Description Professor Julie Crockett works to discover more about an unexplored method used to generate internal waves. Start: 8/15/2016 End: 7/31/2019 Sponsor: National Science Foundation […]
Simplified CPT Performance-Based Assessment of Liquefaction and Effects
Description: Professor Kevin Franke and his team are developing a simplified model to assess liquefaction hazards for earthquake damage prevention. Start: May 17, 2016 End: […]
Monolithic Compliant Space Mechanisms Design Strategies
Description: Dr. Larry Howell and graduate student Ezekiel Merriam are improving the way single-piece, flexible mechanisms are designed. Start: September 1, 2013 End: August 31, […]
Mobile Gait Analysis Using Wearable Piezoresponsive Nano-Composite Sensors
Description: BYU Mechanical Engineering and Exercise Science Professors design a mobile, inexpensive system for gait analysis. Start: September 1, 2015 End: August 31, 2018 Sponsor: […]
Bioinorganic Nanoparticles for Improved Solar and Fuel Cells
Description: The need for clean, renewable and maintainable energy is increasing as the main energy source of today’s modern world is fossil fuels. Fossil fuels […]
Large-Scale, Integrated, and Robust Wind Farm Optimization Enabled by Multidisciplinary Coupled Analytic Gradients
Description: Researchers from BYU and Stanford University are enhancing the design of wind farms through methods such as uncertainty quantification and new wake modeling. Start: […]
A Pilot Trial to Assess Low-Intensity Ultrasound in Osteoarthritis
Description: Researchers are investigating the use of ultrasound as a treatment of osteoarthritis, which could become the first treatment to actually intervene in arthritic cartilage […]
Exploration into the Effect of Terrain Slope on Fire Intensity
Description: Dr. Tom Fletcher is working with the U.S. Forest Service to understand how sloped environments affect the spread of wildfires. Start: June 5, 2015 […]
Towards Heads-Up Management of Micro-Robot Teams
Description: Professors at BYU are working to improve micro-robot teams used in the U.S. Army that provide soldiers with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information while […]
Water Surface Skipping of Elastic Bodies
Description: Researchers are investigating the reasons why elastic objects skip better than rigid objects. Start: April 15, 2013 End: December 31, 2016 Sponsor: Office of […]