Tissue Engineering: Cell-Seeded 3D Printed Vascular Graft

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Baba, Tomonori Tissue Engineering: Cell-Seeded 3D Printed Vascular Graft Faculty Mentor: Alonzo Cook, Chemical Engineering Introduction The purpose of this project was to create and test a biocompatible modified alginate gel for 3D printing blood vessels to be used in vascular networks for tissue engineering and as vascular grafts. Vascular disease is the leading cause […]

Triggering the Solar Revolution

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Halversen, Justin Triggering the Solar Revolution Faculty Mentor: John Salmon, Mechanical Engineering The sun’s energy emissions are significantly higher than other alternative energy sources. All other energy sources combined would not provide even one percent of the potential collectible energy from the sun. The amount of potential solar power available is well over 5000 times […]

Integration Host Factor Stabilized PCR- amplified DNA for High-Throughput Protein Synthesis Subtitle

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William Bradley Faculty Mentor: Bradley Bundy, Dept. of Chemical Engineering Introduction As the search continues for novel proteins with market-incentivized properties, the demand for tools to accelerate the identification of these proteins increases. This has led to investigating methods for screening proteins that yield faster results (high-throughput) with greater titers of protein stable enough for […]

Origami: Numerical Solutions of Apparent Absorptivity in Origami Folds

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Michael Farnsworth and Faculty Mentor: Brian Iverson, Mechanical Engineering Introduction There are three major types of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation. In many cases, radiation is ignored due to the fact that the amount of heat transferred by this method tend to be small compared to conduction and convection. However, in space and in […]

Design and Comparison of Variable-Stiffness Compliant Joints for Haptic Devices

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David Usevitch and Faculty Mentor: Mark Colton, Mechanical Engineering Introduction Haptic interfaces or devices are computercontrolled robotic systems that seek to replicate the touch experience of a human user1. The purpose of this research is to develop a viable variable-stiffness compliant joint for haptic interfaces that eliminate rotation joints or screw mechanisms that induce friction, […]

Safety Analysis of a Flashing Drum Steam Generation System

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Jacob Ladd with Cade Memmott, Chemical Engineering Introduction The goal of the Integral, Inherently Safe Light Water Reactor (I2S-LWR) Research Project is to design a more inherently safe reactor. This reactor is capable of cooling the core with no external power and no operator action.[1] In the I2S-LWR design, micro-channel heat exchangers (MCHX) facilitate heat […]

Safety of Tubular Nylon Webbing: The Effect of Wet and Cold Environments

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Caleb Duncan and Landon Wright with John Salmon, Mechanical Engineering Tubular nylon webbing is an effective and relatively inexpensive anchoring solution for search and rescue groups, fire departments, canyoners, and rock climbers. As an anchoring solution nylon webbing is vital to the safety of anyone who uses it. Serious injury or death will often occur […]

Effect of Thickness on Fatigue Life on Creased Thin PLA

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Peter Schleede with Larry Howell, Mechanical Engineering Introduction Origami-based engineering creates products that solve problems inherent in other designs. For example, they can compress into smaller volumes, achieve new and unique motions, and lessen or mitigate numbers of welds, fasteners, or other joining methods. However, a weakness of these designs is the necessity of folding […]