Available Projects 2019-2020

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Characterization of the High Temperature Rocket Engine Alloy C-103

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Simulated Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing Experiments to Evaluate Laser-Metal Interactions

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Heat Treatment Optimization of Additively Manufactured Aluminum Alloys 6061 and AlSi10Mg

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IMURF – Evaluation of Capillary Condensation in Synthesized Porous Materials with Finely-Tuned Pore Sizes

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Robotic Blacksmithing – monitoring and control of a flexible, freeform metal deformation process

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Improving Microwave Device Efficiency Through Quantitative Visualization of Electromagnetic Fields

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Polymers from Dye Molecules

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Modeling Well Logging for Oil and Gas Applications

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Modeling Multi-Scale Electromagnetic Phenomena

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Development of a Manual Probe Station for Electrical Transport Measurements on Nanostructured Devices

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Using Artificial Enzymes to Expand the Range of Biosynthesized Chemicals

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Hydrostratigraphy of the New England Continental Margin

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Heat Treatment of Aluminum Die Castings

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Metamorphic Manufacturing – Robotic Blacksmithing and the 3rd Wave of Digital Manufacturing

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Purification of Helium from Natural Gas Employing Zeolite Membranes

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Porous Crystalline Membranes for the Removal of Chemical Warfare Agents from Water

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Machine Learning For Materials Characterization

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IMURF – Innovative Methods for Characterization of Rock Joints

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Molten Carbonate Membranes For High Temperature CO2 Separations

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Spectroscopic Investigation of Lithium Transport in Electrolytes for Battery Fast Charging

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Developing Brewster Angle Microscopy at Oil-Water Interfaces

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Molecular Dynamics Simulations with 2D Materials

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Automation and Integration of Microwave Network and Spectrum Analyzer Measurements

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IMURF – Sustainable Use of Earth Resource Materials – Glass from Tailings

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Changes in Groundwater and Surface-Water Exchange within Mountain Streams Due to Logjams

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Environmental Microbiology in the Lab – Nanosensors to Monitor Capillary-Based Systems

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Designing New Drugs to Treat Bacterial Infections by Inhibiting the Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biosynthetic Pathway

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What Secrets Do Biological Particles Hold?

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Modeling Nanoplastics and Polymer Separations Using COMSOL Multiphysics

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Walk-In: A Biometric Security System based on Vibration Signals

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Constraining West Antarctic snow variability with GNSS reflectometry

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Modeling Dynamic Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power

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Catalysts for CO2 Conversion

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Green Synthesis of Metal Sulfide Nanocrystals

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Organic and Polymeric Materials for Energy Applications

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Electromagntic Waves Interaction with Human Tissues

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Geological Context of Small-Scale Mining in Latin America

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Deposition of Magnetic 2D Materials

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Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors

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Designing and Building a Point-Contact Spectroscopy Setup

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Programming Electronic Transport Measurement Equipment to Study the Dynamics of Magnetic Domains

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Optical Metrology for Advanced Manufacturing II

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Optimizing Campus Food Waste Management for Energy and Nutrient Recovery

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Mixed Reality for Gesturally Limited Robots

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Confidence-Based Category Transition of Spatial Gestures

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Crowdsourcing-assisted Prediction of Traffic Conditions

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Distributed Spacecraft Network

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Voice multicast in low power low bandwidth mobile wireless networks

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3D Printing for Contact Lens Manufacturing

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Enhancement of Activated Sludge Settling through Hydraulic Selection

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Cyinosis Therapy by Gold-In Contact Lens

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Energy Loss Mechanisms in Superconducting Quantum Circuits

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Water quality impacts of ecosytem disruption

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Weather Modification in the Upper Basin of the Colorado River

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Structural studies of amyloid proteins

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Investigating Regulation of the MEP Pathway in Cyanobacteria for Limonene Production

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Membrane reactors for H2 production and NH3 synthesis

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Hybridizing fuel cells with engines for efficient electricity generation

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Energy storage with proton-conducting ceramics

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IMURF – Adaptive learning and quantification algorithms for advances in geological exploration

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Designing new drugs to treat bacterial infections by inhibiting the iron-sulfur cluster biosynthetic pathway

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Porosity and permeability measurement in sandstone core samples

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Deoxygenation of lipid based biomass into liquid fuel over non noble metal catalysts

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Design, machining, and installation of measurement hardware for a Dilution Refrigerator

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IMURF – Collecting and Analysing Case Studies of Extractive Industries in terms of various ethical perspective

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Virtual Reality for Engineering Training

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Discover Hidden Data Patterns in Microbiome for Improved Human Health

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New and Improved methods for rock excavation in mining and tunneling

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Characterizing change in biomass during diurnal growth of algae

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Zwitterionic-nanoparticle dressing targeting inflammation and reactive oxygen species in Diabetic wounds

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IMURF – A Networked Drone System for Environmental Monitoring

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IMURF – Learning and teaching sociotechnical thinking in engineering courses at multiple levels and two universities

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Porous Organic Cages: Understanding Crystal Growth and Emerging Catalytic Applications for C-H Bond Activation Reactions

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IMURF – Understanding the sources of Carbon Monoxide

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IMURF – Lossy compression for climate model data

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IMURF – Formative analysis and improvement of sociotechnical thinking in a core EE undergraduate course

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IMURF – Multi-modal characterization of rock joints

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IMURF – Robot, Found: The Collaborative Human-Machine Poetry Writing Project

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Heuristics for Problems in Heavy Industry

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IMURF – Wireless Moisture Monitoring on Mass Timber Construction

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1:40 Scale Longwall Mine Model for Explosion Studies

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Distributed spacecraft network

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IMURF – Assessing the Value of Remote Sensing Data for Rock Fall Hazard Prediction

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IMURF – Automation to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery

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Materials Genome – Understanding Boundary Structure and Mobility

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Automated Lithology Prediction from Digital Outcrop Models Using Machine Learning

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Understanding the Cultures of Ethics Education at Mines: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Engineering Student Learning of Personal, Social, and Professional Responsibility

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Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Next Generation Battery Materials

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Petrogenesis of HED meteorites – insight into the internal structure of minor planet 4 Vesta

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Fuel Cell Characterization

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Characterization of Polymer Electrolyte Membranes

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Beneficial application of wetland treatment materials

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Novel desalination clathrate hydrate technology

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Interfacial properties of clathrate hydrates

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Attacking and Defending AI Systems

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Security and Trust in IoT Systems

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Innovative technologies for remediation of fluorochemical groundwater contaminants

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Inexpensive Two-Dimensional Beam Shaping with Light Science Applications

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Numerical investigation of multiwavelength algorithms for hyperspectral imaging and multimodal metrologies

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Development of a 3D Human Trabecular Meshwork Cell Culture System Using Natural Biopolymer Scaffolds

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Sustainable Development Indicators for the Mining Industry

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Porous crystalline membranes for the removal of chemical warfare agents

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3D printing of ceramic membranes for robust water filtration

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Machine learning to optimize additive manufacturing parameters

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Developing Robust Brain Imaging Genomics Data Mining Framework for Improved Cognitive Health

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Monitoring and Characterizing Rock Slopes Using Remote Sensing Techniques

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Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight and Water

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Quantifying beta cell function in adolescent girls with PCOS

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Use oscillations to measure fluid density

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Improve the resolution of oscillation-based mass measurement system

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Optical metrology for advanced manufacturing

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Wireless Communication Networks with Energy Cooperation

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Wireless energy harvesting systems for low-power electronic sensors

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Exploring Discrete Fractional Calculus

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Formative analysis and improvement of sociotechnical thinking in undergraduate engineering design courses

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Modeling in Discrete Fractional Calculus

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Data Analytics in Virtual Reality

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Monitoring Tailing Dams using Remote Sensing

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Crowdsoursing for Identifying Sustainability Indicators

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Sampling and analysis of novel anaerobic wastewater treatment reactor

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Impact of Lanthanides on Wastewater Treatment

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Extreme Universe Space Observatory on Super Pressure Balloon: In Flight LED System

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Mysterious Light Flashes observed high above strong lightning by the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

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Machine learning for materials characterization

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Systematic Review of Rigorous Research in Teaching Introductory Electronic Circuits

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Online Worker Selection for Spatial Crowdsourcing

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The Optimization Geometry of Training Generative Adversarial Networks

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Campus Energy Project

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Mines indoor/outdoor air quality

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Incremental Open-World Reference Resolution

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Effect of curvilinear failure envelope on slope stability

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Multiphase Flow of Gas-Liquid-Liquid-Solid Systems

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Molecular Simulations of Clathrate Hydrates Nucleation

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Autonomous forklift system for warehouse

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Lithium-Air battery testing: understanding the impact of conductive binders

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Virtual Reality for Autonomous Vehicle Interaction Design

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Vortex dynamics in superconductors

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ACCELERATING INFERENCE OF RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS ON GPUS

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LARGE-SCALE GRAPH ANALYTICS USING MULTIPLE GPUS

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Si clathrate materials for advanced semiconductors

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Ethical Governance and Education of Emerging Technologies

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Molecular simulation study and design of nanoporous crystalline membranes for water purification

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Using Organic and Polymer Chemistry to Detect and Differentiate Radiation Sources

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Developing batteries for extreme fast charging

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Designing and constructing a probe for low temperature electrical transport measurements

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Earth, fire and water – can topographic roughness help predict erosion and landslides after wildfires?

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Fabrication of nanostencils for resist-free lithography

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CO2 and Methane adsorption measurement in unconventional shales

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Electrochemical Growth of Superconductors

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Area selective atomic layer deposition for semiconductor device manufacturing

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Subjectivity in building mold index through crowd sourcing

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XBOFs: A New Class of Materials for Light Harvesting

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Semiconductor wafer reuse by controlled fracture to reduce the cost of photovoltaics

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Developing an App and a Carbon footprint to reduce campus food waste and support Mines pantry

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3D modeling for modular wood construction planning

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IoT-based Adaptive Irrigation using Reclaimed Water

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Walk-In: A Biometric Security System based on Vibration Signals

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Wi-Fi Based Smart Home and Security System

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Metamorphic Manufacturing – Robotic Blacksmithing and the 3rd Wave of Digital Manufacturing

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Heat Treatment of Aluminum Die Castings

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Fatigue Properties of Grain Refined High Hardness Steel

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Gravitation and Gauge Theory, Exploiting the AdS/CFT Correspondence

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Understanding chemical degradation of perfluorochemical substances

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Engineering Organic Catalysts for Alternate Energy Applications

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Learning to Plan

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Communication Decisions in Robot Swarms

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How do engineering students view biology?

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Molecular Dynamics Simulations with 2D Materials

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Sediment dispersal patterns in the Permian Basin, Texas: Constraints from detrital zircon geochronology and heavy mineral abundance data

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Electromagnetic Imaging using Time Reversal Technique

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Antenna Array Simulation

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Self-Healing During Fatigue due to Strain Aging

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IMPACT OF PART MICROSTRUCTURE ON RESULTING SURFACE FINISH AFTER FINAL MACHINING

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Abrasive Wear Resistance Testing of Dual Phase Steels

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Hardware and Code Development for Atomic Scale Tomography

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Extraterrestrial fluvial fans

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Robot-Assisted Intelligent and Autonomous Infrastructure Inspection

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Mixed Reality-Enabled Robotic Swarm Design

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Climate map of an extremely warm Earth

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Nanoplastics in the Environment: The Analysis Challenge

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Developing ways for SciComm to Banish your Inner Impostor

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Implementation of New Advanced Steels in Automobiles

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Bore-Hole Induction Logging Simulations

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Cellular Tower Modeling and Optimization

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Layer by Layer Biofilm Growth

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Politics of Renewable Energy

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Revealing Structure in Atom Probe Tomography

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Exploring Earth’s mantle with 3D numerical seismic wave simulations

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Signal Processing Demonstrations for Inspiring K-12 Students to Pursue STEM

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Next Generation Automobile Conductors

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Spin and thermal transport in complex nanostructures

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Accelerating Human Healing via Titanium Nanostructuring

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Things Fall Apart: Designing Materials that Break Down with Specific Chemical Agents

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What Secrets Do Biological Particles Hold?

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“What Would Whitman #hashtag?”

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Wire Composition Optimization for Additive Manufacturing of Titanium Alloys

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Engineering conductive, biomimetic materials for use in energy applications

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Phase field modeling of ductile fracture in metals using the FEniCS open-source software

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Investigation of solid state lithium batteries

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Synthesis and Electrochemical Evaluation of PGM-free catalysts

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Development of N-doped carbon-based materials for energy applications

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ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE AND OPINIONS ABOUT CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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Joining Methods for Fiber Reinforced Composites

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X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy simulator

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Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors at High Vortex Densities

* Indicates the project is no longer available.