Available Projects 2023-2024
Projects are listed by mentor department. Click on the a department category below, then select the project by clicking on the title.
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- All MURF Projects 2023-2024
- Applied Mathematics & Statistics
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- Interdisciplinary MURF 2023-2034
- Mechanical Engineering
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- MURF 2023-2024 One Mentor
- MURF 2023-2024 Two + Mentors
- Petroleum Engineering
- Physics
Accessibility and Accommodations for Students in STEM
Primary Mentor:Brianna Buljung, bbuljung@mines.edu | Seth Vuletich, sethvuletich@mines.edu
read moreAdaptive Model of Robot Performative Autonomy
Primary Mentor:Tom Williams, twilliams@mines.edu | Rafael Sousa Silva, rsousasilva@mines.edu
read moreAdvanced robot arm control
Primary Mentor:Xiaoli Zhang, xlzhang@mines.edu | Lingfeng Tao, tao@mines.edu | Yunsik Jung, yunsikjung@mines.edu
read moreAnalysis of mineral supply chains using graph analytics
Primary Mentor:Sebnem Duzgun, duzgun@mines.edu
read moreAnion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis
Primary Mentor:Andy Herring, aherring@mines.edu Mei-Chen Kuo, mkuo@mines.edu
read moreAssessing the influence of ADP Release Models on Platelet Aggregation Under Flow
Primary Mentor:David Montgomery, dmontgomery@mines.edu
read moreAutonomous Lunar Landing Site Preparation – Integration & Testing
Primary Mentor:Andrew Petruska, apetruska@mines.edu | Chris Dreyer, cdreyer@mines.edu
read moreCatalyst design strategies for biomass conversions
Primary Mentor:Stephanie Kwon, kwon@mines.edu
read moreConstructed Wetlands: Next Generation Applications for Sustainable Water Treatment
Primary Mentor: Josh Sharp (jsharp@mines.edu)
Critical Minerals for the Green Energy Transition
Primary Mentor:Katharina Pfaff, Thomas Monecke
read moreData-driven and visualization tools for improving the quality of oceanographic data
Primary Mentor:Bia Villas Boas, villasboas@mines.edu
read moreDesalination using a clathrate hydrate technology
Primary Mentor:Carolyn Koh, ckoh@mines.edu Josh Worley, jworley@mines.edu
read moreDetection and mitigation of microbial activity effects in underground gas (CO2 and H2) storage though fast screening
Primary Mentor:Parisa Bazazi pbazazi@mines.edu
read moreDeveloping a collaborative VR and VR platform
Primary Mentor:sebnem duzgun, duzgun@mines.edu
read moreDevelopment of a new standard method for determining chemical admixture dosage in concrete
Primary Mentor:Prof. Lori Tunstall, ltunstall@mines.edu
read moreDevelopment of a Next-Generation Dynamically Adaptive Ankle Brace
Primary Mentor:Anthony Petrella, Mechanical Engineering, apetrell@mines.edu | Mykola Mazur <mazur@mines.edu>, PhD Student
read moreDevelopment of a synthetic waste water medium to optimize growth and lipid productivity in algae
Primary Mentor:Nanette Boyle nboyle@mines.edu
read moreDevelopment of a targeted drug delivery strategy to treat type 1 diabetes
Primary Mentor:Nikki Farnsworth, nfarnsworth@mines.edu | Jillian Collins, jcollins1@mines.edu
read moreDimensional reduction of continuum models for vortex filament motion.
Primary Mentor:Scott Strong, sstrong@mines.edu
read moreEffect of microbial Activities on Underground gas storage
Primary Mentor:Parisa Bazazi, Assistant Professor, Department of Petroleum Engineering pbazazi@mines.edu
read moreEngineering Plasmonic Nanocrystals for Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Primary Mentor:Matthew Crane, matthewcrane@mines.edu | Sara Russo, srusso@mines.edu
read moreEngineering the Pancreas Microenvironment to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Primary Mentor:
Nikki Farnsworth, nfarnsworth@mines.edu | Chelsea Garcia, cmgarcia@mines.edu
Environmental Microbiology in the Lab – Nanosensors to Monitor Capillary Based Systems
Primary Mentor:Kevin Cash, kcash@mines.edu
read moreEvaluating surface water conditions using remote sensing and in-situ measurements
Primary Mentor:Eric Anderson, ejanderson@mines.edu
read moreEvaluating the Terrace-Mound Connection of the Mima Mounds of Puget Lowland, WA, Using GIS and Field Reconnaissance
Primary Mentor:Danica Roth, droth@mines.edu
read moreExpanding GPU Memory with DRAGON-DIRECT
Primary Mentor:Mehmet Belviranli, belviranli@mines.edu | Benjamin Wagley, bwagley@mines.edu
read moreExploring Chalocogen and Hydrogen Bonding Hybrid Materials
Primary Mentor:Mike McGuirk, cmmcguirk@mines.edu . Hannah Martin, hmartin2@mines.edu
read moreExploring sustainable design for plastics & bioplastics
Primary Mentor:amylandis@mines.edu
read moreExtraterrestrial deltas and fluvial fans
Primary Mentor:Piret Plink-Bjorklund: pplink@mines.edu
read moreFluid Mechanics of Biomass & Biomaterials
Primary Mentor:Joseph Samaniuk, samaniuk@mines.edu | Jessie Troxler, jtroxler@mines.edu
read moreGeothermal energy production from deep reservoirs for electricity generation
Primary Mentor:Luis Zerpa, lzerpa@mines.edu | Ali Nassereddine, nassereddine@mines.edu
read moreGlobal Sensitivity Analysis of Plasma Instabilities
Primary Mentor:Steve Pankavich, pankavic@mines.edu
read moreGrain size and seismic slip in the Sunda Trench: Insights to Big Earthquakes
Primary Mentor:Brandon Dugan, dugan@mines.edu
read moreHalogen Bonded Organic Frameworks
Primary Mentor:Mike McGuirk, cmmcguirk@mines.edu . Michael Moghadasnia, mmoghadasnia.mines.edu
read moreHomeGuard: Safeguarding User-Centric Privacy in Smart Homes using AI@Edge
Primary Mentor:Dong Chen, dongchen@mines.edu | Keyang Yu, yukeyang@mines.edu
read moreHuman Backpack Interaction in Military Service Members
Primary Mentor:Dr. Anne Silverman, asilverm@mines.edu. Jordan Sturdy, sturdy@mines.edu
read moreHydrothermal destruction of fluoro-organic contaminants – optimization and reactor design
Primary Mentor:Timothy Strathmann, strthmnn@mines.edu
read moreImaging ion transport in batteries during fast charging
Primary Mentor:Jason Porter, jporter@mines.edu
read moreImaging with correlated random sources
Primary Mentor:Eileen Martin, eileenrmartin@mines.edu
read moreInhibiting and Activating an Essential Enzyme in S. aureus
Primary Mentor:Christine Morrison (PI), morrison@mines.edu
read moreINTELLIGENT PREDICTION OF TRAFFIC CONDITIONS VIA INTEGRATED DATA-DRIVEN CROWDSOURCING AND LEARNING
Primary Mentor:Hua Wang, huawang@mines.edu|Qi Han, qhan@mines.edu
read moreInvestigating Antarctic subglacial lake candidates with data fusion and Bayesian statistics
Primary Mentor:Wilson Sauthoff sauthoff@mines.edu | Dr. Matthew Siegfried, siegfried@mines.edu.
read moreIoT Security and Privacy Protection
Primary Mentor:Dr. Chuan Yue (chuanyue@mines.edu) and his PhD students (TBD).
read moreLow cost catalysts for efficient ammonia decomposition
Primary Mentor:Colin Wolden: cwolden@mines.edu Tatiane Gercina de Vilas: tgercinadevilas@mines.edu
read moreMaximizing the Value of Hyperspectral Data
Primary Mentor:Eileen Martin, eileenrmartin@mines.edu | Katha Pfaff, kpfaff@mines.edu
read moremeasuring microscopic dynamics by counting the fluctuations
Primary Mentor:Brennan Sprinkle, bsprinkl@mines.edu
read moreMetabolic Sensing for Athletic Performance Healthcare Applications
Primary Mentor:Dr Peter Aaen, paaen@mines.edu
read moreMethane Emissions Management – A Global Study of Detection, Regulation, and Abatement
Primary Mentor:Dr. Linda A. Batttalora Email: LBattalo@mines.edu
read moreMOLECULAR SIMULATIONS FOR PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS OF WATER
Primary Mentor:Amadeu Sum, asum@mines.edu
read moreMonitoring and Detecting Methane Emissions to Slow Climate Change
Primary Mentor:Dorit Hammerling, hammerling@mines.edu| Kellis Ward, kellisward@mines.edu
read moreMulti-finger robot hand control
Primary Mentor:Xiaoli Zhang, xlzhang@mines.edu | Lingfeng Tao, tao@mines.edu | Yunsik Jung, yunsikjung@mines.edu
read moreMultiphysics Optimization of GaN-Based Power Transistors for 5G mm-Wave Operation
Primary Mentor:Dr Peter Aaen, paaen@mines.edu
read moreMuscle coordination and Biomechanics of Movement Transitions
Primary Mentor:Dr. Anne Silverman, asilverm@mines.edu | Graduate Student Michael Miller, mfmiller@mines.edu
read moreNanoscale engineering of ceramic supports for high performance membrane development
Primary Mentor: Nolan Kelley, Ph.D. candidate, Email: nolankelley@mines.edu. Prof. Doug Way, Email: dway@mines.edu. Prof. Colin Wolden, Email: cwolden@mines.edu
Nonlinear Dimension Reduction and Machine Learning Algorithms for Coarse-grained Simulations of Biomolecular Complexes
Primary Mentor:
Observing interaction between ocean currents and surface waves
Primary Mentor:Gwendal Marechal, gmarechal@mines.edu | Bia Villas Bôas, villasboas@mines.edu
read moreOptically driven nanostructuring of alloyed metal plasmonic nanocrystals for next-generation computing
Primary Mentor:Matthew Crane, matthewcrane@mines.edu | Brandon Reynolds, breynolds@mines.edu
read moreOptimization of Shallow Geothermal Energy
Primary Mentor:Marcus Florida, mflorida@mines.edu
read morePartition problems for geometric complexity theory, and the permanent vs. determinant problem.
Primary Mentor: Aram Bingham, arambingham@mines.edu
Past climates inform our future
Primary Mentor:contact Piret Plink-Bjorklund: pplink@mines.edu
read morePeptide Models for Nitrile Hydratases
Primary Mentor:Richard Holz, PI rholz@mines.edu Callie Miller, Chemistry doctoral Student, cgmiller@mines.edu
read morePhysics-informed machine learning for controlling renewable energy systems
Primary Mentor:Qiuhua Huang, qiuhuahuang@mines.edu
read morePolymer and Organic Chemistry Towards 3D Printed Materials for Radiation Detection
Primary Mentor:Alan Sellinger, aselli@mines.edu, PI Caleb Chandler, chandler@mines.edu, graduate student John (Ben) Fein-Ashley, jfeinashley@mines.edu, undergraduate student (former MURF student)
read moreProject Title: Tuning the surface chemistry of brush-coated nanoparticles to accelerate transport at interfaces: Applications in ocular delivery
Primary Mentor:Adam Humpal ahumpal@mines.edu Anuj Chauhan, chauhan@mines.edu Ramya Kumar, ramyakumar@mines.edu
read moreQuantum Biology – Magnetic Field Impacts on Microbial Growth and Metabolism
Primary Mentor:Suzannah Beeler, beeler@mines.edu Kevin Cash, kcash@mines.edu
read moreReconstructing ultra-high-energy particle cascades with deep learning methods
Primary Mentor:Eric Mayotte, emayotte@mines.edu
read moreReinventing Wastewater Treatment Plants: Energy Neutral Treatment and Enhanced Fertilizer Production through a Novel Resource Recovery Center
Primary Mentor:Tzahi Cath, tcath@mines.edu Tayler Elwell, tjelwell@mines.edu
read moreSCALBLE MACHINE LEARNING FOR AUTOMATICALLY DIAGNOSING BREAST CANCER USING LARGE-SCALE HISTOPATHOLOGICAL IMAGES
Primary Mentor:Hua Wang, huawang@mines.edu
read moreSecure Resource and Information Management
Primary Mentor:Guannan Liu, guannan.liu@mines.edu
read moreSecurity and Privacy Analysis of Smartphone Apps
Primary Mentor:Dr. Chuan Yue (chuanyue@mines.edu) and his PhD students (TBD).
read moreSensing and control for robotics manufacturing
Primary Mentor:Xiaoli Zhang xlzhang@mines.edu
read moreSensor setup and optimization for real-world robots
Primary Mentor:Xiaoli Zhang, xlzhang@mines.edu | Lingfeng Tao, tao@mines.edu | Yunsik Jung, yunsikjung@mines.edu
read moreSilicon Clathates in Photovoltaics Solar Cells
Primary Mentor:Carolyn Koh, ckoh@mines.edu Reuben Collins, rtcollin@mines.edu
read moreSquirrels and fires: how do biotic agents influence post-fire erosion?
Primary Mentor:Danica Roth, droth@mines.edu
read moreStructure and Function of Nitrile Hydratases
Primary Mentor:Richard Holz, Rholz@mines.edu Callie Miller, cgmiller@mines.edu
read moreStudent led initiative to enhance diversity and inclusion in the Labriola Innovation Hub
Primary Mentor:Aubrey Wigner, awigner@mines.edu | Dean Nieusma, nieusma@mines.edu
read moreSynthesis and charactarization of polyion complex micelles formed from single/double stranded nucleic acids and gradient copolymers
Primary Mentor:Jessica Lawson jllawson@mines.edu Ramya Kumar ramyakumar@mines.edu
read moreThe Fluid Mechanics of Fountain Pen Ink
Primary Mentor:Joseph Samaniuk, samaniuk@mines.edu
read moreTracking Lagrangian pathways of ocean parcels
Primary Mentor:Bia Villas Boas | villasboas@mines.edu
read moreUse of OpenAI for community resilience assessment due to natural hazards
Primary Mentor:sebnem duzgun, Duzgun@mines.edu
read moreWeb Security Measurement and Analysis
Primary Mentor:Dr. Chuan Yue (chuanyue@mines.edu) and his PhD students (TBD).
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