MechE PhD candidate Vijay Shilpiekandula wins R.V. Jones Memorial Scholarship
Vijay Shilpiekandula, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was awarded the 2008 R.V. Jones Memorial Scholarship by the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE) for his paper titled, "A Flexure-based Mechanism for Precision Angular Alignment at Large Loads," co-authored with his academic advisor Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi. The award, which includes a $1,000 honorarium, was presented at the Annual Meeting of ASPE and the 12th ICPE at Portland, Ore., in October.
The paper, selected by the ASPE Educational Scholarship Committee from a pool of student applications, stems from Shilpiekandula's doctoral thesis research on the design and control of flexure-based nanopositioning systems. The research was conducted at the MIT Mechatronics Research Laboratory and was supported by the Singapore-MIT Alliance and a research grant from Haythornthwaite Foundation, American Academy of Mechanics.
(This article was reprinted from the October 29th edition of MIT TechTalk)
