ESM Today

A Graduate Research Symposium

Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) hosts an annual graduate research symposium called ESM Today. The symposium is open to all graduate students in the department to present their work to peers and colleagues, exchange ideas across the various research disciplines, and to hone their presentation skills. Presenters are required to explain their work in a way that is accessible to engineers and scientists who are not specialists in the presenter’s discipline. The symposium is organized by the ESM Graduate Student Council. Prizes are awarded for the categories of “best paper” and “best poster”.

2008 Winners

Other Competitions

Grand Prize: Jinjie Shi
Innovation Award: Xialoe Mao

Presentation Competition

First Place: Yuebing Zheng
Second Place: Brian Borawski
Third Place: Padma Puthillath

Poster Competition

First Place: Sean Pursel
Second Place: Nick Chernyy
Third Place: Nuno Dias

2007 Winners

Paper Competition

First Place: Jonathan Pitt
First Place: Yun Zhu
Third Place: Luke Breon

Poster Competition

First Place: Matt Kropf
Second Place: Nick Chernyy
Second Place: Guneet Sethi

2006 Winners

Paper Competition

First Place: Ying Shan
Second Place: Matt Kelly
Third Place: Michael Pedrick

Poster Competition

First Place: Eric Hauck
Second Place: Jing Mu
Third Place: Lance Haney

2005 Winners

Paper Competition

First Place: Morgan Dautrich
Second Place: Paul Sunal
Third Place: Pedro Andia and Joe Geddes

Poster Competition

First Place: Eric Hauck
Second Place: Vivek Verma
Third Place: Michael Pedrick