The Fourth Annual ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium was held Saturday, February 9, 2008, in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department. The Symposium is open to all ESM graduate students. This year a record 19 students made presentations.

The names of the 2008 winners and the titles of their award winning presentations and posters follow below.

Grand Prize
Jinjie Shi, Surface Acoustic Wave, $1,000

Innovation Award
Xiaole Mao, Opto-Fluidic Hybrid system for Miniaturized Flow cytometry: focusing of Cells and Light on Microscale, $1,000

Presentations
First Place
Yuebing Zheng, Artificial Molecular Machine-Based Active Plasmonics, $500
Second Place
Brian Borawski, Design of Multilayer Erosion Resistant Coatings, $300
Third Prize
Padma Puthillath, Ultrasonic Guided Waves for the Inspection of Adhesively Bonded Joints, $200

Posters
First Place
Sean Pursel, Characterization of Vapor Deposited Magnesium Alloys for Bio Absorbable and Hydrogen Storage Materials, $500
Second Place
Nick Chernyy, Multi-taper Spectral Analysis of Stimulation Artifact and Epileptiform Seizure Entrainment Data, $300
Third Place
Nuno Dias, Brian-computer Interface, $200