MechSE Grad Students Chosen as Finalists for Lemelson MIT-Illinois Student Prize

MechSE graduate students Kira Barton and Scott Daigle represent two of the four finalists chosen by a panel of faculty members from across the Urbana-Champaign campus for the Lemelson MIT-Illinois Student Prize. The Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize is an extension of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, which has recognized outstanding, creative and innovative student inventors at MIT since 1995.

A distinguished panel of scientists, technologists, engineers, and entrepreneurs interviewed finalists, and a winner will be announced and awarded the $30,000 prize at a ceremony scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on March 3, 2009 in the auditorium of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), on the University of Illinois campus. The awards ceremony is open to the public, and will be immediately followed by a public reception.