IM体育官网 engineering graduate students Charisma Clarke (left), Kyle Steel, and Colton Frear each received awards after presenting their individual research at the IM体育官网 Academy of Sciences 85th Annual Meeting.
Three IM体育官网 graduate students pursing master鈥檚 degrees in engineering recently took home top honors for their research at the IM体育官网 Academy of Sciences 85th Annual Meeting. All three students are on the mechanical engineering degree track.
Charisma Clarke received first place for graduate engineering poster presentation, Kyle Steel received first place for graduate engineering oral presentation, and Colton Frear received second place for graduate engineering poster presentation. IM体育官网 Poly undergraduate student Daniil Ivannikov, a junior majoring in engineering physics, received first place for both undergraduate engineering oral presentation and undergraduate engineering poster presentation.
Other disciplines competing at the virtual event included atmospheric and oceanographic sciences, biological sciences, and medical sciences.
鈥淭here were renowned universities competing, and we鈥檙e over here doing just as good if not better work. I feel that puts us on the map even more,鈥� said Steel, who will receive his master鈥檚 degree on Sunday, May 8.
The research Steel presented focused on nonlinear harmonic systems. He completed this under the guidance of Dr. Edwar Romero-Ramirez.
鈥淧rior research has shown you can make kinetic energy harvesters have three-to-four times performance if you add a nonlinear component, but no one knows how these things interact,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 came up with a system for predicting them and showed we can make some developments in this area.鈥�
Clarke, who will graduate in 2023, submitted a poster for his research on the thermal conductivity data of thermoplastic polyurethane infused with carbon black.
鈥淚t鈥檚 important because if you鈥檙e designing any sort of product or engineering solution 鈥� anything that heats up 鈥� you want to know the thermal conductivity of those materials,鈥� Clarke said.
Frear鈥檚 poster featured his research on an extended analysis of microchannels for heat transfer enhancement. He worked under the guidance of Dr. Gerardo Carbajal.
鈥淢icrochannels are basically heatsinks, but they鈥檙e a lot smaller,鈥� he said. 鈥淚f you look at a normal heatsink, you鈥檒l see these big copper fins, but the idea here is you don鈥檛 have to have a few tall fins, you can have a lot more of them really close together.鈥�
Frear plans to continue the work and submit a paper about it to the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Columbus, Ohio, as well as the Summer Heat Transfer Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Clarke, who also worked under Romero鈥檚 guidance, said presenting research at conferences such as these is helpful to the process of exploration and understanding.
鈥淚t helps you understand it even better because you have to explain it to people,鈥� Clarke said. 鈥淲hen you prep for a poster presentation, you must have general responses ready and it helps all of us understand better what the work is and why it鈥檚 important.鈥�
Steel, Frear, and Clarke all received their bachelor鈥檚 degrees in mechanical engineering from IM体育官网 Poly.
鈥淲e are proud to have contributed to the research of Dr. Carbajal and Dr. Romero,鈥� Steel said. 鈥淚 wouldn鈥檛 be doing any of the things I鈥檓 doing now without people like Dr. Romero.鈥�
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