CARD Student Poster Winners – October 2023
We are pleased to announce the following winners of CARD’s October 2023 poster competition that was held at CARD’s industry advisory board meeting, October 11 – 13, 2023.
- 1st Place: Itamar Harris, WPI – “Enhancement of Drying of Moist Porous Media with Phase Change Material”
- 2nd Place: Mucheng Li, WPI – “Optical Fiber Noses for Real-time, In-line Gas and Aroma Sensing in Drying”
- 3rd Place: Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti, WPI – “Dehydration of Slurry Fluids Using Contact and Non-Contact Ultrasonic Wave Technology”
- 3rd Place: Ramin Nemati, UIUC – “Microstructural Mechanical Texture Evaluation of a Food Material as a Function of Drying Conditions”
- Honorable Mention: Jacob Bouchard & Jacen Urbaniak, WPI – “Non-contact THz Moisture Sensor”.
In addition to the students featured center in the photos below are from left to right: Srinivasa Salapaka, CARD UIUC Site Director, Xue Liu, BASF – CARD IAB Co-Chair, Sanjay Sarang, PepsiCo – CARD IAB Chair, Yuxiang (Shawn) Liu, CARD WPI Co-Chair and Jamal Yagoobi, CARD Director – WPI.
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Itamar Harris (center) earned 1st place for her poster “Enhancement of Drying of Moist Porous Media with Phase Change Material”.
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Mucheng Li earned 2nd place for his poster “Optical Fiber Noses for Real-time, In-line Gas and Aroma Sensing in Drying”.
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Ramin Nemati (right) tied for 3rd place with Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti. His poster title is “Microstructural Mechanical Texture Evaluation of a Food Material as a Function of Drying Conditions”. Mehrnoush’s (featured left of Ramin) poster title is “Dehydration of Slurry Fluids Using Contact and Non-Contact Ultrasonic Wave Technology”.
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Jacen Urbaniak (left) and Jacob Bouchard (right) both received an honorable mention for their work on “Non-contact THz Moisture Sensor”.
Amazing work everyone!
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