Student News Bennett Conference Showcases Student Research T


wenty-eight MechE graduate students presented their research to fellow students, faculty, alumni, and a panel of judges at the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s annual Bennett Conference on April 16. Held in Scaife Hall, the Conference included 14 oral presentations and 14


poster presentations covering diverse topics across nanotechnology, environmen- tal engineering, bioengineering, robotics, fluids, and other areas. While participation in the Bennett Conference is required for M.S. Project


Option students, all MechE graduate students are eligible to showcase their research work and contributions to the field. Following the morning presentations and catered lunch, the judges determined


the overall best presentations and best posters. In the “Best Presentation” category, Jinmo Lee won first place, while YongTae


(Tony) Kim was awarded second place. For “Best Poster,” Chandrajit Thaokar received first place, while Nick Seifert won second place. The following list includes all students who participated in the 2010 Bennett


Conference. Oral Presentations


• Sourav Chatterjee “Ordering and Dynamics of Liquid Crystal Defect Textures in Couette Flow”


• Kamol Chuengsatiansup “WaalE: Wheeled Climbing Robot Using Bio-Inspired Fibrillar Adhesives”


• Sid Harza “An In-Situ On-Chip High-Throughput MEMS Tensile Tester for Polysilicon”


• Kacy Hess “In-Situ Measurements of Through-Plane Distribution in Porous Electrodes”


• YongTae Kim “Closed-Loop Microfluidic Control for Probing Multicellular Dynamics”


• Fevzi Kivanc “Pumping With Electroosmosis of the 2nd Kind in Mesoporous Skeletons”


• Jinmo Lee “Computational Methodology for Integrated CDF-CSD Simulations of Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems”


• Minyoung Lee “Role of Sub-Surface Oxygen in Cu(100) Oxidation”


• Varun Narayan “Optimum Design of Microchannel Systems for the Cooling of Electronics”


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• Sarah Neyer “The Effect of Crystalline Anisotropy on CMP Material Removal Through Nanoscratch Testing”


• Jung Park “Ergonomic Endotracheal Intubation Device With Foul-Resisting Camera”


• Mohamad Saleh “Mathematical Modeling of Dehydroge- nation Micro-Reactors for Vehicles Using Liquid Carrier of Hydrogen Fuel”


• Emrecan Soylemez “Maintaining Consistent Melt Pool Size Over a Wide Range of Material Deposi- tion Rates in Electronic Beam Additive Manufacturing”


• Vinay Tharigopula “Computer Vision Based Human Facial Feature Extraction for Customized Spectacles”


Posters


• Billy Epting “A Micro-Structured Electrode Scaffold for In-Situ Measurements of Through- Plane Distributions in Porous Electrodes”


• Tae Young Kim “Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind Turbine Aerodynamics”


• Seungjoon Lee “Computational Design of Biologically Inspired Dynamic Airfoils”


• Xinghua Liang “Hexagon-Based All-Quadrilateral Mesh Generation With Guaranteed Quality”


• Hsiang-Chun Lu “Write Anywhere: A Portable Input Device to Reconstruct Strokes From Pen Movements”


• Prahlad Menon “Temperature Field Reconstruction From Implantable Sensors With Application to Cyrosurgery”


• Jin Qian “Automatic and Robust All-Hexadedral Mesh Generation for CAD Models With Sharp Feature Preservation”


• Nick Seifert “Voltage Instabilities Due to Two-Phase Flow in PEMFC Parallel-Channel Cathodes”


• Prashin Sharma “Optimizing Path for Kinematically Redundant Robotic Inspection System Using Obstacle Based Probabilistic Roadmap and Genetic Algorithm”


• Adam Sifounakis “Towards Uncertainty-Quantified Large- Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows”


• Pearce Stanek-Johnson “Teaching Highly Constrained Tasks With Robotic Motion Guidance”


• Chandrajit Thaokar “Stress Analysis of Vitrified DMSO Solution With Application to Cyropreservation”


• Wenyan Wang “Solid T-Spline Construction for Isogeometric Analysis”


• Iryna Zenyuk “The Effect of Electric Double Layers on Ionic Conductivity in the Agglomerates of PEM Fuel Cell Anodes”•


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