E-Week Winning Poster Showcase
*Note: Only 1st place winners received prizes
Civil Engineering
Graduate
1st Place: Abraham Alvarez-Reyna, "Behavior of Narrow Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls with Secondary Reinforment"
2nd Place: Ivan Santos Chavez, “Water Quality Monitoring to Assess Pollutant Loadings Draining into Brownsville Ship Channel”
3rd Place: Adepolapo Adyanju, “Tree-ring Reconstructions of Streamflow for the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas”
Computer Science
Graduate
1st Place: David Caballero, Timothy Gomez, " Verification in 2-Handed Self-Assembly"
2nd Place: Robert M. Alaniz, David Caballero, Sonya C. Cirlos, Timothy Gomez, Elise Grizzell, Andrew Rodriquez, Armando Tenorio, "Building Squares with Optimal State Complexity in Restricted Active Self-Assembly
3rd Place: Sony Cirlos, Timothy Gomez, "Assembling Patterned Lines with Freezing Tile Automata"
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Undergraduate
1st Place: Stephany Lopez, Christian Aguilar, Michael Cancino, Allyssa Villanueva, “End-to-end Translation System for American Sign Language”
2nd Place: S. Perez, J. Rangel, H. Rodriguez, “Class D Power Amplifier”
3rd Place: S.Thomas, D. Capitanachi Avila, “Energy Harvesting Device for Railroad Applications”
Graduate
1st Place: Shamik Datta, Sajid Mahfuz Uchayash, “Investigating the Effect of Process Parameter on the Properties of RF Sputtered pSi Thin Film by Taguchi and Anova Analysis”
2nd Place: M.Pineda, “Three Practical Methods to determine Motor Loads”
3rd Place: Md. Imrul Kaish, “Feature selection using Discriminative Analysis”
Informatics and Engineering Systems
Undergraduate
1st Place: Gene Reyes, "Solar Energy Project Catholic Diocese of Browsville"
2nd Place: James Cua and Aaron Cavazos, "Smart Irrigation Technologies"
3rd Place: Sam Infante and Gene Reyes, "Geriatric Mobility Device"
Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering
Undergraduate
1st Place: Jose Ricardo Carrillo, Aylin Delie , Hector Alvarez del Castillo, “Fast Response of Small Volume Manufacturing of Injection Molding Parts”
Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate
1st Place: Allan Cedillo and Victoria Martinez, “Lubrication Performance and Stability of SiO2 and TiO2 Nanoparticles Dispersed in Grapeseed Oil-Based Nano-Lubricants”
2nd Place: Matias Bautista, Erasmo Hinojosa, Geronimo Zapata, Jose Chapa, “Development of a Pin-on-Disc Tribometer to evaluate Surface Micro-Textured Components”
3rd Place: E. Fletes, H. Morales, “Synthesis and Characterization of Vanadium and Titanium Phthalocyanines for Use as Anode Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries”
3rd Place: S. Bose, B. Srivastava, V. Padilla, A. Abraham, A. Portales, “Color Tunable Aerogels/Sponge-Like Structures Developed from Fine Fiber Membranes”
Graduate
1st place: Leonel Villafranca and Abel Sanchez, “Predicting the Remaining Service Life of Railroad Bearings: Leveraging Machine Learning and Onboard Sensor Data”
2nd place: Roberto Garcia, Javier Arroyo, Waaed Khuffash, Curtis Pena “Transient Thermal Analysis of a Railroad Bearing Adapter for Optimal Placement of Onboard Sensors”
3rd place: Jesse Aguilera, Santana Gutierrez, Harry Siegel, “Electrically Optimized Conductive Bearing Adapter Polymer Pad For Use in Freight Rail Service Applications”
