M.Eng Design Projects 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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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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