nomination excerpt: “Ethan has gone above and beyond in participating in research activities, helping other students in teaching and learning, and serving the department in any way he finds. He has mentored students in courses he has been assigned as TA to improve the quality of labs and create new material from scratch in response to what he finds to be major hurdles for students. He supports students who may need more help, spending more time than the allocated office hours and maintaining consistent accountability between the instructor and students. In graduate studies, Ethan has helped many students since 2021 including new Ph.D. students with the group and mentored the writing and editing of manuscripts. He also helped other masters and REU students temporarily working with the group with content, data, and coding. In addition, Ethan has participated in professional development activities, such as writing, presentation, and outreach for events like the engineering open house. He does all these things while maintaining excellent academic performance and high quality in the tasks assigned to him.”
