Graduate Best Poster Displays

Biomedical Engineering: Ryan Adam
Abnormal Airway Growth in Cystic Fibrosis Piglets

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering: Negin Sobhani
Modeling the Climatic Effects of Black Carbon and Arctic Snow and Ice

Civil and Environmental Engineering: Ellen Black
The impact of freshwater mussels on anaerobic ammonium oxidizers and other nitrogen-cycle bacteria in upper Mississippi river sediment

Electrical and Computer Engineering: Lauren Davidson
Improved Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells utilizing Sputtered Silicon Nitride Films

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: Avik Samanta
Simulations of Microstructure Evolution during Friction Stir Blind Riveting using a Cellular Automaton Method

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Mallory Tollefson
Evaluating Genetic Variants of Unknown Significance Using Protein Thermodynamic Simulations in the Context of Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss.

Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research: Maryam Abdi-Oskouei
Understanding Methane and VOC Emissions from Natural Gas Operation

IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering: Silvia Volpi
Towards the High-fidelity Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a 3D Composite Material Hydrofoil

Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging: Johanna Uthoff
Reduction and Selection of Uncorrelated Features for Lung Cancer Computer Aided Diagnosis

Undergraduate Best Poster Displays

Biomedical Engineering: Logan Muckenhirn
Nanoscale Surface Modification through "Click Chemistry" and its Effect on Biofilm Formation

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering: Alec Countryman,
Integrated Lab-On-A-Chip Life Support Device for Human Space Missions

Electrical and Computer Engineering: Matthew Finley
System Development for Roadway Safety Study

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: Nathaniel Weger
Gasification and Combustion of Miscanthus

Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology: Jacob Nishimura
The International Clubfoot Registry Database

Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging: Qingyang Su
Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Optic-Nerve-Head and Macular En-Face Image Registration in Cases of Papilledema

IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering: Aaron Boesen
Air-Water Exchange of PCBs in Southern Lake Michigan: Chicago a Source of Airborne PCBs

Center for Computer-Aided Design: Lauren Schutz
Analysis and Comparison of the Plie to Functional Dance Movement

Creative Kick-Start Program: Alicia Truka, Kylie Hershberger, and Mitchell Miller
The Little Jonny That Could: Providing Independence for Congenital Arm Amputees

Popular Choice Award

This award is granted to the favorite posters as voted on by the visitors to the Open House.

1st place Popular Choice Award: Ryan Adam, Biomedical Engineering
Abnormal Airway Growth in Cystic Fibrosis Piglets

2nd place Popular Choice Award: Nathaniel Weger, Mechanical Engineering
Gasification and Combustion of Miscanthus

3rd place Popular Choice Award: Emily Pattee, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
The Effect of Cyanuric Acid on the Expression of Atrazine-degrading Genes in Pseudomonas sp. ADP

Graduate Best Poster Award Winners

Biomedical Engineering: Srivats Sarathy
Development of cylindrical biopolymer membranes for pulmonary heart valve prostheses

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering: Khalid Algharrawi
Direct conversion of theophylline to 3-Methylxanthine by metabolically engineered E. coli

Civil and Environmental Engineering: Ellen Black
Freshwater mussels expand the niche of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (anammox) bacteria through coupled biogeochemistry

Electrical and Computer Engineering: Abhay Shah
Multiple surface segmentation using truncated convex priors

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: Hiroki Yamashita
Flexible multibody dynamics approach for tire dynamics simulation

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Stephen LuCore
Principles of many-body molecular design

Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research: Nathan Janechek
Atmospheric modeling of cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes

IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering: Babak Haghighi
Multiscale imaging-based clusters in the COPD cohort associates with clinical characteristics: the SubPopulations and InteRmediate Outcome Measures in COPD Study (SPIROMICS)

Center for Computer-Aided Design: Anna Schumacher
Application of the Calibrated Automated Thrombogram (CAT) assay to assess the functionality of a novel antithrombotic coating for neurovascular stents and flow diverters

Iowa Institute of Biomedical Imaging: Dakai Jin
A semi-automatic framework of measuring pulmonary arterial metrics at anatomic airway locations using CT imaging
AND (due to a tie)
Iowa Institute of Biomedical Imaging: Sunrita Poddar
Free-breathing dynamic cardiac MR image acquisition and reconstruction

Undergraduate Best Poster Award Winners

Biomedical Engineering: Jarod Benowitz
Modern physics ends where life begins: statistical mechanics of the gyration matrix using random matrix theory

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering: Nathan Bryngelson
Characterizing silicon seed aerosols produced via photo-oxidation of cyclic siloxanes in a PAMs reactor

Civil and Environmental Engineering: Bailey Hadnott
Study of airborne PCBs in and around New Bedford Harbor area: a collaboration of the University of Iowa and Boston University Superfund Research Programs

Electrical and Computer Engineering: Lauren Davidson
Design optimization of perovskite/Si tandem junction solar cell using analytical modeling

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: Kasra Zarei
A method for detailed movement pattern analysis of tadpole startle response and application to six tadpole models with vestibular alterations

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Mallory Tollefson
Evaluating genetic variants of unknown significance using protein thermodynamic simulations in the context of non-syndromic hearing loss

Iowa Institute for Biomedical Engineering: Yuhaw Su
The efficient implementation of the total-variation L1 primal-dual algorithm for 3D medical image de-noising

IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering: Matthew Schmidt
Integrated high-fidelity validation experiments and LES for a surface-piercing truncated cylinder for sub- and critical Reynolds and Froude numbers

Special Programs and Studies: Whitney Edaburn, Samuel Moffatt, and Graham Young
Analysis of grid scale storage technologies for augmenting renewable energy generation

Popular Choice Award

This award is granted to the favorite posters among the visitors to the Open House.

1st place Popular Choice Award: Vahid Khalajzadeh, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
In-situ X-Ray observation and modeling of porosity formation in an A356 aluminum alloy casting

2nd place Popular Choice Award: Anh-Vu Do, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Using ultrasound to enhance tumor cell killing by Doxorubicin-loaded particles

3rd place Popular Choice Award: Ryan Adam, Biomedical Engineering
Acute and long-term effects of Ivacaftor on lung structure and function in adults with cystic fibrosis and the G551D CFTR mutation

Graduate Best Poster Awards

Biomedical Engineering: Gohar Manzar
Generation of functional pancreatic Î²- cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells derived from a type I diabetic patient’s skin cells

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering: Jacob Mclaughlin
Lyotropic liquid crystal templated stimuli-responsive, super-absorbent copolymers

Civil and Environmental Engineering: Nick Herkert
Spatial and temporal variations of airborne polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the metropolitan Chicago area

Electrical and Computer Engineering: Myung Cho
Block iterative reweighted algorithms for super-resolution of spectrally sparse signals

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: Michael Conger
Validation of cfd-mbd fsi for high fidelity simulations of full-scale wam-v sea trials with suspended payload

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Mark Christopher
Optic nerve head shape predicts development of POAG

Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research: Negin Sobhani
Using emission tagging method to understand the source sectors and geographical regions contributions to PM2.5 concentration over the Arctic

IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering: Chad Drake
Nutrient trading in Iowa: a pilot study in the Catfish Creek Watershed
and
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering: Nicholas Thomas
Coupled surface-subsurface hydrologic modeling to assess distributed flood mitigation practices

Center for Computer-Aided Design: Jacob Kersten
Internal viscera representation within a digital human model

Iowa Institute of Biomedical Imaging: Satyananda Kashyap
Cartilage loss in osteoarthritic varus/valgus knees: automated 3D MRI analysis using data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI)

Undergraduate Best Poster Awards

Biomedical Engineering: Rae Ann Corrigan
Protein structural optimization of cancer gene wild-types and mutations

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering: Nathan Bryngelson
NOAA tall tower

Civil and Environmental Engineering: Alex Zeppieri
One-of-a-kind cork chair

Electrical and Computer Engineering: Hanbin Tao
Investigation of a broad spectrum analyzer for the real-time quantification of dissolved nitrate

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: Kasra Zarei and Zachary Behrendt
An automated approach to quantifying the C-start response in tadpoles with vestibular alterations

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Kasra Zarei
Objective quantification of flicker fusion threshold

Center for Computer-Aided Design: Robert Dunscombe
Predicting excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC)

Grand Challenges Scholars Program: Ella Wasseiler
Hardware based random number generator for the further encryption of a Linux computer

Popular Choice Award Winners

This award is granted to the favorite posters among the visitors to the Open House.

1^st place Popular Choice Award: Yin Yu, Biomedical Engineering
Engineering an augmented healing response for functional articular cartilage repair

2^nd place Popular Choice Award: Hamad Salehi, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Cognitive decline, work and technology use: exploring the relationship

3^rd place Popular Choice Award: Ninggang Shen, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Laser peen forming of sheet metal with a surface integrity analysis