Thursday, May 1, 2025

The College of Engineering honored graduate students, faculty, and staff that have helped shape graduate programs and research at a banquet on April 30. The event include the announcement of awards from the research open house and a performance by Wave Drift, a band made up primarily of mechanical engineering faculty.

There were poster award categories for graduate and undergraduate students in each academic department as well as a people's choice award category. 

Biomedical Engineering

Graduate Students:

Daniel Meggo

A novel row-specific retrospective gating technique for sCMOS micro-CT imaging of alveolar dynamics

Undergraduate Student: 

Jacob Cannon

Characterization of Bio-sourced Photoinitiator Systems (Bio-PhInS)


Chemical & Biochemical Engineering

Graduate Student: 

Chris Vidmar

Exploring interactions between bacterial ghosts and G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) for targeted drug delivery 

Undergraduate Student

Colin Houts

Design and Synthesis of NIR-Fluorescent Coatings for Remote Temperature Detection


Civil & Environmental Engineering

Graduate Student: 

Lillian Montabon

Novel Passive Emission Sampler (Si-PES) Determines PCB Release Rates from Building Materials

Undergraduate Student: 

Halle Eisfelder

Investigation of Revolving Algal Biofilm Thickness as a Function of Growth Period


Electrical & Computer Engineering

Graduate Student: 

Michal Brzus

ILOP: Image-Lesion-Based Outcome Prediction for Personalized Neurological Prognosis

Undergraduate Student: 

Joel Dillman

3D printed optical cavity for a gas sensor system: Fabrication and Characterization


Industrial & Systems Engineering

Graduate Student: 

Oliver Stroh

A Mixed-Effects Modeling Framework for Evaluating Low-Cost Particulate and Noise Sensors in High-Exposure Workplaces

Undergraduate Student: No entries


Mechanical Engineering

Graduate Students:

Rabiu Mamman

BIOINSPIRED ACTIVE VORTEX GENERATORS FOR UNDERWATER FLOW CONTROL

Shobhan Roy

Capturing detonation: simulating the complex mechano-chemical processes at the micro-meter length-scale and nano-second timescale of detonating composite energetics

Undergraduate Student: 

Zhanghe (Nomi) Wang

An Interactive Display of Synthetic Jet Actuator


People’s Choice Awards

1st Place: 

Reza Amouzandeh

Salt Ion-Mediated Control of 3D-Printed Silk Fibroin Scaffolds to support airway epithelium

2nd Place

John Syata

Climeworks DAC system analysis

3rd Place

Zhanghe (Nomi) Wang

An Interactive Display of Synthetic Jet Actuator