Project InfoAdditive Manufacturing of High-Pressure Components for Nuclear Power PlantsJonah Klemm-Toole | jklemmto@mines.eduThe failure of high-pressure (also called pressure boundary) components can cause long nuclear power plant shut downs because replacement parts...
Project InfoObserved Control DevelopmentAndrew Petruska | apetruska@mines.eduThis project explores a new control approach that uses observer theory to create a robust and general control approach for nonlinear systems. The project will mostly be in support of testing...
Project InfoHybrid ElectricityNeal Sullivan | nsulliva@mines.eduThe project is named “INTEGRATE”. The technical goal of INTEGRATE is to combine state-of-the-art solid-oxide fuel cells with an internal combustion engine to form a high-performance, low-cost...
Project InfoDevelopment of a Manual Probe Station for Electrical Transport Measurements on Nanostructured DevicesSerena Eley | serenaeley@mines.eduThe student will design and build a probe station for electrical measurements. This is an engineering project that, if...
Project InfoRobot-Assisted Autonomous Infrastructure InspectionHao Zhang | hzhang@mines.edu and Andrew Petruska | apetruska@mines.eduThe goal of the project is to develop a mobile robot to perform autonomous and intelligent inspection of infrastructure such as power...
