Orian Welling named Gates Cambridge Scholar
Congratulations to MechE grad Orian Welling '08, who has been chosen to receive a 2009 Gates Cambridge Schorlarship - one of 37 American students so honored. Welling, who is orignially from Custer, Wisconsin, spent his time at MIT working on sustainable energy technologies through research of high efficiency diesel engines and inexpensive manufacturing techniques for silicon solar cells. He is a winner of the MIT Ideas Competition Yunus Challenge, and a recipient of the Henry Ford II Scholarship, among other honors. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University.
