Graduate Student Excellence Award
College of Engineering and Architecture
Luz Daniela Bermúdez-Aguirre
Ph.D. Candidate, Biological Systems Engineering
Food Engineering Emphasis Area.
Daniela Bermúdez has been awarded the prestigious College of Engineering and Architecture Graduate Student Excellence award. This award is made possible by the Alfred Suksdorf Memorial Fund and is based on Daniela's outstanding accomplishments in Biological Systems Engineering at Washington State University. Award recipients were selected based on an evaluation of the following criteria:
- Professional recognition (e.g., honors, awards, or other accomplishments).
- Professional development (e.g., major conferences or meetings attended, service on graduate student/departmental/college/university committees, external activities relating to career objectives).
- Scholarly productivity (e.g., external presentations, publications in leading journals, etc.).
- Interdisciplinary research.
- Outreach (e.g., involvement with professional organizations and societies, engagement with K-12, technological literacy).
Ms. Bermúdez will receive a $5,000 award, which is made possible by the Alfred Suksdorf Memorial Fund and the Harold P. Curtis Scholarship Fund.
About Daniela
Daniela Bermúdez-Aguirre is originally from Puebla, Mexico. She received a bachelor’s degree in Food Engineering and a master’s in Food Science from Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, where she worked as a professor for two years. She moved to the U.S. in 2004 to begin her doctoral studies in Engineering Science (Food Engineering Emphasis) at Washington State University, Department of Biological Systems Engineering.
Bermúdez-Aguirre works at WSU’s Center for NonThermal Processing of Food, evaluating different nonthermal technologies to improve the processing, preservation and quality of food. Her first research emphasis was on ultrasound technology as a pasteurization alternative for milk, and the microbiological, microstructure, and physicochemical changes involved. Second, she is currently studying Pulsed Electric Fields for pasteurization of milk and other dairy products, and shelf life extension. This project is in collaboration with Army Natick and under the supervision of her advisor, Dr. Gustavo Barbosa-Canovas.
Bermúdez-Aguirre has been awarded an IFT Graduate Fellowship two times. She also is a member of the Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi. Future plans are to work in a research center in food technology. She really enjoys the challenge of each new project and discovering new possibilities in food processing. Her main interest is in the area of nonthermal technologies, studying their engineering principles, but also focusing on the microbiological and microstructure aspects.
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