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Author:

Hartman, John

Title:

Evaluation of a foot-mounted slip sensor

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

stick-slip friction
heel-strike
friction tester

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Supervisor
Mary I Frecker, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Koffler, Peter Alan

Title:

Modeling Compliant Mechanism Flexure Hinges for Flapping Wing Nano Air Vehicles

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Flexure Hinge
Compliant Mechanism
MEMS
Nano Air Vehicle
FEA
Finite Element Analysis
Stress
SolidWorks
Ansys
Matlab

File:

Download Koffler_Peter_ModelingCompliantMechanismFlexureHinges.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Christopher D. Rahn, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Shipley, Jenny Lynn

Title:

Semi-autonomous Line Following Domino Dispensor

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Arduino
robot
toy
domino
line follower
automation
microcontroller

File:

Download Shipley_Jenny_Dominobot.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Stankiewicz, Paul Geoffrey

Title:

Vehicle Path Following and Rollover Prevention Using Previewed State Information

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

path following
rollover
preview control

File:

Download Stankiewicz_-_Honors_Thesis_FINAL_-_no_signature.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Seneca, Carly Marie

Title:

Oil Flow Visualization of Pin Fins

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Pin fins
flow visualization
heat transfer
oil flow visualization

File:

Download Seneca_Carly_PinFinFlowVisualization.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Haydt, Shane Elliott

Title:

Flow Visualization of Low Aspect Ratio Pin Fin Arrays

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
turbomachinery
convective cooling
flow visualization
pin fins

File:

Download Haydt_Shane_pinfinflowvisualization.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Nellis, Robert William

Title:

A Sensor-based Lap Counter and Timer for Use in Swim Training

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Sensor
Swim
Training
Lap
Counter
Timer
Nellis
Sommer
Ounaies

File:

Download Nellis_Robert_LapCounterAndTimer.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Supervisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Krott, Matthew Joseph

Title:

Experimental Characterization of a Model Tailboom's Vibrations

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

helicopters
vibrations
structural dynamics
fluidic flexible matrix composite

File:

Download Matthew_Krott_Thesis_Final_Edit.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Christopher D. Rahn, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Miller, Samuel Hans

Title:

Design and Calibration of an Electronic Fuel Injection System for a Compressed Natural Gas Spark Ignition Internal Combustion Engine in a Hybrid Vehicle

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Hybrid-electric
compressed natural gas
CNG
injection system

File:

Download Samuel_Millers_Schreyer_Honors_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Joel Robert Anstrom, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Faculty Reader

Author:

Pangborn, Herschel Cyrus

Title:

Development and Applications of a Robot Tracking System for NIST Test Methods

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

robot
mechatronics
image processing
fiducial identification
MATLAB
Python
NIST
object identification
emergency response

File:

Download Pangborn_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Supervisor
Karl Martin Reichard, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor