NE student Amanda Loveless awarded 2016 DEIS Graduate Fellowship

Purdue Nuclear Engineering graduate student Amanda Loveless has been awarded the 2016 IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) Graduate Fellowship for her proposal, Derivation of Scaling Laws for AC Breakdown Voltage in Microdischarges.

The Graduate Student fellowships, established by the Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, are offered to further graduate education in the areas of electrical insulation and dielectric phenomena of interest to the Society, and are open to eligible candidates from all over the world. The fellowship is for students pursuing their Ph.D. degree. Awards are highly competitive, and research proposals are refereed by members of the DEIS Education Committee.

Loveless (pictured left) will receive a cash prize and partial travel reimbursement to present the results of her work at a 2017 technical conference sponsored by DEIS.

To learn more about the Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS), visit: http://www.ieeedeis.org/

To learn more about the Purdue School of Nuclear Engineering, visit: https://engineering.purdue.edu/NE