Winners

Design and Manufacturing

Brian Trease: 1st Place Oral Presentation
Title: "Design of Thermal Microactuators for Out-of-Plane Motion"
Advisor: James Allen, PhD., Sandia National Laboratories

Panayiotis Georgiopoulous: 2nd Place Oral Presentation
Title: "Enterprise-wide Product Design"
Advisor: Prof. Panos Papalambros

Felicia Brittman: 1st Place Poster Presentation
Title: "Analysis of Self-Piercing Riveting Mechanics and Process Optimization: Experimental Study"
Advisor: Prof. Jack Hu

Dynamics, Systems and Controls

Robert White: 1st Place Oral Presentation
Title: "Design and Modeling of a Cochlear-Like MicroElectroMechanical Acoustic Sensor"
Advisor: Prof. Karl Grosh

Caroline Gatti: 2nd Place Oral Presentation
Title: "Numerical Simulations of Large Deformation Cable Dynamics"
Advisor: Prof. Noel Perkins

Hakan Yilmaz: 3rd Place Oral Presentation
Title: "Internal EGR Control and Turbocharged Diesel Engine Model With Variable Valve Timing"
Advisor: Prof. Anna Stefanopoulou

Polat Sendur: 1st Place Poster Presentation
Title: Proper System Models for Design: Algorithms for Assessing Model Quality"
Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey L. Stein

Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, and Combustion

Ronald Grover: 1st Place Oral Presentation
Title: "A Spray Wall Impingement Model Based Upon Conservation Principles"
Advisor: Prof. Dennis N. Assanis

Bruno Vanzieleghem: 2nd Place Oral Presentation
Title: Combustion "Modeling for Direct Injection Gasoline Engines Using KIVA-3V"
Advisor: Prof. Dennis N. Assanis

Bin Wu: 1st Place Poster Presentation
Title: "Integrated Simulation for a Medium-Size Truck with Advanced Hybrid Hydraulic Propulsion System"
Advisor: Prof. Dennis N. Assanis

Solid Mechanics and Materials

Mahmoud Hussein: 1st Place Oral Presentation
Title: "Time Harmonic Wave Propagation in Periodic Media"
Advisors: Prof. Richard Scott & Prof. Gregory Hulbert

Kristen Mills: 2nd Place Oral Presentation
Title: "Behavior of Pressure Sensitive Adhesive Joints"
Advisor: Prof. Michael Thouless

Bradley Layton: 1st Place Poster Presentation
Title: "The Role of Collagen Morphology in Diabetic Neuropathy"
Advisor: Prof. Ann Marie Sastry