In 2008 the Robert L. Dwight
Scholarship, honoring the founder of HEM, was changed
from $2500 to $3000 for each recipient. The scholarship
was awarded to two upper classmen engineering students,
one at the
University
of
Maryland
at
College Park
and one at the
University
of
Maryland Baltimore
County (UMBC).
The scholarship winner at UMBC was Charles
Hebert, a junior working toward a degree in mechanical
engine-ering. During his college years he has been
involved in a number of team efforts to design and build types of robots.
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On one project his team’s solution was
selected to represent
Maryland
at the World Competitions. Last summer Charles worked as
an intern at Cardinal Scientific, Inc. There he
used solids modeling techniques and
CAM
technology to produce production level drawings prior to
fabrication of a communication van.
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Jennifer Donaldson is receiving the scholarship
at the
University
of
Maryland
in
College Park (UMCP)
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She is a junior studying aerospace engineering and hopes
for a career related to space exploration. She came to
College Park
after two years at
Montgomery
College
where she maintained a 4.0 grade point average.
Last summer Jennifer worked as a co-op at NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center and will return next summer. Her
assignment was studying the possibility of using signals from the existing
GPS
satellite constellation to navigatespacecraft located
at greater distances from the earth. Since
GPS
signals are beamed toward the earth, only weak signals
resulting from antenna side lobes are available in outer
space. During a tour of our museum Jennifer was very
interested in side lobe suppression applied to radar
antenna design.
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For
more information at UMCP contact the Office of the Dean
For
more information at UMBC contact Dr. Ted Foster.
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