Engineering Student Research
Caleb Jacobs' research with Dr. Hayes involves the optimization of temperature and feed pertaining to the synthesis of PAMAM dendrimers, a process that has an exothermic reaction. This increased temperature creates a problem because lower temperatures are required to add reactants. The scope of this research seeks to automatically control reactant inputs through a temperature feedback using Arduino Uno.
Noah Koliadko has been working with Jay Johnson and Simon Wing on a NASA project that aims to understand magnetospheric and ionospheric processes that cause ionospheric scintillations, modifications to radio waves caused by small-scale structures in the ionosphere. Scintillations can prevent GPS receivers from locking onto signals, thus reducing the accuracy of these devices. Noah has been analyzing TEC (total electron content) data and scintillation data to determine if it is possible to link TEC variations to particular generation mechanisms and source regions of scintillations, which would improve capabilities to resolve and model scintillation effects on communication signals and navigation links.
William Yoong is working with Dr.Kwon to develop mathematical models of battery systems. This project aims to advance battery management systems to be optimal which in turn will offer us a greater insight into electric vehicles and mobile devices, as they become of increasing relevance in our current day market. William taught a robotics course at 星空无限传媒 Academy during the spring 2022 semester.
