The Daytona Beach Undergraduate Student Works collection showcases undergraduate student research. This research includes journal and magazine articles, poster sessions from Discovery Day, group and club projects, as well as creative endeavors.
Events from 2023
Bounce Back, Shape-Memory Polymers, Sophia Maldonado and Victoria Melendez
Calculating the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of Gentamycin on Staphylococcus epidermidis Grown Under Simulated Microgravity, Sofia E. Saldarriaga and Hugo Castillo
Can Artificial Intelligence Pass a Sophomore Level Digital Design Laboratory?, Casey Elder, Alessia Tripaldelli, George Pozek, and Samuel Horine
Construction of a color-magnitude diagram for NGC 957, Rashid Nasib
Creation of a trajectory framework that is sustainable for a continuous exploration of Mars and its moons, Annika Anderson, Joseph Anderson, Brian Baker-McEvilly, Adrian Moraga, and Jared Rose
CubeSat Reaction Wheel Attitude Control Platform, Justin Hartland, Ella Cheatham, Vishal Ramisetty, Kesler Gerard, Jacob Salazar, Isaac Stitt, Ryan Taylor, and David Vestal
Developing an Optimization Algorithm for Snapping Shrimp Communication, Julia Gorthey
Developing a Novel Consensus Algorithm Based on Synchronous Turtle Hatching, Austen Pallen
Developing Predictive Algorithm for Possible Fuel Stops for Private Aviation, Emily E. Diegel, Samantha M. Craig, Isabelle E. Hoare, Trent L. Bazemore, and John R. Scheer
Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip JOEE Medical Trainer, Emma Fontz, Emily Scott, Olivia Burkowski, and James Palmer
Development and Verification of a new Drone Swarm Search and Rescue Model, Jack Capuano
Effect of Heat Stress Among Aviation Maintenance Workers at ERAU, Joseph (Hoot) Candler Coachman II, Bryce Allan Korner, Zane Gaither, and Rajan Khanna
Enhance Bravery and Self Esteem: A study on Brave Enterprise through advanced data analysis, Lara Aitken, Isabella A. Novo, Ravyn M. Edge, Ellen E. Daily, and Joseph C. Begley
Ergonomic Evaluation of Postural Assessment Among Aviation Maintenance Workers at ERAU, Susan Nitch
Expanded Spectral Atlas of Sirius, Katelyn Sonnen and Jason Aufdenberg
Exploring Financial Performance of Rivian – the First Consumer Electric Truck Maker of the World, Sofia Guida
Extended Reality (XR) Hardware: One Size Doesn’t Fit All, Yet., Stephanie M. Mello, Nicholas R. Horn, Andi N. StClair, and Jessyca L. Derby
First Generation Particulate Monitoring Technology Using Low-Cost Particulate Matter Sensors and Unmanned Aircrafts, Andrés Munevar, Leah G. Smith, Erik Liebergall, Kaleb Nails, David A. Benning, and Ciara Sandell
Flight Students and FAA Knowledge Exams: A Review of Existing Literature and Recommendations for Future Research, Trevor Simoneau
Flume Experiment to Evaluate Shear Stresses Under Variable Flowing Conditions, Angie N. Castillo and Steven Isignares
Flying Under the Radar: A Survey of Collegiate Student Pilots to Identify Aeromedical Nondisclosure and Healthcare-Seeking Behaviors, Lauren Pitts and Emily Faulconer
Fostering Safer Evacuations Aboard Commercial Aircraft: A Problem-Solution Analysis, George Skinner
Fractured Identities: The Culture of Machismo in Oscar Wao, Adonis Rogers
Functional Decomposition and Summary surrounding Plant-to-Plant communication, Aidan Curry
Future of Refrigeration Efficiency and Utility, Sebastian Gonzalez
Gauging Embry-Riddle’s Community Receptiveness to a Proposed Campus-Wide Sustainable Framework, Daniel Delamota, Alexander J. Perez, and Jos A. Medley
Home Insulation for a Sustainable Future, James P. Bigelow Jr.\, Kalil A. Davis, and David E. Breaux III
Identification and Classification of Fault Agent Detection Strategies in Nature, Dmytro Kravchenko
Investigating Antioxidant Properties of Melanin Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Countering Cytotoxic Effects of Free Radicals, Giulia Stewart, Luke Paget, and Foram Madiyar
JSR Engine, Olivia Munisi and Brian Kibe
Leveraging the Moon and stable Libration point orbits around L4/L5 to observe the Solar corona, Sebastian Doroba, David Canales Garcia, Hancheol Cho, Rasika Kale, Octavi Fors, Stephen Eikenberry, Andrea Richichi, and Jose Gomez
Magnetic Actuation of Dynamic Cell Culture, Ashlyn Thorpe, Aeson Coen, Miguel Delgado, and Brian Davies
Magnetically Accelerated Launch Systems for More Affordable Space Travel., Nicola Bella Ruiz, Adrian Moraga, Praneeth Kasani, and Lihuen Muñoz
Manufacturing Nozzle for Smoke-Generator-Type Visualization System at MicaPlex Low-Speed Wind Tunnel, Anirudh Aggarwal and Jordan D. Birjandi
Melanin Nanoparticles for Radiation Countermeasures, presented at the 2023 NASA HRP IWS Conference, Giulia Stewart, Aria Jafari, Sahil Ghate, Dominic Sandell, and Foram Elayna Madiyar
Mission ISS XR Study: A study about adapting to micro g extended reality, Shelby DeLano, Aliana Kovach, Francisco Martinez, Sarah Lemire, and Jon Guthmiller
Noise Assessment/Survey at ERAU Fleet Maintenance Hanger, Kirk Weidig, Bryan T. Vick, Emilio S. Betancourt, and Alexandre J. Prado
Observing Pathogenic Affinity of Candida and Rhodotorula under Simulated Moon and Martian Atmospheres, Takara O'Brien and Kaitlyn Nielsen
OneSky Crew Fatigue Call AnalysisThrough Feature Extraction, Jessica Christa Wira, Krutika Dashrath Shitole, and Noa Teed
Pico-torQuer: Magnetorquer-only Attitude Control for a 1P PocketQube using PCB-Embedded Coils, Madison Gleydura
Predicting Flight Time Using Machine Learning Methods, Taryn E. Trimble, Ioannis Paraschos, and Eshna Bhargava
Predicting Machine Failure in Large Machine Diagnostics, Antonio Cascio, Ioannis Paraschos, John Scheer, Lynette Ramirez, Laini Tallman, Lexi Azoulay, Virginia Sacchi, and Ahnika Gee
Quantifying effects of reference surface area ratio on Langmuir Probe-induced spacecraft charging, Jonas Rowan
Regenerating Planaria. Effects of Environmental Factors on Cell Regeneration, Ja'Hann M. Hannor
RESIDENT SPACE OBJECT IDENTIFICATION IN ARBITRARY UNRESOLVED SPACE IMAGES, Joseph Anderson, Annika Anderson, David Zuehlke, David Canales Garcia, and Thomas Alan Lovell
Reusing Materials in the Aerospace Industry – A Research on Recyclable PEEK Material, Burtegeljin Gombosuren
ROSIsat, Joshua Lozano, Raymond Seth IV, Ryan Miller, Ashley Stevenson, Grayson Hayes, Xavier Goewey, Joshua Amedeo, Jackson Lamb, Steven Insignares, Brianna Todd, Clay Edwards, Zachary Rich, and Jacob Lahue
SATLASS (Satellite Autonomous Launch and Assembly), Akshay Kaundinya, Grayson Hayes, Jackson Lamb, and Anirudh Aggarwal
Searching for Binary Systems to Investigate the Formation of Subdwarf B Stars, Julia Clark
Sensitivity Analysis of Convolutional Neural Network, Annaelise Swanson
Space Microbial Ecology, Mitchell Villafania, Ella M. Rowe, and Hugo Castillo
Stress Effects During In-Person and Online Simulated Interviews, Serena Meyer, Colton Tyger, Grant Garrison, and Addison Rohrbacher
Stress salivary biomarkers variation during flight exercises in pilots from the Spanish airforce, Maria C. Tobarra
Studying the Oscillating Path Of A Wristwatch Falling Through Water, Leonard Farrell
Study of a High-Power, Pulsed Plasma Jet with a Heterodyne Interferometer, Connor Castleberry
Study of Non-Newtonian Fluids and Their Applications, Derrick Tomberelli
Sustainability Improvements to Embry-Riddles Shuttle Services, Logan M. Owen, Jacqueline Aparicio, and Angie N. Castillo
Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJD), Jorge Pumachagua, christopher Barnes, and Elias Saliba
Testing the Gyrochronology Paradigm Using Wide Coeval Binary Stars, Krystian Confeiteiro, Carina Shanahan, Petar Grigorov, Samuel Lutzel, Sima Vaidya, Terry Oswalt, and Derek Buzasi
The Effects of Finasteride on Parity in Female Drosophila Melanogaster, Carly Turner, Dominic Sandell, Carol Mitchell, Michael Guildin, and Trey Bruno
The [NII] 205 micron and [CII] 158 micron line emissions of four star forming Submillimeter Galaxies at z∼3-5.7, Sima Vaidya
The Use of CO2 as a Refrigerant in Automobile Air Conditioning Systems, Arman Zarae
The Utilization of Generative Adversarial Networks for the Production of Airfoil Geometries, Zachary D. Eckley
Tribal Spaceports: Opening Access to Outer Space, LaQuila Alonzo and Janet Tinoco
Understanding the Incidents on Legacy Airlines with Machine Learning: Case Study Top 5 US Airlines, Dean Sutherland
Understanding the Incidents on Legacy Airlines with Machine Learning: Case Study Top 5 US Arlines, Dean Sutherland
Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Wildlife Hazard Assessments During Nightfall, Janelle Drennan
Using multispectral imagery to estimate tornado-induced tree fall patterns identified via UAS, Morgan Grayston and Daniel Burow
Vehicular Electrification for a Sustainable ERAU Campus, Nathan Dills, Evan Jackson, and Brandon Rigby
Wireless Array for Measuring Total Electron Content, Jacob Gambrill
Events from 2022
1U CubeSat Reaction Wheel Attitude Control Testbed, Dylan Ballback, Daniel Wilczak, Ella Cheatham, Justin Hartland, and Daniel Golan
A Creation of Efficiency: The Flight Time Calculator, Sarah Elaine Hoover
Airport Operations Simulation, Alexandra Davidoff
Ankle Brace, Amulya Bajracharya and Caitlin Brumley
Application Of Vibrational Damping On Spacecraft Crew Capsule Design Using Common Aerospace Materials, Seshan Jayapregasham and Kody Matesh Parsotan
Association of Salivary Cortisol Levels with Introversive and Extroversive personalities, Alexander J. Teigen and Pablo J. Robles
Autonomous Satellite Launch and Assembly (SATLASS), Emma Rosson and Anirudh Aggarwal
Battery Health and Monitoring System, Ying Zheng, Ryan Taylor, and Teshome Teshome
Ben-Joe Consumer Price Index SPR 2022, Benjamin Chaback and Joseph Sauerbrun
Biology undergraduate research experience at the ERAU’s Space Microbiology Laboratory, Erik Larsen, Bailey Burden, Jakob Robertson, and Hugo Castillo
Bridge Maintenance, Beatrice M. Ribeiro
Building an ensemble neural network optimized using uncertainty quantification for predicting metal oxide spectrograms from scanned metal oxide images., Daniel Wilczak and Jack Nguyen
Case Study of a Fire Service Warrior: An Analysis of Musculoskeletal Risks to Firefighters, Liam Brennan and John Kleber
Categorizing Characteristic Regions of Nightside High-Latitude Ionospheric Irregularities Using a Machine Learning Approach., Chintan Thakrar
Causes & Consequences: An Analysis of FAA Enforcement Actions Against UAS Remote Pilots, Trevor Simoneau
Characterization of Material Micro & Nano Structures Using Machine Learning Algorithms, Poorendra P. Ramlall, Maximus Langis, Josephine Parker, Raymond Picquet, Leanna Pollicar, Naomi Rodriguez, and Simon Sroka
Deriving Properties of Stars with BASE-9 Software and the Vega Supercomputer, Erin Motherway
Developing a model pipeline for VERITAS stellar intensity interferometry, Jackson L. Sackrider and Katelyn R. Sonnen
Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip Medical Trainer, Seth Eaby, Joe Sauerbrun, and Sheridan Perry
Development of UAV as a Platform for Current and Future Dynamic Soaring Research, Minha Jo, Jacob Adamski, Nicolas Grande, Sungje Park, Sriram Rajamani, Tarun Karthikeyan, and Vikas Patel
Drone Cage Design and Implementation to Enable Small Drone Architecture Testing, Marco Fagetti and Emily M. Suh
Eagles sequencing RNA on campus to study the regulation of gene expression in bacteria grown under microgravity conditions, Janelle Hicks, Collin Topolski, and Hugo Castillo
Eagle Vision: A Sustainability Plan for All Eagles, Lauren E. Kilgore and Tyler J. Carr
EasyControls.org - A real life platform to learn spacecraft controls from your browser., Daniel Wilczak, Dylan Ballback, Leonard Farrell, Adam Duke, Kyle Fox, and Jacob Romeo
Effect of Unsaturated Soil Properties on Piping Susceptibility in Water Retaining Structures, Kayla Tarbox and Rylan Randolph
Effects of Microgravity on mutualistic bacteria, Olivia Siu, Mitch Villafania, Lauryn Taylor, Alyssa Mcmandon, Alba Chavez, and Hugo Castillo
Effects of Simulated Atmospheres on the Growth and Persistence of Microbial Space Isolates, Kaitlyn Nielsen and Takara O'Brien
Ensemble Deep Learning, Emily E. Diegel, Yianni Paraschos, Annaelise J. Swanson, and Taryn Trimble
Ergonomic Assessment of a Barista, Miguel Bastos and John Kleber
