On Friday, April 24th, 1998 a large number of IIT's undergraduate and graduate students gathered at the HUB to present their research work and projects. Cheryl Caplan, director of the Educational Technology Center, Dr. Peter Johnson, of the Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences, and Kristen Hunter, of the Educational Technology Center, were the main organizers of this year's presentation. The students were from all departments of IIT, displaying brilliant work done in
all fields ranging from Natural sciences to the technical fields.
The Chemical and Environmental department, as well as the MMAE department were all represented. An anthology of projects
displayed at the presentation is available in the HUB. There were nearly 20 undergraduate research works on display. The high caliber of the research was impressing to most of the other students attending the presentation, and also to the parents of the students.
An IPRO was also presented. Overwhelming attendance, from both staff and students partook in this event. Some parents of presenters attended the event as well. Johnson said, " I am greatly impressed by
the effort and work shown here today.
Seeing the caliber of the students, I feel IIT has insufficient infrastructure in its classes to fully use the potential of the students.
The research work done here puts IIT in the unique bracket of universities in the US
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who have undergraduate research work presentations. I hope that more funding is given by various departments to encourage more of such undertakings. I shall try my best to see that this event is organized every year at IIT." Johnson was glad to see the support for the event from IIT.
Dr. Vytas Narutis, IIT alum and Senior Scientist at the NALCO Corporation and keynote speaker concluded the event. His involvement in research currently stems from his IIT years and he is encouraged by the conference. An awards ceremony
followed.
Caplan commented, "You [presenters] all did a great job. The professors and guest were highly pleased and the judges indeed had a hard time deciding the winners." For the graduate research category, Maria Salazar, Bhasker Sompalli & Li Lin, Renxuan Lin & Hukim Iddir won the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
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They were all from the chemical and environmental engineering department under the auspice of Dr. Smotkin. For the undergraduate research category,
Deepesh Jain (ECE) was awarded first place, Jonathan David and Bryan Field (BCPS) - second place while Mekita Davis (ECE) and Shakeila Thomas (BCPS) were ties for the third place.
In the class projects category, the 3rd place went to Mohammed Alam, Rahul Kumar and Chris Reiland (ECE) while Jason Jasinek, Paul Yuen and Tomas Lin (CSAM) were awarded second place and Carl Lebsack (CSAM), the first place. The Class Act award went to Amol Deshpande and Chethan Gangireddy (RUSH program) and the Creative Science award to Steve Hreczkosij III (BCPS). The Overall Excellence award went to Bonnie Welcker (Chem. Eng.).
Congratulations to all the presenters and especially to the winners of each catgory!
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