Congratulations to all those who participated in the 2013 Montana Tech TECHxpo on May 2. 

Techxpo Winners – 2013

Biology

Casey McConnell – "Nanoparticle Enhancement of Viral Infections"

Chemistry/Geochemistry

Hannah Dysinger – "Exploring How hMutY Glycosylase Homolog Modulates Response to Alkylation Damage in Human Cells"

Civil Engineering

Trent Hansen, Keely Barry-Dion, Joe Hickey, Jake McGinley, Trent Thomas, Logan Ledgerwood, and Dan Heringer – "ASC Bidding Competition, Heavy Civil"

Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tie:

• Jake Jones and John Wareham – "MegaMarine Game Development"
• Haythem Memmi – "Optimizing Touch Screen Interaction in Mobile Devices for Visually-impaired Users"

Electrical Engineering

Doug Korin, Grant Frazier, Jason Schmutz, and Steve Moodry – "Mobile Bar Stool"

Environmental Engineering

Michelle Boyle, Kyle Loch, and Joseph Mitzel – "Zero Valent Iron Mediated Nitrate Reduction"

Geophysical Department

Michael Beecher – "A Statistical Analysis of Elastic Properties Related to Normalized Production in the Bakken Formation"

General Engineering

Eric Gray, Sierra Briese, Chris Tarrant, William Pratte, Lindsay Kilmer, Chance Wilson, and Cory Faber – "Montana Tech Baja"

Geological Engineering

Shannon Smith, Sara Adams, and Mariah McCormick – "Joint and Solid Material Characterization in Support of Seismic Slope Behavior Modeling"

Highlands College

Breanna Biegler – "Concept Fire Truck"

Liberal Studies

Vincent Siragusa – "Analysis of Variation in Frontal and Temporal Lobe Volumes and Their Relationship to Myopic Refractive Error in Humans"

Mechanical Engineering

Angelina Anderson, Jake Banovich, and Jordan Emmert – "The Snow Hog"

Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

Grant Wallace and Sean Dudley – "Leach Optimization And Separation of Rare Earth Elements"

Mining Engineering

"The Mining Team"

Professional & Technical Communication

Cole Berg – "Community Health Recruitment Video"

Petroleum Engineering

Jackie-Lynn Gibson, Abdulaziz Al Noaimi, Brayden Gilewicz, Mahdi Al Mohsin, Cooper Gulbraa and Aaron Zielsdorf – "Manufacture of Anhydrous Ammonia Fertilizer from Produced Natural Gas with an Onsite Manufacturing Facility"

Technical Presentation

Environmental Engineering: Michelle Boyle, Kyle Loch, and Joseph Mitzel – "Zero Valent Iron Mediated Nitrate Reduction"

BEST IN SHOW

Casey McConnell – "Nanoparticle Enhancement of Viral Infections"