Drs. David Fullwood, Brent Adams and Chris Mattson, Department of Mechanical Engineering Executive summary The MEG award has been used by our research group as a springboard to launch undergraduates to levels of excellence in academia and the engineering community, and as seed money for research initiatives that will benefit these and future undergraduates. It […]
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Facing Reality: An Experimental Approach to Ethnic Identity
Drs. Michael Findley and Daniel Nielson, Department of Political Science Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The research project has been successful, overall, and we are continuing to prepare research for publication. When we recruited students to assist us with the research, we asked them to develop their own […]
Three-Dimensional Seismic Study of Pluton Emplacement
Drs. Eric H. Christiansen and William Keach, Department of Geological Sciences Introduction The origin of Earth’s continents, many of our most important ore deposits and the largest and most damaging volcanic eruptions are all related to the emplacement of silicic plutons–large masses of once molten magma. Understanding the details of the mechanism by which these […]
The Sweat of Their Brow
Dr. Kristi Bell, Department of English I received a MEG award that was disbursed Fall Semester 2009. It was a three semester program running through Fall Semester 2010. Because of leftover funds I have been able to do additional work through Summer 2011. Summary of Project By the Sweat of Their Brow was an oral […]
Advanced Biological and Biomedical Applications in Electrical Engineering
Drs. Neal K. Bangerter and Brian A. Mazzeo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Summary The aim of the awarded MEG grant was to provide seed funding to establish a mentorship program for undergraduate students wishing to prepare for careers or graduate work in biological or biomedical applications of electrical engineering. Such a program has […]
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 […]
The Effects of Development Aid on Public Health
Dr. Daniel Nielson, Department of Political Science Reaching Academic Objectives Between 2007 and 2009 the students in my mentoring research program helped fill out the Project-Level Aid (PLAID) Database, now called AidData and located at aiddata.org, to such an extent that the academic fruits became both evident and prominent. With the help of the mentored […]
Finding Plagiarizing and Undesirable Web Documents by Utilizing Word Similarity in the Fuzzy Set Information Retrieval Model
Dr. Yiu-Kai Dennis Ng, Department of Computer Science Evaluation of the Academic Objects In the 2007 MEG proposal, I specified the following Internet problems to be solved using a Fuzzy set information retrieval (IR) model: (i) detecting plagiarism, which is the act of using another’s words or ideas as one’s own, (ii) filtering junk emails, […]
Rural and Veteran Healthcare Project
Kent Blad and Ron Ulberg, College of Nursing Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The academic objectives of the MEG proposal were met and exceeded. Specifically, students were exposed to local and national venues in which Veterans and their history are prevalent. Examples of this include visits by the […]
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