Available Projects 2022-2023
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Visualizing Phase Transformations of Water
Primary Mentor:Primary contact: Prof. Amadeu Sum (asum@mines.edu)
read moreVisualize future climate change through film
Primary Mentor:Piret Plink-Bjorklund pplink@mines.edu
read moreUnderstanding and inhibiting the pathway of iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis in pathogenic bacteria
Primary Mentor:Christine Morrison, morrison@mines.edu
read moreTuning Charge Transport and Photoemission in Perovskite Halides with Pseudohalide Chemistries
Primary Mentor:Annalise Maughan, amaughan@mines.edu
read moreTransforming Geoscience: Grassroots DI&A Activism for Disciplinary Change
Primary Mentor:Elizabeth Reddy, reddy@mines.edu
read moreThree stage modeling and anti-retroviral treatment strategies for in-host HIV dynamics
Primary Mentor:Steve Pankavich, pankavic@mines.edu
read moreThe Least Covert Action: How the CIA Mobilized Midcentury America
Primary Mentor:KennethOsgood, kosgood@mines.edu
read moreTechno-economic analysis of green hydrogen and ammonia as a fuel replacement
Primary Mentor:John Jechura, jjechura@mines.edu | Rok Sitar, roksitar@mines.edu | Colin Wolden, cwolden@mines.edu
read moreSustainable Development in the Extractive Industries
Primary Mentor:Nicole Smith, nmsmith@mines.edu Sebnem Duzgun, duzgun@mines.edu
read moreSurface water prediction for the lakes of the Colorado River Basin
Primary Mentor:Eric Anderson, ejanderson@mines.edu
read moreSurface characterization of plasmonic materials via aqueous thermal field-flow fractionation
Primary Mentor:Kim Williams. Michael Toney (graduate student)
read moreStudying rivers through fluvial seismology
Primary Mentor:Danica Roth, droth@mines.edu Ge Jin, gjin@mines.edu
read moreStructure and Function of Nitrile Hydratases
Primary Mentor:Richard Holz, Rholz@mines.edu Callie Miller, cgmiller@mines.edu
read moreStructurally Relevant Testing of Additively Manufactured Parts
Primary Mentor:Joy, Gockel, joygockel@mines.edu
read moreSquirrels and fires: how do biotic agents influence post-fire erosion?
Primary Mentor:Danica Roth, droth@mines.edu
read moreSolarFinder: Automatic Detection of Solar Photovoltaic Arrays
Primary Mentor:Dong Chen, dongchen@mines.edu
read moreSmartCamera: Enabling On-device and Privacy-friendly IoT Services
Primary Mentor:Dong Chen, dongchen@mines.edu
read moreSingle-shot Fourier Ptychography Microscope for Pulse-Beam Metrology
Primary Mentor:Daniel Adams, daadams@mines.edu
read moreSilicon clathrates for quantum information applications
Primary Mentor:Meenakshi Singh, msingh@mines.edu
read moreSilicon Clathrates for Photovoltaic Applications
Primary Mentor:Carolyn Koh, ckoh@mines.edu | Reuben Collins, rtcollin@mines.edu
read moreShoulder loading during military load carriage
Primary Mentor:Anne Silverman, asilverm@mines.edu | Jordan Sturdy, sturdy@mines.edu
read moreSecurity and Privacy Analysis of Smartphone Apps
Primary Mentor:Dr. Chuan Yue (chuanyue@mines.edu) and his PhD students (TBD).
read moreSecure Resource and Information Management
Primary Mentor:Guannan Liu, guannan.liu@mines.edu
read moreScalble Machine Learning for Automatically Diagnosing Breast Cancer Using Large-Scale Histopathological Images
Primary Mentor:Hua Wang, huawang@mines.edu
read moreReversible Fuel Cells for Grid Energy Storage
Primary Mentor:Dr. Robert Braun, rbraun@mines.edu Dr. Chris Cadigan, ccadigan@mines.edu
read moreRemoving flouro-based compounds from water over metal organic frameworks
Primary Mentor:Moises A. Carreon (faculty advisor) mcarreon@mines.edu Graduate student from Carreon group (TBD)
read moreRapid destruction of organic water pollutants of emerging concern by application of hot compressed water
Primary Mentor:Prof. Timothy Strathmann (strthmnn@mines.edu)
read moreProton Exchange Membranes for Steam Electrolysis
Primary Mentor:Andrew Herring, aherrig@mines.edu, Chris Kim, chuloongkim@mines.edu
read morePrivate Memoirs of IoT Devices: Safeguarding User Privacy in the IoT Era
Primary Mentor:Dong Chen, dongchen@mines.edu
read morePredicting polyplex size distribution from polymer properties and formulation parameters
Primary Mentor:Ramya Kumar, ramyakumar@mines.edu
read morePolymer membranes for water, gas, and ionic transport
Primary Mentor:Daniel Knauss, dknauss@mines.edu
read morePlasmonic Nanocrystals for Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Primary Mentor:Matthew Crane, matthewcrane@mines.edu | Sara Russo, srusso@mines.edu
read moreOptimizing growth of an emerging model alga, Chromochloris zofingiensis, in waste water for the production of astaxanthin and biofuels
Primary Mentor:Nanette Boyle nboyle@mines.edu
read moreOptically driven nanostructuring of alloyed metal plasmonic nanocrystals for next-generation computing
Primary Mentor:Matthew Crane, matthewcrane@mines.edu | Brandon Reynolds, breynolds@mines.edu
read moreNumeric and analytic investigation of nonlinear ultrashort-pulse propagation
Primary Mentor:Daniel Adams, daadams@mines.edu
read moreNonlinear Dimension Reduction and Machine Learning Algorithms for Coarse-grained Simulations of Biomolecular Complexes
Primary Mentor:
Nitrogen recovery from municipal biosolids
Primary Mentor:Tzahi Cath, tcath@mines.edu | Tayler Elwell, tjelwell@mines.edu | Isuru Arachchige, isuruabeysiriwardan@mines.edu |
read moreMultiscale Modeling and Simulation of the in-host Dynamics of HIV infection
Primary Mentor:Steve Pankavich, pankavic@mines.edu
read moreMultiscale characterization of PEM device components
Primary Mentor:Svitlana Pylypenko, spylypen@mines.edu. Genevieve Stelmacovich, gstelmacovich@mines.edu
read moreMultiphysics Design of GaN Transistors for 5G and 6G applications
Primary Mentor:Peter Aaen, paaen@mines.edu
read moreMulti-Messenger X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Primary Mentor:Xerxes Steirer, ksteirer@mines.edu
read moreMulti-accelerator Execution of Autonomous Workloads
Primary Mentor:Mehmet Belviranli <belviranli@mines.edu> Ismet Dagli <ismetdagli@mines.edu>
read moreMonitoring and Detecting Methane Emissions to Slow Climate Change
Primary Mentor:Dorit Hammerling, hammerling@mines.edu| Kellis Ward, kellisward@mines.edu
read moreMolecular simulations studies of ammonia formation mechanism in plasma reactors
Primary Mentor:Diego A Gomez-Gualdron, dgomezgualdron@mines.edu
read moreMolecular Simulations of SARS-CoV-2 Peptide Therapeutics
Primary Mentor:Alex Pak, apak@mines.edu
read moreMolecular Simulations of Bacterial Microcompartment Proteins
Primary Mentor:Pak, Alex, apak@mines.edu
read moreMolecular Simulations for Phase Transformations of Water
Primary Mentor:Amadeu Sum, asum@mines.edu
read moreMolecular Dynamics Simulations with 2D Materials
Primary Mentor:Joseph Samaniuk, samaniuk@mines.edu
read moreMineral mapping for geothermal exploration using remote sensing
Primary Mentor:sebnem duzgun, duzgun@mines.edu Katharina Pfaff, kpfaff@mines.edu Thomas Monecke, tmonecke@mines.edu
read moreMicroporous Molecular sieve membranes for olefin/paraffin separations
Primary Mentor:Moises A. Carreon (faculty advisor) mcarreon@mines.edu Keerthana Krisnan (PhD Student advisor) keerthanakrisnan@mines.edu
read moreMicrobial Influenced Corrosion of Infrastructure
Primary Mentor:John Spear, jspear@mines.edu
read moreMECHANISMS OF PANCREATIC CELL DEATH IN TYPE 1 DIABETES
Primary Mentor:Nikki Farnsworth, nfarnsworth@mines.edu | Jillian Collins, jcollins1@mines.edu
read moreMateriality Topics and Matrices in the Energy Sector: A Compilation Type of Proposal
Primary Mentor:Linda Battalora, lbattalo@mines.edu | Maria Capello, mariangelacapello@gmail.com
read moreMachine Learning to Optimize Additive Manufacturing Parameters
Primary Mentor:Hua Wang, huawang@mines.edu
read moreMachine Learning and AI for Mineral Supply Chains
Primary Mentor:sebnem duzgun, duzgun@mines.edu
read moreIron Oxide Nanoparticles as an Effective and Recyclable Clathrate Hydrate Dispersant in the Oil and Gas Industry
Primary Mentor:Ning Wu, ningwu@mines.edu Yuanxing Zhang, zhang3@mines.edu
read moreIoT Security and Privacy Protection
Primary Mentor:Dr. Chuan Yue (chuanyue@mines.edu) and his PhD students (TBD).
read moreInvestigating Antarctic subglacial lake dynamics using satellite altimetry
Primary Mentor:Wilson Sauthoff sauthoff@mines.edu | Dr. Matthew Siegfried, siegfried@mines.edu
read moreIntracellular Nanofactories
Primary Mentor:Scott Massimi , smassimi@mines.edu Kara Metzger, kmetzger@mines.edu
read moreIntelligent Prediction of Traffic Conditions via Integrated Data-Driven Crowdsourcing and Learning
Primary Mentor:Hua Wang, huawang@mines.edu Qi Han, qhan@mines.edu
read moreInorganic 2D material interactions with organic membranes
Primary Mentor:Joseph Samaniuk, samaniuk@mines.edu
read moreInnovative Green Infrastructure to Removal Phosphorus from Urban Drool
Primary Mentor:John McCray. jmccray@mines.edu
read moreImpacts of wildfires on solar photovoltaic generation
Primary Mentor:Paulo Tabares,tabares@mines.edu
read moreIdentifying disciplinary silos in the energy-water nexus: Do energy systems researchers and river systems researchers “talk” to each other about hydropower?
Primary Mentor:Adrienne Marshall, adriennemarshall@mines.edu | Adrianne Kroepsch, akroepsch@mines.edu
read moreHydrogen production and energy storage with electroceramics
Primary Mentor:Neal Sullivan, nsulliva@mines.edu
read moreHow does changing hydroclimate affect equity of water allocations? Linking streamflow and water rights
Primary Mentor:Adrienne Marshall, adriennemarshall@mines.edu | Steven Smith, ssmith1@mines.edu
read moreH2 storage strategy – HCOOH as a potential H2 carrier
Primary Mentor:Stephanie Kwon, kwon@mines.edu
read moreGraph analytics for resilience of critical infrastucture
Primary Mentor:Sebnem Duzgun, duzgun@mines.edu Dinesh Mehta, dmehta@mines.edu
read moreGlobal Sensitivity Analysis of Plasma Instabilities
Primary Mentor:Steve Pankavich, pankavic@mines.edu
read moreGlaciers in the South: a study of glacier science outreach throughout the Southern U.S.
Primary Mentor:Hannah Verboncoeur, hverboncoeur@mines.edu| Dr. Matthew Siegfried, siegfried@mines.edu| Dr. Elizabeth Reddy, reddy@mines.edu|
read moreExtending Humanitarian Engineering and Science (HES) graduate student research into undergraduate student learning
Primary Mentor:Juan Lucena, jlucena@mines.edu|Junko Munakata, jmmarr@mines.edu
read moreExploring sustainable design for plastics and bioplastics
Primary Mentor:Dr. Amy Landis, amylandis@mines.edu | Dr. VeeAnder Mealing, vmealing@mines.edu
read moreExperimental Characterization of Defense Helmet Liners for Traumatic Brain Injury Prevention
Primary Mentor:Leslie Lamberson, les@mines.edu
read moreEvaluation of Water Quality from 5 Watersheds in Southern Peru
Primary Mentor:John McCray: jmccray@mines.edu Prof. Pablo Chevesich Garcia: pablogarciach@gmail.com AND pchevesich@mines.edu
read moreEngineering the Pancreas Microenvironment to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Primary Mentor:Nikki Farnsworth, nfarnsworth@mines.edu | Chelsea Garcia, cmgarcia@mines.edu
read moreEngineered wetlands: next generation applications for sustainable water treatment
Primary Mentor:Jonathan (Josh) Sharp, jsharp@mines.edu | Gary Vanzin, gvanzin@mines.edu
read moreEnergy Intensive Businesses and Renewable Energy
Primary Mentor:Kathleen Hancock, khancock@mines.edu
read moreElectric-field assisted manufacturing of structured electrodes for advanced lithium-ion batteries
Primary Mentor:Ning Wu, ningwu@mines.edu Xingrui Zhu, xzhu1@mines.edu
read moreEfficient Electromagnetic Simulation of Silicon-on-Insulator Circuits for mm-Wave Operation
Primary Mentor:Peter Aaen paaen@mines.edu
read moreEfficient Electromagnetic Simulation of Silicon-on-Insulator Circuits for mm-Wave Operation
Primary Mentor:Peter Aaen paaen@mines.edu
read moreDistortions-by-Design in Thermochromic “Smart” Materials
Primary Mentor:Annalise Maughan, amaughan@mines.edu
read moreDevelopment of Virtual Reality Models for Geosciences
Primary Mentor:Sebnem duzgun, duzgun@mines.edu Ebru Bozdag, bozdag@mines.edu Cagdas Demorkan, demirkan@mines.edu
read moreDevelopment of a genome scale metabolic model for Auxenochlorella protothecoides for rational engineering of biofuels production
Primary Mentor:Nanette Boyle nboyle@mines.edu
read moreDevelopment of a genome scale metabolic model for Auxenochlorella protothecoides for rational engineering of biofuels production
Primary Mentor:Nanette Boyle nboyle@mines.edu
read moreDeveloping optical tools to measure ion transport in battery electrolytes
Primary Mentor:Jason Porter, jporter@mines.edu Lydia Meyer, lydiameyer@mines.edu
read moreDeveloping computational tools to understand the mechanism of CO2 reduction by bio-inspired catalysts
Primary Mentor:Christine Morrison (PI), morrison@mines.edu. Diego Gomez-Gualdron (PI), dgomezgualdron@mines.edu.
read moreDeveloping a Response-enhancing Optical Fiber Sensor for Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS)
Primary Mentor:Jeffrey Shragge jshragge@mines.edu | Derrick Chambers derrickchambers@mines.edu
read moredetecting events in lossy-compressed seismic data
Primary Mentor:Eileen Martin, eileenrmartin@mines.edu | Hafiz Issah, aissah@mines.edu
read moreDesigning new carbon recycling materials from iron-sulfur clusters
Primary Mentor:Christine Morrison (PI), morrison@mines.edu
read moreDesign, construction and evaluation of subsurface valve for deliquifying horizontal wells
Primary Mentor:Luis Zerpa, lzerpa@mines.edu
read moreDesign and control a robotic hand
Primary Mentor:Xiaoli Zhang, xlzhang@mines.edu| Michael Bowman, mibowman@mines.edu
read moreDesalination using a clathrate hydrate technology
Primary Mentor:Carolyn Koh, ckoh@mines.edu
read moreDecomposition of Polyolefin Polymers with Superacids
Primary Mentor:Scott Cleary, scleary@mines.edu
read moreData science applications for net zero carbon strategy in extractive industries
Primary Mentor:sebnem duzgun, duzgun@mines.edu nicole smith, nmsmith@mines.edu edyaylaci@mines.edu
read moreControlling the Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells using Alginate/Chitosan Biomaterials
Primary Mentor:Melissa Krebs, mdkrebs@mines.edu
read moreCONTROL OF GEOTHERMAL EGS HORIZONTAL WELLS
Primary Mentor:Dr. Will Fleckenstein and experts from Mines partners that are working on the design and fabrication of the tools needed.
read moreConstructed Wetlands: Next Generation Applications for Sustainable Water Treatment
Primary Mentor: Josh Sharp (jsharp@mines.edu)
Computational Analysis of Additively Manufactured Space Nuclear Reactor Shielding
Primary Mentor:Dr. King (kingjc@mines.edu)
read moreComparison of ESG Rankings: Latin America Operators
Primary Mentor:Linda Battalora, LBattalo@mines.edu | Maria Capello, mariangelacapello@gmail.com
read moreClimate map of an extremely warm Earth
Primary Mentor:Piret Plink-Bjorklund pplink@mines.edu
read moreClean Combustion using NH3/H2
Primary Mentor:Colin Wolden, cwolden@mines.edu| Rok Sitar, roksitar@mines.edu
read moreCatalyst-ionomer interface and interactions in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells
Primary Mentor:Svitlana Pylypenko, spylypen@mines.edu. Jayson Foster, jaysonfoster@mines.edu
read morecatalyst design strategies to convert CO2 to fuels
Primary Mentor:Stephanie Kwon, kwon@mines.edu
read moreCarbon Dioxide Concentration using an AEM Fuel Cell
Primary Mentor:Andrew Herring, aherring@mines.edu, Ivy Wu, lipinwu@mines.edu
read moreBiomechanics of Balance Regulation in Daily Living Activities
Primary Mentor:Anne Silverman, asilverm@mines.edu | Michael Miller, mfmiller@mines.edu.
read moreBarrier layers for enablign future fusion plants
Primary Mentor:Colin Wolden, cwolden@mine.edu|Adam Job, adamjob@mines.edu The MURF covers the academic year but I would like to hire someone to start early this summer.
read moreAutomated Core Scanning – Geochemical and Mineralogical Characterization and Visualization of the Subsurface
Primary Mentor:Katharina Pfaff, kpfaff@mines.edu Thomas Monecke, tmonecke@mines.edu Sebnem Duzgun, duzgun@mines.edu Luis Tenorio, ltenorio@mines.edu Yaoguo Li, ygli@mines.edu
read moreAssessing the influence of ADP Release Models on Platelet Aggregation Under Flow
Primary Mentor:David Montgomery, dmontgomery@mines.edu
read moreAssessing impact of course design structure on student performance
Primary Mentor:Justin Shaffer, jshaffer@mines.edu
read moreAntenna simulation and design for personal communication devices
Primary Mentor:Dr. Atef Elsherbeni aelsherb@mines.edu
read moreAntarctic glacier-ocean interactions using satellite imagery
Primary Mentor:Dr. Tasha Snow, tsnow@mines.edu | Dr. Matthew Siegfried, siegfried@mines.edu
read moreAdvanced Process Controls – Autonomous Control and Optimization of Water Treatment Plants
Primary Mentor:Tzahi Cath, tcath@mines.edu | Mason Manross, Mason Manross, mmanross@mines.edu |
read moreAdaptive Learning and Quantification Algorithms For Advances in Geological Exploration
Primary Mentor:Hua Wang, huawang@mines.edu Yaoguo Li, ygli@mines.edu
read moreActivity of SARS-CoV-2 protease 3CLpro on collagen fibrils, fibrin, alpha-synuclein, and amyloid-beta
Primary Mentor:Susanta Sarkar/ssarkar@mines.edu
read moreAccessibility and Accommodations for Students in STEM
Primary Mentor:Brianna Buljung, bbuljung@mines.edu | Seth Vuletich, sethvuletich@mines.edu
read moreAccelerated and Heterogeneous Computing for Robotics
Primary Mentor:Neil Dantam, ndantam@mines.edu. Mehmet Belviranli, belviranli@mines.edu.
read more3D Printed Human Trabecular Meshwork Culture System for Glaucoma Modeling
Primary Mentor:Melissa Krebs, mdkrebs@mines.edu
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