ECE PhD Student Sydney Overton Receives Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship

ECE Ph.D. Student and MSAL member, Sydney Overton, has been named the recipient of a 2026-2027 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship. Sponsored by the UMD Graduate School, the fellowship provides financial support to UMD doctoral candidates who are in the latter stages of writing their dissertations.

Overton earned bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and physics from Virginia Tech. She joined ECE in 2022 and is currently a member of the MEMS Sensors and Actuators Lab (MSAL), where she works on creating ingestible capsules, miniaturized biomedical devices that can diagnose and address gastrointestinal (GI) tract issues.

In May 2026, Overton was chosen to represent the UMD Clark School of Engineering at WiscProf Future Faculty in Engineering Workshop sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering. She was one of only 30 graduate students and postdoctoral students selected from institutions across the country. WiscProf is a prestigious four-day program designed to prepare participants for careers in academia.

More information can be found on the UMD ECE News (22 - May / 2026)