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The AMPT Center is pleased to announce that the 2020 Resiliency Awards will be presented to five Rice Engineering graduate students:
- Nidish Narayanaa Balaji, Mechanical Engineering
- Victoria Granja, Mechanical Engineering
- Barclay Jumet, Mechanical Engineering
- Njideka (Syndi) Nnorom, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
- Faye Yap, Mechanical Engineering
Each student will receive an award of $1500, made possible by the support of AMPT Center corporate member ConocoPhillips (the world’s largest independent pure-play exploration and production company) and Rice Engineering Alumni (the university’s oldest alumni organization).
The 2020 Resiliency Awards recognize “Rice graduate students in AMPT-related fields who have demonstrated exceptional resilience in research in the face of challenges posed by COVID-19.” Nominations were submitted by AMPT Center faculty and reviewed confidentially by a three-person Selection Committee, consisting of:
- Sergio Kapusta, Professor in the Practice of Engineering Leadership, Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL), and Executive Director, Rice Energy & Natural Resources Initiative (ENRI).
- Carlo De Benardi, Additive Manufacturing Industry Lead, ConocoPhillips, and Chair, API 20S Task Force.
- Joanna Nathan, Manager of New Ventures, Johnson & Johnson Center for Device Innovation, and President-Elect, Rice Engineering Alumni.
Although the original call for nominations contemplated four awards, the Selection Committee was tremendously impressed by the nominations received and felt strongly that five awards should be given.
The complete Rice Engineering news story is below:
- AMPT Center presents its first Resiliency Awards
- January 11, 2021
- By Patrick Kurp, Science Writer, George R. Brown School of Engineering
- FIRST POSTED IN: RICE ENGINEERING > News
The five winners and their faculty advisors will be formally honored at the 2nd annual AMPT Symposium on Friday, January 22. Building on the AMPT Center’s successful launch in 2019, the 2021 Symposium showcases the current work of the AMPT Center, culminating in a generative discussion of opportunities for industry-academic collaboration in 2021 and beyond. This year’s Symposium is fully online and registration is complimentary.
Questions?
Please contact George Webb, AMPT Center Industry Liaison • (713) 348-2704 • gwebb@rice.edu
About the AMPT Center Resiliency Award sponsors
- ConocoPhillips, an inaugural corporate member of the AMPT Center, is an American multinational energy company with its headquarters in the Houston Energy Corridor. It is the world’s largest independent pure-play exploration and production company and ranked No. 93 in the 2020 Fortune 500 largest US corporations by total revenue. ConocoPhillips is a leader in the energy industry in developing standards for qualifying additively manufactured materials and components for critical service and extreme environments.
- Rice Engineering Alumni (REA) is the alumni organization of the School of Engineering at Rice University. Founded in 1938, it is Rice’s oldest alumni organization.
About the AMPT Center
Following its successful launch in 2019, the AMPT Center at Rice University is on pace to be the leading multi-disciplinary research center in the United States on the problems of:
- advanced additive manufacturing
- materials performance and characterization
- tribology and tribomechadynamics
- and the application of data, machine learning, and other innovative techniques to drive engineering solutions.
