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Clarkson MAE Graduate Students Receive Departmental Awards

Release Date
Monday September 27, 2021
MAE Grad Students
L-R: Professor Brian Helenbrook, Nojan Bagheri Sadeghi, Professor Chunlei Liang, Prof. Helenbrook, Janith Wanni, and Prof. Liang

Two Clarkson Graduate students in the Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering (MAE) department were recently honored by their department for outstanding teaching or research contributions. The students were honored at a student-faculty mixer where a paper airplane contest was also held.

Nojan Bagheri-Sadeghi was selected to receive the MAE Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. During his time at Clarkson, he has taught four courses for the department and has served as a teaching assistant multiple times. Students say that “Dr. Sadeghi is genuinely a fantastic professor for how young he is. He is clearly very knowledgeable about the subject." and that "He was very receptive to questions and helpful during office hours and explained the topics in a way that was easy to understand during class."

Janith Wanni won the MAE Excellence in Graduate Research Award. The Awards Committee shared the following testimony from his nomination letters, “Janith Wanni has published multiple journal articles. According to his nominator Dr. Ajit Achuthan, ‘Janith is a gifted experimentalist and is an expert of nanoindentation testing systems. Janith had original research ideas and already came up with a new theory that will be a great contribution to the research community.'"

Both students received a $200 cash award which is funded through donations from the Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering faculty to the Sung P. Lin Endowment fund.

As a private, national research university, Clarkson is a leader in technological education and sustainable economic development through teaching, scholarship, research and innovation. We ignite personal connections across academic fields and industries to create the entrepreneurial mindset, knowledge and intellectual curiosity needed to innovate world-relevant solutions and cultivate the leaders of tomorrow. With its main campus located in Potsdam, N.Y., and additional graduate program and research facilities in the New York Capital Region, Beacon, N.Y., and New York City, Clarkson educates 4,600+ students across 95 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, the arts, education, sciences and health professions. Our alumni earn salaries that are among the top 2.5% in the nation and realize accelerated career growth. One in five already leads as a CEO, senior executive or owner of a company. To learn more about Clarkson University, go to www.clarkson.edu.


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