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Read the SURF 2023 Symposium Abstract Booklet.
A Glimpse into the Future of Manufacturing: IoT Sensors and AI Machine Learning
Keywords: Machine Learning, Big Data, Industry 4.0, Current Transducers, AI-in-Manufacturing
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
A Level II Driving Simulator for Cognitive State Modeling of Human Machine Interactions
Keywords: Human Factors, Driving Simulation, Unreal Engine
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
A Simple Method for Peripheral Delivery of Human Microglia Progenitor cells into the CNS
Keywords: Microglia Replacement, Regenerative Medicine, Microglia, Neurodegenerative Therapeutics, Cellular Biology
Primary Department of Faculty: Basic Medical Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2023
A Toy Movie Review Microservice benchmark written in a compiler that uses a packed representation of data structures
Keywords: Compiler Optimization, Microservice Benchmark
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Action Detection in Occupational Safety Using IMU Sensors and Advanced Data Analysis
Keywords: Proposal-Based Action Detection, Inertial Measurement Unit, MoCap Camera, Risk Factor Detection, 3D Spatial Information
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
Additive Manufacturing of Fiber Reinforced Ceramic Materials
Keywords: Additive Manufacturing, Ceramic Matrix Composites, Thermal Protection Systems, Photocure, Polymers
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Advancements in Fluid Mechanics Research through Physics-Informed Machine Learning Using the Nonlinear-Elasto-Visco-Plastic Model
Keywords: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Fluid Mechanics, Physics, Coding
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
Advancing Agricultural Extension & Outreach Through the Development of a Specialized Chatbot
Keywords: Chatbot, Conversational AI, Large Language Models
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
Air purification technologies for HVAC systems to reduce Indoor bioaerosol concentration
Keywords: Air Purification, HVAC, Photocatalysis, Indoor Air Quality, Photocatalytic Oxidation
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Composite Materials Engineering
2023
An Imaging Approach to Study the Developmental Growth of Nepenthes
Keywords: Nepenthes Alata, Imagery, Plant Development, SLEAP Software, Tropism
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
An Origami-inspired Multi-type Locomotive Planetary Exploration Robot
Keywords: Space Robots, Origami-Inspired Deployable System, Planetary Exploration, Autonomous Control, Optimal Design
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautics and Astronautics
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
An Origami-inspired Multi-type Locomotive Planetary Exploration Robot
Keywords: Robotics, Origami, Multimodal Robotics, Yoshimura
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautics and Astronautics
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Analysis of Ca2+ dynamics for 1 and 2 cell-stage
Keywords: Calcium Dynamics, Computational Model, ODE, Biological Simulation & Technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Analysis of worker preferences for decarbonized manufacturing job attributes
Keywords: Decarbonization, Worker Satisfaction, Logistic Regression, Sociotechnical Models, Energy Transition
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
Animation From Single Image and Text
Keywords: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Diffusion Model, Generative Model
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Arp2/3 complex's role in plant's immune response
Keywords: Cellular Biology, Plant Biology, Plant Immunity, Actin Cytoskeleton, Biological Characterization & Imaging
Primary Department of Faculty: Botany and Plant Pathology
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2023
Artificial Brains for Artificial Intelligence
Keywords: Neural Simulation, Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience, Neural Network, Synaptic Plasticity
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Authorship Attribution From Decompiled Binaries
Keywords: Machine Learning, Security, Contrastive Learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
AutoCrop: A User-friendly and Efficient Technique for Subregion Cropping in SMLM Image Reconstruction
Keywords: Biological Characterization & Imaging, Fluorescence Microscopy, Super-Resolution Images, Image Processing
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Automation of Elevation Dataset Analysis
Keywords: USGS 3DEP, USDA SSURGO, Elevation Datasets
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Behavior of Steel-Concrete Composite (SC) L-Joint Connections Under Blast Loading Conditions
Keywords: Steel-Concrete Composite, L-Joint Connections, Containment Internal Structure, Joint Shear
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Bi-Based Solders for Heterogenous Integration of Semiconductors for High Temperature Applications
Keywords: Alloys, Semiconductors, Bismuth, Soldering, Structural Dimensionality
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Binary Code Authorship Identification with Code Language Model
Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Security
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2023
Biofilm Impact on Absorbed Contaminants on Microplastics and Drinking Water Safety
Keywords: Biofilm, Microplastics, Microbial Growth, Water Systems
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2023
Building a Collaborative Platform for Secure AI/ML Research in the Nuclear Domain
Keywords: Reverse Engineering, Proprietary Information, Synthetic Data Generation, Covert Embedding Techniques, Data Masking
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
Calcium-dependent Signaling of CaMKII and its Regulation of Actin in Dendritic Spines
Keywords: CaMKII, Ca2+ Signaling, Actin Regulation, PLA, Dendritic Spines
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Calf muscle bioenergetics and walking endurance in patients with lower extremity peripheral artery disease
Keywords: Peripheral Artery Disease, Phosphocreatine Recovery, Plantar Flexion Exercise, Walking Ability, Phosphorus 31 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Primary Department of Faculty: Kinesiology
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Calibrating Human Cognitive States for Effective Human-Automation Teaming: A Markov Decision Process Approach in Search and Rescue Scenarios
Keywords: Automation, Coordination, Human-Automation Interaction, Workload, Self-Confidence
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
Characterization of calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) in embryonic zebrafish wound repair
Keywords: Calcium-Sensing Receptor (CaSR), NPS-2143, Extracellular Calcium, Wound Response, Embryonic Zebrafish
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Biotechnology
2023
Characterization of polymer blend nanocomposites using Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs) across different size scales
Keywords: Polyvinyl Alcohol (Pva), Cellulose Nanocrystal (CNCs), Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone (PVP), Characterization, Micro Compounder
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Characterizing Binding and Stabilization of Indenoisoquinolines to the MYC G-quadruplex using Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
Keywords: Cancer Research, MYC, G-Quadruplex, Indenoisoquinolines, Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy (CD)
Primary Department of Faculty: Medicinal Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences
2023
Characterizing Immune Cell Populations in Blood and Spleens from Wildtype Mice after Joint Injury
Keywords: Osteoarthritis, Joint Disease, Flow Cytometry, Histology, Systemic Inflammation
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Characterizing Long-Term Degradation of Plastic Packaging in the Low Earth Environment
Keywords: Radiation Hardening, Total Ionizing Dose, Satellite Constellations, Plastic Encapsulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
Characterizing Losses of Topological Insulator Transmon Qubits with Superconducting 3D Cavity
Keywords: Transmon, Cavity, Qubit, Lossy
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2023
Chemical Leaching on Epoxy-based Drinking Water Pipe Repair
Keywords: Drinking Water, Leaching, Epoxy Resin, Composites
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2023
Co-AIdeator: A Collaborative Human-AI Ideation System For Product and Process Design
Keywords: Ideation, Interaction, Design, Framework, System
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Cognitive State Modeling of Human Machine Interactions in a Level II Driving Simulator
Keywords: Human-Automation Interaction, Driving Simulator, Unreal Engine, Control-Oriented Modeling
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
Coherent Light Optical Haptic Sensor for Robotic Tactile Sensing
Keywords: Robotics, Machine Learning, Sensors & Microsystems
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Coherent Text Encryption via Semantically-Driven Word Embeddings: A Novel Approach using sense2vec
Keywords: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Encryption, Cybersecurity
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Colorimetric aptasensing of hemagglutinin in solution
Keywords: Hemagglutinin, Colorimetric, Aptasensing, µ-PADs, Gold Nanoparticles
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2023
Comparison of multiple platforms for estimating agronomic optimum nitrogen (N) rate of corn at early growth stages
Keywords: Nitrogen, Corn, Agronomic Optimum Nitrogen Rates, RStudio, Agronomy
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Computational Modeling of Electric Coupling Between Neurons
Keywords: Electromagnetic Brain Stimulation, Medical Science & Technology, Cellular Biology, Neuronal Modeling
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2023
Computational Modeling of the Role of Ca2+ Flux Frequency Decoding by Calmodulin and CaMKII Role on Actin Polymerization Dynamics and Dendritic Spine Morphology
Keywords: Cellular Biology, Biological Signaling, Computational Biology, Synaptic Plasticity, Biological Simulation & Technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Computational investigation of neurite outgrowth
Keywords: Neurite Outgrowth, Computational Model, Neuron, Dendrite, Microtubule
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Conversion of Medical Face Masks to Valuable Products Through Low-Pressure Hydrothermal Processing
Keywords: Medical Plastic Waste, Low-Pressure, Hydrothermal Processing, Polypropylene
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Coupling an Olfaction Chamber with Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry for Evaluating Human Response to Scented Product Emissions
Keywords: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Indoor Air Pollution, Volatile Chemical Products (VCPs), Olfaction Chamber, Odor Assessment
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2023
Cryopreservation of Natural Killer (NK) Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy: Optimization of Conditions for Recovery and Anti-tumor Function of NK cells
Keywords: Cryopreservation, Viability, Natural Killer Cells, Cryoprotectants, Cell Culture, Freezing Performance
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
DVFL: Decentralized, Blockwise Vertical Federated Learning for Secure and Robust Collaborative Machine Learning
Keywords: Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Federated Learning, Distributed Learning, Fault Tolerant Learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering
2023
Deceptive Infusion of Data for Audio Data
Keywords: Data Masking, Audio Data, Data Trustworthiness
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2023
Deep Learning-based Classification of Trust in Future Construction Sites Using Neuro-Psychophysiological Measurements
Keywords: Human-Robot Trust, Deep Learning, Future Construction, Neuro-Psychophysiological Responses
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Derivatization of amino acids, sterols, and lipids for applications in mass spectrometry imaging
Keywords: Mass Spectrometry, Chemical Derivatization, Bioanalysis, NanoDESI Imaging
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2023
Deriving the Transition Between Field Emission and Space-Charge-Limited Emission in Trap-Filled Semiconductors
Keywords: Electron Emission, Space-Charge-Limited Emission, Semiconductors, Traps
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
Design and Investigation for Microporous Surface Modification for Fine-Pitch Microbump Bonding in 3D Integration
Keywords: Heterogenous Integration, Microbumps, Microfabrication, Moore’s Law, Electroplating
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2023
Design and Manufacture of Magnetically Responsive Membranes for Tissue Testing
Keywords: Fabrication, Multifunctional Composites, Structural Materials, Biomedical Sensing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Design and preliminary evaluation of an engineered polymerizable type I collagen material as a regenerative vascular patch
Keywords: Vascular Patch, Fibrillar Microstructure, Polymerizable Collagen, Remodeling, Mechanical Properties
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Design and synthesis of novel pyridine-based conjugated ligands for 2D perovskite formation and improved solar cell efficiency
Keywords: 2D Perovskites, Thin Films, Ligand Design, Semiconductors
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2023
Design of a Robotic Sensor Deployment System for Soil Monitoring
Keywords: Precision Agriculture, Distributed Sensors, Robotics
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Developing Clients for Streaming 360-Degree Video to End Users
Keywords: Virtual Reality, 360-Degree Video, Video Decoding, Parallelization, Client Optimization
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Developing Tuneable Granular Hydrogels with High Porosity for Tissue Engineering Applications
Keywords: Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Injectable Hydrogels, Stiffness, Porosity
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Development and Application of a Generalized Flapping Wing Vehicle Simulation Package
Keywords: Aerial Robotics, Flapping Wing Vehicles, Simulation Platform, Underactuated Systems, ROS2 Ignition Gazebo
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Development and Investigation of Load-Based Testing Methodology for HVAC Systems
Keywords: Load-Based Methodology, Thermostat Environment Emulator, Closed-Looped Apparatus, Testing and Rating Methodology
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Development and application of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and imaging tools towards the measurement of oocyte mechanical behavior
Keywords: Cellular Mechanics, Meiois, Atomic Force Microscopy, Mechanobiology, Signaling Pathways
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Diffusion of innovations: Delivering conceptual and technical material on systems engineering and sleep management for educational purposes in Latin-American environments
Keywords: Diffusion of Innovations, Education, Systems Engineering, Sleep Management, Healthcare
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Directed Diastereoselective Hydrogenation of Tetrasubstituted Olefins Using Bimetallic Heterogeneous Catalyst
Keywords: Hydrogenation, Diastereoselective, Substrate Directed, Tetrasubstituted Olefin, Nanoparticles
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2023
Discovery of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Biomarkers Trough Multi-Omics Data Analysis
Keywords: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Multi-Omics Data, Machine Learning: High Dimensional Data, Medical Science, Technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Effect of Small Arms Fire-like Noise Exposure on the Central Auditory System
Keywords: Central Auditory Processing, Hearing Loss, Noise Exposure, Auditory Evoked Potential, Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emission
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Neurobiology and Physiology
2023
Efficient Induction of Hematopoietic Stem Cells from 3D Cell Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells through Wnt and TGFβ Signaling Modulation
Keywords: Stem Cell Differentiation, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Embryoid Body, Wnt Signaling Pathway, Immunotherapy
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Electrical Resistance Analysis of Back-Side Power Delivery Networks(BSPDN) with Nano Through Silicon Vias(nTSV) for Power Efficient Chip Design
Keywords: Through Silicon Vias, Buried Power Rails, Resistance, Simulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2023
Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate on Copper Single Crystals
Keywords: Nitrate Reduction, Copper Single Crystals, Selectivity, Activity
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Electroplating Design for 3D System Integration
Keywords: Packaging, 3D Integration, TSV, TSV Electroplating, IJE Plating
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Science
2023
Encapsulation of Delamanid into Nanoparticles to Enhance Bioavailability for Oral Tuberculosis Treatment
Keywords: Delamanid, Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Nanoencapsulation, Nanoparticles, Flash NanoPrecipitation
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2023
Enhancing Air Quality Predictions: Integrating Stable Isotopes and Machine Learning in Atmospheric Models
Keywords: Air Pollution, Simulation, Machine Learning, Mathematical Models, Effective Strategies
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Enhancing Design Methodologies for Predicting and Mitigating Earthquake-Induced Cracking in Embankments and Earth Dams
Keywords: Earthquake-Induced Cracking, Embankments, Earth Dams, Seismic Damage, Design Methodologies
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2023
Evaluating the Effect of Protected Bike Lane Implementation on Ridership Usage in a Bike-Sharing System: A Difference-in-Difference and Spatiotemporal Analysis of New York's Bike Sharing System
Keywords: Bike-Sharing, Bike Lanes, Difference-in-Difference, Shared Mobility, New York City
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2023
Evaluation of a Concentric Cylinder Rheometer for Granular Flow
Keywords: Material Modeling & Simulation, Materials Processing, Characterization
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Evaluation of electrolyte salts paired with Bi doped LLZO garnet material for improved ionic conductivity in composite polymer electrolytes
Keywords: Composite Polymer Electrolyte, Electrolyte Salts, Ionic Conductivity, Li-S Batteries
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Examination of Sex Differences Using 4D Ultrasound Analysis in Murine Models of Myocardial Infarction
Keywords: Biomedical Imaging, Ultrasound, Cardiovascular Disease, Sex Differences, Myocardial Infarction
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Experimental Characterization of Vapor Selective Membranes for Air Dehumidification in Industrial Drying Applications
Keywords: Heat Pump Dryer, Dehumidification, Polymer Membrane, Permeability, Selectivity
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Exploring Engineering Students' Information
Keywords: Information Sorting, Problem Definition, Design Education, Engineering Students, Open-Ended Design
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Education
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Exploring Ethics in Biomedical Engineering
Keywords: Biomedical Engineering, Research Ethics, Qualitative, Teaching Ethics
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Education
SURF Participant's Major: Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies
2023
Exploring Fatty Acid Amide Sulfonates as Renewable Surfactants: Synthesis, Characterization, and Sustainable Potential
Keywords: Fatty Acid Amide Sulfonate, Sustainable Surfactant, Amidation, Oxidation, Soybean Oil
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2023
Exploring Photon Statistics with Two Quantum Emitters Coupled to a Micro-Ring Resonator
Keywords: Quantum Optics, Light-Matter Interactions, Micro-Ring Resonators, Correlation Function, Bunching/Antibunching Phenomena
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2023
Fault-Tolerance in Blockwise Learning
Keywords:
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2023
Feasibility of a PTM EV-Based Pipeline for Breast Cancer Subtype Differentiation
Keywords: Breast Cancer, Machine Learning: Random Forest, Medical Science & Technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Filling Vials, Not Filling Time: Design and Fabrication of a Mobile Vial-Filling Station for Pharmaceutical Freeze-Drying
Keywords: Lyophilization, Filling Station, Aseptic Manufacturing, Laboratory Automation, Laboratory Management
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Finding Cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Embedded/IoT systems
Keywords: Cybersecurity, Embedded Network Stacks, Vulnerabilities, Portability Layer, Unit Testing
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
First Principles Modeling of Perovskite Surfaces for High Throughput Screening of Photocatalysts
Keywords: Halide Perovskite, Catalysis, Density Functional Theory, Computational Material Science, Surfaces
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2023
Gold-polystyrene nanoparticles developed for the detection of Cyclospora cayetanensis using paper-based mu-pads
Keywords: Gold Nanoparticles, Paper-Based Microfluidics, Disease Diagnostics, Sensors & Microsystems, Nanotechnology
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Pharmacy
2023
HTGR Depressurization Event Through Steam Generator in Comparison to Through the Reactor Cavity
Keywords: HTGR, Reactor Cavity, Helium, Oxygen, Depressurization
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
High-Performance Self-Cleaning Radiative Cooling Paint for Reducing Air Conditioning Energy Usage
Keywords: Energy & Environment, Radiative Cooling, Passive Cooling
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Hydrolytically Degradable Granular Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering
Keywords: Biomaterials, Granular Hydrogels, Hydrolytically Degradable, Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Identification of Biomarkers of Aging by Proteomic Analysis
Keywords: Aging, Proteomics, Biomarker Discovery, Multiple-Reaction-Monitoring, Mass Spectrometry
Primary Department of Faculty: Comparative Pathobiology
SURF Participant's Major: Neurobiology and Physiology
2023
Impact of powder blending and process parameters on granule bulk density and particle size distribution in a dry granulation process
Keywords: Granulation, Roller Compaction, Rotor-Screen Gap, Particle Size Distribution, Bulk Density
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Implementing the Forward-Forward Algorithm in Fault-tolerant Decentralized Learning
Keywords: Distributed Learning, Fault-Tolerance, Decentralization, Forward-Forward Algorithm, End Devices
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Increasing the Carbon Intake of 3D Printed Concrete via Superabsorbent Polymers
Keywords: Reactive Magnesium Cement (RMC), Superabsorbent Polymers (SAPs), Carbonation, 3D Printing
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2023
Inferring Clinical Information from Large-Scale Transcriptomic Data Using Machine Learning
Keywords: Machine Learning - Big Data, Genetics, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Data Mining
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Integration of QUDI into Single Photon Emitters Experiment Setups
Keywords: Single Photon Emitters, SPEs, QUDI
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Intended Impact, Unintended Domain: Revolutionary Innovations Gain Momentum Elsewhere
Keywords: Innovation, Adoption Strategy, Business History
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Business Analytics
2023
Intent Classification-based Interactive Chatbot for Weed Management
Keywords: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Model (LLM), Query Dataset, Weed Management, BERT
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Data Science
2023
Investigating Corrosion Properties of Advanced Manufactured Materials in Extreme Environments
Keywords: Corrosion, Stainless Steel, Electrochemical Corrosion, Additive Manufacturing, Material Coatings
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2023
Investigating functional domains of the Rip6 Ralstonia type-III effector protein
Keywords: Protein Characterization, Confocal Microscopy, Effectors, Ralstonia Bacteria, Molecular Plant Pathology
Primary Department of Faculty: Botany and Plant Pathology
SURF Participant's Major: Plant Science
2023
Investigating the Effects of Biomaterial Porosity on Muscle Remodeling and Functional Recovery after Volumetric Muscle Injury in Mice
Keywords: Granular Hydrogels, Volumetric Muscle Loss, Immunohistochemistry, Fibrosis, Biomechanics
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2023
Investigating the Influence of Nitrogen Isotopes on Air Pollution Using Machine Learning Techniques
Keywords: Machine Learning, Mitigation Strategies, Simulation, Air Pollution
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Investigating the Use of Principal Component Analysis as a Tool for Process Monitoring
Keywords: Pharmaceutical Tablets, Continuous Manufacturing, Dry Granulation, Principal Component Analysis, Process Monitoring
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Investigating the role of PV interneurons in dictating visual processing and behavior through FX mice.
Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fragile X Syndrome, Parvalbumin Interneurons, Oscillations, Visual Discrimination
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2023
Investigation into Alternative Radiation Hardened Photovoltaic Materials for Planetary Missions
Keywords: Displacement Damage Modeling, Nonionizing Energy Loss, Photovoltaics, Radiation Hardened Nanoelectronics, Radiation Resistance
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
Investigation of Diffusion Models with Musical Input
Keywords: Machine Learning, Big Data, Music Emotion Recognition, Music Information Retrieval, Stable Diffusion
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Investigation of Fabrications and Materials of Liquid Core Ultrasound Contrast Agent
Keywords: Nanotechnology, Ultrasound Contrast Agent, Medical Ultrasound Imaging, Echogenicity, Fabrications
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Investigation of Space Radiation Doses in Satellite Orbits
Keywords: Environmental Characterization, Space Radiation, High Energy Particles
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
Investigation of hemodynamic and morphologic characteristics in stable and growing intracranial aneurysms using computational fluid dynamics
Keywords: Intracranial Aneurysm, Hemodynamics, Morphological Characteristics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, SimVascular
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Investigation of the Direct Shear Mechanism in Steel-Plate Composites with a Shear Span-to-Depth Ratio less than 1.0
Keywords: Steel-Plate Composites (SC), Direct Shear, Out-Of-Plane Shear
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
Isolating Chlorophyll a's Vibrational Peak Through Microsampling and Isotope Substitution
Keywords: Photosynthesis, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Chlorophyll, Mutagenesis
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2023
Liquid Crystalline Nonconjugated Organic Radicals
Keywords: Liquid Crystalline, Organic Radicals, Conducting Radicals, TEMPO Derivatives
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Low-Temperature Solder Alloying
Keywords: Solder Alloying, Sn-Bi, Intermetallic, Aging
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Low-dose isoproterenol administration in the murine mdx model unmasks progression of Duchenne-associated cardiomyopathy
Keywords: Biomedical Imaging, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, 4D Ultrasound, Murine Model
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Lunar Shadow Mapping: Optimizing Agrivoltaic Systems for Sustainable Lunar Outposts
Keywords: Environmental Characterization, Material Modeling & Simulation, Ecology & Sustainability
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Machine Learning-Based Vibration Suppression in Mobile Applications of Particle Diffusometry
Keywords: Vibration Suppression, Particle Diffusometry, Particle-Based Measurements, Neural Networks, Microfluidics
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Magnetocaloric Refrigeration for Lunar Hydrogen Liquefaction
Keywords: Hydrogen Liquefaction, Active Magnetic Regenerative Refrigeration, High Entropy Alloys, Magnetocaloric Materials, Lunar Settlements
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Manufacturing and Characterization of Alumina/Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composite for the Production of FFF Filament Used in AM Processes
Keywords: Ceramic Composites, Ceramic/Elastomer Composites, Additive Manufacturing, Fused Filament Fabrication
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautics and Astronautics
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
Material Composition Impact on Low Temperature Solder Alloys
Keywords: Material Modeling & Simulation, Solder Alloys, Heterogeneous Integration & Advanced Packaging, Mechanical Characterization, Tin-Bismuth
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Matrix Addressing of Thermal Actuator Arrays
Keywords: Thermal Technology, Composite Materials, Actuators, Matrix Addressing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Measuring the Effect of Crack Parallel Stress on the Toughness of a 3D Printed Quasi-brittle Polymer
Keywords: Fracture Toughness, Quasi-Brittle Materials, Stress State
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Mechanistic interrogation of the impact of electrode heterogeneities in Lithium-ion batteries for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft
Keywords: Electrode Heterogeneity, Li-Ion Batteries, eVTOL, Capacity Loss, Thermal Safety
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Micro-Precision Testing on Lead-Free Bi-Based Solder Joints
Keywords: Micro-Precision Tester, Solder Joints, Material Characterization, Lead-Free Alloys, Computer-Aided Manufacturing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Microbial Growth in Hydroponic Systems Influenced by Water Quality
Keywords: Hydroponics, Microbiome, Kratky Method, Bacterial Growth, Water Quality
Primary Department of Faculty: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2023
Microstructural Control of Additively Manufactured Polymer Bonded Explosives
Keywords: Additive Manufacturing, Energetic Materials
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
Mimicking Sonographer's Expertise: Learning Robotic Ultrasound using Behaviour Cloning
Keywords: Medical Ultrasound, Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound System, Image Quality, Behavioral Cloning, Learning From Demonstration
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Technology
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Misynform - A Synthetic Data Generation Method with Intentional Misdirection for Adversaries
Keywords: Deception, Synthetic Data, Misinformation, Data Interception
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2023
Mobility Evolution in the US: Evidence from Electric Vehicle Adoption
Keywords: Ev Penetration, ARIMA Modeling, Spatial Time-Series Analysis, Forecast, Economic, Socio-Demographic
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Data Science
2023
Modeling of the Chemical Fate and Transport Post Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
Keywords: Disaster Relief, Chemical Fate, Energy & Environment, Chemical Spill, Environmental Effects Post Disaster
Primary Department of Faculty: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Molecular Cages as Artificial Antibodies and Artificial Enzymes
Keywords: Supramolecular, Hydrazone-Linked, Hydrolysis
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2023
Molecular Markers of Thermal Oil Refinery Effluent Exposure in Fish
Keywords: Aquatic, Toxicology, Environment, Sustainability, Genetics
Primary Department of Faculty: Forestry and Natural Resources
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2023
Mutations of the Ebola Virus VP40 Protein
Keywords: Ebola Virus, Medical Science, Mutations, eVP40
Primary Department of Faculty: Medicinal Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Nanoencapsulation of Bone Metastatic Prostate Cancer Therapeutics for Oral and Intravenous Delivery
Keywords: Flash Nano-Precipitation (FNP), Nanoencapsulation, Nanoformulation, Nanotechnology, Drug Delivery
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Nanoscale Characterization of the Effect of Raloxifene on Human Bone
Keywords: Bone, Small-Angle Scattering, Wide-Angle Scattering, Raloxifene, Toughness
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Neo-Coyote: An Optimization for Vectorizing Encrypted Arithmetic Circuits
Keywords: Vectorization, Homomorphic Encryption, Arthimetic Circuits, Compilers, Optimization
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Neo-Coyote: An Optimization for Vectorizing Encrypted Arithmetic Circuits
Keywords: Homomorphic Encryption, Arithmetic Circuits, Vectorization, Cryptography, Compilers
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Nox2/cybb Knock Down Using Morpholino Oligonucleotides to Investigate Tectal Innervation
Keywords: Neuronal Development, Retinotectal Innervation, Zebrafish, NADPH Oxidase, Axonal Guidance
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2023
Numerical Investigation of Nonlinear Waves in Compressible Liquid Propellants
Keywords: Propulsion, Combustion, Rotating Detonation Engines, Liquid Propellants, Numerical Simulations
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Numerical modeling and experimental visualization flow behaviors of impingement jet cooling and Tesla channel cooling
Keywords: Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Cooling Efficiency, Experimental Visualization, Numerical Modeling
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
Keywords: Ocean Thermal Energy, Machine Learning, Computational Study, Global Mapping
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Odiff: Differential Testing of ONNX Model Converters
Keywords: Machine Learning: Deep Learning, ONNX, Software Testing, Troubleshooting, Deep Learning Interoperability
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
Oncogenic KRAS Signaling: Unraveling Tumor Microenvironment Modulation via Extracellular Vesicles
Keywords: Extracellular Vesicles, Immunosuppression, Tumor Microenvironment, Cell Migration, Tumorigenesis
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Cell Molecular and Developmental Biology
2023
Operation and Characterization of the SPT-100 Hall-effect Thruster
Keywords: Electric Propulsion, Space Propulsion, Plasma Physics, Ion Engines, Hall Effect Thruster
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautics and Astronautics
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Origami-Inspired Multi-type Locomotive Planetary Exploration Robot
Keywords: Origami-Inspired Robotics, Autonomous Robots, Space Exploration, Circuit Design, Extraterrestrial Robots
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautics and Astronautics
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Personalized Finite Element Model of Tissue Expansion in Breast Reconstruction Patients
Keywords: Skin Growth, Tissue Expansion, Finite Element Modeling, Breast Reconstruction, Biomechanics
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Physical Characterization of Indoor Dust across Urban and Suburban homes in the U.S.
Keywords: Environmental Characterization, Indoor Aerosols, Particle Size Distributions, Dust Morphology
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Physics Based Synthetic Dataset for Training Neural Network for Diffusion Coefficient Determination
Keywords: Microfluidics, Machine Learning, Computer Simulations, Particle Diffusometry, Fluid Mechanics
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Physics-based computational E-field dosimetry of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Keywords: Numerical Analysis, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Iterative Solver, Convergent Tolerance, Finite Element Method
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2023
Plasmonic Nanoparticle Densities for Physical Verification of Unclonable Spectral Tags in Microelectronics Packaging
Keywords: Nanoparticles, Plasmonic Verification, Spectral Tags, Security, Nanofabrication Methods
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Plug-and-Play ADMM: Natural Image Priors Arena
Keywords: Machine Learning, Image Restoration, Deblurring, Unsupervised Learning, Deep Image Prior
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2023
Point-of-care imaging device for pathogen detection from color-based nucleic acid amplification
Keywords: Image Analysis, Point-Of-Care Testing, Portable Computing Device, Pathogen Detection, 3D Printing
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Population Study of Supernovae and their Host Galaxy Environments using Amortized Posterior Inference
Keywords: Supernovae, Machine Learning, Astronomy, Physics
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2023
PoseAR: Immersive Mixed-reality Environment for IoT-Human Joint Interaction
Keywords: Artificial Reality, AR Human Body Tracking, Item Segmentation
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Post-Weld Heat Treatment Normalization Effects on Electron Beam Welded SA508 Steel
Keywords: Materials Modeling & Simulation, Materials Processing & Characterization, SA508 Reactor Pressure Vessel Steel, Electron Beam Welding, Post Weld Heat Treatment
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Predictive Models for Projection Printing of Nanoscale 3D Structures
Keywords: Two-Photon Polymerization, Projection Printing, Gaussian Random Process, Convolutional Neural Network
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
Probing the Free Energy landscape of Protein L
Keywords: Biophysics, Single-Molecule Mechanics
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2023
Programming the Stiffness of a Ferroelastomer
Keywords: Ferroelastomer, Programmable Stiffness, Magnetic Fillers, Vibration Attenuation, Compression Testing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2023
Quantification of intervertebral disc strain from high-resolution ultrasound imaging during dynamic loading
Keywords: Intervertebral Disc, High-Frequency Ultrasound, Strain, Direct Deformation Estimation
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Quenching in Cooking Oils? A Search for Environmentally Friendly and Non-Toxic Quench Oils
Keywords: Oil Quenching, Metal Processing, Austempering, Sustainability, Alternative Quenchants
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Random walks with applications in polymer physics and protein crystallization
Keywords: Brownian Bridge, Wong-Zakai, Semi-Flexible Polymer, Simulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mathematics
2023
Rapid characterization of surface oxidation in refractory alloys
Keywords: Materials Processing & Characterization, Composite Materials & Alloys
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2023
Real-Time VOC Measurement Applications in Disaster Relief
Keywords: PTR-TOF-MS, VOC, Air Quality, Disaster, Environmental Health
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Recyclable Polymers Synthesized Through Free-Radical Polymerization
Keywords: Polymers, Sustainability, Organic Synthesis
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Polymer Science and Engineering
2023
Relation of Decentralized Network Architectures to Adversarial Attacks Centrality in Federated Learning
Keywords: Machine Learning, Federated Learning, Networks, Adversarial, Centrality
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Relation of power, time, and temperature on the joining of materials at an interface
Keywords: Interdiffusion, Power, Dissimilar Materials, Steel, Temperature
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Revealing cellular electric activity in the Danio rerio (zebrafish) caudal fin folds via Voltron, a genetically encoded voltage indicator
Keywords: Biological Imaging, Embryo Development, Bioelectricity, GEVI
Primary Department of Faculty: Comparative Pathobiology
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
Role of Actin and Regulatory Protein Camkii in Synaptic Plasticity and Alzhimer's Disease
Keywords: Calcium Dysregulation, CaMKII, Actin Remodeling, LTP, Confocal Microscopy, Alzheimer’s Disease
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Role of VP0/VP4 in Enterovirus Structure and Dynamics
Keywords: EV-D68, VP4, VP0, Structure, Mutagenesis
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Health and Disease
2023
SCALE Smart capsule for targeted gastrointestinal microbiota sampling
Keywords: Sampling Capsule, Passive Sampling, Ph-Sensitive Polymers, Gastrointestinal Microbiota, Targeted Sampling
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2023
Seismic Cracking of Embankments and Earth Dams
Keywords: Earthquake-Induced Cracking, Seismic Damages, Embankments & Dams, Material Modeling & Simulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2023
Semantic Feature Category's Impact on Early Word Learning
Keywords: Semantic Networks, Language Acquisition
Primary Department of Faculty: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
Semiconductor Quantum Wells in 2D Hybrid Halide Perovskites
Keywords: Quantum Wells, Semiconductors, Ligands, Perovskites, Band Alignments
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Sensor-based methods for assessing elements of non-technical skills in surgeries
Keywords: Non-Technical Skill, Closed-Loop Communication, Surgical Communication, Sensor-Based Metrics
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2023
Setting a Limit on the Cross-Section of the Toponium Bound State Production at a Center of Mass Energy of 13 TeV
Keywords: Toponium, Cross-Section, Deep Neural Network, Shape Based Analysis
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2023
Simulating Realistic Patterns: Image Processing for Zebrafish
Keywords: Zebrafish, Simulated Images, Image Processing Software, Zebrafish Patterns, Pattern Formation
Primary Department of Faculty: Mathematics
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2023
Simulations of Electroplating for Heterogeneous Integration
Keywords: Electroplating, High Aspect Ratio, Through-Silicon Vias, COMSOL, Additives
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Single Photon Emitters in Silicon Nitride: An Automated Study
Keywords: Single Photon Emitters, Qudi Python Framework, Automation, Optics, Quantum Photonics
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Sorbent Materials and Their Interaction with Chemical Spills
Keywords: Chemical Spill, Sorbent Pads, Ohio Train Derailment
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2023
Spatial Localization of Proteins in Structural Homeostatic Plasticity
Keywords: Biological Signaling, Biomedical Sensing & Imaging, Medical Science & Technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Neuroscience
2023
Stock Solution Preparation for the Coating of Palladium on Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus (BSMV) Nanorods
Keywords: Nanorods, BSMV, Palladium, UV-Vis Spectrophotometry, Coatings
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Stress Breakdown Sleuth: Uncovering the Thermal Grease Secrets with Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Keywords: Machine Learning: Neural Networks, Thermal Grease, Fluid Mechanics
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering Technology
2023
Substrate Surface Effects on Underwater Adhesion
Keywords: Adhesives, Adhesion, Materials Characterization, Composite Materials
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Super Resolution Sensing with Relative Motion in Structured Illumination and Single Photon Correlations
Keywords: Nanotechnology, Biological Characterization & Imaging, Super-Resolution Sensing, Quantum Optics
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2023
Sustainable Quench Oil Replacements for Austempering Salt Quenchants
Keywords: Oils, Polymers, Austempering, Materials Processing & Characterization, TGA
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2023
Synthesis and Characterization of a Conductive and Solution-Processable Modified Transparent Conducting Polymer
Keywords: Polymers, Electrical Conductivity, Electrical Conductors, Thin Films
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2023
Synthesis of Hydrazone-Linked Supramolecular Tetrahedral Nano Cages Towards Selective Modification of Polymers Post-Synthesis
Keywords: Hydrazone-Linked Cage, Catalyst, Derivatization, Post-Synthesis
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Synthesizing Avenolide-Type Hormone Inducers of Cryptic BGC's
Keywords: Natural Product, Signaling Molecule, Avenolide, Biosynthetic Gene Cluster, AvaR1
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Pharmacy
2023
Temperature Dependence of Permittivity in Biaxially Anisotropic 2D material alpha-MoO3
Keywords: 2D Material, Anisotropic Material, Dielectric Function, Hyperbolic Material, Infrared Reflection
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Testing NEMOs, a New Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicator in Zebrafish Embryos
Keywords: Biological Characterization & Imaging, Cellular Biology, Genetics
Primary Department of Faculty: Comparative Pathobiology
SURF Participant's Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences
2023
The Applications of NIOSH Lifting Equation In Preventing Musculoskeletal Injuries
Keywords: NIOSH Lifting Equation, Musculoskeletal Injuries, Occupational Safety, Ergonomics, Risk Assessment and Prevention Measures
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
The Effect of the Rotor Screen Gap on Granule and Tablet Properties in a Dry Granulation Line
Keywords: Continuous Manufacturing, Dry Granulation, Rotor Screen Gap, Tensile Strength, Granule Size Distribution
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
The Effect of the Rotor Screen Gap on Granule and Tablet Properties in a Dry Granulation Line
Keywords: Continuous Manufacturing, Dry Granulation, Rotor Screen Gap, Tensile Strength, Granule Size Distribution
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
The Evolution of Protoclusters in the Distant Universe
Keywords: Galaxies, Lyman-Alpha Emitters, ODIN, Large-Scale Structure
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2023
The Impact of Lactation and Early Weaning on Cardiac Physiology
Keywords: Medical Science & Technology, Biological Characterization and Imaging, Biotechnology Data Insights, Biological Simulation & Technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
The Impact of Print Geometries on Directionality of an Explosive
Keywords: Additive Manufacturing, Detonation, Shock Physics
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
The Impact of the Lipid Formulation on Making Ultrasound Contrast Agents
Keywords: Ultrasound Contrast Agents (USCAs), Nanoparticles, Lipids, Gas Core
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
The Mechanical Behaviors of a Confining Extracellular Matrix during Cell Division
Keywords: Cell Division, Extracellular Matrix Behavior, Cellular Biophysics
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2023
The Plant Data Service: The Development of an Open-Source, Open-Access Crop Data API
Keywords: Agricultural Ontologies, FAIR Data, Open-Source Technology, Sustainable Agriculture, Conceptual Modeling
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2023
The bootstrap method: a survey of correlation functions and recursion relations to model and analyze systems in classical and quantum mechanical realms using convex optimization and semi-definite programming
Keywords: Bootstrap, Recursion Relations, Correlation Functions, Bogdanov System, Convex Optimization & Semi-Definite Programming
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2023
The effect of equivalence ratio on resonance of a Micro Gas Turbine engine using hydrogen as fuel
Keywords: Micro Gas Turbine, Equivalence Ratio, Resonance, Accelerometers, Finite Element Model
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautics and Astronautics
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
The flexoelectric properties of various polymers and their associated energetic composites
Keywords: Flexoelectricity, Energetic Materials, Polymers
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
Thermomechanical Properties Measurements for Residual Stress Prediction in Heat Treatment of High-Strength Aluminum Alloy
Keywords: Thermomechanical Modeling, Compression Testing, Stress-Relaxation Testing, 7050 Aluminum, Constitutive Data
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2023
Thermoregulatory Dynamics: Decoding the Sex-Based Temperature Preferences in Bd-Infected Frogs
Keywords: Chytridiomycosis, Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis, Temperature Preferences, Disease Ecology, Amphibians
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Trajectory Planning with Aerodynamics for Multi-Rotor in CasADi
Keywords: Multirotor, Polynomial Trajectory Planning, Unmanned Aerial Systems
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautics and Astronautics
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2023
Tungsten And Hexagonal-Boron Nitride Hybrid Shielding For Space Radiation Sources
Keywords: Material Modeling & Simulation, Nanotechnology, Composite Materials & Alloys
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2023
Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence as a Chiral-Specific Surface Spectroscopy Model
Keywords: Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy, Nonlinear Optics, Chirality, Two-Photon Fluorescence, Second Harmonic Generation
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Understanding the Thermal Noise Signature of Quantum Spin Liquids with SQUID Magnetometry
Keywords: Quantum Spin Liquids, SQUID Magnetometry, Dilution Refrigeration, Thermometry, Spin Ordering
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2023
Understanding the spectral changes of space weathered pentlandite
Keywords: Space Weathering, Pentlandite, Spectroscopy, Micrometeoroid, Solar Wind
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Unraveling VirE2 Trafficking: Insights into Agrobacterium Infection and Interactions of VirE2 with PDLP5 and SYTA1 in Plant Cells
Keywords: Agrobacterium, Vire2 Trafficking, Intracellular Localization, Protein-Protein Interactions
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major:
2023
Unraveling the Puzzle of Perovskite Stability
Keywords: Perovskite Solar Cells, Stability, Electronic Properties, Performance
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2023
Use of CNN to predict heatwaves in the US
Keywords: Machine Learning, Atmospheric Modeling, Extreme Weather
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2023
User Feedback Analysis for a Video-Based, Automated Handwash Monitoring System
Keywords: Hand Hygiene Compliance, User-Friendliness, Video Monitoring System, Artificial Intelligence
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2023
Utilizing ETV2-endoding modRNA to Efficiently Differentiate Human Pluripotent Stem Cells into Hemogenic Endothelium
Keywords: Immunotherapy, modRNA, Human Pluripotent Stem Cell, Hemogenic Endothelium, Hematopoietic Stem Cell
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2023
Validation and Analysis of RISC-V Based System-On-Chip Device Through Simulation and FPGA testing
Keywords: FPGA, System On A Chip, Validation, RISC-V
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2023
Read the SURF 2022 Symposium Abstract Booklet.
"Sounds of Nuclear Radiation" - Identifying Fundamental Nuclear Particle Interacted Acoustic Shock Spectra via TMFD Coupled-Machine Learning
Keywords: Neutron, alpha, metastable fluids, acoustics, machine learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2022
A Fast Approach to Estimate Nonlinear Valve Plate Deformation in Axial Piston Machines
Keywords: Tribology simulation, nonlinear deformation, lubricating film, fluid power
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Architecture
2022
A Methodology for Quantifying Infant Dust Ingestion Rates
Keywords: Dust exposure, human movement, infant crawling, hand pressure
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
A Nonlinear Optics Mathematical Framework on Chiral Naproxen Crystals Using Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
Keywords: Circular dichroism spectroscopy, Nonlinear optics, Chirality, Naproxen
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
A State-Based Approach to Model General Aviation Accidents Using Narratives
Keywords: General aviation, accident modeling, loss of control, machine learning, natural language processing
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2022
A Step Towards Feasible Data-Free Model Extraction
Keywords: Model extraction, query efficiency, machine learning, MLaaS
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Statistics and Computer Science
2022
A Zebrafish Drug Screen for the Discovery of Compounds to Treat Spinal Cord Injury
Keywords: Spinal cord injury, drug screen, zebrafish, regeneration, visual motor response assay
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
ARP 2/3 Complex Mediated Actin Filament Response in Presence of MAMP Treatment
Keywords: Innate immunity, actin, pathogen, ARP 2/3 complex, MAMP, chemical stimuli
Primary Department of Faculty: Interdisciplinary Life Science
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Act1 Knockout effects on Interleukin 17 mediated neutrophil recruitment
Keywords: Act1, Interleukin 17 (IL-17), Neutrophils, Inflammation control, Innate immunity, Zebrafish
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Aiding Farm Operations With Artificial Intelligence Chatbot
Keywords: Artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, chat bots, natural language generation, virtual assistants, optical character recognition, smart agriculture
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Alloy Design for Low Temperature Solder
Keywords: Eutectic Sn-Bi Solder, low reflow temperature, Ag and Sb addition, microstructure, mechanical properties
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
An Empirical Study of Trust & Safety Risk Management in Social Media Platforms
Keywords: Social media platforms (SMPs), Trust & Safety (T&S), open-source software (OSS) SMPs
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2022
An Exploration of Pulsed Laser Single Event Effects Testing for Orbital Electronics
Keywords: Single event effects, single event transients, pulsed laser radiation testing, orbital electronics testing, radiation hardened electronics
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2022
An Investigation of Microstructure-Property-Processing Relationships in Concentrated Surfactant Solutions
Keywords: Anionic surfactants, concentrated surfactants, rheology, evaporation, microstructure, sodium laureth sulfate
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Neurobiology and Physiology
2022
An Investigation of Polymer Composites Commonly Used To Repair Water Infrastructure
Keywords: Plastic, VOC, Styrene, Epoxy, Composite, Drinking water
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2022
Analysis of Electrical Patterns Coinciding with Learning to Detect Neural Microstimulation
Keywords: Neural microstimulation, sensory processing, learning, neural data analysis
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry and Computer Science
2022
Analysis of Neural Patterns Associated with Detection of Neural Microstimulation
Keywords: Stimulation detection, neural recording, behavioral training, somatosensory cortex stimulation, motor cortex stimulation, artificial sensation
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Anomaly Detection of Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing
Keywords: Additive manufacturing (AM), Fused deposition modeling (FDM), Anomaly detection, Principal component analysis (PCA), Statistical process control (SPC)
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2022
Applying Quanta Image Sensors to Real-World Imaging
Keywords: Quanta image sensor, image sensors, low-light imaging, CMOS, digital photography
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering and Computer Science
2022
Assessment of Collisions in Crossed-Field Devices
Keywords: Crossed-field, diode, Hull cutoff magnetic field, magnetic insulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2022
Assessment of the Hybrid Zonotope Toolbox for Safety Verification of Linear Hybrid Systems
Keywords: Reachability Analysis, Hybrid Systems, Safety Verification, Hybrid Zonotope, Mixed-Logical Dynamical Systems
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Bioengineering
2022
Automatic Data Collection of Projection Two-Photon Lithography for Machine Learning
Keywords: Two-photon polymerization, additive manufacturing, machine learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Automatic Program Repair Method Coverage and Comparing Language Models
Keywords: Automatic program repair, language models, deep learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2022
Automatic Program Repair for Java Security Bugs
Keywords: Program repair, java, security, bugs, language models, prompt engineering, vulnerability
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science and Digital Media Studies
2022
Autonomous Exploration and Mapping of Unknown Environments using Multiple Robots
Keywords: Multiple robots, autonomous, mapping, exploration, unknown environment
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2022
Autonomous Vehicles for People with Disabilities: A Survey Study to Assess Future Transportation Needs and Preferences
Keywords: Autonomous Vehicles, People with Disabilities, Driverless Vehicles, Accessibility, Inclusive Design
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2022
Biofouling Mitigation in Batch Reverse Osmosis
Keywords: Batch reverse osmosis, biofouling, membrane life, salinity cycling
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Biofunctionalization of PEDOT: PSS by Thiol-Ene Click Chemistry for Biological Applications
Keywords: PSS: PEDOT, disulfide, thiol-active reaction, biofunctionalization, organic bioelectronics
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Blood Sample Preparation for HIV Diagnostics in a Smartphone-based Microfluidic Device
Keywords: Blood sample, sample preparation, plasma separation, point-of-care diagnostics
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Brain Imaging Identifiability through Tensor Decomposition
Keywords: Identifiability, brainprinting, functional connectome, tensors
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2022
CLICK: Robotic Insertion for Cable Assembly Using Tactile Feedback
Keywords: Robot manipulation, perception, robotic insertion, cable assembly, tactile feedback
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Carbon Dioxide Recycling with Catalytic Biochar Gasification
Keywords: Bamboo, catalyst, char, gasification, potassium carbonate
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Systems and Computing Engineering
2022
Cardiovascular Remodeling during Gestational and Postpartum Periods in Lactating Mice
Keywords: Pregnancy, postpartum, lactation, breastfeeding, cardiovascular remodeling, ultrasound, maternal health, cardiovascular disease
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Challenges for Sustainable and Cost-effective Plastic Waste Disposal in the Muzaffarabad Region of Pakistan
Keywords: Plastic waste, photodegradation, incineration, landfills, recycle
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Microbiology
2022
Changes in Cardiac Function During Autonomic Dysreflexia Events
Keywords: Autonomic dysreflexia, spinal cord injury, echocardiogram
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Characterization of Particulates in Indoor Environments for Infants
Keywords: Indoor environments, infants/children, motor development, particulates, chemicals, exposure
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Characterizing Droplet Vaporization for High Temperature Subsonic Jet in Crossflow
Keywords: Phase Doppler Anemometry, Jet in Crossflow, Droplet Vaporization
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Characterizing Relationship between Air Pressure and Bending Deformation of a Cubic Soft Modular Robot
Keywords: Robot, modular, soft robot, soft material, deformable, flexible, pneumatic, actuate, characterization
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Chemical Kinetic Modeling of Steam Methane Reforming Under an Induction Heating Process
Keywords: Kinetic modeling, steam methane reforming, induction heating, CO2 emission reductions, renewable electricity
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science and Political Science
2022
Chemical recycling of novel polymers formed through free-radical polymerization
Keywords: Free-radical polymerization, sustainable polymers, green chemistry
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2022
Clarifying Changes in Nerve Branching during Osteoarthritis Progression with Tissue Clearing
Keywords: Osteoarthritis, tissue clearing, optical clearing, pain, innervation, nerve branching
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2022
Clean and Controllable Site-Specific Transfer of Monolayer Graphene
Keywords: Graphene, transfer, site-specific, controllable
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Clearing the Cloud? TinyML in Industrial Manufacturing
Keywords: Tinyml, predictive maintenance, machine learning, manufacturing, nicla vision, vibration
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Coagulation Factor Thrombin Promotes Pancreatic Cancer Tumor Growth
Keywords: PDAC, Inkjet 3D printing, tumoroids, coagulation factors, coagulation system, tumor microenvironment
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Software Engineering
2022
Cobalt (II) Catalysts for the Conversion of Shale Gas into Gasoline and Diesel Fuel
Keywords: Single-Site Catalysts, Cobalt, Shale Gas, Oligomerization, Fuel
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Compact Control System for Superconducting Qubits
Keywords: Quantum computers, superconducting qubits, QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit), FPGA (field-programmable gate array)
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical and Life Science Engineering
2022
Compatibility of Admixtures and Non-traditional and Natural Pozzolans in Cementitious system
Keywords: Concrete, Supplementary Cementitious Materials, Chemical Admixtures, Incompatibility
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2022
Composite Electrodes from Carbon Nanotubes, Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks, and Molybdenum Disulfide for High-Performance Supercapacitor
Keywords: Supercapacitor, energy storage, carbon nanotube
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Software Engineering
2022
Computation of Boundary Layer Separation in Prandtl Meyer Expansion Fans
Keywords: Boundary layers, separation, Prandtl Meyer expansion, fluid mechanics
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Computational Investigation of Cell Polarization in Extracellular Matrix
Keywords: Cell polarization, extracellular matrix, cell membrane, fiber network, computational simulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Computer Vision System for Ergonomic Risk Evaluation in Veterinary Practice A Pilot Study
Keywords: Computer vision, ergonomic risk assessment, posture analysis, work related musculoskeletal disorders
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2022
Conditional Synthetic Food Image Generation
Keywords: Deep learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Conditional Image Synthesis, Food Image Generation
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Configuration of a Low-Cost Mobile Platform for Particle Image Velocimetry
Keywords: Mobile Integrated Particle Image Velocimetry (mI-PIV), Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Deep learning, Low-cost system/devices, Edge computing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aerospace Engineering
2022
Contamination and Decontamination of Plastic Components in Plumbing Systems: Lessons on Addressing Hydrocarbon Contamination in Plumbing
Keywords: Drinking water, contamination, decontamination, petroleum, plastic, plumbing
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Corrosion of additively manufactured SS316L in a chloride environment
Keywords: Additive manufacturing, SS316L, corrosion, electrochemical testing
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Science and Engineering
2022
Deep Particle Diffusometry Robustness Analysis
Keywords: Deep particle diffusometry, deep learning, robustness, diffusion coefficient
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2022
Design and Scalable Manufacturing of Point-of-care Nucleic Acid Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases
Keywords: Infectious diseases, sample-to-answer, scalable manufacturing, point-of-care diagnostics, lateral flow assay
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Design of a Closed-Loop Apparatus for Automated Load-Based Testing of Residential Heat Pump Systems
Keywords: HVAC, heat pump, load-based testing, closed-loop, 3-ton equipment, residential split system
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2022
Development of Protein Labeling Methods to Identify Proteomic Changes in a Mouse Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Keywords: Autism spectrum disorder, azidohomoalanine, newly synthesized proteins, BONCAT, click chemistry
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2022
Development of Siloxane-Based Surfactant Formulation for Fire Extinguishing Foams
Keywords: TRIS, AFFFs, Sustainability, Silane Surfactant
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2022
Development of a Virtual Cyber-Physical Testbed for Resilient Extra-Terrestrial Habitats and Real-Time Hybrid Simulations
Keywords: RTHS, control Systems, extra-terrestrial Habitats, autonomous structures
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Development of a simulation model for closed-loop apparatus for load-based testing and rating of residential heat pumps
Keywords: HVAC, Load-based testing, Closed-loop, residential split system, HVAC energy efficiency rating
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2022
Development of an HPLC Method for Carotenoid Analysis
Keywords: High-performance liquid chromatography, carotenoids, beta-carotene, astaxanthin
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2022
Direct Influence of Math Courses and ALEKS Placement to Beliefs and Values of STEM Major Choices
Keywords: Expectancy Value Theory, ALEKs scores, math placement, STEM careers, motivation
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Education
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Discover the Vine Robot Locomotion Through Constrained Environments
Keywords: Vine robot, constraint modeling, soft robot, data modeling
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Applied Biosciences
2022
Discovery of Novel Natural Products from Streptomyces Sp. CS.62
Keywords: streptomyces, antibiotics, biological activity
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Dropwise Additive Manufacturing of Mini Tablets using Suspension and Melt-based Formulations
Keywords: Additive manufacturing, mini-tablets, individualized dosages, drop-on-demand printing, 3D printing, drug delivery
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology
2022
Drug Development and Structural Analysis of GRK5/6 in Complex with Inhibitors
Keywords: G-protein Coupled Receptor, GRK5, Crystallography, Radiometric Assay, Therapeutics
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Earth Radiation Effects on Analog/Digital and DC-DC Power Converters
Keywords: Earth radiation, spacecraft electronics, total ionizing dose, single-event effects, analog-to-digital, digital-to-analog, DC-DC
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Applied Physics
2022
Effect of Air Velocity on a Hydrogen Air Premixed Jet Flame
Keywords: Hydrogen, air, premixed combustion, high speed imaging
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Effect of CDK Inhibition on HBV Genotypes B and C
Keywords: Hepatitis B virus (HBV), HBV genotype B, HBV genotype C, CDK inhibitor (CDKi), HBV surface antigen (HBsAg)
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2022
Employing Surfactants Alongside Chelating Agents to Increase Production Efficiency
Keywords: Chelating agents, surfactants, emulsion and microemulsion phases, interfacial tension
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Endothelial-based Blood Vessel Formation Inside Tumor Organoids
Keywords: Tumor organoids, endothelial progenitor cells, blood vessels, anti-tumor drug selection
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Enhancer RNAs Effects on T-cells
Keywords: T cells, enhancer RNA, small interference RNA, CRISPR activation/inhibition
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Ensemble Approaches for Automatic Program Repair
Keywords: Automatic program repair, deep learning, ensemble techniques
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Data Science
2022
Evaluation of Cytotoxicity Sources for a Novel Tendon to Bone Healing Model for Tendon Tissue Engineered Approaches
Keywords: Tendon tissue engineering, enthesis, demineralized porcine bone matrix, electrospun scaffolds
Primary Department of Faculty: Basic Medical Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2022
Evaluation of Limewater and Sodium Silicate Treatment to Innovate Composite SAP Containing Cement Hydration Product Nucleation Seeds
Keywords: Internal curing, superabsorbent polymer, nucleation seeding, limewater, sodium silicate
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Exploration of the Characteristics of Electric Vehicle Crashes: A Case Study in Iowa
Keywords: Crash Analysis, Electric Vehicles, Negative Binomial Regression Model, Multinomial Logit Regression Model
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2022
Exploring Macrocracks and Microcracks in Cortical Bone using 3D imaging
Keywords: Micro-CT, Barium sulfate, ImageJ, Bone, Microcracks, Fracture
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Exploring the Underwater Adhesion Strength of a Soybean-based Adhesive
Keywords: Adhesive, bio-inspired, solvent-based, underwater, polymer
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Feeling Wired: Robotic Cable Routing using Visuo-Tactile Sensors
Keywords: Robotic manipulation, cable routing, deformable objects, machine learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Field Engineering in Quantum Storage
Keywords: Quantum storage, Laser mode locking, High-voltage pulse
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Finite Element Analysis of Corroded Steel Beams
Keywords: Bridges, corrosion, I-Beam, W-Section, Abaqus, Python scripting, finite element analysis
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Floor-to-SpeedCore Wall Connections Under Fire Loading
Keywords: SpeedCore wall, Shear tab connections, Simple connections, Concrete, Steel, Tie rods, Fire loading
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2022
Flowability Prediction Using Granule Size and Shape Distributions
Keywords: Particle size distribution, material processing and characterization, pharmaceutical manufacturing, powder flowability, chemical unit operations
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Forecasting the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections: Data Visualization and Website Design
Keywords: Data visualization, website design, responsive web design, election forecasting
Primary Department of Faculty: Mathematics
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Genetic Investigation of a Geleophysic-like Connective Tissue Disorder in Goats
Keywords: Goat, FBN1, ADAMTSL2, LTBP3, connective tissue disorder, Geleophysic Dysplasia, Musladin-Lueke Syndrome
Primary Department of Faculty: Basic Medical Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Geospatially Resolved Model of Heat Pump Operating Costs and Emissions
Keywords: Decarbonization, electrification, heat pump, regression, model, refrigerant
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Height Prediction in Particle Images Using deep Learning
Keywords: Particle Height, Lommel Function, Simulated Data, PIV, Convolutional Neural Networks
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
High-performance radiative cooling paints
Keywords: Global warming, radiative cooling nanocomposites, ultra-white paint
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2022
Human Computer Interface Coupling for Complex Extraterrestrial Habitat Systems
Keywords: Extraterrestrial habitats, simulation, human-computer interface, human factors
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Human Induced Emissions and Energy Correlation
Keywords: Volatile organic compounds, zEDGE (Zero Energy/Emissions Design Guide for Engineers), Particulate matter
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Hyaluronan Synthesis and Breakdown Response to Cell Stretch in Synoviocytes
Keywords: Osteoarthritis, synoviocytes, cell stretch, hyaluronan, extracellular matrix
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Identifying High-Temperature Oxidation Resistant Alloys via Simulation
Keywords: Oxidation, simulation, high-temperature, alloys, oxides
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Identifying The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Cognition
Keywords: Quantum computing, quantum mechanics, quantum cognition, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, superposition, quantum-enhanced machine learning (QEML)
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Identifying the Mechanism of KMT5C in Driving EGFRi Resistance in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Keywords: EGFR inhibitor resistance, Non-small cell lung cancer, KMT5C, H4K20, histone trimethylation
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Mathematics
2022
Imagining diagnostics in subsonic sprays
Keywords: Mie scattering, phase doppler anemometry, jet in crossflow, droplet vaporization
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2022
Immersive Augmented Reality (AR) Toy System with Multi-User Capability
Keywords: Augmented reality, IoT toolkit, Multi-user capabilities, Real-time synchronization
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Impact of Flushing Plumbing Subsystems after Extended Water Stagnation
Keywords: COVID-19 shutdown, drinking water, water stagnation
Primary Department of Faculty: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Impact of Spray Coating on the Performance of Hydrophobic Membranes
Keywords: Wetting, Liquid entry pressure, Membrane distillation, Hydrophobicity, Gas permeability
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Implementation and Benchmarking of Branch Prediction on a RISCV Processor
Keywords: Branch prediction, computer architecture, RISC-V, branching, pipelining
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Implementing Smart Sensing and Digital Twin for Automated Machining Coolant Delivery System
Keywords: IoT, smart manufacturing, machine sensing, digital twin, web-based monitoring
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Improving The Accuracy of U.S. Elections Forecasts
Keywords: Forecasting, Polling data, Elections, Mathematical modeling
Primary Department of Faculty: Mathematics
SURF Participant's Major: Microbiology
2022
Improving Under Agarose Gel Assay by 3D Printing for Investigating Neutrophil Migration
Keywords: Neutrophil migration, under agarose gel migration assay, immune response
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Health Science PreProfessional
2022
Improving the Performance of Cyber-Physical Testing Employed in the Analysis of Deep Space Habitats
Keywords: Deep space habitats, cyber-physical testing, Kalman filtering, estimation, accuracy
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Induction Based Reactor for Ethylene Production
Keywords: Thermo-fluid simulations, induction heating, reactor design, ethylene production
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2022
Influence of Plumbing Material, Stagnation Time, and Flow Rate on Biofilm Prevalence
Keywords: Biofilm, plumbing, stagnation, management, removal, drinking water
Primary Department of Faculty: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Integration of Actin and Calcium in Embryonic Zebrafish Wounding Model
Keywords: Wounding, Regeneration, Calcium, Actin-Myosin, Zebrafish
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Petroleum Engineering
2022
Interactive Synthesis of VR Fire Evacuation Training Scenarios
Keywords: Training, Firefighters, environments, modifications, adaptability, UI, Human-Computer Interaction, VR/AR
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer Graphics Technology
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Investigating Effects of Cations in Bicarbonate Electrolytes on Interfacial pH during Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Reaction
Keywords: Electrocatalysis, I=interfacial pH, cations, electrolytes, sustainability
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mathematics
2022
Investigating effects of Calcium-dependent CaMKII signaling on dendritic spine morphology during Alzheimer's disease
Keywords: Synaptic Plasticity, primary neuronal culture, Alzheimer’s disease, CaMKII, Calcium dependent proteins, dendritic spines
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer and Information Science
2022
Investigating the catalytic behavior of cobalt(II) on alumina for hydrogenation and oligomerization reactions
Keywords: Hydrogenation, oligomerization, single-site catalyst, Lewis acid catalyst, fuel synthesis, transition metal catalyst
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Investigation of Cell Culture Technology and Cell Metabolism
Keywords: MIN6 cells, NIH/3T3 cells, metabolism
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2022
Investigation of the Interactions of Neuronal Proteins in an Animal Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Keywords: Proximity ligation assay, western blot, protein-protein interactions, tau, calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, f-actin
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Layer-to-Layer Interaction during Dehydration in Drop-on-Demand Inkjet Printed Hydrogels
Keywords: Particle distribution, 3D printing, hydrogel
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences
2022
Linking Flow Behavior to 3D Printability in Highly Loaded Polymer-Ceramic Suspensions
Keywords: Rheology, direct-ink-writing, polymer-ceramic suspensions, shear-thinning
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Live-Cell Probe for Monitoring Tau Protein Phosphorylation in Neuron
Keywords: Tau protein, neuron, live-cell probe, neurofibrillary tangle, Alzheimer’s disease
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Living Medicine: An Engineered Probiotic Approach for the Localization of Celiac Disease Therapeutics
Keywords: Celiac, Synthetic Biology, Fur operon, Probiotic, Therapeutic, Molecular Biology
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2022
Low-Cost Esophageal Stent in Kenya
Keywords: Esophageal cancer, esophageal stents, Kenya, fishing line, mechanical testing, biocompatible testing
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Making Simulated Patterns Look Real: Image Processing for Zebrafish
Keywords: Zebrafish, simulated images, post-processing software, patterns, pattern formation
Primary Department of Faculty: Mathematics
SURF Participant's Major: Neural Science
2022
Measuring the Effect of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles (CeO NPs) in 3D Printed Hydrogels
Keywords: Cell-Laden Hydrogel Scaffolds, Tissue Engineering, Osteoarthritis, AFM, Cerium Oxide, Young’s Modulus
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Microstructural Analysis of Laser Welds in RPV Steel Using Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy
Keywords: Reactor pressure vessels, positron annihilation spectroscopy, laser welds, positron lifetime, heat-affected zone, defect concentration
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Mixed-Reality Testbed for Human-Robot Interaction
Keywords: Augmented reality, robotic controls, human-robot interaction
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2022
Modeling of Cell Membrane Pore Dynamics for Nonideal Electric Pulse Waveforms
Keywords: Electroporation, pulsed power, bioelectrics, numerical methods
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Modular Extrusion System Design for Additive Manufacturing
Keywords: Additive manufacturing, concrete construction, mechanical engineering, extrusion, pumping
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2022
Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Paclitaxel-2E' Filament Assembly
Keywords: Molecular dynamics, filamentous assembly, nanoparticle, VMD, NAMD
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering and Chemistry
2022
Multi-label Classification of CNC Machine Status using CNN
Keywords: Smart manufacturing, mel spectrogram, CNN, machine learning, multi label classification
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Mussel-Mimetic Bioadhesives for Biomedical Applications in the Oral Environment
Keywords: Mussel-mimetic bioadhesives, wet-adhesion, dental adhesion, mucoadhesion
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
On-field Detection Method for Bovine Respiratory Disease
Keywords: Bovine respiratory disease, colorimetric loop-mediated isothermal amplification, paper-based biosensor, cattle nasal microbiome
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Optimization of Molecular Image Clustering for Efficient Comparison of Biomolecule Spatial Distributions
Keywords: Self-supervised image clustering, convolutional neural networks, contrastive learning, mass spectrometry imaging, biomolecule colocalization
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering Technology
2022
Origins of the Self-Motion Neuronal Activity in the Superior Colliculus
Keywords: Brain circuits, superior colliculus, cortico-collicular pathway, self-motion, optogenetics, electrophysiology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2022
Perfect Picture: Investigation of Eyecon2TM for In-line Dry-granulation Roller Compaction
Keywords: Pharmaceutical manufacturing, programming, camera analysis, shape distribution, dry granulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Photocatalytic Air Purification for HVAC Systems
Keywords: Photocatalytic Disinfection, UVC, Air Treatment, MS2, SARS-CoV-2, HVAC
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Microbiology
2022
Physics-informed Machine Learning to Predict Extreme Weather Events
Keywords: Extreme weather events, convolutional neural network, atmospheric sciences
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Physiological Impacts of Emergency Patient Care
Keywords: Cognitive workload, heart rate variability, human factors
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Pick and Roll: Impact of Roller Compactor's Parameters on Ribbon Properties
Keywords: Roller compactor, ribbon splitting, ribbon density, dry granulation, continuous manufacturing
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Neurobiology and Physiology
2022
Polyselenide Chemistry For Photovoltaic Applications
Keywords: Photovoltaics, AZTSe, thin film, solution processing, kesterite, polyselenide
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2022
Post-synthetic Modification of External Acid Sites of MFI Zeolite Catalysts using Chemical Treatments
Keywords: Catalysts, shale gas conversion, energy, oligomerization, zeolites
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Power generation forecasting of a hybrid renewable energy microgrid using machine learning algorithms
Keywords: Machine learning, renewable energy, power production, wind, solar, forecasting
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering
2022
ROS2/Gazebo Simulation for Autonomous Navigation of Robots in Agriculture
Keywords: ROS2, Gazebo, Simulation, Agricultural robot, Unmanned ground vehicle, Autonomous navigation
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Raloxifene's Effects on Bone Hydration and Microstructure
Keywords: Osteoporosis, Raloxifene, bone hydration, thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2022
Rapid Diagnostic Auditory Testing and Correlation with Auditory Anatomy
Keywords: Presbycusis, Metabolic Dysfunction, Oxidative Stress, D-galactose, Evoked Auditory Potential
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2022
Realizing Ruthenium Trichloride Josephson Junction
Keywords: quantum computing, quantum spin liquid, quasi particles. superconductor, Josephson junction, fabrication, transport measurements, cryogenic
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Resilience as a measurable quantity for extra-terrestrial habitats
Keywords: Resilience, extra-terrestrial habitats, aerospace engineering, building systems engineering, space-technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Genetics
2022
Resilience through Building Design with a Functional Recovery Focus
Keywords: Functional recovery, performance based engineering, earthquakes, drifts, markovian processes
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2022
Seamless Integration of Security Education in Programming Courses
Keywords: Cybersecurity, Fuzzing, AFL, AFL++, Collaborative fuzzing, Programming courses, Test cases
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Secured and Protected: Designing a TinyML Device Enclosure
Keywords: TinyML, enclosure, 3D printing, image dataset, Nicla Vision
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Simulating Rare Events in Systems of Multiple Tuberculosis Granulomas
Keywords: Tuberculosis, multifidelity models, rare events, drug resistance, granulomas
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2022
Simulating the Total Optomechnic Phenomena Between a Laser Source and SiN Membrane
Keywords: Optomechanics, electromagnetics, force density, Gaussian beams, waves, thin membrane
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Simulation Study of Parkinsonian Tremor
Keywords: Parkinson’s Disease, Resting Tremor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Signal Processing
Primary Department of Faculty: Psychological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Simulation Worlds to Assist the Generation of a Simulated Event Camera Dataset for Vision-based Autonomous UAV Navigation
Keywords: Event-Based Cameras, Vision-Based Navigation, Synthetic Dataset, Dynamic Gazebo Simulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2022
Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in Topologically Optimized Cold Plates
Keywords: Topology optimization, cold plates, heat sink, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), thermal management, electronics cooling
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2022
Socioeconomic and Land Use Factors as Drivers of Chicago Canopy Equity
Keywords: Chicago, Urban Canopy, Environmental Justice, Urban Forestry, Urban Ecology
Primary Department of Faculty: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Soft Dielectrics with Microgels for 3D Printing of Electrically Driven Artificial Muscles
Keywords: Dielectric elastomers, microgel, 3D printing, soft actuators
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Software-In-The-Loop Simulation of UAS-UGV Cooperation in Precision Agriculture
Keywords: Ros2, gazebo, px4, mavlink, unmanned aerial system, unmanned ground vehicle, precision agriculture
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Solar-powered batch reverse osmosis for high efficiency desalination
Keywords: Desalination, reverse osmosis, batch reverse osmosis, solar-thermal power
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2022
Splice Connections for Concrete Filled Composite Plate Shear Walls
Keywords: Composite plate shear wall, Wall to wall connection, Splice connection
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
Steel Frame Structure to Hold a Plug-Flow Reactor that Produces Hydrogen via Steam Methane Reforming
Keywords: Plug-Flow Reactor, induction heating, steam methane reforming
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2022
Storage Analysis for Zero-Emission Chemical Processes
Keywords: Renewable energy, chemicals, process optimization
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Pharmacy
2022
Sustainable Air Conditioning by Combining Membrane Air Dehumidification and Dew Point Evaporative Cooling
Keywords: HVAC, membrane, dehumidification, evaporative cooling, sustainable
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2022
Swelling properties of normal maize starch as affected by xanthan gum under different pasting time
Keywords: Viscoelasticity, Starch swelling, Normal maize starch, Xanthan gum
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Synthesis of zeolite-templated carbon supports for metal-catalyzed CO2 electroreduction
Keywords: CO2 electroreduction, zeolite-templated carbon, copper-based electrocatalyst, renewable energy
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2022
System-Level Optimization of a Thermal Energy Storage Module
Keywords: Electronics cooling, thermal management, thermal energy storage, phase change materials, optimization
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science and Data Science
2022
Tape Peel Adhesion to Soft Substrates
Keywords: Peel mechanics, adhesion, tape peel, soft materials
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Kinesiology
2022
Temperature-Dependent Infrared Reflectance of Hyperbolic Materials
Keywords: Hyperbolic materials, molybdenum trioxide, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, infrared reflectance, semiconductor
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Bioengineering
2022
The Characterization of a Soft Robotic Linear Actuator in a Physical Versus Simulated Environment
Keywords: Soft robots, linear actuation, modular robots, bio-inspired robots
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
The Effect of Ca+2 Signal Dependence on Actin Morphology of Dendritic Spines in Alzheimer's Mouse Model
Keywords: CaMK-II, Ca+2 signal dependence, Dendritic spines, Actin bundling, Long-term potentiation
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nutrition Science
2022
The Effect of Fibronectin on Breast Cancer Dormancy
Keywords: Breast Cancer, fibronectin, dormancy, cellular microenvironment, extracellular matrix
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
The Effect of Sucrose on Swelling Behaviors of Normal Maize Starch Suspension at Different Heating Time
Keywords: Rheology, Viscoelasticity, Swelling ratio, Sucrose, Normal maize starch, Heating (processing) time, Volume fraction
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
The HTGR: A Next-Generation Nuclear Reactor
Keywords: Nuclear reactor, helium, gas-cooled reactor, safety
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2022
The Impact of Oncogene PLK-1 on Angiosarcoma
Keywords: Angiosarcoma, PLK-1, gene therapy
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Health Sciences
2022
The Impact of Opinion Dynamics on Vaccination and Epidemic Spreading Over Networks
Keywords: Simulation, modeling, epidemiology, opinion dynamics, control engineering
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2022
The Role of Lactobacillus Casei and Streptococcus Mitis in Regulating Cytotoxicity
Keywords: Osteoarthritis, gut-joint axis, gut microbiome
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Science and Engineering
2022
Top-Down Modulation of Visual Learning in Freely Moving Mice
Keywords: Top-down modulation, Lateromedial (LM), visual cortex, stimulus, optogenetics
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Towards Quantum Sensing of Thermoreflectivity
Keywords: Quantum, Sensing, Optics
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Towards the Development of Novel Catheter-integrated Thin-film Microelectrodes for Deep Brain Stimulation
Keywords: Deep brain stimulation, hydrogel bioadhesive, thin-film electrodes, implantable devices
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2022
Towards the Development of a Self-cleaning Implantable Biosensor
Keywords: Biofouling, Magnetic Actuators, Implantable Biosensors, Anti-biofouling, Medical Science and Technology, Biosensors, Materials Processing and Characterization, Self-cleaning Implantable Biosensors
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2022
Towards utilization of DNA nanotechnology for targeted drug delivery
Keywords: DNA nanotechnology, nanostructures, nanomotors, selective cell uptake, drug delivery
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2022
Tri-phase Photonic Crystal Emitter for Thermophotovoltaics
Keywords: Thermophotovoltaic, Selective Emitter, Photonic Crystal, Tri-phase
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Tweets Modeling: A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze the Sentiment of Airline Passengers
Keywords: Twitter, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP)
Primary Department of Faculty: Aviation and Transportation Technology
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2022
Understanding Team Cognition in the Context of Software Development Teams
Keywords: Teamwork, team cognition, ICAP model, Dickinson McIntyre model, software development
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer and Information Technology
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2022
Understanding Wildfire Impacts on Water Utilities: Roles and Responsibilities, Exhumed Asset Analysis, and Pipe Contamination Indicators
Keywords: Wildfire, water utility, pipe, plastic
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology
2022
Using Genetic Algorithm to Train Neural Network
Keywords: Genetic algorithm, neural network , gradient decent
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2022
Utilizing Eye Metrics to Verify the Impact a Self-Confidence based Automation Control Strategy has on Learning
Keywords: Automation, learning, self-confidence, eye metrics, heuristic
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2022
Validation of Zinc Biosensor for Use to Quantify Dynamic Beta Cell Performance
Keywords: Type 1 Diabetes, beta cells, Islets, insulin, glucose stimulate insulin secretion, islets on a chip, microfluidic chip, microphysiological device, biosensor, zinc sensor
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2022
Verification of Single Photon Sources Through Latent Variables of Spectral Broadening
Keywords: Nanophotonics, quantum technology, nitrogen vacancy centers, spectroscopy, interferometry
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2022
Wake Word Program for a RISCV Vector Processor
Keywords: Edge applications, neural networks, model training, wake word
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2022
Workflows Within Robotic-Assisted Surgeries Operating Rooms
Keywords: Robotic-assisted surgery, workflow, surgical practice
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
X-Ray Fluorescence Spectral Analysis for In Vivo Bone Lead Measurement
Keywords: X-Ray Fluorescence, spectral analysis, in vivo bone lead quantification
Primary Department of Faculty: Health Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2022
gdspy-autolayout: Automated GDS Layout for Large Scale Experiments
Keywords: Gdspy, layout, autolayout, GDSII
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering
2022
Read the SURF 2021 Symposium Abstract Booklet.
3 Dimensional Analysis of Two Fluid Model Developments
Keywords: Thermal Technology, Material Modelling and Simulation, Energy and Environment
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2021
4D Printer Project
Keywords: Smart materials, 3d printing, printing electronics, 4d printing, form + function
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Technology
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
A Better Bone to Stand On: Microstructural Simulation of Fracture Behavior in Human Bone
Keywords: Hydroxyapatite, Bone X-Ray Diffraction, Osteoporosis
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Bioengineering
2021
A Demographic Networked SIHRVD Model for COVID-19 Spread in the U.S.
Keywords: Machine Learning: Big Data, COVID-19, Epidemic Modeling, Mathematical Modeling, Data Science
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
A New Approach for Program by Example Program Synthesis
Keywords: Program Synthesis, Divide-and-Conquer, Program-by-Example, Syntax-Guided Synthesis
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
A Semi-Automatic Pipeline for the Characterization of Synapses
Keywords: Synapse, Image Analysis, Immunofluorescence, Neuron, Synapse Quantification, Synapse Morphology
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering (multiple concentrations)
2021
A Thermal Analysis of Common Pharmaceutical Reagents Using an ARSST Calorimeter
Keywords: Thermal analysis, ARSST, calroimetry, thermal properties
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Adapting a Lambda phage DNA calibration technique for routine use with magnetic tweezers
Keywords: Magnetic tweezers, Lambda DNA, Protein, Energy Landscape, Calibration
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2021
An Adaptable Prosthetic Limb: Discovery of Product-Application Fit, Conceptualization, and Design Inception
Keywords: Product, application, adaptability, tunability, human dexterity, maneuverability, prosthetics, robotics, machine learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
An Automated Approach to Measuring Shear in Composite fabrics
Keywords: Local shear angle, composite fabric, optical analysis, automated system, fabric draping
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Analysis of Multiple Large-Scale Reaction Classification Methodologies employing Support Vector Machine
Keywords: Machine Learning, Classification, Support Vector Machine, Reaction Fingerprint, Data-Driven
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Analyzing Objective and Subjective Metrics of Surgeon Ergonomics
Keywords: Ergonomics, medical science and technology, laparoscopic surgeries, robot-assisted laparoscopic surgeries, musculoskeletal symptoms
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Analyzing efficacy of nitrogen-fixing biological amendments in maize using agronomic metrics and experimental IoT LiDAR
Keywords: LiDAR, Nitrogen Fixation, Biologicals, Maize, Ecology and Sustainability, Environmental Characterization, Machine Learning: Big Data, Biological Simulation and Technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Agronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural and Medical Biotechnology and Natural Resources and Environmental Science
2021
Antitumor Ability of Engineered Neutrophils Against Solid Breast Cancer
Keywords: Medical Science and Technology, Tumor Immunotherapy, Neutrophils, Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Application of Machine Learning to Identify Mechanobiologic Parameters for a Computational Breast-Conserving Surgery Model
Keywords: Computational modeling, Mechanobiology, Breast cancer, Wound healing, Machine learning, Biological simulation and technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Application of Space Radiation Environments Software and Models on Magnetoresistive RAM Technologies
Keywords: TID, SEU, galactic cosmic rays, trapped radiation, solar particle events, MRAM
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Are two identically trained models equally fair? Variance in the fairness of models
Keywords: Fairness, deep learning, variance, empirical study
Primary Department of Faculty: Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Artificial Aging and Microstructural Characterization of an Additively Manufactured Aerospace Aluminum Alloy with Ceramic Additions
Keywords: Selective Laser Melting, Aluminum Alloys, Materials Processing and Characterization, Composite Materials and Alloys
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Atmospheric Correction: Comparison of the Empirical Line Method with Radiative Transfer Models on Hyperspectral Data
Keywords: Remote Sensing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Empirical Line Method, Radiative Transfer Models, Hyperspectral Imagery, Atmospheric Correction
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2021
Automated Measurement of Acoustoelectric RF MEMS for Wireless Communication Applications
Keywords: RF MEMS, Acoustoelectric Effect, Beamforming, Antennas
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2021
Automatic Process Synthesis using a Global Optimization Approach
Keywords: Process Synthesis, Superstructure, Optimization, MILP, GAMS
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Capillary Based Microfluidics for Droplet Generation
Keywords: Microfluidics, Droplet, Capillary, Soybean Oil
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering (multiple concentrations)
2021
Cdc14 Phosphatase Stimulation by an Intramolecular Substrate-Mimicking Motif
Keywords: Cdc14 Phosphatases, Enzymatic Activity, C-terminal Tail, Fungal Pathogens, Regulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2021
Characterization of Concentrated Surfactant Solutions Through Rheological Response
Keywords: Materials Processing and Characterization, Concentrated Surfactant, Sodium Lauryl Ether Sulfate, Lamellar Self-Assembly
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2021
Characterization of the DNA cleavage activity of the Torulaspora delbrueckii Weird HO endonuclease
Keywords: Homing endonuclease, yeast mating type switching, genetics, protein and DNA interactions
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2021
Characterizing Combustion of Solid Rocket Propellants using Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
Keywords: Hybrid Rocket Motors, Laser Absorption Spectroscopy, Combustion and Propulsion, HTPB
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Characterizing the role of fungal Cdc14 phosphatases in response to cell wall stress
Keywords: Cdc14, phosphatase, mitotic exit
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2021
Chlorine Decay in a New Home Water Softener
Keywords: Stagnation, Water Quality, Chlorine Decay, Softener, Plastic
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2021
Classification of Chemical Reactions Using Molecular Fingerprints and Logistic Regression
Keywords: Machine Learning, Logistic Regression, Molecular Fingerprint, Chemical Reactions, Classification Analysis, Data Science
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Compression Techniques for Trace Parsing in GPU Simulation
Keywords: Computer Architecture, Graphics Processing Unit, Instruction Set Architecture
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Computational assessment of Bronsted acid site proximity in chabazite and its effect on protolytic propane cracking and dehydrogenation kinetics
Keywords: Material modeling and simulation, Protolytic alkane cracking, Proton proximity, Chabazite, Propane
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Counterfactual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Keywords: Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Multi-Agent
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Data-Driven Model for Electrode Property Prediction
Keywords: Li-ion Batteries, Battery Electrodes, Machine Learning: Big Data, Energy and Environment, Supervised Learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Defining and Mitigating Deactivation of Pt-based Dehydrogenation Catalysts
Keywords: Propane dehydrogenation, Pt-Sn, Pt-based catalysts, Regeneration cycles, Coke formation, Sintering, Co-Feeding Hydrogen, Energy and the Environment
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Design And Validation Of Manufacturing Method For Discontinuous Prepreg Fibers With Controlled Orientation
Keywords: Composite Materials and Alloys, Polymer Composites, Long Fiber Thermoplastic, Long Glass Fiber, Fiber Alignment
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Design and Analysis of Four-Point Bending Fixture for Fatigue Specimen
Keywords: Alloy, fatigue crack, crack propagation, corrosion
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Design and Manufacturing of Bio-inspired Nanocomposites for Radiative Cooling
Keywords: Nanotechnology, bio-inspiration, bio mimicry, radiative cooling, heat transfer, energy saving
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Design and Modeling of a Dome Structure for Extra Terrestrial Habitat Testbed
Keywords: Cyber-Physical Testbed, Inflatable Bladder, Pressurization, Extra-Terrestrial Habitat
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Designing Folate-Targeted Conjugates to Accelerate Kidney Clearance
Keywords: Medical Science and Technology, Cellular Biology, Targeted-Drug Therapy, Folate, Brush Border Membrane-Enzyme Cleavable Linkers
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2021
Detailed Design of a Laser-Driven Flyer System
Keywords: Laser-driven flyer, design, vacuum chamber, impact, deformation
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Determining the Role of MicroRNAs in Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma
Keywords: Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma, MicroRNAs, Cellular Biology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Microbiology
2021
Developing a Low-Cost and Low-Power Device for Community Water-Based Ecological Research
Keywords: Water-based research, environmental sensors, firmware development, design choices, data collection, sensor deployment
Primary Department of Faculty: Forestry and Natural Resources
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2021
Developing an Automatic Student Program Analysis Software with American Fuzzy Lop and Django
Keywords: Program analysis, American Fuzzy Lop, Automatic grading
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Development of Continuous Flow Synthesis of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient in Shortage Step One
Keywords: Lorazepam, flow chemistry, Chemtrix, flow synthesis, benzodiazepines, sedative shortage, APIs, medical science and technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Development of Predictive Radiation Hardening By Design Tools
Keywords: Radiation hardening, Radiation Simulation, Cadence Virtuoso, Skill Scripting, TCAD, predictive designing, Space technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Development of Rust Based Low-Level Virtual Machine for AFTx06 chip for development of sample applications
Keywords: LLVM, Machine Learning, ISA, Sparsity
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Development of a Breast Surgical Computational Model: Evaluation of Tumor-to-breast Volume Ratio on Surgical Outcomes
Keywords: Computational modeling, Tumor-to-breast volume ratio, Breast cancer, Wound healing, Biological simulation and technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Development of a Cost Model for the Evaluation of Extra Terrestrial Habitats
Keywords: Cost Model, Equivalent System Mass, Deep Space Habitats, Habitat Systems, Space Exploration, Engineering Built Environment
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Development of a co-culturing method for understanding astrocytes role in autism spectrum disorder
Keywords: Autism spectrum disorder, Astrocytes, a neurodevelopmental disorder
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Development of an Elastin-Like Polypeptide Fusion Protein for Enhanced Detection and Imaging of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
Keywords: Bladder Cancer, Targeted Delivery, Elastin-Like Polypeptide, Detection, Cellular Biology
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2021
Differential Tractography as a Patient-Specific Tool to Monitor Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers
Keywords: Differential tractography, Alzheimer’s disease, biomarker, white matter tracts
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Directed enzyme deposition with poly(o-aminophenol) onto platinum black microelectrode arrays for multi-analyte amperometric biosensors
Keywords: Medical science and technology, Biosensors, Multi-analyte sensing, Glucose, Lactate
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Discovery of New Targets on Tumor Infiltrating Immune Cells by Single-Cell Sequencing
Keywords: Lung cancer, single cell RNA sequencing, immune therapy, immune oncology, gene markers
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2021
Dynamic Mechanical Characterization of Additive Manufactured Mock Gun Propellants
Keywords: Additive manufacturing, Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar, Dynamic Loading, Gun Propellants
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2021
Effect of Chemistry on Surface Mechanical Properties of Polymer Lung Surfactants
Keywords: Polymer Chemistry, Lung Surfactant, Pulmonary Surfactant, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Block Copolymer Micelle
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Effect of Nano-TiO2 on the Hydration Kinetics, Porosity, and Microstructure of Concrete Containing Slag Cement
Keywords: Nano-TiO2, Slag Cement, SCMs, Hydration Kinetics, Concrete, Porosity
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2021
Effective and Rapid LAMP Sensor to Detect BRD
Keywords: Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD), Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP), Pasteurella multocida, cattle
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Effects of Plant Characteristics and Hydrological Gradients on the Soil Environment in Agricultural Wetlands
Keywords: Environmental Characterization, Wetlands, Biogeochemistry, Emergent Macrophyte, Greenhouse Gases, Organic Carbon
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering (multiple concentrations)
2021
Electrochemical synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles
Keywords: Electrochemistry, Energetic material, Green Chemistry, 1,2,3-triazoles
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Empowering secondary school girls in rural Senegal: validation of the assessment for STEM self-beliefs
Keywords: Cognitive Interview, STEM self-beliefs, instrument validation, Senegal, girl education
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Education
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2021
Epidemic Mitigation with Limited Resources
Keywords: Epidemic Process, Optimization, Mitigation Strategies, Non-pharmaceutical Intervention, Learning and Evaluation
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Epstein Barr virus activation in stomach cancer cells
Keywords: EBV, EBVaGC, Super enhancer inhibitors, HDACi, Latent, Lytic reactivation
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2021
Ethanol Effects on Embryonic Zebrafish BMP Signaling as a Model for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Keywords: Biological characterization and imaging, developmental biology, zebrafish, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology
2021
Evaluating Finger Flexor Tendon Fatigue Using High-Frequency Ultrasound Based Strain Algorithms
Keywords: Strain, High-frequency Ultrasound, Tendon, Medical Science and Technology, Biological Characterization and Imaging
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Evaluation of Different Fingerprinting Techniques for Classification of Large-Set Organic Reaction Data Using the Random Forest Algorithm
Keywords: machine learning, big data, cheminformatics, reaction fingerprints, organic reactions, random forest classification
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Evaluation of the novel automated segmentation algorithm of trabecular and cortical region
Keywords: Automated Segmentation, Trabecular, Cortical, thresholding, micro-CT, 3D Mask, Image Segmentation, Dice
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Examining Human Safety Technology Interactions in a High-Risk Work Environment: Assessment of Neuro-Psychophysiological Responses in a Mixed Reality
Keywords: Human and Technology Interaction, construction safety, cognitive demand, risk-taking behavior, decision-making, fNIRS, Virtual/mixed reality
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Experimental Investigation of Optimal Winglets Design on Wake and Efficient Performance of Horizontal Axis Model Wind Turbines
Keywords: HAWT, winglets, wind energy, wind tunnel, winglet on a wind turbine, turbine efficiency
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering Physics
2021
Forensic Investigation of Concrete
Keywords: Concrete, Alkali-silica reaction, Delayed ettringite formation, Optical Microscope Analysis, Scanning-Electron Microscopy, Microstructure
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Construction Engineering Management
2021
Form + Function 4D Printing: Surface Preparation
Keywords: Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing, Material Modeling and Simulation, Materials Modeling and Simulation, Printed Electronics
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Technology
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2021
Geometric Sensitive Loss Function for X-ray Micro-Tomography Segmentation
Keywords: Deep learning, X-Ray Microtomography, Segmentation, Loss Function, Microstructure
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mathematics and Computer Science
2021
Glycosylation Reactions Utilizing Tetrafluoropyridyl Donors
Keywords: Glycosylation, carbohydrates, donors, substitution, stereoselectivity
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences
2021
Hidden in Plain Sight: Suborning Client-side Sanitization of HTML Forms to Launch Regex Denial of Service ReDoS
Keywords: Regular Expression Denial-of-Service, Web Measurement Study, Crawling the Web
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
ISOBlue Lite: Collecting Data from Agricultural Vehicles Using a Raspberry Pi
Keywords: Raspberry Pi, ISOBUS, Precision Agriculture, Open-Source, Controller Area Network, Internet of Things
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Identifying and Resolving Issues with the Hollow Cathode Emitter and SPT-100 Hall Effect Thruster
Keywords: Electric Propulsion, Hollow Cathode Emitter, Hall Effect Thruster
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Incorporating A Series Resistor Into Microscale Breakdown Theory
Keywords: Breakdown, Paschen's Law, Townsend Avalanche, Field Emission, Nanotechnology
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2021
Indoor Aerosol Dynamics in Residential Buildings
Keywords: Air Pollution, Indoor Air Quality, Particulate Matter, Environmental Characterization, Engineering the Built Environment
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Industrial Water Consumption Coefficients and the Effect on Regional Water Availability
Keywords: Ecology and sustainability, Environmental characterization, Industrial water use, Industrial water consumption
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2021
Initial Evaluation of a Perovskite Semiconductor for a Betavoltaic Application
Keywords: lead halide perovskite, MAPbI3, betavoltaic, tritium, MCNP, Material Modeling and Simulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2021
Investigating Roles of Fumarase in Response to Double-Stranded DNA Breaks
Keywords: Genetics, Fumarase, Fum1, DNA Damage, Double-Stranded DNA Break Repair
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2021
Investigating the Feasibility of On-line Particle Size Distribution for Real-Time Condition Monitoring of a Continuous Dry Granulation Process
Keywords: Material Processing and Characterization, Chemical Unit Operations, Particle Size Distribution, Particle Flowability
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Investigating the cap helix of STE14 via mutagenesis
Keywords: CaaX proteins, hIcmt, Ste14, In-Vitro Methyltransferase Assay
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2021
Investigation of Dog Coat Color Variants in Novel Cream Boxers
Keywords: Genetics, Canine, MFSD12, KITLG, Dilution
Primary Department of Faculty: Basic Medical Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Animal Sciences (multiple concentrations)
2021
Investigation of epoxy curing dynamics in a laminar flow
Keywords: Fluid Dynamics, Phase Transition of Organic Materials, Microtechnology, Thermal Management
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Investigation of the Implementation of 4D Printed Strain Gauges
Keywords: 4D printing, strain gauges, liquid extrusion
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Technology
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
IoT Based Sensing Platform for Real-Time Compressive Concrete Strength Monitoring
Keywords: Concrete, Strength of materials, Internet of Things, Materials Processing and Characterization, Material Modeling & Simulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2021
Laser-Based Profilometry of the Centrifugally Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detector
Keywords: Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detector, Laser-Based Profilometry, Neutron Detector
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2021
Leveraging Recurrent Neural Networks with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory for Top Quark Reconstruction
Keywords: Machine Learning Algorithms: Recurrent Neural Networks, Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory, Top Quark Reconstruction, Toponium Intermediary Particle State, High Energy Particle Physics
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics
SURF Participant's Major: Data Science
2021
Lyophilization Post-Processing Data Software
Keywords: Modeling and Simulation, Python, Data Analysis, Pandas, Matplotlib, Tkinter, Lyophilization
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Mathematical Model Development for Superstructure Optimization of Shale Gas Processing Systems
Keywords: process design, superstructure optimization, techno-economic analysis, shale gas, hydrocarbon conversion
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Mathematical modelling of various gut microbiota in response to various mono- and disaccharides
Keywords: Microbiome, Bacterial Growth Modelling, Biological Simulation and Technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering (multiple concentrations)
2021
Maturing Chondrocyte Seeded Scaffolds Using a Dynamic Mechanobioreactor System
Keywords: Tissue engineering, Mechanobioreactor, Collagen Hydrogel, Cartilage Repair
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Mechanical Controlled Ice Nucleation: Effect of Relative Humidity on Nucleation Event
Keywords: Lyophilization, Controlled Nucleation, Rapid Depressurization, Relative Humidity, Nanotechnology
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Mechanisms of Cell Division under Physiological Conditions
Keywords: Computational model, Simulation, Cytokinesis, Cell Division, Extracellular Matrix, Cellular Biology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Membrane Heat Exchanger for Air Cooling and Dehumidification
Keywords: HVAC, Dehumidification, Membranes, Parametric study
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2021
Membrane Mechanical Parameter Extraction from Laser Induced Vibrations
Keywords: optical force, resonance, membrane, parameters, silicon nitride
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2021
Microbiological Water Quality During Commissioning of a New Plumbing System
Keywords: Water Quality, Stagnation, Cell Counts, Chlorine, Plumbing System
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2021
Microstructural Characterization of Spark Plasma Sintered Al-SiC-Graphite by 3D X-ray Tomography
Keywords: Materials Processing and Characterization, Segmentation, X-ray Tomography, Composite Materials and Alloys
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Mobile Air Quality Sensing and Internet of Things
Keywords: Internet of Things, Air Quality Measurement, Data Visualization, Environmental Characterization, Engineering the Built Environment
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2021
Mobile Air Quality Sensors and the Internet of Things
Keywords: Environmental characterization, Engineering the built environment, Internet of Things, Air quality, Low-cost sensors
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Morphology and Composition of Non-traditional Pozzolans
Keywords: Non-traditional pozzolans, pozzolans, fluidized bed combustion ash, ground bottom ash, calcined clay, concrete, cement
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Multiphysics Simulation Guided Optimization of Acoustically Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detectors
Keywords: Neutron, Detector, Acoustics, Optimization, Simulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2021
Mussel-Inspired Underwater Hot Melt Adhesives: Introducing Catechol Chemistry to Thermoplastic Polymer Systems
Keywords: Underwater adhesion, hot melt adhesive, biomimicry, catechol, thermoplastic polymer, mussels
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
N-Amination and Oxidation: 1-amino-3,5-dinitro-1,2,4-triazole and 1-methoxy-5-nitrotetrazole
Keywords: Materials Characterization, Energetic Materials, Triazoles, Tetrazoles, Nitrogen Heterocycles
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
Nanostructual Characterization of Hydration, Porosity and Mechanical Deformation of Human Bone
Keywords: Hydration, Composite material, Nanostructural characterization, Biological Characterization and Imaging
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2021
Near-infrared Sensor Model Development
Keywords: Near-infrared Sensor, Composition, Density, Model Development, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Novel Peptides in Polymer-Mediated Gene Delivery for Targeted Treatment of Cancer Cells
Keywords: Medical Science and Technology, Gene Therapy, Polymer Engineering, Cellular Biology, Cancer Therapy
Primary Department of Faculty: Basic Medical Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Optimization of Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Vascular Imaging
Keywords: Biological simulation & technology, imaging, simulation, ultrasound, photoacoustic tomography, imaging phantoms, image processing
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Optimizing Conjugated Ligand Incorporated Two-Dimensional Lead Free Perovskites for Field Effect Transistors
Keywords: Molecular Engineering, Crystal Structure, 2D Halide Perovskite
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
PLA-PCL Polymer Microsphere Formulation for the Deterrence of Prescription Opioid Abuse by Smoking
Keywords: Smoking, Opioids, Abuse deterrent formulation, Microspheres, Medical Science and Technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Path Loss Using Low-Power Wireless Communication Techniques in Digital Agriculture Applications
Keywords: ISOBlue, ISOBUS, Open-Source, LoRa, LoRaWAN, SNR (Signal-Noise-Ratio), RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication), ACRE (Agronomy Center for Research and Education), Internet of Things, Path Loss
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Permeability Characterization and Machine Learning
Keywords: Machine Learning, Permeability, Material Characterization, Liquid Composite Moulding (LCM), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Precision Agriculture: Autonomous Corn Leaf Sampling
Keywords: Precision agriculture, leaf sampling, machine learning, autonomous agriculture vehicle
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Predicting Lifting Risks From Pressure Exerted By Various Hand Regions
Keywords: Lifting Risk, Pressure, Machine Learning, Logistic Regression
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2021
Predicting Mental Workload during Semi Autonomous Driving using Physiological and Driving Performance Measures
Keywords: Human Factors, Mental Workload, Semi-Autonomous Driving, Eye Tracking, Machine Learning, Random Forest
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Purposefully Public, Yet Vulnerably Exposed: Probing Web Services for Regex Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Keywords: Cybersecurity, regular expressions, denial of service attacks, empirical software engineering
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2021
Quantification of Recent Shoreline Movement Along Lake Michigan's Southern Coast
Keywords: Lake Michigan, Indiana Shoreline, GIS Analysis, Shoreline Change
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Quantifying the Springback in Polymer Composite Preforms using a Novel Forming Technique
Keywords: Springback, Polymer Composites, Hybrid Manufacturing, Thermoplastic Preforms
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2021
RF reader for battery less RFID tag in implanted neural recorder
Keywords: RFID, RFID Reader, Neural Recorder, Active Reader Passive tag
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2021
Reducing the Run-Time Memory of Accel-Sim
Keywords: GPU, Simulator, run-time memory, workloads, instructions
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
Rheological Characterization of Highly Loaded Alumina-Polymer Suspension for Thermal Paste 3D Printing
Keywords: Thermal Interface Materials, Viscoelastic, Paste 3D Printing, Rheology, Materials Processing and Characterization
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2021
Role of Locus Coeruleus - Norepinephrine System in Novelty Stimulus Recognition
Keywords: Locus Coeruleus, Norepinephrine, Pupillometry, Optogenetics, Channelrhodopsin
Primary Department of Faculty: Biology
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2021
SAFE: Secure Architectural Framework Enhancements
Keywords: Security, Computer, Processor, Software, Hardware, Simulation, Secure Architectural Framework Enhancements (SAFE)
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2021
SLIC Segmentation and Deep Learning for Plant Disease Area Identification from Handheld Images
Keywords: SLIC Segmentation, Image Classification, Super-pixel, Corn Leaf Disease Classification
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2021
Shear Angle and Other Methods of Analysis for the Fabric Draping Experiment
Keywords: Composite Materials, Structural Analysis, Shear Angle Analysis
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Simulating Cell Migration in a Mechanical Perspective
Keywords: Cell Migration, Biological Simulation and Technology, Material Modeling and Simulation, Cellular Biology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2021
Simulation of Hazardous Scenarios of a Deep-Space Habitat with a Cyber-Physical System
Keywords: Deep-Space habitats, Cyber-Physical System, Finite-Difference Method, Heat Transfer
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Simulation of nanofluid flow through nozzle of an inkjet 3D printer
Keywords: Additive manufacturing, Inkjet 3D printing, Nanotechnology, Nanofluids, Fluid Mechanics, Finite element method
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Simulations to Better Characterize Ionization Coefficient for Gas Breakdown Calculations
Keywords: Ionization Coefficient, Gas Breakdown, Plasma, Dielectric Breakdown
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2021
Single- and Multi-UAV Trajectory Optimization and Simulation
Keywords: UAV, telecommunication, energy efficiency, convex optimization, fractional programming, trajectory optimization, agricultural sensing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Space Environment Radiation Effects on Commercial Magneto-resistive Random Access Memory (MRAM)
Keywords: Magneto-resistive RAM, MRAM, Random Access Memory, Space environment, Radiation, Commercial, Off-the-Shelf, Cobalt-60, Spin-Transfer Torque MRAM, Gamma radiation
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Stable Static Liquid Positions in Toroidal Propellant Tanks
Keywords: Toroidal tank, propellant management device, surface evolver
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering Physics
2021
Statistics of Dislocation Line Orientation Distributions as Tests for CDD Plasticity Theories
Keywords: Discrete Dislocation Dynamics, Continuous Dislocation Dynamics, Line-bundle, Dislocation Vector Density, Dislocation Orientation Statistics
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Physics and Mathematics
2021
Stretchable, functional, and biocompatible cellulose-based fibrous composite fabrication and characterization
Keywords: Nanotechnology, Cellulose Composite, Hierarchical Scaffold, Functional Fibers
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Studying the Effect of Reactive Component Orientation Using Multi-View Dynamic X-Ray Imaging
Keywords: Energetic Materials, Solid Propellant, Additive Manufacturing, Reactive Materials
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Studying the role of Transcription Factors Clock and Cycle in Fruit Fly Photoreceptor Neurons
Keywords: Drosophila melanogaster, transcription factors (TF), Clock (Clk), Cycle (Cyc), photoreceptors, circadian clock
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2021
Synthetic Approaches to Independently Vary Al Distribution and Density in MEL Zeolites
Keywords: Catalysis, zeolites, crystallization
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2021
Systematic Study of the Viscosity of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids on the Electrochemical Performance of Redox Active Species
Keywords: Room Temperature Ionic Liquids, Diffusion Coefficient, Electron Transfer Rate Constant, Viscosity, Cyclic Voltammetry
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2021
Temperature dependence of ion channels in neurons with demyelination
Keywords: Double Cable Model, Demyelination, NEURON Simulation, Medical Science and Technology, Biological Simulation and Technology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
The Bio-based Future of Carbon Fiber
Keywords: Carbon Fiber, epoxy, natural fibers, renewable resources, thermosetting resin
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2021
The Effect of Inverse Opal Composition and Pore Size on Photocatalysis
Keywords: Inverse Opal, Nanotechnology, Photocatalysis, Photocatalyst
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
The Impact of COVID-19 on Traditional and Transformative Transportation in Selected Indiana Cities
Keywords: COVID-19, Pandemic, Public Transportation, Mode Choice, Shared Mobility, Travel Behavior
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering and Sociology
2021
The Situational Awareness and Decision-Making Analysis of Experienced Nurses
Keywords: Eye-tracking, EEG, Nurse, COVID-19, Training
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2021
Towards Osteoarthritis Special Translation
Keywords: Medical Science and Technology, Mouse Model, ALCR, DMM, Gene Expression
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Toxicity of a "Forever Chemical" in an estuarine fish: does salinity mediate the toxicity of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS)?
Keywords: PFOS, salinity, estuaries, sheepshead minnows, toxicology, ecology
Primary Department of Faculty: Agriculture
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2021
Trace driven Simulation for AMD GPUs Using Accel Sim
Keywords: GPGPU, Modeling and Simulation, AMD, Trace-driven
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2021
Tuning Properties of Nanoclusters and Their Mass Spectrometric Analysis
Keywords: Nanoclusters, Mass Spectrometry, Cluster Synthesis
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Science
2021
Understanding and Reducing Major Industrial Plant Disasters
Keywords: Process safety, safety triangle, domino effects, contributing factors performance indicators
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2021
Understanding the Influence of Work-Integrated Learning Experiences on Students' Identity Formation in Engineering
Keywords: Work-Integrated Learning, Accessibility, Identity Trajectory, Latent Diversity, Engineering Education
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Education
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Understanding the Speciation of Chloropalladate Ions for the Viral Synthesis of Palladium Nanomaterials through an Original Python Algorithm
Keywords: Chloropalladate speciation, Nanomaterial synthesis, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus, Biotemplating
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical and Biological Engineering
2021
Verification of a Deterministic Solver to the Full Boltzmann Equation
Keywords: Discontinuous Galerkin Method, Fast Fourier Spectral Method, Deterministic Solver, Full Boltzmann Equation, Rarefied Gas Dynamics
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Virtual Reality Animations of Blood Flow in a Vessel Network
Keywords: 3D Visualization, Virtual Reality, Computational Modeling, Vascular Analysis
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Vortex Bursting Under Dynamic Adjustment of Angle of Attack
Keywords: Delta wing, Vortex, Bursting, Breakdown, Dynamic, Prevent, Trailing Edge, Water Tunnel, Upstream, Downstream
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2021
Wing Kinematics of Insect Robot
Keywords: Bio-inspiration, Micro air vehicle, Autonomous Robot, Flexible Wings, Flapping Flight, Aerodynamics
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2021
Workflow Design and Visualization of Water Quality Data
Keywords: Water Quality, LOADEST software, Process Workflow, Workflow Design, Data Processing Tools, Environment Modelling, Web-based Application, Web-mapping
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering Technology
2021
cArgo: an Argonaute Mediated COVID-19 Detection Device
Keywords: Medicinal Science and Technology, Argonaute, ttAgo, h2Ago, COVID-19, Microfluidic Chip, Chitosan
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology and Genetics
2021
Read the SURF 2020 Symposium Abstract Booklet.
3D simulation of shrinkage during femtosecond two-photon polymerization
Keywords: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Lumen, Murine, Thrombus, Ultrasound Imaging
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2020
A Query Processing Engine for Vehicle Re-Identification: A Clustering Approach
Keywords: Shoreline Change, ArcGIS Modeling, Indiana's Coastline, Sediment Transport
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2020
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Progression and Thrombus Formation Displayed Using Various Murine Models
Keywords: HVAC, Dehumidification, Membranes, Energy efficient buildings, Thermodynamic analysis
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
An Online Behavioral Experiment on Users-Agency Interactions in the Provision of a Public Service
Keywords: Proteins, simulation, Martini model, Bioinformatics, VMD, LAMMPS
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2020
Analysis of the Indenoisoquinoline Compound Library for Myc G-Quadruplex Targeting
Keywords: Bacteriophages, phages, proteomics, lipidomics, mass spectrometry
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering (multiple concentrations)
2020
Analyzing Social Distancing using Large Scale Computer Vision
Keywords: Comodulation Masking Release, CMR, chinchilla, human, cocktail party listening, hearing loss
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2020
Applications of Biotechnology in Phage Discovery, Lipidomics, and Proteomics
Keywords: Next Generation High Throughout Sequencing(NGS), single cell RNA sequencing(scRNA-seq), single cell ATAC sequencing(scATAC-seq), cancer inducing virus, Human papillomarius infection (HPV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), SARS-CoV-2
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering (multiple concentrations)
2020
Applications of Deep Reinforcement Learning
Keywords: Agriculture, Soil Salinization, Data Trends and Analysis
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Auto-grading Workflow for College Programming Assignment
Keywords: Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Ride Sharing, Dynamic Fleet Management, Electric Vehicles
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2020
Automated Grading of Programming Assignments
Keywords: Microcontroller, Sparsity, Deep Neural Network, Benchmark, Machine Learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2020
Automated fitting of freeform surfaces to point cloud datasets for comparison of manufactured components
Keywords: Nanotechnology, bio-inspiration, bio mimicry, radiative cooling, heat transfer, energy saving, nanostructure
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Automatic Machining Feature Generation
Keywords: Building water system, stagnation, water quality, chlorine decay
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2020
Automation in Drug Approval Process Information
Keywords: Light transport, degraded visual environment, diffusion theory, scattering media, inverse problem, fog
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering Science (Electrical Engineering)
2020
Bioinformatic Analyses and Synthesis of Natural Product Inspired Cyclic Peptides
Keywords: Monte Carlo, Markov Chain, rare events
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Statistics (Applied Statistics)
2020
Characterization of In Vivo Aortic Valve Dynamics Using Four-Dimensional Ultrasound
Keywords: large scale mobility data, Time series analysis, COVID-19
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2020
Coarse-graining modeling of proteins
Keywords: Lipids, lipidomics, lipid annotation, mass spectrometry, software, tandem mass spectrometry
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2020
Computational Investigation of Mechanical Interactions between Cells and Extracellular Matrix
Keywords: Transparent Conducting Oxide, Thin Films, Semiconductor, Magnetron Sputtering Deposition, Tin Oxide
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Technology
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering Technology
2020
Computational modeling of fluid flow through porous media in a cholera enrichment device
Keywords: Lyophilization, Automation, Algorithm, Drug Trends
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2020
Computer Simulations of Polar Ice Calving
Keywords: Metastable Fluids, Radiation Detection, Degassing, Spectroscopy
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Consequences Of Bronsted Acid Site Proximity And Location In H-MFI Zeolites For Propene
Keywords: Catalysis, Zeolites, DFT
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2020
Consequences of Bronsted Acid Site Proximity and Location in H-MFI Zeolites for Propene Dimerization
Keywords: Marine Renewable Energy, Ocean Renewable Energy, Blue Economy, Renewable Energy, Energy, Maritime Market, Ocean Power, Hydropower, Hydroelectric, Power
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2020
Design and Analysis of a Novel Membrane Heat Exchanger
Keywords: Animal Welfare, Temperature Preference, Light Preference, Nesting Material, Mice
Primary Department of Faculty: Animal Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Animal Sciences (multiple concentrations)
2020
Design and simulation of an on-chip LC filter for superconducting quantum circuits
Keywords: Workflow, Education, Auto-grader
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2020
Development of a More Environmentally Sustainable Machine Tool Through Innovative Design
Keywords: Computational model, Lumpectomy, Wound Healing, Breast Reconstruction, Collagen, Tissue Engineering
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2020
Development of a Riverine Energy Harvesting Device Characterization of Wabash River in Lafayette as a Test Site
Keywords: Hemodialysis, Solute Clearance, Modeling, Optimum Treatment Conditions
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2020
Effects of Cell-Cell Contact during multicellular migration
Keywords: Mechanical breathing, stress, deformation, failure
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Effects of lifting task on heart rate
Keywords: soybean, remote sensing, UAS, vegetation indices
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Physics and Applied Mathematics and Statistics
2020
Examining Fatigue Damage Mechanisms In Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composite Laminates Through High
Keywords: Exit-Voice, Behavioral, Public Service, Human-Subject, Infrastructure
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2020
Examining Fatigue Damage Mechanisms In Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composite Laminates Through High Resolution X-Ray Micro Computed Tomography
Keywords: Carbon Fiber / Epoxy Composites, Damage Analysis, In-situ Tomography
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Expanding a Lipid Fragmentation Database and LIQUID Functionality
Keywords: Cell, extracellular matrix, contraction, matrix remodeling, mechanotransduction
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2020
Exploration of Trust in Automation in Complex, Safety-Critical Systems
Keywords: Myc, promoter, G-quadruplex, indenoisoquinoline, cancer therapeutics, structure-activity relationships
Primary Department of Faculty: Pharmaceutical Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2020
Finite Element Implementation of Strain Gradient Plasticity for Microscale Amorphous Polymer Structures
Keywords: virtual team, interview, literature review, engineering, technical professionals
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Education
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Finite element modeling of transmembrane potential under applied electric fields
Keywords: NAPRA, Javascript, GLEAMS, SDSS, open source tools
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2020
Fragmentation and Carbon Storage in Forest Ecosystems
Keywords: Real-Time Hybrid Simulation, Structural Dynamics, OpenSees Modeling, Geodesic Dome, Extra-Terrestrial Habitats
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
High Pressure Burning Characteristics of Additively Manufactured Gun Propellants
Keywords: Osteocytes, mechanobiology, image processing, confocal microscopy, lacunae
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2020
Impact of State HCBS Waiver Policies on Patient Outcomes
Keywords: Beehive, Continuous Measurement, Scales, Bees, Computer Vision
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural Engineering
2020
Income equality effect on travel pattern during COVID-19
Keywords: FVII, hemophilia, dog, bleeding disorder, mutation
Primary Department of Faculty: Basic Medical Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Genetics
2020
Investigating Membrane Material Alternatives for Carbon Dioxide Removal in Space
Keywords: Mammary gland, circadian timing system, alveoli, 3D cultures, BMAL1, CLOCK
Primary Department of Faculty: Animal Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2020
Localization Imaging of Neuronal Signaling with Spatiotemporal Fluorescent Reporter Data
Keywords: Social distancing, COVID-19, computer vision, deep learning, object detection, big data
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2020
Marine Renewable Energy: Aligning the Technology, Geography, and Markets
Keywords: Electronics Simulation, Organic Electronics, Emerging Technologies
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Technology
SURF Participant's Major: Mechatronics Engineering Technology
2020
Mathematical Modeling of the Anionic Diffusion In Halide Perovskites
Keywords: Semiconductor, Perovskite, Energy, Solar, Materials, Modeling
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2020
Mathematical Modeling of the Anionic Diffusion in Halide Perovskites
Keywords: Automation, Trust, Health Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Explainable AI, Human Factors
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2020
Mechanobiology Computational Modeling of Healing Following Breast Conserving Surgery
Keywords: Natural Products, Antibiotic Resistance, Cyclic Peptides
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2020
Modeling Ferroelectric Domain Switching Kinetics
Keywords: Collective cell Migration, Cellular Potts Model, CompuCell3D
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Modeling Light Transport in Fog for Computational Imaging
Keywords: Flow analysis and processing, Great Lakes, data trends and analysis, environment
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Engineering (First Year)
2020
Modeling of Mass and Fluid Transfer in Hemodialysis to Maximize Treatment Efficiency
Keywords: Cognitive State, Attentional State, Conflict Resolution, Motor Inhibition, Response Times, Stroop Task
Primary Department of Faculty: Psychological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering and Neurobiology
2020
More Olefins Oxidative Dehydrogenation Of Ethane In Shale Gas To Ethylene
Keywords: Shale gas, olefins, ethylene, process simulation, oxidative dehydrogenation
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2020
More Olefins Oxidative Dehydrogenation Of Ethane In Shale Gas To Ethylene
Keywords: R-loop, DNA damage, aging, gene expression, photoreceptor cells, Drosophila
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biological Engineering (multiple concentrations)
2020
Multi-fidelity Analysis to Study the Emergence of Drug Resistance in Multiple Tuberculosis Granulomas
Keywords: Computer simulation, ice calving, cracks, fracture, phase field model, viscoelastic material
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Noninvasive Measurement and Visualization of Vagus Nerve Activity to Improve the Efficacy of Gastric Electrical Stimulation in Human Subjects with Gastroparesis
Keywords: HMX quasi-steady loading, HMX, single crystal HMX,Octahydro-1,2,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine, HMX low strain rate, birefringent properties of HMX, HMX photoelastic method, photoelastic method, explosives
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Novel Ethnographic Investigations of Engineering Workplaces to Advance Theory and Research Methods for Preparing the Future Workforce
Keywords: Gun Propellants, Combustion and Propulsion, Additive Manufacturing, Sustainability
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2020
Optimization of Centrifugally Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detectors (CTMFD) for Alpha and Neutron Detection
Keywords: Thermal management, additive manufacturing, topology optimization
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Optimization of Focused Ultrasound Output from Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers for Neural Stimulation
Keywords: Data visualization, Modeling, Gastroparesis, Vagus nerve
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2020
Predicting Subsequent Memory From Cognitive States During Learning
Keywords: Vehicle Re-identification, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Cluster Computing
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2020
Progress Towards 20% Efficient Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells
Keywords: Perovskites, flexible solar cells, thin films, semiconducting material, solution processing
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2020
Progress towards 20% Efficient Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells
Keywords: Machine Tool Cost, Milling Machines, Lightweighting, Machine Tool
Primary Department of Faculty: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
R-loops and DNA Damage in Aging Photoreceptor Neurons
Keywords: Superconducting circuits, quantum information science, transmon qubit, microwave design
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics
SURF Participant's Major: Physics and Mathematics
2020
Real Time Occupancy Sensing With A Low-Cost Seat Based Temperature Array
Keywords: Real time detection, Seated occupancy, Spatial tracking, Building sensors, Thermocouples, Indoor environmental quality
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Real Time Occupancy Sensing with a Low-Cost Seat Based Temperature Array
Keywords: SAGA, CHAT, Gcn5, histone acetylation
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2020
Recent Lake Michigan Shoreline Changes Along Indiana's Coast
Keywords: Electroporation, cell inactivation, finite element method
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2020
Results of a Nearshore Lake Michigan Mixing Experiment
Keywords: Modeling and Simulation, Computer and Web Based Application, Manufacturing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Salinity in Arid Landscapes: A Case Study from Arequipa, Peru
Keywords: Lifting index, Heart rate, NIOSH
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering Technology
2020
Sensing And Measurement For Controlled Nucleation In Lyophilization
Keywords: Lyophilization, Freeze-drying, Controlled Nucleation, Sensing and Measurement, Computer and Web Based Applications, Biotechnology
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2020
Sensing and Measurement for Controlled Nucleation in Lyophilization
Keywords: Atmospheric dynamics, Renewable Energy Systems, Sustainability, wake effects, wind energy systems
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2020
Shale Gas To Oil Kinetic Model For Oligomerization Reactor
Keywords: Oligomerization, Shale gas, Fossil fuel, Kinetic Models, Renewable energy, Bridge fuels
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2020
Shale Gas to Oil: Kinetic Model for Oligomerization Reactor
Keywords: Renewable energy, river, Wabash, turbine, survey
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Simulation, Identification, and Application of CMOS inverters using OFETs
Keywords: Computing Education, Automatic Grading, Learning Tools
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science and Data Science
2020
Single Crystal HMX Under Quasi-Static Loading
Keywords: Biomedical Engineering, Sensing and Measurement, Modeling and Simulation, Neuroimaging, Diffuse Optical Imaging
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2020
Sparsity Aware Core Extension Benchmarking in Resource-Limited Microcontroller
Keywords: Forest fragmentation, carbon storage, forest edge, land cover, land use, edge effect
Primary Department of Faculty: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2020
Sputter Deposition with Transparent Conducting Oxide
Keywords: Point cloud, surface fitting, computer-aided design (CAD), materials review board (MRB), manufacturing, coordinate measurement machine (CMM)
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science and Engineering
2020
Stress and failure analysis of thin film electrodes induced by the volumetric strain
Keywords: Aortic valve, ultrasound, echocardiography, small animal models, small animal imaging
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2020
Structural Studies of Phospholipase C Epsilon
Keywords: Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers, Fresnel Lenses, COMSOL, focal spot size, Finite Element Analysis, acoustic pressure
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2020
The Characterization of the Formation of SAGA and CHAT in Drosophila
Keywords: Strain gradient plasticty, Finite element analysis, micro-scale amorphous polymer structures, 3D Printing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
The Role of BMAL1 and CLOCK in the Formation of Alveolar Structures in 3D Cultures
Keywords: Ferroelectric, non-volatile, memory system, power efficiency, memory devices, applications, polarization, switching behaviors, hysteresis, electric field, models, Du-Chen, temperature, time switching, domains, nucleation
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2020
The application of single cell genomics in viral infectious disease
Keywords: Two-Photon Polymerization, Polymerization Shrinkage, Structural Deformation
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Thermal Transfer System Development of Cyber-Physical Testbed for Resilient Extra-Terrestrial Habitats
Keywords: Cellular signaling, protein biochemistry, cryo-electron microscopy, phospholipase Cs (PLCs), structural biology
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences
2020
Thermodynamic Modeling Of Oxidation In Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloys
Keywords: High Temperature Oxidation, Modeling and Simulation, Materials Science, First Principles Calculations
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Science Engineering
2020
Thermodynamic Modeling of Oxidation in Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloys
Keywords: Membranes, Carbon Dioxide Removal, Modeling, Gas Separation
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2020
Three-Dimensional Structural Real-Time Hybrid Simulations Applied To Extra-Terrestrial Habitats
Keywords: space habitats, thermal modeling, physical systems, thermal design
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2020
Three-Dimensional Structural Real-Time Hybrid Simulations Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Habitats
Keywords: Sustainability, modelling, animal farming, hog farming, environment
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2020
Using Automated Image Processing to Characterize the Osteocyte Lacunar-Canalicular System
Keywords: Long term care, 1915c Waivers, State policy, Medicaid, Patient outcomes
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering and Economics
2020
Wind Energy Production and Resource Optimization
Keywords: Enrichment Device, Vibrio Cholera, Simulation
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2020
Read the SURF 2019 Symposium Abstract Booklet.
1D models for particle-laden flows in tight geometries
Keywords: gravity currents, Hele-Shaw flows, suspension
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics
2019
A Novel CTR1-Interating Protein at the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Keywords: Ethylene, Phosphorylation, CTR1, ER, Botany, Biology
Primary Department of Faculty: Botany and Plant Pathology
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2019
A method to improve the heterogeneity of protein samples intended for high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy
Keywords: Cryo-EM, near-atomic resolution, viral capsid protein, heterogeneity, norovirus
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2019
A parametric study of laser-driven projectiles
Keywords: Laser-driven, hypervelocity impact, laser induced projectile impact test
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2019
Additive Manufacturing Applied to Reactive Materials in Solid Propellants
Keywords: additive manufacturing, 3D printing, solid propellant, nanoaluminum, energetics, solid fuel, reactive wires, ammonium perchlorate
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
All Printed Low-Cost Dosimeter for Sterilization Monitoring Applications
Keywords: Sensing and measurement, Nanotechnology, Health, Gamma radiation monitoring, Conductive Polymers
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Science Engineering
2019
Amyloid beta-mediated Inflammatory Response in Microglia
Keywords: Microglia, amyloid beta, phagocytosis, chronic inflammation, priming, Alzheimer's disease
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2019
Analysis of Pt Nanoparticle Size in Pt/SiO2 and PtNb/SiO2 Catalysts and Its Effect on Selectivity in Propane Dehydrogenation
Keywords: Catalyst, shale gas, propane dehydrogenation, energy, nanoparticles, selectivity
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
Analysis of Rarefied Flow in FEMTA Microthruster
Keywords: Nanotechnology, direct simulation Monte Carlo, DSMC, SPARTA, rarefied, micronozzle, nanosatellites
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2019
Analysis of Reactor Systems for Ethane Dehydrogenation
Keywords: Catalytic dehydrogenation, shale gas transformation, process design, ethane dehydrogenation, NGL conversion, ethylene production
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
Analysis of quagga mussel effects in deep waters: Numerical methods for one-dimensional diffusion modeling in Lake Michigan
Keywords: Numerical Modeling, Quagga Mussels, Nutrient Cycling, Phytoplankton, Lake Michigan
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2019
Anion Diffusion in 2D Lead Halide Perovskite Vertical Heterojunctions
Keywords: Halide perovskite, photovoltaic, heterostructure, anion diffusion, photoluminescence.
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
Application of Traffic Signal Probability for Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory
Keywords: Traffic Signal Probability, GLOSA, Dilemma Zone, Fuel Consumption, Travel Time, g-force
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechatronics Engineering Technology
2019
Augmented Reality in Semi-autonomous Driving: The Effect of Warning Signal Format and Perceived Urgency on Takeover Performance
Keywords: Human Factors, Semi-autonomous Driving, Warning Signals, Augmented Reality, Perceived Urgency
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Automatic Hyperparameter Optimization for Neural Networks
Keywords: neural networks, hyperparameters, classifiers, autoencoders, optimization algorithms, machine learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2019
Bend Testing of Thermally Conductive Flexible Fabrics for Wearable Technology Applications
Keywords: Flexural rigidity, stiffness, thermal conductivity, Dyneema® Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE), bend test
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Changes in Flux of Polyamide-Based Reverse Osmosis Membrane During the Chloramination of Halide Containing Waters
Keywords: Environmental engineering, polyamide membrane, reverse osmosis, chloramines, halides, membrane degradation
Primary Department of Faculty: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2019
Characterization and Mechanical Behavior of Additive Manufactured Materials
Keywords: Additive Manufacturing, Porosity, Surface Roughness, Crack, Topography, Titanium (Ti64)
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2019
Characterization of Drosophila eye-specific GeneSwitch GAL4 Drivers
Keywords: Photoreceptor cells, Rh1GSGAL4, RU486, Luciferase Assays
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2019
Characterization of Exosome-Like Extracellular Vesicles and Their Impacts on Lung Epithelial Cells
Keywords: Exosomes, Lung Cancer, Extracellular Vesicles, Biology, Health
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology
2019
Characterization of Fabrication Capabilities with Two Photon Polymerization
Keywords: two photon polymerization, microrobots, micro-manufacturing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2019
Characterizing Disease Progression for Night Blindness in the Zebrafish Model
Keywords: Retinitis pigmentosa, retinal degeneration, zebrafish, disease model
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Neurobiology and Physiology
2019
Characterizing Immunomodulatory Properties of Oligomer for Macrophages
Keywords: Immunomodulation, Collagen, Biomaterials, Macrophages
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
Characterizing a Fully Optically Accessible RDE: Analysis of Continuous Detonation Waves for Aerospace Applications and Design
Keywords: RDE, combustor(s), detonation and deflagration wave(s), OH* Chemiluminescence, planar laser-induced fluorescence, particle image velocimetry, Schlieren Imaging, aerospace design
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Characterizing the Epigenetic Differences in Enzalutamide Resistant Prostate Cancer Cell Lines
Keywords: Epigentics, Prostate, Cancer, Enzalutamide, Drug, Resistance
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
Comparison of Titanium Nitride Microelectrode Designs for Neurostimulation Devices
Keywords: Neurostimulation, Microelectrodes, Titanium Nitride, Geometry, Fractal, Serpentine, Circular, Cyclic Voltammetry, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Voltage Transient
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
Comparison of machine learning models for gesture recognition using a multimodal wrist orthosis for tetraplegics
Keywords: Spinal Cord Injury, Gesture Recognition, IMU, dynamic time warping, hidden Markov model
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
Computational Investigation of Collective Behaviors of Actin Filaments
Keywords: Actin Cytoskelton, Myosin Motility Assay, Actin Filaments, Actin Cross-Linking Proteins, Computer Model
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
Conceptual Design of a 10-passenger Thin-haul Electric AircraftBased Transcriptional Regulators
Keywords: Aviation, Electrical Aircraft, Future Transportation, Electric Propulsion, Joint Wing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Constraining the Progenitor Systems of Ca-rich Transients Using Advanced Stellar Inferencing of Their Host Galaxies
Keywords: supernovae, techniques: photometric, galaxies: photometry, galaxies: stellar content
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2019
Control of Slender Body Wake Flow using Plasma Actuators
Keywords: Aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Plasma Actuator, Wake, Separation
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2019
Cooling Spacer for Thermal Management on Li-Ion Batteries
Keywords: Thermal management, Electric Vehicles, Lithium-Ion Batteries, Spacers, Battery-Packaging
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Crater Formation and Transition of Gas Breakdown Mechanism at Nanoscale
Keywords: Electrical breakdown, Field emission, Paschen’s Law, submicron gap, space-charge limit
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2019
Decentralized Distributed IoT Home Monitoring System
Keywords: IoT, DC, nanogrid
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil and Environmental Engineering
2019
Deformation Driven Particle Debonding
Keywords: Debonding, particle adhesion, elastomeric materials, poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS)
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Detection of Neutrons from Pu-Be and Cf-252 Isotope Sources using Acoustically Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detectors
Keywords: Neutron, radiation, metastability, acoustic waves, negative pressure, detector, Special Nuclear Materials, neutron spectra
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2019
Detection of neutrons from PuBe, AmBe, and Cf-252 isotope sources using Centrifugally-Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detector
Keywords: Neutron detection, neutron energy spectrum, detector efficiency
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2019
Developing a Method to Measure Nitrate N and O Isotopes
Keywords: Nitrate, Stable Isotopes, Method Development
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2019
Development of Teleoperation System with Haptic Device and ROS Framework
Keywords: Robotics, Teleoperation, Haptic, ROS, Framework
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Robotics
2019
Development of a low-cost electronic nose for food adulteration and bacteria detection
Keywords: Electronic Nose, Food Safety, Food Adulteration, Bacteria, Sensors, Machine Learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Discovery and analysis of membrane-associated legionella pneumophilia deubiquitinase LPG0227
Keywords: Ceg7, deubiquitinase, lipid-binding, LPG0227, ubiquitin, diubiquitin, assay, membrane association, diubiquitin cleavage, fluorescence, insoluble
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2019
Dynamic Aggregation Network for 3D Semantic Scene Segmentation
Keywords: Point Cloud, Semantic Segmentation, Dynamic Aggregation, Deep Learning, Computer Vision
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Effects of Varying Electrolyte Concentration on Lithium Metal Anode
Keywords: Li-ion batteries, Li-plating, Dendritic Growth, Electrolyte Concentration
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Electrically Conductive Collagen Coatings for Implantable Electrodes
Keywords: Biomedical engineering, collagen, implants, electrodes, conductive, resistivity, impedance, resistance, cellular
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
Evaluation of Effective Sensing Zone of Piezoelectric Sensors using Acoustic Wave Attenuation Method
Keywords: Structural Health Monitoring, Acoustic Waves, Piezoelectric Sensors, Non-destructive Testing, Concrete
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2019
Evaluation of machine learning models for classifying and detecting common weeds in corn and soybean crops
Keywords: Weed Detection, Precision Agriculture, Site Specific Weed Management, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Transfer Learning, Supervised Learning, Smart Agriculture, Datasets
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2019
Evaluation of the Dynamics of Epigenetic Memory
Keywords: Biology, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Genetics
2019
Experimental Investigation of Combustion Characteristics of Monopropellant Sprays
Keywords: Fuel Droplets; Ignition Properties; Fuel Droplet Proximity; Combustion Properties; Greener Alternative Fuels
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2019
Experimental Validation of an Approach-to-Contact Method for Determining Hamaker Constants Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Keywords: Particle adhesion, surface roughness, Hamaker constant, atomic force microscopy (AFM), van der Waals (vdW) force
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
Fabrication of Antimicrobial Electrospun Kafirin Fibers through Essential Oil Encapsulation for Sustainable Food Packaging
Keywords: Kafirin, electrospinning, nanofibers, antimicrobial food packaging, thymol, carvacrol
Primary Department of Faculty: Food Science
SURF Participant's Major: Nutrition and Dietetics
2019
Fabrication of Non-Spherical Microparticles for Particle Focusing Studies
Keywords: polymeric materials, polystyrene microparticles, morphology, non-spherical, particle focusing, biaxial stretching, uniaxial stretching, uniaxial compression
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
FloARPlan: Using augmented reality to create walkable maps of indoor spaces
Keywords: Indoor navigation, Indoor mapping, Human-computer interaction, SLAM
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Force Transmission and Remodeling of Extracellular Matrix Induced by Actomyosin Contractility
Keywords: Actomyosin Contractility, Extracellular Matrix Remodeling, Force Transmission, Nonlinearity of ECM
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Geolocation Prediction with Near Real-Time learning
Keywords: Geolocation Inference, Deep Learning, Twitter, Situational Awareness, Web Development, First Responders
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2019
High Temperature Alkene Oligomerization on Single Site Cobalt Catalyst
Keywords: single site, oligomerization, catalyst design, high-temperature stability, shale gas conversion
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
Highly Flexible and Transparent Conductor for Solar Cells
Keywords: Solar cell, transparent electrode, flexible, polymer, silver nanowire, solution process
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
Human Like approach to M2M
Keywords: IoT, Energy, M2M, Bluetooth, Ultrasound
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2019
Impact of Surfactant Concentration and Type on the Stability of Bilge Water Emulsions During Static and Dynamic Ageing
Keywords: Emulsion Stability, Surface Excess Concentration, Ageing, Bilge Water
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Science Engineering
2019
Improved Ignition of HCPEE 375 for use on T-100 Hall Thruster
Keywords: Hollow Cathode Neutralizer, Hall Thruster, Electric Propulsion, Propulsion
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2019
Improved Thrust Stand Design for Indirect Thrust Measurements from the KDC-40 Gridded Ion Source
Keywords: KDC-40, Ion Thruster, thrust stand
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2019
Influence of confining pressure gradients in the process of seafloor spreading: Insights from analogue modelling
Keywords: Confining pressure gradient, mechanical failure law, mid-ocean ridges, photoelasticity, scaled analogue models, seafloor spreading, structure from motion
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering and Geosciences
2019
Influence of electrolyte starvation on lithium plating at different operational conditions
Keywords: Li-ion Batteries, Lithium plating phenomenon, Electrolyte volume
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Influence of pore solution ion concentration and temperature on the poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylamide) hydrogel swelling in high-performance concrete
Keywords: hydrogel, swelling capacity, temperature, ion concentration, high-performance concrete
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
Introduction to Capacitance-Voltage Characterization for Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Devices with High-K Materials
Keywords: Semiconductor, Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor, High-k materials, Capacitance-voltage characterization
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2019
Investigation of incipient damage in continuous fiber reinforced composites through synchrotron radiation computed tomography
Keywords: Materials and Structures, Experimental Mechanics, Laminate Composite, In-situ Tomography
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Investigations on Thermoelectric Properties of CuAl1-xFexO2 material
Keywords: Metal Oxide materials, Solid-state reaction, Thermoelectric Properties, Nano bulk materials
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
KRAS RNA Expression Level in Multiple Human Cell Types
Keywords: KRAS, cancer cells, RNA expression level, mutant cells, KRAS isoforms
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry and Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2019
Large-Scale Analysis of Electrophysiological Data
Keywords: Electrophysiology, data analysis, local field potential, current source density, extracellular recordings
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
Low V-pi SOH Phase Modulator Based On Metamaterial Cladding
Keywords: quantum computer
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2019
Low-Cost device for Quantification of Color on Paper-based Biosensors
Keywords: Color Quantification, Colorimetry, Point-of-Care testing, Rapid diagnostics, Low-cost, Image processing Biosensors
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2019
Machine Learning-based Determination of Particle Sizes for the Ideal Passive Radiative Cooler
Keywords: Passive radiative cooling, nanoparticles, nanoparticle size, genetic algorithm, photon transport, Monte Carlo simulations, Mie theory, Mie scattering
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Macromolecular Design of Radical Polymers for Electronic Applications
Keywords: Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Nanotechnology, Device Design
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
Measuring Surface Roughness through Power Spectrum Analysis of Images
Keywords: Surface Metrology, Surface Roughness, Stereo-microscopy, Power Spectrum, Fourier Transform
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Meeting Tomorrow Emission Requirements: Turbulent Hot-Jet Ignition for Gasoline Engines
Keywords: Ignition, Combustion, Emissions, Internal Combustion Engines
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Modeling Impact of Engineering Undergraduate Experiences on Students Conception of Climate Change and Sustainability
Keywords: Engineering Education, Climate Change, Data Analysis, Sustainability
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Education
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2019
NAPRA+: Development of an updated version of the National Agricultural Pesticide Risk Analysis (NAPRA) WWW system using Open Source Tools
Keywords: vesicular Dispersion, Particle Suspension, Particle Sedimentation, Surfactant
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science and Mathematics
2019
Natural Convection Pattern of Liquid Xenon Inside Dark Matter Detector
Keywords: Liquid xenon, dark matter detector, natural convection, free convection
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Nexus of Thermionic, Field, and Space-charge Limited Emission
Keywords: Nexus Point, Thermionic Emission, Field Emission, Space Charged Limited Emission, Richardson-Laue-Dushman, Child-Langmuir, Fowler-Nordheim
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2019
Non-invasive Characterization of Compositional and Structural Changes Following Myocardial Infarction
Keywords: Lipid, mouse, myocardial infarction, oxygen saturation, myocardial strain, photoacoustic, ultrasound
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
Novel Catalysts for Enhancing the Burn Rate of HAN-Based Monopropellants
Keywords: Propulsion, Monopropellants, Combustion
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2019
Oil Return and Retention in Unitary Split System Gas Lines with HFC and HFO Refrigerants
Keywords: HVAC, Oil Retention, Compressor Design
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
On the Finite Element Method for Solving the Poisson Equation: The Accuracy of the C0-P2 Scheme with Numerical Integration
Keywords: Poisson equation, finite element method, numerical integration, quadrature
Primary Department of Faculty: Mathematics
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Optimizing Parameters of Sol-gel Co-assembly in Inverse Opal Fabrication
Keywords: Inverse opal, sol-gel, co-assembly, nanofabrication
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Optimizing Reflected Brownian Motion
Keywords: Optimizing Reflected Brownian Motion
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2019
Organic Electronics in the Axon-Hillock Circuit
Keywords: Analog electronics, neuromorphic systems, axon-hillock circuit, simulation, organic electronics
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Technology
SURF Participant's Major: Audio Engineering Technology
2019
Particle Detachment of Polymeric Substrates upon Mechanical Deformation
Keywords: Particle detachment, adhesion, mechanical deformation, contact area, polymers
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Polymer Science
2019
Photonics in Photocatalytic Water Treatment Systems
Keywords: photocatalysis, inverse opal, photonic crystal
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers in a Roll-to-Roll platform
Keywords: Piezoelectricity, Ultrasound, MEMS, Roll-to-Roll
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2019
Plaque formation and adhesion strength of M. Edulis mussels over intervals of time
Keywords: Adhesion, Time, Biological adhesion, Marine, mussels, biological material
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2019
Predicting Fatigue: Sensing Upper Body Muscle Activity in Robotic Surgeons
Keywords: Robotic Surgery, Electromyography, Muscle Activity, Discrete Wavelet Transform
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2019
Prediction of Injuries in an Airline Maintenance Environment Using Ergonomic Assessment Tools
Keywords: Ergonomics, Assessment tools, Injury-Risk Models, Airline Maintenance
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2019
Proteomics of the extracellular matrix secreted by mouse embryonic fibroblasts in vitro
Keywords: Extracellular matrix, ECM, fibroblasts, mouse embryonic fibroblasts, cell culture, ECM culture, proteomics, mass spectrometry
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2019
Purification and Characterization of Elastin-like Polypeptide Fusion Proteins for Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer Imaging
Keywords: Cancer, Bladder cancer, precision medicine, bladder cancer imaging, nanoparticle, Elastin-like polypeptide
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology
2019
Quantification of KRAS Protein in Different Human Cell Types
Keywords: Cancer, Biology, Immunology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry and Computer Science
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2019
Reducing Potentially Avoidable Hospital Readmissions for Long-Term Care
Keywords: Long-term care, potentially avoidable hospitalizations, nursing homes, hospital readmissions
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2019
Relationship between Photoluminescence and Surface Potential in 2D Materials
Keywords: Nano materials, 2D Materials, TMDCs, Photoluminescence
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Forest Biomass using I-Band Signals of Opportunity: Instrument Development
Keywords: Remote Sensing, Signals of Opportunity, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Forest Biomass, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2019
Resolving Structural Variations in the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome Using Third-Generation Sequencing
Keywords: Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT), glucosinolate biosynthesis, specialized metabolism, AOP locus, MAM locus
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2019
Resonant Human Body Communication
Keywords: Human Body Communication (HBC), Wireless Body Area Network, Capacitive Return Path, Inductive Cancellation, Channel Capacity, Narrowband HBC
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical Engineering
2019
Robustness of Leading Edge Vortex to Turbulence
Keywords: Aerodynamics, Flapping Wing Flight, Leading Edge Vortex
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Set4 Expression in Candida glabrata and Saccharomyces cerevisiae under different drug conditions
Keywords: antifungal drug resistance, epigenetics, gene expression, ergosterol biosynthesis, SET-domain proteins
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2019
Smart glasses for fluorescence image-guided contaminant detection in food industry
Keywords: Smart glasses, portable device, head-up display, fluorescent detection, food contaminant, food quality, electronic control, optics
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2019
Spatial Life Cycle Assessment of Indiana Soybean to Biodiesel
Keywords: life cycle assessment, soybean, biodiesel, spatial, modeling, emissions
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
Spike Inference from Large-field Calcium Imaging
Keywords: Two-photon imaging, calcium imaging analysis, spike inference, source extraction, motion correction
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
Stabilization of Large Proteins in In Situ Forming Implants Through the Addition of Basic Salts
Keywords: Controlled Release, In Situ Forming Implants, Stabilization, Protein Release, PLGA, Additives
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
Structural Characterization of P-Rex1-DH-PH-DEP1 in Its Autoinhibited State
Keywords: P-Rex1, cancer, metastasis, enzyme, phosphorylation, protein kinase A, crystallography
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
Structure-Function Relationships of Propionyl-CoA Carboxylase for Rational Drug Design
Keywords: propionyl-CoA carboxylase, macromolecular structure, X-ray crystallography
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2019
Targeting Vre-31 for New Antibiotics Against Multi-drug Resistant Enterococci
Keywords: Antibiotics, Drug Repurposing, Multi-drug Resistance, Bacteria, X-Ray Crystallography
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2019
Testing the Efficacy of Targeted Anabolic Agents on Maxillofacial Defects in a Rodent Model
Keywords: Drug delivery, Osteology, Maxillofacial surgery, Bone fracture, wound healing, rodent
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2019
The Effect of Nanoparticles in the Stability of Salty Shipboard Emulsions
Keywords: Bilge water, Pickering emulsions, emulsion stability, nanoparticles, surfactants, environment
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
The Effect of Silver Ion Adducts on the Ionization Efficiency of Lipids
Keywords: Mass Spectrometry, Electrospray Ionization, Lipids
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
The Role of Mouse Rostrolateral Area in Motion Perception
Keywords: global motion perception; operant conditioning; dorsal stream; rostrolateral area; ischemic injury; in vivo direct reprogramming global motion perception; operant conditioning; dorsal stream; rostrolateral area; ischemic injury; in vivo direct reprogramming
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2019
The influence of building environment conditions on indoor oxidative chemistry and aerosol production
Keywords: Indoor Chemistry, Indoor Air Quality, Oxidative Chemistry, Ozone, Hydroxyl Radicals, Nitrogen Oxides, Nitrous Acid, VOCs, Nano-Sized Particles, Particulate Matter
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Thermal Remote Sensing on Unmanned Aircraft System Calibrations Comparison
Keywords: Thermal remote sensing, UAS, MODTRAN, water target, atmospheric calibration
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering and Agriculture Engineering
2019
Training Data Set selection impact on the accuracy of Convolutional Neural Networks for Histopathology Image classification
Keywords: Training Data Set Selection, Convolutional Neural Networks, Classification Accuracy, Histopathology Image Classification
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2019
Training an Object Recognition Neural Network Using Synthetic Data That Performs Well on Real Data
Keywords: Computer Vision, Neural Networks, Object Recognition
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Engineering
2019
Two-photon polymerization towards rapid 3D projection printing
Keywords: Two-photon polymerization, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Projection lithography
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2019
Uncover Developers Habits with Open Source Repositories: An Analysis of Git Commit Logs
Keywords: developer, habits, commit logs, open source
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2019
Understanding Epigenetics: Developmental Requirements of ARID2, a Chromatin Remodeling Protein, in Early Porcine Embryo Development
Keywords: Epigenetics, chromatin remodeling, embryogenesis, SWI/SNF, ARID2
Primary Department of Faculty: Agriculture
SURF Participant's Major: Genetics
2019
Using Vesicular Dispersions of a Cationic Surfactant for Stabilizing Suspensions of Dense Particles Against Sedimentation
Keywords: Vesicular Dispersion, Particle Suspension, Particle Sedimentation, Surfactant
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2019
iFly: Forensic Data Collecting iOS Application
Keywords: iOS, Application, Development, Software, Swift, Objective-C, Entomology, Forensics, data
Primary Department of Faculty: Entomology
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2019
Read the SURF 2018 Symposium Abstract Booklet.
1D Models for Particle-Laden Flows in Tight Geometries
Keywords: gravity currents, Hele-Shaw flows, suspension
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
A Novel CTR1-Interating Protein at the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Keywords: Ethylene, Phosphorylation, CTR1, ER, Botany, Biology
Primary Department of Faculty: Botany and Plant Pathology
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2018
A method to improve the heterogeneity of protein samples intended for high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy
Keywords: Cryo-EM, near-atomic resolution, viral capsid protein, heterogeneity, norovirus
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry and Biology
2018
A parametric study of laser-driven projectiles
Keywords: Laser-driven, hypervelocity impact, laser induced projectile impact test
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2018
Additive Manufacturing Applied to Reactive Materials in Solid Propellants
Keywords: additive manufacturing, 3D printing, solid propellant, nanoaluminum, energetics, solid fuel, reactive wires, ammonium perchlorate
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
All Printed Low-Cost Dosimeter for Sterilization Monitoring Applications
Keywords: Sensing and measurement, Nanotechnology, Health, Gamma radiation monitoring, Conductive Polymers
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2018
Amyloid beta-mediated Inflammatory Response in Microglia
Keywords: Microglia, amyloid beta, phagocytosis, chronic inflammation, priming, Alzheimer's disease
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2018
Analysis of Pt Nanoparticle Size in Pt/SiO2 and PtNb/SiO2 Catalysts and Its Effect on Selectivity in Propane Dehydrogenation
Keywords: Catalyst, shale gas, propane dehydrogenation, energy, nanoparticles, selectivity
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Analysis of Rarefied Flow in FEMTA Microthruster
Keywords: Nanotechnology, direct simulation Monte Carlo, DSMC, SPARTA, rarefied, micronozzle, nanosatellites
Primary Department of Faculty:
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2018
Analysis of Reactor Systems for Ethane Dehydrogenation
Keywords: Catalytic dehydrogenation, shale gas transformation, process design, ethane dehydrogenation, NGL conversion, ethylene production
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Analysis of quagga mussel effects in deep waters: Numerical methods for one-dimensional diffusion modeling in Lake Michigan
Keywords: Numerical Modeling, Quagga Mussels, Nutrient Cycling, Phytoplankton, Lake Michigan
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2018
Anion Diffusion in 2D Lead Halide Perovskite Vertical Heterojunctions
Keywords: Halide perovskite, photovoltaic, heterostructure, anion diffusion, photoluminescence.
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Application of Traffic Signal Probability for Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory
Keywords: Traffic Signal Probability, GLOSA, Dilemma Zone, Fuel Consumption, Travel Time, g-force
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechatronics Engineering Technology
2018
Augmented Reality in Semi-autonomous Driving: The Effect of Warning Signal Format and Perceived Urgency on Takeover Performance
Keywords: Human Factors, Semi-autonomous Driving, Warning Signals, Augmented Reality, Perceived Urgency
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Automatic Hyperparameter Optimization for Neural Networks
Keywords: neural networks, hyperparameters, classifiers, autoencoders, optimization algorithms, machine learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Bend Testing of Thermally Conductive Flexible Fabrics for Wearable Technology Applications
Keywords: Flexural rigidity, stiffness, thermal conductivity, Dyneema, Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE), bend test
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Changes in Flux of Polyamide-Based Reverse Osmosis Membrane During the Chloramination of Halide Containing Waters
Keywords: Environmental engineering, polyamide membrane, reverse osmosis, chloramines, halides, membrane degradation
Primary Department of Faculty: Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2018
Characterization and Mechanical Behavior of Additive Manufactured Materials
Keywords: Additive Manufacturing, Porosity, Surface Roughness, Crack, Topography, Titanium (Ti64)
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2018
Characterization of Drosophila eye-specific GeneSwitch GAL4 Drivers
Keywords: Photoreceptor cells, Rh1GSGAL4, RU486, Luciferase Assays
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2018
Characterization of Exosome-Like Extracellular Vesicles and Their Impacts on Lung Epithelial Cells
Keywords: Exosomes, Lung Cancer, Extracellular Vesicles, Biology, Health
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology
2018
Characterization of Fabrication Capabilities with Two Photon Polymerization
Keywords: two photon polymerization, microrobots, micro-manufacturing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Characterizing Disease Progression for Night Blindness in the Zebrafish Model
Keywords: Retinitis pigmentosa, retinal degeneration, zebrafish, disease model
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Neurobiology and Physiology
2018
Characterizing Immunomodulatory Properties of Oligomer for Macrophages
Keywords: Immunomodulation, Collagen, Biomaterials, Macrophages
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
Characterizing a Fully Optically Accessible RDE: Analysis of Continuous Detonation Waves for Aerospace Applications and Design
Keywords: RDE, combustor(s), detonation and deflagration wave(s), OH* Chemiluminescence, Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence, particle image velocimetry, Schlieren Imaging, aerospace design
Primary Department of Faculty:
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Characterizing the Epigenetic Differences in Enzalutamide Resistant Prostate Cancer Cell Lines
Keywords: Epigentics, Prostate, Cancer, Enzalutamide, Drug, Resistance
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Comparison of Titanium Nitride Microelectrode Designs for Neurostimulation Devices
Keywords: Neurostimulation, Microelectrodes, Titanium Nitride, Geometry, Fractal, Serpentine, Circular, Cyclic Voltammetry, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Voltage Transient
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
Comparison of machine learning models for gesture recognition using a multimodal wrist orthosis for tetraplegics
Keywords: Spinal Cord Injury, Gesture Recognition, IMU, dynamic time warping, hidden Markov model
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
Computational Investigation of Collective Behaviors of Actin Filaments
Keywords: Actin Cytoskelton, Myosin Motility Assay, Actin Filaments, Actin Cross-Linking Proteins, Computer Model
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
Conceptual Design of a 10-passenger Thin-haul Electric Aircraft
Keywords: Aviation, Electrical Aircraft, Future Transportation, Electric Propulsion, Joint Wing
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Constraining the Progenitor Systems of Ca-rich Transients Using Advanced Stellar Inferencing of Their Host Galaxies
Keywords: supernovae, techniques: photometric, galaxies: photometry, galaxies: stellar content
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2018
Control of Slender Body Wake Flow using Plasma Actuators
Keywords: Aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Plasma Actuator, Wake, Separation
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2018
Cooling Spacer for Thermal Management on Li-Ion Batteries
Keywords: Thermal management, Electric Vehicles, Lithium-Ion Batteries, Spacers, Battery-Packaging
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Crater Formation and Transition of Gas Breakdown Mechanism at Nanoscale
Keywords: Electrical breakdown, Field emission, Paschen’s Law, submicron gap, space-charge limit.
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2018
Decentralized Distributed IoT Home Monitoring System
Keywords: IoT, DC, nanogrid
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Civil Engineering
2018
Deformation- Driven Particle Debonding
Keywords: Debonding, particle adhesion, elastomeric materials, poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS)
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Detection of Neutrons from Pu-Be and Cf-252 Isotope Sources using Acoustically Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detectors
Keywords: Neutron, radiation, metastability, acoustic waves, negative pressure, detector, Special Nuclear Materials, neutron spectra
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2018
Developing a Method to Measure Nitrate N and O Isotopes
Keywords: Nitrate, Stable Isotopes, Method Development
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Chemistry
2018
Development of Teleoperation System with Haptic Device and ROS Framework
Keywords: Robotics, Teleoperation, Haptic, ROS, Framework
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Robotics
2018
Development of a low-cost electronic nose for food adulteration and bacteria detection
Keywords: Electronic Nose, Food Safety, Food Adulteration, Bacteria, Sensors, Machine Learning
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Discovery and analysis of membrane-associated legionella pneumophilia deubiquitinase LPG0227
Keywords: Ceg7, deubiquitinase, lipid-binding, LPG0227, ubiquitin, diubiquitin, assay, membrane association, diubiquitin cleavage, fluorescence, insoluble
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2018
Dynamic Aggregation Network for 3D Semantic Scene Segmentation
Keywords: Point Cloud, Semantic Segmentation, Dynamic Aggregation, Deep Learning, Computer Vision
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Effects of Varying Electrolyte Concentration on Lithium Metal Anode
Keywords: Li-ion batteries, Li-plating, Dendritic Growth, Electrolyte Concentration
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Electrically Conductive Collagen Coatings for Implantable Electrodes
Keywords: Biomedical engineering, collagen, implants, electrodes, conductive, resistivity, impedance, resistance, cellular
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
Evaluation of Effective Sensing Zone of Piezoelectric Sensors using Acoustic Wave Attenuation Method
Keywords: Structural Health Monitoring, Acoustic Waves, Concrete, Non-destructive Testing, Piezoelectric Sensors
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Evaluation of machine learning models for classifying and detecting common weeds in corn and soybean crops
Keywords: Weed Detection, Precision Agriculture, Site Specific Weed Management, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Transfer Learning, Supervised Learning, Smart Agriculture, Datasets
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Evaluation of the Dynamics of Epigenetic Memory
Keywords: Biology, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Genetics
2018
Experimental Investigation of Combustion Characteristics of Monopropellant Sprays
Keywords: Fuel Droplets; Ignition Properties; Fuel Droplet Proximity; Combustion Properties; Greener Alternative Fuels
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2018
Experimental Validation of an Approach-to-Contact Method for Determining Hamaker Constants Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Keywords: Particle adhesion, surface roughness, Hamaker constant, atomic force microscopy (AFM), van der Waals (vdW) force
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Fabrication and Testing of a Standing Surface Acoustic Wave (SSAW) Microfluidic Device for Concentrating Bacteria
Keywords: Microfluidic Device, Bacteria, Acoustic Waves, Continuous Flow, Separation.
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Fabrication of Antimicrobial Electrospun Kafirin Fibers through Essential Oil Encapsulation for Sustainable Food Packaging
Keywords: Kafirin, electrospinning, nanofibers, antimicrobial food packaging, thymol, carvacrol.
Primary Department of Faculty: Food Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Nutrition and Dietetics
2018
Fabrication of Non-Spherical Microparticles for Particle Focusing Studies
Keywords: polymeric materials, polystyrene microparticles, morphology, non-spherical, particle focusing, biaxial stretching, uniaxial stretching, uniaxial compression
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
FloARPlan: Using augmented reality to create walkable maps of indoor spaces
Keywords: Indoor navigation, Indoor mapping, Human-computer interaction, SLAM
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science
2018
Force Transmission and Remodeling of Extracellular Matrix Induced by Actomyosin Contractility
Keywords: Actomyosin Contractility, Extracellular Matrix Remodeling, Force Transmission, Nonlinearity of ECM
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
High Temperature Alkene Oligomerization on Single Site Cobalt Catalyst
Keywords: single site, oligomerization, catalyst design, high-temperature stability, shale gas conversion
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Highly Flexible and Transparent Conductor for Solar Cells
Keywords: Solar cell, transparent electrode, flexible, polymer, silver nanowire, solution process
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Human Like approach to M2M
Keywords: IoT, Energy, M2M, Bluetooth, Ultrasound
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Impact of Surfactant Concentration and Type on the Stability of Bilge Water Emulsions During Static and Dynamic Ageing
Keywords: Emulsion Stability, Surface Excess Concentration, Ageing, Bilge Water
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Materials Engineering
2018
Improved Ignition of HCPEE 375 for use on T-100 Hall Thruster
Keywords: Hollow Cathode Neutralizer, Hall Thruster, Electric Propulsion, Propulsion
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2018
Improved Thrust Stand Design for Indirect Thrust Measurements from the KDC-40 Gridded Ion Source
Keywords: KDC-40, Ion Thruster, thrust stand
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2018
Improving Model Accuracy with Pseudo-Labeling
Keywords: Deep Learning, Data Labeling Cost, Active Learning, Dataset Bias, Unsupervised Learning, Transfer Learning, Domain Adaptation, Neural Network
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Influence of confining pressure gradients in the process of seafloor spreading: Insights from analogue modelling
Keywords: Confining pressure gradient, mechanical failure law, mid-ocean ridges, photoelasticity, scaled analogue models, seafloor spreading, structure from motion.
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering and Geosciences
2018
Influence of pore solution ion concentration and temperature on the poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylamide) hydrogel swelling in high-performance concrete
Keywords: hydrogel, swelling capacity, temperature, ion concentration, high-performance concrete
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Introduction to Capacitance-Voltage Characterization for Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Devices with High-K Materials
Keywords: Semiconductor, Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor, High-k materials, Capacitance-voltage characterization
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Investigation of incipient damage in continuous fiber reinforced composites through synchrotron radiation computed tomography
Keywords: Materials and Structures, Experimental Mechanics, Laminate Composite, In-situ Tomography
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Investigations on Thermoelectric Properties of CuAl1-xFexO2 material
Keywords: Metal Oxide materials, Solid-state reaction, Thermoelectric Properties, Nano bulk materials
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
KRAS RNA Expression Level in Multiple Human Cell Types
Keywords: KRAS, cancer cells, RNA expression level, mutant cells, KRAS isoforms
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2018
Large-Scale Analysis of Electrophysiological Data
Keywords: Electrophysiology, data analysis, local field potential, current source density, extracellular recordings
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
Low-Cost device for Quantification of Color on Paper-based Biosensors
Keywords: Color Quantification, Colorimetry, Point-of-Care testing, Rapid diagnostics, Low-cost, Image processing Biosensors
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Machine Learning-based Determination of Particle Sizes for the Ideal Passive Radiative Cooler
Keywords: Passive radiative cooling, nanoparticles, nanoparticle size, genetic algorithm, photon transport, Monte Carlo simulations, Mie theory, Mie scattering
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Macromolecular Design of Radical Polymers for Electronic Applications
Keywords: Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Nanotechnology, Device Design
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Measuring Surface Roughness through Power Spectrum Analysis of Images
Keywords: Surface Metrology, Surface Roughness, Stereo-microscopy, Power Spectrum, Fourier Transform
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Meeting Tomorrow Emission Requirements: Turbulent Hot-Jet Ignition for Gasoline Engines
Keywords: Ignition, Combustion, Emissions, Internal Combustion Engines
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2018
Modeling Impact of Engineering Undergraduate Experiences on Students and Conception of Climate Change and Sustainability
Keywords: Engineering Education, Climate Change, Data Analysis, Sustainability
Primary Department of Faculty: Engineering Education
SURF Participant's Major: Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2018
Morteza Karimzadeh, David S. Ebert
Keywords: Automated Landform Inference Mapping, Soil-mapping, Visual Analytics, Clustering
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
NAPRA+: Development of an updated version of the National Agricultural Pesticide Risk Analysis (NAPRA) WWW system using Open Source Tools
Keywords: NAPRA, GLEAMS, Nonpoint source pollution, Nutrient, Pesticide, WWW, Decision support system
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science and Mathematics
2018
Natural convection pattern of liquid Xenon inside dark matter detector
Keywords: Liquid xenon, dark matter detector, natural convection, free convection,
Primary Department of Faculty: Physics and Astronomy
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Nexus of Thermionic, Field, and Space-charge Limited Emission
Keywords: Nexus Point, Thermionic Emission, Field Emission, Space Charged Limited Emission, Richardson-Laue-Dushman, Child-Langmuir, Fowler-Nordheim
Primary Department of Faculty: Nuclear Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Nuclear Engineering
2018
Non-invasive Characterization of Compositional and Structural Changes Following Myocardial Infarction
Keywords: Lipid, mouse, myocardial infarction, oxygen saturation, myocardial strain, photoacoustic, ultrasound
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
Novel Catalysts for Enhancing the Burn Rate of HAN-Based Monopropellants
Keywords: Propulsion, Monopropellants, Combustion
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2018
Oil Return and Retention in Unitary Split System Gas Lines with HFC and HFO Refrigerants
Keywords: HVAC, Oil Retention, Compressor Design
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
On the Finite Element Method For Solving The Poisson Equation: The Accuracy of the C0-P2 Scheme With Numerical Integration
Keywords: Poisson equation, finite element method, numerical integration, quadrature
Primary Department of Faculty: Mathematics
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Optimizing Parameters of Sol-gel Co-assembly in Inverse Opal Fabrication
Keywords: Inverse opal, sol-gel, co-assembly, nanofabrication
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Optimizing Reflected Brownian Motion
Keywords: Partial Differential equation, Reflected Brownian Motion, Optimization, Optimal Control, Simulation.
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2018
Organic Electronics in the Axon-Hillock Circuit
Keywords: Analog electronics, neuromorphic systems, axon-hillock circuit, simulation, organic electronics
Primary Department of Faculty: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Audio Engineering Technology
2018
Particle Detachment of Polymeric Substrates upon Mechanical Deformation
Keywords: Particle detachment, adhesion, mechanical deformation, contact area, polymers.
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Polymer Science
2018
Photonics in Photocatalytic Water Treatment Systems
Keywords: photocatalysis, inverse opal, photonic crystal
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers in a Roll-to-Roll platform
Keywords: Piezoelectricity, Ultrasound, MEMS, Roll-to-Roll
Primary Department of Faculty:
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Plaque formation and adhesion strength of M. Edulis mussels over intervals of time
Keywords: Adhesion, Time, Biological adhesion, Marine, mussels, biological material
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biology and Pre-Veterinary Medicine
2018
Predicting Fatigue: Sensing Upper Body Muscle Activity in Robotic Surgeons
Keywords: "Robotic Surgery, Electromyography, Muscle Activity, Discrete Wavelet Transform "
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2018
Prediction of Injuries in an Airline Maintenance Environment Using Ergonomic Assessment Tools
Keywords: Ergonomics, Assessment tools, Injury-Risk Models, Airline Maintenance
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering
2018
Proteomics of the extracellular matrix secreted by mouse embryonic fibroblasts in vitro
Keywords:
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2018
Purification and Characterization of Elastin-like Polypeptide Fusion Proteins for Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer Imaging
Keywords: Cancer, Bladder cancer, precision medicine, bladder cancer imaging, nanoparticle, Elastin-like polypeptide
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology
2018
Quantification of KRAS Protein in Different Human Cell Types
Keywords: Cancer, Biology, Immunology
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2018
Reducing Potentially Avoidable Hospital Readmissions for Long-Term Care
Keywords: Long-term care, potentially avoidable hospitalizations, nursing homes, hospital readmissions
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering and School of Nursing
SURF Participant's Major: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
2018
Relationship between Photoluminescence and Surface Potential in 2D Materials
Keywords: Nano materials, 2D Materials, TMDCs, Photoluminescence
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Forest Biomass using I-Band Signals of Opportunity: Instrument Development
Keywords: Remote Sensing, Signals of Opportunity, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Forest Biomass, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
Primary Department of Faculty: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
2018
Resolving Structural Variations in the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome Using Third-Generation Sequencing
Keywords: Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT), glucosinolate biosynthesis, specialized metabolism, AOP locus, MAM locus
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2018
Resonant Human Body Communication
Keywords: Human Body Communication (HBC), Wireless Body Area Network, Capacitive Return Path, Inductive Cancellation, Channel Capacity, Narrowband HBC
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Robustness of Leading Edge Vortex to Turbulence
Keywords: Aerodynamics, Flapping Wing Flight, Leading Edge Vortex
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
SMART
Keywords: Geolocation Inference, Deep Learning, Twitter, Situational Awareness, Web Development, First Responders
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2018
Set4 Expression in Candida glabrata and Saccharomyces cerevisiae under different drug conditions
Keywords: antifungal drug resistance, epigenetics, gene expression, ergosterol biosynthesis, SET-domain proteins
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2018
Silicon-Organic Hybrid Modulator Simulation and Analysis Using Maxwell's Equations
Keywords: Modulators, Silicon, Electro-Optic
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Physics
2018
Smart glasses for fluorescence image-guided contaminant detection in food industry
Keywords: Smart glasses, portable device, head-up display, fluorescent detection, food contaminant, food quality, electronic control, optics
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2018
Spatial Life Cycle Assessment of Indiana Soybean to Biodiesel
Keywords: life cycle assessment, soybean, biodiesel, spatial, modeling, emissions
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
Spike Inference from Large-field Calcium Imaging
Keywords: Two-photon imaging, calcium imaging analysis, spike inference, source extraction, motion correction
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
Stabilization of Large Proteins in In Situ Forming Implants Through the Addition of Basic Salts
Keywords: Controlled Release, In Situ Forming Implants, Stabilization, Protein Release, PLGA, Additives
Primary Department of Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
Structural Characterization of P-Rex1-DH-PH-DEP1 in Its Autoinhibited State
Keywords: "P-Rex1, cancer, metastasis, enzyme, phosphorylation, protein kinase A, crystallography "
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
Structure-Function Relationships of Propionyl-CoA Carboxylase for Rational Drug Design
Keywords: propionyl-CoA carboxylase, macromolecular structure, X-ray crystallography
Primary Department of Faculty: Biochemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2018
Targeting Vre-31 for New Antibiotics Against Multi-drug Resistant Enterococci
Keywords: Antibiotics, Drug Repurposing, Multi-drug Resistance, Bacteria, X-Ray Crystallography
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biology
2018
Testing the Efficacy of Targeted Anabolic Agents on Maxillofacial Defects in a Rodent Model
Keywords: Drug delivery, Osteology, Maxillofacial surgery, Bone fracture, wound healing, rodent
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Biomedical Engineering
2018
The Effect of Nanoparticles in the Stability of Salty Shipboard Emulsions
Keywords: Bilge water, Pickering emulsions, emulsion stability, nanoparticles, surfactants, environment
Primary Department of Faculty: Materials Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
The Effect of Silver Ion Adducts on the Ionization Efficiency of Lipids
Keywords: Mass Spectrometry, Electrospray Ionization, Lipids
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemistry
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
The Role of Mouse Rostrolateral Area in Motion Perception
Keywords: global motion perception; operant conditioning; dorsal stream; rostrolateral area; ischemic injury; in vivo direct reprogramming
Primary Department of Faculty: Biological Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Biochemistry
2018
The influence of building environment conditions on indoor oxidative chemistry and aerosol production
Keywords: Indoor Chemistry, Indoor Air Quality, Oxidative Chemistry, Ozone, Hydroxyl Radicals, Nitrogen Oxides, Nitrous Acid, VOCs, Nano-Sized Particles, Particulate Matter
Primary Department of Faculty: Civil Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Thermal Remote Sensing on Unmanned Aircraft System Calibrations Comparison
Keywords: Thermal remote sensing, UAS, MODTRAN, water target, atmospheric calibration
Primary Department of Faculty: Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering
2018
Training Data Set selection impact on the accuracy of Convolutional Neural Networks for Histopathology Image classification
Keywords: Training Data Set Selection, Convolutional Neural Networks, Classification Accuracy, Histopathology Image Classification
Primary Department of Faculty: Industrial Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Training an Object Recognition Neural Network Using Synthetic Data That Performs Well on Real Data
Keywords: Computer Vision, Neural Networks, Object Recognition
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Two-photon polymerization towards rapid 3D projection printing
Keywords: Two-photon polymerization, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Projection lithography
Primary Department of Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Mechanical Engineering
2018
Uncover Developers Habits with Open Source Repositories: An Analysis of Git Commit Logs
Keywords: developer, habits, commit logs, open source
Primary Department of Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Understanding Epigenetics: Developmental Requirements of ARID2, a Chromatin Remodeling Protein, in Early Porcine Embryo Development
Keywords: Epigenetics, chromatin remodeling, embryogenesis, SWI/SNF, ARID2
Primary Department of Faculty: Animal Sciences
SURF Participant's Major: Genetics
2018
Using Vesicular Dispersions of a Cationic Surfactant for Stabilizing Suspensions of Dense Particles Against Sedimentation
Keywords: Vesicular Dispersion, Particle Suspension, Particle Sedimentation, Surfactant
Primary Department of Faculty: Chemical Engineering
SURF Participant's Major: Chemical Engineering
2018
iFly: Forensic Data Collecting iOS Application
Keywords: iOS, Application, Development, Software, Swift, Objective-C, Entomology, Forensics, data
Primary Department of Faculty: Entomology
SURF Participant's Major: Computer Science
2018