2nd Annual NRT-LEAD Expo: May 13-14, 2025

We invite you to attend our 2nd annual expo on the WSU Pullman campus! This year, the annual event will take place on May 13-14. This in-person event brings all trainees and NRT mentors together to exchange information and foster broader engagement. Like last year, our trainees will showcase their progress in the program through technical presentations (both poster and oral) as well as group posters based on their projects in NRT-mandated courses.  Furthermore, we have a fabulous series of keynote talks and an industry panel on technology and entrepreneurship. To register for the event, please click here. The full schedule can be found below:

2ND NRT-LEAD RESEARCH EXPO SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, PULLMAN

May 13, 2024 (Tuesday) [Location: Engineering Teaching and Research Building (ETRL)]
10:45 AM to 11:15 AM Check in and Poster Mounting (ETRL First Floor)
11:15 AM to 11:25 AM Opening Remarks from NRT-LEAD PI (Prashanta Dutta)
11:25 AM to 11:50 AM Administrator Remarks (ETRL 101)
Prof. Debbie Compeau, Dean, Carson College of Business
Prof. Pat Carter, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Prof. Kimberly Ann Kristen, Vice President for Research
11:50 AM to 12:30 PM Industry Keynote Talk (ETRL 101): Data-Driven Decisions: The METER + USGA Collaboration by Dr. Colin Campbell, President, Meter Environment, Pullman, WA
12:30 PM to 01:00 PM Lunch and UX Poster Presentations (ETRL 119)
(Jesse Beneventi & Kian Conroy; Cody Longwell, Justin Pilgrim, & Sonja Sargent Sparks; Chuchu Chen, Md Shariful Islam, & Umaeer AI Hammad; Shinhyo Bang & Hannah Hallikainen; Ariel Ramos, Cole James, Chris Ninatanta, & Hongyi Shen; Mohsen Amiri & Minseo Choi)
01:00 PM to 01:30 PM Robotics Game and Interactive Activities (ETRL 101)
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM Technical Poster Presentations (ETRL First Floor)
(Chuchu Chen; Chris Ninatanta; Hongyi Shen; Justin Pilgrim; Kian Conroy; Shinhyo Bang; Cole James; Umaeer Al Hamad; Cody Longwell; Jesse Beneventi; Arial Ramos; Sonja Sparks)
02:30 AM to 03:20 PM Technical Keynote Talk (ETRL 101): Insect-Scale Autonomous Underwater Vehicles by Dr. Nestor O. Perez-Arancibia, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
03:20 PM to 03:30 PM Break for Group Photos
03:30 PM to 05:00 PM Oral Presentations by trainees (ETRL 101)
(Hannah Hallikainen; Chris Ninatanta; Md Shariful Islam; Chuchu Chen; Mohsen Amiri; Shinhyo Bang)
05:00 PM to 6:00 PM Break and Preparation for Dinner
06:00 PM to 08:00 PM Dinner (Sunnyside Park)
09:00 PM to 11:00 PM NRT-LEAD Bowling Night (Zeppoz, Pullman)

May 14, 2024 (Wednesday) [Location: Engineering Teaching and Research Building (ETRL)]
08:00 AM to 08:30 AM Breakfast and Welcoming Remarks
08:30 AM to 09:20 AM Industry Panel (ETRL 101): Panelists: Leo Rivera (Meter Group, Pullman); Josue E. Martinez (H2C, Tricities); Lucas Buckland (Bovi Autonomy, Spokane); Douglas Reid (H2C, Tricities); & Ben Anderson (Art Anderson, Bremerton)
09:20 AM to 10:00 AM Parallel Sessions I
Program Evaluator Roundtable with Cohort 1 Trainees (ETRL 103)
Program Evaluator Roundtable with Cohort 2 Trainees (ETRL 119)
External Advisory Board Roundtable with Faculty Mentors (ETRL 101)
10:00 AM to 10:50 AM Keynote on Entrepreneurship (ETRL 101): Rewiring the Real World: Bringing Digital Transformation to the Physical Frontier by Eric Grosser, President of Alpyne and Co-founder of Dyne, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
10:50 AM to 11:00 AM Coffee Break and Mingle (ETRL 119)
11:00 AM to 11:50 AM Parallel Sessions II
Program Evaluator Roundtable with Faculty Mentors (ETRL 103)
External Advisory Board Roundtable with Trainees (ETRL 101)
11:50 AM to 12:30 PM Lunch and UX Poster Session (ETRL 119)
11:50 AM to 01:30 PM EAB Members Only: Working Lunch and Report Preparation (ETRL 103)
12:30 PM to 01:15 PM Open House – WSU Robotics Labs
Host (Dr. M Luo): Ryan Dorosh (ETRL 110) and Chris Ninatanta (DANA 251)
Host (Dr. M. Hosseinzadeh): Mohsen Amiri and Anran Li (ETRL 203)
Host (Dr. N. P.-Arancibia): Francisco Gonçalves & Conor Trygstad (ETRL 223)
01:15 PM to 01:30 PM Initial Findings: Assessment and Evaluation of the Program (ETRL 101)
Sondra LoRe, SPEAR Consultants
01:30 PM to 01:50 PM Expo Awards and Remarks from Trainees (ETRL 101)
01:50 PM to 02:00 PM Concluding Remarks and Certificate Distribution (ETRL 101)
02:00 PM to 02:30 PM Break and Preparation for SEL Tours (ETRL 101)
02:30 PM to 02:45 PM Transit to SEL facilities
03:00 PM to 04:00 PM SEL Manufacturing Tour
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM SEL Robotics Lab Tour