Awards
Finalist: A novel paradigm in greenhouse gas mitigation, Desikan Sundararajan, Emily Sack and Jonathan Johnson, ORNL’s Global Venture Challenge™, Idea to Product competition®, Mar 2009 • First Place: The Gradiator™: Functionally gradient nanocatalyst reformer module, Desikan S and A-M Azad, Student Poster Contest at Commercialization of Nanomaterials (ACerS/TMS), Nov 2007 • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award: The University of Toledo, Fall 2006 • First Place: Innovative approach to treat arsenic in complex aqueous waste: MEUF, Desikan. S, E.A. Saez, and W.P. Ela, Student Poster Contest at 66th OAWWA Annual Conference, Sep 2004 • Second Prize: VLIW Simulation in chemical engineering processes, S. Desikan and P.V. Jain, Chemsplash 2001, National technical symposium at IIT, Mumbai, India, Mar 2002 • First Prize: E-simulation, S. Desikan and R. Labroo, presented at IIChE, Collision 2000, International chemical engineering students’ meet at DDIT, India, Sep 2000