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2016 Bowman Scholars

School of Engineering, Computing, and Weapons

1/C Ellen Bradford

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Design of Control and Sampling of an Autonomous Surface Vessel
  • Advisor: Professor Bradley Bishop - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

1/C James Catina

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering
  • Title: Use of Additive Manufacturing to Develop Advanced Propulsion Designs
  • Advisor: Captain Kristen Castonguay, USAF - Aerospace Engineering Department

1/C Jacob Glesmann

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Experimental Measurement of Radiation Protection Factors with USNA D-D and D-T Neutron Detectors
  • Advisors: Professor Martin Nelson - Mechanical Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Marshall Millett - Mechanical Engineering Department

1/C Rebecca Greenberg

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Simulation Test Bed Development of Human Robot Interaction
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Jeremy Dawkins - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

1/C Mitchell Heaton

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering
  • Title: Randomized Path Optimization for Mitigated Counter-Detection of Submersible Deployed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Advisors: Assistant Professor Levi DeVries - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Michael Kutzer - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

1/C Kathleen Heinbach

  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Title: Detecting and Classifying Low Probability of Intercept Radar Using the Nyquist Folding Receiver
  • Advisor: CDR Thomas Tedesco, USN - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Megan Hough

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Design of Optimized Detector of Neutron and Gamma Radiation for Shipboard Use
  • Advisors: Professor Martin Nelson - Mechanical Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Marshall Millett - Mechanical Engineering Department

1/C Allison Hunt

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Location Estimation in Wireless Networks Via Radio Fingerprinting
  • Advisors: Captain John Roth, USMC - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, CDR Owens Walker, USN - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Justin Blanco - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Francis Love

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Mitigation of Latency in the Decision-Making Process of a Cyber Physical System
  • Advisors: CDR Tracie Severson, USN - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department, LCDR Brian Connett, USN - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

1/C Tyler McCarthy

  • Major: Systems Engineering
  • Title: Semi-Autonomous Vehicle Control Via Electromyography
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Levi DeVries - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

1/C Ryan McDonnell

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Off-Axis Pointing Control and Experimentation for a Joint-Actuated Buoy
  • Advisors: CAPT Owen Thorp, USN - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department, Professor George Pipet - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

1/C James McMasters

  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Title: Live Detection of Network Attacks Using Social Media
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Nate Chambers - Computer Science Department

1/C Megan Rausch

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Material Characterization of Current Reactor Steels for Advanced Reactor Designs
  • Advisor: CDR Brad Baker - Mechanical Engineering Department

1/C Michael Romano

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Energy Harvesting with Bistable Dynamic Systems
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Joshua Radice - Mechanical Engineering Department

1/C Mark Schnabel

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Turbine Tip Gas Leakage
  • Advisors: Professor Ralph Volino - Mechanical Engineering Department, CDR Stuart Blair, USN - Mechanical Engineering Department

1/C Aaron Sims

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Underwater Multi-Vehicle Control with Indirect Communication
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Levi DeVries - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

1/C Stephen Walsh

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: A Spatial and Temporal Characterization of the Background Neutron Environment at the Navy and Marine Corps Stadium
  • Advisors: Assistant Professor Marshall Millett - Mechanical Engineering Department, Professor Martin Nelson - Mechanical Engineering Department

1/C Jenna Westerberg

  • Major: Naval Architecture
  • Title: High Modulus Propulsor Blading Metallic Demonstration
  • Advisor: CDR Jeffrey Woertz, USN - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

1/C Connor Westrick

  • Major: Systems Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Swarm and Exploration Control of Multiple Vehicles for Radiological Surveys
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Jeremy Dawkins - Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

1/C Maxwell Wiechec

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Diode Laser Assisted Friction Stir Welding - Material Characterization of High Power Diode Laser Operation on HY-80 Steel
  • Advisor: CDR Brad Baker, USN - Mechanical Engineering Department

School of Math and Science

1/C Samuel Brad

  • Major: Chemistry
  • Title: Improved Lipid Production and Analysis for Algal Biofuels
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Charles Sweet - Chemistry Department

1/C Alfred Garvey

  • Major: Physics
  • Title: Ferroelectronic Nanoparticles and Liquid Crystal Mediated Interactions
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Rajratan Basu - Physics Department

1/C Donal Hanlon

  • Major: Physics
  • Title: Analyzing Invariant Mass and Mass Width of Delta++ Resonance in High Energy P-P Collisions
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Richard Witt - Physics Department

1/C Daniel Kinnamon

  • Major: Physics
  • Title: Studying the Electro-Optical and Mechanical Properties of Graphene-doped Liquid Crystals
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Rajratan Basu - Physics Department

1/C Donald Puent

  • Major: Physics
  • Title: Fabrication of Single Vacancy Spins in SiC via Proton Irradiation
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Peter Brereton - Physics Department
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