The 2024 Research Open House was held on April 25, 2024. Recognition categories are as follows:
- One Graduate Student Poster Award in each of the six departments
- One Undergraduate Student Poster Award in each of the six departments
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place People's Choice Awards
Departmental Awards
Biomedical Engineering
Graduate students (three-way tie):
- Daniel Meggo, Strategies for lung-protective ventilation learned from alveolar recruitment dynamics
- Erattakulangara Subin, Towards quantitative characterization of airway collapse in obstructive sleep apnea
- Mihiret Redi, Building diverse pathophysiology into patient-ventilator computational modeling: Predicting performance in any scenario
Undergraduate student: Jatin Dhamrait
Association of airway geometry with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Graduate student: Luis Jessen
Enhancing mechanical properties and lowering polymerization shrinkage in densely crosslinked photopolymer networks using small-molecular weight hyperbranched oligomer additives
Undergraduate student: Josiah Power
Thermal susceptibility of polymicrobial biofilms of staphylococcus aureus and pseudomonas aeruginosa
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate student: Bryanna Popejoy
Effect of metals on goethite and ferrihydrite redox potentials
Undergraduate student: Anthony Lamoreux
Monitoring the Manning’s n coefficient variation over the yearly cycle
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate student: Kaleb McClenathan
Quantum design simulations for high performance thermophotovoltaic cells - An iterated local search algorithm approach
Undergraduate student: Robert Schwan
Soft tissue ablation via mid-infrared lasers for surgical applications
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Graduate student: Arnold Bangel III
Recycled paper feedstock for composite-based additive manufacturing
Undergraduate student: No entries.
Mechanical Engineering
Graduate student: Jake Herrin
Atomistics-consistent continuum models and pore-collapse generated hotspot temperatures in energetic crystals II: 1,3,5-Trinitro-1,3,5-triazinane (RDX)
Undergraduate student: Anika Gokhale
A comparative analysis of waste cooking oil biodiesel and diesel emissions
People's Choice Awards
First place
Winter Philibert: Utilizing differential dynamic microscopy for mucus rheology and metachronal wave scale measurement in airway cultures
Second place
Ashley Rhodes: Novel drug delivery system to streamline the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
Third place
Joshua Carrizales: Deep learning artifact correction in 4DCT scans