2015 ASEE-GSW Section Awards

March 25-27, 2015

University of Texas at San Antonio

 

Outstanding Teaching Award

Svetlana V. Poroseva

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering Department

University of New Mexico

 

 

Outstanding Campus Rep Award

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

Associate Dean and Professor

Mechanical Engineering Department

University of Texas at Tyler

 

 

Undergraduate Student Paper Award, 1st Place

“In-Situ Blood Pressure Monitoring System: A Customer Driven Capstone Design Project” by Gage R. Russell, Matt L. Moore, Zach K. Gaston, Leonel Acosta and Jay Porter (Texas A&M U.)

Undergraduate Student Paper Award, 2nd Place

“THE NANORACKS EMBEDDED SYSTEMS INTERFACE BOARD: AN INNOVATIVE STEM OUTREACH TOOL” by Dakotah Karrer and Colton Schimank (Texas A&M U.)

Undergraduate Student Paper Award, 3rd Place

“Use of Recycled Concrete Aggregates for Improved Sustainability of Reinforced Concrete Building Structures – Economic Considerations”
by Mark Davis, Michael Mcginnis and Yahya C. Kurama (U. of Texas at Tyler)

 

 Graduate Student Paper Award, 1st Place

“Feasibility Study to Harvest Electric Power from Highway Pavements using Laboratory Investigation”
by Hossein Roshani and Samer Dessouky (U. of Texas at San Antonio)

Graduate Student Paper Award, 2nd Place

“Characterizing Java Virtual Machine for More Efficient Processor Power Management”
by Marcelo S. Quijano and Lide Duan (U. of Texas at San Antonio)

Graduate Student Paper Award, 3rd Place

“Control of a Gas Turbine’s speed with a Fuzzy logic controller”
by Ammar Surti (California State U.), Wenyuan Xiao (U. of Texas at San Antonio ) and Ruting Jia* (California State U.)

 

Faculty Paper Award, 1st Place

“Industry collaboration: remote monitoring of a cloud-based system using open source tools”
by Ana E. Goulart, Nishanth Prabhu, Tyler Covington, and Chris Corti (Texas A&M U.)

 Faculty Paper Award, 2nd Place

“A Manufacturing Processes Curriculum Embedded with Continuous Improvement”
by Albert Yin Tung Sun (St. Mary’s U.) and Hung-Da Wan (U. of Texas at San Antonio)

Faculty Paper Award, 3rd Place

Intervention in Calculus: Back-mapping performance differences to tasks in the Emerging Scholars Program” by James A. Epperson, Lynn Peterson (U. of Texas at Arlington) and Frank J. Houser (Irving Independent School District)