The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering 27th Annual Research Expo was held Thursday, February 21, 2008. More than 240 students presented their research results in our poster session and you can now view their abstracts online.

In addition to technical breakouts led by Jacobs School faculty, the event featured a keynote address by Northrop Grumman's Dwight Streit. View his pdf slides online.

Many thanks to our corporate sponsors and our Corporate Affiliates Program for making this event possible.

Poster Winners

• Rudee Research Expo Award 2008 Best Overall Poster
• Bioengineering Best Poster
• Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster
• Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster
• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Best Poster
• NanoEngineering Best Poster
• Structural Engineering Best Poster
• Honorable Mention
• Center for Control Systems and Dynamics
• Science and Engineering Library Award for Best Use of the Literature

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Rudee Research Expo Award 2008 Best Overall Poster

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  #164 A SELF-TRANSFORMING REACTION WHEEL-STABILIZED CLIMBING ROVER
  Presenter(s): Christopher M. Schmidt-Wetekam
  Advisor(s): Thomas Bewley
  
  

  Christopher M. Schmidt-Wetekam, Rudee Research Expo Award 2008 Best Overall Poster

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Bioengineering Best Poster

• #37 INTERACTIVE CYTOKINE REGULATION OF SYNOVIOCYTE HYALURONAN AND PRG4 SECRETION RATES
  Presenter(s): Megan Elizabeth Blewis
  Advisor(s): Robert Sah
  
  

  Megan Elizabeth Blewis, Bioengineering Best Poster

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Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster

• #68 CELL2NOTIFY: ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR VOIP OVER WI-FI SMARTPHONES
  Presenter(s): Yuvraj Agarwal
  Advisor(s): Rajesh Gupta
  
  

  Yuvraj Agarwal, Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster

• #109 "ORIGAMI OPTICS" FOR ULTRA-THIN IMAGERS
  Presenter(s): Eric Julian Tremblay
  Advisor(s): Joseph Ford
  
  

  Eric Julian Tremblay, Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Best Poster

• #164 A SELF-TRANSFORMING REACTION WHEEL-STABILIZED CLIMBING ROVER
  Presenter(s): Christopher M. Schmidt-Wetekam
  Advisor(s): Thomas Bewley
  
  

  Christopher M. Schmidt-Wetekam, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Best and Rudee Research Expo Award 2008 Best Overall Poster

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NanoEngineering Best Poster

• #211 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATS OF WELL-ALIGNED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES
  Presenter(s): Christian Peter Deck
  Advisor(s): Kenneth S. Vecchio
  
  

  Christian Peter Deck, NanoEngineering Best Poster

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Structural Engineering Best Poster

• #226 EVALUATION OF PREFABRICATED FRP STRUCTURAL FORMWORK BRIDGE DECK SYSTEMS
  Presenter(s): Anna Beth Pridmore
  Advisor(s): Vistasp Karbhari
  
  

  Anna Beth Pridmore, Structural Engineering Best Poster

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Honorable Mention

• Bioengineering

  #14 A NOVEL DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC USING NET CHARGE CHANGING FLUORESCENT PROTEASE SUBSTRATES
  Presenter(s): Roy Brian Lefkowitz
  Advisor(s): Michael Heller
  
  

• Computer Science and Engineering

  #47 OPTIMIZATION OF PRIMER DESIGN FOR DETECTION OF VARIABLE GENOMIC LESIONS IN CANCER
  Presenter(s): Ali M. Bashir
  Advisor(s): Vineet Bafna
  
  

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

  #147 A DISCRIMINANT CENTER-SURROUND MOTION SALIENCY ALGORITHM
  Presenter(s): Vijay Mahadevan
  Advisor(s): Nuno Vasconcelos
  
  

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  #160 PLASMA FORMATION AND CORONAL EVOLUTION IN HIGH CURRENT, PULSE POWER EXPERIMENTS
  Presenter(s): David Michael Haas, Robert E. Madden, Yossof Eshaq, Utako Ueda and Gilbert Collins
  Advisor(s): Farhat Beg
  
  

• NanoEngineering

  #206 SEMI-AUTOMATED STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF NUCLEI IN HISTOLOGICAL SECTIONS OF BREAST CANCER TISSUE
  Presenter(s): Manuel Esteban Ruidiaz
  Advisor(s): Andrew Kummel
  
  

• Structural Engineering

  #241 ACCELERATING BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION IN EARTHQUAKE COUNTRY
  Presenter(s): Matthew Joseph Tobolski
  Advisor(s): Jose Restrepo
  
  

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Center for Control Systems and Dynamics

• #164 A SELF-TRANSFORMING REACTION WHEEL-STABILIZED CLIMBING ROVER
  Presenter(s): Christopher M. Schmidt-Wetekam
  Advisor(s): Thomas Bewley
  
  

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Science and Engineering Library Award for Best Use of the Literature

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  #185 ATTACHMENT DEVICES IN NATURE
  Presenter(s): Albert Yu Min Lin, Ralf Brunner, and Po-Yu Chen
  Advisor(s): Marc A. Meyers and Frank E. Talke
  
  

• Structural Engineering

  #229 LONG-TERM INTEGRITY OF EPOXY-BONDED REBAR COUPLERS
  Presenter(s): Griffin R. Brungraber
  Advisor(s): Vistasp Karbhari
  
  

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