IIT's April 1997 2nd Annual
Undergraduate Research Conference Abstracts

Table of Contents

Created by Professor Peter Johnson, IIT-AMP Director and Webmaster

1997 Participants by Judging Category

Graduate Research

1. William C. Catino, J. L. LoCicero and H. Stark, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department:
   "Digital Holographic Imaging Using the Method of Generalized Projections"

2. Sabri Cevik, and Prof. M. Ishaque Kahn, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences Department:
   "Mixed-Valance Hexatungstate Clusters: Synthesis and Characterization of [(C2H5)4N]3[WVW5VIO19].0.5H2O and [H3N(CH2)2NH3]2[WVW5VIO19]. [H2N(CH2)2NH2]Cl.8H2O"

3. Nedzad Lomigora, Prof. Stephen Turns, Mechanical, Metallurgical, and Aerospace Engineering Department:
   "Nox reduction by fuel injection recirculation"

Undergraduate Research

1. Kee Choi, Dr. Jim Karagiannes, Cheryl Caplan, Educational Technology Center and Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences Department:
   "Interactive Tutorials WWW"

2. Patricia Guilbeault, Margaret H. Huyck, Ph. D., Institute of Psychology:
   Gender Differences in Midlife Development in Midwestern High School Graduates"

3. Jose Herrera, Dr. Susan Feinberg, Dr. James Roberge, and Dr. Peter Johnson, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and Humanities Department:
   "CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEYS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB"

4. Sean Holly, Dr. John Zasadzinski, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences Department:
   "Electrochemical Growth of Oxide Layers for Tunnel Junction Barriers"

5. Nitin Kartik, Alessandro Donati, Michael Theemling, Dr. Graham Campbell, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics:
   "Project Callisto: An investigation of the impact of Open Internet work Communication involving legacy systems, on modern graphical user interfaces as applied to ILLINET Online."

6. Alexander Kayatani, Dr. Ben Stark, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences Department:
   "THE PURIFICATION OF VITREOSCILLA HEMOGLOBIN"

7. Jennifer N. Kraszewski, Dr. Tracy J. Wright, Genomics Division, Los Alamos National Lab:
   MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF A HUMAN DELETION SYNDROME"

8. Richard J. Lee, Dr. Phillip Nash, Mechanical, Metallurgical, and Aerospace Engineering Department:
   "Determining the Effects of Powder Metallurgically Processed Titanium Hydride and Titanium with Acrawax on Green Density"

9. David Mahaffey, Dr. Robert P. Foley, Mechanical, Metallurgical, and Aerospace Engineering Department:
   "Analytical Examination of NbX V1-X Cy N1-Y Type Precipitates in an Experimental Forging Steel"

10. Alberto Quintana, Dr. J. Bernhardt, Prof. D. Williams, Mechanical, Metallurgical, and Aerospace Engineering Department:
    "Instantaneous Pressure Distribution around an Oscillating Cylinder"

11. Kameshwaran Sankaran, Prof. Thomas Corke, Mechanical, Metallurgical, and Aerospace Engineering Department:
    "Experimental Design For The Study Of Instability In A Mach 3.5 Conical Flow"

12. Eric Tatara, Dr. Robert J. Jaeger, Pritzker Institute of Medical Engineering:
    "Modeling Human Respiratory Mechanics"

13. Kathy Triantafillou, Dr. Eugene Smotkin, Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department:
    "A Coulometric Normalization Procedure for Comparing High Surface Area Methanol Anode Catalysts by Rotating Disk Electrode Voltammetry"

14. Bonnie C. Welcker, Dr. Ali Cinar, Dr. Peter Johnson, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences Department, Chemical Engineering Department:
    Molluscicidal Efficacy of Mucosal Irritants on Dreissena polymorpha and Corbicula fluminea"

Inter-Professional Projects (IPRO)

1. Robert K. Brevelle, Dr. J. Roberge, Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics Department:
   "Analysing Spectral Doppler Echocardiographic Images"

2. Chrysti Chun, Heiko Dorenwendt, Andrea Gorss, Nicole Mickey, David Arditi, Margaret Huyck, George Schipporeit, Civil Engineering, Architecture, and Psychology Departments:
   Post Occupancy Evaluation"

3. Said Al Hallaj, IPRO students Sec. 18, Prof. J. R. Selman, Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department:
   "Self-Contained Photovoltaic Powered Advertisement"

4. Sreekanthan Iyer, Kush Kapur, Mekita F. Davis, Erica L. Anthony, Brenda Leeney, Professor T.Wong, Mr. Xing Lan, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department:
   "Operation and Characteristics of a UHF Transmitter"

5. Deepesh Jain, Puneet Sarna, Robert Johnson, Marcin Adamczyk, Dr. John Nestor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department:
   "Web-Based Image Capture and Distribution for the IITV Distance Learning Network"

6. Mitchell Masilun, Anat Mor-Aui, Michael Porter, Asli Velidedeogus, Dr. David Arditi, Dr. Magaret Huyck, and Dr. George Schipporeit, Civil Engineering, Architecture, and Psychology Departments:
   "Post-Occupancy Evaluation"

7. William Pennix, Amit Patel, Nirav J. Modi, Samina Haque, Nicole White, Philip M. Jordan, Professor T. Wong, Mr. Xing Lan, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department:
   "Performance of a Super-Regenerative Receiver"

8. Thomas Pugsley, Ed Boone, Russ Schaade, Dave Mahafee, Prof. Judith A. Todd, Mechanical, Metallurgical, and Aerospace Engineering Department:
   "Failure Analysis of a Centrifugally Cast 410 Stainless Steel"

9. Ed Boone, Tom Pugsley, Russ Schaade, Dave Mahaffe, Prof. Dean Chapman, Mechanical, Metallurgical, and Aerospace Engineering and Physics Departments:
   "Engineering Applications of Diffraction Enhanced Imaging"

10. Nate Dishman, Kameshwaran Sankaran, Mehdi Rizvi, Prof. David Williams, Mechanical, Metallurgical, and Aerospace Engineering Department:
    "Noise Of The Elevated Trains"

11. John Wiacek, Marcin Marjanski, Timothy Nyberg, Vicente Mendoza, Kagan Agun, Brian Holstein, Randy Demsetz, Wei Xiaozheng, Ding Bang Luh, Dr. Morris Chang, Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics Department:
    "Integrated Digital Design and Testing Laboratory"

Special Projects

1. Nedzad Lomigora, Prof. Smotkin, Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department:
   "Minute Mass Measurements Using Piezoelectric Crystal Coupled With FTIR"

2. Diana Martinez, Okji Kim, Rohit Shanker, Bernarda Szwedo, Matthew Bauer, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department:
   "Office '97 : To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade"

3. Rory Peters, Tim Razik, Won Kim, Alan Takaoka, Mike Elder, Michael Lee, Matthew Bauer, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department:
   "WWW Resume Application"

4. Isidore Pires, Freddy Guime, Victor Glava, Mike Sirotin, Fadil Alispahic, Matthew Bauer. Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department:
   "Java Online Editor"

5. Thean Yap, Kameshwaran Sankaran, Nate Dishman, Prof. Thomas Corke, Mechanical, Metallurgical, and Aerospace Engineering Department:
   "Design Of A Tiltrotor V/STOL Executive Aircraft"

6. Mike Sasuta, Eric Ziegenhorn, Rob Eberhardt, Jeff Edwards, Paul Uhn, Matthew Bauer, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department:
   Survey of Information Visualization Techniques"

7. Bonnie C. Welcker, Holly Fields, Fabio Buffa, Dr. Ali Cinar, Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department:
   "Effectiveness of Taggants to Act as Safe Marking and Tracking Additives in Potentially Explosive Materials"

8. Andrew Zloza, Donna Jauregui, Chris Toupin, Dr. Ali Cinar, Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department:
   "VIRUSES USED AS GENE THERAPY DEVICES"

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