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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 Witt, The Book of Melos
Honorable Mention
- Michael Casey, How to Mitigate the Northwest's Earthquake and Tsunami Risk
- Savannah Chatman, Use 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 Lomax, Fortune to Failure: The Mistakes of Two Major Corporations and their Recuperation Strategies
- Andrew Ocampo, Returning to the Moon
- Max Roitblat, Cancer 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