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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Best Dissertation Award (Summer and Fall 2015 Candidates)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This semester, we have the following two outstanding PhD dissertation award winners. They will both receive a plaque and a check for $1,000 and will be recognized at the Fall 2015 Convocation.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Maruti K Mudunuru, PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dissertation Title</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: On Enforcing Maximum Principles and Element-wise Species Balance for Advective-Diffusive-Reactive Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dissertation Adviser</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: Dr. Kalayana B. Nakshatrala<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Nikhil Walani, PhD in Mechanical Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dissertation Title</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: Mechanics of Cellular Transport<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dissertation Adviser</b>: Dr. Ashutosh Agrawal<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Our congratulations to both the award winners and their major professors.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Suresh Khator<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">___________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Suresh K. Khator, Ph.D., P.E. Phone: 713-743-4205<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Associate Dean, College of Engineering Fax: 713-743-4214<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Professor of Industrial Engineering Email: <a href="mailto:skhator@uh.edu">
skhator@uh.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">E421 Engineering Building 2 <a href="http://www.ie.uh.edu/faculty/khator">www.ie.uh.edu/faculty/khator</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Houston, TX 77204-4008<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></span></body></html>