Anna Case, a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, will be awarded her Ph.D. degree during the December 2024 commencement ceremony. In October 2024, Dr. Case defended her dissertation, “Millimeter Wave Evaluation of Thin Coatings.”
Dr. Case was the recipient of the O.D. and O.U. Trapp Graduate Fellowship in CNDE from 2020-2023. She submitted/published four journal publications and eight conference papers during this time. The work from “Millimeter Wave Thickness Evaluation of Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs) Using Open-Ended Waveguide Probes” was presented at ISU and awarded the Best Graduate Seminar Presentation Award by the Graduate Seminar Committee in the ECpE department. Subsequently, she was awarded a Professional Advancement Grant by the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS). Additionally, she received the Best Student Paper Award (1st place) at the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference in 2021 and (2nd place) in 2022.
Dr. Case has begun her career as a Senior NDE Engineer at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM, where she will be focused on computed tomography, eddy current, and microwave/millimeter wave inspections.
