10th Annual Undergraduate Research Fair
Tuesday, April 17, 2011
Adler Athletic Complex, Gymnasium
Presentations and Winners
Engineering
Poster #1: Power conversion efficiency using soft-switching
Student: Kipp Adams
Faculty Adviser: Todd Batzel
Poster #2: Effect of jet momentum ratio and equivalence ratio on the ignition process of TMEDA on white fuming nitric acid (WFNA)
Student: Drew Bittner and Jordan Sell First Prize
Faculty Adviser: Grant Risha
Poster #3: Sensorless field orientation of the induction motor drive using a time- varying observer
Student: Christopher Korlinchak
Faculty Adviser: Mihai Comanescu
Poster #4: Sensorless field orientation of the induction motor drive using a sliding-mode observer
Student: Christopher Korlinchak Second Prize
Faculty Adviser: Mihai Comanescu
Poster #5: Withdrawn
Life Sciences
Poster #6: Baseline water quality data collection of selected streams in the City of Altoona
Students: Ashley Wilmont and Travis Marks Third Prize
Faculty Adviser: Carolyn Mahan
Poster #7: Seed germination rate is not influenced by inflorescence number or size in Mountain-laurel
Student: Fran Menaquale Third Prize
Faculty Adviser: Ed Levri
Poster #8: The invasive New Zealand mud snail expand its range in streams in the Laurentian great lakes watershed
Student: Elissa Colledge
Faculty Adviser: Ed Levri
Poster #9: Geotadic response of New Zealand snail
Students: Sabrina Aponte, Sarah Landis, and Alyssa Byrd
Faculty Adviser: Ed Levri
Poster #10: Cold adaptations and diversity of rpoB gene from TV permafrost
Students: Samantha Gorman and Shaland Abbot Third Prize
Faculty Adviser: Corien Backermans
Physical Sciences
Poster #11: Thermoelectric and resistance measurements of CNT-MgB2 composites
Student: Danhao Ma First Prize
Faculty Adviser: Kofi Adu
Poster #12: Observations of epistemic reasoning revealed through students' comparisons of self-selected homework problems
Student: Kendra Sheaffer Third Prize
Faculty Adviser: Frances Mateycik
Social Sciences
Poster #13: Societal influences on grandparental inclusive fitness
Student: Jessica Moyer Second Prize
Faculty Adviser: Robert Matchock
Poster #14: From protest to accommodation
Student: Alex Kinney Second Prize
Faculty Adviser: Nicholas Rowland and Eric Charles
Poster #15: The PowerPoint project
Students: Emily Sweely, Erin O'Donnell, and Trevor Aurandt-Dangel
Faculty Adviser: Nicholas Rowland and Eric Charles
Poster #16: Revisiting the interaction membrane
Student: Christopher Lehman Third Prize
Faculty Adviser: Nicholas Rowland and Eric Charles
Poster #17: The human odometer: knowing distance traveled through kinesthetic information
Student: Dylan Nelson Third Prize
Faculty Adviser: Eric Charles and Nicholas Rowland
Judges
Many thanks to our judges for 2012
- Corien Bakermans
- Eric Charles
- Mihai Comanescu
- Mary De Jong
- Tim Dolney
- Lisa Emili
- Mary Kananan
- Tim Leso (4-5 only)
- Frances Mateycik
- Mark McNicholas
- Rotunno
- Rowland
- Peter Shull
- Esther Siegfried (3-4 only)
- Xuebing Yang