Fall 2016
Name: Victor Bogunyà Piferrer
School: UPC-ETSEIB
Major: Industrial Technology
Advisor: Professor David Reinkensmeyer
Master’s Thesis: The waterbomb actuator: a new origami-based pneumatic soft muscle
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Name: Oscar Heredero de Pablos
School: UPC-ETSEIAT
Major: Industrial Engineering
Advisor: Professor Jacob Brouwer
Master’s Thesis: Constrained optimization for solar installations:new parameters to maximize irradiance for a defined area
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Spring 2017
Name: Pau Balat
School: UPC-ETSEIAAT
Major: Industrial Technology
Advisor: Professor Donald Dabdub
Project: Long-term simulations with the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Name: Irene Benito
School: UPC-ETSECCPB
Major: Civil Engineering
Advisor: Professor Stanley Grant
Project: Calibrating and validating a coupled physical and biokinetic model of denitrification in the hyporheic zone of streams
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Name: Irene Martinez
School: UPC-ETSECCPB
Major: Civil Engineering
Advisor: Professor Wenlong Jin
Project: Optimal location of Variable Speed Limit application area
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Name: Borja Rodriguez
School: UPC-ETSETB
Major: Telecommunications Engineering
Advisor: Professor Frithjof Kruggel
Project: Texture-Based Brain Tumor Segmentation in MR Images
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Name: Victor Vila Navazo
School: UPC-ETSEIAAT
Major: Industrial Technology
Advisor: Professor Jack Brouwer
Project: Assessment of California Public Health Benefits from Changes in Air Pollution Concentrations Using BenMAP-CE
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Name: Ramon Viñas
School: UdG-EPS
Major: Computer Sciences
Advisor: Professor Pierre Baldi
Project: Inferring circadian time from gene expression measurements
Department: Computer Sciences
Name: Sergi Xalabarder
School: UPC-ETSEIAAT
Major: Aerospace Technology
Advisor: Professor Feng Liu
Project: Stability of the incompressible wake flow behind a conical plug
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering