Andrew Fry, Chemical Engineering Introduction The purpose of this MEG grant was to train 3 undergraduate students from either Chemical or Mechanical Engineering on the use of OPTO 22 control system and then to direct them, along with the input from engineers at OPTO 22, as they build and install a control system and logic […]
Rebuilding Kidneys
PI: Alonzo D. Cook Co-PI’s: Beverly L. Roeder, Jonathan J. Wisco, Paul R. Reynolds Introduction The motivation for this work was the tremendous need for replacement kidneys. End-stage renal disease (ESRD) affects over 500,000 patients in the U.S. and costs Medicare $30 Billion annually for dialysis and transplant procedures. Our overall objective was to engineer […]
The Influence of Probe Design on DNA Surface Hybridization and Microarrays Performance
Thomas Knotts, Chemical Engineering 1 Background The overall goal of this project was to provide new theories and models that describe DNA hybridization on surfaces on a fundamental level for improved application and design of microarrays. Microarrays work on the principle of DNA hybridization, and can be used to identify the identity or abundance of […]
Student Mentoring in Research: Laser-Activated Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells
William G. Pitt, Chemical Engineering Department Summary of Scope of Proposal This proposal was submitted in October of 2011 to organize and fund a mentoring group in the Pitt lab in Chemical Engineering. Marjan Javadi, then a PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering, and 5 uldergraduate students participated in this research group. The purpose was 2-‐fold, […]
Student Electrochemical Research
Dr. Dean Wheeler, Department of Chemical Engineering Abstract of Work The work allowed additional students to join in electrochemical engineering research here at BYU. The mentored students worked on one of several possible projects with the broad theme of understanding and mitigating internal resistances in fuel cells and lithium batteries. Additional work was done on […]