Shawn Getty, a graduate student in engineering mechanics, has won a $10,000 assistantship as part of the EcoCAR: The Next Challenge Competition. The award, an EcoCAR Engineering Graduate Research Assistantship, is provided by Argonne National Laboratories. ESM Congratulates Shawn on his accomplishment!
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The Annual ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium was held Saturday, February 12, 2011, in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department. The Symposium was open to all ESM graduate students. This year, the symposium honored Dr. Sabih Hayek, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Science and Mechanics.

The 2011 winners and their award winning presentations and posters follow below.

Innovation Award
Xiaoyun Ding, Dynamic manipulation of single or massive cells and microparticles using surface acoustic wave.

Presentations
First Place
Luke Breon, Use of Ray Techniques in Guided Wave Analysis for Beam Focusing in Arbitrary Geometries
Second Place
Abdalla Nassar, On the role of plasma in laser nitriding
Third Prize
Michael Lapsley, Optopfluidic System for Measuring Diffusion Coefficients
ESM Today debutant
Cody Borigo, Ultrasonic guided wave approach for three-dimensional elasticity vibration solutions in semi-infinite plate-like structures

Posters
First Place
Bala Krishna Juluri, Scalable and Rapid Fabrication of Large Electric Field Nanostructures
Second Place
Shahrzad Yazdi, High precision shift of chemical interface via oscillating bubble in a microfluidic system
Third Place
Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Particle pushing via Liquid Gradient Refractive Index lens
ESM Today debutant
Ye Zhu, Effect of CNT Functionalization on Mechanical and Electrical Properties of CNT Modified Epoxy

Congratulations!