Winners announced for college’s 2023 Student Research Poster Competition

Top left: Abul Borkot Md Rafiqul Hasan. Top right: Sonia Bendre. Bottom: Walaa Saadeh, pictured with Jon Krauski, Kristyn White and Margie Krauksi

Congratulations to the winners–and their faculty advisors—of the 2023 Student Research Poster Competition. This year’s competition drew 65 graduate and undergraduate poster submissions from students who worked with 34 different research advisors across all seven departments of UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science. Sixty-nine people (industry employees and faculty members) volunteered as judges.  

Graduate Awards
First Place: Abul Borkot Md Rafiqul Hasan, Mechanical Engineering
Research Advisor: Krishna Pillai, Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Second Place: Rawan Aqel, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Advisor: Rani Elhajjar, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Third Place: Mohsen Sabbaghi, Electrical Engineering
Research Advisor: George Hanson, Professor Emerit, Electrical Engineering

Undergraduate Awards
First Place: Sonia Bendre, Electrical Engineering
Research Advisor: Rob Cuzner, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science

Second Place: Weiling Xia, Materials Science & Engineering
Research Advisor: Xiaoli Ma, Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

Third Place: Ian Smith, Mechanical Engineering
Faculty advisor: William Musinski, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering

Mike Krauski Memorial Award
Walaa Saadeh, Mechanical Engineering
Research Advisor: Ryoichi Amano, Richard and Joanne Grigg Faculty Fellow and Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Thank you to our generous sponsors and to the 26 faculty, staff and students who helped staff the event and together made this exciting competition possible.

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