Air and Soil Quality Inquiry Environmental Monitor Development and Outreach

Project Description Student will work with the Hannigan Lab to develop and refurbish air and soil quality environmental monitors which use low-cost sensors to measure soil and air quality indicators in rural high schools in Colorado. Student will be working with low costs sensors, embedded systems and we based data...

Laboratory Investigations of Odor and Chemical Transport by Turbulent Flows

Project Description Prof. Crimaldi runs the Ecological Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, where we use a combination of experimental and numerical approaches to study fluid stirring, mixing, and reactions, and to investigate how organisms have evolved and adapted to opportunities and constraints associated with their physical environment. We have a particular interest...

Development of a Magnetic Field Steering System

Project Description Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a non-invasive brain imaging method, where images of the electrical activity inside the brain can be generated. It measures the magnetic field that comes out of the head with an array of magnetic field sensors placed all around the head. We are developing quantum magnetometers...

Quantifying Changes in Soft Tissue Extracellular Matrix Organization

Project Description This project is part of larger studies that aim to understand soft tissue injury susceptibility. In these studies, we quantify the differences in injury mechanics of knee ligaments from multiple mouse model comparisons, including genetically-modified mice and treadmill exercised mice vs. caged controls. These differences in mechanical function...

Protein Expression of Bone Cells Altered by Bone Metastasis

Project Description The objective of this project is to identify differences in osteocyte mechanobiological function in response to exposure to breast cancer and mechanical loading. These differences will be determined via histological staining and image analysis of relevant osteocyte-derived proteins. Our previous work demonstrates that skeletal mechanical signals have an...

Nanomanufacturing of Nanophononic Devices for Efficient Thermoeletrics

Project Description The project aims to develop semiconductor devices that convert heat flow into electricity without moving parts or emitting pollutants, by creating a “nanophononic” thermoelectric device. This concept relies on having tiny structures added to a thin solid membrane’s top and bottom slow the flow of heat down the...

Boiling Heat Transfer in Electric Machines: An Experimental Approach

Project Description Electric machines can be motors or generators dependent on if power is supplied or generated. Advances in electric machine design and thermal management hold promise for electric aviation, electric vehicles, and more efficient or smaller generators. This project will involve students running an experimental test setup to collect...

Ground Support Equipment (GSE) Software for the COSMO Space Magnetometer

Project Description The COSMO CubeSat is a 6U CubeSat to precisely measure the Earth’s magnetic field. Its measurements shall be used to update the World Magnetic Field Model (WMM) which is used in a variety of realms including many smartphone applications. The COSMO team is currently building and testing the...

Acoustofluidics-Enhanced Biosensing

Project Description Biosensing is an essential part of patient diagnosis, pandemic response, and disease management; however, many biosensing techniques require complex preparation and processing steps. This project will explore use of acoustic trapping of biomarker-specific microparticles in microfluidic channels – a technique termed “acoustofluidic trapping” – for simplified purification and...

Experimental Analysis of Droplet Motion in Rectangular Channels

Project Description Many applications of drop-based microfluidics have been explored in recent years, ranging from drug targeting to micro-chemical reactors. Understanding the physics of drop motion in rectangular microchannels is key to provide insights when designing such applications. Our group has previously developed computational methods to similar such systems, whereas...

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