Auburn Engineering students were honored with top prizes at Auburn’s “This is Research: Student Symposium 2017.”

Undergraduate first-place winners in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics category were Jennifer Kaczmarek of chemical engineering for her oral presentation and David Hall of chemical engineering and Ethan Hofer of materials engineering in a tie for first in the poster presentations.

Graduate first-place winners in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics category were Rakish Shrestha of mechanical engineering for his oral presentation and Morgan Ellis of chemical engineering for her poster presentation.

The symposium gives Auburn and Auburn University at Montgomery students an opportunity to come together to share their research and creative projects. More than 470 undergraduate and graduate students, up from 350 last year, participated in the event.