3rd BC3 student in 3 years picked to conduct research
For the third time in three years, a Butler County Community College student has been selected from national candidates to attend a residential summer research experience funded by the National Science Foundation.
Jeannine Eichenlaub, a 19-year-old engineering student from Saxonburg, is one of 10 first-year community college students chosen from 45 applicants for a research experience for undergraduates at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
The 2022 Knoch High School graduate will study damage-sensing in liquid-metal-reinforced laminated composites.
Eichenlaub’s 10-week research ends in mid-August.
Hers is one topic among eight that students are exploring in a program called advanced interdisciplinary materials research for maritime applications.
“BC3 helped me to gain the qualifications to go to this,” Eichenlaub said. “All my chem classes, my math. Physics. All of them have been beneficial for this.”
