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Four engineering grad students receive awards at Graduate Exhibition
Apr 4, 2025
Editor's note: A version of this article originally appeared on Penn State News.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Thirty-one graduate students, including four from the College of Engineering, received awards at the 2025 Graduate Exhibition, hosted by the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School on Friday, March 28, on the University Park campus.
The event, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2025, is a professional development activity that challenges students to communicate their research and creative scholarship to a general audience in five minutes. Community volunteers serve as judges, evaluating exhibits and presentations, and providing constructive feedback.
Awards are given in each of the Graduate Exhibition’s five categories: Design, Performance, Research Poster, Video and Visual Arts. Two special awards are given for research and scholarship that addresses issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion, and a data visualization award sponsored by the University Libraries. The 2025 Graduate Exhibition also included a People’s Choice award, sponsored by the Graduate and Professional Student Association, in both the Performance and Visual Arts categories.
2025 award recipients from the College of Engineering, whose abstracts can be found on the Graduate Exhibition website, are:
Design Category
- First Place: Shreyas Nagaraj, Engineering Design, “Designed to Crash, Built to Survive: An Additive Manufacturing Approach”
Research Poster Category —Engineering
- First Place: Leo Lonzarich, Civil Engineering, “Harmonizing Operational Model Deployment with a Model-agnostic Differentiable Modeling Machine-learning Framework”
- Second Place: Prakash Poudel, Civil Engineering, “Safety Performance of Passing Zone Segments on Two-lane Rural Highways in Pennsylvania: Comparing Crash Modification Factors using Causal Inference and Unobserved Heterogeneity Models”
Data Visualization Award (Sponsored by the University Libraries)
- Honorable Mention: Jacob Seiler, Architectural Engineering, “Energy Dispatch Optimization for Controlled Environment Agriculture with Combined Heat and Power”
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