Undergraduate and graduate students and faculty from all over the city got a chance to peer into the School of Engineering's labs Wednesday afternoon.
The school hosted its fourth annual Graduate Research Expo in the Carzo Cage in Cousens Gymnasium. About 100 displays illustrated the projects now being worked on by the school's graduate students.
Projects on display were as varied as "Managing Nutrients on Agricultural Land" and "In-situ Fluid Film Thickness Measurements During Chemical Mechanical Polishing."
The students who worked on the projects were there to explain their research to the people who attended.
Vincent Manno, the school's associate dean, began planning the event early last summer. He said the expo had three main goals: the "intermingling of graduate students and faculty," the chance for undergraduates to "get a look at what's going on in the University's graduate programs" and the opportunity for engineering students in the Boston area to speak with Tufts engineers.
The expo was scheduled to overlap with the Career and Graduate School Fair next door in the Gantcher Family Sports and Convocation Center, Manno said. This was planned to encourage communication between engineering graduate students and heads of major corporations attending the career fair.
The event was open to all visitors, but was mainly advertised through word of mouth, Manno said. He estimated about 300 or 400 students and faculty attended.
The school's Web site has a virtual tour of last year's expo, and Wednesday's expo will be added soon.
