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Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium 2007

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. For more details on the URDS, please visit the press release here.

1st Place - Henry Cook	2nd Place - Owen Miller	3rd Place - John Jameson

Optimizing Chip Multiprocessor Designs Using Genetically Programmed Response Surfaces Major: Computer Science STS Advisor: Benjamin Cohen Technical Advisor: Kevin Skadron (CS)	Modeling in the Coulomb Blockade Regime: Exploring the Capabilities and Limitations of the Orthodox Theory of Transport Major: ECE & Physics STS Advisor: Bryan Pfaffenberger Technical Advisor: Avik Ghosh (ECE)	Synthesis of Bone Tissue Engineering Scaffolds with Varied Mechanical Properties Major: Biomedical Engineering STS Advisor: Peter Norton Technical Advisor: Yusuf Khan (BME)


	1st Place Team - Alexis Bailey and Jennifer Saik

	(Left to Right) Dean Aylor, Alexis Bailey, Jennifer Saik
	Labeling and Dynamically Tracking Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Major: Biomedical Engineering STS Advisors: Peter Norton and Benjamin Cohen Technical Advisor: Shayn Pierce-Cottler (BME)


2007 Selection Committee: George Cahen (Chair) - MSE Ben Calhoun - ECE David Green - ChE Niall Horgan - CE Richard Kent - MAE Tim Allen - BME Bryan Pfaffenberger - STS Paul Reynolds - CS Preston White - SIE Katie Fleming - student member Jennifer Nguyen - student member Paxton Marshall - Ex Officio, DO	2007 Symposium External Judges: William A. Cassada, Ph.D., Alcoa Technology Mark Friedlander, Aerojet Shavonne Gordon, Capital One Jim Hicks, Areva 2007 Symposium Internal Judges: Maite Brandt-Pearce, SEAS Hilary-Bart Smith, SEAS

Congratulations to all of the other finalists, whose excellence was clearly recognized by this year's selection committee: Ankit Jane, Ezekiel Fugate, Randi Saunders, Lauren Tietje, Amelia Gunn, Austin Lee, James Eddy, Jeff Whittemore, Kyle Williams, Emily Ewell, Allison Hasting, Louise Montgomery and Marta Morales. Congratulations to all the faculty advisors who enabled these students to achieve the truly outstanding research and engineering that was on display. Also, the hard work and support of Barbara Dudley is greatly appreciated. She was responsible for many behind the scenes miracles.