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Student Research Highlighted at Bennett Conference


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eld on April 15, the Department’s annual Bennett Conference show- cased the research results of 28 MechE graduate students. Posters and presentations covered such diverse topics as biomechanics, thermal


transport, robotics, microfluidics, turbulent air flows, and propulsion. Participation in this annual event is required for M.S. Project Option students, but all MechE graduate students are invited to demonstrate their research contributions. At an evening awards ceremony, five students were recognized for outstanding achievement:


Best Presentation:


Jason Larkin, first place; Luoting Fu and Grace Heckmann, tie for second place Best Poster:


Guoming “Alex” Long and Zonghui Su, tie for first place


Following are the names of all MechE graduate students who participated in the 2011 Bennett Conference. The Department congratulates these exceptional young researchers!


Oral Presentations


• Erhan Arisoy, “Approximate Surfacing of Curve Clouds for Conceptual Shape Creation and Evaluation”


• Zachary Barker, “User-Centered, Vision-Based Robotic Motion Teaching”


• Luoting Fu, “Product Customization Based on Ergonomic Constraints and Style-Preserving Mesh Editing”


• Jiachuan He, “Generation, Control, and Optimization of Chaotic Mixing in a T Microfluidic Channel”


• Grace Heckmann, “Design Optimiza- tion Under Parametric Uncertainty of Consumer Choice Models Using the Delta Method”


• Taeyoung Kim, “Large-Eddy Simula- tion of Turbulent Flow Over a Two-Blade Horizontal Wind Turbine”


• Jason Larkin, “Predicting Thermal Conductivity of Defected Systems Using the Spectral Energy Density”


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• Jun Ma, “Cubic Hermite Model Construction for the Human Heart”


• Gunay Orbay, “Sketch-Based Rapid 3D Modeling Using Symmetric Curve Sketching and Subdivision Surface Approximation”


• Abhay Ramachandra, “The Effect of Outflow Boundary Conditions in the Hemodynamics of Human Pulmonary Arteries”


• John Singleton, “Micro-Scale Propul- sion Using Multiple Flexible Artificial Flagella”


• Kanate Thana-Anekcharoen, “An Experimental Study to Characterize the Filter Cake Formation Process in Ultra Deep Drilling Operation”


• Mehmet Yumer, “Conceptual Design of Freeform Surfaces From Unstruc- tured Point Sets Using Neural Network Regression”


Poster Presentations


• Rahul Bhat, “Design of a Low-Cost Robot for Use in High Schools”


• Vitali Brand, “Quantitative Characteriza- tion of Microswitch Degradation Caused by Hydrocarbon Formation on Micro- switch Contact Surfaces”


• Cheng-Han Chen, “Modeling for Air Breathing Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell With Liquid Water Behavior”


• Kenan Isik, “Surface Tension Driven Water Strider Robot Using Circular Footpads”


• Yiming Jing, “Dynamic Lung Modeling and Tumor Tracking Using Deformable Image Registration”


• Byungjun Kim, “Ballbot Dynamically Stable Mobile Robot With Series Elastic Arms”


• Seungjoon Lee, “Biologically Inspired and Optimized Design of Hydrofoil Kinematics for Propulsion”


• Xinghua Liang, “Hexahedral Mesh Generation Based on Rhombic Dodecahedron Tree Structure”


• Guoming “Alex” Long, “An Experi- mental Study of the Micromachinability of Green-State Aluminum-Nitride and Silicon-Carbide Ceramics”


• Jin Qian, “Manifold Dual Contouring for Domains With Topology Ambiguity”


• Mabaran Rajaraman, “Reconstructing 3D Foot Shape From Images”


• Emrecan Soylemez, “Nano-Engineered Surfaces for Pathogen Capture Imaged by Atomic Force Microscopy”


• Karthik Srinivasan, “Geometric Decom- position for Hexahedral Mesh Generation Using Medial Axis Transformation”


• Zonghui Su, “Thermal Transport in LEDs for Solid State Lighting”


• Wenyan Wang, “Converting a Quadrilateral/Hexahedral Mesh to a Gap-Free T-Spline”


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