Portable Food & Water Sanitation by Means of Energetic Photons

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Jordan Argyle and Matthew Memmott, Department of Chemical Engineering Introduction At least 1 in 10 people across the globe do not have access to clean water.1 The World Health Organization considers food and drink contamination to be “the most widespread health problem in the contemporary world.”2 An estimated 600 million people fall ill from eating […]

Examining Differences in Gait between Marketed Below-Knee Prosthetics and Low-Cost Alternatives

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Kelly Bickham and Dustin Bruening, Department of Exercise Science Perhaps one of the greatest challenges that accompany the incredible advances in science and technology is making them accessible where they need to be. According to the Amputee Coalition of America (ACA), there are over 2 million American amputees, with an additional 185,000 lower extremity amputees […]

Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

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Jaron Lundwall and Alonzo Cook, Department of Chemical Engineering Introduction Due to accident-related neural damage, many people’s lives are impaired or limited in what they can do. Current medical practices are limited at helping distal and proximal nerve stubs regenerate. Many recent research studies have focused on trying to improve this problem by understanding how […]

Large Body Influence in Internal Wave Generation

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Austin Maxwell and Julie Crockett, Department of Mechanical Engineering Introduction Internal waves are three dimensional waves that propagate within a stratified fluid. They are able to propagate in all directions within our atmosphere and the oceans which are both stratified fluids of continuously changing densities. Internal waves are much larger than surface waves, having wavelengths […]

The Effect of Soaking Time on the Accuracy of a Vertical Impedance Spectroscopy Probe

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Jared Baxter and Brian Mazzeo, Department of Electrical Engineering Introduction According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, nearly 10% of the nation’s 611,845 brides are structurally deficient. (https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi/no10/defbr15.cfm) This means that nearly 60,000 active bridges are unsafe. This is a major problem, and one that is not easily solved. Many of these bridges are of […]

Production of Commodity Chemicals with a Glycerol Feedstock

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Zachary Pribyl and Kara Stowers, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Introduction In recent years there has been a growing interest to move away from petroleum feedstocks and instead use renewable fuel sources. As this interest has increased and biofuel has been used in greater volume, glycerol (a byproduct of biofuel production) has become over-produced in […]