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2021 Bowman Scholars

School of Engineering, Computing, and Weapons

1/C Matthew Alese

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Discrimination of Radiation and Characterization of 3D-Printed Scintillators for Portable Dosimetry
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Hatem ElBidweihy - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, LT Steven Yee - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Professor Brian Jenkins - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Matthew Beauchamp

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Optically Powered Multi-Robot System Based on Diametric Levitation
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Hatem ElBidweihy - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, LT Steven Yee - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Justin Budan

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Modeling the Compromise and Particle Size Distribution of Fuel Pellets in a Military Small Modular Reactor
  • Advisors: Assistant Professor Steven McHale - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Associate Professor Marshall Millett - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Sofia DiAntonio

  • Major: Robotics and Control Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Search and Rescue Image Recognition: Using Computer Vision and Neural Networks
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Randy Broussard - Robotics and Control Engineering Department

1/C Elizabeth Farnan

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Molten Salt Corrosion of Reactor Materials in Simulated Reactor Environments
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Elizabeth Getto - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C John Gale

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering
  • Title: Generative Adversarial Network for Classification and Aimpoint Selection for Unmanned Air Vehicles
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Tae Lim - Aerospace Engineering Department

1/C Raven Heath

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering
  • Title: UAV Pose Estimation via Convolution Neural Networks
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Tae Lim - Aerospace Engineering Department

1/C Sarah Nguyen

  • Major: Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department
  • Title: Parametric Analysis and First Demonstration of an Elastocaloric Refrigeration Cycle
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Ronald Warzoha - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department , Professor Andrew Smith - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Associate Professor Joshua Radice - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Nathaniel O'Neal

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Development of Vertical GaN Schottky Power Diodes for ONR
  • Advisor: CDR Chris Martino - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Matthew Peshek

  • Major: Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department
  • Title: Wave Power Absorption by Oscillating Bodies
  • Advisors: Professor Luksa Luznik - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, CDR Andrew Gish - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

1/C Madeline Prince

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Modeling Dosage in Radiation Scenarios using Various Neutron Dose-Equivalent Conversion Factors
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Marshall Millett - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Steven McHale - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Preston Rhodes

  • Major: Ocean Engineering
  • Title: Water Power: Design and Optimization Methods
  • Advisor: CDR Andrew Gish - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

1/C Samuel Rice

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Uses of Stereolithography for Naval Applications
  • Advisor: CAPT Brad Baker - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Natalie Schieuer

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Wireless Electromechanical Power Transfer using Piezoelectric Materials
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Joshua Radice - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Associate Professor John Burkhardt - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Sabrina Spracklen

  • Major: Ocean Engineering
  • Title: Removal of the Necessity to Ground Cylinders to the Sea Bed with Dampeners
  • Advisors: Professor Luksa Luznik - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, CDR Andrew Gish - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

1/C Sarah St. Jean

  • Major: Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
  • Title: Design and Testing of a Bioreactor for Phytoremediation of Waste Water with Seaweed
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Jaye Falls - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

1/C Corwin Stites

  • Major: Robotics and Control Engineering
  • Title: Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Mobile Mesh Networks - Applications for Hydrographic Surveying
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Dennis Evangelista - Robotics and Control Engineering Department

1/C Lillian Usadi

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Manipulation of Microrobots in Fluid using Chladni Plates and Multimode Membrane Resonators
  • Advisors: Professor Samara Firebaugh - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Associate Professor Hatem ElBidweihy - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, LT Steven Yee - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Professor Murray Korman - Physics Department

1/C Andrew Waldron

  • Major: Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department
  • Title: From Knowledge, Seapower
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Caton - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Professor Luksa Luznik - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

School of Math and Science

1/C Ashley Boddiford

  • Major: Operations Research
  • Title: Selection of Land Management Practices to Achieve Maximum Nutrient Reduction under Monetary Constraints in the Potomac Watershed
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Daphne Skipper - Mathematics Department

1/C Christina Domanowski

  • Major: Operations Research
  • Title: Modeling Disaster Situations to Optimize Accessibility to Community Services
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Anna Svirsko - Mathematics Department

1/C Brendan Gloyd

  • Major: Applied Mathematics
  • Title: Modeling a Wave Problem in Shallow Water using Efficient High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods and Multi-Moment Shallow Water Equations
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor David Seal - Mathematics Department

1/C Elana Kozak

  • Major: Mathematics (Honors)
  • Title: Monte Carlo Tree Search and Levy Flight Search: Solutions to Search and Detection
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Scott Hottovy - Mathematics Department

1/C Leonard Pick

  • Major: Operations Research
  • Title: Directing Unmanned Vehicles using Deep Reinforcement Machine Learning
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Daphne Skipper - Mathematics Department

1/C Harrison Ray

  • Major: Information Technology
  • Title: Implementing Resiliency in Exact Matrix Computations
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Daniel Roche - Computer Science Department

1/C Philip Smith

  • Major: Applied Mathematics
  • Title: Predicting Naval Academy and Fleet Performance using Industrial/Organizational Psychology in Multidimensional Space
  • Advisors: CAPT Kevin Mullaney - Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department, Professor William Traves - Mathematics Department

1/C Michael Zimmerman

  • Major: Oceanography (Honors)
  • Title: Using Observations and Models to Understand and Predict the Antarctic Cryosphere
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Bradford Barrett - Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Department, Associate Professor Gina Henderson - Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Department, CDR Shawn Gallaher - OcOcean and Atmospheric Sciences Department
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