The 22nd annual Graduate Research and Scholarly Project (GRASP) Symposium was on April 24 in Woolsey Hall. 90 graduate students presented their research to faculty and staff in conjunction with URCAF. Congratulations to all GRASP presenters and thank you to all judges, volunteers and faculty mentors.
This year’s awardees were as follows:
Oral presentations:
Winner: Marawan Rohayem, mechanical engineering master’s student advised by Dr. Ramazan Asmatulu, for the presentation entitled “Low-Speed Impact Damage Sensing in Aircraft Radomes via Gold Nanofilm-Integrated Nomex Honeycomb Core Sandwich Composites”
People’s Choice winner: Rahmat Safdar, biomedical engineering doctoral student advised by Dr. Nils Hakansson, for the presentation entitled “Developing A Novel Contact Modeling Framework for Dynamic Human Rolling Simulations”
Poster presentations:
- First place: Brooks Hartsock, doctoral student in applied mathematics – physics track, advised by Dr. Nick Solomey, for the poster entitled “Determining Simulation Correction Factors for Tungsten-Doped 3D Printed Radiation Shields”
- Second place: Kiora Joseph, aerospace engineering doctoral student, advised by Dr. Nadia Kianvashrad, for the poster entitled “Frequency and Heated Region Shape Effects on the Physics of Mach 2 Flow Over a Hemisphere Cylinder”
- Third place and People’s Choice winner: Timmerie Henke, Alex Meyer and Christina Wilk, anthropology master’s students, advised by Dr. Crystal Dozier, for their poster “Archaeological Analysis of Burnt Animal Bone: A Case Study on Faunal Remains for Fuel Use and Cooking Techniques at Etzanoa”