Quantifying Changes in Soft Tissue Extracellular Matrix Organization

Project Description This project is part of larger studies that aim to understand soft tissue injury susceptibility. In these studies, we quantify the differences in injury mechanics of knee ligaments from multiple mouse model comparisons, including genetically-modified mice and treadmill exercised mice vs. caged controls. These differences in mechanical function...

Nanomanufacturing of Nanophononic Devices for Efficient Thermoeletrics

Project Description The project aims to develop semiconductor devices that convert heat flow into electricity without moving parts or emitting pollutants, by creating a “nanophononic” thermoelectric device. This concept relies on having tiny structures added to a thin solid membrane’s top and bottom slow the flow of heat down the...

Boiling Heat Transfer in Electric Machines: An Experimental Approach

Project Description Electric machines can be motors or generators dependent on if power is supplied or generated. Advances in electric machine design and thermal management hold promise for electric aviation, electric vehicles, and more efficient or smaller generators. This project will involve students running an experimental test setup to collect...

Ground Support Equipment (GSE) Software for the COSMO Space Magnetometer

Project Description The COSMO CubeSat is a 6U CubeSat to precisely measure the Earth’s magnetic field. Its measurements shall be used to update the World Magnetic Field Model (WMM) which is used in a variety of realms including many smartphone applications. The COSMO team is currently building and testing the...

Acoustofluidics-Enhanced Biosensing

Project Description Biosensing is an essential part of patient diagnosis, pandemic response, and disease management; however, many biosensing techniques require complex preparation and processing steps. This project will explore use of acoustic trapping of biomarker-specific microparticles in microfluidic channels – a technique termed “acoustofluidic trapping” – for simplified purification and...

Cybersecurity and Data Analytics (CDA)

Project Description This project is focused in Cybersecurity and Data Analytics (CDA). In March 2019, CU introduced a new interdisciplinary program on Technology, Cybersecurity and Policy (TCP). In addition to starting to bring together existing efforts in these areas, TCP has introduced a dozen new cybersecurity courses, additional faculty, and...

Printing Conductive Ink Circuits

Project Description We will experiment with using a Volterra ink dispenser to draw circuit traces directly onto a circuit board and explore the performance limitations of instant circuit generation. The end goal will be to see how complex a functioning circuit we can create using conductive ink and an X-Y...

3-D Motion Tracking and Filter Design for an Ultrasound Imaging System

Project Description We are developing a high resolution ultrasound imaging system that relies on 3-D tracking of the ultrasound probe using the Polaris Vega optical measurement system. This system will be used to enhance image quality for difficult-to-image patients and deep targets in the body. The student will explore the...

Efficient Power Conversion Architectures

Project Description We are working on efficient power conversion architectures for utility-scale solar photovoltaic systems and for ultra-fast electric vehicle charging applications. In this project, the power electronics prototype architecture developed by our graduate students will be deployed and tested at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The project involves assistance...

Data-Driven Design Tools for Power Electronics

Project Description The project is focused on the development of design automation tools for power electronics systems, including switched-mode power converters for energy efficiency and renewable energy applications. Converter components, such as power semiconductor devices and magnetics, are modeled using machine-learning techniques. Such ML-based models are then used in optimization...

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