The Undergraduates Research Opportunity Program (UROP) provides a stipend and educational programing for students to participate in a faculty member’s research. You can find out more about the program from the Office of Undergraduate Research. Congratulations to all of our student participants this Fall!
Vikram Athithan (Mentor: Laura Hallock) – Ultrasound-Based Control Interface for Gaze Tracking
Tymur Bolsheshapov (Mentor: Pai Wang) – A Neural-Network Surrogate for Phononic Dispersion: Fast Forward Prediction and Inverse Design of Nonlocal Metamaterial Band Structures
Jackson Carter (Mentor: Pania Newell) – Flexural Behavior of Ceramic Quasicrystalline Lattices
Mckenzie Coleman (Mentor: Owen Kingstedt) – Tracking Milk Expression During Lactation Using Surface Mounted Flexible Sensors
Bowen Degraw (Mentor: Haohan Zhang) – A Three Degrees of Freedom End-effector Device for Stroke Rehabilitation
Sierra Heflin (Mentor: Rob Parker) – Development of High-Fidelity Simulation Software for Bearing and Gear Contact Analysis in Power Transmission Systems
Andrew Monson (Mentor: Jacob Hochhalter) – Modeling Elastic Behavior of Metamaterial Lattice Structures using Genetic Programming based Symbolic Regression
Kara Nelson (Mentor: Hossein Montazerian) – Development of an Injectable Retinal Bioadhesive for Retinal Breaks and Ruptures
Nicole Payne (Mentor: Elham Davoodi) – TiO2 Scaffolds for Alveolar Ridge stability via Hydrogel Infusion Additive Manufacturing
Alec Popiel (Mentor: Haohan Zhang) – Spherical Five-Bar Robot for Assisting Head/Neck Movement
Karsten Seidel (Mentor: Scott Uhlrich) – Validating a Mobile Gait Retraining Intervention for Medial Compartment Knee Osteoarthritis
Jude Smith (Mentor: Jiyoung Chang) – Real-Time Detection of Machining-Induced Defects in Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Using Embedded PVDF Piezoelectric Sensors and Machine Learning
Allie Sudweeks (Mentor: Alex Novoselov) – Predicting Unconfined and Partially-Confined Flame Flashback in Lean Hydrogen-Methane Fuel Mixtures
Kian Thomason (Mentor: Scott Uhlrich) – Video-Based Foot–Ground Contact Detection Using Pressure-Sensing Insoles for Musculoskeletal Modeling
James Utton (Mentor: Brittany Coats) – Retinal Vasculature Analysis for Early Detection of Damage
Aeddan Winter (Mentor: Scott Uhlrich) – High Quality Biofeedback for Improving Upper Extremity Movement