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Congratulations to Julian Bjørgo on successfully defending his Bachelor thesis in Mechanical Engineering at HEPIA, titled “Analyse CFD transsonique d’une capsule d’entrée atmosphérique.” Julian received the highest possible grade, 6/6, and earned the distinction “avec félicitations du jury.”
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Congratulations to André Costa Vinagre on successfully defending his Bachelor thesis in Mechanical Engineering at HEPIA, titled “Analyse CFD supersonique d’une capsule de rentrée atmosphérique.” André received the highest possible grade, 6/6, and earned the distinction “avec félicitations du jury.”
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Luke Cerda presented his research titled “Automated Thermochemistry-to-CFD Coupling for Liquid Rocket Propellant Nozzle Flows” at the 2026 U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held June 21–25, 2026, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California.
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Suzette, an Honors student, has completed her thesis titled “Open-source data visualization tool: visualizing numerical data on an interactive map”. We celebrate her achievement and wish her the best in her future endeavors.
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Luke, an Honors student, has completed his thesis titled “Automated Thermochemistry-to-CFD coupling for liquid propellant rocket nozzle flows”. We celebrate his achievement and wish him the best in his future endeavors.
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Mark, MS student in Aerospace Engineering, has completed his Master thesis titled “Quadrature-based moment methods for nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations”. We celebrate his achievement and wish him the best in his future endeavors.
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Heather, MS student in Mechanical Engineering, has completed her Master thesis titled “Extension of the battelle two curve method forfracture control in dense-phase carbon dioxide pipelines”. She is a Mechanical Engineer at SPEC Services, Inc. We celebrate her achievement and wish her the best in her future endeavors.
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Jose, an Honors student, has completed his thesis titled “Integrated performance and flow analysus of molten carbonate fuel cell tri-generation system”. He has started his career as a quality engineer at ADC aerospace. We celebrate his achievement and wish him the best in his future endeavors.
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An, an Honors student, has completed her thesis titled “Computational fluid dynamic baseline analysis for a hybrid attic ventilation system”. She has started her career at P2S HVAC industry. We celebrate her achievement and wish her the best in her future endeavors.
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Our very own Luke was busy this summer at SpaceX interning with the Launch Pad Engineering team in Cape Canaveral at NASA Kennedy Space Center, working on various fluids engineering projects to maintain and improve ground support equipment to support launches of the Falcon 9 rocket, which recently surpassed 500 successful launches in July 2025. Assigned to projects at both LC-39a and SLC-40, the most active launch pad in the world, seeing 23 launches in internship duration. He also worked alongside engineers and technicians and gained experience with launch engineering and fluids engineering pertaining to launch infrastructure.. Congratulations, Luke! We are proud of you!
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Our very own Geovanny was busy this summer at UC-Berkeley and Caltech being the lead math instructor for the DaVinci Camp Summer Institute, which is a summer program that seamlessly integrates social and academic components from the arts and applied sciences. Designed to develop the interests and abilities of talented and highly motivated middle school and high school students (rising 6th – 12th grades, including graduating seniors), while in session, students learn the skills necessary to understand complex math expressions and to reduce them to their fundamental parts. They learn techniques that transform them into faster, more confident problem solvers. Congratulations, Geo!
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We are proud to announce that An Vo, a senior Mechanical Engineering student in the Honors Program, has been awarded the highest scholarship by the ASHRAE Orange Empire Chapter. This competitive recognition highlights An’s outstanding academic performance and dedication to sustainable HVAC design. Congratulations, An!
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Congratulations to An Vo for receiving the ASHRAE Southern California Chapter Scholarship for Fall 2025! This award supports students who demonstrate excellence in HVAC&R innovation and a strong commitment to energy-efficient engineering. An’s work on hybrid attic ventilation continues to advance impactful solutions in sustainable building systems.
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Michael, MS student in Aerspace Engineeing, has completed his thesis titled “ An investigation of the DSMC method’s computing efficiency and velocity distributions in rarefied gas flow simulations”.
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Tryphena, an Honors student, has completed her thesis titled “Geometric Influences on Micro-robot Mobility in Fluids”. She has started her career as a Design Engineer at United Semiconductors. We celebrate her achievement and wish her the best in her future endeavors.
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Michael, graduate student, presented his research titled “DSMC Performance Frontiers: Interplay of Physics and Computation” in APS-DFD at Salt Lake City, Utah.