United States Naval Academy Trident Scholar Program

MIDN 1/C MATTHEW A. BEASLEY (8th Company)

Major	Electrical Engineering
Advisor	Assistant Professor Samara L. Firebaugh, Electrical Engineering Department
Title	Packaging for Satellite-based Microelectromechanical Systems

MIDN 1/C DANIEL L. BOWERS (10th Company)

Major	Chemistry
Advisor	Assistant Professor Tammy L. Domanski, Chemistry Department
Title	ClpB Heat Shock Protein: Studies of it Function and Regulation Under Stress Conditions

MIDN 1/C ADAM S. FISHER (13th Company)

Major	Electrical Engineering
Advisor	Associate Professor R. Brian Jenkins, Electrical Engineering Department
Advisor	Captain Robert J. Voigt, USN, Electrical Engineering Department
Title	A Bidirectional Wavelength Multiplexed Fiber Ring Network

MIDN 1/C KATHERINE E. FOLZ (5th Company)

Major	Chemistry
Advisor	Associate Professor Craig M. Whitaker, Chemistry Department
Title	Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Organic Photovoltaic Devices

MIDN 1/C JAMES J. LIGHT (15th Company)

Major	Economics (Honors)
Advisor	Assistant Professor Pamela M. Schmitt, Economics Department
Advisor	Associate Professor Suzanne K. McCoskey, Economics Department
Title	An Empirical Investigation of Product Differentiation in the Retail Gas Industry

MIDN 1/C JOSHUA M. MUELLER (25th Company)

Major	Physics
Advisor	Associate Professor Charles A. Edmondson, Physics Department
Title	Complex Impedance Studies of Electrospray Deposited Proton Conductors

MIDN 1/C JARED R. PATTON (30th Company)

Major	Naval Architecture
Advisor	Assistant Professor Paul H. Miller, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department
Title	Determining Dynamic Lift Coefficients for High Aspect Ratio Control Surfaces

MIDN 1/C JEFFREY C. PAYNE (3rd Company)

Major	Physics
Advisor	Assistant Professor James J. Butler, Physics Department
Title	Optical Limiting in Single-mode Waveguide Systems

MIDN 1/C THOMAS A. SHAPIRO (17th Company)

Major	Ocean Engineering
Advisor	Assistant Professor Michael P. Schultz, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department
Advisor	Associate Professor Karen A. Flack, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	The Effect of Surface Roughness on Hydrodynamic Drag and Turbulence

MIDN 1/C YONG C. TAN (16th Company)

Major	Systems Engineering
Advisor	Associate Professor Bradley E. Bishop, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department
Title	An Investigation of Swarming Robots for Underwater Mine Countermeasures

 

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