November 2007 -- Computer Science seniors, Paul Himes and Mikola Lysenko, received Honorable Mentions in this year's Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Award. CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Award program recognizes undergraduate students in US or Canadian universities and colleges who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

Paul worked with Computer Science faculty member, Dr. Robert Pastel, on a human-computer interaction research project which resulted in the publication "Gravity Mouse Design and Evaluation: Effects of Distracters and Target Size" at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference (HFESC07).

Mik is involved in three research project with Dr. Roshan D'Souza in the Mechanical Engineering Department. The first is the development of interactive manufacturability evaluation tools for mechanical design. The second is the development of data-parallel algorithms for large scale agent-based model simulations. This research has lead to the fastest ABM simulation toolkit in the world. Finally, he is also looking at applying binary space partioning (BSP) representation to problems in mechanical design and manufacturing, particularly multi-scale, multi-material design representation and free-form manufacturing. During his junior year while taking Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene's Elementary Geometric Objects course, Mik developed an improvement to a well-known algorithm for constructing complex objects. This research was presented as a poster at ACM SIGGRAPH 2007.

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