School Celebrates Undergraduate Research



Students from the Volgenau School of Engineering showcased a wide variety of research, design, and scholarly work at the third annual Undergraduate Research Celebration on April 18, 2016. 

 

Winning students received cash prizes for the most outstanding projects. Representatives from local industries evaluated the poster presentations and the winning entries received cash prizes. There was also a special "People's Choice Award" voted on by all attendees, and the winner also received a cash prize.

 

Presenters of winning projects may participate in the university's 2016 Celebration of Student Scholarship on May 4 from 12 – 3 pm in the Center for the Arts Lobby, and their work will be displayed in the Engineering Building.

 

The awards and winners from Monday's event were as follows:

 

Keynote Speaker Awards

Jared Keller

UAVs: An Alternative Bridge Inspection Method

 

Alex Nixon, Mike Mezher, Manmohan Singh, Rahib Zaman, Justin Fitzgerald

Development of a portable, lightweight and low cost sit to stand assistive device

 

People's Choice Award

Wallace Geiger, Ryan Cerny, Daniil Rohov, Thanh Vo

STAC Box (School Teacher Access Controlled Box)

 

Dean's Advisory Board Presenters

Katrina Colucci Chang, Caitlin Johnson, Zaineb Nawaz, Elizabeth Tarbox

Ultrasound Time Delay Spectrometry Circuit Design for Use in Prosthetic Movement Control

 

Colin Ward

RoboCup grass traversing algorithm

 

Outstanding Project Award

Katrina Colucci Chang, Caitlin Johnson, Zaineb Nawaz, Elizabeth Tarbox

Ultrasound Time Delay Spectrometry Circuit Design for Use in Prosthetic Movement Control

 

Colin Ward

RoboCup grass traversing algorithm

 

Kunal Sarkhel

Use of Probabilistic Topic Modeling to Determine how well University Curricula matches Industry Needs

 

Jared Keller

UAVs: An Alternative Bridge Inspection Method

 

Ananya Dhawan

Ultrasound Based Hand Gesture Recognition for Real-Time control of Computing Interfaces

 

Lydia Shirey, Joel Shirey, Thao Tran, Mahsa Layazali, Brendan Wiggins

Designing a Safer and Concussion-Resistant Football Helmet