Summer Research Projects 2008

Alexandria Barr
"Whether Novice Programmers are Predisposed to Use Behavioral Display Patterns"

Victoria Boyd

"Mercury Mass Balance in the Adirondack Mountains: Stemflow and Soil Concentrations"

Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky                                                                                                                         
"Rolling Pendulum Nonlinear Dynamics"

Melissa Butkiewicz

"Biomass Analysis and Screening for Fuel Applications"

Michael Davis

"A Study of the Association of Statistics in EURO 2008"

Matthew Elser

"Design Challenges of an Electric Vehicle and Solutions in Development"

Xiaojing Fu

"The Effects of Heterogeneities on the SOlution to Groundwater Flow Problems"

Christopher Gilbert

"Behavior of Drops Undergoing Thermocapillary Motion on a Solid Horizontal Surface"

Dustin Grzeskowiak

"The American Housing Crisis:  An Economic Analys Outlining Causative Factors "

Kevin Gucwa

"Droplet Splattering:  Measuring a Secondary Particle Size Distributions"

Frank Hemsing

"Modeling and Experimentation of a Flutter Like Aeroelastic Power Source (FLAP)"

Brian Hilbert

"Experimental Study of Mixing Characteristics at Low Reynolds Number in Simple Batch Mixer"

David Illig

"Determination of the Effects of Diesel Exhaust on Potsdam School children"

Pushpak  Jha

"The Fabrication and Uses of Nano-Polymers"

Christopher Kopra

"Sodium Borohydride hydrolysis to Generate Hydrogen for Fuel Cells"

Matthew Ladew

"Portable Pulse Oximetry"

Maria Lang and Sayuri Yapa
"Characterization of Electrospray Aerosol Generator"

Brendan Leach

"Design and Fabrication of a Light Weight Planer Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell"

Keegan Lowenstein

"Modeling the Brain Mechanisms of Detecting and Orienting Attention Towards Threat"

Michael Moeller                                                                                                                                     
"Analysis of Diffuser Augmented Wind Turbines"

Andrew Nadeau

"Iris Identification from a Distance"

Lisa Nelson

"Modeling of Energy Efficient Complex Distillation Columns"

Ryan Northrup

"Numerical Approaches to Initial Value Problems using Interval Mathematics"

David Olson

"Self-Starting Contra-Rotating Vertical Axis Wind Turbine for Home Heating Applications"

Stanley Onyewuchi

"Biometrics:  Fingerprint SPOF Data Collection Using Capacitive and Optical Scanners"

Vincent Pascucci

"Photo Copolymerization Using a Narrow Channel Reactor"

Jeffery Pudlo

"A Study of  Composite Strenght Calculation"

Jennifer Roper and Jasmine Stephens and Suzanne Van Arsdale

"Developing Protocols to Study How Threats to Body are Detected and Capture Attention"

Samuel Savage

"A Graphical System for Debugging World of Warcraft User Interface Scripts Enhanced with Automation"

Bradley Schuyler

"Direct Shear Simulation"

Jennifer Sidletsky

"Cotton Filters to Reduce Levels of Leached Bisphenol A From Bottled Water Using Pi-Pi Complexes"

Carson Smith

"Photocrosslinkable Triblock Copolymer Hydrogels for Protein Encapsulation"

Timothy Smith

"Creating of a Virtual Reality Game for Training in a Virtual School Environment"

Matthew Souva
"Protein Biosensor Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy"

Kelsie Timbie
"Developing a Biosensor for Cervical Cancer"

Daniel Valyou
"Preparing and Operating an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Support of the Indiana University Nucleation in Forest Environments Campaign"

Brett Walker
"The Geometry of Separation Process:  Optimal Design of Absorption and Stripping"

Ryan Watkins
"Lamb wave based diagnostics of Composite Plates Using a Modified Time Reversal Method"

Steven Wu
"Tensile Testing of  Metal Nanoparticles Printed on Polymer Substrates"