BME Archive Surgical Loupe Improvement April 28, 2023 A device that allows surgeons to adjust the declination angle of their loupes to improve posture during long operations.
CHE Archive Tickler impellers to mitigate solids heeled in drained slurry tanks April 28, 2023 Ticklers prevent heel formation from occurring and allow for most, if not all, material to drain through the tank. The goal of this project is to design a system to test different tickler impeller configurations to optimize slurry draining performance.
CHE Archive Continuous Reactor Resign to Prepare Arylamines from Nitro Arenes April 28, 2023 The purpose of this project was to identify and optimize factors for a continuous reactor that can be used to prepare aryl amines from nitro arenes using an acid/proton donor system and a heterogeneous palladium catalyst.
CHE Archive Gold Etchant Characterization April 28, 2023 This project explores the effects of an iodine based etchant on the etch rates of both electroplated and sputtered gold coated silicon wafers.
CHE Archive Developing a Method to Inhibit Refermentation in Sweetened Beer April 28, 2023 Team Stonefish researched novel treatments for inhibiting post-canning refermentation in sweetened beer, which can cause profit loss and recalls.
CHE Archive Adsorption of PFAS in Landfill Leachate Using Biochar April 28, 2023 Investigating the use of biochar made from woody yard waste stored in the Waste Management landfill in Fairport, NY as a PFAS removal treatment for the landfill leachate
CHE Archive Ethanol Reuse for Cannabinoid Extraction April 28, 2023 In order to decrease costs of NoWave’s cannabis extraction process, methods were investigated to increase yield and allow for more reuse of the ethanol
CHE Archive Treatment of PFAS via Foam Fractination in Landfill Leachate April 28, 2023 This project explores the most effective foam fractionation system for PFAS removal from landfill leachate.
OPT OPE Archive Characterizing Single Photon Emitters in Silicon Nitride April 28, 2023 Nicholas Achuthan Mentors Professors Pablo Postigo and Jaime Cardenas Abstract Single photon emitters (SPEs) are a key building block for integrated quantum photonic circuits, but current implementations rely on heterogeneous…
OPT OPE Archive Pupil mask mask system for a MEMS DM segmented mirror model April 28, 2023 Antony Georgiadis Mentors Professor James Fienup and Joseph Tang Abstract Wavefront sensing via phase retrieval algorithms are critical to enabling the use of large aperture systems on the ground and…
OPT OPE Archive Nonlinear Propagation of Volumetrically Full Poincaré Beams April 28, 2023 Tatsunosuke Hanano Mentor Professor Robert Boyd Abstract Light with structured polarization is called polarization structured beams, and they have gotten attention because of their ability to process more information per…
OPT OPE Archive Using Raman Analysis to Identify Microplastics in Environmental Samples April 28, 2023 Kaleigh Rook Mentors Dr. Andrew Berger and Dr. Samantha Romanick “Everything you make returns to the Earth as either food or poison.” Abstract Microplastics have permeated every corner of our…