2022 MMAE Student Research Competition and Departmental Awards
The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology held its annual student research poster competition and awards ceremony on April 8, 2022.
The MMAE Student Research Poster Competition is a long-standing tradition of the department, drawing keen interest and wide participation among students, faculty, and the Illinois Tech community.
This year, 20 MMAE students, representing all degree levels, presented posters displaying the research work that they have completed. The participants were evaluated for the originality and relevance of the research as well as overall presentation skills. Separate panels judged the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate students’ posters.
The judges included members from the MMAE External Advisory Board plus representatives from academia and industry. The department awarded a certificate and monetary prize to top-scoring presenters from each academic level.
Additional departmental awards were presented to faculty and students to recognize their outstanding contributions to research and teaching.
The MMAE 2022 distinguished alumnus, Lewis Thigpen (M.S. MECH ’67, Ph.D. ’70), professor emeritus at Howard University, delivered a lecture, “Overcoming Challenges for Success in a Changing World.”
Congratulations to the following winners:
B.S. CATEGORY:
First Place—Rosemary Johnson (AE, M.Eng. MAE 4th Year) advised by Professor David Williams—“Electric Powered Testing of Highly Swept Tailless Aircraft with Spatially Distributed Pressure Sensors”
M.S./M.Eng. CATEGORY:
First Place—Melody Honardan Delpazir (M.S. MSE) advised by Assistant Professor Amir Mostafaei—“Effect of Different Post Heat-Treatment on Microstructure and Electrochemical Behavior of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Hydride-Dehydride Ti-6Al-4V Alloy”
Ph.D. CATEGORY:
First Place—King Longdon Ankobea-Ansah (Ph.D. MAE Candidate) advised by Associate Professor Carrie Hall—“A Hybrid Physics-Based and Stochastic Neural Network Modeling of Diesel Engine Combustion”
Second Place—Sahil Ahmed (Ph.D. MAE Candidate) advised by Professor Boris Pervan—“GNSS Spoofing Detection Based on Decomposition of the Complex Cross Ambiguity Function”
Third Place—Mohammadreza Asherloo (Ph.D. MSE Student) advised by Assistant Professor Amir Mostafaei—“Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Cost-Efficient Non-spherical Hydride Dehydride (HDH) Ti-6Al-4V Powder: Process Optimization, Microstructural Evolution, and Fatigue Properties”
DEPARTMENTAL STUDENT AWARDS:
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award—Runzi Cui (M.Eng. ME ’18, Ph.D. MSE Candidate)
Outstanding Research Assistant Award—Aurora Lopez Rubio (M.Eng. MAE ’19, Ph.D. MAE Candidate)
DEPARTMENTAL FACULTY AWARDS:
2022 MMAE Excellence in Teaching Award—Assistant Professor Baisravan HomChaudhuri
2022 MMAE Excellence in Research Award—Professor Boris Pervan
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD:
2022 MMAE Distinguished Alumni Award—Lewis Thigpen
Image: 2022 MMAE Student Research Competition and Departmental Awards attendees
