College of Engineering
College of Engineering winners selected in 16th Annual Research and Creative Inquiry Day
Nearly 20 undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Engineering were honored April 20th during a virtual awards ceremony as Tennessee Tech celebrated its 16th Annual Research and Creative Inquiry Day. Held by Research & Economic Development, the competitive event promotes student research and creative inquiry and showcases their research abstracts, posters and papers.
In Chemical Engineering, two undergraduate winners were selected due to a large number of submissions. They are:
First place: Chase Yauncy, “Structure and Dynamics of hBD-2 mimetic Interaction with CoV-2 RBD.” Research advisor: Dr. Liqun Zhang.
Second place: Phoebe Dawson, “Electrotherapeutic Assisted Wound Healing: Modelling of the Electrostatic Field in a Porous Gel or Healing Media.” Co-author: Steffano Oyanader, Faculty collaborators: Dr. Stephanie Jorgensen and Dr. Robby Sanders. Research advisor: Dr. Pedro Arce.
The winner of the graduate master’s division is Varsha Balram, “Modeling the Removal of Cosmetic Dyes by Using Hydrogel Materials in a CSTR.” Research advisor: Dr. Pedro Arce.
The graduate Ph.D. division winner is Abdul Salam Mohammad, “Computational Printing of Rheological Changes with Setting Time of Cement-based Pastes in 2D Geometry.” Research advisor: Dr. Joe Biernacki.
For Civil and Environmental Engineering, the undergraduate winner is Hugh Harris with co-author Tyler Wright, “Assessing the Impact of Different Inoculum Sources on Specific Methane Yield of Biomethane Potential Tests.” Research advisor: Dr. Tania Datta.
For Computer Science, there is a tie for the undergraduate winner:
Jeffrey Kimmell, “Analyzing Machine Learning Approaches for Online Malware Detection in Cloud.” Co-author: Andrew McDole. Faculty collaborator Dr. Mahmound Abdelsalam (Manhattan College). Research advisor: Dr. Maanak Gupta.
Maddison Davenport, “Sentiment Analysis Using Google's Word2Vec Machine Learning Method.” Co-authors: Kaitlyn Carroll, Alison Rust, and Sina Sontowski. Research advisor: Dr. Bill Eberle.
The winner of the graduate master’s division is Kendall Land, “Farm-to-Fork Supply Chain Tracking using Blockchain.” Research advisor: Dr. Ambareen Siraj.
The graduate Ph.D. division winner is Md. Ahsan Ayub, “Understanding
Ransomware Behavior using Time Series Analysis for Early Detection.” Research advisor: Dr. Ambareen Siraj.
In the Electrical Engineering department, the undergraduate winner is Weston Beebe, “Optimal Fredkin Gate Designs for Logical Operations with Two and Three Inputs.” Research advisor: Dr. J.W. Bruce.
The graduate master’s division winner is Webster Adepoju, “Novel Ferrite-core Metamaterial and AI-based Coil Parameter Optimization for Efficient Wireless Power Transfer.” Co-author Muhammad Bima. Research advisor: Dr. Indranil Bhattacharya.
The graduate Ph.D. division winner is Mahmoud Badr, “: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing System for Covid-19 Using Blockchain.” Collaborator: Seham Alansari. Research advisor: Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud.
For Manufacturing and Engineering Technology, the undergraduate winner is Ethan Guinn, “Decarbonization of Transport Sector Using Hydrogen Fuel –An Overview.” Co-authors Dillon Cranford and Ryan Benton. Research advisor: Dr. Avinash Paruchuri.
The graduate master’s division winner is Tyler Edwards, “Efficiency and Print Quality Benchmarking Between Fused Filament Fabrication and Stereolithography Processes.” Co-authors: Sorayo Olvera and Justin Willingham. Faculty collaborator: Dr. Avinash Paruchuri. Research advisor: Dr. Ismail Fidan.
The graduate Ph.D. division winner is Seymur Hasanov, “Experimental and Numerical Characterization of Functionally Graded Materials Fabricated by the Fused Filament Fabrication Process.” Research advisor: Dr. Ismail Fidan.
In Mechanical Engineering, the undergraduate winner is Andrew Gothard, “Dynamic Characterization of Fully 3D Printed Capacitive Sensors for Footbed Pressure Sensing Applications.” Research advisor: Dr. Steve Anton.
The graduate master’s division winner is William Rogers, “Investigation of Coinciding Orthogonal Two-Dimensional Structure-borne Traveling Waves.” Research advisor, Dr. Mohammad Albakri.
The graduate Ph.D. division winner is Peter Oyekola, “Impedance-based NDE through Instrumented Fixtures; Effects of Clamping Force on Defect-detection Capabilities.” Co-author Mehedi Barka. Research advisor, Dr. Mohammad Albakri.
To view students’ abstracts, posters and papers, visit the event’s journal proceedings published here: https://publish.tntech.edu/index.php/PSRCI
