Congratulations to all six students who won top honors for the departmental category at
Research Expo 2010.
Bioengineering
Poster title: “Real-Time Monitoring of Sustained Drug Release with Photonic Porous Silicon Particles”
Student: Elizabeth Chung Pui Wu
Faculty advisor:
Michael SailorComputer Science and Engineering
Poster title: “Energy Management in Virtualized Environments”Additional student author:
Gaurav DhimanFaculty advisor:
Tajana Simunic-RosingElectrical and Computer Engineering
Poster title: “Planar Micro-Optic Solar Concentration”
Student:
Jason Harris KarpFaculty advisor:
Joseph FordMechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Poster title: “Multifunctional Nanowire Systems for Drug Delivery”
Student: Karla Sue Brammer
Faculty advisor:
Sungho JinNanoEngineering
Poster title: “An Early Point-of-Care Shock Diagnostic: Clinically Relevant Detection of Protease Activity in Whole Blood”
Student:
Roy Brian LefkowitzFaculty advisors:
Michael Heller and
Geert Schmid-SchönbeinStructural Engineering
Poster title: “Nonlinear Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Health Monitoring of Prestressing Tendons in Post-Tensioned Concrete Structures”
Student: Claudio Nucera Faculty
Advisor:
Francesco Lanza di ScaleaScience and Engineering Library Award for Best Use of the Literature
NanoEngineering
Poster title: “An Early Point-of-Care Shock Diagnostic: Clinically Relevant Detection of Protease Activity in Whole Blood”
Student:
Roy Brian LefkowitzFaculty advisors:
Michael Heller and
Geert Schmid-SchönbeinMechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Poster title: “Solar Fuel From CO2: A Stand-Alone Off-Grid Device”
Student:
Aaron John SathrumFaculty advisor:
Clifford P. KubiakHonorable Mentions by Department (below):
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Bioengineering
Poster title: “Design and Characterization of an Injectable Pericardial Matrix Gel: A Potentially Autologous Scaffold for Cardiac Tissue Engineering”
Student:
Sonya B Seif-NaraghiFaculty:
Karen ChristmanComputer Science and Engineering
Poster title: “Localizing Objects In Images By Combining Contextual Cues”
Student:
Carolina GalleguillosFaculty:
Serge Belongie and
Gert LanckrietElectrical and Computer Engineering
Poster title: “Silicon Nanowire Phototransistors for Ultra High Responsivity Visible and Infrared Detection”
Students: Arthur Yasheng Zhang and Hongkwon Kim
Faculty:
Yu-Hwa LoMechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Poster title: “New Studies and Observations Highlighting Alternative Techniques to Mitigate Runaway Electron Effects in Tokamak Rapid Shutdowns”
Student: Alexander Nevil Tronchin-James
Faculty:
George TynanNanoEngineering
Poster title: “A Plausible Mechanism for H4-K16 Acetylation Triggered Unfolding of Chromatin”
Student: Darren Yang
Faculty:
Gaurav AryaStructural Engineering
Poster title: “Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction for Wind Energy Applications”
Student:
Ming-Chen HsuFaculty:
Yuri Bazilevs
Caption: The new solar concentrator design (right) from UC San Diego collects sunlight with thousands of small lenses imprinted on a common sheet. All these lenses couple into a flat “waveguide” which funnels light to a single photovoltaic cell. Older system designs (left) require many photovoltaic cells which each need to be aligned and electrically connected. 
