Year-long undergraduate research projects were presented in East Hall’s Qimonda Atrium Nov. 20, 2018, at the Dean's Undergraduate Research Symposium. (See photos.) The symposium was open to undergraduate researchers from the VCU College of Engineering, including Dean’s Undergraduate Research Initiative (DURI) scholars. Engineering faculty judged the 29 research posters on display and presented awards to the top three projects:
First Place
Project: Addressing Local Class Imbalance in Balanced Datasets with Dynamic Impurity Decision Trees
Student Researcher: Andriy Mulyar
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Adviser: Bartosz Krawczyk, Ph.D.
Second Place
Project: Metagenomic Sequence Classification through Deep Learning
Student Researcher: Gabrielle Strandquist
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Adviser: Tomasz Arodz, Ph.D.
Third Place
Project: Driving Barrier Formation within Bioengineered Lungs Using Rotational Seeding ECM Coatings
Student Researcher: Keerthana Shankar
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Adviser: Rebecca L. Heise, Ph.D.