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Winners of the 2012 Research Showcase

1st Place – Courtney Ober, Chemical Engineering, Design and Development of an Itraconazole Cocrystal with Enhanced Dissolution

2nd Place – Hamed Ghaednia, Mechanical Engineering, Analytical and Experimental Investigation of Nanoparticle Lubricants

3rd Place – Robert H. Herring III, Chemical Engineering, Computer-Aided Molecular Design with Topological and Topographical Descriptors

Honorable Mention – Rachel Ottaway, Aerospace Engineering, Modeling Vortex Interaction with the Discontinuous Galerkin Method

Honorable Mention – Shyamsundar Ayalur, Biosystems Engineering, Conversion of CO2 in Biomass Synthesis Gas for H2 and CO using CH4

Honorable Mention – Petra Kerscher, Chemical Engineering, Engineering a 3D Model of the Developing Heart for In Vitro Drug Testing

Honorable Mention – Shantanu Pradhan, Chemical Engineering, Recreating Breast Cancer Tissue on a Lab Bench Scale for Drug-testing Applications

Honorable Mention – David Roe, Chemical Engineering, Production of Middle Distillate Fuels via Supercritical-Phase Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis with Associated Upgrading Reactions

Honorable Mention – Pranav S. Vengsarkar, Chemical Engineering, Influence of Solvent/Ligand Steric Effects on CO2 Induced Nanoparticle Precipitation and Size-Selective Fractionation

Honorable Mention – Fang Yin, Civil Engineering, Fate of Deep Water Horizon Submerged Oil and Related Fingerprint Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Triple Quadrupole Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) Technology

Honorable Mention – Mobbassar Hassan Sk, Materials Engineering, Effects of Prior Austenitic Grain Size and Martensitic Hardness on Hydrogen Embrittlement of 4340 steel

Honorable Mention – Kailash C. Jajam, Mechanical Engineering, Is Nano Always Better? Static vs. Dynamic Fracture Behavior of Nanocomposites

Honorable Mention – Kewai Patel, Mechanical Engineering, Modeling and Reliability Characterization of Area-Array Electronics Subjected to High-G Mechanical Shock Up to 50,000G

Aerospace Engineering Departmental Award – Brian Davis, Design and Construction of a Supersonic Wind Tunnel Facility for Cavity Flow Acoustics

Biosystems Engineering Departmental Award – Vaishnavi Srinivasan, Catalytic Pyrolosis of Torrefied Biomass for Hydrocarbons Production

Chemical Engineering Departmental Award – Rui Xu, Investigation of Supercritical Fluids as Reaction Media for Higher Alcohol Synthesis over a Cu-Co-Zn Catalyst

Civil Engineering Departmental Award – Yanyan Gong, Unusual Effects of Oil Dispersants on Sediment Retention and Environmental Fate of Toxic Oil Components in the Alabama Gulf Coast Ecosystems

Computer Science and Software Engineering Departmental Award – Candice Harris Adams, User Research of an Educational Web-Based Learning Environment: Preliminary Findings and Experiences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Award – Gopalakrishnan Iyer, Wireless Mesh Routing in Smart Utility Networks

Industrial and Systems Engineering Departmental Award – Michael Porter, Quantifying the Benefits of an Ergonomic Influence on Hand-Tool Design

Materials Engineering Departmental Award – MariAnne Sullivan, Toughening Mechanisms of Nacre in Abalone Shells

Mechanical Engineering Departmental Award – Jing Zou, Influence of Grain Orientation on the Mechanical Response of Lead-Free Solder Joints

Polymer and Fiber Engineering Departmental Award – David Branscomb, Engineering Design and Rapid Development of Lightweight Fibrous Structures

Last Updated: May 8, 2012