Conner Earl and Bradley Bundy, Department of Chemical Engineering Department *Note: this report contains proprietary information and should not be circulated publicly until the final research report is accepted and published in a scientific journal. (one year) Introduction Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) present problems worldwide and have been linked to cancer, developmental disorders, and other […]
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System Design to Reduce Risk of Cranial Injury for Servicemen & Servicewomen
Stefan Leimer and David Morgan, Industrial Design Methodology With over 320,000 of our troops returning home with traumatic brain injuries over the course of only six years, brain injuries among U.S. servicemen and servicewomen have become a growing concern. The purpose of this project is to assess the current risks these individuals are facing and […]
THE USE OF A PASSIVE ENDOTHERMIC REACTOR COOLING SYSTEM FOR LWR EMERGENCY COOLING
Johnson, Joel THE USE OF A PASSIVE ENDOTHERMIC REACTOR COOLING SYSTEM FOR LWR EMERGENCY COOLING Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Memmott, Chemical Engineering Department Introduction The purpose of the project was to test the viability and begin design on a passive endothermic reaction cooling system (PERCS). The idea behind PERCS is to improve the safety of […]
Safety Analysis of a Flashing Drum Steam Generation System
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 […]
Energy from Thin Air: Compressed Air Power Harvesting Systems
Zachary Sadler and Faculty Mentor: Matthew Jones, Mechanical Engineering Introduction Energy is an important resource within the world we live. The demand for power requires new energy resources. Much of the power that is generated is eventually wasted in the form of waste heat. As much as 435 GW of energy is transferred from virtually […]
Investigation of Visual Systems in a New Species of Firefly
Yelena Pacheco and Dr. Seth Bybee, Biology Introduction Fireflies are well known for their bioluminescent flashes causing them to be a particular group of interest concerning insect vision research. Their flashes are used for both sexual communication and as an aposematic warning to predators. Bioluminescent fireflies are known to use either a yellow-green flash or […]
MessageGuard: A Secure Webmail System Coupling Security with Usability
Joshua Lowe and Faculty Mentor: Kent Seamons, Computer Science While working on my undergraduate degree, I developed an interest for computer security and started working in the Internet Security Research Lab on campus. A PhD student who I had worked with before previously, had proposed a webmail system called MessageGuard as an ubiquitous web encryption […]
Systematic Analysis of Nonlinearities in Complex Models
Alexander Shumway and Faculty Mentor: Mark Transtrum, Department of Physics and Astronomy Introduction Mathematical models are ubiquitous in science. Many models are nonlinear in the parameters and may have dozens to thousands of parameters and make hundreds to thousands of predictions. Analysis and application of these models is thus theoretically complicated and computationally expensive. The […]
America’s Prodigal Devotion to Light Rail: Did Denver’s Light Rail System Help with Traffic Decongestion?
Thomas Kelemen and Dr. Michael Ransom, Economics Over the past twenty years, the Denver Regional Transit District has developed an extensive light rail public transit system in the Denver, Colorado metro area. This development was motivated, at least in part, by severe highway congestion on important highway routes to downtown Denver. In a recent analysis, […]
Testing the Validity of the LCTSR 12-point Grading System
Ted Piorczynski and Jamie Jensen, Biology Introduction The Lawson Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning (LCTSR) is a 24-question, multiple-choice test designed to assess students’ scientific reasoning ability. The test consists of 12 scenarios, each of which focuses on testing a specific reasoning pattern. Each scenario is followed by two questions; the first question assesses a […]
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