Seola Lee, a PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, receives the award for her thesis, "Multiscale Design, Fabrication, and Mechanical Analysis of Structural Hierarchies in Functional Materials." She is advised by Julia Greer, Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics and Medical Engineering; Fletcher Jones Foundation Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute.
Centennial Prize for the Best Thesis in Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Awarded each year to a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in applied mechanics, civil engineering or mechanical engineering whose doctoral thesis is judged to be the most original and significant by a faculty committee appointed annually by the Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering.