Senior Projects Guided
1989
1. Elizabeth
M. Siwek, "Radiographic detection of Flaws
in Honeycomb Panels"
1990
1. Mark
Grethen, "A Smart Composite Truss for Space
Station Freedom"
2. Stephen
C. Petzold, “Space Station Freedom, Where It Has
Been and Where It Is Going"
3. Kevin
M. Hinners, "Interlaminar Fracture Toughness
of Unidirectional Graphite/Epoxy Composites"
4. Jason
Ting, "A Preliminary Study of the Nondestructive X-Ray Method in
Quantitative Estimating the Composition of Bimetallic Alloys"
5. Dana
R. Hall, "Analytical and Experimental Investigation of Advanced
Composites"
6. Polyvious Greoriades,
"Design and Fabrication of a Graphite Disk Wheel"
1991
1. Brent
Anderson, “An investigation into the use of Fiber Optics as Strain
Measuring Device"
2. Jawad D. Mokhtar,
"Determination of a linear relationship between ultrasonic c-scan and FEA”
1992
1. Tony
L. Buttz, "Composite Baseball Bat
Fabrication & Test"
2. Jeff
A. Hauswirth, "Graphics Supplement for Existing
Composite Stress Analysis Code"
3. Mark
D.
1993
1. Mark
J. Bitzes, "The Effect of Light and Severe
Damage on the Dynamics of Composite Plates"
2. Mark
Verhulst, "A Study of Damaged Graphite/Epoxy
Bicycle Tubes"
3. Christopher
M. Afful, "Quality Control Method for
Cross-Plied Carbon Composites"
1994
1. Jon
W. Heim, "Comparison of Ultrasonic NDE Technique Effectiveness on
Composites"
2. Azmi Bin
Ahmad, "Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) of Temperature Effects on
Composites"
1995
1. Richard
Seeman, “Effect of Elevated Temperature and
Moisture Content on the Ultimate Composite Strength of T300/5200 Graphite/Epoxy
Composite Material”
2. Siao-Ching Yeang, “Investigation
of the Failure at Bolted Single Lap Joints of Composite Materials”
3.
Simon
Haxton, “Use of Composites in Bicycle Frame Design”
1997
1.
Jonathan
Hicks, “Design and Fabrication of a Composite Bicycle Crank”
1999
1.
Tricia
Devore, “Alternate Porosity Standards Using Ultrasound”
2000
1.
Brian
Galvin, ”Composite design and manufacturing of the AerE 462 blended wing body
project”
2.
Jeremy
D. Roth, “Aerodynamic and structural modeling of an existing wing configuration”
2001
16. Rory Eisel &
Jesse Hilton, “An Experimental study of the Gluhareff
G8-2-130R”
2002
1.
Christopher
Narvison, Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Space Truss.
2003
1. Paul
Anhalt,
“Composite Replacement of Honeycomb tructures
2. Nicholas
D.Morrow and Adam J. Christians, “Analytical and Experimental Study of an
Aircraft Landing Gear”
3. Daniel
A. Kult,
“Frequency and Modal Analysis of a Composite Golf Shaft”
4. Ben
Aga, Fabrication and
Testing of Composite Football Helmet”
5. Matthew
J. Kettering, ”Composite Design of Cockpit Door Structure
for Commercial Aircraft.
2006
1. J Hansen, Fuselage design Brendan
2. Harwinder Sahota, Stress
concentrations in composites
3. Marcela Zelaya , Weapon recoil
absorption for shotguns
4. Brian C. Zias , Dynamics of
composite sandwich panels using experiments and FEM
5. Bobby Biel , Wing root joint design
and analysis
6. Michael Felten
, Composite Snowboard
7. Renee M Esch , Design and
fabrication of downhill skis
8. John Anastos
, Main spar design for AirISU
9. C Grubb , Construction and testing
of aircraft skins for the AirISU project
10. Daniel McBrady, Firewall and engine
mount design and analysis for a light sport aircraft
11. Ben Kilburg, Firewall and engine
mount design… LSA II
12. Devin A. Riles, Design, fabrication,
and evaluation of a composite driveshaft
13. Brent Popadych,
Performance and evaluation of a fiberglass hockey shaft
14. Composite "Y" bicycle frame
I Nathan Knop
15. Composite "Y" bicycle frame
II Tyler Leggett
16. Chris Uhl, Resonant frequency
determination in solid structures for NDE
17. Ryan Sandbek, Ultrasonic NDT of
micro-cracking in a composite sample
18. Molly Olson, Modeling and analysis
of building roofs for the ISU tornado simulator
2007
1. Jonathan
E. Erdmann, Good Vibrations: Safer Tennis Racket Design with Tuned Mass
Dampers.
2. Cody
A Morrow, Large Composite Curing Oven and Autoclave
3. Allan
D. Ball, Rockoon Mission and Rocket Design.
2008
1.
Chris Mehring :
Composite Snowboard
2.
Sterling Frison
3.
Brett Jackson :
Design and Manufacture of a R/C Aircraft Wing
4.
Kent Penney : Structural
Optimization
5.
Mike Stevi: Composite Repair
6.
Russell Strope:
Composite Snowboard
7.
Peter Weller:
NDE of Compostive Samples
8.
Ben Hutcheson
& Tim Erbes: Composite Trebuchet
2009
1.
Mohd. Ramjis:
Manufacturing of Composite-blade Wind Turbine
2.
Eric Baurichter:
Testing and Construction of Composite Wind Turbine Blades
3.
Alica Kuhlman: Structural Design and Construction of a
UAV
4.
Andrew Cinnamon:
Structural Analysis og a Formula One Racecar Front
Suspension Design
5.
Katarzyna
Szemplinska: Composite Wheel
6.
Philip Paschka:
Composite Tailoring of Aeroelastic Properties
7.
Krunal Patel:
Business Jet wing analysis
8.
Vishal Patel:
Preliminary Design of an Emergency Diesel Generator Room
9.
Brett Barnes - Composite Pool Cue
10. Daniel
Hult - Design of a Composite Wing with Leading Edge Discontinuity
Independent study Project: Honors program
1994
Marcus A. Runyan,
"Preliminary Design of an Earth Orbiting Space Station"
1995
Angela Swanson, “Load
Distribution in a Riveted Joint”
Jonathan Fortney, “NDE of
Soybean Seeds”