Benjamin Halls was recently recognized by the Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems for research he conducted during his graduate program at Iowa State.
Halls, a 2014 mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduate, received the Simmons Award for Best Student Presenter for his paper “X-ray Fluorescence Measurement of Mixing in Impinging Jets.” The research for the paper was done in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory as part of his thesis and was originally presented in May 2014.
Halls is currently a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, where he continues his work on spray research.
The Harold C. Simmons Award is presented by ILASS and was named after the first chairperson of ILASS-Americas. The award provides a $1,000 prize to the student who made the best presentation—with and emphasis on clarity, delivery and visual aids; but also considers technical content and knowledge of the subject.