The Annual ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium was held Saturday, February 13, 2010, in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department. The Symposium was open to all ESM graduate students. This year, the symposium honored Dr. Nicholas J. Salamon, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Science and Mechanics. The topic of his presentation, “Engineers! Civilization And? Wilderness,” described the responsibilities of engineers to develop sustainable technologies that will preserve our environment, heritage and culture.

The 2010 winners and their award winning presentations and posters follow below.

Grand Prize
Drew Pulsifer, Improved Coatings On Non-Planar Biotemplates By A Modified Conformal-Evaporated-Film-By-Rotation Technique , $1,000

Innovation Award
Xiaole Mao Ph.D. candidate in BioEngineering, A Massive-Producible, High-Throughput, Multi-Parametric Microfluidic Flow Cytometry Chip For Point-Of-Care Clinical Diagnosis, $1,000

Presentations
First Place
Nicholas Chernyy, Stimulus Artifact Subtraction for Neural Interfaces, $500
Second Place
Hongyan Yuan, An Efficient One-Particle-Thick Fluid Membrane Model, $300
Third Prize
Lai Wei, Thickness-Controlled Hydrophobicity Of Fibrous Parylene-C Films, $200
Ahmad Nawaz, Electrical Characterization of Gallium Nitride Nanowires, $200

Posters
First Place
Abdalla Nassar, Numerical Model of a Laser-Sustained Argon-Plasma, $500
Second Place
Michael Lapsley, On-Chip Optofluidic Interfermometer for Highly Sensitive Refractometry, $300
Third Place
Daniel Ahmad, Oscillatory Microfluidic gradient Generator via Oscillating Bubbles, $200
Mengqian Lu, Optically Tunable Devices by Integrating Liquid Crystal in Photonic Crystal Structure, $200