Recent winners of the VTD student competition
2022
Carolina Adame, CEFITEC, Nova School of Science and Technology, Portugal, receives the 2022 Vacuum Technology Division Student Poster Award at AVS-68 in Pittsburgh, PA, from Jacob Ricker (left) and Yevgeniy Lushtak for her poster presentation "Amorphous Carbon Thin Films: Influence of Hydrogen Contamination on the Secondary Electron Emission Properties".
Ricardo A. S. Silva, CEFITEC, Nova School of Science and Technology, Portugal, receives the 2022 Vacuum Technology Division Student Presenter Award at AVS-68 in Pittsburgh, PA, from Jacob Ricker (left) and Yevgeniy Lushtak for his poster presentation "Novel Cylindrical Hot Cathode Ionisation Gauge".
2019
David Beverstock, Jefferson Laboratory, was the Vacuum Technology Division 2019 Student Presenter Award Winner. He received his award for the presentation of the “Characterization of NbTiN thin film structures” at AVS 66 in Columbus, OH. The prize was given by Jacob Ricker (left) and James Fedchak (right).
Derek Hammar, Coe College, receives the 2019 Student Poster Award by the Vacuum Technology Division Student Award Coordinator, Jim Fedchak for his poster presentation of “Modeling of NEG pump performance during saturation”.
2018
Martin Viktor Johansson, of Umeå University receives Student Presenter Award presented by Vacuum Technology Division Student Award Coordinator, Jim Fedchak, along with Gerardo Brucker, and Steve Borichevsky.
William S. Johnson receives Student Presenter Award presented by Vacuum Technology Division Student Award Coordinator, Jim Fedchak and Vacuum Technology Division Chair Steve Borichevsky.
2017
Student Poster Award winner Sushma Shrinivasan, UC Davis.
Student Poster Award winner Erik Ziehm, University of Illinois.
Student Poster Award winner Tim Verbovsek, Institute of Metals and Technology - Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2016
Bo Zhang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, receives Student Presenter Award presented by Student Award Coordinator, Jay Hendricks of the Vacuum Technology Division of the AVS.
Hugo Alvarez, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, receives Student Poster Award presented by Student Award Coordinator, Jay Hendricks, along with Jason Carter and Yevgeniy Lushtak of the Vacuum Technology Division of the AVS.
2014
Amanda Lietz, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan receives first place Student Presenter Award presented by Student Award Coordinator, Jay Hendricks of the Vacuum Technology Division of the AVS.
Eric M. Tridas, Ph.D. Candidate University of South Fl. Award receives second place Student Presenter Award presented by Student Award Coordinator, Jay Hendricks of the Vacuum Technology Division of the AVS.
2013
Jay Hendricks (VTD Student Award Coordinator/IUVSTA VSTD Chair) congratulates Zhaozhu Li at AVS-60. Zhaozhu won the Vacuum Technology Division Student Presenter Award for her presentation entitled “Photocathode Materials Able to Sustain High Currents” at the 60th AVS International Symposium and Exhibition was judged the best among vacuum technology student presenters.
2012
The Vacuum Technology Division held its annual “Student‐Built Vacuum System Poster Competition” on October 30th, 2012 during the AVS59 Tampa Symposium. Makfir Sefa of LOTRIC Metrology and Laboratory of Pressure Metrology at the Institute of Metals and Technology, Slovenia, was awarded the First Place prize of $500 for his poster entitled, “Investigation of a Method for Measurement of Water Vapor Coverage on Technical Surfaces”.
The Second Place winner, Shimizu Hideyuki of Gakushuin University, Japan, was awarded a $200 prize for his poster “An Application of Electron Stimulated Desorption Technique to Measure the Isotherm and the Mean Residence Time of Hydrogen Physisorbed on a Metal Surface”.
2010
First Place, $500 prize winner Dante DeMeo from Tufts University (left) is congratulated by Jay Hendricks (right) of the AVS Vacuum Technology Division. The competition was held during the AVS 57 Albuquerque meeting on October 19,2010.
Marcy Stutzman, 2011 Chair of the Vacuum Technology Division of AVS, congratulates second place winner, Kevin Kellogg from the University of South Florida. The competition was held during the AVS 57 Albuquerque meeting on October 19, 2010.
Left to Right: J. Hendricks, T. Gessert (VTD Poster Judges), P. Falvo, J. Wang and K. Kellogg (University of South Fl), J. Fedchak (VTD Poster Judge) and Marcy Stutzman (2011 Chair of the Vacuum Technology Division of AVS) at the Student-Built Vacuum System Poster competition held during the AVS 57 Albuquerque meeting on October 19, 2010.