Tyler Okamoto Receives 2016 Henry Ford II Scholar Award

June 01, 2016

Mechanical Engineering student Tyler Okamoto, mentored by Professor Sergio Pellegrino, is a recipient of the 2016 Henry Ford II Scholar Award. He is working with Professor Pellegrino’s team to build an autonomous reconfigurable space telescope using multiple nanosatellites that align in space to create a camera and mirror assembly. The Henry Ford II Scholar Award is funded under an endowment provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund. The award is made annually to engineering students with the best academic record at the end of the third year of undergraduate study.

2016 Henry Ford II Scholars with Chair Ravichandran and Deputy Chair Emami

2016 Henry Ford II Scholars with Chair Ravichandran and Deputy Chair Emami

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