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 Poster (by dept/center):

Biomedical Engineering

      

Undergrad: 

Jatin Dhamrait (BS) 

Association of Airway Geometry with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder

    

Grad:
(3-way tie)

Brittany Allen (PhD), Rion Wendland (PhD), 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

  

Undergrad: 

 N/A
Grad:

Sean Ryan (MS), Chibuzo Nwakama (MS)

AudioGene 9: An Ensemble Approach for Predicting Genotype From Hearing Loss Phenotype

 

Chemical & Biochemical Engineering

  
Undergrad:

Devin Guillory (BS)

Measuring and characterizing bacterial responses to drug delivery throughout the lungs
Grad:

Tanner Grover (PhD)

Controlling Oligomer Structure to Direct Photopolymer Network Morphology

 

Civil & Environmental Engineering

  
Undergrad

N/A
Grad

Christopher Brunet (PhD)

Emissions of Volatile Methyl Siloxanes From New York City

 

Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research

  
Undergrad

N/A
Grad

Megan Christiansen (PhD), Dagen Hughes (PhD)

Atmospheric aerosols at a rural coastal site during The Lake Michigan Ozone Study (LMOS 2017)

Creative Kick-Start

  
Undergrad

Garret Caltrider (BS), Jordan Ewald (BS), Tiffany Tran (BS), Madeleine Humpal-Pash (BS)

See Ya, CIPN: Early Prevention of Chemo-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Grad

Ryan Mullennex (MS)

Translational Pallet for Laser Materials Processing

Electrical & Computer Engineering

  
Undergrad

Ryan Edwall II (BS), Daniel Phetmanysay (BS)

Automation of Paracentesis Robot Prototype Using a Joint Raspberry Pi-Arduino System Controlled by a Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Grad

Bernice Kubicek (PhD)

Active Sonar Classification using Canonical Correlation Analysis and Neural Networks

Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging

  
Undergrad

N/A
Grad

Subin Erattakulangara (PhD), 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

  
Undergrad

Sayre Satterwhite (BS)

Characterizing the Boundary Layer and Wave Profiles in the EFRE Wind-Wave Tunnel
Grad

Gregory Ewing (PhD)

WebHLM: A Client-Side Web Environment for Hydrologic Modelling and Education

Industrial & Systems Engineering

  
Undergrad

N/A
Grad

Bill Bangel (PhD)

Recycled Paper-Sheet Feedstock for Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing

Iowa Technology Institute

  
Undergrad

Prabhav Bhatt (BS)

Study of Interfacial Strength of 3D-Printed Bi-continuous Piezoelectric Composites
Grad

Marco Nino (PhD), Abdulsattar Al Saedi (PhD)

Towards a novel electrodilution catheter for measuring physiological fluid flow rates in the body

Mechanical Engineering

  
Undergrad

Tatum Johnson (BS)

Marine Biofilm Removal via Cephalopod-Inspired Smart Skin
Grad

Samantha Bell (PhD), Bill Bangel (PhD)

Automated Manufacturing Process for Carbon Fiber Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles (TCAMs)