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Student Participants
Student Oral Presentation Winners – Sponsored by SNC-Lavalin
1st Place, Nicholas Simard, McMaster University
Title: Finally Providing Clarity to Concussion
Keywords: MRI, Concussion, Big Data
Prize Value: $1000
2nd Place, Sara Filice, McMaster University
Title: Effect of Heat Treatment on Hydrogen Trapping Capacity of Model Fe-C-Mn-Nb Steel
Keywords: carbon steel, hydrogen, thermal desorption
Prize Value: $750
3rd Place, Jackson Reid, Carleton University
Title: Digital Image Correlation for Ground Vibration Testing Tuned Hybrid Stick Reduced Order Model of Aircrafts
Keywords: Reduced-order modeling, digital image correlation, aircrafts
Prize Value: $500
Student Poster Presentation Winners
1st Place, Naveen Vasudevan, McMaster University
Title: COWBOE (Construction Of Windows Based On Energy), an algorithm to select parameters for free energy calculation
Keywords: Python, free energy calculation, optimization
Prize Value: $500
2nd Place, Jonathan Mainville, Laurentian University
Title: Trenchless Crossings: Understanding the innovative Direct Pipe Installation method for large diameter pipelines
Keywords: energy, innovation, tunnelling
Prize Value: $350
3rd Place, Milana Pikula, McMaster University
Title: Single-Step Printable Hydrogel Microarray Integrating Long-Chain DNA for the Discriminative and Size-Specific Sensing of Nucleic Acids
Keywords: DNA microarray, hydrogels, rolling circle amplification
Prize Value: $250
People’s Choice Award for Most Unique Graphical Abstract
1st Place, Yiyuan Zhang, Western University
Title: Magnetic-actuated “capillary container” for versatile three-dimensional fluid interface manipulation
Keywords: Capillary container, 3D fluid interfaces, Programable dynamic manipulation
Prize Value: $100
2nd Place, Martin Villegas, McMaster University
Title: Antibiotic-Impregnated Liquid-Infused Coatings Suppress the Formation of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms
Keywords: bifunctional coating, anti-biofouling, liquid-infused surface
Prize Value: $50
Congratulations to all student presenters! Thank you for participating in METRIC 2021.
This year’s keynote speaker was Inge Christensen!
For three decades, Inge has been a Creative Thinking Coach helping corporate teams to “unstick their thinking” when solving critical business challenges. She is also the Communications Coach at The Forge at McMaster and Innovation Factory, helping startups to use storytelling to create and deliver winning pitches.
Our guest speaker, Leyla Soleymani received her PhD from University of Toronto in 2010 in Electrical and Computer Engineering and joined McMaster as an Assistant Professor in 2011. Dr. Soleymani is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Engineering Physics and Biomedical Engineering at McMaster and is a University Scholar and the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Miniaturized Biomedical Devices. Dr. Soleymani’s research is focused on developing new materials for improving the performance of electrochemical and photo-electrochemical biosensors, as well as biointerfaces. Dr. Soleymani was awarded the Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2016, the Engineering Innovation of the Year Award by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers in 2020, and the grand prize for Tech Brief’s Create the Future Contest in 2020 for her work on biosensors and biointerfaces. Dr. Soleymani has over 60 high-impact publications and holds several patents in the areas of biosensing and biointerfaces with multiple technologies licensed to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and advanced materials companies.
METRIC 2021 sponsored by:
