Cyrus Amoozegar, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Biomedical Interferometry for Early Cancer Detection
Advisor: Adam Wax, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Michael Bauer, Electrical Computer Engineering and Mathematics
Project: Designing Process Variability Tolerant Computer Architectures
Advisor: Daniel Sorin, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jason Blum, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Normal and Friction Force Interactions on Cartilage and Model Surfaces: The Effect of Boundary Lubrications
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Danial Bokhari, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Bionanoengineering
Advisor: Jingdong Tian, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Drew Braucht, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Ligand Triggered Actuation of the ELP Phase Transition
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Ian Cassidy, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Suppression of Earthquake Induced Vibrations
Advisor: Henri Gavin, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Tiffany Chang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Identification of Novel Targets in Notochordal Cells During Intervertebral Disc Aging
Advisor: Lori Setton, Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Jun Chen. Assistant Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Carol Chen, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Chemoattractant-Driven Migration of Tumor Cells
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Cindy Cheng, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Effects of Mechanical Stimulation on Muscle Fiber Formation.
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering

Hyunwoo Cho, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Biosensing with Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Stephen T. Clark, Mechanical Engineering/Music Double Major
Project: Innovative Noise Reduction Methods for Aerospace Vehicles
Advisors: Don Bliss, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Linda Franzoni, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Kerry Costello, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Biomechanical Basis of Rodent Wheel-Running: Insights from Mouse Models of Osteoarthritis
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Surgery, and Director Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory

Elizabeth Crabtree, Civil Engineering Major
Project: Investigating Micro-scale Processes Governing Flaw Evolution in Hydrogels
Advisors: John Dolbow, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; David Stepp, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Rahul Dewal, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Double Major
Project: Neurotelemetry: Low-Power Amplifier for Neural Signal Acquisition
Advisor: Patrick Wolf, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Ryan Dobbertien, Biomedical Engineering Major, Chemistry Minor
Project: Patient-Specific Modeling of Atrial Fibrillation
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science

Thomas Feehan, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: High Resolution Fetal Ultrasonic Imaging
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Alex Jing Feng, Biomedical Engineering/Biology Double Major
Project: Modeling of Molecular Transport in Biological Tissues
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Werapong Goo, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Investigation of the Effect of Lipid Bilayer Fluidity on the Binding Behavior of Neutralizing Antibiodies
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Meagan Gray, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Analysis, Design, and Implementation of Gene Networks
Advisor: Lingchong You, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and IGSP

Chelsea He, Mechanical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering Double Major
Project: Novel Interior Noise Reduction Techniques for Aircraft Design
Advisors: Don Bliss, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Linda Franzoni, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Sara Hinds, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cardiac Cell and Tissue Engineering
Advisor: Nenad Bursac, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Andy Huang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Modes of Vibration of the Human Head
Advisor: Roger Nightingale, Associate Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Jeffrey Alan Hussmann, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Mathematics Double Major
Project: FPGA Controller for Quantum Computer
Advisor: Jungsang Kim, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Priscilla Hwang, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Development and Evaluation of a Controlled-Release System for Local Anti-Cytokine Drug Delivery to the Spinal Ganglion
Advisor: Lori Setton, Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Alexandra Issa, Biomedical Engineering Major, Certificate in Markets and Management, Medtronics Undergraduate Scholar
Project: Gene Expression Analysis of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines in Human Monocyte Cells.
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Richie Kim, Research Associate

Ngozi Kanu, Mechanical Engineering Major, Medtronics Undergraduate Scholar Project: Structural Properties of DNA Nanostructures
Advisor: Anne Lazarides, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Shams Kazmi, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Modeling the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface
Advisor: Warren Grill, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Eugene Kim, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Investigating Optical-CT and Optical-ECT as New Techniques for Functional Imaging in Developmental Biology
Advisor: Mark Oldham, Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology and Biomedical Engineering

Steve Lattanzio, Civil Engineering Major
Project: WEAVE: Web-based Educational Framework for Analysis, Visualization and Experimentation
Advisor: Henri Gavin, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Melissa Levy, Electrical Engineering/Mathematics Double Major
Project: Fabrication and Characterization of Surface Relief Optical Gratings for Edge Emitting Lasers Integrated with Waveguide Bio/Chemical Sensors
Advisor: Nan Marie Jokerst, J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sebastian Liska, Mechanical Engineering/Physics Double Major
Project: Aeroelastic Analysis of a Folding Wing Configuration
Advisor: Earl H. Dowell, William Holland Hall Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Dean Emeritus

Jason Liu, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: In Vitro Evaluation of Sustained Viral Gene Delivery through Co-Axially Electrospun Fibers
Advisor: Kam Leong, Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Sean McGuire, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Monitoring and Analysis of Respiratory Depression
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Laura Moore, Biomedical Engineering Major, Chemistry Minor
Project: Pilot Study to Determine the Feasibility of Using Breast Thermography and Optical Spectroscopy to Improve the Evaluation of Treatment Outcome for Breast Cancer Patients
Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Eric Ojerholm, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: A Novel Nanoscale Liposomal Platform Technology for Target Specific Delivery of Imaging Contrast and Therapeutic Agents
Advisor: Srinivasan Mukundan Jr., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Radiology-Neuroradiology

Chin Chun Ooi, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Alignment of Gold Nanorods in a Ferrofluid in a Uniform Magnetic Field
Advisor: Benjamin Yellen, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Lee Pearson, Civil and Environmental Engineering/Biomedical Engineering Double Major
Project: Monitoring for Molds in Indoor Air Environments
Advisor: Claudia Gunsch, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Archana Ramireddy, Biomedical Engineering Major, Chemistry and Economics Minors
Project: Integrating an Ultrasound Transducer with ECG Leads
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Serge Reshetnikov, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Double Major
Project: Development of a Compact and Multifunctional Sensor Array
Advisors: Jeffrey Glass, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Scott Wolter, Assistant Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lisa Richards, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Development of Optical Spectroscopy for the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Tumor Margins
Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Stephen Rosenzweig, Biomedical Engineering/Mathematics Double Major
Project: Creating an Automated System for Ultrasonic Pressure and Temperature Measurement
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Marc Coleman Shelton, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Calcium Sensitive ELPs
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Cameron Smith, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Mathematical Modeling of the Enhancement of Bacterial Quorum Sensing Signal Discrimination by the Inherent Instability of Monomeric Signal Transducing Proteins
Advisor: Lingchong You, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Jeff Smith, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Integrating DIVE with CLEANER (/C/ollaborative /L/arge-scale /E/ngineering /A/nalysis /N/etwork for /E/nvironmental /E/ngineering) River Basins Across the United States
Advisor: Jeffrey Peirce, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Andrew Sobel, Biomedical Engineering Major, Chemistry Minor
Project: pH-sensitive Block Copolymer Elastin-Like Polypeptides (ELPs) for Targeted Tumor Drug Delivery: Synthesis and Characterization of New Block Copolymers
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Karli Spetzler, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Development of a Virtual Model of Skull and Brain Anatomy
Advisor: Srinivasan Mukundan Jr., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Radiology-Neuroradiology

Megan Tooley, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Modulation of Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 by Breast Cancer Chemotherapy
Advisor: Mark Dewhirst, Professor, Radiation Oncology and Biomedical Engineering

John Whitman, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: 3D Ultrasound Guidance of Surgical Robotics
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Philip Wolfe, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Fracture Toughness of Stimulus Responsive Hydrogels
Advisors: John Dolbow, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; David Stepp, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Garrett Wood, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Modeling and Optimization of Intersegmental Cervical Spine Muscles
Advisor: Roger Nightingale, Associate Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Assistant Research Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Steven Worrell, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Quantitative Relationships of Soil Moisture, Temperature, and Carbon Dioxide
Advisor: Amilcare Porporato, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering

Tianshi (David) Wu, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Microbicide Durability and HIV Transport
Advisor: David Katz, Nello L. Teer Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Lola Xie, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Effect of Protein Layer on Cytokine Production by Macrophages
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Yvonne Yamanaka, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Nanoparticle Mediated Insulin Gene Delivery to Intestinal Cell Co-Cultures
Advisor: Kam Leong, Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Felix Yap, Biomedical Engineering Major/Chemistry Minor
Project: Colorimetric Analysis and Quantification of Collagen Deposition in Subcutaneous and Fat Tissue
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Ronal G. Abraham, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Economics Double Major
Project: Noise suppression algorithms for cochlear implants
Advisor: Leslie Collins, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Benjamin Schaefer Abram, Civil and Environmental Engineering/Public
Policy Studies Double Major
Project: Water is Everybody's Business - Walking The Walk of The Early
20th Century Conservationist Mind
Advisor: Ana Barros, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nicole Axelrod, Civil Engineering Major
Project: Modeling the Performance of a Ball-in-Cone Isolation System
Advisor: Henri Gavin, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jeremy Baldoni, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Magnetic Micro-tracking of Biomedical Implants
Advisor: Benjamin Yellen, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Deepak Bastakoty, Biomedical Engineering / Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Exploring the Feasibility of Epicortical Field Potential Based Implantable Brain-Machine Interfaces
Advisor: Dr. Patrick D. Wolf, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering,

Elan Bresslour, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Microwave Imaging for Earlier Detection of Breast Cancer
Advisor: Qing Liu, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lisa Burton, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Acoustics Research for Noise Reduction Inside Aerospace Vehicles
Advisors:. Don Bliss, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and. Linda Franzoni, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Jarred Callura, Biomedical Enginering Major
Project: Analysis of Patient Controlled Analgesia using Biological Data from Patients
Advisor: Dr. Craig Henriquez, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Daniel Carlin, Biomedical Engineering/ Mathematics Double Major
Project:A 3D FEM Model of Cardiac Motion for Ultrasonic Imaging Research
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Aaron Carlson, Biomedical Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: The Effect of Mechanical Stimulation on Muscle Fiber Formation
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Dennis Cattel, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Posterior Pelvic Ring Fixation
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Director Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory

Edward Clermont, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Endothelial Cell Adhesion to Synthetic Vascular Grafts
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Todd Cobb, Civil Engineering Major
Project: Convective Rainfall Measurement for the Triangle Area
Advisor: Amilcare Porporato, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Wade Cooper, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Characterization Tools for Optical Index of Refraction
Advisor: Nan Marie Jokerst, J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

William Cooper, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: 3-D Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Hafeez Dhalla, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Characterization of FDPM Instrument for Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Advisors: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Bing Yu, Biomedical Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow

Andrew Fitzpatrick, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering double major
Project: Immobilization of DNA for pyrosequencing on a digital microfluidic platform
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Richard Fair, Professor of Electrical Engineering

Matthew Furlow, Biomedical Engineering major, Chemistry minor
Project: Analysis of HIV Transport Phenomena
Advisor: David Katz, Nello L. Teer Jr. Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Andrea (Annie) Gitomer, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project Biomolecule-driven actuation of nano-assembly reconfiguration
Advisor: Anne Lazarides, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Justin Hilliard, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Inquiry of presumptive flow receptors in the feline urethra
Advisor: Dr. Warren Grill, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor, Surgery

Julia Hubert, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Cardiac Mechanical Imaging
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Bibek Joshi, Civil Engineering and Economics Double Major
Project: Using ultra-violet radiation to treat drinking water in rural
communities
Advisor: Karl G. Linden, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering

John Kang, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Quantification of tumor prognosis through electrical impedance
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Ara Kardashian, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Tissue Engineering of 3-Dimensional Heart Tissue Patches
Advisor: Nenad Bursac, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Keigo Kawaji, Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics Double Major
Project: A Novel Nanoscale Liposomal Platform Technology for Target Specific Delivery of Imaging Contrast and Therapeutic Agents
Advisor: Srinivasan Mukundan Jr., Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering

Brian Lewis, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Mode-Locked Photonic Crystal Microcavity Lasers
Advisor: Tomoyuki Yoshie, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Andrew Longenecker, Mechanical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering/Economics Triple Major
Project: Nonlinear Dynamics of Fluid Flow Around Bluff Bodies
Advisor: Earl Dowell, J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Benjamin Macadangdang, Electrical and Computer Engineer/Computer Science Double Major
Project: DNA Self-Assembly and Nanoelectronic Systems
Advisor: Chris Dwyer, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Christine McMahon, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Metabolic Imaging of Dysplastic Changes in Human Mammary Epithelial Cells
Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Amit Momaya, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Formation and Degradation of PLGA Microspheres
Advisor: David Needham, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Isaac Nagiel, Electrical Engineering and Economics Double Major
Project: AC Electrowetting Actuation of Droplets on a Digital Microfluidic Platform
Advisor: Richard Fair, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chawkat Nammour, Civil Engineerinng Major
Project: Electrical Methods to Help Determine the Shear Strangth of Soils
Advisor: Fred Boadu, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Phillip D. Nicholson, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Toward Shear Modulus Quantification Using Acoustic Radiation
Force Imaging
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Joanna Noble, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Real-time Stereo 3-D Ultrasonic Imaging
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Matthew Novak, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Biocompatibility of Chronically Implanted Neural Electrodes
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Vadim Polikov, Graduate Student

Katherine Oldenburg, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Andreina Parisi-Amon, Biomedical Engineering Major, Biology Minor
Project: Determining the Recovery Rate of Cytokines through Microdialysis Probes
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor or Biomedical Engineering

Maher Salahi, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: The Engineering of a Bistable Switch to Understand the Regulation of
the E2F Pathway
Advisor: Lingchong You, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Emily Schmidt, Biomedical Engineering Major, Mathematics Minor
Project: Mathematical Modeling of Intratumoral Infusion of Drugs
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

John Schoenleber, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: 3-D CT-Based Craniofacial Anthropometry for the Evaluation of Craniosynostosis
Advisor: Srinivasan Mukundan Jr., Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering

Matan Setton, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Constitutive Properties of the Pediatric Synchondrosis
Advisor: Roger Nightingale, Associate Research Professor, Department of
Biomedical Engineering

Timothy Shih, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: 2D arrays for real time 3D imaging of the brain
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Torstens Skujins, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Experimental Investigation and Optimization of Propeller Efficiency
Advisor: Laurens Howle, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Nathan Smith, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Virtual Brain
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Jessica Son, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Nitric Oxide, DNA Damage, and Osteoarthritis
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Director Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory

Emily Spataro, Biomedical Engineering
Project: Development of optical spectroscopy for the non-invasive diagnosis of
breast and cervical cancers
Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Eric Spitz, Biomedical Engineering Major and Psychology Minor
Project: Increasing the Functional Lifetime of Synthetic Gene Networks Under
Selective Pressure
Advisor: Lingchong You, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Sophie Strike, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Endothelial cell focal adhesion formation on stretched smooth muscle cells
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering

Bineyam Tafesse, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Headstage Amplification of 32-Channels of Neural Signals
Advisor: Patrick Wolf, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Beth Vasievich, Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Loading and release of an imageable temperature-sensitive liposome
containing cisplatin
Advisor: Mark Dewhirst, Gustavo S. Montana Professor of Radiation Oncology;
Professor of Pathology and Biomedical Engineering

Charles Wang, Biomedical / Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Growing Diamond-like Carbon on Neural Probes to Achieve Desired
Mechanical and Electrical Properties, and Biocompatibility
Advisors: Jeffrey Glass, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Scott Wolter, Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rebecca Wilusz, Biomedical/Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Effects of Inflammatory Cytokines on Integrative Meniscal Repair
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering and
Director of Orthopaedic Research, Department of Surgery

An-Kwok Ian Wong, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Double Major
Project: Noninvasive quantitative chemical measurement via optical, electrical, and mechanical techniques.
Advisor: Jungsang Kim, Nortel Networks Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering

Frank Yu, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Self-assembling nanostructures of genetically engineered,stimuli-responsive elastin-like polypeptides for tissue engineering
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Dong Woo Lim, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student

Vineet Agrawal, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Optimization of Acoustic Pulse Sequences for
Differentiation Between Fluid-filled and Solid Breast Lesions
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, James L and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Zaid Nasr Al-Husseini, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Economics Double Major
Project: Microwave Induced Thermoacoustic Tomography in Early Breast Cancer Detection
Advisor: Qing Liu, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nasir Bhanpuri, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Modeling Cortical Songs
Advisor: Dr. Jean-Marc Fellous, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Ling Bei, Biomedical Engineering and English Double Major
Project: Real-time Visualization of Ablation Lesion with Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, James L and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Justin Bieber, Mechnical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Study of Surface Confined, Stimulus-Responsive Polymer Brushes by QCM-D
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Andrew Bowen, Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Receptor-Ligand interactions
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Jeff Boyer, Biomedical Engineering and Economics Double Major
Project: Biophotonics for Early Cancer Detection
Advisor: Adam Wax, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Chris Champion, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Determining the Presence of Gap Junctions in a Direct Co-Culture System of
Smooth Muscle and Endothelial Cells
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering

Zubair Chao, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Implementation of Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Imaging in 3D Ultrasound Machine
Advisor: Stephen W. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Brian Dieckmann, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science Major
Project: Exploration of Mobile Robot Designs and their Applications in Different Industries
Advisor: Devandra P. Garg, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Lisa Duty, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Microstructural Modeling of Concrete with Silica Fume
Advisor: Joseph Nadeau, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Todd Elkin, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Endothelial Cell Migration along Manufactured Gradients
Advisor: Willilam Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Peter Filev, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cell Electroporation
Advisor: Wanda Krassowska, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Julien Finlay, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Lift Enhancement and Stall Delay for Fluid Dynamics Control Surfaces – Bio-Inspired Solutions
Advisor: Laurens Howle Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Jared Gardner, Biomedical Engineering Major, Chemistry Minor
Project: Hydrogel Formation of Elastin-Like Polypeptides with Hydroxymethylphosphines for in situ Forming Biomaterials
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
and Dong Woo Lim, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student

Derek Hower, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Reliable Microprocessor Structures
Advisor: Daniel Sorin, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Clifford Hou, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Double Major
Project: Lift Enhancement and Stall Delay for Fluid Dynamics Control Surgaces – Bio Inspired Solutions
Advisor: Laurens Howle Associate Professor/Director of Graduate Studies of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences

Farokh Irani, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Anisotropic culturing of adult cardiomyocytes: how to teach an old
cell new tricks.
Advisor: Nenad Bursac, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Amit Joshipura, Biomedical and Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: DNA Chips/Microarray Research and Their Use in Ophthalmology and
LabVIEW Coding on Stream.vi and Research on Galvo
Advisor: Joseph Izatt, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate
Professor of Ophthalmology

Daniel M. Kaplan, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Generating Neural Spiking Patterns
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical
Engineering

Daniel Kim, Junior Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Fellow, major: biomedical Engineering
Project: Purification of Recombinant Proteins by Fusion with Elastin-Like Polypeptides through Inverse Transition Cycling
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Richard Lee, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Jason Leung, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Monocyte Endothelial Cell-Interactions Under Flow: Numerical simulation and Experiments
Advisors: Damir Khismatullin, Senior Research Scientist and George Truskey, Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering

Dorothy Lowell, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Effects of Growth Media on Muscle Tissue Engineering
Advisor: George Truskey, Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering

James Marschner, Mechanical Engineer Major
Project: Fluid Bearing Research
Advisor: Josiah Knigh,t Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Michael Mathis, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Ultrasound Imaging – Vascular Mechanics
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, James L and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Mathew Mian, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Characterization of Discordant APD Alternans in a Cardiac Fiber
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Garver Moore, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: CAD tools for digital microfluidic biochip design
Advisor: Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Emily Mugler, Biomedical Engineering Major, Neuroscience Certificate
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Wolf, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Project: The Design of a Positive Reinforcement Behavioral Whisking Task in the Awake, Restrained Rat

Ty Mukherji, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Economics Double Major
Advisor: Earl Dowell, Dean Emeritus, and J.A. Jones Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Project: Investigation of the Aero-elastic Response of Thin, Flexible Plates.

Vinh Nguyen, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Double Major
Project: Microwave Imaging: Research in Alternative Medical Imaging Modalities
Advisor: Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Plamen Nikolov, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Double Major
Project: Understanding the Impact of Process Variations for Deep
Sub-micron Devices
Advisor: Sule Ozev, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sara Oliver, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Microslip
Advisor: Tod A. Laursen, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Associate Dean for Education

Courtney Lehn Olmsted, Biomedical Engineering Major, Theater Studies Minor
Project: Blueprint of the Brain
Advisor: Dr. Warren Grill PhD Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery

Jialing Kim Png, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Synthesis and Purification of Genetically engineered Calmodulin
Elastin-like polypeptides (CaM-ELPs)
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and
Bumjoon Kim, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student

Yupeng Qiu, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Feasibility Study of Real Time Three Dimensional Intracardiac Echocardiography For Guidance Of Interventional Electrophysiology
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Professor of Radiology

Mahir Rabbi, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: DNA Damage Detection Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Advisor: Piotr E. Marszalek, Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Material Science

Anna Leigh Rack-Gomer, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Double Major
Project: Decision Theory in the Detection of Breast Cancer by Promoter Hypermethylation in Specific Genes
Advisor: Loren Nolte, Professor, Electrical Engineering

Andrew Schmidt, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Biomechanical factors in osteoarthritis: Insights from studying mouse gait
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering and
Director of Orthopaedic Research, Department of Surgery

Erik Schmidt, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Application of Ant System/Swarm Algorithm to Landmine Detection
Advisor: Leslie Collins, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chris Schumann, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Neurotelemetry
Advisor: Patrick Wolf, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Serdar Selamet, Civil Engineering and Economics Double Major
Project: Design of Intrinsic Mechanisms in Structures Absorbing a Thermal Shock to deal with structural implications of September 11 collapse of WTC towers.
Advisor: Tomasz Hueckel, Professor of Civil Engineering

Andrew Stalnecker, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Electric field-mediated gene delivery
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology

Katie Sullivan, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: 2D Arrays for Real-Time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Troy Swimmer, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: The Effects of Low and High Impact Loading on Porcine Articular Cartilage
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering and
Director of Orthopaedic Research, Department of Surgery

Tina Tailor, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Droplet-Based Digital Microfluidic Genome Sequencing
Advisor: Richard Fair, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Junhao Shawn Tan, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Free Diffusion Loading of Cisplatin and Gd-DTPA into Low Temperature Sensitive Liposomes (LTSL)
Advisor: Mark Dewhirst, Gustavo S. Montana Professor of Radiation Oncology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Robert Tipton, Civil Engineering and Music Double Major
Project: Biomass Allocation in Crown Structures of Southern Pine Species
Advisor: Joe Nadeau, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Matthew Topel, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Biomechanical properties of differentiating stem cells
Advisor: Dr. Farshid Guilak, Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering

Dean Wang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Microdialysis Sampling of Cytokine Release from Macrophage In Vitro Culture Models
Advisor: William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Ying Min Wang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Three-Dimensional Imaging of Tumor Microvasculature by Optical Projection Tomography (OPT)
Advisors: Mark Dewhirst, Gustavo S. Montana Professor of Radiation Oncology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mark Oldham, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Lingyun Xiong, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Mathematical Modeling of Tissue Shrinkage treated with Mannitol
Advisor: Advisor: Fan Yuan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology

Siu-Chung Yau, Civil Engineering and Economics Double Major
Project: Reliability and Risk Analysis in Structural Engineering
Advisor: Henri Gavin, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Cen Zhang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Biocompatibility of Chronically Implanted Neural Electrodes
Advisors: William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Vadim Polikov, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student

Michael Zhao, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Economics Triple Major
Project: Electrochemical Studies of Double Layer Properties of Carbon and Metal Coatings
Advisors: Barry Myers, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Jeff Glass, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Veeral Ajmera, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Signaling Pathways of F-actin Polymerization in Neutrophil Chemotaxis
Advisor: Doncho Zhelev, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Noel Bakhtian, Mechanical Engineering/Physics Double Major
Project: Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
Advisors: Earl H. Dowell, J. A. Jones Professor Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Dr. Peter Attar, Research Associate

Rachel Nicole Catz, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Three Dimensional Woven Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, and Associate Professor, Surgery

Justin Brower, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Liposomes for Cancer Drug Delivery
Advisor: David Needham, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Tina Chang, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Synthesis and Characterization of Photocrosslinkable ELP
Advisor: Lori A. Setton, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Melvin H. Chiang, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Mathematical Modeling of Molecular Transport in Biological Tissues
Advisor: Fan Yuan, Associate Professor of BME, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Kwan Chow, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Signaling Pathways of Pseudopod Extension of Human Neutrophils
Advisor: Doncho Zhelev, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Patrick Crosby, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Optimizing Cochlear Implants for Musical Input
Advisor: Leslie Collins, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Michael Curcio, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Computer Simulation of Electromagnetic Systems Using Java
Advisor: Qing H. Liu, Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Danielle Davidian, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Effects of Frequency Modulation on Speech Perception in Cochlear Implant Subjects
Advisor: Leslie Collins,Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Brian Diekman, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Short-term Viability of Chondrocytes of hADAS Cell Origin in Agarose and Agarose plus Synvisc® Hylan G-F 20 Constructs Using DNA Content Analysis.
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, and Associate Professor, Surgery

Leahthan Domeshek, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Feasibility Study of Real Time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography for Guidance of Intervenetional Electrophysiology
Advisor: Stephen Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Michael Economo, Biomedical Engineering/Mathematics Double Major
Project: Neuron-Glia Interaction and Wave Propagation in Excitable Media
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science

Aya Eguchi, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Infrared Microspectroscopic Imaging of Atherosclerotic Rabbit Aorta
Advisor: Brett Hooper, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Olaf von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Medicine

Chris Einmo, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Chemical Oxidation of Organic Arsenical Herbicides During Ultraviolet Water Treatment and Disinfection
Advisor: Karl Linden, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ryan Feaver, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Smooth Muscle Cell Nitric Oxide Production in Response to Cyclic Stretch
Advisor: George Truskey, Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Jacob Flomenberg, Electrical Computer Engineering/Computer Science/Economics Triple Major
Project: Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis of Process Variations: the First Step Towards Robust Deep Sub-micron Devices . AC Analysis
Advisor: Sule Ozev, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Andrew D. Galanopoulos, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Characterization of Cell-Mediated Articular Cartilage Degradation through Mechanical Testing
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Associate Professor of BME and Director of Orthopaedic Research Department of Surgery

Haven Garber, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Drug Diffusion in HEMA Hydrogel
Advisors: William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Lori Norton, Biomedical Engineering graduate student

Darwin Goei, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Hardware and Data Analysis for Lightning Electromagnetics
Advisor: Steven Cummer, Assistant Professor of ECE

Stephen Greenfield, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Using Transmembrane Ammonium Sulfate Gradients to Produce Doxorubicin Loaded Thermo Sensitive Liposomes.
Advisors: David Needham , Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Alex Wright, Biomedical Engineering graduate student

Twinkle Gupta, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Finite Element Analysis of Ultrasonic Transducers to study the Thermal Effects Associated with ARFI
Advisor: Kathy Nightingale, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Aarash Haghighat, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Advisors: Ashutosh Chilokti, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Hongwei Ma, Biomedical Engineering graduate student
Project: Study of Quasi-3 Dimensional Microstructure Guided Adipose Derived Adult Stem Differentiation

Bevin E. Hearn, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Overexpression of hTERT and the Effects on Telomere Length and Cell Growth in Human Smooth Muscle
Advisors: Juliana L. Blum, PhD, Laura E. Niklason, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Jeremy Kim, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Body Voltage and Electromagnetic Changes During Periods of Focused Intent
Advisor: William T. Joines, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Kevin Ko, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cardiac Tissue Engineering: Development of in vitro Models for Cardiac Dysfunction
Advisor: Nenad Bursac, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Trina Kok, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: 3-gene Regulation and Cellular Automata
Advisor: Paul Wang, Professor of Electrical Engineering

Anjum Koreishi, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Quasi-3D Microstructure System for Stem Cell Differentiation
Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Megan Leftwich, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science Major
Project: Pressure Fields in Thin Film Lubricants
Advisor: Josiah D Knight, Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering and Material Science

Kyle McCarter, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Electrical Impedance Tomography
Advisor: Qing Liu, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Emily McDowell, Biomedical Engineering Major, Mathematics Minor
Project: Image Processing Software for Manual Segmentation of Retinal OCT Images.
Advisor: Joseph A. Izatt, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Christian Moyer, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Vascular Phantom Development
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Douglas Mullen, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Development of Thermally Stable Environments for Stimulus Responsive Polymer Brush Experiments
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Paul S. Nesline, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Micro-Robotics: Design, Simulation and Manufacturing Methods
Advisor: Devendra Garg, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Panchika Prangkio, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cytokine Detection Protein Array Designed for Biocompatability of Biomaterials
Advisor: Yiwen Li, Visiting Research Scholar of Biomedical Engineering, William Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Roni Prucz, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: The Creation of Microvascular Networks: Inducing the In-Vitro Formation of Capillary Lumens Through the Use of Physiological and Mechanical Stimuli
Advisor: Laura Niklason, M.D./Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Michele Pugh, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: DNA Mechanics and Diagnostics by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Advisor: Piotr E. Marszalek, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Sundhar Ramalingam, Biomedical Engineering/Chemistry Double Major
Project: Monocyte Endothelial Cell-Interactions Under Flow: Numerical simulation and Experiments
Advisor: Damir Khismatullin, Senior Research Scientist and George Truskey, Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Nasheer Sachedina, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Finite Element Modeling of Ultrasound Transducers Using LS-DYNA
Advisor: Stephen W. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Professor of Radiology

Ioannis Savidis, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Double Major
Project: Enhancement of Backpack Design for Brain Machine Interface
Advisor: Patrick D. Wolf, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Justin Shapiro, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Trace Gas Production, Transport and Transformation in Complex Engineered Soil Systems: Analyzing Relationship Between Toluene Concentration, Emissions, and Cell Growth in Soil through the use of Fluorescent In-Situ Hybridization (FISH)
Advisor: J. Jeffrey Peirce, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Daniel Stepner, Civil Engineering Major
Project: Wetlands Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling
Advisor: Dr. Miguel A. Medina, Jr., Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mimi Wachendorf, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Isolation and Characterization of Adult Rat Myocytes
Advisor: Nenad Bursac, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Charles Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Peak to Ground Lightning Discharges During Summer Months Over Land and Ocean
Advisor: Steven Cummer, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nicole Weaver, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Digital Microfluidic Assays.
Advisor: Richard Fair, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Devaka Viraj Yasaratne, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis of Process Variations: The First Step Towards Robust Deep Sub-Micron Devices .Nonlinear DC Approach
Advisor: Sule Ozev, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jonathan Zile, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Body Voltage Changes During Periods of Focused Intent
Advisor: William Joines, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Andrea Albergo, Mechanical Engineering
Project: Adhesion and Tribology of Cartilage on the Macro and Micrometer Length Scales
Advisor: Stefan Zauscher, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Noor Atari, Civil Engineering Major (Track 1: Mechanics and Structural Engineering) w/ Architectural Certificate
Project: WEAVE: Web-based Educational framework for Analysis, Visualization and Experimentation
Advisor: Dr. Henri Gavin and Dr. John Dolbow

Richard Bouchard, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering/Cultural Anthropology Triple Major
Project: Development and Characterization of ARFI-Compatible Phantoms
Advisor: Dr. Kathy Nightingale, Associate Professor of BME

Dana Burwell, Biomedical Engineering
Project: Computer Models to Control or Stop Atrial Fibrillation
Advisor: Dr. Craig Henriquez, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Kengyeh K. Chu Chu, Biomedical Engineering/ Physics Double Major and French Studies Minor
Project: 3D Phased Array Ultrasound Imaging through Planar Tissue Layers
Advisor: Stephen W. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology

Nick Csikesz, Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Investigating the Differences between Female and Male Muscle Cell Response to Hypoxic and Low-Nutrient Level Conditions
Advisor: Dr. Doris Taylor, PHD, Associate Research Professor, Div Of Cardiology, Dept. of Medicine, Dept. of Surgery and Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Matt Farrell, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Minimally Invasive Surgery Using Evanescent Waves Delivered Through a Catheter
Advisor: Brett Hooper, Associate Professor of BME

Vito Frank Mecca, Electrical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering Double Major
Project: Advanced Helmet Design
Advisor: Barry S. Myers, M.D., Ph.D.,, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Andrew Jason Friedman, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: A 3D Mouse
Advisor: Dr. David Brady, Director of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems and Brian F. Addy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jason Glaw, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Cytoskeletal Architecture of Micropatterned Fibrochondrocyte Cellst Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Lori Setton, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Adam Hausman, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Effects of Hypoxia on Chondrogenesis
Advisor: Dr. Farshad Guilak, Director of Research, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Jinendra Raja Jain, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science/ Economics Triple Major
Project: Nanodevices -- Nanowires and Quantum Dots
Advisor: Hisham Z. Massoud, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Semiconductor Research Laboratory

Vicki Krapohl, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
Advisor: Professor Earl Dowell

Homare Kubagawa, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical
Project: The Effect of NO on ATP Production
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Ph.D., Associate Professor of BME and Director of Orthopaedic Research Department of Surgery and Beverley Fermor, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor of BME

Jenny Mao, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engin
Project: ARFI Imaging of the Mechanical Properties of the Healthy and Diseased Artery
Advisor: Dr. Gregg Trahey, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Harry Bourne Marr Jr, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science Double Major
Project: Advanced Algorithms for Unexploded Ordinance Detection and Discrimination
Advisor: Dr Leslie Collins, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Patrick Mathias, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Microwave Imaging for Detection of Breast Cancer
Advisor: Dr. Qing Liu, Associate Professor of EE

Niyati Mukherjee, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Double Major
Project: Test Planning and Optimization for Modular Testing of Core-based System-on-a-chip
Advisor: Dr. Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Shin Rong Ong, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Reprogramming chondroctyes using “two-step” chondrocyte recovery system for monolayer cartilage tissue engineering
Advisor: Dr. Lori Setton, Associate Professor of BME

Shin Yeu Ong, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Mechanisms of the Threshold Pressure during Intratumoral Infusion of Drugs
Advisor: Prof. Fan Yuan, Assistant Professor of BME

John Paisley, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Microwave-Induced Hyperthermia and Perfusion Effects in Cancer Therapy
Advisor: Dr. William T. Joines - Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Anand Patel, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Inverse Transition Cycling: A Method of Drug Delivery
Advisor: Dr. Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of BME

Mimi Phan, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: The Downstream Effects of Mechanically-Induced Inflammatory Mediators in Articular Cartilage
Advisor: Farshid Guilak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery; Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Director of Research, Orthopaedic Research Laboratories & Scott Pritchard, M.S., Ph.D. candidate

Joshua Robinson, Electrical and Computer Engineering / Computer Science Double Major
Project: SORE (Self Organizable Regulating Engine) and Its Applications to Spatiotemporal Pattern Classification
Advisor: Dr. Paul Wang, Professor of ECE

Brian Schaaf, Mechanical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Design and Development of a Bio-Mimetic Microrobot
Advisor: Devendra P. Garg, Professor of MEMS

Sumit Shah, CECT Undergraduate Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Real Time 3D Blood Flow Imaging
Advisor: Dr. Olaf T. von Ramm,Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the CECT

Andrew Shih, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Design of a Wearable Telemetry System for Neural Recordings in Humans
Advisor: Patrick Wolf, Associate Professor of BME

Gaurav Shukla, Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Brain-Machine Interfaces
Advisor: Craig Henriquez, Ph.D., Associate Professor of BME and CS

Lydia Silbajoris, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Causes and Treatment of Cerebral Vasospasm
Advisor: Dr. Laura Niklason, Assistant Professor of BME, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Assistant Professor of Surgery

William Simpson, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics
Project: Left-Handed Metamaterials
Advisor: Dr. Steven Cummer, Assistant Professor

Trey Southerland, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Semi-Active Dampers in Structural Control
Advisor: Henri P. Gavin, Associate Professor of CE

Neal Winterhof, Electrical Engineering Major
Project: Microwave Imaging: Research in Alternative Medical Imaging Modalities
Advisor: Dr. Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of ECE and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Kevin Wong, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Quantitative Study of Albumin Transport in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cell Monolayer
Advisor: Dr. George Truskey, Professor of BME

Jamie Bergen, Biomedical Engineering Major and Chemistry Minor
Project: Developing Alternative Molecular Therapies for Cardiovascular Disease
Advisor: Dr. Doris Taylor, Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, and Associate Professor of Medicine in Cardiology

Kenneth Borrelli, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Modeling the Human Atria
Advisor: Dr. Craig Henriquez, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Chiu-Yu Chen, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Infrared Diagnostic and Therapeutic Devices
Advisor: Dr. Brett Hooper, Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

David Chong, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Neurotelemetry
Advisor: Patrick Wolf, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

David Cochran, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Web-Based Control of Industrial Robots
Advisor: Dr. Devendra Garg, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Drake Guenther, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Phase Correction in Ultrasonic Imaging
Advisor: Dr. Gregg Trahey, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Nitin Gupta, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Feasibility Study of Real Time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography for Guidance of Interventional Electrophysiology
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Smith, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Justin Jaworski, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
Advisor: Dr. Earl Dowell, J.A. Jones Professor and Dean Emeritus, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Derek Juang, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: The Tumor Microcirculation Laboratory
Advisor: Dr. Mark Dewhirst, Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology and Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Robert Kazmierski, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Mechanosensitivity of Meniscal Cells
Advisor: Dr. Lori Setton, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Jed Kim, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging in Tissue Equivalent Phantoms
Advisor: Dr. Kathy Nightengale, Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Fran Lebajo, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Microwave Imaging: Research in Alternative Medical Imaging Modalities
Advisor: Dr. Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of the Practice, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tae Lee, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Improving Microwave Hyperthermia for Cancer Therapy
Advisor: Dr. William Joines, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

David Logan, Electrical and Computer Engineering /Computer Science Double Major
Project: Signal Analysis of a Bowed Violin
Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Krolik, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Daniel Mordes, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Brain Machine Interfaces
Advisor: Dr. Craig Henriquez, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Vivek Munshi, Electrical and Computer Engineering /Computer Science Double Major
Project: Advanced Signal Processing Algorithm Development for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Detection
Advisor: Dr. Leslie Collins Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Daniel Northrup, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Mechanical Regulation of Cartilage and Bone Function
Advisor: Dr. Farshid Guilak, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Orthopedic Research, Dept. of Surgery

Elizabeth Ralston, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Investigations of Atmospheric Organic Aerosols
Advisor: Dr. Robert Griffin, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Colin Scott, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Measurements and Theory of Complex Electromagnetic Materials
Advisor: Dr. Steven Cummer, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Deborah Seibold, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Protecting Public Health-Investigating Disinfection of Water with UV Radiation
Advisor: Dr. Karl Linden, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kyle Smith, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Theoretical Models to Study Mechanisms of Delivering DNA to Cells Using Electric Pulses
Advisor: Dr. Wanda Krassowska, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Irene Tseng, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Culturing Cells from Experimental Arteries
Advisor: Dr. Mort Friedman, Chair and Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Becca Booi, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Catheter Tracking with Acoustic Cone Transducers
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Smith, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Andrew Brohl, Biomedical Engineering /Math Double Major
Project: Chaos Control in the Heart
Advisor: Dr. Wanda Krassowska, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Cody Brownell, Mechanical Engineering Major
Project: Renewable Energy Resources
Advisor: Dr. John Strohbehn, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, and Dr. Charles Harman, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Douglas Dumont, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Phase Aberration Correction in Ultrasound
Advisor: Dr. Gregg Trahey, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Tan Gao, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Distributed and Parallel Computing (client/server model)
Advisor: Dr. John Board, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

James Grant, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Nitric Oxide and PGE2 Response to Hyper-Osmotic Stress in Nucleus Pulposus and Annulus Fibrosus Cells of the Intervertebral Disc
Advisor: Dr. Farshid Guilak, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Orthopedic Research, Dept. of Surgery

Tiffany Harveson, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Characterization of Microorganisms Involved in Biological Wastewater Treatment Systems Using Molecular Methods
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Schuler, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dustin Heldman, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Real-time Control of Robotic Prosthesis Based on Real-time Hand Position Predictions from Primate Neuronal Data
Advisor: Dr. Craig Henriquez, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Jesse Hoagg, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Vibration Control Through the Use of an MR Damper
Advisor: Dr. Henri Gavin, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civit and Environmental Engineering

Michael A. Holub, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Data Analysis for Lightning Electromagnetics
Advisor: Dr. Steven A. Cummer, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Steve Meyers, Biomedical Engineering /Computer Science Double Major
Project: Sonomicrometry Catheter Localization
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Wolf, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Deepa Mishra, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Protein Polymerization and Hydrogel Formation
Advisor: Dr. Ashutosh Chilkoti, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Jose Luis Piscoya, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Effects of Mechanically Induced Nitric Oxide (NO) on Biomarkers for Arthritis
Advisor: Dr. Farshid Guilak, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Orthopedic Research, Dept. of Surgery

Erika Ward, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major
Project: Microwave Imaging for the Detection of Breast Cancer
Advisor: Dr. Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of the Practice, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

David Wu, Biomedical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Double Major with a certificate in Marketing and Management
Project: Cytokine Antibody Protein Microarrays for the Detection of Cytokines in Rats
Advisor: Dr. Monty Reichert, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Adam Bryan, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Microwave Imaging: Research in Alternative Imaging Modalities
Advisor: Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of the Practice, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ty Cashen, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Modeling, Compression, and Recognition of Neural Data and the Design of the Analog Front End of a Neural Data Acquisition System
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Wolf, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Amy Congdon, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Diagnostic Ultrasound, Adaptive Imaging, Imaging of Flow
Advisor: Gregg Trahey, Professor, and Larry Bohs, Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Mark Dobossy, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Development and Testing of Semi-Active Structural Control Devices
Advisor: Henri Gavin, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Andrew Exnicios, Electrical and Computer Engineering Major
Project: Design of Easily Testible Systems-on-a-Chip
Advisor: Krish Chakrabarty, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jessica Foley, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Double Matching Layers for Improvement of Acoustical Properties in Two-Dimensional Catheter Arrays
Advisor: Dr. Stephen W. Smith, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Eric W. Inge, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: The Effect of an Inserted Artificial Bond on Adhesion of Human Endothelial Cells (HUVEC) to a Synthetic Surface
Advisor: Dr. George A. Truskey, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Matthew Johannes, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Active Control of a Snare Drum
Advisor: Dr. Robert Clark, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Jennifer Koh, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Engineering Skeletal Muscle Myoblasts: Role of Electrical Stimulation
Advisor: Dr. Laura E. Niklason, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Andrew McKee, Biomedical Engineering Major
Project: Smooth Muscle Cell Biology and Mammalian Arteries Engineered In Vitro
Advisor: Laura Niklason, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Clayton Poppe, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Coordinated Robot Control in Flexible Manufacturing Work Cells
Advisor: Devendra Garg, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Vishal Raj Sahni, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Major
Project: Cell Mechanics & Adhesion
Advisor: Robert Hochmuth, Professor and Ping Beall, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Chris Shoemaker, Civil and Environmental Engineering Major
Project: Modeling the Interfacial Transition Zone of Concrete
Advisor: Joseph Nadeau, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering