{"id":1353,"date":"2020-06-24T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2020-06-25T16:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T16:35:42","slug":"honor-society-recognizes-outstanding-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2020\/06\/24\/honor-society-recognizes-outstanding-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor society recognizes outstanding students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eta Kappa Nu at Oregon State University is an honor society for electrical and computer engineering majors through IEEE. At the end of each school year, the club recognizes two students with awards. This year winners were Yeojin Kim for the Robert Short TA of the Year award, and Noah Koontz for the Sophomore of the Year award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Short TA of the Year: Yeojin Kim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2020\/06\/yeojin_kim_crop-5.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Yeojin Kim.\" class=\"wp-image-1367\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2020\/06\/yeojin_kim_crop-5.jpg 222w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2020\/06\/yeojin_kim_crop-5-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeojin Kim was born and grew up in Seoul, South Korea. She went to college at Sogang University where she completed a double undergraduate degree in computer science and engineering, and mathematics. She also worked as an intern for Naver, a South Korean web search engine,&nbsp;and as a software engineer for Qualcomm in Korea.&nbsp;She has served as a mentor for the Institute of International Education\u2019s program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iie.org\/programs\/wetech\">Women Enhancing Technology<\/a> to help female undergraduates studying in STEM fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is a great honor to receive this award. Sharing things I&#8217;ve learned with others during TA activities was one of the most pleasing moments,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sophomore of the Year: Noah Koontz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2020\/06\/koontz_noah-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Noah Koontz.\" class=\"wp-image-1359\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2020\/06\/koontz_noah-2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2020\/06\/koontz_noah-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prototypical.pro\/\">Noah Koontz<\/a> has been fascinated with the fusion of hardware and software from an early age. In middle school he got his first Arduino and attempted to build an open-source laser tag system with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a maker ever since,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Oregon State, he has been working at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open-sensing.org\/\">Open Sensing Lab<\/a>, which has allowed him to apply his passion and skills to solve real-world problems in agriculture \u2014 building internet-connected devices for farmers and researchers to monitor their crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will continue to seize opportunities to work with embedded systems and solve real-world problems, hopefully having fun along the way,\u201d Koontz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eta Kappa Nu at Oregon State University is an honor society for electrical and computer engineering majors through IEEE. At the end of each school year, the club recognizes two students with awards. 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