The GSA Poster Competition took place on the first day of the SRS. Here we see Ashley, a graduate student in Biology, explaining her project to Dr. Simpson, one of the judges. Ashley came in second in the competition! Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
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Alyssa is a graduate student in Electrical Engineering working with Dr. Fierro. Her project, titled "Magnetic Component Design and Performance Analysis in a High-Frequency Flyback Converter" won first prize in the competition! Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
William, on the right, is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. William's project titled, "Mechanical-Luminescent Metamaterial for Mechanical Computing" was developed under Dr. Ryu's supervision. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Mariana is a graduate student working with Dr. Wells in the field of Nuclear Physics. Here we see Mariana explaining her project titled, "Separating the Inseparable: Kinematic Recoil as a Separation Method for Chemically Identical Isotopes," to Dr. Simpson, one of the judges in the GSA Poster Competition. Mariana also presented a shorter version of her research and won third prize in the 3-Minute Speech Competition. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Joseph, a graduate MechE student, is explaining his project titled, "Design and Validation of a High-Voltage Pulsed Ultrasonic Platform for Void Detection in Mining Environment," to Dr. Pias from the Chemistry Department. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Seth is a graduate MechE student, who presented on, "Project Guido: Rapid Pitstop," which was developed with Dr. Barenji. Seth also competed in the GSA Poster Session. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Participants in the Oral Presentation category, from the left: Carlos, Aaron, Jeremiah, Apu, Emmanuel, Ashley, Malsha, and Leon. They did an outstanding job at presenting their project to the audience in an accesible and engaging way. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Oral Presentation: Ashley, a graduate student in Biology, is carefully listening to a question from one of the evaluators. Ashley's project, "The Viral Solution to Antibiotic Resistance Spread in Wastewater Treatment" also got her second place in the GSA Poster Competition. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Participants in the 3-Minute Speech Competition, top left: Joya, Malsha, Hailey, Hasan, Richard, Emmanuel, Renzo, Long, Mariana. Bottom left: Arnob, Luke, Carlos, and Anthony. In this category, Anthony, a graduate student in Biotechnology came in first; Hailey, an undergraduate student in Computer Science took second place, and Mariana, a graduate student in Physics, came in third. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Luke, a graduating senior in Civil Engineering, is presenting on, "Digital Twins for Infrastructure Management," supervised by Dr. Morris. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Poster Session 1 was on Wednesday and featured 24 posters! On the left we see Kacy, Samuel, and Abigail, who are presenting their project, "Measuring Atmospheric Cosmic Ray Profiles with Balloon Payload and Radiacode Scintillator" to Dr. Da Silva from the Physics Department.
Tyler, Joseph, Colton, and Diego (back) presented on "A Ground-Penetrating Radar System for the Differentiation of Buried Treasure," under the supervision of Dr. Scott Teare from the Electrical Engineering Department.
Susanna, on the left, is an undergraduate student in the Physics Department, working with Dr. Leal and here presenting on "Multi-Instrument Observation of Lightning with Continuing Current in New Mexico." On the right we see Gavin, a MechE, presenting on "Dual Jet Heat Flow using Fire Dynamics Simulator, " under the supervision of Dr. Wei.
Still Poster Session 1! On the left we see Isabella and Aidan, presenting their project, "Microstructural Characterization of AlCoCrFeNi2.1 Eutectic High-Entropy Alloy Under Thermo-Mechanical Processing ," to Dr. Wei from Mechanical Engineering. Behind them is Xavier, whose poster had to do with "The Impact on Classroom Environments on Student Learning and Well-Being," a project developed with Dr. McCullough.
Poster Session 2 featured 23 posters. Emma, an undergraduate student in Earth & Environmental Sciences and a Sophomore Research Program participant, talked about different bat species found in our local Bosque Del Apache. Emma worked with Dr. Coyte. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Lily, an undergraduate student in Physics, works with Dr. Leal and presented on, "Lightning and Climatological Factors in the Americas during the Recent El Niño and La Niña Events." Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Charlotte, an undergraduate Biology student, is listening to Ishara, a graduate student in Chemistry who was also one of the evaluators in Poster Session 2. Charlotte's project, developed under the supervision of Dr. Salazar-Hamm, dealt with, "Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Coccidioidomycosis among Health Workers in New Mexico." Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Lilliana, Kaitlynn, Isabella, Gregory, and Gwynn presented on, "Observing Genomic Biodiversity of Bacteriophages Extracted from a Shared Collection Site," a project developed with Dr. Goncz from the Biology Department. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Bailey's project discussed art, chemistry, and rocks. Bailey is also a participant in the Sophomore Research Program and worked with Dr. Spruill. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Cole, an undergraduate MechE, on the left, is talking about, "Flow Visualization of Supersonic Projectiles with Color Gradient Background-oriented Schlieren," which was developed under the supervistion of Dr. Mier. In the background we see Miles, a Sophomore Research Program participant, explaining their poster, "Functionalization of Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Surfaces with Chitosan and Polydopamine," to Hasan, a graduate student in Chemical Engineering and Miles' evaluator. On the right we see Dr. Richardson from Civil Engineering looking at Nikolai's and Kevin's poster on "NMTSat Solar Panel Production," Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Poster Session 4 brought 26 posters, so the OSL area was pretty crowded—and we loved it! President Jackson has always been a champion for the SRS and signs up each year to be an evaluator, for which we are very grateful. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Poster Session 4 continued. Daisy and Simon are posing in front of their poster titled, "Soil Microbial Functional Response To Herbicide Application Aimed At Grassland Restoration," developed under Dr. ben Duval from the Biology Department. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Aaron, an undergraduate MechE, is explaining his project, "Development of a Low-Cost Robotic-Assisted Surgical System Using Open-Source Mechatronic Frameworks," to Dr. Jahner from the Biology Department. Aaron's project, developed under Dr. Barenji's guidance, also made it to the Oral Presentation. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Clayton, a Physics major, came with a proposal to improve sustainability on NMT campus through composting. His project was quite popular among the audience and encouraged constructive feedback and suggestions from the evaluators. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Haven, Cody, and Alexander, presented on, "A Deployable Tri-band Beacon Antenna for the NMTSWE Satellite," a project developed with Dr. Jorgensen from the Electrical Engineering Department. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Poster Session 4. Rio is a Physics major graduating next month. His project, "Ultraviolet Radiation and Ozone Measurements over New Mexico Tech," was advised by Dr. Minschwaner from the Physics Department. Photo credit: Valeria Orozco.
Thank you for supporting NMT's Student Research Symposium! If you were a presenter, we hope that you had a pleasant experience and that you have learned a lot. If you stopped by to check it out, thank you for attending as the symposium would not exist without an audience interested in learning what our amazing students have been doing. Dear Evaluators: thank you for helping our students get better at talking science!
We hope to see you all again next year!
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