This highly prestigious award is presented to individuals or teams of individuals that developed or contributed to innovative manufacturing technologies that have led to substantial economic and/or societal benefits.
A new grant titled, "Machine Learning-Enabled Data Assimilation for Understanding and Forecasting the Variation of Thermospheric Neutral Density," funded by NASA’s Space Weather Science Applications Research-to-Operations-to-Research program awarded to Professor Bai.
Mechanical engineering major and mathematics and psychology minor Allison Chen, who juggles three jobs and a full course load, is an acknowledged leader.