The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering 29th Annual Research Expo was held Thursday, April 15, 2010. More than 240 students presented their research results in our poster session and abstracts of each poster may be viewed online.

In addition to technical breakouts led by Jacobs School faculty, the event featured a keynote address by Larry Papay, CEO, PQR, on "America's Energy Future".

Many thanks to our corporate sponsors, Qualcomm, ViaSat, Northrop Grumman, and BD, as well as our Corporate Affiliates Program for making this event possible.

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Poster Winners:

Rudee Research Expo Award 2010 Outstanding Poster

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

  #98. PLANAR MICRO-OPTIC SOLAR CONCENTRATION
  Presenter: Jason Harris Karp
  Advisor: Joseph Ford
  
  

  Jason Karp, Best Overall Poster, Rudee Research Expo Award, 2010

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Bioengineering Best Poster

• #32. REAL-TIME MONITORING OF SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE WITH PHOTONIC POROUS SILICON PARTICLES
  Presenter: Elizabeth Chung Pui Wu
  Advisor: Michael Sailor
  
  

  Elizabeth Chung Pui Wu, Bioengineering Best Poster Award Winner

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Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster

• #76. ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS
  Presenter: Gaurav Dhiman
  Advisor: Tajana Simunic-Rosing
  
  

  Gaurav Dhiman, Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster Award Winner

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster

• #98. PLANAR MICRO-OPTIC SOLAR CONCENTRATION
  Presenter: Jason Harris Karp
  Advisor: Joseph Ford
  
  

  Jason Karp, Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster Award Winner and Rudee Research Expo Award 2010 Outstanding Poster

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Best Poster

• #167. MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOWIRE SYSTEMS FOR DRUG DELIVERY
  Presenter: Karla Sue Brammer
  Advisor: Sungho Jin
  
  

  Karla Sue Brammer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Best Poster Award Winner

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NanoEngineering Best Poster

• #217. AN EARLY POINT-OF-CARE SHOCK DIAGNOSTIC: CLINICALLY RELEVANT DETECTION OF PROTEASE ACTIVITY IN WHOLE BLOOD
  Presenter: Roy Brian Lefkowitz
  Advisors: Michael Heller | Geert Schmid-Schönbein
  
  

  Roy Brian Lefkowitz, NanoEngineering Best Poster Award Winner

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Structural Engineering Best Poster

• #232. NONLINEAR ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES FOR HEALTH MONITORING OF PRESTRESSING TENDONS IN POST-TENSIONED CONCRETE STRUCTURES
  Presenter: Claudio Nucera
  Advisor: Francesco Lanza di Scalea
  
  

  Claudio Nucera, Structural Engineering Best Poster Award Winner

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Honorable Mention

• Bioengineering

  #4. DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AN INJECTABLE PERICARDIAL MATRIX GEL: A POTENTIALLY AUTOLOGOUS SCAFFOLD FOR CARDIAC TISSUE ENGINEERING
  Presenter: Sonya B Seif-Naraghi
  Advisor: Karen Christman
  
  

• Computer Science and Engineering

  #47. LOCALIZING OBJECTS IN IMAGES BY COMBINING CONTEXTUAL CUES
  Presenter: Carolina Galleguillos
  Advisor: Serge Belongie | Gert Lanckriet
  
  

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

  #114. SILICON NANOWIRE PHOTOTRANSISTORS FOR ULTRA HIGH RESPONSIVITY VISIBLE AND INFRARED DETECTION
  Presenters: Arthur Yasheng Zhang | Hongkwon Kim
  Advisor: Yu-Hwa Lo
  
  

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  #205. NEW STUDIES AND OBSERVATIONS HIGHLIGHTING ALTERNATIVE TECHNIQUES TO MITIGATE RUNAWAY ELECTRON EFFECTS IN TOKAMAK RAPID SHUTDOWNS
  Presenter: Alexander Nevil Tronchin-James
  Advisor: George Tynan
  
  

• NanoEngineering

  #212. A PLAUSIBLE MECHANISM FOR H4-K16 ACETYLATION TRIGGERED UNFOLDING OF CHROMATIN
  Presenter: Darren Yang
  Advisor: Gaurav Arya
  
  

• Structural Engineering

  #224. COMPUTATIONAL FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION FOR WIND ENERGY APPLICATIONS
  Presenter: Ming-Chen Hsu
  Advisor: Yuri Bazilevs
  
  

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Science and Engineering Library Award for Best Use of the Literature

• NanoEngineering

  #217. AN EARLY POINT-OF-CARE SHOCK DIAGNOSTIC: CLINICALLY RELEVANT DETECTION OF PROTEASE ACTIVITY IN WHOLE BLOOD
  Presenter: Roy Brian Lefkowitz
  Advisors: Michael Heller | Geert Schmid-Schönbein
  
  

  Roy Brian Lefkowitz, Science and Engineering Library Award for Best Use of the Literature

  
  

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  #177. SOLAR FUEL FROM CO2: A STAND-ALONE OFF-GRID DEVICE
  Presenter: Aaron John Sathrum
  Advisor: Clifford P. Kubiak
  
  

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