Avidyne has announced the 2009
recipients of the Avidyne Graduate Fellowships at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(MIT AeroAstro) in Cambridge, MA. The Avidyne Graduate Fellowships
were established in 2008 by MIT alumnus and Avidyne President Dan
Schwinn.
The Avidyne Graduate Fellowship recipients are Abhizna (Abhi)
Butchibabu, a recent graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology
and a private pilot, and Diana Siegel from the University of
Queensland, who has also worked as an avionics Development and
Systems Engineer at EADS and Luftansa-Technik in Munich,
Germany.
"Avidyne is pleased see MIT present these two fine candidates
with two year graduate fellowships to further their aerospace
educational endeavors," said Schwinn. "Our goal is to attract and
inspire the best and brightest students toward careers in
aerospace, and we are proud to participate in the growth of this
program."
MIT AeroAstro Department Head, Professor Ian Waitz said "These
Avidyne Graduate Fellowships have enabled us to attract and support
two exceptional students. We look forward to having these students
start at MIT in the fall, and to a strong Avidyne-MIT relationship.
We are grateful to Dan Schwinn for this very significant
contribution to support students who we expect will be future
aerospace leaders."
The Avidyne Fellowship awards are estimated to be worth up to
$60,000 per year to each recipient. Recipients also have first
consideration to be hired by Avidyne for a limited number of paid
summer internships during school, and for permanent positions upon
graduation. Recipients were chosen by the faculty of the MIT
Aero/Astro Department as part of their graduate admissions
process.
MIT AeroAstro prepares engineers for success and leadership in
the conception, design, implementation, and operation of aerospace
and related engineering systems. This is achieved through a
commitment to educational excellence, and to the creation,
development, and application of technologies critical aerospace
engineering, and the architecting and engineering of complex
high-performance systems.
AeroAstro has a tradition of strong scholarship and solving
"industrial-strength" problems. Its reach extends to high levels of
policy and practice. The AeroAstro community includes a former
space shuttle astronaut, a former secretary of the Air Force, two
former NASA associate administrators, three former Air Force chief
scientists, 14 members of the National Academy of Engineering and
15 Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics.