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
