CIVS Student Awards & Grants
August 22, 2025

Congratulations to CIVS graduate, undergraduate, and senior design students on receiving the following awards and grants:
Senior Design Award:
- 1st place poster competition: Luke Aune, Elizabeth Cortes, Lukas Dallas, “Design of Hydraulic Nozzle Spray Cooling in a Steel Continuous Caster”
Senior Design Grants:
- Priscilla Ndukaife, Yao Huang “Design of Diluted Combustion for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction” Project Advisors: Chenn Zhou, Armin Silaen
- James Barbarossa, Mansour Almanasif, Ahmad Alasfar “Exploration of Oxygen Blast Furnace Operation with CFD Models” Project Advisor: Chenn Zhou, Ty Okosun
- Jesse Anaya, Elias Reyes “Virtual Crane Simulation” Project Advisors: Chenn Zhou, Kyle Toth
Undergraduate Research Funding:
- Elias Reyes, Jesse Anaya, Mansour Almanasif, Ahmad Alasfar, James Barbarossa, Priscilla Ndukaife, Yao Huang
Graduate Research Funding:
- Dhwanil Chauhan, Sathvika Kottapalli, Jacob Schulman
Graduate Travel Grants:
- PNW