Armour College Students Among Winners of 2014 IIT Research Day Poster Competition

IIT Research Day was held on Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Students from various academic departments displayed their work at the student poster competition in the McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC) Ballroom. The poster competition winners are listed below. Armour College of Engineering students were very successful, claiming four of the six awards presented that day. Armour College students are highlighted in red.

Undergraduate Winners
1st place - Cecillie Tassone (BME): Non-Invasive Screening of Tumor Suppressor BaxΔ2

2nd place – Haocheng Bian (AM): Numerical Methods for the Solution of the Hilbert-Schmidt Integral Eigenvalue Problem

3rd place – Eda Gjergo (AM): Comparison of Supernovae Data Sets with Modified Gravity and Dark Energy Models Alternatives to Vacuum Energy

Graduate Winners
1st place - David Nieto Simavilla (ChBE): Investigation of Anisotropic Thermal Transport in Polymers using Infrared Thermography

2nd place - Xiao Huang (ECE): Caching Data for Faster Wireless Connections

3rd place - Martin Detrois (MMAE): Grain Boundary Engineering of Powder Processed Ni-base Superalloy RR1000