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April 19-23

Join us for a celebration of undergraduate research in the College of Engineering & Applied Science!

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Schedule 

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  • April 19-23, anytime - access DLA slide presentations and YOU’RE@CU poster presentations
    • Once signed in you can visit the Live Sessions tab to access the Zoom links and Passwords for the Live Presenations that begin on Tuesday.

     

    DLA Live Zoom Presentation Schedule​​

    • ​​DLA Session 1 -  Tuesday, April 20, 2021  1:00 - 2:00 MDT
      • Moderator Carlos Pinedo
        • ​Julia Bendorf - Electrokinetic Active Particles for Highly Sensitive Biomolecular Recognition
          • Faculty Mentor:  Charles Shields
        • Zack McKevitt Detecting Timing Side-Channels with Probabilistic Programming
          • Faculty Mentor:  Tamara Lehman
        • Paula Perez - Rural Electrification in Developing Countries
          • ​Faculty Mentor:  Alan Mickelson
        •  Andres Villani Davila -  Wearable Inertial Sensors for Human Motion Capture inside Spacesuits
          • ​Faculty Mentor:  Allie Anderson

     

    • DLA Session 2 -  Wednesday, April 21, 2021  9:00 - 10:00 MDT  
      • Moderators Sophie Zaccarine & Johnny Zhang
        • Chava Friedman - Integration and Testing of MAXWELL CubeSat Hardware
          • Faculty Mentor:  Scott Palo
        • Sarah Lundell - Physically-based modeling of post-wildfire landslides and other cascading hazard
          • ​​Faculty Mentor:  Ben Livneh
        •  Elise Niehaus -  Executing bacteriophage bio-protocols on digital microfluidic biochips
          • ​Faculty Mentor:  Mirela Alistar
        • Mary Sobernheim -  Simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) self-interference cancellation
          • ​Faculty Mentor:  Taylor Barton

     

    • ​​DLA Session 3 -  Wednesday April 21, 2021  1:00 - 2:30 MDT
      • Moderators Sarah Fischer & Ryan Cole
        • Ryan Block - Numerical Studies of Touchless Spacecraft Sensing
          • ​Faculty Mentor: HP Schaub
        • Marshall Engelhard - Production of the Induction Heated Coffee Roaster
          • ​Faculty Mentor:  Mark Borden
        • Ella McQuaid - Developing Wearables Based on Bioplastics
          • ​​Faculty Mentor:  Mirela Alistar
          • Emily Trautwein - Influence of variable hydrologic conditions on green algal mats in McMurdo Dry Valley streams using diatoms as a bioindicator

            • ​​Faculty Mentor: Diane McKnight
          • Cody WatsonImproving Astronauts' Performance through Multi-Modal Stochastic Resonance
            • Faculty Mentor:  Torin Clark

       

      • ​​DLA Session 4 -Thursday, April 22, 2021  9:00 - 10:30 MDT
        • Moderator Jacob Kintz
          • ​Quinn Beato - Characterizing Cellular Senescence induced by Mechanical Stimuli
            • ​Faculty Mentor:  Corey Neu
          • Claire Butler Organic Waste Management Systems: A Comparative Environmental Impact Assessment
            • Faculty Mentor:  Sherri Cook
          • Chase Gordanier - Craniate: MODCap: Informal STEAM Education
            • ​​Faculty Mentor:  Sharri Zamore
          •  Michael Schlittenhart -  Investigation of Stochastic Resonance in a Spaceflight Analog
            • ​​Faculty Mentor:  Allie Anderson
          •  Anand Trehan & Paula Perez -  Water use in unpiped Alaskan Communities
            • ​​Faculty Mentor:  Karl Linden

       

      • ​​DLA Session 5 -Thursday, April 22, 2021  1:00 - 1:45 MDT
        • Moderator Rachel Rise
          • ​Maddie McGrath - Nanofilms in High Aspect Ratio Geometries Supporting Space Travel
            • ​Faculty Mentor:  Al Weimer​
          •  Hugh Scribner -  Aesthetics in Engineering Education
            • ​​Faculty Mentor:  Jean Hertzberg

       

      • ​​DLA Session 6 -  Friday, April 23, 2021  1:00 - 3:00 MDT
        • Moderators Katie Bretl & Patrick Pischulti
          • Razan Alghamdi - Neuroeconomic valuation of physical effort costs
            • ​​Faculty Mentor: Alaa Ahmed
          • Nathan Biesterfeld Wireless transmitters for 5G applications
            • ​Faculty Mentor:  Taylor Barton
          • Allison Heckman - Software for prosthetic devices that automatically tune musical instruments
            • ​​Faculty Mentor:  Mirela Alistar
          • Claire Isenhart - Wind Turbine Generator Research
            •  ​​​Faculty Mentor:  Greg Whiting
          • Grant Norman -  Mesh Topologies in Computational Fluid Dynamics
            • ​​​Faculty Mentor: John Evans
          • Jennifer Quigley - Photofunctional Tattoo Pigments
            • ​​Faculty Mentor: Carson Bruns
          • Kaiya WahlSpace Weather (Space Wx) Scenario Toolkit Development
            • ​Faculty Mentor:  Delores Knipp