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The Kalam Prize for Aerospace Engineering

The Kalam Prize for Aerospace Engineering is awarded to a student in the Aerospace engineering Master's Program whose academic performance was exemplary and who shows high potential for future achievements at Caltech.  This prize was made possible through the generosity of Dr. Abdul Kalam, the 11th President of India, himself an Aerospace Engineer.

Year Winner Advisor
2023 Federico Benazzo Pellegrino
2023 Maria Kechri Pellegrino
2022 Tomar Shashank
2021 Meital Carmi Pellegrino
2020 Garima Aggarwal Meiron
2020 Jimmy Ragan Chung
2019 Padmanabha Prasanna Simha
2018 Avinash Chandra
2017 Ludovic Gil
2016 Abbas Tutcuoglu Kochmann
2015 J. Voropaieff
2014 A. Chaphalkar
2013 M. Delapierre Pellegrino
2012 G. Velez
2011 S. Duvvuri McKeon
2011 D. Zehr Shepherd
2010 J. Mendez Granado Ortiz
2009 A. Lopez Orgeta Pullin
2008 J. Damazo Shepherd