United States Naval Academy Trident Scholar Program

MIDN 1/C MARK E. DANIEL (28th Company)

Major	Electrical Engineering
Advisor	Captain Robert J. Voigt, USN, Electrical Engineering Department
Advisor	Associate Professor R. Brian Jenkins, Electrical Engineering Department
Title	Fully Interconnected Optical Network Architecture (FIONA)

MIDN 1/C ALEX G. DULUDE (29th Company)

Major	Aerospace Engineering
Advisor	Assistant Professor David S. Miklosovic, Aerospace Engineering Department
Advisor	Assistant Professor Eric N. Hallberg, Aerospace Engineering Department
Title	An Examination of Vortex Ring Entrainment at Low Reynolds' Number

MIDN 1/C SEAN A. GENIS (26th Company)

Major	Physics
Advisor	Professor Murray S. Korman, Physics Department
Title	Nonlinear Acoustic Landmine Detection: Profiling Soil Surface Vibrations and Modeling Mesoscopic Elastic Behavior

MIDN 1/C JORDAN P. KEHRER (16th Company)

Major	Physics
Advisor	Assistant Professor Adam J. Lewandowski, Physics Department
Advisor	Associate Professor Paul T. Mikulski, Physics Department
Title	Six-Dimensional Anti-de Sitter Space Solutions to Einstein's Field Equation with Scalar Fields

MIDN 1/C DANIEL C. KU (23rd Company)

Major	Electrical Engineering
Advisor	Associate Professor John G. Ciezki, Electrical Engineering Department
Advisor	Assistant Professor Thomas E. Salem, Electrical Engineering Department
Title	Multi-pulse Converters and Passive Filtering to Improve Power Harmonics in an Integrated Power System

MIDN 1/C SCOTT F. LORD (29th Company)

Major	Electrical Engineering
Advisor	Associate Professor Samara L. Firebaugh, Electrical Engineering Department
Advisor	Associate Professor Andrew N. Smith, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Remote Measurement of High Temperatures in the Presence of a Strong Magnetic Field

MIDN 1/C ASHLEY S. MYERS (26th Company)

Major	Aerospace Engineering
Advisor	Professor Gabriel N. Karpouzian, Aerospace Engineering Department
Advisor	Assistant Professor Chris L. Pettit, Aerospace Engineering Department
Title	Variability and Model Adequacy in Simulations of Store-induced Limit Cycle Oscillations

MIDN 1/C Jeremie A. PAPON (15th Company)

Major	Electrical Engineering
Advisor	Associate Professor Robert W. Ives, Electrical Engineering Department
Advisor	Assistant Professor Randy P. Broussard, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department
Title	Autonomous Detection and Imaging of Abandoned Luggage in Real World Environments

MIDN 1/C MATTHEW P. SHEARER (22nd Company)

Major	Aerospace Engineering
Advisor	Professor Gabriel N. Karpouzian, Aerospace Engineering Department
Advisor	Commander Jeffrey W. Stettler, USN, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department
Advisor	Dr. Peter A. Chang, III, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) - Carderock Division
Title	Simulation and Evaluation of Marine Propeller Crashback Through Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

MIDN 1/C ERIK T. SMITH (9th Company)

Major	Systems Engineering
Advisor	Assistant Professor Matthew G. Feemster, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department
Advisor	Assistant Professor Joel M. Esposito, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department
Title	Swarm Manipulation of Large Surface Vessels

MIDN 1/C REID W. SMYTHE (22nd Company)

Major	Aerospace Engineering
Advisor	Professor Daryl G. Boden, Aerospace Engineering Department
Advisor	Visiting Professor Richard P. Fahey, Aerospace Engineering Department
Title	An Examination of Acceptable Navigation Accuracy for LISA Orbits

MIDN 1/C ANDREW J. TURO (28th Company)

Major	Physics
Advisor	Associate Professor Charles A. Edmondson, Physics Department
Title	Dielectric Studies in Materials for High Energy Density Capacitors

MIDN 1/C DAVID G. UNDERHILL (11th Company)

Major	Computer Science
Advisor	Assistant Professor Lucas K. McDowell, Computer Science Department
Title	Exploring Dimensionality Reduction for Text Mining

 

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