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    Graduate Students Shine in 2021 ME3MT Competition
This year’s ME Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition took place on October 6 and showcased the impactful, innovative research being done by our graduate students. Over 125 attendees watched the event, which was held both virtually and in person at Northrop’s Best Buy Theater.
The 3MT Competition gives graduate students three minutes to describe their thesis in an engaging and easy-to-understand format. The purpose of the competition is to celebrate the innovative research conducted by our graduate students and to cultivate their academic, presentation, and research communications skills while highlighting the diversity of research in ME today, with topics ranging from energy and the environment to human health. ME’s graduate students engage in pioneering, interdisciplinary research and will become the next leaders in mechanical engineering in both academia and industry.
       FIRST PLACE:
Amey Joshi
“Robots to Accelerate Biological Research”
SECOND PLACE:
Yaling Liu
“‘Transparent Solar Panel’: Luminescent Solar Concentrators”
PEOPLE’S CHOICE:
Iaroslav Makhnenko
“Don’t Let Pesticides Fly Away”
Yaling Liu won the CSE-wide event and advanced to the University 3MT competition!
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