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Bowman Scholars
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2014 Bowman Scholars

School of Engineering, Computing, and Weapons

1/C Gilesa Allison

  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Title: Accelerometer-based Activity Recognition for a Wireless PTSD Monitor
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Justin Blanco - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Scott Bolstad

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Interactive Degradation of Materials in Representative Environments
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Joel Schubbe - Mechanical Engineering Department

1/C Elizabeth Corcoran

  • Major: Naval Architecture
  • Title: Seakeeping and Optimization Analysis of Surfacing Rescue Container (SRC) Design for Trident Submarines
  • Advisors: CDR Joshua LaPenna - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department, Professor Gregory White - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

1/C Christopher Dinelli

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering
  • Title: Feasibility Study for the Integration of an Electric Propulsion System for CubeSat-Class Satellites
  • Advisors: Capt Kristen Clark, USAF - Aerospace Engineering Department, Associate Professor Tae Lim - Aerospace Engineering Department

1/C Jonathan Driesslein

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Distributed Mobile Application Based Control and Monitoring of Mobile Sensor Networks
  • Advisors: Assistant Professor Sarangi Parikh - Systems and Weapons Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Jeremy Dawkins - Systems and Weapons Engineering Department

1/C Eric Fugleberg

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Mathematical Model for a Joint-Actuated, Free-Floating Buoy
  • Advisors: CAPT Owen Thorp - Systems and Weapons Engineering Department, Professor George Piper - Systems and Weapons Engineering Department

1/C Grant Genzman

  • Major: Ocean Engineering
  • Title: Analysis of the Loads on and Dynamic Response of a Floating Flexible Tube in Waves and Currents
  • Advisors: Associate Professor David Fredriksson - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department, Professor Michael Schultz - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

1/C Margaret Gilroy

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Assessment and Modeling of Radiological Sensors on Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs)
  • Advisors: Professor Martin Nelson - Mechanical Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Jeremy Dawkins - Systems and Weapons Engineering Department

1/C Erik Hoffstadt

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Shoe Integrated Haptic Feedback System for the Improvement of Running Foot-Strike
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Sarangi Parikh - Systems and Weapons Engineering Department

1/C Christopher House

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Sonic Actuation of Small Scale Robots In a Fluidic Environment
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Samara Firebaugh - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Associate Professor Jenelle Piepmeier - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department, Associate Professor John Burkhardt - Mechanical Engineering Department

1/C Curtis Khol

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Auto-Docking for an Autonomous Surface Vehicle with Robust Path Planning Utilizing External Sensors
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Joel Esposito - Systems and Weapons Engineering Department

1/C Matthew Lanoue

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Amateur Radio Communications with the Colony-1 Satellite
  • Advisors: Assistant Professor Christopher Anderson - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, LCDR Jennie Wood - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Caitlin Olsen

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Modeling and Control of Microrobotic Technologies
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Samara Firebaugh - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Associate Professor Jenelle Piepmeier - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

1/C Sabrina Reyes

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering
  • Title: Test Development of Composite and Hybrid Structure Material Degradation in Sea-Based Aviation
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Joel Schubbe - Mechanical Engineering Department

1/C Gerald Rimmer

  • Major: Systems Engineering
  • Title: Adaptation of Hostile Detection Logic for Use in the Protection of High Value Department of Defense Assets
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Matthew Feemster - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

1/C Brian Rud

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Real-Time Tunable Flapping Foils for Broad Frequency Band Flow Induced Energy Harvesting
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Joshua Radice - Mechanical Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Cody Brownell - Mechanical Engineering Department

1/C Jared Wilson

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Wireless Transmission from a Wrist-Worn PTSD Monitor
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Justin Blanco - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Alexander Yachanin

  • Major: Ocean Engineering
  • Title: Experimental Power Analysis of 1/25th Scale McCabe Wave Pump
  • Advisors: CDR Patrick Hudson - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department, Professor Sarah Mouring - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

School of Math and Science

1/C Jeremy Cadiente

  • Major: Physics
  • Title: Simulation of a Laser Beam Propagating through a Turbulent Medium
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Paul Mikulski - Physics Department, Professor Reza Malek-Madani - Mathematics Department

1/C Roberto Torrealba

  • Major: Physics
  • Title: Kinematic Analysis of Strange Resonance Production in RHIC Collisions
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Richard Witt - Physics Department
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