The winners have been announced from the UTC College of Engineering and Computer Science’s Tech Symposium on April 19 in the Chattanooga Public Library. They are:
Entrepreneurship Award (by CO.LAB):
“Open Spots Parking Application.” Students Terrince Bramhall, Chase Futrell and Evan Lane; faculty advisor Abdul Ofoli
Freshman Design Best Overall:
“Mind Stimulating Activity Sensory Wall.” Students Mitchell Bauer, Walker Fannon, Noah Grigsby, Shelby Hash and Jamison Snuggs; faculty advisor Cecelia Wigal
Graduate Research
- 1st: “Estimating the Effects of Small Voltage and Frequency Changes on Industrial Induction Motor Loading.” Students Areeg Ahmed and Anas Ali; faculty advisor Abdelrahman Karrar
- 2nd: “Further Improvements in Voltage Stability Calculations.” Students Areeg Ahmed and Anas Ali; faculty advisor Abdelrahman Karrar
- 3rd: “Edge Computing Enabled Cognitive Portable GPR.” Students Maxwell Omwenga and William Rice; faculty advisors Yu Liang, Dalei Wu and Li Yang
Senior Capstone
- 1st: “IEEE Robotics 2019.” Students Anthony Maxwell, Artem Malashiy, Robert Rhodes and Shane Taylor; faculty advisor Abdul Ofoli
- 2nd: “LabVIEW Smart House.” Students Savannah Camp, Cody Davis, Otniel Gonzalez and Steven Stafford; faculty advisor Abdul Ofoli
- 3rd: “Inventory Control System.” Students Jared Bellamy, Kaitlyn Burkeen and Scott Campbell; faculty advisor Wolday Abrha
Undergraduate Research
- 1st: “Effect of Different Ligands on Water-Soluble Iron Oxide Nanoparticles.” Students Olivia George, Dell Zimmerman, Gitapun Jur, Yasmin Foster and Ketan Patel; faculty advisor Soubantika Palchoudhury
- 2nd: “Endotoxin Removal from Bacterial Systems.” Student Haiven Camenisch; faculty advisor Michael Danquah
- 3rd: “Modeling Silica Aerogel Optical Performance by Determining its Radiative Properties.” Students Nisarg Hansaliya, Hannah Margavio and Evan Patrick; faculty advisor Sungwoo Yang
Mechanical Engineering Best Overall
- 1st: “Improving Nurse Scheduling for Effective Emergency Department (ED) Operation.” Students Sarah Thomas and Monica San Juan Garcia De Eulate; faculty advisor Cecelia Wigal
- 2nd: “Mind Stimulating Activity Sensory Wall.” Students Mitchell Bauer, Walker Fannon, Noah Grigsby, Shelby Hash and Jamison Snuggs; faculty advisor Cecelia Wigal
- 3rd: “AIAA Design Build Fly.” Students Jesse Barnard, Cannon DeBardelaben, Jason Dehay, Hannah Gifford, Christopher Land, Kale Langley, Stephan Rodemann and Quentin Slade; faculty advisor K. Sreevinas
Electrical Engineering Best Overall
- 1st: “IEEE Robotics 2019.” Students Anthony Maxwell, Artem Malashiy, Robert Rhodes and Shane Taylor; faculty advisor Abdul Ofoli
- 2nd: “LabVIEW Smart House.” Students Savannah Camp, Cody Davis, Otniel Gonzalez and Steven Stafford; faculty advisor Abdul Ofoli
- 3rd: “Open Spots Parking Application.” Students Terrince Bramhall, Chase Futrell and Evan Lane; faculty advisor Abdul Ofoli
Engineering Management and Technology Best Overall
- 1st: “Inventory Control System.” Students Jared Bellamy, Kaitlyn Burkeen and Scott Campbell; faculty advisor Wolday Abrha
- 2nd: “Erlanger Children’s Surgical Throughput Analysis.” Students Charles Anderson and James Beal; faculty advisor Wolday Abrha
- 3rd: “Komatsu Paint Booth Redesign.” Students Alexander Thornton and Carisa Luck; faculty advisor Wolday Abrha
Computer Science and Engineering Best Overall
- 1st: “A Deep Learning Approach to Estimate Replicative Lifespans from Yeast Cell.” Student Justin Clark; faculty advisor. Hong Qin
- 2nd: “DASH – an Educational App.” Students Peyton Ball, Jacob Monroe, Dan Smith and Austin Webb; faculty advisors J. Ellis and R. Hare
- 3rd: “Combining Augmented Reality and Drones for Subsurface Object Visualization and Mapping.” Students Evan Brock and Samuel Clark; faculty advisors Yu Liang and Dalei Wu
Chemical Engineering Best Overall
- 1st: “Effect of Different Ligands on Water-Soluble Iron Oxide Nanoparticles.” Students Olivia George, Dell Zimmerman, Gitapun Jur, Yasmin Foster and Ketan Patel; faculty advisor Soubantika Palchoudhury
- 2nd: “Endotoxin Removal from Bacterial Systems.” Student Haiven Camenisch; faculty advisor Michael Danquah
- 3rd: “Preliminary Design of a Microbrewery.” Student Hadi Alyami, Fahim Alzabadani, Kyle Barton and John Payne; faculty advisor Bradley Harris
Civil Engineering Best Overall
- 1st: “UTC Roof.” Student Xuan Chen, Shuai Liu, Sean McDonoug and Qiuhong Xie; faculty advisor J. Bathi)
- 2nd: “Concrete Canoe.” Students Conner Caprara, Caroline Meacham, Daniel Nolan, Ashlin Perrucci, Mason Smith and Mack Richardson; faculty advisor Joseph Owino
- 3rd: “TDOT Highway.” Students: Nicholas Kilburn, Phillip Seeley, Gang Su and Ryan Turner
