Available Projects 2025-2026
Projects* are listed by mentor department. Click on the a department category below, then select the project by clicking on the title.
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- All MURF Projects 2025-2026
- Applied Mathematics and Statistics
- Arthur Lakes Library
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Chemistry
- Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Computer Science
- Economics & Business
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering, Design, and Society
- Geology & Geological Engineering
- Geophysics
- Interdisciplinary MURF 2025-2026
- Mechanical Engineering
- Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
- Mining Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Physics
3D Modeling of Structural Variation Effects on Muscle Contraction Biomechanics
Primary Mentor:Professor Katie Knaus, katherine.knaus@mines.edu
read more3D PRINTED SMALL ANIMAL IMAGER
Primary Mentor:Kevin Cash, kcash@mines.edu (on sabbatical in Spring 2025, so please contact and attach your resume and why you're interested and a good fit for the project. I'll be slower in responding than normal).
read moreAccessibility and Accommodations for Students in STEM
Primary Mentor:Brianna Buljung, bbuljung@mines.edu | Seth Vuletich, sethvuletich@mines.edu
read moreAccessing particle physics in milliKelvin detectors
Primary Mentor:wouter.vandepontseele@mines.edu
read moreAdaptive Stilts for Construction Work
Primary Mentor:Yangming Shi, yangming.shi@mines.edu Xiaoli Zhang, xlzhang@mines.edu
read moreAlgorithm development to perform bulk scale simulations with PFAS
Primary Mentor:Shubham Vyas (svyas@mines.edu)
read moreAR and VR Applications for Electromagnetic Education
Primary Mentor:Peter Aaen, paaen@mines.edu
read moreASSESSING AND QUANTIFYING MULTIPHASE FLOW IN GAS HYDRATE TRANSPORTABILITY
Primary Mentor:Amadeu Sum (asum@mines.edu)
read moreAssessing Snow Drought Extent Across the Western US
Primary Mentor:Dr. Adrienne Marshall (Adriennemarshall@mines.edu) | Arielle Koshkin (akoshkin@mines.edu)
read moreAutomated Characterization of Photonic and Microwave Circuits
Primary Mentor:Gabriel Santamaria-Botello, gabriel.santamariabotello@mines.edu
read moreAutonomous and Interactive Robot Tour Guide
Primary Mentor:
Brushy nanocarriers for expedited mucosal transport
Primary Mentor:Adam Humpal, ahumpal@mines.edu
read moreBuilding and characterizing the Telescope of the NASA POEMMA Balloon with Radio Project
Primary Mentor:Eric Mayotte emayotte@mines.edu | Tobias Heibges theibges@mines.edu
read moreBuilding and Training a Neural Network to Identify Galactic Cosmic Ray Sources
Primary Mentor:Eric Mayotte, emayotte@gmail.com
read moreChloride radical mediated oxidation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Primary Mentor:Shubham Vyas (svyas@mines.edu)
read moreClimate Risk and Global Sea Level Rise: Impacts,
Primary Mentor: Linda A. Battalora, LBattalo@mines.edu | Hitesh Mohan, HMohan@cyberworx.energy (1) Dr. Linda Battalora, Petroleum Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines (2) Hitesh Mohan Managing Partner & Director of Energy CyberWorx.Energy
Computationally guided synthesis of nanostructured high entropy oxides
Primary Mentor:Ryan Richards, rrichard@mines.edu | Cristian Ciobanu, cciobanu@mines.edu
read moreConstructed Wetlands: Next Generation Applications for Sustainable Water Treatment
Primary Mentor: Josh Sharp (jsharp@mines.edu)
Deep Learning Surrogate Models for Fluid Flow in Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs
Primary Mentor:Serveh Kamrava, kamrava@mines.edu
read moreDesign Optimization & Validation of a Miniaturized Kolsky Bar System for High-Rate Testing of Advanced Materials
Primary Mentor:Leslie Lamberson, les@mines.edu
read moreDesigning layered crystals for sustainable energy and quantum information
Primary Mentor:Matthew Crane, matthewcrane@mines.edu | Lauren Cisneros, lrussell1@mines.edu
read moreDesigning linkers to promote carbon concentrating pyrenoids
Primary Mentor:Alex Pak, apak@mines.edu
read moreDeveloping a Palette of Fluorescent Probes for Detecting Peroxynitrite in Live Cells
Primary Mentor:Dylan Domaille, ddomaille@mines.edu | Michael Melville, mmelville@mines.edu |
read moreDeveloping machine learning (ML) models to screen porous materials for CO2 capture from air
Primary Mentor:Diego A Gomez Gualdron: dgomezgualdron@mines.edu
read moreDeveloping Prototypical Identity Verification Mechanisms for Users of Online Communities
Primary Mentor:Estelle Smith, estellesmith@mines.edu Alemitu Bezabih, alemitubezabih@mines.edu
read moreDevelopment of a Mid-Infrared Imaging Platform
Primary Mentor:Yamuna Phal, yphal@mines.edu | Michael Le, mle@mines.edu
read moreDevelopment of a targeted drug delivery strategy to treat type 1 diabetes
Primary Mentor:
Nikki Farnsworth, nfarnsworth@mines.edu | Ashton Fremin, afremin@mines.edu | Jubril Akolade, jakolade@mines.edu
Development of an inverse design algorithm for coupled photonic and microwave networks
Primary Mentor:Gabriel Santamaria-Botello, gabriel.santamariabotello@mines.edu
read moreDevelopment of High-Precision ICP-RIE Process for GaN Nanopatterning and Metasurface Fabrication
Primary Mentor:Patrice Genevet
read moreDevelopment of water treatment technologies for PFAS forever chemicals
Primary Mentor:Prof. Timothy Strathmann, strthmnn@mines.edu
read moreDual-Arm Underwater Grasping and Manipulation
Primary Mentor:George Kontoudis, george.kontoudis@mines.edu
read moreEffects of Exercise Biomechanics on Muscle Fatigue
Primary Mentor:Professor Katie Knaus, katherine.knaus@mines.edu
read moreElectromagnetic Simulation and Analysis of Target’s RCS
Primary Mentor:Atef Elsherbeni aelsherb@mines.edu
read moreElectronics Control and Readout for Quantum Hall Sensor
Primary Mentor:Wouter Van De Pontseele, (email wouter.vandepontseele@mines.edu) | Jake Croft, (email TBD) | Joseph Templet | Rosie Warburton, (email TBD)
read moreElucidating structure-function relationships in active mesoporous cobalt phosphate materials to extend the lifetime of enzymes
Primary Mentor:Brian Trewyn, btrewyn@mines.edu Richard Von Brandt, richard_vonbrandt@mines.edu
read moreEmergent topological complexity in neuroscience data
Primary Mentor:Lincoln Carr, lcarr@mines.edu
read moreEMG-based intuitive prosthetic hand control
Primary Mentor:Xiaoli Zhang; xlzhang@mines.edu Qiaojie Zheng; zheng@mines.edu
read moreEngineering green algae to produce growth factors for cultivated meat production
Primary Mentor:Nanette Boyle nboyle@mines.edu
read moreEngineering Plasmonic Nanocrystals for Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Primary Mentor:Matthew Crane, matthewcrane@mines.edu | Sara Russo, srusso@mines.edu
read moreEngineering the Pancreas Microenvironment to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Primary Mentor:
Nikki Farnsworth, nfarnsworth@mines.edu
Enhancing Knowledge Management in Universities Through Soft-Skills Development for Faculty
Primary Mentor:1stSheron .1stLawson, 1stsheron.lawson@mines.edu
read moreEnvironmentally Relevant Minerals and Their Role in the Transformation of Per-fluoroalkyl acid (PFAA) Precursors
Primary Mentor:Nicole Harris, tionna_harris@mines.edu | Sara Jones, saraleejones@mines.edu | Timm Strathmann, strthmnn@mines.edu | Chris Higgins, chiggins@mines.edu
read moreEvaluating Glacial Surface Roughness in Antarctica using Remotely Sensed Data
Primary Mentor:Jason Drebber, jason_drebber@mines.edu | Ryan Venturelli, venturelli@mines.edu | Matt Siegfried, siegfried@mines.edu
read moreExperimental constraints on mobility of biochar in soils
Primary Mentor:Brandon Dugan dugan@mines.edu | Amanda Howell atowry@mines.edu
read moreExploring Great Lakes Wave Dynamics with NASA’s SWOT Satellite
Primary Mentor:Bia Villas Boas, villasboas@mines.edu | Eric Anderson, ejanderson@mines.edu
read moreFabrication and Characterization of Thin-Film Capacitors for Silicon Qubit Prototyping
Primary Mentor:Meenakshi Singh, msingh@mines.edu
read moreFabrication of Continuous Flow Polymerization Reactor
Primary Mentor:Alyson Camacho, alyson_camacho@mines.edu
read moreFluidized Bed Catalytic Reactor/Receiver for Converting Solar Energy to Fuels and Chemicals
Primary Mentor:kwon@mines.edu
read moreGeomechanical Modeling using Multiphysics Simulations
Primary Mentor:Pejman Tahmasebi, tahmasebi@mines.edu
read moreHeterodyne radiometer for non-invasive core body temperature measurements
Primary Mentor:Gabriel Santamaria-Botello, gabriel.santamariabotello@mines.edu
read moreHigh throughput testing of metal foil pumps
Primary Mentor:Have identified the student, Caroline Hufnagel, who had s worked on this over the past year.
read moreHow Volcanoes Work: Computational Constraints on the Evolution of Magmas in Subvolcanic Storage Systems
Primary Mentor:Wendy Bohrson, bohrson@mines.edu
read moreHow well do we know the temperature of the Earth?
Primary Mentor:Nathan Lenssen lenssen@mines.edu
read moreHow well do we understand sediment transport?
Primary Mentor:Piret Plink-Bjorklund Nathan Lenssen
read moreHydrogen Density Estimation Using Global Ultraviolet Imager (GUVI) Data
Primary Mentor: Yamuna Phal, yphal@mines.edu
Imaging of Powder Flow Distribution in Laser Directed Energy Deposition
Primary Mentor:Samantha Webster, sam.webster@mines.edu
read moreImpact of climate change on natural ventilation
Primary Mentor:Daniel Safronov (Student) <dsafronov@mines.edu>; Gabriel Flechas (Student) <gflechas@mines.edu>
read moreIntegrating recyclers into the circular economy of sustainable construction
Primary Mentor:Juan Lucena, jlucena@mines.edu Jeff Walters, jpwalt@uw.edu
read moreIntelligent control of walkway autonomous snow plowing system
Primary Mentor:Dr. Xiaoli Zhang, xlzhang@mines.edu Dr. Yangming Shi, yangming.shi@mines.edu
read moreINTERFACIAL PROPERTIES OF CLATHRATE HYDRATES FOR CARBON CAPTURE APPLICATIONS
Primary Mentor:Carolyn Koh, ckoh@mines.edu
read moreInterrogating Polyhedral Dynamics as a Predictor for Fast Ion Conduction
Primary Mentor:Austin Shotwell, austinshotwell@mines.edu|Annalise Maughan, amaughan@mines.edu
read moreInvestigating CO2 reduction reactions on plasmonic metal oxides
Primary Mentor:Matthew Crane, matthewcrane@mines.edu | Sara Russo, srusso@mines.edu
read moreInvestigating Puppetteering Principles for Robot Design
Primary Mentor:Tom Williams, twilliams@Mines.edu
read moreInvestigating the Metabolism of Southern Bluefin Tuna To Optimize Culture Conditions
Primary Mentor:Nanette Boyle nboyle@mines.edu
read moreInvestigation of Catalyst Layers and their Degradation
Primary Mentor:Svitlana Pylypenko spylypen@mines.edu. Lonneke van Eijk lvaneijk@mines.edu
read moreIoT Security and Privacy Protection
Primary Mentor:Dr. Chuan Yue (chuanyue@mines.edu) and his PhD students (TBD).
read moreMaking waves in ocean sciences: a comparative analysis of buoy observations and model predictions
Primary Mentor:Colin Beyers, colin_beyers@mines.edu | Bia Villas Bôas, villasboas@mines.edu
read moreMapping tropical beaches and icy coastlines using a novel remote sensing tool
Primary Mentor:Matt Siegfried, siegfried@mines.edu | Bia Villa Boas, villasboas@mines.edu | Zachary Katz, zachary_katz@mines.edu
read moreMicroplastic Field Sampling and Analysis in a Global Setting
Primary Mentor:Amy Landis, amylandis@mines.edu. Anne Marie Mozrall, annemarie_mozrall@mines.edu
read moreMicrowave Biosensor for Glucose Monitoring System
Primary Mentor:Peter Aaen, paaen@mines.edu
read moreMolecular simulations to model the self-assembly of advanced porous crystals
Primary Mentor:Diego A Gomez-Gualdron: dgomezgualdron@mines.edu
read moreMovement control during symmetric and asymmetric activities of daily living
Primary Mentor:Anne Silverman, asilverm@mines.edu | Jordan Sturdy, sturdy@mines.edu
read moreMultilayer Structures for EM Shielding and Absorption
Primary Mentor:Atef Elsherbeni aelsherb@mines.edu
read moreMuscular Coordination and Biomechanics during Rising Activities of Daily Living
Primary Mentor:Professor Anne Silverman, asilverm@mines.edu | Graduate Student Michael Miller, mfmiller@mines.edu
read moreNonlinear Dimensional Reduction and Machine Learning Algorithms for Coarse-grained Simulations of Biomolecular Complexes
Primary Mentor:Alex Pak, apak@mines.edu | Steve Pankavich, pankavic@mines.edu
read morePeptide-Modified Biomaterials for Growth Plate Cartilage Regeneration
Primary Mentor:Melissa Krebs, mdkrebs@mines.edu
read morePermeability of sediments from the US Atlantic Margin offshore Massachusetts: constraints from experiments and borehole logging data
Primary Mentor:Brandon Dugan dugan@mines.edu
read morePetrophysical analysis of an offshore freshened groundwater system
Primary Mentor:Brandon Dugan, dugan@mines.edu
read morePhysics-informed machine learning for fluid flow in porous media
Primary Mentor:Tahmasebi, Pejman
read morePilot-scale turbidity-based membrane scaling mitigation on gypsum-impacted groundwater in Colorado
Primary Mentor:Johan Vanneste vanneste@mines.edu
read morePolymer-mediated CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein delivery for pulmonary diseases
Primary Mentor:Ram Prasad Sekar: ramprasadsekar@mines.edu ; Ramya Kumar: ramyakumar@mines.edu
read moreProducing Renewable Energy from Plants and Trees
Primary Mentor:Mark Florida, mflorida@mines.edu
read morePython Package Development for Visualizing Time-dependent 3D Geophysical Datasets
Primary Mentor:Ge Jin, gjin@mines.edu
read moreQuantum Materials Discovery
Primary Mentor:Kamil Ciesielski, kciesielski@mines.edu Eric Toberer, etoberer@mines.edu
read moreRational design of protein corona through anionic monomer incorporation in polymeric nanocarriers
Primary Mentor:Jessica Lawson, jllawson@mines.edu
read moreReal-time Motion Tracking and Mapping in Urban Environments
Primary Mentor:Kaveh Fathian Assistant Professor Computer Science Department Colorado School of Mines Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/kavehfathian/ Lab website: https://www.ariarobotics.com/ Email: kaveh.fathian@mines.edu
read moreResilient Rendezvous in Adversarial Multi-Drone Systems for Environmental Monitoring
Primary Mentor:George Kontoudis, george.kontoudis@mines.edu
read moreRobot teleporation through mixted reality
Primary Mentor:Yangming Shi, yangming.shi@mines.edu Frankie Zhu, frankie.zhu@mines.edu
read moreRover Mobility Experiments in a Lunar Surface Testbed
Primary Mentor:Bailey Hopkins, Ryan Hartzell, Frankie Zhu
read moreSecurity and Privacy Analysis of Smartphone Apps
Primary Mentor:Dr. Chuan Yue (chuanyue@mines.edu) and his PhD students (TBD).
read moreSILICON CLATHRATES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS
Primary Mentor:Carolyn Koh, ckoh@mines.edu | Reuben Collins, rtcollin@mines.edu
read moreSIZE CONTROL OF OXYGEN-SENSITIVE NANOSENSORS
Primary Mentor:Kevin Cash, kcash@mines.edu (on sabbatical in Spring 2025, so please contact and attach your resume and why you're interested. I'll be slower in responding than normal).
read moreSpeciation and ion transport of lithium fluoride and SEI components in battery electrolytes via advanced NMR spectroscopy
Primary Mentor:David Halat, david.halat@mines.edu
read moreSynthesis and characterization of organic and polymer materials for application in ionizing radiation detection
Primary Mentor:Alan Sellinger, aselli@mines.edu Morgan Fandrey, morgan_fandrey@mines.edu, (graduate student) Owen Farkas, owen_farkas@mines.edu, (undergraduate student)
read moreSynthesis and characterization of polyplexes formed from cationic copolymers and nucleic acids.
Primary Mentor:Jessica Lawson, jllawson@mines.edu
read moreTuning pH-responsive polymeric brushes via hydrophobic interactions
Primary Mentor:Adam Humpal, ahumpal@mines.edu
read moreUnderstanding how surface treatments influence energy harvesting in semiconductor plasmonic nanocrystals
Primary Mentor:Matthew Crane, matthewcrane@mines.edu | Sara Russo, srusso@mines.edu
read moreUnderstanding Mitochondrial Localization of Napthalimides
Primary Mentor:Dylan Domaille, ddomaille@mines.edu | Michael Melville, mmelville@mines.edu
read moreUnderstanding N–N bond formation in ammonia oxidation catalysts
Primary Mentor:Samantha Johnson, samanthajo.johnson@mines.edu
read moreUsing Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs to Accelerate GrapheneNanoRibbon Research for Future Semiconductors
Primary Mentor:Mehmet Belviranli, belviranli@mines.edu
read moreViability of Static and Convolutional Embeddings for AI and Robotics Vision
Primary Mentor:Kaveh Fathian Assistant Professor Computer Science Department Colorado School of Mines Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/kavehfathian/ Lab website: https://www.ariarobotics.com/ Email: kaveh.fathian@mines.edu
read moreWeb Security Measurement and Analysis
Primary Mentor:Dr. Chuan Yue (chuanyue@mines.edu) and his PhD students (TBD).
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