Students: If you are looking for an opportunity for Undergraduate Research, please look at this list to see what projects have already been completed. Do not hesitate to contact the professor listed below to continue working on these projects or if you have ideas of your own related to these projects. The links listed below are ESE 497 (Undergraduate Research) or ESE 499 (Systems Design Project) project reports.

• Kim Venta (Professor: Lan Yang), Variations on Microtoroids and Their Uses, Spring 2008
  

• Brian Blosser and Matt Meshalum (Professor: Arye Nehorai), Implementing a Microphone Array on a Mobile Robotic Device, Spring 2008
• Keith Swaback (Professors: Michael Swartwout and Arye Nehorai), Hardware for the Akoya and Bandit Satellites  (Report, Web Page), Spring 2008
• Forrest Rogers-Marcovitz (Professors: Michael Swartwout and Arye Nehorai), Software for the Akoya and Bandit Satellites  (Report, Web Page), Spring 2008
  
• Justin Lawler (Professor: Robert Morley), Designing a Codebook-Excited Linear Predictor Speech Coder, Spring 2008
• Kevin McKee (Supervisor: Boaz Porat), Automated Music Generation for Sight Reading (Report, Web Page), Spring 2008
  
• Tripp McGehee (Professor: Arye Nehorai) Implementation of an Acoustic Sensor Array on a Mobile Robotic Device for Estimating Location of a Stationary Target , Spring 2007
• Sarit Barhen (Professor: Arye Nehorai) Analytic and Numerical Modeling of the Transient Dynamics of a Microcantilever Sensor, Summer - Fall 2006
• Amanda Virkus (Professor: R. Martin Arthur) Development of a High-Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging Platform, Spring 2006
• Thomas Simpson (Professor: R. Martin Arthur) Acquisition of Ultrasonic Echoes for use in Ultrasonic Thermometry, Spring 2005
• Sharad Bhooplapur (Professor: R. Martin Arthur) Creating Body Surfaces of the Visible Human Male using IsoSurf, Spring 2005
• John Bogovic (Professor: R. Martin Arthur) Comparing Heart Models and Locating Anatomical Features, Spring 2005

Operations Research

• Ashley Davis, Allison Pitt, and Emily Webelhuth (Supervisor: T. Eugene Day), Modeling "Fox's Hole": The Simulation of a Campus Cafeteria, Spring 2008
• Samantha Sacks (Supervisor: Yossi Aviv), Performance Assessment of Forecasting-Integrated Dynamic-Pricing Processes via Simulation Models, Spring 2008
• Mark Davenport (Supervisor: Dan Scholz), Optimized Yield Curve Matching, Fall 2007
• Andrea Martinez (Supervisor: Stefan Falke), Automating the Registration Process of Air Quality Emissions Datasets, Fall 2007
• Steven Shalwitz (Supervisor: Jody Debold), Seventh Wave Scheduling Tool, Fall 2007
• Cara Freling, (Supervisor: Mark Schwimmer),  Optimizing the Administration of Mammography Procedures, Spring 2007
• Kathryn Robinson, (Supervisor: David Weaver), FedEx: A World on Time An Optimization Problem, Spring 2007
• Ben Allen (Professor: Heinz Schaettler), Resource Allocation Optimization in Agile Software Development Project Management, Spring 2007
• Steven Vogl (Supervisor: Michael S. McCoy), Supply Distribution Model, Spring 2007
• Pankaj Chhabra (Professor: Gary L. Crawford), Predicted Reliability and Optimal Procurement of an Integrated Circuit, Fall 2006

Controls Engineering

• Amanda Virkus (Supervisor: Brian Wrenn), Coalescence During Chemical Dispersion of Oil Spill, Spring 2007
• Eric Seidler (Professor: William Smart), Simulation of Robotic Code System, Spring 2007
• Ryan Renne (Professor: Robert Morley), DC Motor Control Laboratory Design, Spring 2007
• Scott Dixon (Supervisor: Daniel Giammar), UO₂ Dissolution Modeling, Spring 2007
• Julie Higgins (Professor: Michael Swartwout), The Bandit Program, Spring 2007
• James Brockman (Professor: Hiro Mukai) Optimum Assignment Problem Extension of “Sequential Linear-Quadratic Method for Differential Games with Air Combat Applications”, Spring 2006
• Sie Deen Lau (Professor: Eftychios Christoforou), Experimental Study of Robotic Assembly and Force Control Tasks, Spring 2006
• Margaret Frericks (Professor: Eftychios Christoforou) Product Packaging and Palletizing Using a Rhino XR-4 Robot And a Specially Designed Platform, Spring 2006
• Jason Hall (Professor: Eftychios Christoforou) Breathing Motion Compensation for Medical Robots, Spring 2006
• Callie Maples (Professor: Ilker Tunay) Hemodynamic Modeling of the Cardiovascular System, Spring 2006
• Brent Goldman (Professor: Ilker Tunay) ECG Beat Detection and Pulmonary Dynamics Simulation, Spring 2006
• Aliza Skolnik (Professor: Hiro Mukai) Exploration of a Two-Mass Rectilinear System, Spring 2006
• Paul Frihauf (Professor: Hiro Mukai) Mitigating a Degenerating Observability Space: An Estimation Problem , Spring 2005

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