Dear CoE Colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating the winners of this year's Research Open House poster awards:
Popular Choice Awards
1st Place:
Michal Brzus (PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering), Post-Stroke Lesion Segmentation on Multi-Modal Clinical Data
2nd Place:
Carley Stewart (PhD, Biomedical Engineering), Measuring Mucociliary Transport in Cystic Fibrosis Porcine Airways
3rd Place:
Noah Sinclair (BS, Biomedical Engineering), Fibroblast to Myofibroblast Conversion in Preadipocyte and Adipocyte Conditioned Medium
Social Justice Awards
Tanner Grover (PhD, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering), Controlling Oligomer Structure to Direct Photopolymer Network Morphology
David Ramotowski (PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering), Comparison of Functional Gene Abundance and Diversity for Polychlorinated Biphenyl Biodegradation Potential in Contaminated Sediments
Gregory Ewing (PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering), WebHLM: A Client-Side Web Environment for Hydrologic Modelling and Education
Cameron Trentz (MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering), Investigating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Machine Learning Models for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Using SEER Registry Data
Carley Stewart (PhD, Biomedical Engineering), Measuring Mucociliary Transport in Cystic Fibrosis Porcine Airways
Yazeed Alabbad (PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering), Comprehensive Flood Vulnerability Analysis in Urban Communities: Iowa Case Study
Best Posters by Department/Research Center
Biomedical Engineering
Undergraduate:
Jatin Dhamrait (BS), Association of Airway Geometry with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder
Graduate: (three-way tie)
Brittany Allen (PhD), Rion Wendland (PhD), and Jacob Thompson (BS), Photopolymerization parameters influence mechanical, microstructural, and cell loading properties of rapidly fabricated retinal scaffolds
Emmanuel Akor (PhD), Pressure-Volume Characteristics of the Acutely Injured Porcine Lung Assessed with Quantitative CT Imaging
Matthew Remy (PhD), Sustained Release of miR-200c from 3D-Printed Gelatin-Coated PCL Scaffolds Induces Bone Regeneration
Center for Bioinformatic & Computational Biology
Graduate:
Sean Ryan (MS) and Chibuzo Nwakama (MS), AudioGene 9: An Ensemble Approach for Predicting Genotype From Hearing Loss Phenotype
Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
Undergraduate:
Devin Guillory (BS), Measuring and characterizing bacterial responses to drug delivery throughout the lungs
Graduate:
Tanner Grover (PhD), Controlling Oligomer Structure to Direct Photopolymer Network Morphology
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Graduate:
Christopher Brunet (PhD), Emissions of Volatile Methyl Siloxanes From New York City
Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research
Graduate:
Megan Christiansen (PhD) and Dagen Hughes (PhD), Atmospheric aerosols at a rural coastal site during The Lake Michigan Ozone Study (LMOS 2017)
Creative Kick-Start
Undergraduate:
Garret Caltrider (BS), Jordan Ewald (BS), Tiffany Tran (BS), and Madeleine Humpal-Pash (BS), See Ya, CIPN: Early Prevention of Chemo-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Graduate:
Ryan Mullennex (MS), Translational Pallet for Laser Materials Processing
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Undergraduate:
Ryan Edwall II (BS) and Daniel Phetmanysay (BS), Automation of Paracentesis Robot Prototype Using a Joint Raspberry Pi-Arduino System Controlled by a Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Graduate:
Bernice Kubicek (PhD), Active Sonar Classification using Canonical Correlation Analysis and Neural Networks
Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging
Graduate:
Subin Erattakulangara (PhD) and Karthika Kelat (PhD), Protocol adaptive Stacked transfer learning (STL) U-NET with small dataset training for soft tissue segmentation in dynamic speech MRI
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Undergraduate:
Sayre Satterwhite (BS), Characterizing the Boundary Layer and Wave Profiles in the EFRE Wind-Wave Tunnel
Graduate:
Gregory Ewing (PhD), WebHLM: A Client-Side Web Environment for Hydrologic Modelling and Education
Industrial & Systems Engineering
Graduate:
Bill Bangel (PhD), Recycled Paper-Sheet Feedstock for Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing
Iowa Technology Institute
Undergraduate:
Prabhav Bhatt (BS), Study of Interfacial Strength of 3D-Printed Bi-continuous Piezoelectric Composites
Graduate:
Marco Nino (PhD) and Abdulsattar Al Saedi (PhD), Towards a novel electrodilution catheter for measuring physiological fluid flow rates in the body
Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate:
Tatum Johnson (BS), Marine Biofilm Removal via Cephalopod-Inspired Smart Skin
Graduate:
Samantha Bell (PhD) and Bill Bangel (PhD), Automated Manufacturing Process for Carbon Fiber Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles (TCAMs)
The students receiving awards will be recognized at the Student Leadership Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 27.
Congratulations to the winning posters, and to all the students who participated in this event!
H.S. Udaykumar
Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Research, and Faculty
College of Engineering
University of Iowa
