Dr. Judith A. Todd, Engineering Science and Mechanics Department Head has announced the winners of the spring 2013 ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium. ESM Today is a showcase for the research done by the graduate students of the Engineering Science and Mechanics department.

Poster Awards
1st prizes
Daniel Ahmed, “Probing Fast Biomolecular Process Using Time-Controlled Chemical Waveforms in Microfluidic Channels”
Maryam Neshastehriz, “Self-Lubricating Ni-Encapsulated Hexagonal Boron Nitride Coatings via Cold-Spray”

2nd prizes
Changjin Huang, "Coarse-grained Modeling of Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis of Nanoparticles"
Chandra Chindam, “Acoustic Scattering from Sculptured Thin Film Elements"

Paper Awards
1st prizes
Koray Sekeroglu, “Transport of Droplets and Gels on Nano-PPX Surface”
Jason Sheldon, "A Comparison of Fluid-Structure Interaction Coupling Algorithms”

2nd prizes
Joseph Mahoney, “Optimal Strategy Selection in Shuffleboard with Penalty”
Hitesh Basantani, “Through-film Conductivity of VOx Thin Films for IR Imaging"

Congratulations!