GEMS inaugural Three Minute Thesis event

The Graduate Engineering Mechanics Society (GEMS) recently hosted a very successful ME-3MT event, drawing a fantastic crowd of participants and attendees.

The concept of a ‘Three Minute Thesis’ challenge is not new. The UW Graduate School hosts an annual competition and sends winning students on to higher levels of the research communication competition. Eleven students participated in the final UW campus event this February and a whopping NINE engineering graduate students participated in the inaugural ME-3MT event on April 23^rd!

The 2024 ME-3MT winners were:

• 1^st Place Caleb Hatler, PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (Dan Thoma’s research group)

• 2^nd Place Nicholas Vang, PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (David Rothamer’s research group)

• 3^rd Place Saketh Sridhara, PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (Krishnan Suresh’ s research group)

The event was organized by the Graduate Engineering Mechanics Society (GEMS) and faculty judges were Mechanical Engineering faculty Prof. Darryl Thelen, Prof. Lei Zhou, and Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran.

Congratulations to all participants! We can’t wait to see how this excellent event grows in the coming years.