Building a Legacy in Engineering

Project Description The Building Legacy in Engineering research project will take an inter-institution approach to create an authentic and scalable inquiry-based, active learning environment focused on sustainable civic innovation. This project is designed to document and validate the approach to be replicated by other university partnerships to strengthen communities. The...

Lightning: Energetic Connections between Earth and Space

Project Description Lightning, an energetic phenomena in our atmosphere, has far reaching effects in space. When lightning strikes, it releases an electromagnetic (EM) pulse that injects energy into the Earth’s magnetosphere. Many spacecraft like the Van Allen Probes measure these EM waves, called lightning generated whistlers (LGWs) due to the...

Investigation of Honey Bee Behavior Mechanics

Project Description Western honey bee behavior and communication has been a subject of study for hundreds of years, yet much remains unknown about how they coordinate with each other to succeed as a colony without a central leader. In the Peleg lab, we investigate how they accomplish tasks such as...

Simulating Hardware Security in Processor Simulators

Project Description The goal of this project is to discover security metrics that can be incorporated into a processor simulator to assign the concept of a security level to a particular microarchitectural design. A major component of the project would involve investigating the security metrics that would be adequate to...

Investigating the Effects of Wildfires in Indoor Air Quality

Project Description The Vance Lab at the Â鶹ӰԺ specializes in indoor and outdoor air quality investigations, with a special focus on aerosols or particulate matter (PM). PM can range from a few nanometers to micrometers in size and can be generated from a variety of sources, from...

Global Positioning System (GPS) Software Defined Radios (SDRs) Research

Project Description Software Defined Radios are an ever increasing popular topic. The advent of low cost USB radio dongles such as the USRP and BladeRF as well as tools such as GNU radio have allowed for radio development to move into the software domain. GPS is a satellite-based navigation system...

GPS and Positioning/Navigation in the Mobile Phones

Project Description This project is to explore and exploit the satellite navigation / position engine / GPS within Android. Ideally making end result more more robust with higher integrity. The Android platform provides the majority of GPS/GNSS receivers across the world. Its integration within Android is interesting and many many...

Development of a Superconducting Microwave Resonator Open-Source Codebase

Project Description The Â鶹ӰԺ Cryogenic Quantum Testbed (BCQT) is a research facility for developing and openly disseminating standard protocols to reproducibly measure the quality factor and performance characteristics of superconducting microwave resonators used in quantum computing circuits.The BCQT serves as a resource to academic and industry quantum research groups that...

Design of Portable, Genetically Encodable Biosensors

Project Description Imagine designing living organisms with the ability to sense and respond to different chemicals present in the built environment. One could build microorganisms that sense TNT in landmines and identify their locations; or have houseplants that can identify hazardous levels of pollutants. My research group is developing fundamentally...

Developing Open-source Computing Tools for Team-Based Learning

Project Description Team-Based Learning (TBL) flips the classroom, assigns students into teams for small-group learning, and engages student teams to work together to solve problems—thus facilitating problem-based learning pedagogical strategies. TBL can be very effective in improving student outcomes, indirectly teaching important teamwork and collaboration skills, and making class periods...

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