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Master’s degree candidates win Sichel Award for outstanding achievements

Congratulations to Chinmaya Aditya and Houyu Dong.

Written by: Laura Schmitt

October 8, 2021

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Chinmaya Aditya

Chinmaya Aditya and Houyu Dong won the 2021 Martin & Anne Sichel Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Aerospace Engineering Master’s Program. 

Aditya is working with Associate Professor Mirko Gamba on the prediction of shock train motion within a scramjet engine isolator based on pressure measurements within the isolator. He will present the results of this research at the SciTech Conference in January 2022. 

He will graduate with his MSE in May 2022 and plans to work on aerodynamic design and analysis in the aeronautical, aerospace, or automotive industries. Aditya earned his BS in aerospace engineering from UCLA in 2020. 

Dong, who is advised by Professor Krzysztof Fidkowski , is conducting a literature review of transonic flutter and simulation of transonic flutter over a wing. He earned his BS in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering and a BA in mathematics from the University of Washington in 2020. 

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Houyu Dong

Dong will graduate in December 2021 and will pursue a career in the aerospace engineering industry. 

Each student will receive $2,000 to pay for travel expenses, conference fees, or experiential learning opportunities. 

The endowed award was established by Aerospace Engineering Professor Emeritus Marty Sichel, a leading expert in the areas of explosions, detonations, and heterogenous combustion science and his wife Anne, who was active in the U-M Faculty Women’s Club and the Ann Arbor League of Women Voters. The couple’s three sons graduated from U-M.

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