Engineering Communication Center (ECC)

Technical Writing Awards

Each year, out of the 500 students that take Technical Writing, several will be nominated to receive a Technical Writing Award. Instructors submit the top research papers for consideration, and through an annual judging session, a winner is selected. The distinction appears on the winner’s permanent transcript from the university.


2023 Technical Writing Award Recipients

Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Best Magazine Style
  • Matt Lu, The Semiconductor Decoupling Dilemma
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Creative Multimedia Format
  • Tiffany Chen, Languages Are Dying: How Do We Save Them?
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Global Energy Impact
  • Jupjeet Dhingra, A Brighter Tomorrow: Addressing Growing Energy Needs in Developing Countries with Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Outstanding Visual Design
  • Shreya Patel, Exploring Epigenetics
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Proposal, Policy, and Recommendation Impact
  • Sandy Montgomery, Recommendations for Reducing the US Maternal Mortality Rate
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Real-world Application
  • Sophie Schochet, Demystifying Deepfakes: A guide to facing your fears when your fears have your face
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Social Impact
  • Celine Vuong, Leveling the Playing Field: The Women’s National Team’s Road to Gender Equality in Professional Sports 
Honorable Mention for Social Impact
  • Kristina Dalton, Reducing Opioid Overprescription in Alabama: A Recommendation Report
  • Jack Nanez, Robotic Automotive Manufacturing
  • Serene Tomaszewski, What’s going on in East Palestine? The case of one recent railway disaster and how we can prevent it from happening again
Honorable Mention for Technical Clarity
  • Samuel Ehrman, High Entropy Alloys- Unveiling the Qualities, Applications, and Science Behind This Novel Field of Materials Science
  • Chandler Gartner, The Revolution of Concrete: Innovative Technologies Transforming Construction
  • Aaron Jeck, An Introduction to XRP: The Cryptocurrency with a Promising Foundation in Finance
  • Natalia Klim, Growable Glass- The Material Science Behind Transparent Wood and How It Is Created
2022 Recipients

 

Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Data Visualization
  • Christie Chen, Efficacy of Design Guidelines in Data Visualization: To use or not to use
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Best Magazine Style
  • London Wharton, What Happened to Google Glass? An Overview of the Development and Uses of Smart Glasses
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing with a Computer Science Focus
  • Levi Kaster, Is Your Health Information Safe? A Review of Current De-identification Protocols
  • Oliver Rosenberg, Cutting Edge Speed: The Edge Computing Revolution
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Creative Multimedia Format
  • Jennifer Jin, Web Accessibility
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Proposal, Policy, and Recommendation Impact
  • Ranch Kimball, Next Stop, Fiscal Calamity
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Real-World Application 
  • Haleigh Pine, How Doctors Learn: Comparing the Use of Simulations in Emergency Medicine Residency Education
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing and Best STEAM Paper
  • Chelsea Yuan, Redefining Art: Through the Eyes of AI
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Local Impact
  • Ben Standaert, Ending Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths in St. Louis with Better Infrastructure
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Outstanding Visual Design
  • Thomas Cornell, What's Wrong with Manchester United? A decade of mistakes that have led a historic club astray
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Originality
  • Finn WittThe Book of Melos
Honorable Mention
  • Michael CaseyHow to Mitigate the Northwest's Earthquake and Tsunami Risk
  • Savannah ChatmanUse of Regenerative Medicine as a Solution to Treating Obstetric Fistulas
  • Kaitlin Day, Proposal to Supplement the Introduction of ESE Tools & Techniques 
  • Ella Johnson, Rock Climbing is Safer than You Think
  • Maeve LomaxFortune to Failure: The Mistakes of Two Major Corporations and their Recuperation Strategies
  • Andrew OcampoReturning to the Moon
  • Max RoitblatCancer Treatments: Are They Behind the Medical Curve?
  • Jake Valentine, Virtual Fight against Mental Illness
2021 Recipients
Best of the Best Award of Excellence in Technical Writing
  • Priyanka Iyer, Future of Software: The Rise and Future Impact of Low/No-Code Platforms Jonah
  • Spencer Nuclear, Pulse Propulsion: The Path Forward for a Clean, Accessible, and Equitable Future in Space
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Best Scientific Style
  • Will Hamic, Diffuse Optical Tomography: A Revolution in Neuroimaging?
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Best Magazine Style
  • Isaac Bock, What Makes a TED Talk Popular?
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing with a Computer Science Focus
  • Evin Jaff, The Future is Free and Open Source
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Social Impact
  • Kirsten Housen, FastFashion: What is the Real Cost?
  • Eden Tibebu, Coding Bias: Tackling AI Bias in Algorithmic Decision Making
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Multimedia
  • Chloe Haynes, Choosing Classical Guitar Strings: A Guide for Guitarists of all Levels
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Proposal, Policy, and Recommendation Impact
  • Katie Lund, Refactoring Introduction to Computer Science (CSE131) at Washington University in St. Louis
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing for Real-World Application
  • Michael Qiu, Obtaining FDA Approval to Market an AI Device: A Comprehensive Guide
Award of Excellence in Technical Writing and Best STEAM Paper
  • Akshat Sharma, Making Meaningful, Memorable Photos
2020 Recipients

Best of the Best Award of Excellence in Technical Writing

  • Elizabeth Johnson, Detection and Profiling of Wheat Stem Rust Fungus Using Synthetic Biology

Awards of Excellence in Technical Writing and Best Scientific Style

  • Patrick Di Rita, Automated Kernel Fitting for Gaussian Process Models: Exploring Learned Gaussian Process Kernels for Pattern Discovery and Other Applications

Award of Excellence in Technical Writing and Best STEAM paper

  • Quinlan McGrath, The Intersection of Art and Mathematics: Folding the Future

Award of Excellence in Technical Writing

  • Katherine Zhou, Will Robots Be the Next Generation of Doctors?

Best Magazine Style

  • Yoo Na Shim, Telomerase: A Bargain for Longevity

Proposal, Policy, and Recommendation Impact Award

  • Aman Grover, Recommendation Report for American Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy: Increasing Investment and Adjusting Policy to Optimize Value Capture

Real World Application Award

  • Trina Sudol, Can You Eat Raw Cookie Dough? To Conscientious Bakers Who Are Tempted to Eat Raw Dough...

In St. Louis and for St. Louis Impact Award

  • Camryn Kenkel, Eradicating Food Deserts: An Examination of the Fight against Food Insecurity in St. Louis City

Awards of Merit in Technical Writing

  • David Song, The Science of Addiction. What We Know. What We’re Learning.
  • Connor Douglas, In Code We Trust: How blockchain can save our democracy
  • Ethan Cuka, From Nebula to Supernova: A Guided Tour of the Stellar Lifecycle
2019 Recipients

2019 Technical Writing Award Recipients

Best of the Best Award of Excellence in Technical Writing

  • Rachel Jakes, Mozart’s Music

Awards of Excellence in Technical Writing

  • Simone Raeth, Disney Engineering
  • Luna Yang, Has Boeing Become The Second Ford — Reflection On Ethiopian Airline Flight 302 Crash

Awards of Merit in Technical Writing

  • Ellen Dai, Visions of the Past--How Paleoartists Accurately Reconstruct Dinosaurs
  • Bex Smith, SUPPLY CHAIN DIGITIZATION: INDUSTRY 4.0
  • Arushee Agrawal, Improving Educational Resources for Future Software Engineers
  • Rebecca Davis, Where is My Bus?: Strategies and Incentives to Increase Ridership on the St. Louis Metro

Special Award of Merit: Impact Award

  • Khin-Wai Phyo Han, Launch of the Pyin Nyar

Honorable Mentions

  • Donald Aboytes, Putting Significance to the Test
  • Rachel Lockwood, Mind-Controlled Prosthesis
  • Sennett Yang, Should Intermittent Fasting be Used as an Alternative Solution Against Type II Diabetes and Obesity