The J. Francis Reintjes Excellence in VI-A Industrial Practice Award was presented at the EECS Spring Awards Ceremony in May 2011 to two outstanding VI-A students, Xiawa Wang (Bosch, Palo Alto, CA) and Anh Dang Viet Nguyen (Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China). Xiawa Wang and Anh Dang Viet Nguyen demonstrated outstanding performance in their VI-A work assignments. Xiawa completed her thesis research entitled, “Flicker Noise Measurement of Atomic Layer Deposition Metal Films”. Xiawa will continue her EECS research in the Ph.D. program at MIT. Anh’s thesis based on his VI-A research is entitled, “A Study of Engagement Strategies in Mobile Health”. Anh has accepted a software engineering position with the Android Mobile Team at Google in Mountain View, CA .
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Congratulations to Anh Nguyen and Xiawa Wang for their excellent VI-A work respectively at Microsoft Research Asia and at Bosch for which they have received the J. Francis Reintjes Excellence in VI-A Industrial Practice Award. Prof. Reintjes was the VI-A Director when I was in the VI-A program from 1965-68. We became close friends when I began as Director of the VI-A Internship Program in 1994 and I greatly valued his advice and suggestions in directing VI-A. Through Prof. Reintjes’ generosity before he died and the generosity of his family the Reintjes Award honors those VI-A students who have excelled in their industrial practice assignments and M.Eng. thesis research.
Congratulations again to Xiawa and Anh,
Markus Zahn
VI-A Director