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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, June 10, 2009
Avidyne lands two grad students at MIT with $60K fellowships
By Mass High Tech staff
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Avidyne Corp. reports it has given $60,000 fellowships to two students who will do their graduate studies at the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (MIT AeroAstro).
Receving the two-year graduate fellowships are Abhizna (Abhi) Butchibabu, a recent graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and a private pilot, and Diana Siegel from the University of Queensland, who has also worked as an avionics development and systems engineer at EADS Deutschland GMBH and Luftansa-Technik AG in Munich, Germany.
The fellowship recipients also have first consideration to be hired by Avidyne for paid summer internships during their studies, and for permanent positions upon graduation. Recipients were chosen by the faculty of the MIT Aero/Astro during the graduate admissions process.
The Avidyne Graduate Fellowships were established in 2008 by MIT alumnus and Avidyne president Dan Schwinn.
Lincoln-based Avidyne makes flight deck systems for aircraft.
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