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2024 Bowman Scholars

School of Engineering, Computing, and Weapons

1/C Michael Brandt

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: SMRs Utilizing Metal Hydroxides as a Coolant and/or Moderator
  • Advisors: CAPT Stuart Blair, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, CDR Brian Earp, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Merete Conley

  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Title: Computational Sprinting in Machine Learning
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Christian DeLozier - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Hunter Davis

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Molecular Dynamics Study of Neutron Damage on AlGaN HEMT's
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Marshall Millett - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Associate Professor Hatem ElBidweihy - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Karl Florida

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: An Analysis of Various Uranium-Thorium Fuel Mixtures for Usage in Microreactors with a Focus on Non-Proliferation Considerations
  • Advisor: CAPT Stuart Blair, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Elizabeth Gajski

  • Major: Ocean Engineering
  • Title: Characterizing Flow Dynamics and Energy Absorption of a Cylindrical Wave Energy Converter
  • Advisors: CDR Li Sung, USN - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department, Professor Luksa Luznik - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Associate Professor Levi DeVries - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department

1/C Wester Gapasangra

  • Major: Robotics and Control Engineering
  • Title: Calibration of a Strap Down Tri-Axial Magnetometer for Shipboard Navigation
  • Advisor: CDR Paul Frontera, USN - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department

1/C Jacquelyn Gwynn

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering (Astro)
  • Title: Heat Treatment of Additively Manufactured Hybrid Rocket Fuel Grains
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Jin Kang - Aerospace Engineering Department

1/C Samuel Levine

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Additive Manufacturing and Testing of Functionally Graded Multi-Material Parts
  • Advisors: CDR Jonathan Slager, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Associate Professor Brian Donovan - Physics Department

1/C Ryan Luetjen

  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Title: Cost Effective Machine Learning Inference
  • Advisors: Assistant Professor Christian DeLozier - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Associate Professor Justin Blanco - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Sean McCormick

  • Major: Robotics and Control Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Autonomous UAV Landing on Surface Vessel in a GPS/RF Denied Environment Using Computer Vision and Deep Neural Networks
  • Advisor: CDR Donald Costello, USN - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department

1/C Nicholas Messina

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering (Astro)
  • Title: Power Beaming to Wirelessly Beam Power to Entities from Space
  • Advisor: CDR Mike Sanders, USN - Aerospace Engineering Department

1/C Thomas Minor

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: The Effects of Tunnels on Background Neutron Radiation
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Marshall Millett - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Lachlan Mulig

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Using Digital Image Correlation to Measure Local Strains Near Stress Concentrators
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Emily Retzlaff - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Daniel O'Flaherty

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering (Astro)
  • Title: Integrating Communication and Power Beaming in the Vacuum Environment through Laser Modulation
  • Advisors: CDR Mike Sanders, USN - Aerospace Engineering Department, Associate Professor Charles Nelson - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Sean Oser

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Multiphase Flow Measurements in Constrained Geometry
  • Advisor: CDR Angel Rodriguez, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Brant Purcell

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Proliferation Resistance Analysis of Uranium Oxide Tristructural Isotropic Fuel in a Gas-Cooled Reactor
  • Advisor: CAPT Stuart Blair, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Sigrid Schwarzkopf

  • Major: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Underwater Effects of Adding Pod Appendages to a Dry-Combat Submersible
  • Advisor: CDR Jonathan Gibbs, USN - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

1/C Chelsey Washington

  • Major: Robotics and Control Engineering (Honors)
  • Title: Heterogeneous Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs) in Rigid Formation Control (RFC)
  • Advisors: CDR Paul Frontera, USN - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department, Associate Professor Matthew Feemster - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department

School of Math and Science

1/C Kelly Bye

  • Major: Operations Research
  • Title: Analyzing Defender-Attacker-Defender Scenarios to Assess the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure
  • Advisor: CAPT Matthew Hawks, USN - Mathematics Department

1/C Jacob Cubbler

  • Major: Operations Research (Honors)
  • Title: Using Optimization and Machine Learning to Improve Weather Modeling
  • Advisors: Associate Professor Scott Hottovy - Mathematics Department, Professor Gavin Taylor - Computer Science Department, Associate Professor Gina Henderson - Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Department

1/C Ryan Engelhard

  • Major: Oceanography (Honors)
  • Title: Downscaling of Global to Local Scale Climate Change Impacts around Thule Air Force Base, Greenland
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Gina Henderson - Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Department

1/C Nicholas Hinz

  • Major: Physics
  • Title: Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Periodic Media
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Matthew Fronk - Physics Department

1/C Robert Klanac

  • Major: Operations Research (Honors)
  • Title: Bayesian Networks for Analyzing Flood Resilience of Road Infrastructure
  • Advisor: Professor William Traves - Mathematics Department

1/C Ford Knippa

  • Major: Operations Research
  • Title: Discrete-Event Simulation with the Goal of Improving Staff Utilization at MSC
  • Advisors: Assistant Professor Anna Svirsko - Mathematics Department, Associate Professor Brice Nguelifack - Mathematics Department, LT Ryan Bailey, USN - Mathematics Department

1/C Andrew Kolesar

  • Major: Mathematics (Honors)
  • Title: Geometry of Numbers over Real Quadratic Number Fields and Applications to Quadratic Forms
  • Advisor: Assistant Professor Katherine Thompson - Mathematics Department

1/C Rachel Schlemmer

  • Major: Oceanography (Honors)
  • Title: Comparisons Among SIZRS Hydrography, and ICESat-2 ALT19 and ATL21 Dynamic Ocean Topography
  • Advisor: CAPT Shawn Gallaher, USN - Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Department

1/C Claire Schnorr

  • Major: Cyber Operations
  • Title: Identifying Unnatural Deformities in Submarine Cables through Dynamic Imaging
  • Advisor: Professor Richard O'Brien - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department
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