Nuclear Systems Design for an Inherently Safe Nuclear Reactor

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Matthew J Memmott Background The goal of this project was to design a primary and secondary system of a light water reactor (LWR) capable of indefinite cooling in the face of design basis accidents. In a nuclear reactor system, the elements and isotopes that result from the fission of uranium atoms continue to generate heat […]

Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Wake Model Development

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PI: Andrew Ning Academic Objectives The objective of this research was to develop an aerodynamic wake model for a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT), and to better understand vertical axis wind turbine performance. We were successful in developing a wake model. Additional work went in to understand trade-offs in power performance with acoustic constraints. The […]

Rebuilding Kidneys

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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 […]

Intensive Mentoring and Micro-Electronics Research for Students in Engineering (IMMERSE) 2014

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PI: Stephen Schultz Project Description The MEG funds used for this projects supported undergraduate students working in the IMMERSE program starting in the Summer of 2015. IMMERSE employed a total of 35 students, with 14 of them being supervised directly by Dr. Aaron Hawkins and Stephen Schultz. The students working for Drs. Hawkins and Schultz […]

IAML and IMS Conference Presentations

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PI: David Day Evaluation of Academic Objectives The grant funding enabled preparation of conference presentations by three BYU students given at the joint meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries and International Musicological Society held in New York City June 21st through 26th, 2015. The three students, Benjamin Bird, Andrew Neumayer, and Rosemary Norton […]

Integrating New Literacies in the Elementary School Classroom

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PI: Jennifer J. Wimmer Evaluation of Academic Objectives At no time has it been more vital to understand teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and practices than in the emerging and expanding field of new literacies. New literacies is defined as those social practices that continuously evolve in response to technological advances, which enable persons to question, construct, […]

Avicenna’s Astrolabe

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PI:Peter Rich Graduate Students Mentored: Matthew Bird, McKay Perkins, Thomas Ellsworth, Brice Colby, Jeff Peterson Undergraduates Mentored: Nathan Munk, Jansen McQuivey, Stephen Ashby, Steffanie Septon, AJ Gudmundsen, Cameron Harris, Matthew Harris Overall Evaluation The goals of this project were to bring students from various disciplines across campus to create a digital game for beginning Arabic […]

Measuring Uncertainty in Assessments through Mouse Tracking

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PI: Dr. Ross Larsen Co-PI’s: Dr. Jeff Jenkins and Dr. Charles Graham Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met Our project sought to use mouse tracking to develop a measure of uncertainty and validate it with self-report with self-report measures of uncertainty as seen in Figure 1. Several developments during […]