United States Naval Academy

Trident Scholar Program

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2008 Trident Scholars

 MIDN 1/C EVAN A. BARNES (4th Company)
Major Systems Engineering (Honors)
Advisor Associate Professor Bradley E. Bishop, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department
Title Capability Driven Robotic Swarms in Reconnaissance-based Operations

MIDN 1/C WILLIAM EUCKER IV (13th Company)
Major Physics
Advisor Associate Professor Paul C. Trulove, Chemistry Department
Advisor Associate Professor Paul T. Mikulski, Physics Department
Advisor Associate Professor Joseph J. Urban, Chemistry Department
Title Probing the Interaction of Ionic Liquids with CO2:  
A Raman Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Study

MIDN 1/C MICHAEL E. EYLER (22nd Company)
Major Physics
Advisor Lieutenant Commander Christopher W. Morgan, USNR, Physics Department
Title Structure of Quasar Continuum Emission Regions and Cosmology
from Optical and X-ray Microlensing in Gravitationally Lensed Quasars

MIDN 1/C WILLIAM H. GODIKSEN III (1st Company)
Major Aerospace Engineering
Advisor Assistant Professor Eric N. Hallberg, Aerospace Engineering Department
Title Targeting Pod Effects on Weapons Release from the F-18C Hornet

MIDN 1/C DANIEL L. GOLDEN (24th Company)
Major Mechanical Engineering
Advisor Professor Martin R. Cerza, Mechanical Engineering Department
Advisor Commander David D. Myre, USN, Aerospace Engineering Department
Title An Experimental Study of Water Injection
into a Model 250 C20B Rolls-Royce Turboshaft Gas Turbine

MIDN 1/C DANIEL D. HARTIG (23rd Company)
Major Computer Science
Advisor Visiting Research Professor James M. Greenberg
Advisor Professor Reza Malek-Madani, Mathematics Department
Advisor Associate Professor Christopher W. Brown, Computer Science Department
Title A Parallel Implementation of Two-Dimensional, Lagrangian Shallow Water Equations

MIDN 1/C KEVIN K. LIU (29th Company)
Major Electrical Engineering
Advisor Commander Charles B. Cameron, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Advisor Professor Antal A. Sarkady, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Title Comparing Throughput and Power Consumption in Sequential and Reconfigurable Processors 

MIDN 1/C JOSHUA W. MAJOR (27th Company)
Major Chemistry
Advisor Associate Professor Clare E. Gutteridge, Chemistry Department
Title Design, Synthesis and Testing of Metabolically-stable Antimalarial Compounds

MIDN 1/C MICHELLE B. MATTINGLY (17th Company)
Major Applied Mathematics (Honors)
Advisor Professor James L. Buchanan, Mathematics Department
Advisor Professor Murray S. Korman, Physics Department
Advisor Professor Reza Malek-Madani, Mathematics Department
Title A Mathematical Model for the Acoustic and Seismic Properties
of the Landmine Detection Problem

MIDN 1/C J. BLAINE MOORE (11th Company)
Major Chemistry
Advisor Associate Professor Debra K. Dillner, Chemistry Department
Title Stereocontrolled Additions to a Rigid Bicyclo [3.3.0] Octane Ring System

MIDN 1/C CATHERINE M. ORTMAN (6th Company)
Major Ocean Engineering
Advisor Commander Patrick J. Hudson, USN, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department
Title The Effect of Diameter on Dynamic Seabed Penetration

MIDN 1/C CHRISTOPHER H. RENNINGER (20th Company)
Major Chemistry
Advisor Associate Professor Craig M. Whitaker, Chemistry Department
Title Development and Implementation of Carbon Nanofoam Cathode Structures
for Magnesium - Hydrogen Peroxide Semi-fuel Cells

MIDN 1/C JOANNE D. SO (17th Company)
Major Chemistry
Advisor Associate Professor Virginia F. Smith, Chemistry Department
Title An Essential Protein Repair Enzyme: 
Investigation of the Molecular Recognition Mechanism of Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase A 

MIDN 1/C JEFFREY E. VANDENENGEL (11th Company)
Major Chemistry
Advisor Assistant Professor Daniel P. Morse, Chemistry Department
Title Evolution in a Test Tube: Exploring the Structure and Function of RNA Probes

MIDN 1/C GERALD E. VINEYARD (1st Company)
Major Electrical Engineering
Advisor Associate Professor John G. Ciezki, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Advisor Assistant Professor Thomas E. Salem, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Title Investigation of the Current Turn-off Characteristics of a
GTO Thyristor in an Inductive Pulse Forming Network

 

Revision Date :   2 April 2008 

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