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SUPERB and SUPERB-IT proudly present the

Summer 2007 SUPERB Symposium
Friday, August 3, 2007
11:00am-2:00pm
Wozniak Lounge (4th floor, Soda Hall)

The Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB), as well as its Information Technology counterpart (SUPERB-IT), provide students with the opportunity to gain research experience by participating in hands-on research projects with engineering faculty and graduate students on the UC Berkeley campus. This year, SUPERB and SUPERB-IT are proud to present the following student research at the Summer 2006 SUPERB Symposium:

Student, Home Institution
Project Title
Faculty Mentor
Graduate Mentors
Dariela Almeda
University of Texas, Austin

Aqueous Cultivation and Comparative Sequence Analysis of Marine Sponge Bacterial Symbionts

Professor Harvey Blanch 
Detmer Sipkema
Maria Bustamante
Oregon State University

Real-time Video and Image Processing of Rats Whiskers Movement Patterns in Order to Analyze Brain Response

Professor Jose Carmena
Subramanian Venkatraman
Emmanuel Cua
UC Berkeley

Finite Element Modeling of Growth in Biological Tissue

Professor Panos Papadopoulos
Chet Vignes
Israel Garcia
New Mexico State Universeity
Permeability of the intermediate heat exchanger in an advanced high temperature reactor Per F. Peterson
Eugenio Urquiza
Katherine Gray
Vanderbilt University
Parametric Study of Piezoelectric Inkjet Printing of Red Blood Cells Professor Costas Grigoropoulos
Matt Rogers
Maribel Hudson
University of Arizona
Development of a Low Cost System for Rapid Prototyping of Milirobots Professor Ron Fearing
Aaron Hoover
Khera Ashira
San Jose State University
Dynamic Graph Analysis and Optimal Control -- Dynamic Programming Approaches to Safety Professor Shankar Sastry Alessandro Abate
Maurice Lee
University of Arizona
Numerically analyzing and programming the one and two omega methods for measuring the thermal conductivity of thin-layer materials Professor Arun Majumdar
Jon Malen/Kaal Baheti
Gabriel Manzanarez
UC Berkeley
Alternative Biofuel Production in E.coli Professor Jay Keasling
Taek Soon Lee
Salvador Menjivar
Arizona State University

Mechanical and Electrical controls of chemical electroplating for MEMS device

Professor Al Pisano
Sang-Won Park
Lisa Miller
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Approximate Non-stationary Convolution Using a Block Separable Matrix Professor Brian Barsky
Todd Kosloff
Jose Perez
University of Florida

Study of long term viability and phenotypic expression after ONCOS activation in breast carcinoma cells (BT474)

Professor Luke Lee Eunice Lee
Brendan Purcell
Penn State University
A Thermoresponsive P(NIPAAm) surface modification using ATRP for Cell Adhesion/Detachment Control Professor Kevin Healy
Ray Schmidt
Javier Rosa
Rutgers University

Mapping Genomic Markers Associated with the Presence of Schizophrenia in a Population of Highly Related Individuals

Professor Richard Karp
Bonnie Kirkpatrick
Pablo Rosado
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Continuous Flow Evaporation-based Microfluidic Sample Concentration Professors Luke Lee
David Breslauer
Kevin Simmons
Alabama A&M University
Depth of Field Models and Rendering for Computer Graphics Professor Brian Barsky Todd Kosloff
Katherine Travis
Smith College

Optimization of photovoltaic operating temperature for use in combined Rankine cycle power generation

Professor Van Carey
Kenneth Armijo
Amalia Vita
Columbia University 
Feature Extraction and Analysis for Body Sensor Networks Professor Ruzena Bajcsy Roozbeh Jafari
Juan Yaquian
Baylor University
Serial-Parallel Control Interface for Tunable Analog Circuits Performances Professor Ali Niknejad Wei-Hung Chen

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