After a nation-wide search, a scholarship of $2,000 was awarded to Payman Dehghanian, Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, by the Association of Energy Engineers Foundation. This award is aimed to encourage practitioners in energy engineering and energy management to further education in the field. Payman’s supervisor is Dr. Mladen …
Awards, Scholarships
Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate, has been awarded the 2016 Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) Higher Standards Scholarship. There were only 5 awardees nationwide selected for this recognition. Dehghanian, and the other 4 nominees, were asked to attend the SMRP Annual Conference in Jacksonville. Congratulations Payman! The Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals is …
Ahad Esmaeilian, a Ph.D. candidate, recently won the best poster presentation award at the PSERC Industry Advisory Board Meeting. Ahad’s project was titled “Life-Cycle Management of Mission-Critical Systems through Certification, Commissioning, In Service Maintenance, Remote Testing, and Risk Assessment.” The Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) is a collaboration between universities and industries that focuses …
On June 14th, 2016, Mohammad Tasdighi AND Tatjana Dokic’s abstracts were selected as two of the top ten abstracts for the CIGRÉ-US 2016 Next Generation Network Paper Competition. They have been asked to submit their full essays for further review. The top five essays will be chosen to move on to the Grid of the …
Dr. Erick Moreno-Centeno (Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University), a Smart Grid Center collaborator, was selected to receive the Dr. Hamed E. Eldin Outstanding Early Career IE in Academia Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The award was sponsored by Integrated Systems Technology. Moreno-Centeno received the award at the IISE …
On May 30th, 2016, Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. student, was selected among the 15% of applicants to receive a grant from the Sigma Xi Committee on Grants-in-Aid of Research program. Sigma Xi is the global science society that aims to reward excellence in scientific research and to encourage a sense of companionship and cooperation among scientists in …
On May 26th, 2016, the IEEE Region 5 and IEEE-USA selected Ph.D. student Payman Dehghanian to attend the IEEE-USA Future Leader Forum 2016. His trip was also funded. Dehghanian is one of 250-300 student chosen nation-wide. He will be the Texas A&M University representative at this event. This forum will be from July 28th-30th this …
Payman Dehghanian, a PhD student of Dr. Kezunovic, has been awarded the competitive 2016 Jimmy H. Smith, Ph.D., P.E. Graduate Scholarship, worth $2,000. Dehghanian was the only student nominated by the TAMU College of Engineering. Not only that, but the TEF Board of Trustees chose Dehghanian as the top graduate student among all engineering disciplines in Texas …
Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), Texas A&M University, has been selected to receive the 2016-2017 D.P. ’86 & J. Montgomery Endowed Aggie Ring Scholarship by the Association of Former Students. The scholarship is providing a 10K Aggie Ring valued up to $1,000. Payman’s supervising professor is …
Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has been selected as the 2016-2017 recipient of the Association of Former Students Scholarship. This competitive award for academic excellence has awarded him a total of $2,000 for one year only. He will be invited to attend a Thank You note writing party in the fall at the Clayton …