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Trident Scholars 2010
Trident Scholars 2011

Trident Scholars 2010-2019

2010

TYRELL W. ARMENT
“The Effects of Thermal Barrier Coating, Common Rail Injection, and Reduced Compression Ratio on the Efficiency of Single-Cylinder Diesel Engines”
Faculty Advisors:  Associate Professor Jim S. Cowart and Assistant Professor Patrick A. Caton, Mechanical Engineering Department

ELLYN A. CREASEY
“A Question of Development: Aid in the Post-Conflict Context”
Faculty Advisors:  Assistant Professor Ahmed S. Rahman and Assistant Professor Katherine A. Smith, Economics Department

KYLE R. ENGLUND-KRIEGER
“Strangeness Production in 19.6 GeV Collisions at RHIC”
Faculty Advisor:  Assistant Professor Richard Witt, Physics Department

LUKE P. FINNEY
“An Investigation of Cavity Flow Effects on Store Separation Trajectories”
Faculty Advisor:  Assistant Professor Eric N. Hallberg, Aerospace Engineering Department

JAMES H. GOLDEN
“Convective Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Alternating Magnetic Fields and Particle Laden Fluid Applied to the Microscale”
Faculty Advisors:  Associate Professor Mark M. Murray and Associate Professor Andrew N. Smith, Mechanical Engineering Department

JASON C. MURPHY
“A Novel Approach to Turbulence Stimulation for Ship-Model Testing”
Faculty Advisors:  Professor Gregory J. White and Associate Professor Michael P. Schultz, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

MATTHEW A. PORTER
“Optimizing High Power DC-DC Converter Design Utilizing SiC Field Effect Transistors and Nanocrystalline-Structured Alloy Cores”
Faculty Advisors:  Associate Professor John G. Ciezki and Associate Professor Thomas E. Salem, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

MATTHEW L. ROBERTS
“Determination of the Error Induced by Platform Vibrations on a Directed Energy Beam System”
Faculty Advisors:  Commander R. Joseph Watkins, USN and Professor Oscar Barton, Jr., Mechanical Engineering Department, and Visiting Professor Craig E. Steidle, Aerospace Engineering Department

ANGELA M. ROUSH
“Dynamic Analysis of an Optical Laser Platform”
Faculty Advisors:  Professor Oscar Barton, Jr. and Commander R. Joseph Watkins, USN, Mechanical Engineering Department

Ψ KAYLA J. SAX
“Characterization and Comparison of New Concepts in Neutron Detection”
Faculty Advisors:  Professor Martin E. Nelson, Mechanical Engineering Department,  Professor Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department, Captain Charles B. Cameron, USN, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Visiting Research Professor James F. Ziegler, Physics Department


2011

Ψ JAMES E. BERG
“Subspace Arrangement Codes and Cryptosystems”
Faculty Advisor:  Assistant Professor Max D. Wakefield, Mathematics Department

ALEXANDER J. BUCK
“An Approach to Optimal Control of Electrodynamic Tethers in a Stochastically Varying Drag Environment”
Faculty Advisor:  CDR Robert E. Stevens, USN, Aerospace Engineering Department

DANIEL W. CHAN
“Evidence of Product Differentiation in the Microfinance Industry”
Faculty Advisors:  Assistant Professor Katherine A. Smith, Assistant Professor Ahmed Rahman, and Assistant Professor Darrell J. Glaser, Economics Department

NICHOLAS C. DUNN
“Directed Energy Beam Jitter Mitigation Using the Line-of-Sight Reference Frame”
Faculty Advisors:  CDR R. Joseph Watkins, USN and Visiting Professor Craig E. Steidle, Aerospace Engineering Department

GRANT A. MORGAN
“System Size and Energy Dependence of Strangeness Production in 22 GeV Cu+Cu Collisions at RHIC”
Faculty Advisor:  Assistant Professor Richard Witt, Physics Department

EOWYN E. PEDICINI
“Search for the Exotic Wobbling Mode in 171Re”
Faculty Advisors:  Associate Professor Daryl J. Hartley, Physics Department, and LT Brian J. Cummings, USN, Chemistry Department

ANDREW J. STEPHENSON
“Sinkhole Avoidance Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks”
Faculty Advisors:  Visiting Professor Eric J. Harder and CDR Patrick J. Vincent, USN, Computer Science Department

JACOB M. STEVENS-HAAS
“Can Interest-Free Finance Mitigate the Frequency and Amplitude of the Business Cycle and Crises?”
Faculty Advisors:  Assistant Professor Katherine A. Smith, Economics Department, and Assistant Professor Leah Jager, Mathematics Department

STEVEN C. YEE
“Reconfigurable Microstrip Antennas Using Variable reactive Microelectromechanical Systems”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Deborah M. Mechtel and Assistant Professor Samara L. Firebaugh, Electrical Engineering  Department, and Harry K. Charles, Office of the Naval Research Distinguished Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering


2012

JACOB R. GERBINO
“Reactive Swarm Formation Control Using Realistic Surface Vessel Dynamics and Environmental Effects”
Faculty Advisor:  Professor Bradley E. Bishop, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

Ψ MICHAEL W. HAYDELL, JR.
“Direct Writing of Graphene-based Nanoelectronics via Atomic Force Microscopy”
Faculty Advisors:  Assistant Professor Elena Cimpoiasu, Physics Department, and Paul E. Sheehan, Ph.D., Head, Surface Nanoscience and Sensor Technology, Naval Research Laboratory

JASON D. METZGER
“Measurement of Ship Air Wake Impact on a Remotely Piloted Aerial Vehicle”
Faculty Advisors:  CAPT Murray R. Snyder, USN, Mechanical Engineering Department, and Assistant Research Professor Hyung Suk Kang, Aerospace Engineering Department

SHANE C. MORAN
“An Adaptive H-Infinity Algorithm for Jitter Control and Target Tracking in a Directed Energy Weapon”
Faculty Advisors:  Professor Richard T. O'Brien and CAPT Owen G. Thorp III, USN, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department, and CDR R. Joseph Watkins, USN, Mechanical Engineering Department

THOMAS J. PAUL
“Enumerative Geometry of Hyperplane Arrangements”
Faculty Advisors:  Assistant Professor Max D. Wakefield and Professor William N. Traves, Mathematics Department

SAM W. TAN
“Predicting Boat-Generated Wave Heights: A Quantitative Analysis through Video Observations of Vessel Wakes”
Faculty Advisors:  Professor David J. Kriebel and Visiting Professor Patrick J. Hudson, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department, and Associate Professor Jenelle A. Piepmeier, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

MARK E. TRUNZO
“Integration of Carbon Fiber Composite Materials into Air-Cooled Reciprocating Piston Engines for UAV Applications”
Faculty Advisors:  Associate Professor Patrick A. Caton and Associate Professor Joel J. Schubbe, Mechanical Engineering Department


2013

MATTHEW P. CHRISTIAN
“Numerical Model for Predicting and Managing Heat Dissipation from a Neural Probe”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Samara L. Firebaugh, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Associate Professor Andrew N. Smith, Mechanical Engineering Department
External Collaborator: Dr. Brian Jamieson, Scientific & Biomedical Microsystems, LLC

KYLE A. ELAM
“Isolation of Thermal and Strain Responses in Composites using Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Temperature Sensors”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor R. Brian Jenkins, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department; Associate Professor Peter J. Joyce, Mechanical Engineering Department; and Associate Professor Deborah M. Mechtel, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

CAITLIN M. FINE
“Structural Changes and Convective Processes in Tropical Cyclones as Seen in Infrared and Water Vapor Satellite Data”
Faculty Advisors: Commander Elizabeth R. Sanabia, USN, PMP, and Assistant Professor Bradford S. Barrett, Oceanography Department
External Collaborators: Jeffrey D. Hawkins, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, and Christopher S. Velden, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

CHRISTOPHER D. GALVIN
“Effect of Unsteady Wakes on Turbine Tip Gap Leakage”
Faculty Advisors: Professor Ralph J. Volino and Assistant Professor Cody J. Brownell, Mechanical Engineering Department

MITCHELL R. GRAVES
“An Algorithm to Identify and Localize Suitable Dock Locations from 3-D LiDAR Scans”
Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor Joel M. Esposito, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

JENNIFER L. JONES
“An Evaluation of the Corrosion and Mechanical Performance of Interstitially Surface Hardened Stainless Steel”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Michelle G. Koul, and Associate Professor Joel J. Schubbe, Mechanical Engineering Department

PHOEBE M. KOTLIKOFF
“Estimating the Effects of Pre-College Education on College Performance”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Ahmed Rahman, and Associate Professor Katherine A. Smith, Economics Department

NICHOLAS R. LASALLE
“Study of Passive Flow Control of Ship Air Wakes”
Faculty Advisors: Captain Murray R. Snyder, USN (Ret.), and Dr. Hyung S. Kang, Aerospace Engineering Department

ZACHARY M. PATRICK
“Pointing and Jitter Control for the USNA Multiple-Beam Combining System Using H-Infinity Adaptive Control with Video Feedback”
Faculty Advisors: Captain R. Joseph Watkins, USN, PMP, Mechanical Engineering Department; Professor Richard T. O'Brien, Jr., Weapons and Systems Engineering Department; and Associate Professor Tae W. Lim, Aerospace Engineering Department

PETER A. ROEMER
“Stochastic Modeling of the Persistence of HIV: Early Population Dynamics”
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Mrinal Raghupathi and Assistant Professor Stephen D. Pankavich, Mathematics Department

ANDREW J. RYDALCH
“Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow over Superhydrophobic Surfaces”
Faculty Advisors: Professor Ralph J. Volino, Mechanical Engineering Department, and Professor Michael P. Schultz, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

Ψ ANDREW C. TRESANSKY
“Numerical Modeling of High Irradiance Electromagnetic Beam Effects on Composite and Polymer Materials”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Peter J. Joyce, Associate Professor Joshua J. Radice, and Captain R. Joseph Watkins, USN, PMP, Mechanical Engineering Department
External Collaborators: Dr. Robert Cozzens, Naval Research Laboratory, Dr. Christopher Lloyd, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren

MAX C. VAN BENTHEM
“Tow Tank Measurements of Hydrodynamic Performance of a Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbine Under Unsteady Flow Conditions”
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Luksa Luznik, and Professor Karen A. Flack, Mechanical Engineering Department


2014

COLIN E. BOGDAN
 
“Applications of Graph-Theoretic Tests to Online Change Detection”
Faculty Advisor: CDR David M. Ruth, USN, Permanent Military Professor, Mathematics Department

BRENDAN C. EGAN
“Pitching Flexible Propulsors: Experimental Assessment of Performance Characteristics”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Mark M. Murray, Associate Professor Cody J. Brownell, Mechanical Engineering Department

ERIC N. FUGLEBERG
“System Identification and Control of a Joint-Actuated Buoy”
Faculty Advisors: CAPT Owen G. Thorp III, USN, Permanent Military Professor, and Professor George E. Piper, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

GRANT N. GENZMAN
“Analysis of the Loads on and Dynamic Response of a Floating Flexible Tube in Waves and Currents”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor David W. Fredriksson, and Professor Michael P. Schultz, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

CHRISTOPHER B. HOUSE
“Sonic Actuation of Small-Scale Robots in a Fluidic Environment”
Faculty Advisors: Professor Samara L. Firebaugh, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Associate Professor Jenelle Piepmeier, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department, and Associate Professor John A. Burkhardt, Mechanical Engineering Department

MATTHEW J. LANOUE
“Next Generation Satellite Communications: Automated Doppler Shift Compensation of PSK-31 Via Software-Defined Radio”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Christopher R. Anderson, and LCDR Jennie H.G. Wood, USN, Junior Permanent Military Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

ALEC S. McGLAUGHLIN
“Analyzing and Assessing Brain Structure with Graph Connectivity Metrics”
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor David J. Phillips, Mathematics Department
External Collaborator: Assistant Professor Anja Soldan, Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University

Ψ  BRYNN E. UMBACH
“Characterization of Microalgal Lipids for Optimization of Biofuels”
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Charles R. Sweet, Chemistry Department

 


2015

A. EILEEN DILKS
 
“Towards a Personalized Prescription Tool for Diabetes Treatment”
Faculty Advisor: Professor Richard T. O'Brien, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department
External Collaborator: Dr. Ledys J. DiMarisco, M.D., Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

BENJAMIN C. ETRINGER
“A Modeling and Data Analysis of Laser Beam Propagation in the Maritime Domain”
Faculty Advisor: Professor Reza Malek-Madani, Mathematics Department

STEVEN T. HALLGREN
“An Exploration of Structures in the Transitional Odd-Odd Nucleus Lu-160”
Faculty Advisor: Professor Daryl J. Hartley, Physics Department

BRIAN R. HE
“A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Post-Compression Water Injection in a Rolls-Royce M250 Gas Turbine Engine”
Faculty Advisor: Professor Martin R. Cerza, Mechanical Engineering Department

Ψ  ANDREA R. HOWARD
“Measuring Oman's Food Security Outlook for Crisis Aversion”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Deborah Wheeler, Political Science Department, Professor Frederick L. Crabbe, Computer Science Department, Associate Professor Patrick A. Caton, Mechanical Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Gina R. Henderson, Oceanography Department, and Assistant Professor Michael R. Kellerman, Political Science Department

MICHAEL K. JOHNSON
“Probe-Independent EEG Assessment of Mental Workload in Pilots”
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Justin A. Blanco, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
External Collaborators: Professor Bradley Hatfield, Dr. Rodolphe Gentili, Hyuk Oh, Kyle Jaquess, University of Maryland

DANIEL R. KUERBITZ
“An Examination of a Pumping Rotor Blade Design for Brownout Mitigation”
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Joseph I. Milluzzo, and Associate Professor David S. Miklosovic, Aerospace Engineering Department
External Collaborator: Professor J. Gordon Leishman, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

SAMUEL S. LACINSKI
“Multiple Sensor Discrimination of Closely-Spaced Objects on a Ballistic Trajectory”
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Tae W. Lim and CDR Tracie A. Severson, USN, Aerospace Engineering Department
External Collaborator: Dr. Thierry B. Copie, MIT, Lincoln Laboratories

ZANE A. MARKEL
“Machine Learning Based Malware Detection”
Faculty Advisor: Permanent Military Professor CDR Michael B. Bilzor, USN, Computer Science Department

FLETCHER D. RYDALCH
“A Characterization of the Ship-Effect in a Maritime Environment and Special Nuclear Material Detection”
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Marshall G. Millett, Professor Martin E. Nelson, and VADM Charles I. Leidig, USN (Retired), Mechanical Engineering Department
External Collaborators: CDR Raoul J. Bustamante, USNA Waterfront Readiness Department, CAPT Monte L. Ulmer, CO, NSA, Washington DC, MAJ Andrew W. Decker, Deputy Director, 9J9-NTW (NSERC), Defense Threat Reduction Agency

DAVID A. STEVENS
“Computational Sensitivity Analysis for the Aerodynamic Design of Supersonic and Hypersonic Air Vehicles”
Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor Chris L. Pettit, Aerospace Engineering Department
External Collaborator: Dr. Philip S. Beran, Air Force Research Laboratory

ERIC A. SWANSON
“Black Hole Entropy: Quantum Mechanics in Relativistic Spacetime”
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Eyo E. Ita, CDR Richard H. Downey, USN, and Associate Professor Carl E. Mungan, Physics Department

GABRIEL TANG YING KIT
“Cooperative Control of Unmanned Surface Vessels and Unmanned Underwater Vessels for Asset Protection”
Faculty Advisor: Professor Bradley E. Bishop, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

 


2016

ALVIN A. ABES
"Modeling and Control of the Cobelli Model as a Personalized Prescriptive Tool for Diabetes Treatment"
Faculty Advisor: Professor Richard T. O'Brien, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department
External Collaborator: Dr. Ledys J. DiMarsico, M.D., Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

RYAN J. BURMEISTER
"Fast, Distributed Algorithms for Training of Deep Networks"
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Gavin W. Taylor, Computer Science Department
External Collaborator: Assistant Professor Thomas Goldstein, University of Maryland

JAMES F. COOKE
"Uncalibrated Three-Dimensional Microrobot Control"
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Jenelle A. Piepmeier, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department, Professor Samara L. Firebaugh, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Hatem Elbidweihy, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

SPENCER C. SHABSHAB
"Nonlinear Control Method for Synchronization of Converter-Interfaced Generators"
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Daniel F. Opila and CDR John D. Stevens, USN, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
External Collaborators: Assistant Professor Sairaj Dhople, University of Minnesota, Dr. Brian Johnson, Power Systems Engineering Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

IAN E. SHAW
"Construction of Rational Maps on the Projective Line with Given Dynamical Structure"
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Amy E. Ksir and Assistant Professor LT Brian Stout, USN, Mathematics Department

AARON M. SIMS
"Control of Multi-Vehicle Formation with Coordinated Inter-Vehicle Communication"
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Levi D. DeVries, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department, and VADM Charles I. Leidig, USN (Retired), Mechanical Engineering Department

TIMOTHY E. TRACEY
"Measurement and Modeling of High Energy Laser (HEL)-Droplet Interactions"
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Cody J. Brownell and Assistant Professor CDR Stuart R. Blair, USN, Mechanical Engineering Department 

Ψ  THOMAS J. WESTER
"Mathematical Modeling: Immune System Dynamics in the Presence of Cancer and Immunodeficiency in vivo"
Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor Sonia M. Garcia, Mathematics Department
External Collaborators:  Dr. Aaron Lim, University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, Dr. Ruy Ribeiro, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Division

MICHAEL A. WOULFE
"Towards a Theory of a Nearly Two-Dimensional Dipolar Bose Gas"
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Ryan M. Wilson, Physics Department

 


2017

BENJAMIN H. BAILIN
"On the Effects of Unsteady Flow Conditions on the Performance of a Cross Flow Hydrokinetic Turbine"
Faculty Advisors: LCDR Ethan E. Lust and Professor Karen A. Flack, Mechanical Engineering Department

BRIAN P. CULLY
"PIV Flow Field Measurements of Hovering Rotors With Leading-Edge Protuberances"
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Joseph I. Milluzzo, Associate Professor David S. Miklosovic, CDR Scott Drayton, Aerospace Engineering Department, Professor Mark M. Murray, Mechanical Engineering Department

JOHN T. DAVIN
"Baseline Measurements of Shoulder Surfing Analysis and Comparability for Smartphone Unlock Authentication"
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Adam J. Aviv, Computer Science Department
External Collaborator: Associate Professor Ravi Kubar, Information Science Department, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

ETHAN W. DOHERTY
"Path Planning for Reduced Identifiability of Unmanned Surface Vessels Conducting Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance"
Faculty Advisors: Professor Kiriakos Kiriakidis and CAPT (sel) Michael A. Hurni, USN, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

EMILY S. KILEN
"Protein Engineering: Development of a Metal Ion-Dependent Switch"
Faculty Advisors: Professor Jamie L. Schlessman, Chemistry Department, Associate Professor Carl E. Mungan, Physics Department

Ψ  CHRISTOPHER L. PANUSKI
"Development of a Mechanically Mediated RF-to-Optical Transducer"
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor R. Brian Jenkins and Associate Professor Deborah M. Mechtel, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,  Associate Professor Carl E. Mungan and Professor Nicholas J. Frigo, Physics Department
External Collaborator: Dr. Marcel Pruessner, Naval Research Laboratory

JOSEPH J. SIMPSON
"Study of Doubly-Charged Delta Baryons in Collisions of Copper Nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider"
Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor Richard A. Witt, Physics Department

JAMES P. TALISSE
"Algebraic Structure of Dynamical Systems"
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Kostya Medynets, Mathematics Department

THOMAS J. WILSON
"Modeling the Effects of Meteorological Conditions on the Neutron Flux"
Faculty Advisors: Professor Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Marshall G. Millett, Mechanical Engineering Department, VADM(ret) Charles J. Leidig, Corbin A. McNeill Chair of Engineering, Professor (ret) Martin E. Nelson, Mechanical Engineering Department, LT Kayla J. Barron, Superintendent’s Office, Assistant Professor Douglas N. VanDerwerken, Mathematics Department

 


2018
 

DAKOTA J. ALLEN
"Evaluation of Non-Oxide Fuel for Fission-based Nuclear Reactors on Spacecraft"
Faculty Advisors:CDR Stuart R. Blair, Professor Martin E. Nelson (retired), Assistant Professor Marshall G. Millett, Mechanical Engineering Department

JOHN J. BROUGH
"Assessment of Genetic Screening in the Military"
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Daniel P. Morse, Chemistry, Assistant Professor Elizabeth J. McGuffey, Mathematics Department
External Collaborator: Dr. Paul S. Kruszka, MD, MPH, National Human Genome Research Institute

CARTER B. BURN
"Human Aided Reinforcement Learning in Complex Environments"
Faculty Advisor: Professor Frederick Crabbe, Computer Science Department
External Collaborator: Associate Professor Rebecca Hwa, University of Pittsburgh

Ψ  CHRISTOPHER G. CANTILLO
"Assessing the Transient Gust Response of a Representative Ship Airwake using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition"
Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor David S. Miklosovic, Aerospace Engineering Department

CASEY R.O. DENSMORE
"Exploring the Propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation across the Maritime Continent"
Faculty Advisors: Professor Bradford S. Barrett, and CAPT Elizabeth R. Sanabia, Oceanography Department
External Collaborator: Assistant Professor Pallav Ray, Florida Institute fo Technology

BENJAMIN R. DUNPHY
"Magnetotransport Properties of Shallow Quantum Well Structures for Spintronic Applications"
Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor Elena Cimpoiasu, Physics Department
External Collaborator: Dr. Brian Bennett, Office of Naval Research

JOHN J. GAINER
"Persistent Target Detection and Tracking by an Autonomous Swarm"
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Levi D. DeVries and Assistant Professor Michael D.M. Kutzer, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

GREGORY E. HYER
"A Microlensing Analysis of the Central Engine in the Lensed Quasar WFI J2033-4723"
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Christopher W. Morgan and Associate Professor Jeffrey A. Larsen, Physics Department
External Collaborator: Professor Frederic Courbin, Ecole Polyechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

CARL C. KOLON
"Stability of Nonlinear Swarms on Flat and Curved Surfaces"
Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor Kostya Medynets, Mathematics Department

DAVID J. LIEDTKA
"Prediction of Regional Voting Outcomes Using Heterogeneous Collective Regression"
Faculty Advisor: Professor  Luke K. McDowell, Computer Science Department

FERNANDO R. VALE-ENRIQUEZ
"SMT Solving with a Partial Theory Solver"
Faculty Advisor: Professor  Christopher W. Brown, Computer Science Department

MICHAEL D. WALKER
"A Partially Premixed Combustion Application for Power Improvement in Military Diesel Engines"
Faculty Advisors: Professor  Jim S. Cowart and CAPT (Ret) Leonard J. Hamilton, Mechanical Engineering Department

MICHAEL J. WALLACE
"Innovations to Increase the Power of State-of-the-Art Graph-Theoretic Two-Sample Statistical Tests"
Faculty Advisor: CAPT David M. Ruth, Mathematics Department

 


2019
 

SAMUEL H. BAKER
"Solving the Inverse Problem Using Combination Random Graph Models"
Faculty Advisor:  Assistant Professor Franklin Kenter, Mathematics Department

ANDRIUS V. BERNOTAS
" Electron Phonon Coupling in Superlattice and Multilayer Systems"
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Brian Donovan, Physics Department

ANDERSON S.  CAMP
"Design of a Hand Exoskeleton System Actuated via Linear and Adaptive Control for Rehabilitation"
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Paola Jaramillo Cienfuegos, Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department,  LT Edward Chapman, Physics Department

Ψ  ROBERT T.  CHUNG
"Development of Advanced Functional Biomaterials"
Faculty Advisors: Professor Paul Trulove,  CDR David Durkin Assistant Professor  Elizabeth Yates Chemistry  Department

CASSANDRA R. DOOLEY
"Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations and the Effect of Aid on Institutions"
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Ahmed Rahman, Assistant Professor Alex McQuoid, Professor Katherine Smith, Economics Department

MEGAN L. HANSON
"Soft Skills and Soft Standards in a Sequential Learning Framework"
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Ahmed Rahman, Professor Katherine Smith, Assistant Professor Alex McQuoid, Economics Department

BENNITT L.  HERMSEN
"Near Wake Characteristics of a Marine Propeller in the Presence of Free Stream Turbulence"
Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor Luksa Luznik, Mechanical Engineering Department

THOMAS B.  IMHOFF
"Asymmetrically Loaded Gridshells: A Parametric Study on Bracing Methods and a Case Study for Use in Disaster Relief"
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Samar Malek, Mechanical Engineering Department

DAVIS P.  KATAKURA
"China's Export Effects: A Product-Level Analysis of Global Supply Chains, Comparative Advantage, and Crowding-Out"
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Jacek Rothert,  Professor Katherine Smith, Economics Department,  Assistant Professor  Douglas VanDerwerken Mathematics  Department

YASH D. KHATAVKAR
"Predicting Optimal Maneuvering Time Benefits for Satellite Attitude Control"
Faculty Advisor: CDR Jeffery King, Aerospace Engineering Department

STEFANO PINEDA
"Numerical Simulation of Laser-Induced Drop Evaporation"
Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Cody Brownell, Mechanical Engineering Department,  Associate Professor E velyn Lunasin Mathematics  Department,  CDR Stuart Blair Mechanical Engineering  Department

DEAN N. RYE
"Many-Body Systems of Coupled Dissipative Jaynes-Cummings Cavities"
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Seth Rittenhouse, Assistant Professor Joel Helton, Physics Department
External Collaborator:  Assistant Professor Ryan Wilson

NICHOLAS T. VU
"The Effects of Nanostructuring on the Thermal Transport of Electronic Materials"
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Ronald Warzoha, Professor Andrew Smith Mechanical Engineering  Department,  Assistant Professor Brian Donovan , Physics   Department

DAKOTA L. WENBERG
"
Development of Hybrid Robotic Controller for Autonomous, On-Orbit Spacecraft Assembly Applications "
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Michael Kutzer, Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department,  Assistant Professor Jin Kang, Aerospace Engineering  Department,  Assistant Professor Levi DeVries, Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering  Department

DREW M. WENINGER
"
Quantum Singularities in Black Hole Spacetime Systems with Timelike Classical Singularities "
Faculty Advisors: Professor Deborah Konkowski, Professor Mitchell Baker, Mathematics Department, Professor Eyo Ita, Physics Department

KATHRYN S. WESDYK
"
Toward a Sustainable Approach to Water Service Delivery in a Rural Context "
Faculty Advisors: LCDR Ethan Lust, Professor Patrick Caton, Mechanical Engineering Department, Professor Kurtis Swope, Economics Department

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