DEPARTMENTAL POSTER AWARD WINNERS 2011
The first annual Engineering Graduate Research Symposium was held Thursday, Nov. 3 at the MSU Union. Dean Udpa provided opening remarks as more than 270 graduate students from across the College presented posters to faculty and peers. Department level poster competitions were held with each department identifying their top posters.
DEPARTMENT: BIOSYSTEMS AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
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Michelle Packard |
Rapid DNA-Based Bacterial Identification Using Amplification-Free Fluorescent Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) With A Single Rep |
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Irwin Donis-González |
Relation of Computerized Tomography Hounsfield Unit Measurements and Internal Components of Fresh Chestnuts (Castanea spp.) |
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Xiaoqing Wang |
Comparison of Metabolism of Rhizopus oryzae Culturing on Glucose and Glycero |
DEPARTMENT: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING |
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First: Rui Li |
Population-level Chemotaxis in Shewanella |
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Second: Beth Schoen |
The Effect of Regio-Chemistry and Functionality on the Separation of Stereo-isomers of Nano-structured Chemicals |
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MATERIALS SCIENCE |
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First: Daniel Lynam |
Functionalized Nerve Growth Scaffold for Linear Axon Growth and Controlled Drug Release |
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Second: Jiang Zhu |
Properties of Low Temperature Cured Bismaleimide Thermosets |
DEPARTMENT: CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
| CIVIL ENGINEERING | |
| First: Purushotham Pakala | Behavior of Steel Angle Connections Under Fire |
| Second: Lauren Fedak | Evaluation of Analysis Methods in Predicting Limit States for Performance-Based Seismic Design |
| Third: Prasanna Sampath | Understanding Prairie Fen Hydrology - a Hierarchical Multi-Scale Groundwater Modeling Approach |
| ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING | |
| First: Indumathy Jayamani | The Effect of the Gasoline Additive Isobutanol on the Biodegradation of Toluene in Laboratory Microcosms |
| Second: Chris Crock | Polymer Nanocomposite Materials with Hierarchical Fillers as a Conceptual Framework for the Design of Multifunctional Membranes |
| Third: Elodie Pasco | Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films as Anti-Adhesive Membrane Coatings: A Novel Concept for Virus Recovery by Ultrafiltration |
DEPARTMENT: COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
| First: M. Zubair Shafig | Modeling Structure of Cascades in Online Social Networks Using Multi-Order Markov Chains |
| Second: Soweon Yoon | Altered Fingerprints: Analysis and Detection |
| Third: Eric Norige | Ternary Tries for TCAM Ruleset Compression |
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| Stephen Paslaski & Couri VanDam | Modeling How You Like / Dislike a Visual Face: a Brain-Inspired Model |
| Brendan F. Klare | Heterogeneous Face Recognition using Kernel Prototype Similarities |
| Prakash Mandayam Comar | LinkBoost: A Novel Cost-Sensitive Boosting Framework for Community-Level Network Link Prediction |
| Jun Huang | Beyond Co-existence: Exploiting WiFi White Space for ZigBee Performance Assurance |
DEPARTMENT: ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
| First: Jose Hejase | A Terahertz Integrated Microfluidic Evanescence Field Sensor |
| Second: Mohamed Esreraig | An Observer-based Protection System for Microgrids |
| Third: Jianguo Zhao | Bio-inspired Design of a Single Motor Actuated Miniature Steerable Jumping Robot |
DEPARTMENT: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
| First: Marco Vagani | Numerical Simulation of Impeller Rotating Stall In A Centrifugal Compressor |
| Second: Fang Hou | Extraction of Cohesive-Zone Laws Using Full-Field Displacement Data and Inverse Computation |
| Third: Assaad Abbass | Vibration Control of Continuous Systems Using Boundary Constraint |