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Vice President for Research

Session F: Posters - Physical Sciences and Technology

1:30- 2:30pm

Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Geology; and Industrial Engineering and Management (54 presentations)

Note: Presentations are grouped by the student’s area of research (based on the faculty mentor’s academic department), not the student’s academic major.


Presentations:

F-01      Noor Atiyeh

Research Presentation Title:  Enhancing the Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Precursors Through Metal Oxide-Loaded Zeolite Catalysts

Faculty Research Mentor: Hong Je Cho ,Chemical Engineering

F-02      Macey Fletcher

Research Presentation Title:   The effect of tunable hydrophobicity (or -philicity) of Zeolite Beta on the adsorption of short and long chain Per- and Polyfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS)

Faculty Research Mentor: Hong Je Cho, Chemical Engineering

F-03      Ceyda Kara

Research Presentation Title:  Optimizing Medicinal Particle Morphology to Increase Small-Airway Delivery in Early-Stage COPD via Inhalation Therapy

Faculty Research Mentor: Yu Feng, Chemical Engineering

F-04      Adam Meringolo

Research Presentation Title:  Tuning Zeolite Hydrophobicity to Increase Catalytic Efficiency for the Synthesis of Biofuel Additives

Faculty Research Mentor: Hong Je Cho, Chemical Engineering

F-05      Hunter Morris

Research Presentation Title:  Investigation of In-Situ Stress and Treatment Design Parameter Impacts on Hydraulic Fracture Geometry

Faculty Research Mentor: Hunjoo Lee, Chemical Engineering

F-06      Connor Westcott

Research Presentation Title:  Development of Computational Fluid Dynamics-Based Digital Twin for the Reaction of Ethyl Acetate and Sodium Hydroxide in a Continuous Stir Tank Reactor

Faculty Research Mentor: Yu Feng, Chemical Engineering

F-07      Rachel Davis

Research Presentation Title:  Multifactorial Evaluation of pH Stability and 3D Printability of Sodium Alginate Hydrogels for Dental Applications

Faculty Research Mentor: Sundar Madihally, Chemical Engineering

F-08      Omar Ameen

Research Presentation Title:  Polyhaloalkylation of Arylcyclohexene Frameworks: An Application of Light-Mediated Transducer Catalysis

Faculty Research Mentor: Jimmie Weaver, Chemistry

F-09      Mackenzie Armstrong

Research Presentation Title:  Expanding Substrate Scope in an Engineered Enzymatic oxa-Pictet-Spengler Reaction Using Substituted N-Arylpyrazoles

Faculty Research Mentor: David Miller,Chemistry

F-10      Conner Karlik

Research Presentation Title:  An Accessible Photoreactor for Teaching Multiphase Atmospheric Photochemistry Using 4-Nitrophenol

Faculty Research Mentor: Elijah Schnitzler, Chemistry

F-11      Piper Light

Research Presentation Title:  Magnesium-Iron Layered Double Hydroxide for Environmentally Friendly Removal of Excess of Nitrates and Phosphates

Faculty Research Mentor: Nick Materer, Chemistry

F-12      Emmie McRorie

Research Presentation Title:  Spirocyclopropane Synthesis Mediated by Vitamin B12 Photocatalysis

Faculty Research Mentor: Spencer Pitre, Chemistry

F-13      Ashley McVicker

Research Presentation Title:  Imaging sessile and pendant drops to explore potential effects of plastic pollution on cloud formation in the atmosphere

Faculty Research Mentor: Elijah Schnitzler, Chemistry

F-14      Rachel Neaves

Research Presentation Title:  Reductive Ring Opening of α-Ketocyclopropanes Mediated by Dihydropyridine Anions

Faculty Research Mentor: Spencer Pitre, Chemistry

F-15      Jasmine Ramos

Research Presentation Title:  Expanding the Utility of Ph₃GeNMe₂: Efficient Conversion of Meta-Substituted Benzoyl Fluorides to Amides

Faculty Research Mentor: Weinert, Chemistry

F-16      Paige Robertson

Research Presentation Title:  Vitamin B12-Mediated Photo-electrochemical Synthesis

Faculty Research Mentor: Spencer Pitre, Chemistry

F-17      Justus Rogers

Research Presentation Title:  Exploring keto-diol hydration equilibria of carbonyl-containing compounds in the atmosphere

Faculty Research Mentor: Elijah Schnitzler, Chemistry

F-18      Jake Schirmer

Research Presentation Title:  Photodeprotection of N-Tosyl Anilines Mediated by 1,4-Dihydropyridine Anions

Faculty Research Mentor: Spencer Pitre, Chemistry

F-19      Joshua Schut

Research Presentation Title:  CO2 Absorption Isotherms and Thermodynamics of amine-based CO2 Absorbents

Faculty Research Mentor: Nicholas Materer, Chemistry

F-20      Sam Scovitch

Research Presentation Title:  Using Carbazoles as Photocatalysts via Halogen-Bonding with Alkyl Bromides

Faculty Research Mentor: Spencer Pitre, Chemistry

F-21      Beau Thompson

Research Presentation Title:  Investigating the Substrate Scope of a Novel Enzymatic oxa-Pictet-Spengler Cyclization for Asymmetric Oxazino[4,3-a]indole Formation

Faculty Research Mentor: David Miller, Chemistry

F-22      Nathan Woods

Research Presentation Title:  Substrate Scope Optimization for the Catalyzed Cyclization of TVEs Using ZmoSHC1

Faculty Research Mentor: David C. Miller, Chemistry

F-23      Connor Bailey and Jason Sauer

Research Presentation Title:  Flocculation as a Tool for Sustainable Water Conservation/Sediment Control: Mechanisms, Efficiency, and Applications

Faculty Research Mentor: Jaime Schussler, Civil and Environmental Engineering

F-24      Riley Burch

Research Presentation Title:  From Char to Change: Evaluating Biochar as a Sustainable Adsorbent for Nitrate Removal from Drinking Water

Faculty Research Mentor: Mary Foltz, Civil and Environmental Engineering

F-25      Sytryna Harper

Research Presentation Title:  Green Infrastructure Media Types and Pollutant Removal Performance

Faculty Research Mentor: Mary Foltz, Civil and Environmental Engineering

F-26      Emma Milsow, Sophia Matthews, and Remington Fiore

Research Presentation Title:  Effects of UV exposure on the chemical degradation and leaching behavior of microplastics in freshwater conditions

Faculty Research Mentor: Jorge Gonzalez Estrella, Civil and Environmental Engineering

F-27      Vanessa Rendon

Research Presentation Title:  An Assessment of Green Stormwater Infrastructure in the Great Plains

Faculty Research Mentor: Jaime Schussler, Civil and Environmental Engineering

F-28      Kaleb Rigdon and Ethan Alquist

Research Presentation Title:  High-Flying Data: The Effect of UAV Flight Parameters on Culvert Inspection Efficiency

Faculty Research Mentor: Jaime Catherine Schussler, Civil and Environmental Engineering

F-29      Conlan Chesser

Research Presentation Title:  Modernizing the Pioneer 3-DX:  Designing a Real-Time, Power Efficient, and Modular Robotics Platform

Faculty Research Mentor: Weihua Sheng, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-30      Dakota Hudson

Research Presentation Title:  Cost Effective ML Driven Sensory Edge Device to Manage Smart Irrigation System

Faculty Research Mentor: Hritom Das, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-31      Cannon Kilcrease

Research Presentation Title:  Effect of Raster Orientation on X-band Shielding Effectiveness of Aerosol Jet Printed Films

Faculty Research Mentor: Charles Bunting, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-32      Emelia Kravchuk

Research Presentation Title:  Development of a Silicon SPICE electro-thermal neuron for CMOS-compatible spiking simulation

Faculty Research Mentor: Timothy Brown, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-33      Joseph Mantooth

Research Presentation Title:  Human Psychological Development and Foundational AI Model Training

Faculty Research Mentor: John Hu, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-34      Landren Martin

Research Presentation Title:  Investigating The Role of Laser Coherence in the Formation of Zonal Patterns Used for Optical Characterization of Turbid Media

Faculty Research Mentor: Daqing (Daching) Piao, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-35      Carson McSpadden

Research Presentation Title:  Low-Cost Edge-Based Vibrational Sensing for Intelligent Monitoring of Industrial Work Environments

Faculty Research Mentor: Hritom Das, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-36      Joel Nnaji and Brayden Galbreath

Research Presentation Title:  Improving Solar Power Forecasting Using LSTM Neural Networks

Faculty Research Mentor: Ying Zhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-37      Will Poduska

Research Presentation Title:  Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy Characterization of Single Crystal Diamond

Faculty Research Mentor: Weili Zhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-38      Railey Prentice

Research Presentation Title:  Characterizing the Effects of Lunar Dust on Terahertz Mirror System

Faculty Research Mentor: John O'Hara, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-39      Audrey Rasmussen

Research Presentation Title:  Hardware-In-The-Loop Implementation of ESC-Based Impedance-Estimation for Grid-following Inverters

Faculty Research Mentor: Hamid Pouya, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-40      Jacob Raulie and Jonas Jackman

Research Presentation Title:  Implementation of VSDI Tracking on a Mecanum Wheeled Robot

Faculty Research Mentor: Guoliang Fan, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-41      Wonjin Reyes

Research Presentation Title:  Exploring Safe Reinforcement Learning in Power Systems to Enhance Automation

Faculty Research Mentor: Hamid Nazaripouya, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-42      Katrina Wagner

Research Presentation Title:  Performance Evaluation of Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding method for semantic communication

Faculty Research Mentor: Shahriar Shahabuddin, Electrical and Computer Engineering

F-43      Andrew Buss

Research Presentation Title:  Fracture Networks in the San Cristobal Canyon, Puerto Rico from High-Resolution Topography, GIS, and Aeromagnetic Analyses

Faculty Research Mentor: Daniel Lao-Davila, Geology

F-44      Shalom Elliott

Research Presentation Title:  Influence of Recharge Magnitude and Timing on Aquifer Recovery: Insights from MODFLOW 6 Simulations

Faculty Research Mentor: Yipeng Zhang, Geology

F-45      Caden Garcia

Research Presentation Title:  Assessing Reservoir Quality in the Turnpike Federal #2-22D Core using Comparative Porosity Methods

Faculty Research Mentor: Brandon Spencer, Geology

F-46      Jade Hart

Research Presentation Title:  Biosignature Detection of Icy Ocean Worlds

Faculty Research Mentor: Tracy Quan, Geology

F-47      Matt Lombardo

Research Presentation Title:  Utilizing Carbon Content in Deep Sea Sediment to Map Exogenic Events

Faculty Research Mentor: Natascha Riedinger, Geology

F-48      Kelsey Semple

Research Presentation Title:  An Electrical Hydrogeology Investigation of Kirsch Spring, Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer

Faculty Research Mentor: Todd Halihan, Geology

F-49      Max Boughman

Research Presentation Title:  Activity Recognition from Multimodal Hand Kinematics: A Machine Learning Analysis of HANDdata

Faculty Research Mentor: Pratima Saravanan, Industrial Engineering and Management

F-50      Ian Humphreys

Research Presentation Title:  Predictive Fault Detection in Additive Manufacturing

Faculty Research Mentor: Wenmeng Tian, Industrial Engineering and Management

F-51      Sujal Pareshbhai Kanani

Research Presentation Title:  Zero-Knowledge Proof Framework for Box-Cox Based Hypothesis Testing

Faculty Research Mentor: Paritosh P. Ramanan, Industrial, Engineering and Management

F-52      Kristyn Lacki

Research Presentation Title:  To Share or Not to Share? The Dilemma in AI-Empowered Quality Control for 3D Printing

Faculty Research Mentor: Wenmeng Tian, Industrial Engineering and Management

F-53      Jenny Schmidt

Research Presentation Title:  Implementation of Community Paramedicine Program in Rural Oklahoma

Faculty Research Mentor: Pratima Saravanan, Industrial Engineering and Management

F-54      Connor Meissner

Research Presentation Title:  Assessing the Effects of Generative AI Dependence on Working Memory Among Engineering Undergraduates

Faculty Research Mentor: Pratima Saravanan, Industrial Engineering and Management