Educational awards announced

The winners of the 2013 ISA Educational Foundation Scholarships. These scholarships are awarded to college and university students who demonstrate outstanding potential to make lasting contributions in the fields of automation, instrumentation and control. The scholarship awards support tuition, related expenses, research activities and initiatives.

The scholorships awarded in District 12 were all to students of St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation. The awardees were.

Mikhail Vaganov — $524
Rusian Khansuvarov — $524
Vadim Nenashev — $524

Congratulations to all on this achievement.

ISA awarded a total of $67,267, which was distributed among undergraduate students in two-year and four-year colleges and universities, and to graduate students. 

The other awardees from throughout the world are as follows:

Paul McVay
Colorado School of Mines
Total Scholarship — $4,400
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $4,000; District 9 — $440)

Adam Lennartz
University of Cincinnati
Total Scholarship — $5,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $3,316; Executive Board — $879; Daris & Gerald Willbanks Endowment — $805)

Elisabeth Spires
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Total Scholarship — $4,000
(General Education Endowment Fund — $3,350; Huston Endowment — $398; FPID Endowment — $252)

Neel Shah
Northeastern University
Total Scholarship — $3,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $2,491; General Education Endowment Fund — $405; Bob & Mary Ives Endowment — $104)

Jake Schmidt
University of Toledo
Total Scholarship — $5,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $4,127; ChemPID Endowment Fund — $873)

Jayant Bhatia
Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology (SCET)
Total Scholarship — $3,000
(Para-Digiquartz Endowment — $2,000; Life Members Endowment Fund — $1,000)

Lawrence Norris
Lee College
Total Scholarship — $3,405
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $3,405)

Troy Riddle
Lee College
Total Scholarship — $4,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $4,000)

Sandie Gilliland
Kenai Peninsula College
Total Scholarship — $4,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $3,960; Life Members Endowment Fund — $40)

Chin Gian Hooi
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU)
Total Scholarship — $5,011
(FPID Endowment — $3,000; District 11 — $1,011; Student Activities Endowment Fund — $1,000)

John Pritchard
Iowa State University
Total Scholarship — $3,000
(Bob & Mary Ives Endowment — $2,000; Life Members Endowment Fund — $1,000)

Matthew Sheen
Cornell University
Total Scholarship — $5,000
(General Education Endowment Fund — $2,000; Student Activities Endowment Fund — $2,000; Huston Endowment — $1,000)

Jiabiao Ruan
University of Houston
Total Scholarship — $2,705
(District 7 — $2,705)

Anand Govindarajan
Oklahoma State University
Total Scholarship — $3,000
(ChemPID Endowment Fund — $3,000)

Upasana Manimegalai
Oklahoma State University
Total Scholarship — $5,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $5,000)

Aditya Tulsyan
University of Alberta
Total Scholarship — $4,000
(Huston Endowment — $4,000)

• Awards by District

District 3 scholarship
Raymond Perez — $630
Palm Beach State University

District 5 scholarships
Emanuel Jones — $431
Lawrence Technological University
Stephen Maloney — $431
University of Dayton

District 7 scholarship
Jiabiao Ruan — $2,705 (included above)
University of Houston

District 8 scholarship
Suresh Jayaraman — $642
Oklahoma State University

District 9 scholarship
Paul McVay — $440 (included above)
Colorado School of Mines

District 11 scholarship
Chin Gian Hooi — $1,011 (included above)
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU)

District 12 scholarships
Mikhail Vaganov — $524
Rusian Khansuvarov — $524
Vadim Nenashev — $524
St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation

District greets St Petersburg veteran!

We congratulate Dr. Anatoly Ovodenko with his 65th birthday (16 Apl) and wish him good health and success.

Professor Anatoly Ovodenko is an ISA Senior Member. He has served as the St. Petersburg , Russia, Section President and the Conference Committee Chairman. He has also served as the Section Alternate Delegate, and has been the Chairman of the ISA Headquarters Russian Federation since 2002. He was the coordinator of the District 12 Leadership Conference in St. Petersburg in 2002 and 2007. He was honor by ISA Emerging Leader Award in 2007.

Anatoly Ovodenko graduated from Leningrad Institute of Aerospace Instrumentation in 1970. He defended a thesis and took Candidate of Technical Science Degree in 1974 at the Leningrad Institute of Aerospace Instrumentation ( now St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation) in the field of Control Systems. In 1986 Doctor of Technical Science Degree was taken by him in the field of Control Systems.

Dr. Ovodenko is the St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation rector. He has authored more then 300 scientific articles, monographs, manuals and certificates in the fields of instrumentation, control systems, management of education, distance education and computer science. He is Honored Scientist of Russian Federation and a member of several International and Russian Academies, including the International Academy of Sciences of High Education, Academy of Medical-Technical Sciences, Academy of Information Processes and Technologies, and the International Academy of Informatics.

Since 1999 Dr. Ovodenko is a Chairman of UNESCO Chair “Distance Education in Engineering”.

Dr. Ovodenko received the high Russian Federation award, the Order for Services to the Fatherland- IY Degree in 2008.

Celebration

ISA Russian section congratulates professor Vladimir B. Kraskin

Friends and colleagues from the St. Petersburg Russian section congratulate professor Vladimir Borisovich Kraskin ( V.G. Khlopin Institute consultant ) – one of the oldest ISA Russian members- in connection with his 80th Birthday and wish him good health and success in everything!

Vladimir B. Kraskin

Vladimir B. Kraskin was born in Leningrad at November 28, 1930. He was studying at the Faculty for physics and engineering of Leningrad Polytechnic University and graduated from this Faculty in 1953. In 1954 he graduated from

The Missile Faculty of the Military Academy named after the F.E. Dzerzhinsky in Moscow. Then there was military service. During more the 30 years he was working at the «Baikonur» spaceport, taking part in the launching the first artificial satellite, the first manned space vehicle, the first orbital inhabited stations. He was an active participant in the preparation and realization of the historical Yuri Gagarin flight. He was a unique specialist in radio-telemetry and at the end of his military carrier he gained the rank of colonel. He is PhD and the author of more the 100 books, papers and patents. From 1988 till 2004 he was working as a senior researcher at the chair for Robotics of the SUAI. Now he is working as the scientific consultant in the St. Petersburg Radium Research Institute named after V.G.Khlopin. He is «Honored radio operator of the USSR», the member of interregional society « Space veterans» and the ISA senior- member.