On Friday, February 26, 2016, the 8th annual Drexel IEEE Graduate student Forum's Research Symposium was held in Bossone Research Enterprise Center between 9:30-5:30PM. As many as 37 poster were presented and judged by ECE faculty and colleagues. Four invited talks were presented in the beginning and at the end of day, which was attended primarily by graduate students.
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These posters were categorized in both physical/chemical/biological aspects in electrical, electronic, and computer systems (22 PH posters) and Mathematical/ Numerical Modeling/Analytical aspects in the electrical, electronic, biomedical, and computer systems (15 MA posters). 23 of the received posters were from Drexel with 13 posters from the ECE Department, while other departments such as Materials Science and Engineering Department (4), Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department (2), Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering (1) , College of Computing and Informatics (3), and School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems (1) had active participation this year. There were 14 posters from outside Drexel from the Rowan University (4), Temple University (4), University of Pennsylvania (3), Villanova University (2), and Rutgers University (1), which was record attendance from other local institutions.
The 15 judges had a very fruitful discussion with the student presenters and after a careful evaluation of the posters in terms of originality, quality of presentation, competence of presenters, the following four posters were recognized during a reception:
Category of PH:
- 1st place: Robust Near-Threshold Inverter with Improved Performance for Ultra-Low Power Applications by MD Shazzad Hossain, Dr. Ioannis Savidis, Dept. of ECE, Drexel University
- 2nd place: Cell-Free Artificial Photosynthesis System by Xiang Ren, Jack G. Zhou, E.Caglan Kumbur, Wenqiao Yuan, Parkson Lee-Gau Chong, Prof. Moses Noh, Dept. of MEM, Drexel University
Category of MA:
- 1st place: Using spectral graph theory to relate white matter with resting-state functional connectivity in the brain by Cassiano Becker, SeĢrgio Pequito, Prof. George J. Pappas, Prof. Michael B. Miller, Prof. Scott T. Grafton, Dr. Danielle S. Bassett, and Dr. Victor M. Preciado, Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- 2nd place: Generalized Coprime Sampling of Toeplitz Matrices by Si Qin, Dr. Yimin D. Zhang*, Prof. Moeness G. Amin, and Dr. Abdelhak Zoubir, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University and *Temple University.