Drexel
University held its Research Day 2004 on Tuesday, May 4th in the Daskalakis
Athletic Center on the
Drexel campus. Below is a list of the College of Engineering undergraduate
and graduate poster winners as well as the faculty who were awarded synergy
grants or were nominated into the 10 to the 6th Club. For a complete
list of this year’s winners, visit http://www.research.drexel.edu/rd04/winners.asp.
Undergraduate Student Awards
427 Bitten: A Taxonomy of Vampires in Literature and Media
by
Prescot Perez-Fox (Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics)
(English and Philsophy, CoAS)
Basic/Applied
Science:
Undergraduate
220 Stochastic Microgeometry for Displacement Mapping
by Craig A Schroeder, David E Breen, Christopher Cera, William C Regli
(Computer Science)
Basic/Applied
Science:
Graduate
221 Stress Crack Resistance of Corrugated High Density Polyethylene
(HDPE) Corrugated Pipes
by Jingyu Zhang, Grace Hsuan
(Civil and Architectural and Environmental Engineering)
Emerging
Technology: Graduate
Kishore K. Tenneti
380 Nanoscale hierarchical structures of a series of liquid crystalline
“rod-coil” block copolymers
by Kishore K. Tenneti, Christopher Y Li
(Materials Science and Engineering)
371 Miniaturized cantilever sensor from highly piezoelectric PMN-PT
thick films
by Hongyu Luo, Christian Martorano, Wan Y. Shih, Wei-Heng Shih
(Materials Science and Engineering)
Business Research Initiatives: Undergraduate
257 P-Zero's Supercapacitors: Powering the New Millennium
by John Chimola, Ranjan K Dash, Gleb Yushin, Varun Gupta, Prashant Singh,
Yury Gogotsi
(Materials Engineering)
CoE
Dean's Award Winners: Undergraduate
William Green with an Autonomous Aerial
Robot
354C
Flying Insect Inspired Vision for Autonomous Aerial Robot Maneuvers in
Near-Earth Environments
by Keith Sevcik, William E. Green, Paul Y. Oh
(Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics)
L to R: Hiywote T. Demisse and
Jong Hyun
384M Optical Data Network Transponder UPTO 10 GB/S
by Hiywote T. Demisse, Jong Hyun, Thomas Antrobus, Emem Ekong, Rob Higgenbotham,
Xiaobo Hou, Afshin Daryoush
(Electrical and Computer Engineering)
CoE
Dean's Award Winners: Graduate
119 Extended Fatigue Testing of High-Usage Aircraft Fuselage Structure
by Bao R. Mosinyi, Jonathan Awerbuch, Alan C. Lau, Tein-Min
Tau
(Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics)
Abubaker Ahmed
131C
Formation and Growth of Multiple-Site Fatigue Damage in Aircraft Fuselage
Lap Joints
by Abubaker Ahmed, J. Awerbuch, A. Lau, T. Tan
(Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics)
Anand Murugaiah
378 Nanoindentations in Kinking Nonlinear Elastic Solids
Anand Murugaiah, Sandip Basu, Michel W. Barsoum, Surya R. Kalidindi,
Tiejun Zhen
(Materials Science and Engineering)
203M Raman Diagnostics of LA-CR-O Thin Film as Protective Coating
for Metallic Interconnect for SOFC's
by Siddhartha Pathak, David Steinmetz, Anthony M. Coratolo, Nina Orlovskaya
(Materials Science and Engineering)
FACULTY AWARDS
Research Achievement Award
Dr. Wei-Heng
Shih, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
10 to the 6th Club Members
Dr. Michel Barsoum (MSE)
Dr. Bruce Char (CS)
Dr. Mun Young Choi (MEM)
Dr. Nily Dan (chemical)
Dr. Gary Friedman (ECE)
Dr. Yury Gogotsi (MSE)
Dr. Jeremy Johnson (CS)
Dr. Surya Kalidindi (MSE)
Dr. Moshe Kam (ECE)
Dr. Karen Miu (ECE)
Dr. Prawat Nagvajara (ECE)
Dr. Dagmar Niebur (ECE)
Dr. Chika Nwankpa (ECE)
Dr. William Regli (CS)
Dr. Harish Sethu (ECE)
SYNERGY
GRANTS
Dr. David Breen (CS)
Jonathan Nissanov (Neurobiology, DUCOM)
Contour-based Neuro-Anatomical Surface Reconstruction: Application to
Bioinformatics
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Dr.
Jaydev Desai |
Dr.
Adam Fontecchio |
Dr.
Gary Friedman |
PI - Dr. Jaydev Desai (MEM)
Co-PIs - Dr. Gary Friedman (ECE) and Dr. Adam Fontecchio (ECE)
Ari Brooks (Surgery, DUCOM)
Maximizing Transgenic Yield using Microfabrication Array and Force Feedback
for Cell Manipulation