Showcase Winners

Previous Winners by Year 

2022

When the Showcase returned in 2022, no judging of posters took place and SEAS did not award any prizes as in the past.

The GW Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship awarded innovation prizes to three participating poster teams, which included $1,000 to pursue proof of concept work and support through the office’s innovation and entrepreneurship training program. The winners were:

“A Proactive Hardware Based Defense Framework to Combat Ransomware”
First Author: Preet Derasari
Advisor: Professor Guru Venkataramani

“Physical Factors of Cold Atmospheric Plasma Cause Structural and Mechanical Changes in
Mammalian Cancer Cells”
First Author: Alex Horkowitz
Advisor: Professor Michael Keidar

“A Low Cost IoT Data Acquisition and
Instrument Control System” A Low-Cost, IoT-Based Data Acquisition and Instrument Control System [Development of PICODOP: Pi-Controlled Dosage Pump]”
First Author: Rubin Roy
Advisor:  Professor Kartik Bulusu

2019

Department of Biomedical Engineering

 

1st Place Graduate:

"Bioresorbable Wireless Battery-Free Pacemaker for Electrical Stimulation of the Heart"

First Author: Rose Yin

Advisor: Dr. Igor Efimov

 

 

 

 

1st Place Undergraduate: 

“Ultrasound-Enhanced Ocular Drug Delivery for Treatment of Acanthamoeba Keratitis”

First Author: Bianca Karpinecz

Advisor: Dr. Vesna Zderic

 

 

 

Runner-up: 

“Probing the Integration between Three-Dimensional ‘Spark­Cell’ Spheroids and Human Cardiac Syncytia”

First Author: Christianne Chua

Advisors: Dr. Emilia Entcheva, Julie Han, and Weizhen Li

 

 

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

1st Place Graduate: 

“Drugs in Drinking Water: An Enhanced Biological Removal through Biofilm Thickness Management for Sustainable Water Reuse Application”

First Author: Mahmudul Hasan

Advisor: Dr. Rumana Riffat

 

 

 

1st Place Undergraduate: 

“Integrated Micro-Irrigation and Surface Water Catchment System for Water Management in India”

First Author: Khyati Patel

Advisor: Dr. Rumana Riffat

 

 

 

 

Runner-up: 

“Demonstration of Practical Mainstream Deammonification Schemes Balancing Treatment Efficiency with Complexity and Cost”

First Author: Mojolaoluwa Ladipo-Obasa

Advisor: Dr. Rumana Riffat

 

 

 

and 

“Short-term Traffic Prediction and Incident Detection with Single Traffic Detector  Using Recurrent Neural Network”

First Author: Dong Pan

Advisor: Dr. Samer Hamdar

 

 

Department of Computer Science

 

1st Place Graduate: 

“Predicting Spread of Fake News on Social Media”

First Author: Pedram Hosseini

Advisors: Drs. Mona Diab and David Broniatowski

 

 

1st Place Undergraduate: 

“Secure and Scalable Network Packet Processing”

First Author: Dennis Afanasev

Advisor: Dr. Tim Wood

 

 

Runner-up: 

“Automated Sentence Correction Using Machine Learning”

First Author: Zhantong Liang

Advisor: Dr. Abdou Youssef

 

 

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

1st Place Graduate: 

“Application-Aware Reconfigurable Manycore Architectures”

First Author: Hao Zheng

Advisor: Dr. Ahmed Louri

 

 

1st Place Undergraduate: 

“Low-Cost, Remote Data Acquisition Platform for In-situ with Biological and Fluidic Measurements”

First Author: Rachel Zaltz

Advisors: Drs. Kartik Bulusu and Amir Aslani

 

 

Runner-up: 

“A Lateral MOS-Capacitor Enabled ITO Mach-Zehnder Modulator for Beam Steering”

First Author: Rubab Amin

Advisor: Dr. Volker Sorger

 

 

Department of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering

1st Place Graduate: 

“Online Labor Platforms and the Future of Engineering Design Work”

First Author: Suparna Mukherjee

Advisor: Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber

 

 

1st Place Undergraduate: 

“Engineered Coal: A New Green Product for the Coal Industry”

First Author: Justin Williams

Advisors: Drs. Richard Millar and Thomas Mazzuchi (EMSE), Todd Mlsna

and Sita Warren (Mississippi State University)

 

 

Runner-up: 

“Improving Emergency Department Patient Throughput by Considering Providers’ In-patient Admission Rates: A Mathematical Programming Approach”

First Author: Kelly Rickard

Advisor: Dr. Johan Rene van Dorp

 

 

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

1st Place Graduate: 

“Development and Characterization of Bovine Milk Ultrasound Responsive Exosomes”

First Author: Jenna Osborn

Advisor: Dr. Kausik Sarkar

 

 

1st Place Undergraduate: 

“Design of Large-Scale Turbulent Flow Loop”

First Author: Samuel Rudy

Advisors: Dr. Phillipe Bardet and Charles Fort

 

 

Runner-up: 

“Micro-Cathode Matrix Arc Thrusters for Small Satellites”

First Author: Keir Daniels

Advisor: Dr. Michael Keidar

 

 

 

and 

“Buoyant Jet Mole Fraction Measurements Using RayIeigh Scattering Technique”

First Author: Hatef Pazhand

Advisor: Dr. Phillippe Bardet

 

 

AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Program Grants

The AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Program is funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by GW’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE), and it provides grants of up to $3,000 to GW students, faculty, and staff who have great technology and want to explore the potential for commercializing it.  At the Showcase, GW’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship awarded $3,000 AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Program grants to 13 Showcase participants.

Congratulations to:

Scott Downen, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Mahmudul Hasan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Munshi Md Rasel, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ratnadeep Bhattacharya, Department of Computer Science 

Pedram Hosseini, Department of Computer Science

Rubab Amin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Zibo Hu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jiawei Meng, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hao Wang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rujia Zou, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Kai Friesecke, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering 

Keir Daniels, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Alexander Yan, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

2018

 

Graduate Student Theoretical Research

 

1st Place ($5,000):

“Formation of 2D Ice Confined by Hydrophobic Nanopore”

First Author: Boxiao Cao, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Tianshu Li

 

 

 

 

2nd Place tie ($4,000 each): 

“Breaking the Boundary between Optical Communication and Data Processing”

First Author: Shuai Sun, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Volker Sorger

 

 

 

2nd Place tie ($4,000 each): 

“Residue Number System Arithmetic Based on Integrated Nanophotonics’

First Author: Jiaxin Peng, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisors: Dr. Volker Sorger and Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi

 

 

Runner-up tie (1,000 each)

“CSFEM for Large Deformation of Solids: From Hilbert Complexes to Numerical Stability”

First Author: Ali Gerami Matin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Arzhang Angoshtari

 

 

Graduate Student Experimental Research

 

1st Place ($5,000): 

“Laboratory Characterization of a Liquefiable Soil"

First Author: Mohamed El Ghoraiby, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Majid Manzari

 

 

 

2nd Place ($4,000):

“StatSym: Vulnerable Path Discovery through Statistics-Guided Symbolic Execution"

First Authors: Fan Yao, Yongbo Li, Yurong Che, and Hongfa Xue

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisors: Dr. Guru Venkataramani and Dr. Tian Lan

 

 

 

Runner-up tie ($1,000 each): 

“Adaptation of Operational Parameters of Cold Atmospheric Plasma for Cancer Treatment”

First Author: Eda Gjika, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisors: Dr. Michael Keidar

 

 

 

and

“Shed: Optimal Dynamic Cloning to Meet Application Deadlines in Cloud”

First Authors: Sultan Alamro and Maotong Xu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Suresh Subramaniam and Dr. Tian Lan

 

 

 

Undergraduate Research

Best Undergraduate Poster ($2,000): 

“Symmetrical Cluster Analysis for Thermographic Breast Cancer Detection"

First Authors: Shannon Toole, Aidan Murray, and Pannie Xu

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Murray Loew

 

 

Runner-up tie ($1,000 each): 

“Ultrasound-Enhanced Drug Delivery for Treatment of Onychomycosis”

First Author: Alina Kline-Schoder, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisors: Dr. Zung Lee and Dr. Vesna Zderic

 

 

 

and

“A Mechanistic Study of Ultrasound-Induced Insulin Release”

First Author: Tania Singh, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisors: Dr.Vesna Zderic, Dr. Emilia Entcheva,

Aleksandra Klimas, and Ivan Suarez Castellanos

 

 

AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Program Grants

The AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Program is funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by GW’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE), and it provides grants of up to $3,000 to GW students, faculty, and staff who have great technology and want to explore the potential for commercializing it.  At the Showcase, GW’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship awarded $3,000 AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Program grants to 17 Showcase participants.

Congratulations to:

Mitra Aliabouzar, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Mahdis Bisheban, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Janiele Custodio, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Ali Germani Matin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Hifza Javed, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Reza Karimian Bahnemiri, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Haoran Liu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jiaxin Peng, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hongchen Shen, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Apurva Singh, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Eden Smalley, Department of Biology

Shuai Sun, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Michael Treasure, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Meixin Wang, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Hong Xuan, Department of Computer Science

Fan Yao, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yangyang Zhao, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

2017

 

Theoretical Poster Category

 

1st Place ($5,000):

“Perforation of cell membranes using contrast agent microbubbles in the presence of ultrasound”

First Author: Nima Mobadersany, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Kausik Sarkar

 

 

 

 

2nd Place ($4,000): 

“Routing, fiber, band,and spectrum assignment (RFBSA) for multi-granular elastic optical networks”

First Authors: Jingxin Wu and Maotong Xu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Suresh Subramaniam

 

 

 

3rd Place ($3,000): 

“Computational geometric system identification"

First Author: Mahdis Bisheban, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisors: Professor Taeyoung Lee

 

 

 

Experimental Poster Category

1st Place ($5,000): 

“The role of viscosity in mesophilic anaerobic digestion"

First Author: Elizabeth Manning, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Rumana Riffat

 

 

 

2nd Place ($4,000):

“Achieving sustainable water purification: tailored graphitic nitride for the removal of organic persistent contaminants"

First Author: Qinmin Zheng, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Danmeng Shuai

 

 

 

3rd Place ($3,000): 

“Novel capacitive electrode for cardiac model”

First Author: Christopher Gloschat, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisors: Dr. Igor Efimov

 

 

Undergraduate Research

 

Best Undergraduate Poster ($2,000): 

“Oxytocin benefits patients with obstructive sleep apnea”

Joseph Marbach, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Matthew Kay

 

 

Additional R&D Showcase Awards

Runners-Up Awards ($1,000 each towards conference travel to present research):

1. Jaclyn Brennan, BME graduate student (experimental) for “Differential electrophysiological effects of ß1- vs ß2- adrenergic stimulation in the isolated canine right atrium” mentored by Professor Igor Efimov
2. Yuanfei Bi, CEE graduate student (theoretical) for “Free energy landscape and nucleation pathways of gas hydrate nucleation” mentored by Professor Tianshu Li
3. Zhitong Chen, MAE graduate student (experimental) for “Novel micro-cold atmospheric plasma device for cancer treatment” mentored by Professor Michael Keidar
4. Kyle Choy, MAE undergraduate (theoretical) for “Molecular simulation of aqueous methane between na-montmorillonite clay interlayers” mentored by Professor Yongsheng Leng
5. Kara Garrott, BME graduate student (experimental) for “Chronic activation of hypothalamic oxytocin neurons improves cardiac function in a rat model of left ventricular hypertrophy-induced heart failure” mentored by Professor Matthew Kay
6. Mahmudul Hasan, CEE graduate student (experimental) for “Optimizing the dewatering of sludge obtained from different treatment processes along with the full scale application” mentored by Professor Rumana Riffat
7. Engin Kayraklioglu, ECE graduate student (experimental) for “Mitigating communication costs in emerging parallel programming languages” mentored by Professor Tarek El-Ghazawi
8. Shankar Kulumani, MAE graduate student (theoretical) for “Robotic autonomous exploration via exact occupancy grid mapping” mentored by Professor Taeyoung Lee

9. Margaret Nowicki, MAE graduate student (experimental) for “Four dimensional printing of gradient scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering” mentored by Professors Grace Zhang and  Michael Plesniak

10. Hongchen Shen, CEE graduate student (experimental) for “Graphitic carbon nitride as a promising antimicrobial photocatalyst” mentored by Professor Danmeng Shuai

 

 

Entrepreneurship Prize Competition

This competition was held simultaneously during the R&D Showcase.  The judges selected six winners and awarded them each $2,000.

Scott Barnes, MAE undergraduate student for “Predictive collaborative manufacturing robotics”

Evan Kaufman, MAE graduate student for “A robotic vacuuming software tool with autonomous exploration via exact occupancy grid mapping"

Alina Kline-Schoder, BME undergraduate student for “Ultrasound-Enhanced Drug Delivery for Treatment of Onychomycosis”

Ivan Suarez Castellanos, BME graduate student for “SonoInsulin: an ultrasound based treatment for type 2 diabetes"

Shuai Sun, ECE graduate student for “Hybrid photonic plasmonic interconnects (HyPPI)”

Zhehan Yi, ECE graduate student for “A centralized power management system (PMS) for grid-connected photovoltaic-battery distributed generation systems”

 

 

Additional Award

AgileTrailblazers Innovation Award ($2,000) - SEAS alumnus Naeem Hussein of Agile Trailblazers, Inc. generously provided this award for an innovative project with potential commercial value and serving as the basis for a new or improved technology or science-and technology-based service or application.  The award was given to Connor Roberts, EMSE graduate student, for “Internet of Things device for a safer, more efficient medical asset management system.” The award was presented to Connor by Santosh Jayaram, Agile Trailblazers’ chief operating officer.

2016

Theoretical Research Awards

 

1st Place ($3,000):

“CRED: cloud right-sizing to meet execution deadlines and data locality”

First Authors: Sultan Alamro and Maotong Xu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Suresh Subramaniam

 

2nd Place ($1,500):

"Automatic generation of context-based fill-in-the-blank exercises using vector space models and Google n-grams"

First Author: Jennifer Hill, Department of Computer Science

Advisor: Rahul Simha

and

"Hybrid photonic plasmonic interconnects (HyPPI): a low latency, energy and area efficient on-chip interconnects"

First Author: Shuai Sun, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Volker Sorger

 

Honorable Mention #1 ($750):

"Enhanced estimation of land surface moisture and heat fluxes by coupling water and energy balance models"

First Author: Abedeh Abdolghafoorian, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advisor: Leila Farhadi

Honorable Mention #2 ($750):

"Exploring the interplay between surface morphology and hydrophobicity in heterogeneous ice nucleation"

Fist Author: Yuanfei Bi, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advisor: Tianshu Li

 

Experimental Research Awards

 

1st Place ($3,000): 

"Water vapor concentration measurement with TDLAS during VHTR steam ingress"

First Author: Michael Button, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Philippe Bardet

and

"Geometric adaptive control of attitude dynamics on SO(3) with state inequality constraints"

Fist Authors: Shankar Kulumani and Christopher Poole, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Taeyoung Lee

 

2nd Place ($2,000):

"Shortening of action potential duration with increased work in contracting rabbit hearts"

First Author: Kara Garrott, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Matthew Kay

and

"Ultrasound stimulation of insulin release from pancreatic beta cells"

First Author: Ivan Suarez Castellanos, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisors: Vesna Zderic and Aleksandar Jeremic

 

Honorable Mention For Continuing Excellence ($500):

"Simulated body fluid nucleation of 3D printed elastomeric scaffolds for bone regeneration"

First Author: Nathan Castro, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Lijie Grace Zhang

 

Honorable Mention #2 ($1,000):

"A novel sampling algorithm for speeding up the Nystrom approximation"

First Author: Mahesh Mohan, Department of Computer Science

Advisor: Claire Monteleoni

 

Honorable Mention #3 ($1,000):

"Vital Ring: a wearable wireless multiple-lead ECG sensor on a finger ring"

First Author: Quan Dong, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Zhenyu Li

 

Honorable Mention #4 ($1,000):

"A novel approach to measuring the time-impact of oversight activities on engineering work"

First Author: Samantha Marquart Brainard, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Advisor: Zoe Szajnfarber

 

Undergraduate Student Awards

 

1st Place ($2,000):

"CAPITAL Words: algorithmic generation of reading and spelling exercises for low-literacy users"

First Authors: Katherine Stasaski, Elsbeth Turcan and Jennifer Hill, Department of Computer Science

Advisor: Rahul Simha

2nd Place ($1,000):

"openNetVM: Rethinking embedded system virtualization"

First Authors: Robert Gifford and Lucas Baier, Department of Computer Science

Advisor: Gabriel Parmer

Honorable Mention #1 ($500):

"openNetVM: bringing elasticity to enterprise networks using network function virtualization on commodity hardware"

First Authors: Neel Shah, Philip Loprieato and Warren Smith, Department of Computer Science

Advisor: Timothy Wood

Honorable Mention #2 ($500):

"Manufacturing cost analysis of thermoelectric generators"

First Author: Lindsay Ryan, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Advisors: Saniya LeBlanc & Stephanie Johnson

 

Hegarty Undergraduate Prize

"Amperometric detection of ultrasound-induced secretory events in potential treatment of Type 2 diabetes"

Mr. Aran Hegarty awarded a solar battery charger to Bogdan Balteanu & Tania Singh, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Vesna Zderic

 

Randolph A. Graves Innovation Awards

Undergraduate Student Award ($2,500):

"Characterization of blood-analog fluids in a 180-degree curved artery model"

First Author: Jessica Hinke, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Michael Plesniak

Graduate Student Award ($2,500):

"NADH fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (NADH-FRAP) for in-situ assessment of cardiac TCA cycle enzyme activity"

First Author: Angel Moreno, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Matthew Kay

 

Entrepreneurship Awards

1st Place ($2,000):

"Effects of acoustic parameters on nanodroplet vaporization"

First Authors: Krishna Kumar and Mitra Aliabouzar, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Kausik Sarkar

 

2nd Place ($500):

"Hybrid photonic plasmonic interconnects (HyPPI): a low latency, energy and area efficient on-chip interconnects"

First Author: Shuai Sun, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Volker Sorger

2015

Theoretical Prizes

 

1st Place ($5,000):

“Development of a Fast Algorithm for Solving the Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations”

First Author: Christopher Cox, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisors: Professors Chunlei Liang and Michael Plesniak

 

 

 

 

2nd Place ($4,000):

“Simulation of Nonlinear Seismic Response of Soft Clays at Medium Strains”

First Author: Mohamed El Ghoraiby, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advisor: Professor Majid Manzari

 

 

 

3rd Place tie ($3,000):

“Leveraging History for Faster Sampling of Online Social Networks”

First Author: Zhuojie Zhou, Department of Computer Science

Advisor: Professor Nan Zhang

 

 

 

and

“Permeabilization of Cell Membrane in the Presence of Encapsulated  Microbubbles for Drug Delivery into Tissue”

First Author: Nima Mobadersany, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Professor Kausik Sarkar

 

 

 

 

Honorable Mention ($500) 

“A Modeling Approach to Untangling the Complexity of Space R&D Portfolio Management Decisions”

First Author: Alexander Burg, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Advisor: Professor Zoe Szajnfarber

 

 

 

Experimental Prizes

 

1st Place tie ($4,000) 

"Streamline Based Design Guideline for Deterministic Microfluidic Hydrodynamic Single Cell Traps"

First Author: Allan Guan, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Professor Zhenyu Li

 

 

 

and

"3D Printing of Bioactive Graded Nanostructured Scaffolds for Osteochondral Regeneration"

First Author: Nathan Castro, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Professor Lijie Grace Zhang

 

 

and

"Three Dimensional Printing of Gradient Scaffolds to Bridge the Gap  between Bone and Cartilage for Osteochondral Defect Repair"

First Author: Margaret Nowicki, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisors: Professors Lijie Grace Zhang and Michael Plesniak 

 

 

 

Honorable Mention

"Self-oscillating Vocal Fold Model Mechanics: Healthy, Diseased, and Aging"

First Author: Elizabeth Hubler, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Professor Michael Plesniak

 

 

 

Honorable Mention 

"CC-Hunter: Uncovering Covert Timing Channels on Shared Processor Hardware"

First Author: Jie Chen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Professor Guru Venkataramani

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate Prizes

Best Undergraduate Poster ($2,000) 

“Measuring Physiological Response of Bisphenol-A on Cardiac Excitation-Contraction Coupling”

First Author: Akhil Chandra, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Professor Matthew Kay

 

 

 

Honorable Mention ($500)

“Effect of solubility and guest size on hydrate nucleation: Insights from advanced molecular simulations”

First Author: Anna Porras, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advisor: Professor Tianshu Li

 

 

 

Entrepreneurship Prizes

Entrepreneurship Award ($2,000)

“An Intelligent Software-Defined Storage”

First Author: Maryam Yammahi, Department of Computer Science

Advisor: Professor Simon Berkovich

 

 

 

Runner Up ($500)

“3D Printed Bone Scaffolds with Microvascular Network and Nano Hydroxyapatite for Improved hMSC Functions”

First Author: Benjamin Holmes, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisors: Kartik Bulusu & Michael Plesniak

 

 

2014

Theoretical Prizes

1st Place ($5,000):

“Highly Sensitive Gas Sensor Using Plasmonic Antennas”

First Author: Bhaven Mehta, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Advisor: Professor Mona Zaghloul

 

 

 

 

2nd Place ($4,000):

“A Three-Dimensional Iterative Panel Method and Boundary  Layer Model for Bioinspired Multi-body Wings”

First Author: Christopher Blower, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Professor Adam Wickenheiser

 

 

 

3rd Place ($3,000):

“The Novel Resonator Cell (RC) for Both Portable Biosensor and High Quality Filter for Cell Phones”

First Author: Hasan Goktas, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Professor Mona Zaghloul

 

 

 

Graduate Runner-Up ($500):

“Seismic Analysis and Design of a Scaled Nuclear Fuel Assembly”

First Author: Morteza Rahimi Abkenar, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Professor Majid Manzari

 

 

 

and 

“Model and Instrumentation of Development for Nuclear Fuel Assembly Response to Seismic Loads”

First Author: Noah Weichselbaum, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Professor Philippe Bardet

 

 

Undergraduate Prizes

Best Undergraduate Poster ($2,000):

“Evaluation of Synthetic Self-Oscillating Models of the Vocal Folds”                                                    

First Author: Elizabeth Hubler, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Professor Michael Plesniak

 

 

 

Undergraduate Runner-Up ($500):

“Electro-Optical Plasmon Modulators: Breaking Photonic Limits”

First Author: Sarah Pickus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisors: Professors Volker Sorger and Jason Zara

 

 

 

Entrepreneurship Prizes

Entrepreneurship Award ($2,000):

“Development of Biomimetic 3D Bioprinted Scaffolds for Osteochondral Regeneration”

First Author: Benjamin Holmes, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor:  Professor Lijie Grace Zhang

 

 

 

Entrepreneurship Runner-Up ($500):

“Non-Invasive Local Fluid Pressure Estimation Using Subharmonic Response from Contrast Microbubbles”

First Authors: Nima Mobadersany and Krishna Kumar,

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Professor Kausik Sarkar

 

 

 

2013

 

Theoretical Prizes

1st Place ($5,000): “The foundation of nanoscience: multiple length/time scale modeling of multi-physics for nano/micro material systems” First Author: Jiaoyan Li, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Advisor: Professor James Lee ...............................................................................................................................................................

2nd Place ($4,000): “Exploration of energy efficient and environmentally friendly magnetic refrigeration systems” First Authors: Mohammadreza Ghahremani and Hatem El Bidweihy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisors: Professors Edward Della Torre and Lawrence Bennett ...............................................................................................................................................................

3rd Place ($3,000):  “Changes in cardiac function upon light-activated release of norepinephrine" from sympathetic neurons expressing channelrhodopsin” First Author: Anastasia Wengrowski, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisor: Professor Matthew Kay ...............................................................................................................................................................

Runner-Up tie ($500 each):  “Experimental study of surface dynamics of a liquid jet” First Author: Matthieu Andre, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Advisor: Professor Philippe Bardet ...............................................................................................................................................................

and “3D Fabrication of biomimetic nanocomposite scaffolds for tissue interface engineering and regenerative medicine” First Author: Benjamin Holmes, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Advisor: Professor Grace Zhang ...............................................................................................................................................................

and “Ultrasound-enhanced delivery of antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs into the eye” First Author: Marjan Nabili, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisor: Professor Vesna Zderic ...............................................................................................................................................................

Undergraduate Prizes

Best Undergraduate Poster ($2,000) “Evaluation of synthetic self-oscillating models of the vocal folds” First Author: Elizabeth Hubler, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Advisor: Professor Michael Plesniak ...............................................................................................................................................................

 

Undergraduate Runner-Up ($500): “The Effect of BMP-2 Loaded PDO Nanospheres and Nano Hydroxyapatite in PCL Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration” First Author: Christopher O'Brien, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Advisor: Professor Grace Zhang

 

2012

Theoretical Prizes

1st Place ($5,000):

“Metabolic Demand of Fast Rhythms in Isolated Working Hearts  and Langendorff Perfused Hearts”

First Authors: Anastasia Wengrowski and Rafael Jaimes III,

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Professor Matthew Kay

 

 

2nd Place ($4,000):

“UV-Assisted Alcohol Sensors Using GaN Nanowires Functionalized with ZnO and SnO2”

First Author: Ritu Bajpai, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Professor Mona Zaghloul

 

 

3rd Place ($3,000):

“The Tri-State Active Docking Interface of STORM:  Self-configurable and Transformable Omni-directional Robotic Modules”

First Authors: Paul Moubarak, Zhou Ma, and Eric Alvarez,

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Professor Pinhas Ben-Tzv

Advisor: Professor Matthew Kay

 

 

Undergraduate Prize

Best Undergraduate Poster ($2,000):

“Fluid Flow Trends and Regulation in Syringes” 

First Author: Nathaniel Diskint (CCAS) and Caitlin Keating,

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisors:  Professors Kartik Bulusu and Michael Plesniak

 

2011

 

Theoretical Prizes

1st Place ($5,000): “3D Image Fusion and Visualization for Surgical Applications” First Author: Can Kirmizibayrak and Mike Wakid, Department of Computer Science Advisor: Professor James Hahn ...............................................................................................................................................................

 

2nd Place ($4,000): “Magnetically-Enhanced Vacuum Arc Microthruster for Small Satellite Control”  First Author: Taisen Zhuang, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Advisor: Professor Michael Keidar ...............................................................................................................................................................

 

3rd Place ($3,000):  “Compact Optical Microfluidic Uric Acid Analysis System” First Author: Chia-Pin Chang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisors: Professors David Nagel & Mona Zaghlou ...............................................................................................................................................................

 

Undergraduate Prize

Best Undergraduate Poster ($2,000): “Development of a Method for Optical Measurement of Water Droplet Formation in the Cathode Flow Channel of a PEM Fuel Cell.”  First Author: Hannah Stuart, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Advisor:  Professor Michael Plesniak

 

2010

Theoretical Prizes

1st Place ($5,000):

“Micro Vacuum Arc Thruster Propulsion System”

First Author: Taisen Zhuang, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor:  Professor Michael Keidar

 

 

2nd Place ($1,200): 

“Motion Reduction Algorithm Applied to Fluorescent Signals from Rat Hearts Using Multi-level Wavelet Analysis”

First Author: Huda Asfour, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisors:  Professors Milos Doroslovacki & Matthew Kay

 

 

3rd Place ($800): 

“Secondary Flow Measurements in Models of Curved Arteries”

First Author: Autumn Glenn, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advisor: Professor Michael Plesniak

 

 

2009

1st Place ($5,000):

"Analysis of Room Temperature Magnetic Regenerative Refrigeration"

First Authors: Yi Jin and Shuo Gu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor:  Professors Edward Della Torre and Lawrence H. Bennett

 

 

2nd Place - tie ($600):

“Interactive Visualization Tools for Image-Guided Medialization Laryngoplasty”

First Authors: Mike Wakid and Can Kirmizibayrak, Department of Computer Science

Advisor: James Hahn

 

 

and
“A Novel Method of Chemical Analysis on Mars Using Carbon Dioxide

Inductively Coupled Micro Plasmas”

First Author: Mazdak Taghioskoui, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Mona Zaghloul

 

 

2008

Theoretical Prizes

1st Place ($500): “Image Guided Surgery for Medialization Laryngoplasty” First Author: Mike Wakid, Department of Computer Science Advisor: Professor James Hahn ...............................................................................................................................................................

 

2nd Place ($300): “Modeling Aviation Accident Relative Frequency near Non-Towered Airports as a Spatially Probability Distributed” First Author: Christian Salmon, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Advisor: Professor Jack Harrald ...............................................................................................................................................................

 

3rd Place ($200):  “Controlled Language Programming – Using Domain Specific Languages to Create More Natural Programming Languages” First Author: Darren Broemmer, Department of Computer Science Advisor: Professor Matthew Burke

2007

Theoretical Prizes

1st Place ($500): “A Novel Test for Total Phosphorus Removal Optimization in Primary Clarifiers" First Author: Marija Peric and Dilli Neupane, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisor: Professor Rumana Riffat

2nd Place ($300): “Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators in CMOS Technology for RF Oscillators” First Author: Anis Norden, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisor: Professor Mona Zaghloul

3rd Place ($200): “Finite-Element Analysis of Fatigue Prone Details of the Tuttle Creek Bridge” First Author: Ashish Bhargava, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisor: Professor Kim Roddis