2016 Governor's School of New Jersey Program in Engineering & Technology Research Journal
Project Title: 3D Printing a Quadcopter
Mentors Name(s): Kristian Wu (Student, Rutgers Electrical and Computer Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Kristian Wu
Governor’s School Scholars: Luke Dai, Marc Harary, Carly Pompei, Steven Shan, & Melissa Tu
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rhaoilt6_0
Project Title: A Better Dead-Reckoning System
Mentors Name(s): Ivan Seskar (Engineer, Rutgers Winlab), Roy Yates (Engineering, Rutgers Winlab), Matthew Tantoy (Student, Rutgers Electrical and Computer Engineering Department), & Rupesh Chinta (Student, Rutgers Electrical and Computer Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Anthony Yang
Governor’s School Scholars: Spencer Fishman, Derek Huang, Brian Jimenez, Emily Liu, & Sudharshan Venkatesh
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp1sUKvyvcI
Project Title: Acoustic Levitation – The Design and Usage
Mentors Name(s): Keon Kim (Student, Rutgers Electrical and Computer Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Keon Kim
Governor’s School Scholars: Sarah Fontana, Irina Liu, Devin Moeller, & Kimberly Robins
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIyddi2vCQY
Project Title: Automatic Zip Code Reader
Mentors Name(s): Dr. Waheed Bajwa (Assistant Professor, Rutgers Electrical and Computer Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Keon Kim
Governor’s School Scholars: Caleb Frey, Benjamin Giugliano, Jennifer He, Derya Sopher, & Rebecca Wiltshire
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJi3glzqnrg
Project Title: Dams: looking at the bigger picture
Mentors Name(s): Alissa Persad (Student, Rutgers Department of Civil and Bioenvironmental Engineering)
RTA Name(s): Alissa Persad
Governor’s School Scholars: Kaitlyn DeGroot, Rajas Karajgikar, Max Milone, Pranav Penmetcha, & Olivia Wang
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_qTXPzSIA8
Project Title: Design of Cables for Space Elevators
Mentors Name(s): Stephanie Tu (Student, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Stephanie Tu
Governor’s School Scholars: Nathaniel Hontz, Mohar Kalra, Rachel Lange, Daniel Maguire, & Niyant Narang
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_tf-ubFfCM
Project Title: Designing a Soft Robotic Hand to Perform Various Tasks
Mentors Name(s): Jihoon Oh (Student, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
RTA Name(s): Jihoon Oh
Governor’s School Scholars: Rachel Lim, Hank Portney, Jillian Ross, Shivam Verma, & John Yager
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUiBMV4WN0k
Project Title: Development of an Internet of Things (IoT) Enabled Household
Mentors Name(s): Nick Lurski (Student, Rutgers School of Engineering)
RTA Name(s): Lawrence Maceren
Governor’s School Scholars: Adeena Javed, Kapil Kanwar, Maxwell Legrand, Noam Miller, & Samuel Scherl
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vygEuWFHh6s
Project Title: Experimental Mars Rover
Mentors Name(s): Michael Sanzari (Student, Rutgers School of Engineering)
RTA Name(s): Alex Hobbs
Governor’s School Scholars: Tanishq Aggarwal, William Li, Abhinav Raghunathan, Gargi Sadalgekar, & Anita Zirngibl
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXavB-o1wjg
Project Title: Health-Monitoring Wearables (Lockheed)
Mentors Name(s): Dan Moskowitz (Engineer, Lockheed Martin), Michael Vanezis (Engineer, Lockheed Martin), Joe Grossmann (Engineer, Lockheed Martin), Bruno Janota(Engineer, Lockheed Martin), & Shawn Vettom (Engineer, Lockheed Martin)
RTA Name(s): Kristian Wu
Governor’s School Scholars: Amy Liang, Brianna Patek, Sruthi Srinivasan, Eileen Wang, & Andrew Zheng
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnVXVMsegX0
Project Title: Lean Manufacturing Work Station Design in Silver Line
Mentors Name(s): Adaliza Diaz (Engineer, Silverline), Jennifer Bajorek (Engineer, Silverline), & Patrick Smith (Engineer, Silverline)
RTA Name(s): Mary Pat Reiter
Governor’s School Scholars: Apoorva Agarwal, Kathie Jin, Christopher Theuerkauf, & Tiffany Yu
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKwJcsodih4
Project Title: Motion Control Gaming with Kinect
Mentors Name(s): Lawrence Maceren (Student, Rutgers Electrical and Computer Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Lawrence Maceren
Governor’s School Scholars: Jonathan Fong, Jacob Gorman, Zachary Panzarino, Steven Topper, & Sara Weill
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSGbr3B-ut0
Project Title: Parametric Study of Zinc Oxide Nanomaterials Grown from Aluminum Substrates Faculty Support
Mentors Name(s): Dr. Jonathan Singer (Assistant Professor, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department), Tianxing Ma (Student, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department), Lin Lei (Student, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department), & Imrhankhan Shajahan (Student, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Sandra Pelka
Governor’s School Scholars: Aaron Anesgart, Chloe Cho, Saransh Chopra, Michael Higgins, & Saira Reyes
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfyQsrxM_YU
Project Title: Rutgers Robohand
Mentors Name(s): Katie Lau (Student, Rutgers Biomedical Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Mary Pat Reiter
Governor’s School Scholars: Kimberly Ding, Daphne Kontogiorgos-Heintz, Kasey McFadden, Shayla Murray, & Wamia Siddiqui
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A2-m1FN5QE
Project Title: Smart Appliance (Lockheed)
Mentors Name(s): Josh Binder (Engineer, Lockheed Martin), Joe Mirizio (Engineer, Lockheed Martin), Kyle Cavorley (Engineer, Lockheed Martin), Joe Ippolite (Engineer, Lockheed Martin), & Shawn Vettom (Engineer, Lockheed Martin)
RTA Name(s): Stephanie Tu
Governor’s School Scholars: Grace Ding, Catherine Huang, Jason Meyerberg, & Matt Quan
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnPWROxNiSU
Project Title: Synthetic Skin-like Sensing in Wearable Garments
Mentors Name(s): Dr. Aaron Mazzeo (Assistant Professor, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department) & Mandev Singh (Student, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Jihoon Oh
Governor’s School Scholars: Claire Furino, Rebecca Granovskiy, Anna Qin, Bret Silverstein, & Madeline Wong
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NC8Yj_je9A
Project Title: Three dimensional deterministic lateral displacement
Mentors Name(s): Dr. German Drazer (Associate Professor, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department) & Siqi Du (Student, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Alissa Persad
Governor’s School Scholars: Brandon Gomes, Sophie Slutzky, Kaley Ubellacker, Jackson Weaver, & Sharon Zhang
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0R4H5BTQj8
Project Title: Unraveling the effect of solvent in biomass processing by means of Operando vibrational spectroscopy
Mentors Name(s): Dr. George Tsilomelekis (Assistant Professor, Rutgers Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department), Hualin Qiao (Student, Rutgers Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department), & Yusheng Guo (Student, Rutgers Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department)
RTA Name(s): Sandra Pelka
Governor’s School Scholars: Rebecca Della Croce, Andrew Mu, Miyu Ono, Aditya Rao, & Matthew Signorelli
Symposium Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol6Ebz6vRMA