March 2010: Mattheus Ueckermann has been awarded a competitive National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada PostGraduate Scholarship. The NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS) Program provides financial support to high-calibre students who are engaged in master’s or doctoral programs in the natural sciences or engineering. This support allows these students to fully concentrate on their studies and to seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields. Congratulations Matt!
March 2010: Prof. Pierre Lermusiaux received an MIT School of Engineering teaching award, the “Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching”. This award is given to one faculty member each in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Nuclear Science and Engineering to acknowledge “the tradition of high quality engineering education at MIT”.