020 Nasser Grayeli Best Poster Award at the ASME InterPACK 2020 Conference

2018 ITHERM Art-in-Science Runner-Up

2018 ITHERM Best Poster Award, Component-Level Thermal Management Track

2016 Purdue University Kohr Scholarship

Ivel Lee Collins:

2019 Best Paper Award for IEEE CPMT

2018 ITHERM Best Poster Award, Emerging Technologies Track

2016 Purdue University Lozar Assistantship

Hsien-Chin Su:

2014 Third place in the 2014 Burton D. Morgan Business Plan competition and in the Rice Business Plan Competition as the team leader of EcoBreeze

Jin Cui:

2015 Perry Fellowship

Susmita Dash:

2009 Ross Doctoral Fellowship

2014 College of Engineering Travel Grant

2014 PGSG Travel Grant

2011 Student Poster Award for "Single-step fabrication and characterization of ultrahydrophobic surfaces with hierarchical roughness" at the 11th ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of Electronic and Photonic Systems, Advanced Packaging and Materials (InterPACK), Portland, OR.

2012 EPPD Student Member Award

2013 Bilsland Dissertation Fellow

2013 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award

2013 Grant for GE Global Research 10th Annual Technology and Innovation Days

2013 IMECE 2013 Travel Grant for Micro/Nano Forum

Mercy Dicuangco:

2011 First Place in oral competition in Technology and Engineering, for "Droplet Impingement Analysis and Characterization on Ultrahydrophobic Surfaces with Hierarchical Roughness," at Emerging Researchers National Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, hosted by AAAS, EHR, and NSF, Washington, DC.

2013 Arrasmith Fellow

Kevin Drummond:

2012 Cordier Fellowship

2016 Best Paper Award in the Emerging Technologies Track for "Evaporative intrachip hotspot cooling with a hierarchical manifold microchannel heat sink array," by K. P. Drummond, J. A. Weibel, S. V. Garimella, D. Back, D. B. Janes, M. D. Sinanis, and D. Peroulis, at the IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), Las Vegas, NV, USA, May 31- Jun 3, 2016.

2017 Best Student Paper at SEMI-Therm (P.K. Mulay Memorial Scholarship)

2017 Best Student Paper in the are of Two-Phase Thermal Management Technology and/or Applications (Sponsored by Celsia, Inc.)

Rebecca Fields:

Ingersoll Rand Fellow

Arrasmith Fellow

Michael Frank:

2014 DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships

2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

David Gonzalez:

2017 InterPACK, Outstanding Paper

Tannaz Harirchian:

2009 Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence in Design of Electronics, Dec. 2009

2009 EPPD Student Member Award, Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division of the IEEE/ASME.

2009 Travel Grant Award, InterPACK 2009 Conference, San Francisco, CA.

2008 Student Travel Stipend, Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium, San Jose, CA.

2007 Graduate Student Travel Grant Award, School of Mechanical Eng., Purdue University.

2005 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

2005 Graduate Student Travel Grant award, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

2005 Winner of the Best Paper Award and the Best Presentation Award, 2005 Graduate Student Research Symposium, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

2005 Research Grant Award for Graduate Students, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Carolina Mira Hernandez:

2013 Colciencias Jose de Caldas/Fulbright Fellow

Harshad Inamdar:

2016 Purdue University Lambert Fellowship

Yanbo Huang:

2020 Ross Fellowship

Debraliz Isaac-Aragones

2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2019 George Washington Carver Fellowship Fellowship

2019 IEEE-ITherm Outstanding Poster Award

2019 Ronald E. McNair Scholar

Brian Iverson:

2015 Magoon award

Ingersoll Rand Fellow

Winkelman Fellow

Aakrati Jain:

2013 Andrews Fellow

Ben Jones:

2005-2008 National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship (NDSEG) from Department of Defense (DoD)

2005 Brisky Grant winner from Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA)

2009 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship from Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering (6-month fellowship)

2006 Best Poster Prize for "Infrared Micro-Particle Image Velocimetry in a Silicon Microchannel Heat Sink," by BJ Jones and SV Garimella, International Heat Transfer Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Mark Kimber:

Outstanding Service Award, Purdue University

Winkelman Fellow

Todd Kingston:

2019 National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate Fellowship

2019 Purdue University Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Research Award

2018 Association of Old Crows Crane Roost Chapter Scholarship

2018 ASNE Tidewater Section James Pitt Scholarship

2017 Outstanding Student Poster Award

2015 Best Poster Award InterPACK/ICNMM 2015

2015 InterPACK/ICNMM Travel Grant

2014 Winkelman Fellow

Abhinav Krishna:

2012 Adelberg Fellowship, Purdue University

Niru Kumari:

2009 Best Poster Prize for "Numerical Analysis of Mist-Cooled High Power Components in Cabinets," by N Kumari, V Bahadur, M Hodes, T Salamon, A Lyons, P Kolodner and SV Garimella, at The ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of Micro, Nano, and Electronic Systems (InterPACK '09), San Francisco.

Poh-Seng Lee:

Bisland Dissertation Fellow

Chin-Yuan Li:

PRF Fellow

Sara Lyons:

2016 Purdue University Andrews Fellowship

John McHale:

2005, 2006 Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching

2009 IMAPS Indiana Chapter Vendor's Day Symposium - Best Paper of Session

2010 Outstanding Service Award, Purdue University

Chistine Merrill:

NSF Graduate Fellow

Chris Migliaccio:

2008 Recipient of the Department of Defense SMART scholarship.

2007 Ross Fellowship

2009 DOD funding

Carolina Mira:

2012 Colciencias Jose de Caldas Fellow

Emily Nadler:

2020 John M. Starkey Prize in Mechanical Engineering

Karen Nielson:

2017 1st Place for ICES Student Poster Competition

2013 NASA Space Technology Research Fellow

2013 Purdue Doctoral Fellow

Sedar Ozguc:

2017 Laura Winkelman Davidson Fellowship

Saeel Pai:

2020 Winner of ASME K-16/IEEE EPS Heat Sink Design Competition

Gaurav Patankar:

2017 ITherm Best Student Poster Award

2015 Outstanding Paper Award InterPACK/ICNMM 2015

2015 InterPACK/ICNMM Grant

Ravi Patel:

2015 Adelberg Fellowship

2010 Winkelman Fellowship

Joseph Peoples:

2020 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities Fellowship

Ram Ranjan:

2007-2009 Andrews Fellowship by School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University for years.

2009 Best Poster Award for "Numerical Study of Evaporation Heat Transfer from the Liquid-Vapor Interface in Wick Microstructures," by R Ranjan, JY Murthy and SV Garimella, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

2009 Research Poster at IMECE 2009 selected for Heat Transfer Photo-Gallery in August 2010 issue of ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.

2010 NSF Travel Grant for Student Poster Symposium at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Vancouver, BC.

2011 Student Poster Award for "An Experimentally Validated Model for Transport in Thin, High Thermal Conductivity, Low CTE Heat Spreaders" at the 11th ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of Electronic and Photonic Systems, MEMS and NEMS (InterPACK), Portland, OR.

Matt Rau:

2015 EPPD Student Member of the Year

2015 National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship

2015 InterPACK/ICNMM Travel Grant

2015 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Service Scholarship

2014 IMAPS Thermal ATW 2014 Student Stipend Award

2014 College of Engineering Travel Grant

2014 Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching

2009 Winkelman Fellowship

2012 Arrasmith Fellowship

Ryan Regan:

2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2020 Adelberg Fellowship for Graduate Studies

Niki Ritchey:

2014 Purdue University Excellence in Teaching Award

2012 Ingersoll-Rand Fellowship

2012 Ward A. Lambert Graduate Teaching Fellowship

2013 Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants Excellence in Teaching Award

2013 Outstanding Paper Award in Thermal for "Effects of non-uniform heating on two-phase flow through microchannels," by SN Ritchey, JA Weibel, and SV Garimella, at the ASME International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packing and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK), Burlingame, CA, July 16-18, 2013.

Kelly Rickey:

2011 Winkelman Fellowship

2012 SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference

Rishav Roy:

2016 Ross Fellowship

2021 Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching

Daniel J. Schlitz:

PRF Fellow

Rich Simmons:

2014 Andrews Environmental Travel Grant

Vishal Singhal:

PRF Fellow

Srivathsan Sudhakar:

2020 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship

2017 ITherm Best Student Poster Award

Steve Taylor:

2011 Winkelman Fellowship

Paval Vaitheeswaran:

2017 InterPACK, Best Paper

Sydney Wait:

SRC Fellow

Arrasmith Fellow

Justin Weibel:

2011 ASME EPPD Student Member of the Year Award

Lozar Fellow

Ingersoll Rand Fellow

Don West:

2008 Winkelman Fellowship

2009 NSF Fellowship

Maureen Winter:

2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2020 Arrasmith Fellowship