United States Naval Academy

Trident Scholar Program

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1999 Trident Scholars

 MIDN 1/C NICOLE V. AUNAPU (6th Company)
Major Mechanical Engineering
Advisor Associate Professor Karen A. Flack, Mechanical Engineering Department
Advisor Assistant Professor Ralph J. Volino, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title Improved Turbine Blade Cooling Using Endwall Flow Modification

MIDN 1/C BRITT W. BOUGHEY (20th Company)
Major Marine Engineering
Advisor Professor Keith W. Lindler 
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering Department
Advisor Associate Professor Martin R. Cerza
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering Department
Title Design, Construction, and Analysis of a Flat Heat Pipe

MIDN 1/C JEREMY J. BRUCH (5th Company)
Major Physics
Advisor Professor Irene M. Engle, Physics Department
Title Incorporation of a Magnetotail into the Global Saturnian Magnetosphere

 MIDN 1/C JAMES E. COLEMAN, Jr. (11th Company)
Major Oceanography
Advisor Adjunct Associate Professor Richard W. Spinrad, Oceanography Department
Advisor Associate Professor David R. Smith, Oceanography Department
Advisor Associate Professor Steven R. Montgomery, Physics Department
Title Optical Variability of the Chesapeake Bay

MIDN 1/C NICHOLAS G. OSBURN (11th Company)
Major Systems Engineering
Advisor Assistant Professor Kiriakos Kiriakidis, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department
Advisor Professor Charles F. Rowell, Chemistry Department
Title Model Based Control of Combustion

MIDN 1/C COREY A. POORMAN (5th Company)
Major Mechanical Engineering
Advisor CAPT Owen G. Thorp, III, USNR, Mechanical Engineering Department
Advisor Professor Patrick J. Moran, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title The Use of Thermal Spraying to Enhance the Bonding Characteristics
of a Urethane-Coated Propeller

MIDN 1/C BRYAN D. REX (29th Company)
Major Electrical Engineering
Advisor Professor Antal A. Sarkady, Electrical Engineering Department
Advisor Associate Professor Kelly A. Korzeniowski, Electrical Engineering Department
Title Non-Invasive Detection of CH-46 Aft Gearbox Faults
Using Digital Pattern Recognition and Classification Techniques

MIDN 1/C JAMES A. SCHROEDER (8th Company)
Major Mechanical Engineering
Advisor Associate Professor Angela L. Moran, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title Copper Electrode Degradation Due to the Resistance Welding of Aluminum

MIDN 1/C D. KEVIN SIMMONS (2nd Company)
Major Ocean Engineering
Advisor Associate Professor Sarah E. Mouring, 
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering Department
Advisor Associate Professor Oscar Barton, Jr., Mechanical Engineering Department
Title The Effect of Externally Retrofitted Carbon Fiber Reinforced
Polymer Composites on the Ductility of Reinforced Concrete Beams

MIDN 1/C  JAMES B. SOLOMON (15th Company)
Major History
Advisor Professor Robert W. Love, Jr., History Department
Title The Multilateral Force: America's Nuclear Solution for NATO (1960-1965)

MIDN 1/C  JOHN W. WATERSTON (13th Company)
Major Electrical Engineering
Advisor Assistant Professor E. Currie K. Wooten, Electrical Engineering Department
Advisor Associate Professor William E. Bennett, Electrical Engineering Department
Title Development and Implementation of an Adaptive Error Correction Coding Scheme
for a Full Duplex Communications Channel

MIDN 1/C  JOSHUA T. WOOD (5th Company)
Major Mathematics
Advisor Assistant Professor Erik M. Bollt, Mathematics Department
Title Error Statistics of Time-Delay Embedding Prediction on Chaotic Time-Series

 


 
 

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