Research Open House 2022

Popular Choice Awards

1^st Place:
Michal Brzus (PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Post-Stroke Lesion Segmentation on Multi-Modal Clinical Data

2^nd Place:
Carley Stewart (PhD, Biomedical Engineering)
Measuring Mucociliary Transport in Cystic Fibrosis Porcine Airways

3^rd Place:
Noah Sinclair (BS, Biomedical Engineering)
Fibroblast to Myofibroblast Conversion in Preadipocyte and Adipocyte Conditioned Medium

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

Biomedical Engineering winners
Student Level	Student Name(s) and Poster Title(s)
Undergraduate	Jatin Dhamrait (BS) Association of Airway Geometry with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder
Graduate	Three-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 and Computational Biology
Student level	Student name(s) and Poster title(s)
Undergraduate	N/A
Graduate	Sean Ryan (MS), Chibuzo Nwakama (MS) AudioGene 9: An Ensemble Approach for Predicting Genotype From Hearing Loss Phenotype

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering winners
Student level	Student Name(s) and Poster title(s)
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 and Environmental Engineering Winners
Student level	Student name(s) and poster title(s)
Undergraduate	N/A
Graduate	Christopher Brunet (PhD) Emissions of Volatile Methyl Siloxanes From New York City

Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research Winners
Student level	Student Name(s) and Poster title(s)
Undergraduate	N/A
Graduate	Megan Christiansen (PhD), Dagen Hughes (PhD) Atmospheric aerosols at a rural coastal site during The Lake Michigan Ozone Study (LMOS 2017)

Creative Kick-Start Winners
Student level	Student name(s) and Poster title(s)
Undergraduate	Garret Caltrider (BS), Jordan Ewald (BS), Tiffany Tran (BS), 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 and Computer engineering Winners
Student level	Student name(s) and poster title(s)
Undergraduate	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)
Graduate	Bernice Kubicek (PhD) Active Sonar Classification using Canonical Correlation Analysis and Neural Networks

Iowa Institute for biomedical Imaging Winners
Student level	Student name(s) and poster title(s)
Undergraduate	N/A
Graduate	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 and engineering winners
Student level	Student name(s) and Poster title(s)
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 and Systems Engineering Winners
Student level	Student name(s) and poster title(s)
Undergraduate	N/A
Graduate	Bill Bangel (PhD) Recycled Paper-Sheet Feedstock for Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing

Iowa Technology Institute Winners
Student level	Student name(s) and Poster title(s)
Undergraduate	Prabhav Bhatt (BS) Study of Interfacial Strength of 3D-Printed Bi-continuous Piezoelectric Composites
Graduate	Marco Nino (PhD), Abdulsattar Al Saedi (PhD) Towards a novel electrodilution catheter for measuring physiological fluid flow rates in the body

Mechanical Engineering Winners
Student level	Student name(s) and Poster Title(s)
Undergraduate	Tatum Johnson (BS) Marine Biofilm Removal via Cephalopod-Inspired Smart Skin
Graduate	Samantha Bell (PhD), Bill Bangel (PhD) Automated Manufacturing Process for Carbon Fiber Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles (TCAMs)