Research Projects

We strive to provide participants with genuine research experiences, giving them ownership (with guidance) of project decisions and direction.

Summer 2023 Research Projects.

Projects are Subject to Change

Research Project	Faculty Advisor
Additive Manufacturing of Piezoelectric and Magnetostrictive Devices	Dr. Zhangxian "Dan" Deng
Fabrication and Testing of Advanced-Technology Nuclear Fuels	Dr. Brian Jaques
Computational Screening of Chemical Molecules for Excitonic Applications	Dr. Lan Li
Novel Phase-Change Materials Design and Performance Assessment for Cool Pavements	Dr. Yang Lu
Materials Informatics: Material Parameter Estimation from Microstructure Morphologies with Machine Learning	Dr. Mahmood Mamivand
Materials Informatics: Materials Morphology Prediction with Deep Learning	Dr. Mahmood Mamivand
Clean Energy Magnets	Dr. Peter Müllner
Printable Bioscaffolds for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering	Dr. Dave Estrada
Two-Dimensional Materials and Devices for Energy-Efficient Computing	Dr. Dave Estrada
Empirical Modeling of Perovskite Structures	Dr. Rick Ubic
Understanding Mixed-Phase Cathode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries	Dr. Claire Xiong
Reproducibly Parameterizing Molecular Models for High-Throughput Simulation	Dr. Eric Jankowski