People’s Choice Award ($500 prize)

“Intercomparison of numerical methods in climate simulations with idealized moisture parameterizations”
Diana Thatcher (Advisor: Christiane Jablonowski)
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Studies

People’s Choice Honorable Mention ($250 prize)

“Convex-Concave Shape Shifting Building Blocks for Reconfigurable Structures”
N. Khalid Ahmed, Greg van Anders, Elizabeth Chen (Advisor: Sharon Glotzer)
Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Material Science and Engineering

“The Discrete Element Method for Faceted Colloidal Particles in Molecular Dynamics”
Ryan Marson, Mathew Spellings, Joshua Anderson (Advisor: Sharon Glotzer)
Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Material Science and Engineering

“A Simplified Theory for Efficient Simulation of Ship Maneuvering”
Marc Woolliscroft (Advisor: Kevin Maki)
Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering