Applied Research Day InNUvation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Summary of ARD 2009

 

Applied Research Day 2009 was held on Thursday, February 19th in the Technological Institute. The event was hosted by InNUvation and planned by a 6 member committee within The Graduate School Chapter of InNUvation. There were 19 presenters, 3 speakers, and 9 judges.

The speakers were Dean Julio Ottino, PhD (Dean of McCormick), Prof. Michael Marasco, MBA (Director of NU's Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation), and the keynote was Dr. Charles Kuehmann, PhD (NU MSE Alumnus and CEO of QuesTek Innovations, LLC.).

The judges were Jim Bray (Assistant Director of NU's Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute), Alan Hauser (Director of NU's Technology Transfer Program), Jeff Coney (NU's Director of Economic Development), Ron Kirchner (President of Heartland Angels, Inc.), Nick Arvis (Leader of Presidents Advisory Committee), Tim Lavengood (Director of The Incubator), Joseph Firca (Associate Director of NU's McCormick Office of Corporate Relations), Delara Motlagh (Research Scientist at Baxter Healthcare), and Lora Palmer (Research Scientist at Baxter Healthcare).

We estimate roughly 70 attendees came to look at the posters and roughly 65 guests ended up joining us for dinner. The three winning posters were:

  • 1st place: Ryan Hoshi of Biomedical Engineering for his project "Elasta-guard: a nanoporous biodegradable wound dressing for diabetic foot ulcers"
  • 2nd place: Kelly Luckasevic of Biomedical Engineering for her project "Detection and treatment of metastatic oral cancer using gold nanorods"
  • 3rd place: Elliott Rouse and David Nahlik of Biomedical Engineering for his project "Control of rotation for upper limb prosthesis through the use of an implanted magnet"

ARD is a poster session where students can showcase their research and demonstrate how their work can be translated into a business model. The posters are judged based on research content, business content, organization, and communication skills. Cash prizes are awarded to the top three presenters.

Thank you for your interest.

 

Best Regards,

Kvar Black and Brandon Tefft, Co-Presidents

InNUvation Graduate School Chapter

 
 

Archives from ARD 2008


Poster pictures


Winners

  • 1st Place: Aaron Greco and Tiffany Davis

    • Development of Surface Texturing Technology for Friction Reduction and Improved Component Life


  • 2nd Place: James Wilson

    • Three Dimensional Reconstruction of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes


  • 3rd Place: Jane Maduram

    • Shape Cues for Cytoskeletal Organization


Poster Session 1

  • Boyang Liu: Nanophotodetector array for near-field nano-imaging
  • Hermioni Zouridis: A systems biology approach to protein translation
  • Alan Huan Hu: Super flexible tactile sensor skin for robot and biomecial training
  • James Sulzer: Assistance for Gait in Stroke
  • Kvar Black: DOPA-Mediated Self-Assembled Biocompatible Plasmonic Nanocrystals
  • Mark Chen: Active Parylene-Encapsulated Copolymeric Membranes Functionalized for Directed Therapeutic Elution
  • Alexander Spokoyny: Synthesis and Gas Sorption Properties of Carborane based Metal-Organic Framework Materials
  • Matthew Bender: The design of high-performance, aluminide-strengthened, TiNi-based shape-memory alloys for improved cardiovascular stents
  • Joy Le Chen: Photoreduction of CO2 and water over reactive DC magnetron sputtered TiO2 thin films
  • Audre Faye Henderson: Sustainable Development in Low-Income Urban Areas
  • Junsung Rho: Simple and Low Cost Removal of Metals from Water Using Polydopamine Coated Beads
  • Cynthia Pierre: Well-Exfoliated Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites Made by Solid-State Shear Pulverization
  • Paul Marasco: Re-direction of cutaneous sensation from the hand to the chest skin of human amputees with targeted reinnervation
  • Kanika Chawla: A Novel Low-Friction Surface for Biomedical Applications: Modification of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) with Poly(ethylene glycol)-DOPA-Lysine
  • David Little: User-specific training of a Music Search Engine
  • James Wilson: Three Dimensional Reconstruction of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes
  • Eun Ji Chung: Centrobin, a Potential Therapeutic Target


Poster Session 2

  • Jihoon Kim: Detection of tears in tendons by Stokes-polarimetry imaging
  • Jane Maduram: Shape Cues for Cytoskeletal Organization
  • Kyungil Kim: Biomimetic nucleation of calcium carbonate layers at the air-water interface
  • Aaron Greco, Tiffany Davis: Development of Surface Texturing Technology for Friction Reduction and Improved Component Life
  • Jonathan Yuen: Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) as a Biomedical Sensing Platform
  • Ashish Gupta: Zeus: Automated Runtime Inference for Virtual Machine application's resource demands and events
  • Li Sun: Intelligent Structural Health Mornitoring (SHM) System for Damage Detecting and Lifetime Prediction of Safety-Critical Structures
  • Shehla Arif: Foam: An Experimental Model System for Fracture
  • Ankit Mohan
  • Uchenna Moka: Role of fission in forming a pancreatic islet as a functional unit
  • Vinay Rawlani: A local anesthetic pump reduces postoperative pain, narcotic, and anti-emetic use in breast reduction surgery: A randomized controlled trial
  • Aleksey Borodyanskiy: Using Entropy to Characterize Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms During Atrial Fibrillation
  • Derek Liu: Leaders Research
  • Bo Zhao: Low Friction Carbon Coatings
  • Philippe Sung, Yanbo Bai, Allan Evans, Jean Nguyen: Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers
  • Minh Nguyen: Current status of type-II InAs/GaSb superlattice photodetectors at the Center for Quantum Devices
  • Can Bayram, Evan Chen: III-Nitride Avalanche Photodetectors: Single Photon Detection in Ultraviolet Range for Civilian and Military Applications
  • Hosung Seo, Stanley Tsao: Quantum dot-based nanotechnology: A solution towards high sensitivity infrared imaging working at room temperature