Engineering Science seniors recently announced their Senior Research Design Capstone Projects for the 2008-09 academic year. The names of the students, their research titles, and their supervising faculty members follow below. The Senior Research Design Capstone Project is a graduation requirement for students enrolled in the Engineering Science major.

Nghia Nguyen, “Growing Gold Nanowires by Utilizing electrophoresis and Gold Plating Solution”, Supervised by S. J. Fonash

Zack Stratton, “Microfluidic Active Mixing by means of Microcavity Acoustic Streaming”, supervised by Tony Huang

Santiago Lopez, “Nanowire use on Sensing Applications”, supervised by Stephen Fonash

Brittany Hedrick, “Characterizing White Light Quantum DOT LEDS, supervised by Jian Xu.

Hitesh Basantani, “Effect of Lithographic Processing on Un-cooled IR Materials”, supervised by Mark Horn.

Jeff Hopkins, “Electric Thrusters for Space Applications”, Supervised by Sven Bilen.

Dustin Bauknight, “Carbon Based Ultracapacitors”, supervised by Michael Lanagan.

Brian Bontempo, “Thin Film Research for High Energy Density Capacitors”, supervised by Michael Lanagan.

Stephen Koytek, “Enzyme-Stability and Protein Functionalization of Structured Polymers”, supervised by Barbara Shaw.

James Moses, “Nanometer Thin-films, and p-n junction cells for Solar Energy Conversions”, supervised by Samia Suliman.

Sally Smith, “Modeling and Experimental Analysis of Human Movement Dynamics”, supervised by Joseph Cusumano.

Richard Mattes, “Automation of Farming using Robots”, supervised by Sean Brennan.

Jessica Lowery, “Tecynological Advances in Bowling and their Impact on the Sport”, supervised by Gary Gray.

Adam Ostrich, “The use of Organic Dieletric-Percolative Composite Material in Electromechanical Pressure sensors for a Helicopter Navigational Lighting System”, supervised by Edward Smith.

Michael Rudolph, “Acoustic Model of Underwater Sound Propagation and Scattering from Bubbly Structures”, supervised R. Lee Culver.

Benjamin Koch, “Thin Film Polypropylene for High Energy Capacitors”, supervised by Michael Lanagan.

Nicholas Pytel, “In Vivo Testing of New Bioabsorbable Magnesium Alloy”, supervised by Barbara Shaw.

Miranda Hitchcock, “Utilizing a Systems Approach in the Design of a Sustainable Community in Nairobi, Kenya”, supervised by Thomas Colledge.

Jessica Bogniak, “Utilization of Metalized Nanostructured Polyy (P-Xylylene) Films as Antimicrobial Surfaces”, supervised by Melik Demirel.

Brennan DeCesar, “Parameter Optimization of Laser-Fired Back Contact Silicon Wafer Solar Cells”, supervised by S. Ashok.

Jacqueline Van Pelt, “Bioabsorbable Cardiac Stents made from Magnesium Alloys”, supervised by Barbara Shaw.

Scott Kozlowski, “High Energy Wound Capacitors Based on Flexible Oxide Films”, supervised by Michael Lanagan.

Michael Anderson, “Controlled Release of Poly (P-Xylylene) Polymeric Films”, supervised by Melik Demirel.

Daniel Stern, “Surface Plasmon-based Manipulation of Microparticles and Dynamics Study”, supervised by Tony Huang.