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Biomedical & Health Technology
Time Reversal Microwave Breast Cancer Imaging and Device
The goal of this project is to build a microwave imaging device for breast cancer detection. Broadband microwave radiation is a non-ionising, potentially low cost...more
Fiber-Optic Imager with Head-Up Display for Increased Safety during Routine and Emergency Placement Of Tubes Within The Human Airway
The goal of this project is to improve the safety of a common medical procedure known as "endotracheal intubation." This is basically the placement...more
Glucose Sensing (at the bedside)
This research project will use microdialysis, a technique for sampling blood that is similar to having an IV placed to continuously monitor blood glucose. Problems to overcome are the design of a microdialysis fiber that can be...more
Information & Systems Technology
Mechanisms to Detect Peer-to-Peer Content Transfers over the Internet
The Internet has become an important medium for the distribution of the music, video, and other content. Distribution is occurring using peer-to-peer networks...more
Development and Support of Collaborative Web and Database Software in Human-Robot Interaction
We seek to provide the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) with collaborative mechanisms and methods for evaluation and exploratory analysis. To this end...more
Web-based Automatic Code Generation for Signal Transforms
Spiral (www.spiral.net) is a program generation system for linear transforms such as the discrete Fourier transform, discrete cosine transforms, filters, and others. For a user-selected transform...more
Nanotechnology
Synthesis, Structure, Properties and Performance Relationships of Magnetic Nanoparticle/Polymer Nanocomposites for Applications in Tissue Engineering
Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) and ferrofluids hold promise for biomedical applications including cell tagging, thermoablative cancer therapies, magnetoelastic response and sensing. This will...more
Atomistic Characterization and Modeling of Deep Sub-Micron Gate Oxide Breakdown
Novocell Semiconductor is a PA-based company that produces non-volatile computer memory. They are currently extending their technology to...more
Product Design
Silicon Carbide-Based High-Temperature Electronics and Sensors
The project entails integrated interdisciplinary research involving investigators at Carnegie Mellon and Caracal, Inc. and is concerned with the development and characterization of silicon carbide (SiC)-based electronic devices and associated electrical contacts....more
Composite Materials for Magnetic Refrigeration
25% of residential energy usage in the US involves refrigeration of some kind, and magnetic refrigerators are an enticing means of reducing energy consumption. When a material....more
Sensor Technology
Towards An Intelligent Facility: Development and Testing of an RFID-based Guidance Approach for Locating Building Components
In case of an emergency during the service life of a facility, there is a need to locate a set of facility components quickly. When responding to an emergency....more
Distributed Environmental Monitoring and Control of a DATA Center
This project aims at reducing power consumption in a data center via sensor-network based monitoring and control of its environmental variables, such as temperature and humidity....more
Environmental Performance of the Hamerschlag Hall Green Roof
Students working on this project will calibrate the sensors on the green and control roofs, and will collect and analyze data on incident precipitation, storm water runoff, and soil moisture during and after storms. The students will also....more
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