We are grateful to our Dean Louie Martin Vega and Vice President of Research Ian Phillips for their generous support of the College of Engineering REU Program.

We appreciate the support by all participating faculty members who spend countless hours advising undergraduate research assistants, and also match their stipends from their own research or overhead funds.

We are very grateful to Ms. Karen Oberne, who made the poster printing possible, and to Ms. Catherine High, who collects the REU deliverables and keeps REU student records. We are also obliged to Ms. Gayla Montgomery for printing the name tags, to Ms. Norma Paz for printing the advertisement flyers, to Ms. Linn Federspiel for printing the award certificates, and to Ms. Becky Brenner for help with the posterboards and easels.

We are indebted to Alicia Slater-Haase, Judy Ventsam, Jon Kile, and Dave Liller of the CoE Advancement Office for their wonderful help organizing the REU Symposium, and documenting it.

We also greatly appreciate the efforts of the poster judges, Lilia Abron, Charlie Touchton, Bob Dressler, Sarah Hood, Ed Middleton, Al Petrangeli, Darryl Salustro, Sophie Rovira, Geary Havran, Georg Kleine, Ralph Bostek, and Husein Arslan.