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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Human Fibroblast Cell Adhesion to Extracellular Matrix

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Brady Vance and Alonzo Cook, Chemical Engineering Heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the number one cause of death in the United States, killing more than 600,000 people each year1. Due to the high incidence of heart disease and the low availability of transplantable hearts, new technologies have been […]

3D Printed Alginate Scaffolds in Regenerative Medicine Techniques

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Tyler Hendricks and Dr. Alonzo Cook, Chemical Engineering Introduction Mostly an exploratory project, the goal of this study was to determine the best combination of preparation temperature and concentration of alginate gel to be used with 3D printing technologies in tissue engineering and future regenerative medicine techniques. Recognizing the role that 3D printing technologies could […]

Porcine Urinary Bladder Matrix in Sciatic Nerve Regeneration

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Matthew Landeen and Dr. Alonzo Cook, Chemical Engineering Introduction The neurobiological and biochemical processes of cellular degeneration, secondary to trauma in the peripheral nervous system is well documented; however the regenerative potential of the peripheral nervous system is still under intense scrutiny. In this study, the rate of regeneration of the rat sciatic nerve was […]

Steps Toward Curing Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration Through the Modeling of Müller Cell Proliferation

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Ryan Gillis and Dr. Alonzo Cook, Chemical Engineering Introduction Dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease that causes vision loss in approximately 1.8 million Americans. Dry AMD is caused by the deterioration of the macula and associated photoreceptor cells within the retina. This degeneration occurs for a variety of reasons including aging, genetics, and retinal […]