Author: Samantha Glidewell | Major: Chemical Engineering and French | Semester: Spring 2023 This past semester has been my first semester working in the polymers and nanotechnology lab under my mentor Dr. Keisha Bishop Walters with the department of chemical...
The Hills are Alive: From Fayetteville to Grenoble
Author: Meg Bozarth | Majors: Civil Engineering, French | Semester: Summer 2023 I’ve always been fascinated by France. As a child, I was enthralled by the stereotypes: romance, food, the language, art, music. Yet as I am today, that interest has changed to include...
Equatorial Island Hopping
Author: Henry Holtkamp | Major: Biological Engineering | Semester: August Intersession 2023 I chose this program for the uniqueness of the opportunity. What other time in my life will it be this feasible for me to go to the Galapagos Islands? From conversations with...
Unveiling the World of Autonomous Portfolio Management: A Tale of Trials, Triumphs, and Transitions
Author: Jack Kincannon | Major: Data Science | Semester: Spring 2023 The decision to research autonomous portfolio management systems was not arbitrary; it was a natural progression of my academic interests and career goals. I developed a fascination for the...
Undergraduate Research: Joshua Jowers and Another Approach to Drone Navigation- Spring Update
Author: Joshua Jowers | Major: Industrial Engineering | Semester: Spring 2023 My name is Joshua Jowers and I am an upcoming Senior majoring in Industrial Engineering with minors in data analytics and computer science. During the spring of 2023, I began undergraduate...
Driving Chemical Reactions with Inductively Heated Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles
Author: Scott Bree | Major: Mechanical Engineering | Semester: Spring 2023 After finishing Spring 2023 and completing my fourth semester of nanoparticle research in Dr. David Huitink’s mechanical engineering lab, I have learned so much about the research process and...
Researching SCADA for Critical Systems Infrastructure
Author: Mitchell Bylak | Major: Computer Science | Semester: Spring 2023 My name is Mitchell Bylak, and I am a Computer Science major at the College of Engineering. For my Honors Thesis, I spent the Spring of 2023 researching how to create a simulated power grid under...
The Development of a Macrophage Polarization Therapy using CRISPR for Diabetic Wound Healing
Author: Daniel Maxenberger | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Spring 2023 Over the course of the 2023 Spring grant term, I continued to work in the lab of my honors mentor, Dr. Christopher Nelson, researching the possible polarization of macrophages using...
Tissue Engineering in Tumor Innervation Research
Author: Hailey Hoog | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Spring 2023 My name is Hailey Hoog and I just wrapped up my junior year as an honors biomedical engineering major within the College of Engineering. This was my second semester, but first funded semester,...
Development of High-Performance Air-Cooled Heat Sinks
Author: Ethan Weems | Major: Mechanical Engineering | Semester: Spring 2023 My name is Ethan Weems, and I am a Junior Honors Mechanical Engineering student. My research focuses on ways to improve current electronic cooling methods. Specifically, I have been...