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Moffatt, Kevin | Formula U Racing Active Aerodynamics Development | Formula SAE (FSAE) is an international engineering design competition organized by SAE International for college students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with the intention of giving students the opportunity to apply management and engineering skills learned in the classroom to a real ... | 2019 | |
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Waung, Austin J. | Creating a Potential Solution for the Adverse Effects of Electric Vehicle Loading | The purpose of this project was to create a smart plug-adapter, which could limit the charging rate of electric vehicles, thereby allowing for greater control of the electric load. A user is able to control the charge rate through a cellular application. This project was designed to be utilized with... | 2019 | |
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Machado, Liam | Extending Support for Floating-Points in the Boogie and Smack Software Verifiers | Software veri#12;cation, which aims to prove critical properties about programs using rigorous formal methods based on logic, is an active area of research in the #12;eld of computer science. In particular, the veri#12;cation of oating-points is a topic of paramount importance, given their ubiquity... | 2019 | |
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Schoensee, Kohl | U of U Fsae Aero Package CFD Optimization & Structural FEA | I would like to thank my older brother, Luke Schoensee, for pushing me to develop Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models with ANSYS that are comparable to those developed by the top Formula SAE teams. I am grateful for the countless hours on the phone with Luke where he helped explain the problem... | 2019 | |
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Nelson, Kelli R. | Label-Free Visualization of Nanoparticles Subjected to Dielectrophoretic Forces | Previous studies have shown that nanoparticle separation may be achieved to very high resolution based on size and other properties in a sawtooth-patterned gradient insulator-based dielectrophoretic microfluidic device. This work integrates this dielectrophoretic capture of nanoparticles from a liqu... | 2019 | |
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Sivo, Jacob | Agile in the Wild - An in-Depth look into EAE Student Development Practice | There have been works produced on Agile techniques and their e#11;ectiveness in terms of both actual project progress as well as human factors, especially in industry. There are many training programs that companies enroll their employees in, such as ASPE. In these training programs, individuals are... | 2019 | |
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Van der Merwe, Mark | Learning 3D Reconstructions for Geometrically aware Robotic Grasping | Robotic grasping is a crucial subtask of many important robotic applications, such as in-home robotic assistance, emergency responce robots, and industrial robotics. Deep learning has enabled remarkable improvements in robotic grasp synthesis for previously unseen objects from partial object views. ... | 2020 | |
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Chen, Jiahui | Practical and Configurable Network Traffic Classification using Probabilistic Machine Learning | Network traffic classification that is generally applicable and highly accurate is extremely valuable for many network security and management tasks. A flexible and easily configurable classification framework is ideal so it can be customized for use in many different networks. In this thesis we pro... | 2020 | |
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Nelson, Jennifer | Partial-Order Ambiguous Observations of Fluents and Actions for Goal Recognition as Planning | This work readies goal recognition for real-world scenarios by adapting a foundational compilation by Ram´ırez and Geffner to work with partial-order, ambiguous observations of both facts and actions. We first redefine what observations can be and what it means to satisfy them. We provide a compil... | 2020 | |
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Novy, Jenna | Selective and Localized Marking of Activated Dendritic Spines Using a Novel Genetic Construct, Slayr | The brain's ability to store memory is as remarkable as it is complex. The mechanism behind memory storage is still not fully understood and has become an essential question in the neuroscience field. Long-term memories are thought to form via the strengthening of specific connections between neuron... | 2020 | |
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Radhakrishnan, Sridharan | Development of Low-Cost system for Myoelectric Prosthesis Control | The upper limb prosthetics field has advanced to where artificial hands can mimic human motions based on electrical signals emitted from muscular activation and can even open and close proportionate to the amplitude of signal they receive. However, these prostheses are very expensive, with some cost... | 2020 | |
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Gilbert, Henry | Development of a Power over Ethernet (POE) Airu Sensor | Poor air quality has been linked to both health and economic concerns, and is a growing research topic in Salt Lake City. The AQ&U program at the University of Utah strives to develop a large network of low-cost air quality sensors (AirU's) to study air pollution throughout the Salt Lake valley. Man... | 2020 | |
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Fluckiger, Kylee Renee | Flexible Sensing for Pressure Ulcer Detection and Prevention | Pressure ulcers are a common and harmful ailment among those who use a wheelchair for extended lengths of time. Periodic pressure relief actions performed by the wheelchair user have been shown to reduce the occurrence of pressure ulcers, but these actions may not be completed correctly or regularly... | 2020 | |
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Wang, Karissa M. | Transcription factor NFATc1's signaling pathway and role in cardiomyocyte function | Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia. It affects as many as 6.1 million people in the United States and increases their risk of stroke by 4-5 times. AF is evidently a very serious condition, but the scientific community does not yet fully understand its underlying mechani... | 2020 | |
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Sriram, Ananya | Electrochemical Impedance Analysis of Gold-Polyurethane Nanocomposite | Neural prosthetic devices are used to record and transmit electrical signals to modulate neural tissue functionality. Electrodes in the devices are currently made using traditional electronic materials. These materials are generally not biocompatible and those that are, can be stiff, triggering an i... | 2020 | |
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Bull, Auguest John | Robotic Grasp Control Using Tactile Feedback | As we move towards more autonomous robots, object interaction and manipulation remains difficult for robots. Grasping approaches vary from learning-based to traditional control means, each with their own challenges. Learning-based methods perform well on specific tasks, but struggle to move to other... | 2020 | |
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Sunkaraneni, Tarun | Transformer-Based Observers in Psychotherapy | Motivational Interviewing is a style of psychotherapy which has shown success as a method for treating addiction and substance abuse problems. In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have shown promising results in assisting Motivational Interviewing (MI) training and advancing... | 2020 | |
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Bekeris, Michael Joseph | Block Copolymers and Nanosphere Lithography as a Bottom-up Fabrication Tool for Facilitating Deterministic Lateral Displacement | With the capability to separate red blood cells and exosomes, deterministic lateral deisplacement (DLD) has established itself as a great utility in biological sparation applications on both the microscale and nonoscale. Current methods of employing DLD on the nonoscale require electron beam lithogr... | 2020 | |
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Porras, Adrian M. | Acoustic emission monitoring on reinforced concrete frames with improved seismic resilience | In modern structural engineering, reinforced concrete (RC) structures are wildly adopted due to their strength in resisting compressional and flexural loads. Moreover, RC structures can be precast or cast-in-place and have been used for many applications, such as footings, beams, and columns. Howeve... | 2020 | |
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Ticknor, Claire | Sintering of 3D printed steel-copper functionally graded materials | Over the past several years, additive manufacturing has continued to expand and advance toward more promising responses to high-performance multi-functional applications. One such response is the utility of functionally graded materials (FGMs). In an FGM, the composition and structure gradually chan... | 2021 | |
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Adams, Samuel I. | Correcting acoustic phase aberrations in focused ultrasound treatments for breast cancer | Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer worldwide. Early-stage localized cancers are currently treated with surgical lumpectomy and radiation. Focused ultrasound is a disruptive technology that can replace conventional surgical and radiation therapies to provide noninvasive cancer treatment. This... | 2021 | |
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Alverson, Michael | Discovery of novel crystal structures VIA generative adversarial networks | The idea of material discovery has excited and perplexed research scientists for centuries. Several different methods have been employed to find new types of materials, ranging from the arbitrary replacement of atoms in a crystal structure to advanced machine learning methods for predicting entirely... | 2021 | |
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Armstrong, Blair P. | Lower critical solution temperature behavior of elastin-coiled-coil polymer, a potential platform for treatment of non-hodgkin's lymphoma | Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma takes the lives of 20,000 Americans each year. When traditional therapies fail, clinicians have turned to a drug, rituximab, for treatment. However, rituximab is now curative for less than 50% of patients and new treatments are needed. Drug-free macromolecular therapeutics (DF... | 2021 | |
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Clark, Tyler | Video game development during a pandemic: a student's perspective | This paper seeks to go over a student's journey of video game development during the Covid-19 pandemic. It will showcase the unique challenges of working on a project remotely and the development process that was set out by the University of Utah's Entertainment Arts and Engineering Capstone Class. ... | 2021 | |
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Ashurst, Blayze | A telemetry communication system for ucubesat | The goal of U CubeSat club at the University of Utah is to launch the University of Utah's first CubeSat into space, and thus inspire future engineering students at the U to develop and launch increasingly capable CubeSats. My contributions to this project was to determine the requir... | 2022 |