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Pratt Research Fellows Program
The Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Program provides engineering undergraduates with an opportunity to do intensive research in their engineering major and receive course credit and the opportunity to do summer research. The school-wide competitive program includes faculty and students of the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. The program is under the direction of Martha Absher, Assistant Dean for Education and Outreach Programs for the Pratt School of Engineering.
Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Fellows work on research projects under the direction of faculty advisers. Course credit is given in the student's major, via linked independent studies for the three semester course sequence as follows:
Biomedical Engineering [190, 191, 192]
- 190 - Projects in Biomedical Engineering
For juniors and seniors who express a desire for such work and who have shown aptitude for research in one area of biomedical engineering. Reserved for Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Fellows. Consent of program director required. Instructor: Staff. One course. - 191, 192 - Projects in Biomedical Engineering
For juniors or seniors who express a desire for such work and who have shown aptitude for research in one area of biomedical engineering. One course. Staff
Civil and Environmental Engineering [172, 173, 174]
- 172 - Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
Intensive research project in Civil and Environmental Engineering by students selected as Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Fellows. Course credit is contingent upon satisfactory completion of 173 and 174. Consent of instructor and program director required. Instructor: Staff. One course. - 173 - Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
Continuation course for Engineering Undergraduate Fellows, contingent upon satisfactory completion of 172. Consent of instructor and program director required. Instructor: Staff. One course. - 174 - Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
Final continuation course for Engineering Undergraduate Fellows, contingent upon satisfactory completion of 172 and 173. Consent of instructor and program director required. Instructor: Staff. One course.
Electrical and Computer Engineering [192, 193, 194]
- 192 - Undergraduate Research in Electrical Engineering
For juniors only. One course. Instructor: Staff. - 193 - Undergraduate Research in Electrical Engineering
For seniors only. One course. Instructor: Staff. - 194 - Undergraduate Research in Electrical Engineering
For seniors only. One course. Instructor: Staff.
Mechanical & Materials Science [172, 173, 174]
- 172- Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
Intensive research project in Mechanical Engineering by students selected as Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Fellows. Course credit is contingent upon satisfactory completion of 173 and 174. Consent of instructor and program director required. Instructor: Staff. One course. - 173- Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
Continuation course for Engineering Undergraduate Fellows, contingent upon satisfactory completion of 172. Consent of instructor and program director required. Instructor: Staff. One course. - 174 - Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
Final continuation course for Engineering Undergraduate Fellows, contingent upon satisfactory completion of 172 and 173. Consent of instructor and program director required. Instructor: Staff. One course.
Fellows are selected midway in their junior year. Selection criteria include research interests, academic record, intellectual ability, and maturity. Attention is given to the recruitment of underrepresented populations in engineering -- women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities. Fellows may use their Pratt Research Fellows research as the basis for a Senior Honors Thesis for graduation with distinction presented to an advisory and examining committee at the end of the Fellow's senior year. Achievements of Pratt Research Fellows have included numerous publications, presentations at national conferences, and even a patent. Typically, Pratt Undergraduate Fellows will graduate with distinction, and with many other university and engineering honors. Their career goals include graduate school in engineering, medical school, or MD/Ph.D. programs at prestigious universities. These outstanding students have performed exemplary research in the Pratt School of Engineering.
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Mathew Angelos, Biomedical Engineering/Chemistry Double Major
Project: Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Tissue Engineering Applications
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Brian Arnold, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Pediatric Crash Test Dummy Development: Modeling of the Head and Neck
Advisor: Roger Nightingale, Associate Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering
John Barrett, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Electrically Tunable Metamaterals
Advisor: Steven Cummer, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jamie Bell, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Automated Electrocardiographic Measurement of the Cardiac Restitution Portrait
Advisor: Salim Idriss, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiology and Electrophysiology, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Jeffrey Birnbaum, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Liposomal Content Delivery Using MRI
Advisor: Mark Dewhirst, Professor, Radiation, Biomedical Engineering, and Pathology
Aidan Burke, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: The Effect of Tenascin on Leukocyte Migration Across Endothelial Membrane
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
David Chen, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Light Sensitive Logic Gated DNA Nanostructures as a Drug Delivery Platform
Advisor: Chris Dwyer, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alex Cheng, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Correlating Histological and AFM Measurements on Articular Cartilage
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and Farshid Guilak, Laszlo Ormandy Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Surgery (Orthopaedic Surgery), and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and Director of the Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory
Nigel Chou, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: OCT Image Processing
Advisor: Joseph Izatt, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Andrew Cook, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Wireless Networks to Measure Snow Pack Depth
Advisor: Martin Brooke, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Katherine Danziger, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Energy Harvesting of Ocean Waves
Advisor: Jeff Scruggs, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
Janessa Det, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Enhancing Nanostructured E-fields with DNA-linked Nano-Assemblies
Advisor: Anne Lazarides, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Philip Scott Harvey, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Dipole-Flow Test
Advisor: Zbigniew Kabala, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Antonia Helbling, Biomedical Engineering Major, Medtronics Undergraduate Scholar
Project: Local Delivery of Lipoxin Analogs Using a Smart Material
Advisor: Lori Setton, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Enping Hong, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Characterization of Peripheral Blood Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Use in Prosthetic Blood Vessel Grafts
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Daniel Klein, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Cancer Therapeutic Assessment Using Light Spectroscopy
Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Mary Ellen Koran, Biomedical Engineering
Project: Transport Processes in Microbicide Gels
Advisor: David Katz, Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Aaron Lee, Civil and Environmental Engineering/German Double Major, GM Fellow
Project: Biodiesel Production from Microalgae
Advisor: Claudia Gunsch, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ashley Li, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Cardiac Ablation Imaging with ARFI Ultrasound
Advisor:Patrick Wolf, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineeri
Kun Liangor, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Developing Elastin-Like Polypeptide-Based Drug Carriers
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Mingnan Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow
Vincent Ling, Biomedical Engineering/Economics Double Major
Project: Engineering an Efficient Biopathway for the Bioplastic Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate)
Advisor: Jingdong Tian, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
David Liu, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Imaging
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Michael McGroddy, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Genetically Engineered pH-responsive Micelles for Drug Delivery to Solid Tumors
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Chloe Mawer, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Transient Pumping Schemes for Efficient Remediation of Contaminated Porous Media
Advisor: Zbigniew Kabala, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Joseph Meyerowitz, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Physics Double Major
Project: Anonymity and Privacy Methods for Localization-Enabled Mobile Applications
Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Nicholas Millar, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Sustainable Hydrological Development in Residential Developments and Urban Environments
Advisor: John Albertson, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Jessica Munn, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Breast Margin Assessment
Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, and Quincy Brown, Postdoctoral Researcher
Amy Munnelly, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Optimizing siRNA Transfection for Knockdown of Focal and Fibrillar Adhesion Proteins in Endothelial Cells
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Jonathan Odom, Electrical and Computer Engineering /Computer Science Double Major
Project: Microphone Array Processing for Speech Enhancement
Advisor: Jeffrey Krolik, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Neil Patel, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: A Novel Nanoscale Liposomal Platform Technology for Target Specific Delivery of Imaging Contrast and Therapeutic Agents
Advisor: Srinivasan Mukundan Jr., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Radiology-Neuroradiology
Lindsay Rawot, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major, GM Fellow
Project: Planning and Implementing Environmental Educational Outreach for the CLEANER (Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research) Neuse River Basin
Advisor: Jeffrey Peirce, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
A.J. Rogers, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Feasibility Study for Automated Location of Shrapnel with 3D Ultrasound
Advisor: Steven Smith, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Chris Rowland, Biomedical Engineering Major, Medtronics Undergraduate Scholar
Project: Exploring Methods of Incuding Chondrogenesis in Adipose Stem Cells
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Laszlo Ormandy Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Surgery (Orthopaedic Surgery), and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and Director of the Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory
Ami Saheba, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: The Effects of Nano-topographical Cues on Macrophage Behavior in Foreign Body Response
Advisor: Kam Leong, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Jaren Junren Sia, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Simulation of Extracellular Matrix with 3D Nanopatterns
Advisor: Kam Leong, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Michael Silver, Electrical Engineering/Physics Double Major
Project: Stabilizing Lasers for Use in Quantum Information Processes
Advisor: Jungsang Kim, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bryan Stem, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Dynamic Modeling of String and Mass Systems
Advisor: Lawrence Virgin, Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Whitney Stewart, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Neural Engineering and Neural Prostheses
Advisor: Warren Grill, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Di (Sandy) Sun, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Synthetic Microbial Production of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate)
Advisor: Jingdong Tian, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Pantana Tor-ngern, Electrical Engineering /Physics Double Major
Project: Low-threshold Photonic Crystal Lasers
Advisor: Tomoyuki Yoshie, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shravan Verma, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Patient-Specific Modeling and Analysis of Atrial Fibrillation
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science
Ivan Wang, Mechanical Engineering/Mathematics Double Major
Project: Aeroelastic Analysis of Folding Wing and Micro Air Vehicles
Advisor: Earl Dowell, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Lauren Wessel, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Environmental Applications and Implications of Nanotechno
Advisor: Mark Wiesner, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andrew Winslow, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Microsphere Engineering for Proteins
Advisor: David Needham, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and David Gaul, Research Scientist
David Xu, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Characterization of Tissue Mechanical Properties with Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Lin Yang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cardiac Tissue Engineering
Advsior: Nenad Bursac, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Cyrus Amoozegar, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Biomedical Interferometry for Early Cancer Detection
Advisor: Adam Wax, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Michael Bauer, Electrical Computer Engineering and Mathematics
Project: Designing Process Variability Tolerant Computer Architectures
Advisor: Daniel Sorin, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jason Blum, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Normal and Friction Force Interactions on Cartilage and Model Surfaces: The Effect of Boundary Lubrications
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Danial Bokhari, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Bionanoengineering
Advisor: Jingdong Tian, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Drew Braucht, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Ligand Triggered Actuation of the ELP Phase Transition
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Ian Cassidy, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Suppression of Earthquake Induced Vibrations
Advisor: Henri Gavin, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tiffany Chang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Identification of Novel Targets in Notochordal Cells During Intervertebral Disc Aging
Advisor: Lori Setton, Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Jun Chen. Assistant Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Carol Chen, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Chemoattractant-Driven Migration of Tumor Cells
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Cindy Cheng, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Effects of Mechanical Stimulation on Muscle Fiber Formation.
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Hyunwoo Cho, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Biosensing with Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Stephen T. Clark, Mechanical Engineering/Music Double Major
Project: Innovative Noise Reduction Methods for Aerospace Vehicles
Advisors: Don Bliss, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Linda Franzoni, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Kerry Costello, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Biomechanical Basis of Rodent Wheel-Running: Insights from Mouse Models of Osteoarthritis
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Surgery, and Director Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory
Elizabeth Crabtree, Civil Engineering Major
Project: Investigating Micro-scale Processes Governing Flaw Evolution in Hydrogels
Advisors: John Dolbow, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; David Stepp, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Rahul Dewal, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Double Major
Project: Neurotelemetry: Low-Power Amplifier for Neural Signal Acquisition
Advisor: Patrick Wolf, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Ryan Dobbertien, Biomedical Engineering Major, Chemistry Minor
Project: Patient-Specific Modeling of Atrial Fibrillation
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor, Biomedical Engineering and
Computer Science
Thomas Feehan, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: High Resolution Fetal Ultrasonic Imaging
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Alex Jing Feng, Biomedical Engineering/Biology Double Major
Project: Modeling of Molecular Transport in Biological Tissues
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Werapong Goo, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Investigation of the Effect of Lipid Bilayer Fluidity on the Binding Behavior of Neutralizing Antibiodies
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Meagan Gray, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Analysis, Design, and Implementation of Gene Networks
Advisor: Lingchong You, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and IGSP
Chelsea He, Mechanical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering Double Major
Project: Novel Interior Noise Reduction Techniques for Aircraft Design
Advisors: Don Bliss, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Linda Franzoni, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Sara Hinds, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cardiac Cell and Tissue Engineering
Advisor: Nenad Bursac, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Andy Huang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Modes of Vibration of the Human Head
Advisor: Roger Nightingale, Associate Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Jeffrey Alan Hussmann, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Mathematics Double Major
Project: FPGA Controller for Quantum Computer
Advisor: Jungsang Kim, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Priscilla Hwang, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Development and Evaluation of a Controlled-Release System for Local Anti-Cytokine Drug Delivery to the Spinal Ganglion
Advisor: Lori Setton, Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Alexandra Issa, Biomedical Engineering Major, Certificate in Markets and Management, Medtronics Undergraduate Scholar
Project: Gene Expression Analysis of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines in Human Monocyte Cells.
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Richie Kim, Research Associate
Ngozi Kanu, Mechanical Engineering Major, Medtronics Undergraduate Scholar
Project: Structural Properties of DNA Nanostructures
Advisor: Anne Lazarides, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Shams Kazmi, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Modeling the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface
Advisor: Warren Grill, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Eugene Kim, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Investigating Optical-CT and Optical-ECT as New Techniques for Functional Imaging in Developmental Biology
Advisor: Mark Oldham, Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology and Biomedical
Engineering
Steve Lattanzio, Civil Engineering Major
Project: WEAVE: Web-based Educational Framework for Analysis, Visualization and
Experimentation
Advisor: Henri Gavin, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Melissa Levy, Electrical Engineering/Mathematics Double Major
Project: Fabrication and Characterization of Surface Relief Optical Gratings for Edge Emitting Lasers Integrated with Waveguide Bio/Chemical Sensors
Advisor: Nan Marie Jokerst, J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sebastian Liska, Mechanical Engineering/Physics Double Major
Project: Aeroelastic Analysis of a Folding Wing Configuration
Advisor: Earl H. Dowell, William Holland Hall Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Dean Emeritus
Jason Liu, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: In Vitro Evaluation of Sustained Viral Gene Delivery through Co-Axially Electrospun Fibers
Advisor: Kam Leong, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Sean McGuire, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Monitoring and Analysis of Respiratory Depression
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Laura Moore, Biomedical Engineering Major, Chemistry Minor
Project: Pilot Study to Determine the Feasibility of Using Breast Thermography and Optical Spectroscopy to Improve the Evaluation of Treatment Outcome for Breast Cancer Patients
Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Eric Ojerholm, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: A Novel Nanoscale Liposomal Platform Technology for Target Specific Delivery of
Imaging Contrast and Therapeutic Agents
Advisor: Srinivasan Mukundan Jr., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Radiology-Neuroradiology
Chin Chun Ooi, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Alignment of Gold Nanorods in a Ferrofluid in a Uniform Magnetic Field
Advisor: Benjamin Yellen, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Lee Pearson, Civil and Environmental Engineering/Biomedical Engineering Double Major
Project: Monitoring for Molds in Indoor Air Environments
Advisor: Claudia Gunsch, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Archana Ramireddy, Biomedical Engineering Major, Chemistry and Economics Minors
Project: Integrating an Ultrasound Transducer with ECG Leads
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Serge Reshetnikov, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Double Major
Project: Development of a Compact and Multifunctional Sensor Array
Advisors: Jeffrey Glass, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Scott Wolter, Assistant Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lisa Richards, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Development of Optical Spectroscopy for the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Tumor Margins
Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Stephen Rosenzweig, Biomedical Engineering/Mathematics Double Major
Project: Creating an Automated System for Ultrasonic Pressure and Temperature Measurement
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Marc Coleman Shelton, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Calcium Sensitive ELPs
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Cameron Smith, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Mathematical Modeling of the Enhancement of Bacterial Quorum Sensing Signal Discrimination by the Inherent Instability of Monomeric Signal Transducing Proteins
Advisor: Lingchong You, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Jeff Smith, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Integrating DIVE with CLEANER (/C/ollaborative /L/arge-scale /E/ngineering /A/nalysis /N/etwork for /E/nvironmental /E/ngineering) River Basins Across the United States
Advisor: Jeffrey Peirce, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andrew Sobel, Biomedical Engineering Major, Chemistry Minor
Project: pH-sensitive Block Copolymer Elastin-Like Polypeptides (ELPs) for
Targeted Tumor Drug Delivery: Synthesis and Characterization of New Block
Copolymers
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Karli Spetzler, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Development of a Virtual Model of Skull and Brain Anatomy
Advisor: Srinivasan Mukundan Jr., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Radiology-Neuroradiology
Megan Tooley, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Modulation of Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 by Breast Cancer Chemotherapy
Advisor: Mark Dewhirst, Professor, Radiation Oncology and Biomedical Engineering
John Whitman, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: 3D Ultrasound Guidance of Surgical Robotics
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Philip Wolfe, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Fracture Toughness of Stimulus Responsive Hydrogels
Advisors: John Dolbow, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; David Stepp, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Garrett Wood, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Modeling and Optimization of Intersegmental Cervical Spine Muscles
Advisor: Roger Nightingale, Associate Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Assistant Research Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Steven Worrell, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Quantitative Relationships of Soil Moisture, Temperature, and Carbon Dioxide
Advisor: Amilcare Porporato, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Tianshi (David) Wu, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Microbicide Durability and HIV Transport
Advisor: David Katz, Nello L. Teer Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Lola Xie, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Effect of Protein Layer on Cytokine Production by Macrophages
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Yvonne Yamanaka, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Nanoparticle Mediated Insulin Gene Delivery to Intestinal Cell Co-Cultures
Advisor: Kam Leong, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Felix Yap, Biomedical Engineering Major/Chemistry Minor
Project: Colorimetric Analysis and Quantification of Collagen Deposition in Subcutaneous and Fat Tissue
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Ronal G. Abraham, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Economics Double Major
Project: Noise suppression algorithms for cochlear implants
Advisor: Leslie Collins, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Benjamin Schaefer Abram, Civil and Environmental Engineering/Public
Policy Studies Double Major
Project: Water is Everybody's Business - Walking The Walk of The Early
20th Century Conservationist Mind
Advisor: Ana Barros, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Nicole Axelrod, Civil Engineering Major
Project: Modeling the Performance of a Ball-in-Cone Isolation System
Advisor: Henri Gavin, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jeremy Baldoni, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Magnetic Micro-tracking of Biomedical Implants
Advisor: Benjamin Yellen, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Deepak Bastakoty, Biomedical Engineering / Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Exploring the Feasibility of Epicortical Field Potential Based Implantable Brain-Machine Interfaces
Advisor: Dr. Patrick D. Wolf, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
Elan Bresslour, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Microwave Imaging for Earlier Detection of Breast Cancer
Advisor: Qing Liu, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lisa Burton, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Acoustics Research for Noise Reduction Inside Aerospace Vehicles
Advisors:. Don Bliss, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and. Linda Franzoni, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Jarred Callura, Biomedical Enginering Major
Project: Analysis of Patient Controlled Analgesia using Biological Data from Patients
Advisor: Dr. Craig Henriquez, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Daniel Carlin, Biomedical Engineering/ Mathematics Double Major
Project:A 3D FEM Model of Cardiac Motion for Ultrasonic Imaging Research
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Aaron Carlson, Biomedical Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: The Effect of Mechanical Stimulation on Muscle Fiber Formation
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dennis Cattel, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Posterior Pelvic Ring Fixation
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Director Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory
Edward Clermont, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Endothelial Cell Adhesion to Synthetic Vascular Grafts
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Todd Cobb, Civil Engineering Major
Project: Convective Rainfall Measurement for the Triangle Area
Advisor: Amilcare Porporato, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Wade Cooper, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Characterization Tools for Optical Index of Refraction
Advisor: Nan Marie Jokerst, J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
William Cooper, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: 3-D Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Hafeez Dhalla, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Characterization of FDPM Instrument for Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Advisors: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Bing Yu, Biomedical Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow
Andrew Fitzpatrick, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering double major
Project: Immobilization of DNA for pyrosequencing on a digital microfluidic platform
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Richard Fair, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Matthew Furlow, Biomedical Engineering major, Chemistry minor
Project: Analysis of HIV Transport Phenomena
Advisor: David Katz, Nello L. Teer Jr. Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Andrea (Annie) Gitomer, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project Biomolecule-driven actuation of nano-assembly reconfiguration
Advisor: Anne Lazarides, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Justin Hilliard, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Inquiry of presumptive flow receptors in the feline urethra
Advisor: Dr. Warren Grill, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor, Surgery
Julia Hubert, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Cardiac Mechanical Imaging
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Bibek Joshi, Civil Engineering and Economics Double Major
Project: Using ultra-violet radiation to treat drinking water in rural
communities
Advisor: Karl G. Linden, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
John Kang, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Quantification of tumor prognosis through electrical impedance
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ara Kardashian, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Tissue Engineering of 3-Dimensional Heart Tissue Patches
Advisor: Nenad Bursac, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Keigo Kawaji, Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics Double Major
Project: A Novel Nanoscale Liposomal Platform Technology for Target Specific Delivery of Imaging Contrast and Therapeutic Agents
Advisor: Srinivasan Mukundan Jr., Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Brian Lewis, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Mode-Locked Photonic Crystal Microcavity Lasers
Advisor: Tomoyuki Yoshie, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andrew Longenecker, Mechanical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering/Economics Triple Major
Project: Nonlinear Dynamics of Fluid Flow Around Bluff Bodies
Advisor: Earl Dowell, J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Benjamin Macadangdang, Electrical and Computer Engineer/Computer Science Double Major
Project: DNA Self-Assembly and Nanoelectronic Systems
Advisor: Chris Dwyer, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Christine McMahon, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Metabolic Imaging of Dysplastic Changes in Human Mammary Epithelial Cells
Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Amit Momaya, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Formation and Degradation of PLGA Microspheres
Advisor: David Needham, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Isaac Nagiel, Electrical Engineering and Economics Double Major
Project: AC Electrowetting Actuation of Droplets on a Digital Microfluidic Platform
Advisor: Richard Fair, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chawkat Nammour, Civil Engineerinng Major
Project: Electrical Methods to Help Determine the Shear Strangth of Soils
Advisor: Fred Boadu, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Phillip D. Nicholson, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Toward Shear Modulus Quantification Using Acoustic Radiation
Force Imaging
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Joanna Noble, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Real-time Stereo 3-D Ultrasonic Imaging
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Matthew Novak, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Biocompatibility of Chronically Implanted Neural Electrodes
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Vadim Polikov, Graduate Student
Katherine Oldenburg, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Andreina Parisi-Amon, Biomedical Engineering Major, Biology Minor
Project: Determining the Recovery Rate of Cytokines through Microdialysis Probes
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor or Biomedical Engineering
Maher Salahi, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: The Engineering of a Bistable Switch to Understand the Regulation of
the E2F Pathway
Advisor: Lingchong You, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Emily Schmidt, Biomedical Engineering Major, Mathematics Minor
Project: Mathematical Modeling of Intratumoral Infusion of Drugs
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
John Schoenleber, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: 3-D CT-Based Craniofacial Anthropometry for the Evaluation of Craniosynostosis
Advisor: Srinivasan Mukundan Jr., Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Matan Setton, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Constitutive Properties of the Pediatric Synchondrosis
Advisor: Roger Nightingale, Associate Research Professor, Department of
Biomedical Engineering
Timothy Shih, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: 2D arrays for real time 3D imaging of the brain
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Torstens Skujins, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Experimental Investigation and Optimization of Propeller Efficiency
Advisor: Laurens Howle, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Nathan Smith, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Virtual Brain
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Jessica Son, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Nitric Oxide, DNA Damage, and Osteoarthritis
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Director Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory
Emily Spataro, Biomedical Engineering
Project: Development of optical spectroscopy for the non-invasive diagnosis of
breast and cervical cancers
Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Eric Spitz, Biomedical Engineering Major and Psychology Minor
Project: Increasing the Functional Lifetime of Synthetic Gene Networks Under
Selective Pressure
Advisor: Lingchong You, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Sophie Strike, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Endothelial cell focal adhesion formation on stretched smooth muscle cells
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering
Bineyam Tafesse, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Headstage Amplification of 32-Channels of Neural Signals
Advisor: Patrick Wolf, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Beth Vasievich, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Loading and release of an imageable temperature-sensitive liposome
containing cisplatin
Advisor: Mark Dewhirst, Gustavo S. Montana Professor of Radiation Oncology;
Professor of Pathology and Biomedical Engineering
Charles Wang, Biomedical / Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Growing Diamond-like Carbon on Neural Probes to Achieve Desired
Mechanical and Electrical Properties, and Biocompatibility
Advisors: Jeffrey Glass, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Scott Wolter, Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rebecca Wilusz, Biomedical/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Effects of Inflammatory Cytokines on Integrative Meniscal Repair
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering and
Director of Orthopaedic Research, Department of Surgery
An-Kwok Ian Wong, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Double Major
Project: Noninvasive quantitative chemical measurement via optical, electrical, and mechanical techniques.
Advisor: Jungsang Kim, Nortel Networks Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Frank Yu, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Self-assembling nanostructures of genetically engineered,stimuli-responsive elastin-like polypeptides for tissue engineering
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Dong Woo Lim, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student
Vineet Agrawal, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical
Engineering Double Major
Project: Optimization of Acoustic Pulse Sequences
for
Differentiation Between Fluid-filled and Solid Breast Lesions
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, James L and Elizabeth M.
Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Zaid Nasr Al-Husseini, Electrical and Computer
Engineering and Economics Double Major
Project: Microwave Induced Thermoacoustic Tomography
in Early Breast Cancer Detection
Advisor: Qing Liu, Associate Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Nasir Bhanpuri, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Modeling Cortical Songs
Advisor: Dr. Jean-Marc Fellous, Assistant Professor
of Biomedical Engineering
Ling Bei, Biomedical Engineering and English Double
Major
Project: Real-time Visualization of Ablation Lesion
with Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, James L and Elizabeth M.
Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Justin Bieber, Mechnical Engineering and Materials
Science Major
Project: Study of Surface Confined, Stimulus-Responsive
Polymer Brushes by QCM-D
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Andrew Bowen, Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering
Double Major
Project: Receptor-Ligand interactions
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Jeff Boyer, Biomedical Engineering and Economics
Double Major
Project: Biophotonics for Early Cancer Detection
Advisor: Adam Wax, Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
Chris Champion, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Determining the Presence of Gap Junctions
in a Direct Co-Culture System of
Smooth Muscle and Endothelial Cells
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor and Chair of
Biomedical Engineering
Zubair Chao, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Implementation of Acoustic Radiation Force
Impulse (ARFI) Imaging in 3D Ultrasound Machine
Advisor: Stephen W. Smith, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
Brian Dieckmann, Mechanical Engineering and Material
Science Major
Project: Exploration of Mobile Robot Designs and
their Applications in Different Industries
Advisor: Devandra P. Garg, Professor of Mechanical
Engineering
Lisa Duty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Major
Project: Microstructural Modeling of Concrete with
Silica Fume
Advisor: Joseph Nadeau, Assistant Professor of
Civil Engineering
Todd Elkin, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Endothelial Cell Migration along Manufactured
Gradients
Advisor: Willilam Reichert, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
Peter Filev, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cell Electroporation
Advisor: Wanda Krassowska, Associate Professor
of Biomedical Engineering
Julien Finlay, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Lift Enhancement and Stall Delay for Fluid
Dynamics Control Surfaces – Bio-Inspired Solutions
Advisor: Laurens Howle Associate Professor Mechanical
Engineering and Materials Science
Jared Gardner, Biomedical Engineering Major, Chemistry
Minor
Project: Hydrogel Formation of Elastin-Like Polypeptides
with Hydroxymethylphosphines for in situ Forming Biomaterials
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor
of Biomedical Engineering
and Dong Woo Lim, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student
Derek Hower, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Major
Project: Reliable Microprocessor Structures
Advisor: Daniel Sorin, Assistant Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Clifford Hou, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical
Engineering Double Major
Project: Lift Enhancement and Stall Delay for Fluid
Dynamics Control Surgaces – Bio Inspired Solutions
Advisor: Laurens Howle Associate Professor/Director
of Graduate Studies of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences
Farokh Irani, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Anisotropic culturing of adult cardiomyocytes:
how to teach an old
cell new tricks.
Advisor: Nenad Bursac, Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
Amit Joshipura, Biomedical and Electrical Engineering
Double Major
Project: DNA Chips/Microarray Research and Their
Use in Ophthalmology and
LabVIEW Coding on Stream.vi and Research on Galvo
Advisor: Joseph Izatt, Associate Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Associate
Professor of Ophthalmology
Daniel M. Kaplan, Biomedical Engineering and
Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Generating Neural Spiking Patterns
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate
Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
Daniel Kim, Junior Pratt Engineering Undergraduate
Fellow, major: biomedical Engineering
Project: Purification of Recombinant Proteins by
Fusion with Elastin-Like Polypeptides through Inverse Transition
Cycling
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor
of Biomedical Engineering
Richard Lee, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Associate Professor
of Biomedical Engineering
Jason Leung, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Monocyte Endothelial Cell-Interactions
Under Flow: Numerical simulation and Experiments
Advisors: Damir Khismatullin, Senior Research Scientist
and George Truskey, Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Dorothy Lowell, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Effects of Growth Media on Muscle Tissue
Engineering
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor and Chair of
Biomedical Engineering
James Marschner, Mechanical Engineer Major
Project: Fluid Bearing Research
Advisor: Josiah Knigh,t Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering
Michael Mathis, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI)
Ultrasound Imaging – Vascular Mechanics
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, James L and Elizabeth M.
Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Mathew Mian, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Characterization of Discordant APD Alternans
in a Cardiac Fiber
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Garver Moore, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Major
Project: CAD tools for digital microfluidic biochip
design
Advisor: Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Emily Mugler, Biomedical Engineering Major, Neuroscience
Certificate
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Wolf, Associate Professor
of Biomedical Engineering
Project: The Design of a Positive Reinforcement
Behavioral Whisking Task in the Awake, Restrained Rat
Ty Mukherji, Mechanical Engineering and Materials
Science and Economics Double Major
Advisor: Earl Dowell, Dean Emeritus, and J.A. Jones
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Project: Investigation of the Aero-elastic Response
of Thin, Flexible Plates.
Vinh Nguyen, Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Computer Science Double Major
Project: Microwave Imaging: Research in Alternative
Medical Imaging Modalities
Advisor: Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of the
Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Plamen Nikolov, Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science Double Major
Project: Understanding the Impact of Process Variations
for Deep
Sub-micron Devices
Advisor: Sule Ozev, Assistant Professor, Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Sara Oliver, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Major
Project: Experimental and Numerical Analysis of
Microslip
Advisor: Tod A. Laursen, Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and Senior Associate Dean for Education
Courtney Lehn Olmsted, Biomedical Engineering
Major, Theater Studies Minor
Project: Blueprint of the Brain
Advisor: Dr. Warren Grill PhD Associate Professor
of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery
Jialing Kim Png, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Synthesis and Purification of Genetically
engineered Calmodulin
Elastin-like polypeptides (CaM-ELPs)
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor
of Biomedical Engineering, and
Bumjoon Kim, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student
Yupeng Qiu, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical
Engineering Double Major
Project: Feasibility Study of Real Time Three Dimensional
Intracardiac Echocardiography For Guidance Of Interventional Electrophysiology
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Associate Professor of Radiology
Mahir Rabbi, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: DNA Damage Detection Using Atomic Force
Microscopy
Advisor: Piotr E. Marszalek, Associate Professor
of Mechanical
Engineering and Material Science
Anna Leigh Rack-Gomer, Electrical Engineering
and Biomedical Engineering Double Major
Project: Decision Theory in the Detection of Breast
Cancer by Promoter Hypermethylation in Specific Genes
Advisor: Loren Nolte, Professor, Electrical Engineering
Andrew Schmidt, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Biomechanical factors in osteoarthritis:
Insights from studying mouse gait
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor Biomedical
Engineering and
Director of Orthopaedic Research, Department of Surgery
Erik Schmidt, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Application of Ant System/Swarm Algorithm
to Landmine Detection
Advisor: Leslie Collins, Associate Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chris Schumann, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Neurotelemetry
Advisor: Patrick Wolf, Assistant Professor, Department
of Biomedical Engineering
Serdar Selamet, Civil Engineering and Economics
Double Major
Project: Design of Intrinsic Mechanisms in Structures
Absorbing a Thermal Shock to deal with structural implications of
September 11 collapse of WTC towers.
Advisor: Tomasz Hueckel, Professor of Civil Engineering
Andrew Stalnecker, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Electric field-mediated gene delivery
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor, Department
of Ophthalmology
Katie Sullivan, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: 2D Arrays for Real-Time 3D Intracardiac
Echocardiography
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
Troy Swimmer, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: The Effects of Low and High Impact Loading
on Porcine Articular Cartilage
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor Biomedical
Engineering and
Director of Orthopaedic Research, Department of Surgery
Tina Tailor, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical
Engineering Double Major
Project: Droplet-Based Digital Microfluidic Genome
Sequencing
Advisor: Richard Fair, Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
Junhao Shawn Tan, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Free Diffusion Loading of Cisplatin and
Gd-DTPA into Low Temperature Sensitive Liposomes (LTSL)
Advisor: Mark Dewhirst, Gustavo S. Montana Professor
of Radiation Oncology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Robert Tipton, Civil Engineering and Music Double
Major
Project: Biomass Allocation in Crown Structures
of Southern Pine Species
Advisor: Joe Nadeau, Assistant Professor of Civil
Engineering
Matthew Topel, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Biomechanical properties of differentiating
stem cells
Advisor: Dr. Farshid Guilak, Professor of Surgery
and Biomedical Engineering
Dean Wang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Microdialysis Sampling of Cytokine Release
from Macrophage In Vitro Culture Models
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
Ying Min Wang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Three-Dimensional Imaging of Tumor Microvasculature
by Optical Projection Tomography (OPT)
Advisors: Mark Dewhirst, Gustavo S. Montana Professor
of Radiation Oncology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mark
Oldham, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology - Radiation
Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Lingyun Xiong, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Mathematical Modeling of Tissue Shrinkage
treated with Mannitol
Advisor: Advisor: Fan Yuan, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor, Department
of Ophthalmology
Siu-Chung Yau, Civil Engineering and Economics
Double Major
Project: Reliability and Risk Analysis in Structural
Engineering
Advisor: Henri Gavin, Associate Professor of Civil
and Environmental Engineering
Cen Zhang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Biocompatibility of Chronically Implanted
Neural Electrodes
Advisors: William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Vadim Polikov, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student
Michael Zhao, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Economics Triple Major
Project: Electrochemical Studies of Double Layer
Properties of Carbon and Metal Coatings
Advisors: Barry Myers, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Jeff Glass, Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Veeral Ajmera, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Signaling Pathways of F-actin Polymerization in Neutrophil Chemotaxis
Advisor: Doncho Zhelev, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Noel Bakhtian, Mechanical Engineering/Physics Double Major
Project: Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
Advisors: Earl H. Dowell, J. A. Jones Professor Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Dr. Peter Attar, Research Associate
Rachel Nicole Catz, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Three Dimensional Woven Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, and Associate Professor, Surgery
Justin Brower, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Liposomes for Cancer Drug Delivery
Advisor: David Needham, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Tina Chang, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Synthesis and Characterization of Photocrosslinkable ELP
Advisor: Lori A. Setton, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Melvin H. Chiang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Mathematical Modeling of Molecular Transport in Biological Tissues
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor of BME, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Kwan Chow, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Signaling Pathways of Pseudopod Extension of Human Neutrophils
Advisor: Doncho Zhelev, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Patrick Crosby, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Optimizing Cochlear Implants for Musical Input
Advisor: Leslie Collins, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael Curcio, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Computer Simulation of Electromagnetic Systems Using Java
Advisor: Qing H. Liu, Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Danielle Davidian, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Effects of Frequency Modulation on Speech Perception in Cochlear Implant Subjects
Advisor: Leslie Collins,Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Brian Diekman, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Short-term Viability of Chondrocytes of hADAS Cell Origin in Agarose and Agarose plus Synvisc® Hylan G-F 20 Constructs Using DNA Content Analysis.
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, and Associate Professor, Surgery
Leahthan Domeshek, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Feasibility Study of Real Time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography for Guidance of Intervenetional Electrophysiology
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Michael Economo, Biomedical Engineering/Mathematics Double Major
Project: Neuron-Glia Interaction and Wave Propagation in Excitable Media
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science
Aya Eguchi, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Infrared Microspectroscopic Imaging of Atherosclerotic Rabbit Aorta
Advisor: Brett Hooper, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Olaf von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Medicine
Chris Einmo, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Chemical Oxidation of Organic Arsenical Herbicides During Ultraviolet Water Treatment and Disinfection
Advisor: Karl Linden, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ryan Feaver, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Smooth Muscle Cell Nitric Oxide Production in Response to Cyclic Stretch
Advisor: George Truskey, Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Jacob Flomenberg, Electrical Computer Engineering/Computer Science/Economics Triple Major
Project: Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis of Process Variations: the First Step Towards Robust Deep Sub-micron Devices . AC Analysis
Advisor: Sule Ozev, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andrew D. Galanopoulos, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Characterization of Cell-Mediated Articular Cartilage Degradation through Mechanical Testing
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor of BME and Director of Orthopaedic Research Department of Surgery
Haven Garber, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Drug Diffusion in HEMA Hydrogel
Advisors: William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Lori Norton, Biomedical Engineering graduate student
Darwin Goei, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Hardware and Data Analysis for Lightning Electromagnetics
Advisor: Steven Cummer, Assistant Professor of ECE
Stephen Greenfield, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Using Transmembrane Ammonium Sulfate Gradients to Produce Doxorubicin Loaded Thermo Sensitive Liposomes.
Advisors: David Needham , Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Alex Wright, Biomedical Engineering graduate student
Twinkle Gupta, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Finite Element Analysis of Ultrasonic Transducers to study the Thermal Effects Associated with ARFI
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Aarash Haghighat, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Advisors: Ashutosh Chilokti, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Hongwei Ma, Biomedical Engineering graduate student
Project: Study of Quasi-3 Dimensional Microstructure Guided Adipose Derived Adult Stem Differentiation
Bevin E. Hearn, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Overexpression of hTERT and the Effects on Telomere Length and Cell Growth in Human Smooth Muscle
Advisors: Juliana L. Blum, PhD, Laura E. Niklason, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Jeremy Kim, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Body Voltage and Electromagnetic Changes During Periods of Focused Intent
Advisor: William T. Joines, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kevin Ko, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cardiac Tissue Engineering: Development of in vitro Models for Cardiac Dysfunction
Advisor: Nenad Bursac, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Trina Kok, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: 3-gene Regulation and Cellular Automata
Advisor: Paul Wang, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Anjum Koreishi, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Quasi-3D Microstructure System for Stem Cell Differentiation
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Megan Leftwich, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science Major
Project: Pressure Fields in Thin Film Lubricants
Advisor: Josiah D Knight, Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering and Material Science
Kyle McCarter, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Electrical Impedance Tomography
Advisor: Qing Liu, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Emily McDowell, Biomedical Engineering Major, Mathematics Minor
Project: Image Processing Software for Manual Segmentation of Retinal OCT Images.
Advisor: Joseph A. Izatt, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Christian Moyer, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Vascular Phantom Development
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Douglas Mullen, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Development of Thermally Stable Environments for Stimulus Responsive Polymer Brush Experiments
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Paul S. Nesline, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Micro-Robotics: Design, Simulation and Manufacturing Methods
Advisor: Devendra Garg, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Panchika Prangkio, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cytokine Detection Protein Array Designed for Biocompatability of Biomaterials
Advisor: Yiwen Li, Visiting Research Scholar of Biomedical Engineering, William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Roni Prucz, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: The Creation of Microvascular Networks: Inducing the In-Vitro Formation of Capillary Lumens Through the Use of Physiological and Mechanical Stimuli
Advisor: Laura Niklason, M.D./Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Michele Pugh, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: DNA Mechanics and Diagnostics by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Advisor: Piotr E. Marszalek, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Sundhar Ramalingam, Biomedical Engineering/Chemistry Double Major
Project: Monocyte Endothelial Cell-Interactions Under Flow: Numerical simulation and Experiments
Advisor: Damir Khismatullin, Senior Research Scientist and George Truskey, Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Nasheer Sachedina, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Finite Element Modeling of Ultrasound Transducers Using LS-DYNA
Advisor: Stephen W. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Professor of Radiology
Ioannis Savidis, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Double Major
Project: Enhancement of Backpack Design for Brain Machine Interface
Advisor: Patrick D. Wolf, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Justin Shapiro, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Trace Gas Production, Transport and Transformation in Complex Engineered Soil Systems: Analyzing Relationship Between Toluene Concentration, Emissions, and Cell Growth in Soil through the use of Fluorescent In-Situ Hybridization (FISH)
Advisor: J. Jeffrey Peirce, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Daniel Stepner, Civil Engineering Major
Project: Wetlands Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling
Advisor: Dr. Miguel A. Medina, Jr., Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mimi Wachendorf, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Isolation and Characterization of Adult Rat Myocytes
Advisor: Nenad Bursac, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Charles Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Peak to Ground Lightning Discharges During Summer Months Over Land and Ocean
Advisor: Steven Cummer, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nicole Weaver, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Digital Microfluidic Assays.
Advisor: Richard Fair, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Devaka Viraj Yasaratne, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis of Process Variations: The First Step Towards Robust Deep Sub-Micron Devices .Nonlinear DC Approach
Advisor: Sule Ozev, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jonathan Zile, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Body Voltage Changes During Periods of Focused Intent
Advisor: William Joines, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andrea Albergo, Mechanical Engineering
Project: Adhesion and Tribology of Cartilage on the Macro and Micrometer Length Scales
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Noor Atari, Civil Engineering Major (Track 1: Mechanics and Structural Engineering) w/ Architectural Certificate
Project: WEAVE: Web-based Educational framework for Analysis, Visualization and Experimentation
Advisor: Dr. Henri Gavin and Dr. John Dolbow
Richard Bouchard, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering/Cultural Anthropology Triple Major
Project: Development and Characterization of ARFI-Compatible Phantoms
Advisor: Dr. Kathy Nightingale, Associate Professor of BME
Dana Burwell, Biomedical Engineering
Project: Computer Models to Control or Stop Atrial Fibrillation
Advisor: Dr. Craig Henriquez, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Kengyeh K. Chu Chu, Biomedical Engineering/ Physics Double Major and French Studies Minor
Project: 3D Phased Array Ultrasound Imaging through Planar Tissue Layers
Advisor: Stephen W. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
Nick Csikesz, Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Investigating the Differences between Female and Male Muscle Cell Response to Hypoxic and Low-Nutrient Level Conditions
Advisor: Dr. Doris Taylor, PHD, Associate Research Professor, Div Of Cardiology, Dept. of Medicine, Dept. of Surgery and Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Matt Farrell, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Minimally Invasive Surgery Using Evanescent Waves Delivered Through a Catheter
Advisor: Brett Hooper, Associate Professor of BME
Vito Frank Mecca, Electrical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering Double Major
Project: Advanced Helmet Design
Advisor: Barry S. Myers, M.D., Ph.D.,, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Andrew Jason Friedman, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: A 3D Mouse
Advisor: Dr. David Brady, Director of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems and Brian F. Addy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jason Glaw, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cytoskeletal Architecture of Micropatterned Fibrochondrocyte Cellst Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Lori Setton, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Adam Hausman, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Effects of Hypoxia on Chondrogenesis
Advisor: Dr. Farshad Guilak, Director of Research, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Jinendra Raja Jain, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science/ Economics Triple Major
Project: Nanodevices -- Nanowires and Quantum Dots
Advisor: Hisham Z. Massoud, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Semiconductor Research Laboratory
Vicki Krapohl, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
Advisor: Professor Earl Dowell
Homare Kubagawa, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical
Project: The Effect of NO on ATP Production
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Ph.D., Associate Professor of BME and Director of Orthopaedic Research Department of Surgery and Beverley Fermor, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor of BME
Jenny Mao, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engin
Project: ARFI Imaging of the Mechanical Properties of the Healthy and Diseased Artery
Advisor: Dr. Gregg Trahey, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Harry Bourne Marr Jr, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Advanced Algorithms for Unexploded Ordinance Detection and Discrimination
Advisor: Dr Leslie Collins, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Patrick Mathias, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Microwave Imaging for Detection of Breast Cancer
Advisor: Dr. Qing Liu, Associate Professor of EE
Niyati Mukherjee, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Double Major
Project: Test Planning and Optimization for Modular Testing of Core-based System-on-a-chip
Advisor: Dr. Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shin Rong Ong, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Reprogramming chondroctyes using “two-step” chondrocyte recovery system for monolayer cartilage tissue engineering
Advisor: Dr. Lori Setton, Associate Professor of BME
Shin Yeu Ong, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Mechanisms of the Threshold Pressure during Intratumoral Infusion of Drugs
Advisor: Prof. Fan Yuan, Assistant Professor of BME
John Paisley, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Microwave-Induced Hyperthermia and Perfusion Effects in Cancer Therapy
Advisor: Dr. William T. Joines - Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Anand Patel, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Inverse Transition Cycling: A Method of Drug Delivery
Advisor: Dr. Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of BME
Mimi Phan, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: The Downstream Effects of Mechanically-Induced Inflammatory Mediators in Articular Cartilage
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery; Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Director of Research,
Orthopaedic Research Laboratories & Scott Pritchard, M.S., Ph.D. candidate
Joshua Robinson, Electrical and Computer Engineering / Computer Science Double Major
Project: SORE (Self Organizable Regulating Engine) and Its Applications to
Spatiotemporal Pattern Classification
Advisor: Dr. Paul Wang, Professor of ECE
Brian Schaaf, Mechanical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Design and Development of a Bio-Mimetic Microrobot
Advisor: Devendra P. Garg, Professor of MEMS
Sumit Shah, CECT Undergraduate Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Real Time 3D Blood Flow Imaging
Advisor: Dr. Olaf T. von Ramm,Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the CECT
Andrew Shih, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Design of a Wearable Telemetry System for Neural Recordings in Humans
Advisor: Patrick Wolf, Associate Professor of BME
Gaurav Shukla, Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Brain-Machine Interfaces
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, Ph.D., Associate Professor of BME and CS
Lydia Silbajoris, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Causes and Treatment of Cerebral Vasospasm
Advisor: Dr. Laura Niklason, Assistant Professor of BME, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Assistant Professor of Surgery
William Simpson, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics
Project: Left-Handed Metamaterials
Advisor: Dr. Steven Cummer, Assistant Professor
Trey Southerland, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Semi-Active Dampers in Structural Control
Advisor: Henri P. Gavin, Associate Professor of CE
Neal Winterhof, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Microwave Imaging: Research in Alternative Medical Imaging Modalities
Advisor: Dr. Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of ECE and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Kevin Wong, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Quantitative Study of Albumin Transport in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cell Monolayer
Advisor: Dr. George Truskey, Professor of BME
Jamie Bergen, Biomedical Engineering Major and Chemistry Minor
Project: Developing Alternative Molecular Therapies for
Cardiovascular Disease
Advisor: Dr. Doris Taylor, Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering, and Associate Professor of Medicine in
Cardiology
Kenneth Borrelli, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Modeling the Human Atria
Advisor: Dr. Craig Henriquez, Associate Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Chiu-Yu Chen, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering
Double Major
Project: Infrared Diagnostic and Therapeutic Devices
Advisor: Dr. Brett Hooper, Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
David Chong, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Neurotelemetry
Advisor: Patrick Wolf, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering
David Cochran, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Web-Based Control of Industrial Robots
Advisor: Dr. Devendra Garg, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering and Materials Science
Drake Guenther, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Phase Correction in Ultrasonic Imaging
Advisor: Dr. Gregg Trahey, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering
Nitin Gupta, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Feasibility Study of Real Time 3D Intracardiac
Echocardiography for Guidance of Interventional Electrophysiology
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Smith, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering
Justin Jaworski, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
Advisor: Dr. Earl Dowell, J.A. Jones Professor and Dean
Emeritus, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Derek Juang, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double
Major
Project: The Tumor Microcirculation Laboratory
Advisor: Dr. Mark Dewhirst, Professor, Dept. of Radiation
Oncology and Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Robert Kazmierski, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering
Double Major
Project: Mechanosensitivity of Meniscal Cells
Advisor: Dr. Lori Setton, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering
Jed Kim, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double
Major
Project: Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging in Tissue Equivalent
Phantoms
Advisor: Dr. Kathy Nightengale, Assistant Research Professor,
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Fran Lebajo, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double
Major
Project: Microwave Imaging: Research in Alternative Medical
Imaging Modalities
Advisor: Dr. Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of the Practice,
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tae Lee, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double
Major
Project: Improving Microwave Hyperthermia for Cancer Therapy
Advisor: Dr. William Joines, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
David Logan, Electrical and Computer Engineering /Computer
Science Double Major
Project: Signal Analysis of a Bowed Violin
Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Krolik, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Daniel Mordes, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Brain Machine Interfaces
Advisor: Dr. Craig Henriquez, Associate Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Vivek Munshi, Electrical and Computer Engineering /Computer
Science Double Major
Project: Advanced Signal Processing Algorithm Development for
Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Detection
Advisor: Dr. Leslie Collins Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Daniel Northrup, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Mechanical Regulation of Cartilage and Bone Function
Advisor: Dr. Farshid Guilak, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Orthopedic Research,
Dept. of Surgery
Elizabeth Ralston, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Investigations of Atmospheric Organic Aerosols
Advisor: Dr. Robert Griffin, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil
and Environmental
Engineering
Colin Scott, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Measurements and Theory of Complex Electromagnetic
Materials
Advisor: Dr. Steven Cummer, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Deborah Seibold, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Protecting Public Health-Investigating Disinfection of
Water with UV Radiation
Advisor: Dr. Karl Linden, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and
Environmental
Engineering
Kyle Smith, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Theoretical Models to Study Mechanisms of Delivering
DNA to Cells Using Electric Pulses
Advisor: Dr. Wanda Krassowska, Associate Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Irene Tseng, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double
Major
Project: Culturing Cells from Experimental Arteries
Advisor: Dr. Mort Friedman, Chair and Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Becca Booi, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Catheter Tracking with Acoustic Cone Transducers
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Smith, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering
Andrew Brohl, Biomedical Engineering /Math Double Major
Project: Chaos Control in the Heart
Advisor: Dr. Wanda Krassowska, Associate Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Cody Brownell, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Renewable Energy Resources
Advisor: Dr. John Strohbehn, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering, and Dr. Charles Harman, Professor, Dept. of
Mechanical Engineering
Douglas Dumont, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Phase Aberration Correction in Ultrasound
Advisor: Dr. Gregg Trahey, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering
Tan Gao, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Distributed and Parallel Computing (client/server model)
Advisor: Dr. John Board, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
James Grant, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Nitric Oxide and PGE2 Response to Hyper-Osmotic
Stress in Nucleus Pulposus and Annulus Fibrosus Cells of the
Intervertebral Disc
Advisor: Dr. Farshid Guilak, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Orthopedic Research,
Dept. of Surgery
Tiffany Harveson, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Characterization of Microorganisms Involved in Biological
Wastewater Treatment Systems Using Molecular Methods
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Schuler, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil
and Environmental Engineering
Dustin Heldman, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Real-time Control of Robotic Prosthesis Based on
Real-time Hand Position Predictions from Primate Neuronal Data
Advisor: Dr. Craig Henriquez, Associate Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Jesse Hoagg, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Vibration Control Through the Use of an MR Damper
Advisor: Dr. Henri Gavin, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civit and
Environmental Engineering
Michael A. Holub, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Data Analysis for Lightning Electromagnetics
Advisor: Dr. Steven A. Cummer, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Steve Meyers, Biomedical Engineering /Computer Science Double
Major
Project: Sonomicrometry Catheter Localization
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Wolf, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Deepa Mishra, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Protein Polymerization and Hydrogel Formation
Advisor: Dr. Ashutosh Chilkoti, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Jose Luis Piscoya, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Effects of Mechanically Induced Nitric Oxide (NO) on
Biomarkers for Arthritis
Advisor: Dr. Farshid Guilak, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Orthopedic Research,
Dept. of Surgery
Erika Ward, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double
Major
Project: Microwave Imaging for the Detection of Breast Cancer
Advisor: Dr. Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of the Practice,
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Wu, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double
Major with a certificate in Marketing and Management
Project: Cytokine Antibody Protein Microarrays for the Detection
of Cytokines in Rats
Advisor: Dr. Monty Reichert, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering
Adam Bryan, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Microwave Imaging: Research in Alternative Imaging
Modalities
Advisor: Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of the Practice, Dept.
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ty Cashen, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Modeling, Compression, and Recognition of Neural Data
and the Design of the Analog Front End of a Neural Data Acquisition System
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Wolf, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Amy Congdon, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Diagnostic Ultrasound, Adaptive Imaging, Imaging of
Flow
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Professor, and Larry Bohs, Assistant
Research Professor,
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Mark Dobossy, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Development and Testing of Semi-Active Structural
Control Devices
Advisor: Henri Gavin, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and
Environmental
Engineering
Andrew Exnicios, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Design of Easily Testible Systems-on-a-Chip
Advisor: Krish Chakrabarty, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Jessica Foley, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Double Matching Layers for Improvement of Acoustical
Properties in
Two-Dimensional Catheter Arrays
Advisor: Dr. Stephen W. Smith, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering
Eric W. Inge, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: The Effect of an Inserted Artificial Bond on Adhesion of
Human
Endothelial Cells (HUVEC) to a Synthetic Surface
Advisor: Dr. George A. Truskey, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering
Matthew Johannes, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Major
Project: Active Control of a Snare Drum
Advisor: Dr. Robert Clark, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering and
Materials Science
Jennifer Koh, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Engineering Skeletal Muscle Myoblasts: Role of Electrical
Stimulation
Advisor: Dr. Laura E. Niklason, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Andrew McKee, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Smooth Muscle Cell Biology and Mammalian Arteries
Engineered
In Vitro
Advisor: Laura Niklason, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Biomedical
Engineering
Clayton Poppe, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Major
Project: Coordinated Robot Control in Flexible Manufacturing
Work Cells
Advisor: Devendra Garg, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering and
Materials Science
Vishal Raj Sahni, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Major
Project: Cell Mechanics & Adhesion
Advisor: Robert Hochmuth, Professor and Ping Beall, Assistant
Research
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials
Science
Chris Shoemaker, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Modeling the Interfacial Transition Zone of Concrete
Advisor: Joseph Nadeau, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and
Environmental
Engineering