Katherine Bomkamp
Political Science graduate / two-time ISEF finalist
Katherine created the Pain-Free Socket, a prosthetic device that eases the pain of amputees. As the CEO of Katherine Bomkamp International, LLC, she hopes to invent more medical devices. Katherine currently serves as a creative strategist for the Los Angeles based engineering entertainment powerhouse, Two Bit Circus.
awesomeness: youngest person invited to present to Royal Society of Medicine’s Medical Innovations Summit in London
Brian Anderson
GE Plastics Material Engineering Professor of Chemical Engineering
Winner of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the US Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers; he also was a Teacher of the Year at WVU.
awesomeness: 2011 US Dept. of Energy Secretary’s Honor Award for his work in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard
Electrical Engineering Graduate
A visionary who connected the world with the invention of the cable modem, he is the founder and CEO of YAS Capital Partners LLC.
awesomeness: opened the Yassini Broadband Knowledge Center, offering research grants for fresh ideas in broadband
Jacob Cordonier
Mechanical Engineering Major / NSF Graduate Research Fellowacob has researched projects in WVU’s Flexible Electronics for Sustainable Technologies Lab. He won a National Science Foundation Research Fellowship worth over $108,000 to continue his work at the graduate level.
awesomeness: researched developing solution-based stretchable and biocompatible devices used in energy harvesting
Earl Scime
Professor and Chair, WVU Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Scime worked at Los Alamos National Lab and at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab, and was part of the team that designed particle cameras on the spacecraft TWINS I and II.
awesomeness: he has mentored six Goldwater Scholarship winners
Emily Calendrelli
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate
At WVU, Emily couldn’t stop winning awards: Truman Scholar, Goldwater Scholar, USA Today All-USA College Academic First Team. She attended MIT on a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Department of Defense Fellowship.
awesomeness: co-producer and host of FOX's “Xploration Nation: Outer Space,” which is in its second season