MSE 614: Modeling & Simulation in Materials Science & Engineering: Classical Mechanics
In the spring semester of 2026, graduate students from several departments and programs at the University of Tennessee took a course in Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulation offered by Professor David Keffer. As part of their final project, the students identified a system of interest to them, formulated a problem statement and investigated it using MD simulation implemented in LAMMPS (with a couple exceptions for GROMACS). The project had three deliverables: (1) a written report, (2) a poster presented during an in-class poster session and (3) an interactive webpage featuring a structure or animation from their simulation. This page presents some photos from the poster session component of the final project.
The poster session featured two competitions. The first competition was based on the votes cast by the students registered in MSE 614. The second competition was based on the votes cast by public visitors, which included faculty, students and alumni of UTK.
The results of the Student-Vote Competition are as follows.
First Place (Enrolled Student Vote): Matluck Afolabi (Chemical & Biomolecular Eng'g)
Second Place (Enrolled Student Vote): Adebola Omoyeni (Chemistry)
Third Place (Tie) (Enrolled Student Vote): Joseph Motto (Mechanical Eng'g)
Third Place (Tie) (Enrolled Student Vote): Surya Nath (Chemistry)
The results of the Public-Vote Competition are as follows.
First Place (Public Vote): Matluck Afolabi (Chemical & Biomolecular Eng'g)
Second Place (Public Vote): Kenneth Sanders (Nuclear Eng'g)
Third Place (Public Vote): Ehsan (Kevin) Hemmasi (Chemical & Biomolecular Eng'g)
All of the posters demonstrated the hard work that students put into the project during the semester.
Kwaku Acheampong (Chemical & Biomolecular Eng'g)
Saly Alammuri (Materials Science & Eng'g)
Aritra Banerjee (Genome Science & Technology)
Xiangyu (Susan) Li (Biosystems Eng'g)
Sean Moody (Energy Science & Engineering)
Samuel Procopio (Chemical & Biomolecular Eng'g)
Abebaw Seyume (Chemistry)
Anthony Tom (Nuclear Eng'g)
Chris Webb (Materials Science & Eng'g)
Adam Winschel (Materials Science & Eng'g)
Andrew Wood (Civil Engineering)
Quanyou (George) Zhang (Materials Science & Eng'g)
posted: May, 2026.
updated: May, 2026.