Awards, Scholarships

Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, was awarded with the Texas A&M “Aggies Commit to Graduate and Professional Student Educational Experiences Fellowship”, provided by the  TAMU Graduate and Professional Student Council. He was the only selected student majoring in Engineering at Texas A&M University for this award.

Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has been awarded the Love of Learning Award. Love of Learning Awards recognizes excellence in post-baccalaureate studies and/or career development. The Phi Kappa Phi honor society, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society, initiates more than 30,000 members a year on 300 campuses in the United States. Today, Phi Kappa Phi recognizes and …

Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has been awarded the Research Grant Scholarship Award. This grant allows members to conduct thesis research and/or present their research at professional conferences or student research symposia. Golden Key is the world’s largest collegiate honor society. It includes the top 15% of college and university sophomores, juniors and seniors, as well as …

Paymen Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate at the ECE, received the 2016 IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Electrical Safety Prevention through Design Student Engineering Education Initiative Award, for the 3rd year in a row. His previous awards were received in 2014 in San Diego, CA, and in 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky. This year he will be presenting the “weather-driven …

Ahad Esmaeilian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has been selected to present his submission for the IAS Electrical Safety Committee Electrical Safety Prevention. He will be presenting the “Impact of Major Power Grid Blackouts Prevention on Electrical Safety” at the IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop on March 7-11, 2016 in Jacksonville, Florida. This student program awards talented and promising students who …

Payman Dehghanian, research assistant and Ph.D. Candidate at ECE, was awarded recently the “2nd Best Poster Award” in the IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Annual Meeting on Oct. 21, 2015. The conference was held in Addison, Dallas, Texas from Oct. 17-22nd. The Annual Meeting has a long tradition of providing an international forum for experts to present …

Benjamin Wiseman, an undergraduate student at ECE, was awarded a continuing student scholarship from the College of Engineering named the Alice & Earl Nye ‘59 Scholarship. Benjamin is working with Dr. Le Xie, Associate Professor (ECE), on power systems research.

Xinbo Geng, a graduate student at ECE, has received the Outstanding M.S. Student Award from the College of Engineering. Xinbo works with Dr. Le Xie, Associate Professor (ECE), and his research interests include electricity market, demand response and data analytics for power systems.

Payman Dehganian, a Ph.D. candidate (ECE) won the TAMU Graduate & Professional Student Council Travel Award. Payman is one of 7 students selected out of 120 applicants campus-wide. Using this award, he will compete in the IEEE Metrocon Competition among the Electrical Engineers in Dallas on October 22nd, 2015. The title of his presentation is …