Prizes Awarded for GRAD 2011

The Poster Symposium

The 1st Place students in each category receive $500 to be used toward furthering their research.

Each of the following students have earned this award for GRAD 2011:

Business and Social Science Division  

1st Place

Michael A. Sao Pedro, Ph.D., Learning Science and Technology, "Assessing and Predicting Systematic Inquiry Skills within an Intelligent Tutoring System for Middle School Science," advised by Janice D. Gobert, coauthored by Ryan S. Baker and Orlando Montalvo

Engineering Division 

1st Place

Ahsan Munir, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, “A Time-Dependent Magnetic Nanoparticle Enhanced Actuation Strategy For Mixing And Tagging Biomolecules In A Point-Of-Care Microfluidic Lab-On-Chip System," advised by Susan Zhou

 

1st Place

Reyyan Koc, Ph.D, Chemical Engineering, "Economic Assessment of Inherently Safe Membrane Reactor Technology Options Integrated Into IGCC Power Plants," advised by Yi Ma and Nikolaos Kazantzis.

Life Sciences & Bioengineering Division  

1st Place

Denis Kole, PhD, Biology & Biotechnology, "Effects of FGF2 on Chromatin Remodeling and Stem Cell Gene Activation in Human Dermal Fibroblasts," advised by Tanja Dominko, co-authored by Sakthikumar Ambady and Raymond Page  

Science Division  

1st Place

Zach A. Pardos, Ph.D., Computer Science, "Using HMMs and Bagged Decision Trees to Leverage Rich Features of User and Skill from an Intelligent Tutoring System Dataset," advised by Neil Heffernan

 

The Innovation Presentation Competition

The top 3 students receive $500 each, to be used toward furthering their research.  

Each of the following students have earned this award for GRAD 2011:

1st Place

Shanthi Vasudevan, Master, Biomedical Engineering, "Simultaneous Measurement of SpCO and SpO2 Using Pulse Oximetry," advised by Yitzhak Mendelson.

2nd Place

Michael A. Sao Pedro, Ph.D., Learning Science and Technology, "Assessing and Predicting Systematic Inquiry Skills within an Intelligent Tutoring System for Middle School Science," advised by Janice D. Gobert, coauthored by Ryan S. Baker and Orlando Montalvo.

3rd Place

Cecilia Borgonovo, Master, Mechanical Engineering, "A Novel Method for Manufacturing Aluminum-Aluminum Nitride Nanocomposites," advised by Makhlouf Makhlouf 

 

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