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Six Years in a Row

A Swanson School student has won a 2008 Goldwater Scholarship, continuing the school's tradition of winning the prestigious national award.

Todd Morton Moyle

Todd Morton Moyle, a chemical engineering sophomore, has been awarded a 2008 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for his exceptional independent research in engineering. Moyle, also a University Honors College student, is from Sayre, Pa.

Moyle has researched the potential use of vegetable oil as an alternative fuel. His work focuses on developing a blend of vegetable oil and other additives that would run on standard diesel automobiles without modifications. Results of this work were presented at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research and the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. Moyle's primary interest is in pharmaceutical development and production research. He plans to pursue a master's degree involving pharmaceutical manufacturing and then to work toward either an MD, focusing on clinical research of pharmaceuticals, or a PhD in biomedical engineering, concentrating on drug-delivery systems and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Previous Pitt Engineering Winners

Moyle is the sixth consecutive Pitt engineering student to earn a Goldwater Scholarship. Ben Gordon (BSME '07), now a mechanical engineering graduate student at Pitt, won the award in 2007; Margaret Bennewitz (BSBEG '07) won the award in 2006 and is pursuing a graduate degree in bioengineering at Yale University; Daliang "Leon" Li (BSEE '06), who won the award in 2005, currently is pursuing a PhD in medical and electrical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; Daniel Armanios (BSME '07) who earned the award in 2004 and was named a Truman scholar in 2005 and a Rhodes scholar in 2007, now is in England, pursuing his graduate degree at the University of Oxford; and Paul Ohodnicki Jr. (BSE '05), who is a doctoral student in materials science and engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, won the award in 2003.

Read more about student accomplishments in Pitt Engineer, the Swanson School alumni magazine.

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