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M.Eng Design Projects January 2011

Below are lists of the student projects completed in January 2011.

Chemical Engineering

Electricity Generation from Raw Biomass
Advisor: Al Center

Using Wind & Solar Farms to Recover Water in Arid Regions (team of 2 students)
Advisor: Andrew Hunter

Carbon Capture Using Ionic Liquids and Polymers
Advisor: Lynden Archer

Modifying the Porosity of Lipid Microspheres for Drug Delivery
Advisor: Dave Putnam

Molecular Simulations to study the trapping dynamics of Carbon Dioxide on Self Assembled Monolayers
Advisor: Paulette Clancy

Biogas Generation and Utilization From Fruit and Vegetable Waste in China
Advisor: Jeff Tester

Versatile Selection Technology for Intracellular Protein-protein interactions mediated by a unique bacterial hitchhiker transport mechanism
Advisor: Matt DeLisa

Ultrasound-Assisted Convection-Enhanced Drug Delivery to the Brain
Advisor: Bill Olbricht

Unit Operations Laboratory Controls Experiment
Advisor: Al Center

Creation of Bio-degradable film with controlled pore structure using high intensity pulse light
Advisor: Carmen Moraru

Using Wind and Solar Farms to Recover Water in Arid Regions
(team of 2 students)
Advisor: Andrew Hunter

Evolutionary Dyamics
Advisor: Richard Rand

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Information Flow Over Wireless Diamond Networks: Algorithms and Simulations
Advisor: Salman Avestimehr

Sustainable Communities: Smart Grid Implementation
Advisor: Clif Pollock

Sound Identification of Loons
Advisor: Bruce Land

Robotic Doorknob Disinfector
Advisor: Bruce Land

Timing Channel Protection for On-Chip Networks
Advisor: Edward Suh

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Engineering Physics

Real-time Motion Tracking
Advisor: Jane Wang

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Operations Research and Information Engineering

Algorithmic Trading: Measuring Execution Cost and Risk (team of 5 students)
Advisor: Shasha Stoikov
Industry Sponsor: Alliance Bernstein

Hedging Strategy for Short Gamma Position of Swaption (team of 5 students)
Advisor: Tibor Janosi
Industry Sponsor: Deutsche Bank

Implied Volatility Curve Sketching and Input Optimization (team of 4 students)
Advisor: Tibor Janosi
Industry Sponsor: HETCO

Long/Short US Healthcare Trading Strategy (team of 5 students)
Advisor: Dawn Woodward
Industry Sponsor: Royal Bank of Canada

Mutual Fund Replication (team of 4 students)
Advisor: Johannes Wissel
Industry Sponsor: Goldman Sachs

Mutual Fund Replication: Goldman Sachs Asset Management (team of 4 students)
Advisor: Sasha Stoikov
Industry Sponsor: Goldman Sachs

Regime-Switching Factor Model (team of 5 students)
Advisor: James Renegar
Industry Sponsor: Sanford Bernstein

UK Non-Conforming Mortgage Modeling (team of 3 students)
Advisor: David Matteson
Industry Sponsor: Morgan Stanley

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