Mechanical Engineering Students and Faculty Win OCEC Awards

OCEC Awards
MAE Assistant Professor Praveen Shankar, left, guiding last year’s Mars Rover team on building a vehicle that can handle rough terrain.

Students and faculty from the CSULB Department of Mechanical Engineering received recognition at the 2016 Orange County Engineering Council Awards banquet last weekend.

Four CSULB students received Outstanding Engineering Student awards: Eric Barba and Farah Itani, both mechanical engineering seniors; Soorena Moogooie, a mechanical engineering junior and president of the CSULB Society for Petroleum Engineers chapter; and PhD candidate Darin Koblick.

Two students—Armando Fuentes and Koblick—also received the Outstanding Young Engineer Award. Continue reading “Mechanical Engineering Students and Faculty Win OCEC Awards”