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”.

2010 Winners

Presentation Competition

  • First Place: Nicholas Chernyy
  • Second Place: Hongyan Yuan
  • Third Place: Ahmad Nawaz
  • Third Place: Lai Wei

Poster Competition

  • First Place: Abdalla Nassar
  • Second Place: Michael Lapsley
  • Third Place: Daniel Ahmad
  • Third Place: Mengqian Lu

Other Competitions

  • Grand Prize: Drew Pulsifer
  • Innovation Award: Xiaole Mao

2009 Winners

Paper Competition

  • Grand Prize: Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani
  • First Place: Sean Pursel
  • Second Place: Sz-Chin Steven Lin
  • Third Place: Michael Lapsley
  • Honorable Mention: Yina Wei
  • Honorable Mention: Nick Chernyy
  • Honorable Mention: Jaya Koduru
  • Honorable Mention: Vivek Verma

Poster Competition

  • Grand Prize: Daniel Ahmed
  • First Place: Xu Huang
  • Second Place: Jinjie Shi
  • Third Place: Hongyan Yuan
  • Honorable Mention: Yue Bing Zheng
  • Honorable Mention: Changjin Huang
  • Honorable Mention: Dana Andre

2008 Winners

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

Other Competitions

  • Grand Prize: Jinjie Shi
  • Innovation Award: Xialoe Mao

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

  • 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