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Past Winners

Three Minute Thesis Past Winners

Ph.D. Winners

Place	Name	Major	Video
FIRST PLACE	Paola Zanella	Aerospace Engineering	Mitigation of Helicopter Accidents Related to Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness
SECOND PLACE	Smruthi Karthikeyan	Civil & Environmental Engineering	Microbes, Oil Spills and Beyond: Using Microbes to Predict the Impact of Oil Spills
THIRD PLACE	Suttipong Suttapitugsakul	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Not Just a Sugar Coating! Understanding the Language of Cells through Their Sweet Surface
PEOPLE'S CHOICE	Jeongwon Kim	Mechanical Engineering	Suppression of Combustion Instability

Master's Winner

Name	Major	Video
Po-Wei Huang	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	A Sustainable Method to Alleviate the Global Thirst of Lithium

Ph.D. Winners

Place	Name	Major	Video
FIRST PLACE	Nusaiba Baker	Biomedical Engineering	Oral Delivery of DNA-enzyme Nanoparticles Ameliorates Inflammation in a Murine Model of Ulcerative Colitis
SECOND PLACE	Francisco Quintero	Material Science & Engineering	Solid Lithium Batteries and How To Deal With A Diva
THIRD PLACE	Sourabh Jha	Mechanical Engineering	Enhancement of Cooling in Data Centers through Flags

Master's Winners

Place	Name	Major	Video
FIRST PLACE	Eugene Mangortey	Aerospace Enginering	Predicting the Duration and Coincidence of Ground Delay Programs and Ground Stops
SECOND PLACE	Tejas Rode	Music	Robotic improvisation of Indian classical music on marimba
THIRD PLACE	Keshav Bimbraw	Music	Imparting Expressivity and Dynamics to percussive musical robot Shimon
PEOPLE'S CHOICE	Megan Tomko	Mechanical Engineering	Academic Makerspaces: Sites of Learning for Women Students

Ph.D. Winners

Place	Name	Major	Video
FIRST PLACE	Jingting Yao	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Enhanced Diagnostic Cardiac Imaging with Lower Risks
SECOND PLACE	Shushruta Surappa	Mechanical Engineering	Ultrasound Based Wireless Power
THIRD PLACE	Kelly Michie	Biology	Gotta Screen ‘Em All: Discovering Bacterial Genes Required for Wound Infection
THIRD PLACE	Alexis Noel	Mechanical Engineering	Grip, Grab, and Groom: Adhesion of Soft Biomaterials

**We had a tie for third place in Ph.D.

Master's Winners

Place	Name	Major	Video
FIRST PLACE	Vedant Metha	Nuclear Engineering	Boosting the Role of Nuclear Technology
SECOND PLACE	Richard Li	Interactive Computing	EarBit: Using Wearable Sensors to Detect Eating Episodes in Unconstrained Environments
PEOPLE'S CHOICE	Jayraj Joshi	Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	Natural Gas Purification Using Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)

Place	Name	Major	Video
FIRST PLACE	Monica McNerney	Bioengineering	Bacterial Biosensors: Low-cost, Field-friendly Nutrition Tests
SECOND PLACE	Tesca Fitzgerald	Human Centered Computing	Teaching Robots to Reuse Skills
THIRD PLACE	H.M. Bharath	Physics	Reading Out the Geometry from an Atom's Memory
PEOPLE'S CHOICE	Aravind Samba Murthy	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Recovering Kinetic Energy Using Electric Motors
PEOPLE'S CHOICE	H.M. Bharath	Physics	Reading Out the Geometry from an Atom's Memory

**We had a tie for the People's Choice winner.

Place	Name	Major	Video
FIRST PLACE	Jonathan Walker	Aerospace Engineering	Leaving Ancient Rocket Engines Behind
SECOND PLACE	Marian Hettiaratchi	Biomedical Engineering	Heparin Microparticles: A New Method for Bone Regeneration
THIRD PLACE AND PEOPLE'S CHOICE	Pamela Grothe	Physics	Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

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