Faculty Research Day 2021

April 5 - 7, 2021

Posters Available for Public Review & Asynchronous Judging Period Opens

April 8, 2021

Top 5 Student Finalists in Each Division & Top 5 Faculty Finalists Announced at 12:00 PM (see below)

Attendees are invited to come to Technology Building, Rm 110 between 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM to pick up your 10th Anniversary cloth mask! If you are not on campus, please send your mailing address to frd@bridgeport.edu.

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM

FRD Zoom Room HQ
Join our Zoom Room HQ to meet up with:

• UB's Director of Alumni Relations to learn about UB Day of Giving (May 4)
• UB’s Director of Career Development to learn about UB’s 2021 Graduate LookBook
• UB FRD Organizers to chat about session activities, give feedback, or say hello!

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM

Morning Welcome Remarks & Event Overview - Join Zoom
Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D., Interim Dean, UB College of Engineering, Business, and Education

9:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Poster Judging Sessions (Concurrent Sessions)
Top 5 ranked posters in each student division will be judged by a panel comprised of UB alumni, UB faculty and students. UB Faculty posters will be judged by a panel of colleagues from other higher education institutions.

9:15 AM - 9:55 AM

High School Poster Finalists Panel Interviews - Join Zoom
Omar Abuzaghleh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Engineering and Technology Computing & Mark Pitcher, Ph.D. Director of Health Sciences Inter-Professional Research, Co-Hosts

Undergraduate Poster Finalists Panel Interviews - Join Zoom
Kevin Kelliher, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chiropractic & Miad Faezipour, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Co-Hosts

10:00 AM - 10:40 AM

Graduate Poster Finalists Panel Interviews - Join Zoom
Nasir Sheikh, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Technology Management & Kevin Kelliher, Ph.D., Co-Hosts

Doctoral Poster Finalists Panel Interviews - Join Zoom
Mathew DiMond, D.C. Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences & Omar Abuzaghleh, Ph.D., Co-Hosts

10:45 AM - 11:25 AM

Faculty Competitive Finalists Panel Interviews - Join Zoom
Julie Demers, CRA, Office of Corporate, Foundation, Faculty, Institutional Grants & Omar Abuzaghleh, Ph.D., Co-Hosts

Attendees are invited to browse the poster gallery in between sessions at https://frd-app.bridgeport.edu/presentations/2021-2/.

11:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Join us via Livestream for a LIVE look at events throughout the day!

11:30 AM - 11:55 AM

Sponsor Speaker - Join Zoom
Mike Roer, President, Entrepreneurship Foundation Inc.
“How Investors Evaluate the Commercial Potential of New Technologies”

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Keynote Speaker - Join Zoom
Vincent Wilczynski, Ph.D., Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science and James S. Tyler Director of the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design
“A Yale Innovation: the Y-Shaped Engineer”

Vincent Wilczynski is the Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science and the James S. Tyler Director of the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design. As the Deputy Dean, he helps plan and implement all academic initiatives at the School. In addition, he manages the School's teaching and research resources and facilities. As the James S. Tyler Director of the Center for Engineering Innovation & Design he leads the School's efforts to promote collaboration, creativity, design and manufacturing activities at Yale's academic makerspace. His professional interests in Mechanical Engineering are in the areas of data acquisition/analysis and mechanical design. He is the Treasurer of the FIRST Foundation (the world’s largest engineering mentorship program) and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, he was the Dean of Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and has had fellowships at the MIT Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, the Harvard School of Public Health and with the American Council on Education. He has also served as the Vice President of Public Awareness for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was a Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation, the only national award that recognizes outstanding college teaching.

1:05 PM - 1:20 PM

Afternoon Welcome Remarks & 10th Anniversary FRD Video Montage - Join Zoom
Stephen Healey, Ph.D., Interim President, University of Bridgeport
Manyul Im, Ph.D., Interim Provost, University of Bridgeport

1:25 PM - 3:30 PM

Oral Presentations - Join Zoom
Maria Gherasimova, Ph.D,, Associate Professor of Physics & Nancy K. DeJarnette, Ed.D., Director, School of Education, Moderators

1:25 PM - 1:40 PM

Özden Tozanli (Turkey), Ph.D. '19, Postdoctoral Associate, M.I.T.
2019 FRD Doctoral 1^st Place Winner
“Evaluation of Trade-in-to-Upgrade Strategies in Digital Twin Disassembly-to-Order Systems”

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

Morgan Cobbs (United States), Junior, Mechanical Engineering
“Grand Challenges Scholars Program and Global Grand Challenge Summit” 

2:05 PM - 2:25 PM

Cheryl Lyon, N.D., ’07, Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences, UB School of Chiropractic
2018 UB Seed Grant Awardee
“Characteristics of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Sufferers Treated in a University Affiliated Complementary and Integrative Health Care Clinic”

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Sherri Dente, Esq., Director of Technology Transfer and Venture Creation
“Growing the CTNext Program to Assist Even More UB Entrepreneurs”

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM

Danielle Wilken, Ed.D. Provost and Dean of Faculty, Goodwin University
“UB’s New Chapter: Resource Sharing & Scholarly Pursuits”

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Awards Ceremony - Join Zoom
Michael Lohle, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer of Management and Information Systems, Emcees

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Closing Remarks - Join Zoom
Elena Cahill, J.D. Director, UB School of Business & Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D., Interim Dean, UB College of Engineering, Business, & Education, Co-Hosts