Earth and Environmental Sciences
If water pollution, including macro and micro plastics is detrimental to marine life, then developing an efficient cleaning system is essential because marine life needs to be protected and…
Environmental Engineering
Water security is becoming a new challenge for many countries as industrial waste containing heavy metals is being disposed in bodies of water. Lead (Pb) is an extremely toxic yet common con…
Microbiology
The need to develop antimicrobial therapies is on the rise as antibiotic resistance increases. Drug repurposing is a cost-effective measure and much more efficient than drug development. Nic…
Translational Medical Science
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness and is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults. DR will affect most type-1 diabetic (T1D) pati…
Physics and Astronomy
As quantum computers advance, a way to diagnose quantum circuit failures becomes necessary for diagnostic purposes and to resolve data corruption due to faulty gates and eavesdropping. This…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Modern diagnosis of glioma tumors requires several MRI sequences of the brain, which can be costly, burdensome to the patient, and provide toxic risks due to the presence of metallic, often…
Plant Sciences
In agriculture around the world, we are diminishing beneficial soil microorganism populations, causing higher crop susceptibility to plant-parasitic nematodes, increased fertilizer need, and…
Systems Software
The goal of this project was to create a program that would encode a robust watermark into a three-dimensional file type. Working with ASCII STL files, the program encoded the information by…
Microbiology
Affecting over 2.4 billion people, dental caries is the most prevalent, global disease. Caries is caused by Streptococcus mutans, a bacteria that produces lactic acid, creating lesions in th…
Engineering Mechanics
A significant problem faced on the International Space Station is the efficiency of growing plants as an edible food source. Growing plants in space is challenging because of the effects of…
Environmental Engineering
Water pollution has quickly become the deadliest global issue of the century, leading to 1 billion sicknesses every year. A lack of awareness of the quality of water sources means that vulne…
Biomedical Engineering
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1.7 million people suffer from hospital-acquired infections each year in the United States alone, which accounts for 99,000 deaths. The most…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A thriving tree canopy is an essential aspect of a healthy and sustainable city. However, to best manage urban trees, city planners must have access to crucial information about the location…
Embedded Systems
During the twenty-first century, more than 522 significant earthquakes have occurred, resulting in a death toll exceeding 430,000 worldwide. These natural disasters leave many individuals tr…
Engineering Mechanics
The problem we choose was the issue of seniors having a difficult time entering and exiting vehicles. Our goal is to limit the amount of injuries caused by getting in and out of cars. We sta…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the most influential genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). In addition to genotype, the implication of gender must also be investigated; women…
Animal Sciences
I chose this project while working this past summer. It was noticed that Trachemys Scripta Elegans had three qualitative shapes on the second vertebral scute (V2) region of the carapace, con…
Plant Sciences
As plants lack an adaptive immune system, they are reliant on the innate immunity of cells and systemic signaling mechanisms from infected cells. Plant immunity research demonstrates the com…
Engineering Mechanics
Quadrupeds are useful machines for a variety of situations. To find the best design for a quadruped there needs to be significant research first with computer software and then physical prot…
Environmental Engineering
Unethical and inadequate regulations for waste and antibiotic disposal has led to the contamination of numerous bodies of water in India. In particular, a member of the most prominent class…
Chemistry
The threat of fire is one of the most impactful adversaries terrorizing life on Earth today. Polyurethane foam, a common household insulator, is typically embedded with toxic, brominated fla…
Biomedical Engineering
Ostomies are digestive and excretory surgeries where waste is redirected to the abdomen, requiring a bag to catch excretion into a bag; current methods have adhesives along with pastes or po…
Systems Software
Every year, over 1.7 billion dollars per state is used for external assessments on top of the time and effort spent my teachers and students for internal assignments. However, none of the da…
Environmental Engineering
Wildfires are increasingly becoming an issue around the world and are correlating with the rising number of smoke inhalation injuries. Assorted prevention methods are available to decrease t…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Two hundred high school students were surveyed to examine the correlation between the amount of time they spend on various forms of entertainment and their GPA. The survey sought to correlat…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Sodium benzoate is one of the most commonly used preservatives in the food industry. Although the compound is recognized as safe by the FDA, the effects of sodium benzoate on human health ha…
Environmental Engineering
With less farming space and water available globally, it is important to optimize the growth of crops in available farmland. Agricultural production, including the quality and quantity of pr…
Environmental Engineering
Over a billion people around the world lack access to clean drinking water. Millions of them die from the contaminated water, the majority of whom are from developing countries. Tap water ca…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Aspirin is an important drug in the medical field. It is used to relieve pain, reduce fever but also to prevent blood clots, lowering the risk of heart attack or stroke in people who had sur…
Systems Software
The purpose of this project was to test the effectiveness of image-based CAPTCHAs against Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and machine learning algorithms. The design constraints were for…