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Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium 2004

The Engineering School Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium is an annual presentation and selection of the best of the Undergraduate Research theses. Each finalist in the competition delivers a 15-minute oral presentation, and three awards are given at the end of the symposium. Listed below are the finalists, the winners, and the members of the selection commmittee.

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Left to Right: Alla Aksel, Sally Moffett, Neda Cvijetic

1st Place - Neda Cvijetic

2nd Place - Alla Aksel

3rd Place - Sally Moffett

Space-Time Coding Against Fading in Free-Space Optical Channels
Technical Advisor: Stephen Wilson
STS 401 & 402 Advisor: Peter Norton

Monitoring Tremor in Parkinson's Disease Patients Via a Wearable Assessment Device
Technical Advisor: John Lach
STS 401 Advisor: Bryan Pfaffenberger
STS 402 Advisor: Claire Chantell

Wavelet-Based Analysis of the Turbulent Energy Cascade as Described by Burger's Equation
Technical Advisor: Donald Jordan
STS 401 Advisor: Bryan Pfaffenberger
STS 402 Advisor: Edmund Russell

2004 Symposium Judges:
George Cahen, S. Wallace Dawson, Jr., Vincent H. Derr, Mary Anne Kerr, Stephen J. Race,
Heather Wishart Shriner, John G. Thacker

2004 Selection Committee:
John Lach, Chair
Hilary Bart-Smith, Mary Beck, Dana Elzey, John Hossack, Marty Humphrey, Tom Hutchinson, Donald Kirwan, Bryan Pfaffenberger, Jake Harmon (Student), Margaret Kramer (Student), Jim Aylor (Ex-Officio)

URDS Finalists:

Prabhu Adie
An Investigation of Pressure Tap Geometries and Their Relationship to Transducer Rise Time
Technical Advisor: Christopher Goyne
STS 401 & 402 Advisor: Ingrid Townsend

Joseph Calandrino
Development and Limitations of a Context-Dependent Text-to-Speech System
Technical Advisor: Paul Reynolds
STS 401 & 402 Advisor: Patricia Click

Sarah Cary
Electronic Oncoming Train Notification System
Technical Advisor: Dana Elzey
STS 401 & 402 Advisor: Kathryn Neeley

Jennifer Coyne
Characterization of a New High-Resolution Media for Protein Chromatography
Technical Advisor: Giorgio Carta
STS 401 & 402 Advisor: Ingrid Townsend

Ryan Dickey
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Sensors: Design and Implementation of an Ad-Hoc Approach
Technical Advisors: Dan Bauer, Jack Stankovic
STS 401 Advisors: Rosalyn Berne, Claire Chantell
STS 402 Advisor: Kathryn Neeley

Jonathan Hill
Wireless Power Transmission to Micro Air Vehicles
Technical Advisor: Hossein Haj-Hariri
STS 401 & 402 Advisor: Patricia Click

Brian Light
A Design for a Better Handwriting Recognizer: Using Link Grammar to Improve Accuracy
Technical Advisor: David Brogan
STS 401 & 402 Advisor: Kathryn Neeley

Jeffrey Peirson
Optimizing the Real-Time Structural Light Scanner for Robustness and Ease of Use
Technical Advisor: David Luebke
STS 401 Advisor: Rosalyn Berne
STS 402 Advisor: Ingrid Townsend

Joseph Senior
How to Travel Down, Around, and Back Again: A Study of a Forward Looping Roller Coaster
Technical Advisor: Marek-Jerzy Pindera
STS 401 Advisor: Betsy Mendelsohn
STS 402 Advisor: Peter Norton