An MAE PhD student won the engineering category of NC State’s 15th annual Graduate Research Symposium Wednesday.
The winner, James Reed, was one of eight students from MAE to participate in the symposium, each of whom was selected from the annual MAE research symposium that took place earlier this year on February 18.
According to the symposium website, it is held each spring and it includes poster presentations from more than 200 graduate students from NC State University. Posters are judged by faculty, and students receive recognition for top posters. The goals are to showcase the outstanding quality and diversity of graduate-level research at NC State, in addition to providing students with the opportunity to practice and enhance their communication skills with those outside of their discipline.
James is a two-time alum of NC State, earning his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2019, and his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2020. He is currently a research assistant in the Control and Optimization for Renewables and Energy Efficiency (CORE) Lab under Dr. Chris Vermillion.
James’s symposium presentation, titled “Iterative Learning-Based Flight Pattern Optimization for an Energy-Harvesting Kite,” focused on the optimization of cleaner energy solutions, which are in high-demand due to the impending danger of global warming. He won first place in the engineering poster sessions, ahead of Jishnudeep Kar from Electrical Engineering in second place and Noah Rubin from Biomedical Engineering in third place.
The other seven students that represented MAE at the Graduate Research Symposium were Tynan Guerra, Ethan Johnson, Abinash Sahoo, Kartik Naik, Andrew Abney, Saqlain Raza and Ben Wahls.
To read more about the research of these students or other symposium participants, check out the Graduate Research Symposium Website.