The Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing presented its 2020 Student Research Symposium VIRTUALLY, with the Awards Ceremony taking place on Monday, April 27th at 3:00p.m. via WebEx.
Ninety-nine of the original 130 presentations were able to participate in the virtual Symposium. Dr. Andres Carrano, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, worked with Populy, makers of the mobile app RocketJudge, to allow the College to upload not only pdfs of each poster, but also an optional 3-minute video of students explaining their work. Half of the researchers were able to use this option.
Over 50 judges from the College’s industry and business partners, and as many faculty, used RocketJudge to review the presentations — each poster was viewed an average of eight times. The winners are listed in the table below. Congratulations to all participants.
“I am extremely proud of each and every student researcher for stepping up in these extraordinary circumstances and going above and beyond to submit their research projects, and for helping us think outside the box in terms of what a research symposium can be,” said Dean Mohammad Davoud.
| Sponsor & Award | Prize | Dept. | Recipients | |
| Georgia Power Innovation Awards | 1st | MechE | Amanda Maner Parth Patel |
Low-cost Hydrogen Production through Water-Gas Reaction |
| 2nd | ECE | Shuva Das | Smart Distributed Generation System Event Classification using RNN-based LSTM | |
| 3rd | MechE | Levi McKinney James O’Hara Matthew Musial |
Thermoelectric Power Generation Utilizing the Seebeck Effect for Aerospace Applications | |
| Georgia Centers of Innovation Top Eagle Awards Graduate |
1st | MfgE | Mohammad Fuad Hassan | Innovative Seal Concepts for Aircraft Engines |
| 2nd | MechE | Md Hafizur Rahman | Thermo-catalytic Conversion of Waste Plastics into Transportation Fuel | |
| 3rd | MechE | David Mothershed | Wing Tip Collision Detection for Aircraft Ground Navigation Based on Multi-layered Safety Envelope and LiDAR Sensing | |
| Georgia Centers of Innovation Top Eagle Awards Undergraduate |
1st | MfgE | Michael Carlino David Mack Momena Monwar Micah Harris |
Piezoelectric Polyvinylidene Fluoride Nanofibers and their Possible Applications for Sensors and Energy Harvesting |
| 2nd | MechE | Richard Smith Cesar Carapia Amanda Weaver |
Novel Combustion Characteristics of Fischer Tropsch Synthetic Blends in a Diesel Engine | |
| 3rd | MechE | Camille Phillips Drake Grall Cesar Carapia |
An Investigative Study of Aero-Gas Turbine Combustion and Emissions with a Comparison to Simulated Combustion Analysis | |
| Civil Engineering & Construction Sky High Awards of Excellence |
1st | CEC | Garrett Brogdon Johnathan Link Oluwanifemi Bolu Rondai Jerido Marcus Elton Shyon Scott Nykolas Collins Warren Wilson Zachary Morgan |
2019-2020 ASCE Student Concrete Canoe Competition |
| 2nd | CEC | Stephanie Gomez Charles Crowner Gabriela Funes Kenneth Edouazin Garret Brogdon |
Behavior of a 3-Sided MSE Wall Model with Surcharge | |
| 3rd | CEC | Sudeep Pangeni | Case-based Study for Construction Activity Hazard Identification and Minimization using Virtual BIM, Augmented or Mixed Reality Tools | |
| Gulfstream – Best Research in IT | N/A | IT | Kevin Davoud | Neural Networks for Predicting Sepsis in an Emergency Department |
| Gulfstream – Best Female Researcher | N/A | MfgE | Alicia McCray | Experimental Study of Linear Artificial Muscle for Knee Rehabilitation Prototype |
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Last updated: 4/29/2020
