The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering 30th Annual Research Expo was held Thursday, April 14, 2011. More than 250 students presented their research results in our poster session. Search all Research Expo poster abstracts.

The event featured technical breakout talks by Jacobs School faculty. Greg Lucier, CEO Life Technologies, gave the keynote on "Engineering Advances in Medicine"

Many thanks to our corporate sponsors, ViaSat, Life Technologies, and Qualcomm, as well as our Corporate Affiliates Program and Institute of Engineering in Medicine, the judges, students and attendees for making Research Expo a success.

Read an overview of Research Expo 2011.

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Poster Winners:

Rudee Outstanding Poster Award Research Expo 2011

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

  #130. High-Power, Large-Force, and Temperature-Stable Metal Contact Switches
  Presenter: Chirag Dipak Patel
  Advisor: Gabriel Rebeiz
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  Chirag Dipak Patel, Best Overall Poster, Rudee Research Expo Award, 2011

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Bioengineering Best Poster

• #3. A Custom Integrated High Input Impedance Biopotential Amplifier for Non-Contact and Mobile Health (ECG/EEG) Monitoring
  Presenter: Yu Mike Chi
  Advisor: Gert Cauwenberghs
  
  

  Yu Mike Chi, Bioengineering Best Poster Award Winner

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Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster

• #79. Kremlin: Like Gprof, but for Parallelization
  Presenters: Donghwan Jeon | Saturnino Garcia
  Advisor: Michael Taylor
  
  

  Donghwan Jeon and Saturnino Garcia, Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster Award Winner

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster

• #130. High-Power, Large-Force, and Temperature-Stable Metal Contact Switches
  Presenter: Chirag Dipak Patel
  Advisor: Gabriel Rebeiz
  
  

  Chirag Dipak Patel, Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster Award Winner and Rudee Research Expo Award 2011 Outstanding Poster

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Best Poster

• #157. Investigating the Use of Wing Sweep for Pitch Control of a Small Unmanned Air Vehicle
  Presenters: Kim Wright | Saam Ostovari | Anand Vaidya
  Advisor: Thomas Bewley
  
  

  Kim Wright, Saam Ostovari, and Anand Vaidya, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Best Poster Award Winner

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NanoEngineering Best Poster

• #223. Biological Applications of Catalytic Nanomotors
  Presenter: Daniel R Kagan
  Advisor: Joseph Wang
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  Daniel R Kagan, NanoEngineering Best Poster Award Winner and Science & Engineering Library Award for Best Use of the Literature

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Structural Engineering Best Poster

• #242. Thermal Stress and Buckling Detection in Rail by Non-Destructive Ultrasonic Testing
  Presenter: Claudio Nucera
  Advisor: Francesco Lanza di Scalea
  
  

  Claudio Nucera, Structural Engineering Best Poster Award Winner

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Honorable Mention

• Bioengineering

  #24. Isolation and Recovery of Cell Free Circulating DNA Biomarkers from Cancer Patient Whole Blood Samples
  Presenter: Avery R Sonnenberg
  Advisor: Michael Heller
  
  

• Computer Science and Engineering

  #58. Context-Aware Capability Inference in Shopping
  Presenter: Shiri Dori
  Advisor: William Griswold
  
  

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

  #96. Room-Temperature Sub-Wavelength Scale Metallo-Dielectric Lasers
  Presenters: Qing Gu | Olesya Bondarenko | Brett Wingad | Rick Delhommer
  Advisor: Yeshaiahu (Shaya) Fainman
  
  

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  #178. Nonlinear Unknown Parameter Extremum Seeking Control
  Presenter: Alex Scheinker
  Advisor: Miroslav Krstic
  
  

• NanoEngineering

  #224. Textile-Based Printed Bioelectronic Sensors
  Presenter: Joshua Ray Windmiller
  Advisor: Joseph Wang
  
  

• Structural Engineering

  #232. Full-Scale Structural and Nonstructural Building System Performance During Earthquakes
  Presenters: Michelle Carolyn Chen | Xiang Wang
  Advisor: Tara Hutchinson
  
  

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Science and Engineering Library Award for Best Use of the Literature

• NanoEngineering

  #223. Biological Applications of Catalytic Nanomotors
  Presenter: Daniel R Kagan
  Advisor: Joseph Wang
  
  

• Structural Engineering

  #239. Health Monitoring of Interlaminar Delamination in Composites
  Presenter: Eduardo Velazquez
  Advisor: John Kosmatka
  
  

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