Undergraduate Student Project Presentation Contest
AISTech 2021’s Undergraduate Student Project Presentation Contest took place virtually on Wednesday, 23 June and eight teams of students from Brazil, Canada and the United States competed for the chance to win big cash prizes! The contest might have looked different this year, but all participants still brought their A-game.
Congratulations to this year’s winners:
US$1,5000 Winner: João Cardoso, Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais
Statistical Analysis to Determine the Thermal Effects on Mechanical Properties of a Metallic Alloy Part
US$1,000 Winner: Joseph Madrigal and Jose Martinez, Purdue University Northwest
Design of a Steel Annealing Furnace Rack
US$500 Winner: Gabriel Jacintho, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Functionalization of Vegetal Loofah for Boron and Chromium Adsorption of Siderurgical Industries Wastewater
Graduate Student Poster Contest
Each year, graduate students attending AISTech 2021 compete in the Graduate Student Poster Contest for the chance to win big. Today, three industry judges evaluated 18 graduate students’ posters from nine different universities across the globe.
The results are in, and the winners are:
US$1,5000 Winner: Vitalis Anisiuba, Purdue University Northwest
Numerical Investigation of Air-Mist Spray Cooling and Solidification in the Secondary Zone During Continuous Casting of Steel
US$1,000 Winner: Yuchao Chen, Purdue University
Multi-Physics CFD Modeling of Steelmaking Process in Electric Arc Furnace
US$500 Winner: Muhammad Roman, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Fiber-Optic Temperature Mapping of Metal Casting Mold to Characterize Shell Solidification