We are grateful to our Dean Louie Martin Vega for his 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. Norma Paz for printing the name tags, 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 and Judy Ventsam of the CoE Advancement Office for their wonderful help organizing the REU Symposium.

We also greatly appreciate the efforts of the poster judges, Rajinder Khosla, Joe Reineman, Mike Kovac, Carlos Gonzalez, Don Morel, Javier Paez, Jan Ash, Ed Middleton, Charlie Touchton, Jane Snowdon, Philippe Dumas, and Sophie Rovira.