The Graduate Engineering Council presented the third annual Graduate And Industry Networking (GAIN) conference at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center. There were six winners of poster and presentation awards from the UT College of Engineering.
Among the oral presentations, Paul Griesemer, Hao Ju and Daniel Carr were honored with Presentation Awards.
Dr. Paul Griesmer, an aerospace engineering graduate student and affiliate of the Ocampo group, won Grand Prize for his presentation entitled "Targeting Low Energy Trajectories Using Periodic Orbits." Sponsored by Total EP USA, the presentation dealt with finding more fuel-efficient trajectories for spacecraft traveling from the Earth to the Moon.
Hao Ju (Freeman group, chemical engineering), won the “ExxonMobil Corporation Presentation Award” in the category of Energy/Environment/Transport Processes/Engineering Design & Management. His presentation is “Novel polymeric materials with high oil/water fouling resistance: synthesis, characterization and application”, focusing on compounds produced during water purification.
Daniel Carr (Peppas group, chemical engineering) was honored with the “Best Paper Award” in the Materials Science/Nano, Micro, Bio and MEMS Division. His presentation is titled "Molecular Analysis of Interpolymer Complexing Hydrogels Based on Poly (Methacrylic Acid) and N-Vinyl Pyrrolidone as Carriers for Protein Delivery.”
Among the posters presented, Amber Doiron, Puneet Agarwal and Sripriya Ponnapalli were recognized with Poster Awards. A total of $1600 was awarded in GAIN 2007.
Sri Priya Ponnapalli (Alter group, electrical and computer engineering) won the best poster award in the "computation and simulation/signal processing/system control" category for her work on developing a higher-order generalized singular value decomposition that allows the comparison of multiple large-scale datasets.
Puneet Agarwal (Manuel group, civil, architectural and environmental engineering) won the KLA-Tencor Corporation Poster Award for an Outstanding Poster in the category of Energy/Environment/Transport Process/Engineering Design and Management for her poster entitled “Design Loads for an Offshore Wind Turbine using Field Data”.
Amber Doiron (Brannon-Peppas group, biomedical engineering) presented a poster entitled "Polymeric Microparticles for the Imaging of Atherosclerotic Plaques" that won two awards - GAIN Marathon Oil Company Poster Award for outstanding poster in the category of Materials Science/Nano, Micro, Bio & MEMS Engineering and also the Cisco Systems, Inc. and the Poster Award for an Outstanding Poster, an overall poster award.
GAIN is a conference hosted by students to promote graduate research and to offer networking opportunities. One hundred graduate students participated in this year’s conference from all engineering departments.
