Environmental Engineering
Approximately 80 percent of wastewater worldwide returns to the ecosystem without treatment, meaning 1.8 billion people use a contaminated source of drinking water. The purpose of this exper…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
The drastic increase in fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by conventional vehicles calls for a greener and environmentally friendly alternative, most notably electric vehi…
Chemistry
Purpose: To see if gumballs from sweet gum trees can be used as an additive in paint to reduce flammability. Hypothesis: If I create a mixture of the paint, with a 20% powdered gumballs addi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Accurate and robust autonomous landing of fixed-wing aircraft will revolutionize economic, industrial, and military missions that are generally dangerous or suboptimal for humans to perform.…
Embedded Systems
Spectral imaging technologies that combine conventional imaging and spectroscopy techniques to acquire spatial and spectral information from objects have gained significant traction over the…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Background: The aim of my project was to explore whether music theory techniques exert objective emotional effects on listeners and assess the effect of age, gender, race, and musical expert…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
For more than two centuries, deaf communities in the U.S. have benefited from American Sign Language (ASL) as their main mode of communication. However, in the past decade, with the rapidly…
Materials Science
Successful isolation of 2D materials beyond graphene, such as 2D tin monosulfide (SnS), opens a new horizon in material research because unlike graphene, SnS is a semiconductor. The cost-eff…
Biomedical Engineering
The human kidney is the most transplanted organ in the United States, numbering more than 24,000 in 2021 alone! But kidney transplantation technology faces many challenges, including a short…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Perceptual illusions are distortions that may inform us about the nature of human perceptual processing. I plan to achieve such predictions by looking at the Poggendorff Illusion. The Poggen…
Biomedical Engineering
In this project, a prosthetic arm was developed using an alternate communication pathway to enable movement in amputees. A brain-computer interface was established, providing the opportunity…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Reliably predicting when and where precipitation will occur can reduce property damage and loss of life. The more accurate this prediction is, the more preparation can be made against these…
Biochemistry
Third Award
Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) spectroscopy is commonly used in metabolomics studies involving the quantitation of complex bio-fluids and mixtures to correlate metabolic changes…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
Dacey established a class of simple, finite graphs, called Dacey graphs, which maps bijectively to the set of finite orthomodular posets, posets where the join of orthogonal elements always…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The cost of forestry increases each year. Although there are currently many deep learning studies addressing the issue of tree species classification in the various forestry tasks, the chall…
Environmental Engineering
In this study, silver-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) (Ag-MOF) and copper-based MOF (Cu-MOF) were reinforced by graphene-oxide (GO). The reinforced GO-Ag-MOF and GO-Cu-MOF were studied…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Irregular surface area, such as lake area, is hard to calculate using definite integrals and is traditionally calculated by using graph paper with small squares. Utilizing the Monte Carlo me…
Animal Sciences
My project compares bird activity in the morning and the afternoon to determine if the time of day and temperature affect the diversity and number of birds found in my yard. Ornithology, the…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Portable electronics, such as mobile phones and biomedical devices, have been integrated into the lifestyle of many people and are growing rapidly. These technologies rely heavily on batteri…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive malignant tumor of the central nervous system defined by its inter- and intra-patient heterogeneity. However, understanding of molecular differences withi…
Embedded Systems
Recent advancements in Cloud Computing have given more flexibility to services on the Internet, remaining online as long as the network itself is still operational. However, many types of na…
Biomedical Engineering
Wound treatment and management are major healthcare problems affecting more than 7 million people in the United States and costing more than $50 billion annually. Although skin grafting and…
Biomedical Engineering
Artificial skin is a synthetic membrane structure that mimics the flexibility and sensory functions of biological skin. Similar to receptors in biological skin sending signals to neurons in…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
Last year I set out to research why it was so hard to stop a tsunami and what kind of barrier I could design that would limit the amount of devastation that one created. I found some remarka…
Biomedical Engineering
The COVID-19 Pandemic emphasizes the need for a Track, Trace, and Isolate approach (TTI) in society. Solutions (like mobile apps and Bluetooth devices/sensors) proposed for COVID-19 risk man…
Embedded Systems
In the United States forty percent (2.4 million) of all six million accidents a year on average are caused by rear end collisions. Given these statistics our mission is to design a system th…
Engineering Mechanics
Heavy electric vehicles vary their power demands due to frequently varying loads. The research proposes an applied fuzzy logic algorithm for the acceleration strategy of supercapacitor-assis…
Materials Science
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is presently one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in the United States. Common chemotherapy drugs for advanced NSCLC have had low response rates. The…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Title: Through the Looking Glass: Uncovering the Molecular Mechanisms of Phytochemical Treatment for the Prevention Age-Related Macular Degeneration Name: Rishab Samant School: Vestavia Hill…
Materials Science
Nanoparticles have immensely contributed in different areas such as environment, industry and medicine. Among the different nanoparticles, titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles receive a gre…