2010 - Chemical & Biomedical Engineering - University of South ...

Dr. Yogi Goswami Joins
Pan American Academy of Engineering
University of South Florida professor and pioneering energy researcher Yogi Goswami
has been inducted into the Pan American Academy of Engineering in Mexico City in recognition
of his outstanding contributions to the field of engineering.
Goswami was noted for his ground-breaking work in the area of solar energy utilization.
Goswami, who is co-director of USF’s Clean Energy Research Center, was presented
with the academy’s Member Medallion at a recent ceremony. The Pan American Academy
of Engineering (Academia Panamericana de Ingenieria) was founded in Panama in 2000, by
the Pan American Federation of Engineering Societies in recognition that in the Americas,
social progress and economic welfare depends largely on the intelligent use of technology.
From left to right:
Rosanna Ayala, Dr. Aydin Sunol,
Dharini Patel and
Justin Stewart
Advisory Board Meeting April 24
Our annual Advisory Board Meeting was held at the Alumni Center on the Tampa Campus,
April 24, 2009. The Senior Class directed under Dr. Aydin Sunol presented poster projects
based on subjects they learned throughout the semester. Advisory Board Members, as well
as, graduate students and faculty went around judging the posters while interacting with
the students. The judges picked winners in various categories as follows:
Best Product Design:
Justin Stewart, Dharini Patel,
Rosanna Ayala
Best Process Design:
Marlyn Colon, Ryan Cates,
Michael Deloach, John Jones
Best Design Presentation:
Violeta Kukenska, Nabila Shamseddine,
Chase Whitman, Marcos Garibay
From left to right:
Marlyn Colon, Michael Deloach, John
Jones, Dr. Aydin Sunol, and
Not Pictured Ryan Cates
From left to right:
Violeta Kukenska, Nabila Shamseddine,
Dr. Aydin Sunol, Chase Whitman and
Marcos Garibay
2009 Engineering
Research Day
Travel Awards:
Michael Celestin, Tunnel Diodes
Fabricated Using Self-Assembled
Alkanethiol Films on Au, Advisors:
Yogi Goswami and Shekhar
Bhansali
Fedena Fanord,
Surface Modified Gold Nanoparticles
to Study Perthes Disease,
Advisor: Vinay Gupta
Jeffy Jimenez,
Action of Anti-Aß Monoclonal
Antibodies on Amyloid Beta Peptide
Fibrils,
Advisor: Norma Alcantar
Alisha Peterson,
Synthesis and Characterization of
Novel Nanomaterials,
Advisor: Vinay Gupta
Senior Class Industrial Advisory Board Members
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