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Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium 2003


The Engineering School Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium is an annual presentation and selection of the best of the Undergraduate Research theses. Each finalist in the competition delivers a 15-minute oral presentation, and three awards are given at the end of the symposium. Listed below are the finalists, the winners, and the members of the selection commmittee.

1st Place - David Simpson
CXCR6-positive T Cells Display Extralymphoid Homing Potential
Technical Advisor: Klaus Ley
TCC Advisor: Ingrid Townsend
2nd Place -Elisa Ferrante
Fluid Flow Visualization & Analysis Inside a Magnetically Guided Microcatheter
Technical Advisor: Joseph Humphrey
TCC Advisor: Bryan Pfaffenberger
3rd Place - Baron Schwartz
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Technical Advisor: Worthy Martin
TCC Advisor: Betsy Mendelsohn
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David Simpson and
Professor Ingrid Townsend
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Dean Paxton Marshall
and Elisa Ferrante
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Baron Schwartz and
Professor Worthy Martin

2003 Selection Committee:

John Lach, Chair
Mary Beck, Matt Begley, Jim Fitz-Gerald, Andy Hillier, John Hossack, Tom Hutchinson, Don Jordan, Worthy Martin, Milton Adams (ex officio)

URDS Finalists:
Peter Capelluto “Rendering and Modifying Large Point-Based Data Sets”
Technical Advisor: David Luebke
TCC Advisor: Betsy Mendelsohn

Jennifer Cobb “An Assessment of Wavelet-based Diagnostics for Measuring the Characteristics of the Turbulent Energy Cascade”
Technical Advisor: Donald Jordan
TCC Advisor: Patricia Click

Lindsay Costello “Improvements to GRASP: Geospatial Repository for Analysis and Safety Planning”
Technical Advisor: Donald Brown
TCC Advisor: Patricia Click

Jared Edgar “Simulation of Crowds Using Reinforcement Learning”
Technical Advisor: David Brogan
TCC Advisor: Deborah Johnson
Scott Fairgrieve (to present with Joseph Silva) “Empowering Response to Emerging Threats: The Development of a Software System to Aid First Responders in Managing the Aftermath of Radiological Weapon Attacks”
Technical Advisor: Donald Brown
TCC Advisor: Betsy Mendelsohn

Katherine Kohm “An Analysis and Risk Assessment of the Heavy Metal Contention”
Technical Advisor: Teresa Culver
TCC Advisor: Rosanne Simeone

Brian McSweeney “Spanning Nature: A Pedestrian Bridge for the National Zoo”
Technical Advisor: Thomas Baber
TCC Advisor: Rosanne Simeone

John Mell “Extraction of Time-Dependent Characteristics of Atrial Fibrillation Electrograms Using Wavelet Transforms”
Technical Advisor: Donald Jordan
TCC Advisor: Rosalyn Berne

Daniel Roper “Fluorescent Labeling of Proteins: A Tool for the Characterization of Protein Diffusion in Charged Polyacrylamide Gels”
Technical Advisor: Giorgio Carta
TCC Advisor: Ingrid Townsend

Joseph Silva (to present with Scott Fairgrieve) “Radiological Response Aid for First Responders”
Technical Advisor: Donald Brown
TCC Advisor: Bryan Pfaffenberger



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