Student Research Office
MEMORANDUM
DATE: March 20, 2013
TO: Purdue University Calumet Faculty, Staff and Students
FROM: Student Research Office
RE: Student Research Day Presentation
We are pleased to announce the Student Research Day Presentation List. Comparing with last
year, the number of presentations of this year
increased from 99 to 126, a 27% increase; the students participating in 2013 SRD increased
from 169 to 240, a 42% increase.
Non-EMS projects increased from 30% of the total projects last year to 35% this year.
Graduate Poster Presentation list:
Student Names
Randyl Rohm
School
EMS
Mentor
Radmila Sarac
Jichao Wang
Litao Shen
Fan Li
Huanan Shen
Xun Guang
Jiajun Fu
Xingjian Chen
EMS
Chenn Q. Zhou
EMS
George Nnanna
EMS
Chenn Q. Zhou
Xinwei Zhuang
EMS
Xiuling Wang
Xiaoxi Lou
EMS
Chenn Q. Zhou
Steve Dubec
EMS
Xingjian Chen
Hongchang Dang
Jiabao Liu
EMS
Masoud
Mojtahed
Chenn Q. Zhou
EMS
Chenn Q. Zhou
Songwei Fan
Wanjue Zhao
Christopher S.
EMS
Bin Chen
EMS
Evert Ting
Title
The Effects of GIRK 4 Subunit Mutations on
Channel Interactions
Development Of Virtual Training Package
And Augment Reality For Power Plant
Boiler
Solar Panel Portable Refrigeration
Optimization of an urea decomposition
chamber using CDF and VR
Site energy estimations by using statistical
methods
Numerical Optimization of a QBOP Vessel
for Minimizing Kidney Formation
The Impact of Pedicle Screw Insertion Angle
on Pullout Strength
CFD Study of Fired Heater Ductwork
Pressure Swing
Effects of SKIN thermocouple shield shape
on the accuracy
Functional Connectivity Mapping Using
fMRI
Reduction of artificial Salmonella
Hartman
Aleks Bilic
Marko Korlat
Robert Baker
Ed Recktenwall
Naser Alghannam
Hakem Alotibi
Saleh Alkarri
Florin Mustata
Kishan Saha
Abdulrahman
Alkhatlan
Nadia Sultana
Matar Alharbi
Sean Liston
Chad Celestin
Corinna Edmond
Auriel
Mabone Tashmeem
Mozammel
Faisal Ali Aljaizani
Abdullah Sayed
Mohammed Alahmed
Estratios
Papamihalakis
Mustafa Aldubaisy
Sean Liston
Cody Kerrigan
Nasser Alrushoud
Tanima Zaman
Technology Lash Mapa
Nuwan Liyanage
Technology Lash Mapa
Dean Koldenhoven
Technology Jose Pena
Hamza Kadir
Technology Akram Hossain
Typhimurium contamination on stainless
steel by application of bacteriophages
Dell’s Desktop Computer Supply Chain
Management
Technology Lash Mapa
Automotive Component Supply Chain
Technology Lash Mapa
Supply Chain Management for Battery
Industry
Technology Lash Mapa
What forced Nike to Transform its Supply
Chain?
Technology Lash Mapa
Cellular Phone Manufacturing Supply Chain
Technology Lash Mapa
Supply Chain Management and Distribution
of Coca Cola
Technology Lash Mapa
Supply Chain Management Strategies and
Practices by Airbus
Technology Lash Mapa
Oil Refinery Supply Chain
Technology Lash Mapa
AMAZON Supply Chain
Technology Akram Hossain
Undefined Obstacle Avoidance and Path
Planning of an Autonomous Mobile Robot in
a Two-Dimensional Workspace
Warehouse Distribution Using Lean Six
Sigma Tools
Measuring the Diffusion of Oxygen through
Concrete by Electrochemical Methods
Frame by Frame Analysis and Diagnosis of a
High Speed Packaging System Using Fastec
InLine Network-Ready Camera
Undergraduate Poster Presentation List：
Student Names
Joshua Barelli
School
EMS
Mentor
Chandramouli
Title
Examining the Effectiveness of Internal
Jeremy Weisman
Rachel Shmagranoff
Samantha Kinsman
EMS
Eric Bird
Jaime Alvarez Kristina
EMS
Schafer
Tyler Paul
Don Gruszka
Daniel Woods
Yan Jin
Yun Lee
Poying Chen
Ruben Barajas
Lucas DeBoer
Amos Sullivan
Viswanathan
Young D. Choi
Chimney Seal’s in Sanitary Sewers
Assessment of restored vegetation in the
wetlands of Wolf Lake, Hammond,
Indiana
Nicolae
Tarfulea
Mathematical Model for a Micro-actuator
EMS
Nicoleta
Tarfulea
Mathematical Modeling of the
Endothelial Cell Motility during
Angiogenesis
EMS
John Cox
Harold W.
Pinnick
Self-Healing Coatings Research
EMS
Harold W.
Pinnick
Green Synthesis of per(trimethylsilyl) –
Glucose& Galactose
EMS
Harold W.
Pinnick
Synthesis of 2-Bromodienes
Species diversity, primary production,
decomposition, and soil carbon
sequestration in a restored prairie, a coolseason grass pasture, and an old field in
Taltree Arboretum, Valparaiso, Indiana.
GPS Tracking of Cargo Transportation
Can HIV rebound from latently infected
CD4+ T – cells? Can the viral reservoir of
latently infected cells be eradicated during
HAART?
Semester Undergrad Research for
Engineers (SURE): Optical Sensors and
Detection of Heavy Metals in Water
Samantha Kinsman
Rachel Schmagranoff
Lauren Avans
EMS
Young Choi
Chris Nelson
EMS
Ruijian Zhang
Emily Mastej
EMS
Nicoleta
Tarfulea
Shadi Salman
EMS
George Nnanna
EMS
Donald Gray
Electric Vehicle Grand Prix Driver
Simulation
EMS
Ed Pierson
Wind Dome Wind Turbine
EMS
David Kozel
Electric Vehicle AC Controller
EMS
Chenn Q. Zhou
Dong Fu
CFD Simulation and VR Visualization of
Blast Furnace Hearth
EMS
Harvey
Abramowitz
NASA Moonbuggy 2013 PUC-2
Rowzat Faiz Xiaomeng
Wang Jassim
Almarhoom
Michael Beechin
Tom Musak
Dan Gorecki
Christopher Thompson
Jordan Lindeman Scott
Ruzic
Don Wunderlich
Zi Wang
Zelin Ma
Shaun Andres Dustin
Atwood Daniel Bonner
RJ Gladstone
Tj Fitzsimmons Sultan
Alowaid
EMS
Dave Kozel
Donald Gray
Electric Vehicle Grand Prix
The Use of Lytic Bacteriophages as Biocontrol Agents against Escherichia coli
O157:H7 in Food
Telemetry for the Purdue University
Calumet’s Moon Buggy Competition
Vehicle
Clameirdre Prince
EMS
Evert Ting
Bryan Lopez
Clayton Yankauskas
EMS
Donald Gray
Shadi Salman Matthew
Raymond Kevin
Sokolowski
EMS
George Nnanna
Water Contamination Detection Unit
EMS
Chenn Zhou
Doreen
Gaboyan
John Moreland
Development of a City Optimization Tool
for Urban Planning and Economic
Development
EMS
Indrajit Ray
Design and Modeling of Pervious
Concrete Pavement Towards Green and
Sustainable Solutions
Jiamin Yan
Jiannan Yue
Jing Liang
Daniel Schultz
Robert Ridge
Marissa Carillo
Diego Mende
Milos Gvero
Chen Luo
Kevin Phelan
Loai Obaidat
Mohammad Yasin
Anthony Torres James
Montgomery Ibrahim
Alseykhan
Kelli Comer
EMS
EMS
EMS
David Kozel
EMS
Evert Ting
Nicholas Dres Alejandro
EMS
Hernandez
Curtis Gomez
EMS
Carrie Gonzalez
Cassandra Rivera
Maxwell Knecht Patrick
Anderson
Nicholas Wright-Hart
Harvey
Abramowitz
Robert Rescot
Chandramouli
Viswanathan
Indrajit Ray
EMS
Donald Gray
Curtis
Creighton
Evert Ting
Moonbuggy 2013 PUC-1
Student Steel Bridge Competition 2013
AC Induction Motor for the EV Grand
Prix Kart
The Effect of Cadmium Contamination on
the Biodiversity of Bacteria in Soil
Telemetry for the Electric Vehicle Grand
Prix
Eco immunology of Nicrophorus
Orbicollus, burying beetle
Isolation and Identification of Bacteria
that Degrade 2,4- Dichlorophenoxyacetic
Acid
Dynamic Loading of Plastic Composite
Scaffolding
Silyl Sugar Production
Intesubunit Mutatational Effects of GIRK
1 and GIRK 4 subunits
EMS
Harvey
Abramowitz
Harold Pinnick
Cody C Stewart
EMS
Radmila Sarac
Nicholas Lamber
Maria Frebis
EMS
David Kozel
Donald Gray
Electric Vehicle Drivetrain
Xuecheng Xue
EMS
Chenn Zhou
Development of an FCC Regenerator
EMS
Xuan Wang
Harinder Sidhu Michael
Moreno Ruwaiz Abdul
Sather
Model
EMS
Brianne Slick
Technology
Mehran Latif
Technology
Jonathan Fromin
Gina Sepic
Mohammed Hamad
ALMarri
Christina
Avgerinos A’Antoniett
Evans Lisa Leonhardt
Alexandra Dziadon
Renee Exo
Amanda Glos
Melissa Victor
Lauren Corradin
Brittany Eder
Maggie Huff
Lauren
Adamczewski Brittany
Bateman Kadria
Woodfork
Timothy Clinton Grace
Gerhard Alison
Kouris Kristina Payne
Melissa Bergsneider
Muhammad
Anan
Vehicle Crash Detection and Reporting
System
José Peña
Dennis Korchek
Ge Jin
John Moreland
Cost Estimate for Restoration of the City
Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana
3D Safety Simulation for Wind Energy
Education
Honeynet, a Tool for security Incident
Identification, Tracking, and Response
Feasibility of configuring a solar collector
to operate in a “hybrid mode”
Utilization of an evidence-based checklist
for consumers of electronic health
resources
Technology
Manghui Tu
Technology
Craig D. Engle
Nursing
Ellen Moore
Nursing
Cheryl Anema
Assessment of Infants Experiencing
Withdrawal
Nursing
Cheryl Anema
Overcoming Barriers to Change
Nursing
Gail Wegner
Identification of Best Practices in the
Prevention of Alarm Fatigue
Nursing
Beth Vottero
Management Amlan Mitra
Best Practices in medication
reconciliation for heart failure patients in
the in-patient health care setting.
The Economic Feasibility of Installing
Solar Panels on Buildings at Purdue
Calumet.
Graduate Oral Presentation List:
Student Names
Muhammad Sana
Ullah
Kennethrex Obianika
Ndukaife
Wajahat Afsar
School
EMS
Nick Walla
Miao He
EMS
EMS
EMS
EMS
Mentor
Kaliappan
Gopalan
George
Nnanna
Nasser
Houshangi
Chenn Q. Zhou
Masoud
Mojtahed
Title
Features Extraction for Detecting Deception
from Stress Speech Signals
Infrared Imaging of the Spatial Distribution
of Fouling on a Membrane Surface
A novel method for autonomous lane
navigation of mobile robot
Life Prediction in Industrial Equipment
15302 CFD and FEA Thermal Stress
Analysis
Deren Li
EMS
Tianwei Wang
EMS
Guangwu Tang
EMS
Matthew Cross
Anfani Okosun
Roger Jestes
EMS
Amir Shamdani
Technology
Fatma Guizani
Management
Rui Liu
Wei Wang
Management
Management
EMS
Ruijian Zhang
Applying High Performance Computing For
Water Quality Assessment and Prediction
George
Refrigeration and Heat Pump Teaching
Nnanna
System
Chenn Q. Zhou Reducing the water tube overheating
problem: Numerical simulation of a boiler
firing metallurgical gases
Chenn Q. Zhou Thermal Modeling of Blast Furnace Tuyere
Bin Wu
Nose Using CFD
Ruijian Zhang Static and Dynamic Alternatives for Hybrid
Branch Predictors
Barbara Nicoai The Intelligent Architecture of Disaster
Domains
Jamaluddin
Arab States & poverty Alleviation
Husain
Songtao Mo
MF Global- A Sudden Fall without a Prelude
Kuan C. Chen A study of a financial decision support
system for personal investment.
Undergraduate Oral Presentation list:
Student Names
Michel Ovando
School
Technology
Mentor
Ahmed Ashfaq
Kevin Grskovich
Miena Gorgi
Hassan Ali Yadegar
Jermaine C. Banton
Norris L. Swilley
Dustin Franz
Technology
Manghui Tu
Technology
Technology
Craig Engle
Craige Engle
Technology
Paul Quinn
Steven Vane
Zhongyi Wang
Stephen Builta
Technology
EMS
Jamaica Sawyers
Heather McGrath
EMS
Ricardo A.
Calix
Gregory Neff
Chandramouli
Viswanathan
Nicolae
Tarfulea
Gayle Millsaps
Mohammad Karim
EMS
Kemi Daramola
EMS
Chandramouli
Viswanathan
Gokarna Aryal
Yang Liu
Jiajun Fu
EMS
David Kozel
EMS
Title
“Walking Raptor Dinosaur Robot” and
“Linear Precision System”
Automated Security Incident Response in a
Virtualized Linux Environment
Oscillator Test Set
High Flux Coupling Water Heater
Automatic Semantic Content Enrichment of
Sensor Network Based Information
Portable Thermal Storage Trombe Wall
Hydraulic Modeling of Little Calumet River
Mathematical Model for a Micro-actuator
Comparing Students’ Test Responses to
Fraction Tasks With and Without Visual
Supports
Rainfall intensity and frequency analysis of
the Midwest
A Statistical Analysis of the Fecundity of
Mealworms
Control System for an Electric Scooter
Media Property & Air Humidity’s Influence
on Cooling Efficiency of Direct Evaporation
Cooling
Three-D Wind Field Construction for
Suburban Environment by Parallel
Computational Fluid Dynamics Techniques
Lifecycle Assessment of Green Concrete
Yiran Yang
EMS
George
Nnanna
Yuntian Ge
Rui Zhang
EMS
Xiuling Wang
Scott Hoffman
Rebecca Noteboom
Jeremy Woodard
Anna S. Roessing
EMS
Indrajit Ray
EMS
Granulysin as a Lipid Binding Protein
Sishu Qian
Xu Wang
Abdulla Aljar
Mohammad Karim
YongBing Tang
Di Qiu
Dong Wang
Yu Ma
Chuyu Liu
Jichao Wang
Tenghao Wang
Qinye Li
EMS
Michael I.
Zimmer
Xiaoli Yang
Greoge
Nnanna
Xiaoli Yang
East Chicago Ultrafiltration Membrane Plant
Jason Earl
Samuel Metz
Mohammed Tomehy
Weiqiong.Zhang
Shaojie.Yuan
Guanzhong.Zhuang
Danko Andric
Jiachun Li
Xiaoxiao Zhang
Weiqiong.Zhang
Shaojie.Yuan
Guanzhong.Zhu
Daniel Huizenga
EMS
EMS
EMS
Simulation of Physical Principles
Virtual Oscilloscope
EMS
Chenn Q. Zhou iPad Application for Wind Farm Siting
John Moreland
EMS
Chenn Q. Zhou Reality University School & Career
John Moreland Simulator
Besma Smida
Feedback in Two-Way Wireless
Communication Systems
Besma Smida
Backscatter Modulation in Full-Duplex TwoDonald Gray
Way Wireless Sensors
EMS
EMS
John Moreland
Control System for an Electric Scooter
EMS
Chenn Q. Zhou CFD and VR Study of NIPSCO Unit 8
Bin Wu
Decomposition Chamber
EMS
EMS
Chenn
Zhou John
Moreland
Neeti Parashar
Weitao Wang
Yue Yu
Adeyemi Adeleke
Pete Les
Emad Alhusseini
EMS
Chi Zhang
EMS
Reimudo Cisneros
EMS
Robert Rescot
Indrajit Ray
Chandramoulli
Wisvanathan
Dong Fu
Augmented Reality for Quick Service
Restaurant Planning
Tracker Data Validation on the Particle
Accelerator at CERN
High-brightness led
Concrete Canoe
Parametric Study of a Blast Furnace
Dan vanderverdo
Zerun Zhou
Tiffany Deaton
Allie Kobar
Bridget Rogers
Sara Mendez
Victoria Boswell
Mindy Eastling
Matthew Wesley
LASS
LASS
Richard Rupp
David Pick
Arab Spring, Why Now?
Heuristic Problem Solving in Horses
LASS
David P.
Nalbone
LASS
Examining the Effects of Mortality Salience
and Political Orientation on Attitudes toward
Civil Liberties
Conflict? The First Amendment and the
Health and Human Services Mandate
Homosexual Parents in Children’s Literature
Daniel Curtin
LASS
Jacqueline Campos
Nicole Gonzalez
Education
Miroslava Cova
Monica Garza
Jessica Goodman
Amanda Juarez
Yiping Chen
Nursing
Lee
Rademacher
Kathryn
Sweeney
Gayle Millsaps
Diana
Underwood
Beth Vottero
Management
Amlan Mitra
Ben Oprinovich
Management
Brad Jordan
Ben Oprinovich
Management
Kuan-Chou
Chen
Kuan-Chou
Chen
Brad Jordan
Management
Kuan-Chou
Chen
John Vode
Management
Kuan-Chou
Chen
What Thinking Strategies Do Third Graders
Use When Solving Equal Sharing Problems
With Fractions?
Best Practices in Patient Discharge
Education Strategies for the Transitional
Care Nurse
Spillover Effects of Global Financial Crisis:
A Comparative Analysis of Stock Markets in
U.S., Hong Kong and China
Security Concerns Surrounding RFID
Technologies In The Consumer Marketplace
Reducing Adult Obesity through a Dynamic
Web System: A Northwest Indiana Food
Bank Case
Technology Stock Market Forecast Using
Data Mining Techniques
A Focus on Quantitative Easing in the
United States
Identify the Critical Success Factors of
Leadership for the Training Project
Managers
We want to take this opportunity to thank all the mentors. We deeply appreciate their great effort of student
researches.
The faculty mentors of 2013 Student Research Day presentation are:
School of Technology:
Lash Mapa, Jose Pena, Akram Hossain, Barbara Nicolai, Dennis Korchek, Ge Jin, John Moreland, Manghui Tu,
Craig D. Engle, Ahmed Ashfaq, Ricardo A. Calix, Gregory Neff.
School of LASS:
Richard Rupp, David Pick, David P. Nalbone, Lee Rademacher, Kathryn Sweeney.
School of Nursing:
Ellen Moore, Cheryl Anema, Gail Wegner, Beth Vottero.
School of Management:
Jamaluddin Husain, Songtao Mo, Kuan C. Chen, Amlan Mitra.
School of EMS:
Chandramouli Viswanathan, Nicolae Tarfulea, Gayle Millsaps, Gokarna Aryal, David Kozel, George Nnanna,
Xiuling Wang, Indrajit Ray, Michael I. Zimmer, Xiaoli Yang, Chenn Q. Zhou, John Moreland, Besma Smida,
Donald Gray, Bin Wu, Neeti Parashar, Chi Zhang, Robert Rescot, Dong Fu, Kaliappan Gopalan, Nasser Houshangi,
Masoud Mojtahed, Young D. Choi, Nicolae Tarfulea, John Cox, Harold W. Pinnick, Ed Pierson, Harvey Abramowitz,
Evert Ting, Doreen Gaboyan, Curtis Creighton, Radmila Sarac, Muhammad Anan, Constantin Apostoaia, Bin Chen,
Ruijian Zhang, Diana Underwood.
Please pay attention, all the student presenters:
There will be four oral presentation sessions on 2013 Student Research Day.
Session 1: 8:30 AM- 9:30 AM
Session 2: 9:40 AM- 10:40 AM
Each oral presentation in Session 1 or 2 has twenty minutes including Q&A.
Session 3: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Session 4: 2:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Each oral presentation in Session 3 or 4 has thirty minutes including Q&A.
Please send your preference of presentation session based on your availability and the time needed for your
presentation
to Student Research Office at SRO@purduecal.edu before next Monday, March 25.
If we do not receive your preference before the deadline, we will assume you are available for all sessions and
will set up
the presentation time for you.
If you will attend the Student Research Award ceremony and the Dinner at 4:15 – 7 PM, please make the reservation
before March 21.