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United States Naval AcademyTrident Scholar Program |
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| 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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