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May 05, 2009
Twenty-two teams competed last week in the Spring 2009 Senior Design Competition at UNLV's Cox Pavilion. The Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering is pleased to announce the following awards:
1st place, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Concrete Canoe- $1000 monetary prize to be divided equally amongst team participants.
Team participants Tiffany Hearn, Nicole Melton, and Adam Pocock.
Instructor: Dr. Barbara Luke
Adviser: Dr. Aly Said
Community Mentor,: James Marrs, P.E.
2nd place, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Enhancing Transportation Experience at UNLV, $500 divided equally amongst team participants.
Team Participants Johnny Alhwayek, Oscar Quiroz, Chanon Ruangjumrusvet, Noe Santos
Adviser: Dr. Harry Teng
Community Mentor: Kevin M. Futch, P.E. PTOE
1st place, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Multipurpose Dart Detection System- $1000 divided equally amongst team participants: Jeff Hurley, Michael Wong, and Cheng Yangli
Instructor and adviser: Dr. Paolo Ginobbi
Biomeetric Password Keeper- $500 divided equally amongst team participants: James Aden, Christopher Mcelhone, and Alison Mina
Instructor : Dr. Paolo Ginobbi
Adviser: Dr. Emma Regentova
1st place, Mechanical Engineering
Lots of Pepper Now-$1,000 divided equally amongst the team participants: Sean Birnbaum, Elden Goddard, Christian Herrera, Stoil Pamoukov
Instructor: Dr. Brian Landsberger
Adviser: Dr. Georg Mauer
2nd place, Mechanical Engineering
Supersonic Water Table: $500 divided equally amongst the team participants: David Glaser and Wade Mcelroy
Advisor: Dr. Darrell Pepper
Electric Car Conversion-$1,000 divided equally amongst the team participants from Electrical and Mechanical Engineering departments: Makram Abd El Qader, Peter Faught, Bringham Joffs, Don Twyman, John Wardle
Instructor and Advisers: Dr. Brian Landsberger, Dr. Paolo Ginobbi, Dr. Venki Muthukumar, Dr. Yingtao Jiang, Dr. Jian Ma, and Dr. Georg Mauer
Home Power Meter: $2500 divided equally amongst the team participants: Kenneth Hynes and Devin Taylor
Instructors: Dr. Brian Landsberger and Dr. Paolo Ginobbi
Adviser: Mr. Rick Hurt
A description and photo of all award winners, may be found at engineering.unlv.edu under the realted links section of the home page.
Congratulations to all our winners and participants.
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