Travis Hee Wai awarded as HCES Student Engineer of the Year
Electrical Engineering student Travis Hee Wai has been honored with the 2011 HCES Student Engineer of the Year Award. Travis attended UH as a Regent’s Scholar and has been on the Deanʻs list every semester. Travis has also been very active with many projects. He worked in the Biomedical Sensors Laboratory on development and testing of biomedical sensors to detect various medical diagnostics targets including heart attack, disease, cancer diagnostics, and virus and bacterial sensing. He led a group of four students in designing, fabricating, programming, and testing an efficient micromouse. He also worked with Dr. James Yee on a Navy communications network project involving a router as an MMPP/M/1 queue, which involved writing scripts to simulate the queue and calculate performance measures. Travis worked on his senior project in collaboration with the Infrasound Laboratory, analyzing applications of infrasound (low frequency waves) to time-reversed acoustics by designing a MATLAB GUI for these analyses. He also worked as a research assistant at the Department of Mathematics investigating computable solutions to Lovasc Local Lemma via algorithm and code development.