Drexel University held its Research Day 2003 on Tuesday, April 22nd in the Daskalakis Athletic Center on the Drexel campus. Below is a list of the College of Engineering undergraduate and graduate poster winners as well as the faculty who were awarded synergy grants or were nominated into the 10 to the 6th Club. For a complete list of this year’s winners, visit http://www.research.drexel.edu/rd/winners.asp.
UNDERGRADUATE POSTER WINNERS
Challey
M. Comer
Poster 206 Title: Three-Dimensional Geologic Modeling of
Valley Creek Watershed.
Civil, Architectural and Environmental
Engineering
Challey
M. Comer
w/ Angela L. McGinty, Claire Welty
& Kenneth J. Lacovara
Rob Lass
Poster 188M
Title: The CAD Cabinet: A digital file system for
CAD
Computer Science
San
Kwak w/ Kin-Ho Kwan,
Benjamin V. Grooters, Rob Lass & Cheuk Yiu Ip
Beth E. Carroll
Poster 280 Title: Effect of Process
Parameters and Testing Environment on the Tribological
Behavior of
Carbide-Derived Carbon Films.
Materials Science and
Engineering
Beth E. Carroll w/Yury Gogosti, Andriy Kovalchenko,
Ali Erdemir, Michael McNallan
Undergraduate CoE Dean's
Award
Robert V. Lunchenta
Poster 117 Title:
Hydroxyapatite coatings for improved implant
bioactivity
Materials Science and Engineering
Robert V.
Luchenta w/ Wei-Heng Shih
Poster
264C Title: BROADBAND DIGITAL RECEIVER FOR ISM
BANDS
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ryan Spring w/
Liming Zhou, Michael Tran, Mitesh Patel, Greg Stzalka, Gabriel
Lee, Donald Lafrance & Nathaniel
Curtis
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
List
Poster Numbers 284M,
62M, 132C
GRADUATE POSTER WINNERS
Milan Ivosevic (left) presenting to a
judge
Poster 275 Title: Development of Thermally Sprayed
Functionally Graded Polymer/Ceramic Coatings.
Materials Engineering Emerging
Technology
Milan Ivosevic
w/ Richard Knight, Surya R.
Kalidindi, Giuseppe R. Palmese & James
Sutter
Hoa
L.
Lam (middle) speaking to
judges
Poster 331
Title: Super Carbon Fiber by Electrospinning of
Nanocomposite Nanofibers
Materials Engineering
Hoa
L.
Lam w/ Nick L. Titchenal, Nevin N.
Naguib, Haihui Ye, Frank K. Ko & Yury Gogotsi
Poster 125
Title: Interaction of Apolipoprotein A-I with
Lecithin-Cholesterol Vesicles in Model Bile
Chemical
Engineering
Manasa V. Gudheti w/ Steven P. Wrenn
Poster 345
Title: TORNADO DISCHARGES – “THE GLIDING ARC IN
TORNADO”
Mechanical
Engineering and Mechanics
Chiranjeev
S.
Kalra
Abubaker
A. Ahmed
Poster 63 Title: Aviation Safety:
Behavior of Multiple-Site Fatigue Damage in a Narrow-Body Aircraft
Fuselage Lap Joint Curved Panel. Mechanical Engineering and
Mechanics
Abubaker A. Ahmed w/ J. Awerbuch, A. Lau & T.
Tan
Graduate CoE Dean's Award
Lit-Hsin Loo
Poster 78M Title:
Classification of SELDI-ToF Mass Spectra of Ovarian Cancer Serum
Samples
Using a Proteomic Pattern Recognizer
Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Lit-Hsin
Loo w/
John Quinn, Leonid Hrebien & Moshe
Kam
Chris D. Cera and Aparna
Nanjappa
Poster 393CM Title: The DUPLEX
Project
Computer Science
Aparna
Nanjappa w/ Chris D. Cera,
Bruce W. Char, Robert N. Lass, Jeffrey L. Popyack, Paul Zoski &
Nira Herrmann
Graduate Honorable Mention
List
Poster Numbers 282,
291, 246, 297M, 313M, 283, 326, 205, 323M, 116M, 340, 259M, 184M, 185,
292, 330M, 256, 276C, 316, 180M
FACULTY
AWARDS
2003 Faculty Research Acheivement
Awardee
Dr. Surya Kalidindi,
Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
10 to the 6th Club
Members
YURY
GOGOTSI, JEREMY JOHNSON, MOSHE KAM, FRANK KO, RAJ MUTHARASAN, CHIKA
NWANKPA, GIUSEPPE PALMESE, MUN YOUNG CHOI, STEWART PERSONICK, WILLIAM
REGLI, WAN SHIH, WEI-HENG SHIH, PETER HERCZFELD, WARREN
ROSEN
SYNERGY GRANTS
Dr. Gary Friedman (ECE)
DECONTAMINATION OF LARGE FLOWING
VOLUME OF AIR BY PLASMA DISCHARGE:
GARY FRIEDMAN
(ECE) and YOUNG KIM (DREXEL MED)
Dr. Anthony Lowman (ChemE)
ENGINEERING A MULTIFUNCTIONAL SCAFFOLD FOR
SUSTAINED DELIVERY OF MULTIPLE THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS INTO CENTRAL NERVOUS
SYSTEM
ANTHONY LOWMAN (ChemE)
and AJAY BHAKSHI (DREXEL MED)