Browsing Engineering Undergraduate Research Theses and Honors Research Theses by Title
Now showing results 157-176 of 854
-
Denitrification Potential of Log Jams on the Sandusky River, Ohio
Harley, Craig ( 2005-06 )Nitrogen in its oxidized form, Nitrate (NO3-), is considered a major pollutant of rivers and lakes in the United States, particularly in areas of high agricultural use. Nitrate is a nutrient that causes excess algal ... -
Design and Analysis of a Magneto-Rheological Fluid Damper with Non-linear Surfaces to Produce Effective Variable Compliance in a Robotic Transmission
Sadeghipour, Ehsan ( 2009-06 )Our communities have been designed for human movement; therefore, the development of machines that locomote like humans is a natural approach to mechanical locomotion. Two problems in developing autonomous versions of these ... -
Design and Characterization of a Supersonic Wind Tunnel for the Study of Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interactions
Clifford, Christopher ( 2010-12 )A new 3"x3" supersonic wind tunnel was built to facilitate the continued development of localized arc filament plasma actuators (LAFPAs) as a control method for supersonic mixed compression inlets. A variable angle wedge ... -
Design and Development of Reconfigurable Origami Antennas Based on E-textile Embroidery
Chaudhari, Shreyas ( 2018-12 )Reconfigurable origami-based antennas capable of mechanically altering their physical geometry can adjust their operational characteristics in real-time (resonance frequency, bandwidth, radiation pattern, etc.). Though ... -
DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF A TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS FOR BIO-SEQUESTRATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE FROM INDUSTRIAL FLUE GAS EMISSIONS
Chernov, Gregory ( 2010-06 )The main consequence of the industrial revolution is the improvement of quality of life. Another important consequence of this revolution is the dramatic impact of the industry on the environment. For centuries people ... -
DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTATION USED FOR HIGH ENERGY IMPACTS ON FRESH POST-MORTEM HUMAN SUBJECTS
Pfefferle, Kiel ( 2006-06 )The femur injury criterion for anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs), used in car crash testing, is well established in crash biomechanics literature: however, the knee slider criterion and the tibial injury indices have ... -
Design and Evaluation of Measurement Instrumentation used for High Energy Tibia Impacts on Fresh Post Mortem Human Subjects
Kremer, Matthew ( 2009-06 )Injury to the medial collateral ligament (MCL) and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) are common when knees are subjected to loading from the lateral direction. These types of injuries occur often in sports and are also ... -
Design and Evaluation of Potential Cooling Cycles for the Reduction of Water Use in Thermoelectric Power Plants
Davis, Rhys ( 2017-12 )In the U.S., water for thermoelectric power plant cooling constitutes 40% of all freshwater withdrawal and 4% of all freshwater consumption. There are two main kinds of power plant cooling systems, once-through and ... -
Design and Experimental Study of a Mechanical System with Air Springs
Barszcz, Benjamin ( 2008-12 )A laboratory system consisting of a rigid beam and two air springs system has been designed and constructed; this system simulates the planar dynamics of an automobile suspension. The dynamic response of this system was ... -
The Design and Fabrication of a 3D Printed Origami Wheel
Rhoads, Benjamin ( 2015-12 )Automobiles are complex machines, in part due to the transmission, suspension, and steering mechanism. By replacing the traditionally static tire with a deformable wheel that dynamically changes radius, the mechanical ... -
Design and Fabrication of an Active Membrane Desalination Module
Bodenschatz, Cameron ( 2012-06 )Water shortage is a growing problem that continues to affect people worldwide. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, over 1.2 billion people live in areas that face a physical scarcity of water and ... -
Design and Fabrication of Magnetoelastic Metamaterials for Enhancing the Adaptation of Static and Dynamic Properties
El-Helou, Charles ( 2019-05 )The tunability of magnetorheological elastomers is critical in diverse engineering applications where adaptive vibration control and isolation capabilities are demanded, such as for civil structures during seismic events ... -
Design and Implementation of a New Biofidelic ATD Neck for Rear Impacts
Blank, Jonathon ( 2018-05 )Anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) are intended to provide a humanlike response in experimental scenarios where using human volunteers or post-mortem human surrogates (PMHS) are either inappropriate or impossible. Therefore, ... -
DESIGN AND IMPLEMETATION OF NETWORK LOCALIZATION SERVICE USING ANGLE-INDEXED SIGNAL STRENGTH MEASUREMENTS
Kalash, Abdul Rahman ( 2005-06 )The recent technological developments in low-power electronics and wireless communication have increased the use of ad hoc wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring and security applications. A typical network ... -
Design and Instrumentation of a Multi-Modal Imaging System for Breast Cancer Detection
Ewing, Joseph ( 2008-12 )Breast cancer is the leading newly diagnosed cancer among women in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer deaths. This makes accurate and early diagnosis a priority. However there is controversy and ... -
Design and Manufacture of a New Double-Sided Kapton Heat Flux Gauge
Linsley, Jared E. ( 2005-06 )The measurement of Heat flux, or the flow of thermal energy, is a critical measurement for heat transfer analysis. In the case of axial flow turbines, the measurement of heat-flux is complicated by the high speed at which ... -
Design and Prototyping of a Low-Speed Flywheel System for Automotive Brake Energy Recovery
Xu, Sheng ( 2012-06 )Fossil fuels are an important energy source in transportation. Since fossil fuels are non-renewable resources which will exhaust sometime, the need for energy-efficient vehicles with energy recovery systems has become a ... -
Design and Prototyping of a Transformable Quadruped Robot
Cheng, Yupeng ( 2018-05 )Quadruped robotic mechanism is a legged robotic structure using four legs to move. In many legged robotic structures, quadruped is the ideal one for mobility performance and efficiency. Quadruped robots features more stable ... -
Design and testing of a frequency selective surface (FSS) based wide-band multiple antenna system
Kohlgraf, Dana C. ( 2005-06 )Since the first radio link was built by Hertz in 1886, antennas have become a critical technology which allows people to stay connected and informed. Several advances have been made in the field of antenna theory and ... -
Design and testing of an MR drum rotary device to achieve a variable effective compliance transmission
Sabatka, Kyle M. ( 2006-03 )The goal of this work was to compliment previous research that had been conducted to validate the concept of achieving a variable compliance transmission using a parallel combination of a magnetorheological (MR) fluid ...