Division of Engineering & Weapons

MIDN 1/C MARTIN BENNETT

Major	Mechanical Engineering
Adviser	Assistant Professor Joel Schubbe, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Environmentally Assisted Crack Development in 5xxx Series Aluminum Alloy

MIDN 1/C WARREN FISHER

Major	Mechanical Engineering
Adviser	Associate Professor Patrick Caton, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Injection Spray and Diesel Engine Performance Analysis of Alternative Fuels

MIDN 1/C BRYANT GIORGI

Major	Mechanical Engineering
Advisers	Associate Professor Michelle Koul and Professor Patrick Moran, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Research on the Effects of Low Temperature Colossal Supersaturation on the Corrosion Properties of 316L Stainless Steels

MIDN 1/C JOSEPH GIRANI

Major	Ocean Engineering
Advisers	CDR Lloyd Brown, USN (PMP), Assistant Professor Joshua Radice, and Associate Professor Peter Joyce, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Strain Rate Dependency of Metal Matrix Composites

MIDN 1/C FREDOLIN HEER

Major	Naval Architecture
Adviser	Professor Gregory White, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department
Title	Deep Submergence Small Scale Submarine Model Testing in the 380 ft Wave Tank

MIDN 1/C DAVID HOYLE

Major	Electrical Engineering
Advisers	Assistance Professor Ryan Rakvic and Associate Professor Robert Ives, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Title	Biometrics Research with Design Applications for Handheld Devices

MIDN 1/C MARY-ELYSE JANOWSKI

Major	Ocean Engineering
Adviser	Professor Sarah Mouring, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department
Title	Static and Dynamic Testing of Hybrid Metal-to-Composite Joints

MIDN 1/C ANAND JANTZEN

Major	Electrical Engineering
Adviser	Associate Professor John Ciezki, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Title	Design, Simulation and Construction of a DC-DC Converter in the Discontinuous Mode of Operation for the Analysis of Transformer Efficiency at Different Switching Frequencies

MIDN 1/C MICHAEL MARTIN

Major	Mechanical Engineering
Advisers	Professor Mark Harper and Professor Martin Nelson, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Identifying Special Nuclear Material by Gamma and Neutron Detection

MIDN 1/C KYLE MILDEN

Major	Electrical Engineering
Advisers	Associate Professor Brian Jenkins and Associate Professor Deborah Mechtel, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Associate Professor Peter Joyce, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Directed Energy Defense through Fiber Optic Sensors

MIDN 1/C SHANE MORAN

Major	Systems Engineering (Honors)
Advisers	Professor Richard O'Brien and CAPT Owen Thorpe, USN (PMP), Systems Engineering Department, CDR R. Joseph Watkins, USN, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Adaptive H-infinity Controller Design for Jitter Control and Target Tracking in a Directed Energy Weapon

MIDN 1/C LINDSAY OLSEN

Major	Ocean Engineering
Adviser	Professor Michael Schultz, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department
Title	The Behavior of Frictional Drag in the Transitionally Rough Regime

MIDN 1/C MARK PFENDER

Major	Systems Engineering (Honors)
Adviser	Assistant Professor Sarangi Parikh, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department
Title	Improving the Control of UAVs with Haptic Feedback

MIDN 1/C JOSEPH PUISHYS

Major	Mechanical Engineering
Adviser	Associate Professor Peter Joyce, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Composite Damage Analysis due to Directed Energy Weaponry

MIDN 1/C KATHARIN TAYLOR

Major	Ocean Engineering
Adviser	Professor Karen Flack, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	The Impact of Surface Waves and Turbulence on the Power Production of a Tidal Turbine

MIDN 1/C MOLLY TIMBERLAKE

Major	Mechanical Engineering
Adviser	Professor Martin Nelson, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	High Dose Response of the Navy's DT-702 LiF Thermoluminescent Dosimeter

Division of Mathematics & Science