Eryn Jaramillo

MS Electrical Engineering

Advisor

Dr. Aly El-Osery

Eryn Jaramillo is set to graduate from New Mexico Tech in December 2024 with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, having earned her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from NMT in May 2023. Her graduate thesis, titled "Cooperative Navigation within UAV Swarms Using a Hybrid Centralized-Distributed Approach," was funded by Sandia National Laboratories and addresses challenges in collective sensing and UAV swarm navigation. Eryn's research introduces a hybrid sensor fusion method that blends the accuracy of the centralized approach with the scalability of the distributed, demonstrating promising results in enhancing positioning precision within UAV swarms.

A highlight of her graduate experience was presenting her centralized approach findings at the Institute of Navigation (ION) conference in Waikiki, Hawaii, in April 2024. This opportunity, made possible by the support of NMT and Sandia National Laboratories, remains one of her most cherished memories.

UAV swarm utilizing relative aiding sensors employing hybrid sensor fusion approach

During her undergraduate years, Eryn spent the first three years working at the NMT golf course, where she met lifelong friends and is a time forever cherished. She also served as the Secretary for NMT's IEEE and Tau Beta Pi (TBP) clubs. In her later years at NMT, Eryn participated in NMT's intramural basketball where she met more amazing people and had a great time assisting Coach Amanda Saenz with practices for the Socorro High School girls' basketball team.

After five and a half years at New Mexico Tech, Eryn describes the feeling as bittersweet and reflects on her time with gratitude for the professors, classmates, and experiences that helped shape her academic journey. Looking ahead, she aspires to pursue a career in the position, navigation, and timing (PNT) field or within control system design.

Events

Diwali Night Celebration Hosted by International Grad Students

A group of international NMT grad students organized a campuswide Diwali Night celebration on Nov. 20 (Wednesday), 2024. About 42 participants from the NMT student, faculty, and staff community joined the celebration. Diwali is the festival of light, and it is the biggest festival in the Indian subcontinent, celebrated in early fall each year by over a billion people. It has been celebrated for over 2000 years now in the Indian subcontinent. The significance of Diwali is to celebrate the victory of righteousness, morality, and positive energies over darkness and negativity. It also symbolizes spreading a message of kindness, harmony, and universal well-being among all beings in the whole universe. This student-led event was celebrated with home-cooked delicious Indian subcontinental food, dance, and song performances by NMT students & staff members, various exciting games involving students, faculty, and staff members of NMT followed by prize/gift distribution. “We are extremely happy to celebrate Diwali with the campus community. Diwali festival sends a strong message of peace, harmony, and kindness. We are delighted to have this event celebrated with our beloved NMT community. We look forward to the campus community’s participation in our future events like this” said Utsha Das, a graduate student of Materials Engineering and the lead organizer of the event. For more than a decade now, Diwali has been celebrated each year by the US presidents at the White House as well. “It is heartening to see that our students took a leading role in celebrating Diwali with the campus community. I believe this event will send a strong message of unity in diversity, victory of morality, universal peace, and kindness. I thank the performers and participants for their enthusiasm and support. Finally, it will also help our graduate and undergraduate students to develop unique leadership and community service skills that are otherwise difficult to cultivate in a traditional classroom setting” – said Dr. Arjak Bhattacharjee, the faculty advisor for this event.

Dr. Urbi Basu performing classical Indian dance during the event.

Performers Joel Pilli and Dr. Urbi Basu are felicitated by NMT faculty members Dr. Paul Fuierer and Dr. Sanchari Chowdhury

Participants during the event from the NMT student, faculty, and staff community

Announcements

Register for Dissertation & Thesis Boot Camp - COMM5080 January 13-17, 2025 9:30AM- 4:30PM

Get ahead start writing your graduate project. Participate in a distraction-free writing space with access to consulting, writing advice, and feedback. Please click here for more information about registering. Make sure you ask about the grade option if you will use it on your course plan.

Time/Space to work on your thesis/dissertation

The Office of Graduate Studies will weekly announce on our website times when graduate students can come and work in our conference room on their thesis/dissertation. During this time you can focus on writing and you can ask questions as they come up whether about formatting, completion, copyright, plagiarism, etc. This is in addition to the services offered by the Writing & Communication Lab (WCL). If you are looking for writing support the WCL would be a much better resource. Please see below.

Writing & Communication Lab (WCL)

This is a tutoring resource committed to helping students become better writers and communicators through tailored and individual consultations. Tutors are experienced in STEM writing and offer consultations both in person and online, to undergraduate and graduate students. These resources are also available to our Distance Students as well so please take advantage.

Find the service's descriptions by visiting the following link

https://www.nmt.edu/academics/class/center.php

Important Dates

November 25th

Fall 2024 - Completion Paperwork

To graduate in Fall 2024, please ensure the following paperwork is submitted by November 25th, 2024:

Thesis Submission: Submit the completed report of the advisory committee, the iThenticate report from your academic advisor, and the ProQuest submission of the final thesis/dissertation to the Center for Graduate Studies.

Independent Study: Submit one final copy of the accepted independent study paper to your advisor and advisory committee.

For more information, please refer to the Completion Guideline on the CGS website.

Student degrees are not complete until final materials have been approved by the Center for Graduate Studies and the student receives final acceptance via email from the ProQuest system. Students are encouraged to submit their thesis/dissertation drafts earlier to ensure that it will be accepted by the Registrar's deadline.

April 30th

Spring 2025 - Completion Paperwork

For Spring graduation to be eligible to participate in Commencement and have your degree conferred at the end of Spring semester in the month of May

The completed report of the advisory committee, iThenticate report from academic advisor, and ProQuest submission of the final thesis/dissertation must be submitted by April 30th, 2025 to the Center for Graduate Studies or one final copy of an accepted independent study paper must be submitted to the student’s advisor and advisory committee. Please refer to the Completion Guideline on the CGS website.

Must submit your intent to graduate form prior to the beginning of the Spring 2025 semester.

Must submit your Diploma and Intent to Walk to the Registrar by April 18th, 2025.

Scholarships and Other Opportunities

There are some Endowed scholarship opportunities open to graduate students, which are listed here on the Endowed Scholarship website. Native American graduate students should contact the Financial Aid Office for further information on additional scholarship opportunities (financial_aid@nmt.edu).

URA-Sandia Graduate Student Summer Fellowship (Click here for more info)

Due date: Dec.1, 2024

This program provides science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research experiences that support Sandia National Laboratories’ (SNL) Research Foundations. For information about the Research Foundations, please visit https://www.sandia.gov/research/research-foundations/. Sandia’s mission is “To render exceptional service in the national interest” as one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Laboratories. As a DOE National Nuclear Security Administration laboratory, Sandia has a core mission in national security that is synergistically served by a broad range of STEM disciplines in these Research Foundations. Click here for more info.

Sandia National Laboratories - Barbara McClintock Fellowship in Bioscience (Click here for more info)

Due date: Jan. 2nd, 2025

As a Sandia McClintock Postdoctoral Fellow, you will spend half of your time on your own original, self-directed research and half of your time integrated with existing Sandia R&D projects, all under the guidance of Sandia staff mentors. Selected Fellows will receive a two-year appointment with the potential option for a third year. Click here for more info.

Presidential Doctoral Fellowship for Research Training in Health Disparities (Click here for more info)

Due date: Feb. 1st, 2025

The University at Albany’s Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities (CEMHD) is offering a compensated fellowship for students who want to pursue a doctoral degree in any academic program that the university has to offer, while simultaneously receiving transdisciplinary training in health disparities. Click here for more info.