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2018 Best Poster Award Winners

Congratulations to all of the participants in the 2018 Student Research Showcase. What an incredible day!

All of the university's seven faculties were represented across the 53 posters in the showcase. The undergraduate students' research projects were impressive, well-researched, and demonstrated the wide range of research areas at the university. Thank you to everyone who contributed; it is because of you that the event was such a success!

View the list of Best Poster Award winners and honourable mention recipients in the tables below. Many of the posters are available to be viewed or downloaded by selecting the poster title.

2018 Abstract Book

 

Best Poster Award winners

Faculty of Business and Information Technology:

Investigating the use of AI in game user experience evaluation by Samantha Stahlke and Atiya Nova and supervised by Pejman Mirza-Babaei, PhD.

Faculty of Education:

An Investigative Look at Plans for Implementation of Canadian Teacher Codes of Conduct and Ethics by Michelle Hoskins and supervised by Shirley van Nuland, PhD.

Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science:

Investigating the Role of Small Modular Reactors in Remote Mining Applications by Michael Rolph and supervised by Jennifer McKellar, PhD.

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science:

Maintaining a Temperature Gradient in Stirling Engine Regenerators by Brayden T. York supervised by Brendan D. MacDonald, PhD.

Faculty of Health Sciences:

The Effect of Changing Neck Sensory Input on Neural Plasticity and Sensorimotor Integration Following Motor Skill Acquisition Task by Victoria Berkers and supervised by Bernadette Murphy, PhD.

Faculty of Science:

Effects of galactooligosaccharide and fructooligosaccharide supplementation during infancy on immune activity in Wistar Rats by Nicole Krysa and supervised by Julia Green-Johnson, PhD.

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities:

Public Perceptions of Financial Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted Individuals by Gabrielle Caron and supervised by Kimberley Clow, PhD.

 

Honourable mentions

Faculty of Business and Information Technology:

Development of USEIT – A New Epidural Simulator by Joss Moo-Young and supervised by Bill Kapralos, PhD.

Photogrammetry for Low Budget Game Development by Jackson Rushing and supervised by Andrew Hogue, PhD.

Faculty of Education:

Tale of a Two-Year Initial Teacher Education Program: Investigating Self-Efficacy Development of Teacher Candidates by Keisha Deoraj and supervised by Diana Petrarca, PhD.

Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science:

Development and Verification of Americium-Beryllium Neutron Source Facility Model Using MCNP by Kaitlyn Brown and supervised by Sharman Perera, PhD.

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science:

Development of Robotic System for Rehabilitation of Musculoskeletal Disorders by Amanjot Gulshi and supervised by Carlos Rossa, PhD.

Faculty of Health Sciences:

Medicinal Cannabis: A Growing Health Care Landscape by Margaret Grylls and supervised by Manon Lemonde, PhD.

Faculty of Science:

MOO-che out! by Leanna Calla and supervised by Sean Bohun, PhD.

Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Alkynylation of Benzhydrol by Mona Almaghrabi and supervised by Yuri Bolshan, PhD.

 

For an accessible format of this information, please email research@ontariotechu.ca