Project Roster 2016

Testing of 3D Printed Bridges

Brian Salazar (Mechanical Engineering)

Testing of 3D Printed Bridges - Structures are designed using CAD software, 3D printed on the 6 inch-scale and loaded in compression. Students get a sense of the research process by documenting effects of varying the design and material on the structures' strengths, with the final goal of building the strongest bridge

Cognition and Brain Structure

Jenna Adams (Cognition and Brain Structure)

I would be very interested in creating a project involving the students investigating the relationship between cognitive measures (such as memory scores) and neuroimaging measures (such as brain volume in a specific cortical region) in the context of aging and/or Alzheimer's disease biomarkers. I would teach them how to use statistical tests to investigate this question, such as correlations to test for associations between the variables or t-tests to compare group differences.

Instrumentation Development

Logan Rudd (Physics)

2D electronic materials

Salman Kahn (Physics) and Hsin Zon Tsai (Physics)

The students will learn about 2D electronic materials (Insulator, Semiconductor, Metal, etc.) through electrical measurements. (outline in application)

Playing with light

Vivek Mishra (Mechanical Engineering)

A small idea I am floating in my mind is a simple experiment that shows the dependence of scattering cross-sections of light on its wavelength.

Blackhole Bottle Rockets

Adam Levine (Physics)

Students will build, design and understand (to the best of their abilities) bottle rockets. I would hope to incorporate a coding segment to teach them some very basic computing. Of course, we would end the course with a bottle rocket competition.