Funded Projects

Projects funded for Spring Quarter 2012-2013 can be found here.

Best Student Project Travel Awards for Fall Quarter 2012-2013

We would like to congratulate the Fall Quarter's winner of the Best Student Project Travel Award-- Derek Heeger, who was nominated by Dr. Paul Leisher.

Derek  will present his work on "A Discrete Transmission-Matrix Method for Modeling the Distributed Feedback Arising from Continuously Varying Refractive Index Profiles" at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco this February.

Best Student Project Travel Awards for Spring Quarter 2011-2012

We are pleased to announce the winners of this quarter's Best Student Project Travel Award: Christopher Grant and Jordan Chipka.

Christopher will present his work on "A Simple Algorithm to Relate Measured Surface Roughness to Equivalent Sand-grain Roughness" at the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics in Ottawa this summer. His faculty sponsor is Dr. Thom Adams.

Jordan will present a study of a "A PIV Study of Flow Past a Rotating Cylinder" at the ASME International Undergraduate Research and Design Expo this in November. Dr. Mike Moorhead is his sponsor.


Best Student Project Travel Awards for Winter Quarter 2011-2012

The first winners of the Best Student Project Travel Award are Phillip Rodenbeck and Spencer Carver.

Phillip will present his work on "New Tools in Project Planning" at the Portland International Conference on the Management of Engineering and Technology in Vancouver this summer.  His faculty sponsor is Dr. Terry Schumacher from the department of Engineering Management.

Spencer will present a study of a "Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converter via Asynchronous Oversampling" at the SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference in Baltimore in April.  Dr. Azad Siahmakoun from Physics and Optical Engineering is his sponsor.

  • Projects funded for Spring Quarter 2011-2012 can be found here.
  • Projects funded for Winter Quarter 2011-2012 can be found here.
  • Projects funded for Fall Quarter 2012-2013 can be found here. 
  • Projects funded for Winter Quarter 2012-2013 can be found here.