Overall, 37 posters representing engineering schools across the College of Engineering were on display, presented by graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are conducting research at either the West Lafayette or Indianapolis location. The event allowed presenters to engage with colleagues from across both locations, exchanging ideas and learning from each other.

In addition, posters were reviewed by a panel of judges consisting of research faculty members, PhD students, and post-doctoral fellows from both Indianapolis and West Lafayette. Awards were given for the top two poster presentations and one People’s Choice award. Congratulations to the winners:

Outstanding Poster Award:

• Abin Mathew, PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering (Indianapolis) student with the poster titled “RampCast Phase II: Connected Vehicles Traffic Management Application on Indiana Highways”.

• Teal Dowd, PhD Materials Engineering (West Lafayette) student and Co-presenter Patrick Cavanaugh, Research Engineer and Director of Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center, PWL.   Their poster was titled, “Device for Smart Trainer Homologation”.

People’s Choice Award:

• Nafisi Rafiq, PhD Biomedical Engineering (West Lafayette) student with the poster entitled, “Antimicrobial Resistance: A Global Threat and Its Diagnostics with Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Assay”.

The research laboratories featured on the tour were BME Professor Rachel Surowiec’s Quantitative Biomedical Imaging & Spectroscopy Lab; BME Professor Joseph Wallace’s Bone Biology & Mechanics Lab; ECE Professor Yaobin Chen’s Transportation and Autonomous Systems Institute (TASI) state-of-the-art driving simulator lab; ME Professor Carlos Larriba-Andaluz’s Molecular Ion Kinetics Lab; and MSE Professor Babak Anasori’s Layered Materials & Structure Lab.