Lehigh Engineering's annual David and Lorraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium, held each spring, showcases the intense academic capabilities of today’s rising Lehigh Engineers, and highlights the resources and opportunities Lehigh provides to undergraduates. Each year, the event helps student-competitors, nominated by their departments, learn how to express the significance and complexity of their work and answer questions posed by faculty, students, and visitors. The top finishers, judged by a panel of academic and industry researchers, win travel stipends to attend professional conferences for yet another opportunity to promote their work and practice the art of communication.
This year's symposium was held online. Competitors presented their presentation live online to the panel on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. See this year's competitors from Lehigh University and Lafayette College below, and return here after the competition to watch the awards ceremony.
Congratulations to this year's winner, Evan Savage! A Lafayette College senior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, Evan won for his research, "Fertilizer from Wastewater: Biological Enhanced Phosphorous Removal and Steps to Commercialization."
UGRS COMPETITORS
Nora Abbott, Ava Hudson, Ann Foley
Laboratory and Field Methods Developed for Biosand Filter Sand Characterization
Samuel Agro
Synthesis of Hybrid Outer Membrane Vesicles for Drug Delivery through Cell Membranes
Alex Ashley
Enhancing Minority Block Crystallization in Asymmetric PEO-b-PCL Copolymers
Jenna Catalano
Characterizing Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Motility in Repsonse to the Wound Environment
Josh Centorcelli
In Silico Modelling of the Energy-Intensive Process to Recover Nitrogen from Agricultural Fertilizer Streams
Susan Cheng - HONORABLE MENTION
Comparing the Properties of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic Bricks to Conventional Concrete Masonry Units
Declan Coster
Data Driven Correction of Distored Images
Ryan Forelli
Real-Time Machine Learning in Scanning Probe
Zev Granowitz - THIRD PLACE
Diffusion Plate Fuel Injection into Cavity Flame-Holders in Supersonic Cross-Flow
Alibek Kaliyev
Accelerated Fitting of Band-Excitation Piezorspone Force Microscopy
Eleni Karyofylli
Unified Automata-based Framework for Planning with Relaxed Specifications
Hannah Knudsen
Interaction of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells with Synthetic Scaffolds in the Presence of Cytokines
Kenny Kwock
Fair Two-sided Spam Detection Using Machine Learning
Yanzhe Ma
Simulation of a Flexible Tow-State Markov Chain
Maria Maragkelli
Non-linear Model Predictive Control for High speed Autonomous Racing
Jack Mills
Increasing the Dynamic Range of Velocity and Temporal Resolution of Particle Image Velocimetry
Garrison Mueller
Computational Fluid Dynamic Model
Sasha Neefe - SECOND PLACE
Reevaluating Green Solvent Metrics Using End-of-Life Considerations
Amanda Rubin, Stephen Gee
The Study of 19 Biological Membrane Types using All-Atom Molecular Simulations
Evan Savage - WINNER
Fertilizer from Wastewater: Biological Enhanced Phosphorous Removal and Steps to Commercialization
Khaknazar Shyntassov
Drone-Based Automatic Indoors Firefighting System
Nathan Yuchimiuk
Developing Techniques to Characterize Solvent-Cast 3D Printed Scaffolds
Kristen Yusiewicz, Nick Masri
Simulation and Data Analysis of Electric Transit Systems
Zhanfan (Jeremy) Yu
Trends on Predictive Control Schemes for Impedance Source Converters