26 Nebraska Engineering undergraduate students receive UCARE summer research stipends

Twenty-six College of Engineering students are among the 114 University of Nebraska–Lincoln undergraduate students who were awarded stipends to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer.

Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences Program (UCARE) supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Students receive stipends of $2,640 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 20 hours per week. 

Students from the Nebraska Summer Research Program and UCARE will present posters on their research and creative activities at a campus research symposium Aug. 6. For more information on undergraduate research at Nebraska, click here.

Following is a list of Nebraska Engineering students who received summer UCARE awards, with their year in school, hometown, academic major(s) and project title.

• Yasir Almotawa, junior, Lincoln, Nebraska, computer science: “Development of Web Application for Transcriptome Assembly Analysis and Improvement of Next-Generation Assembly Methods.”
• Jacob Ashman, junior, Lincoln, Nebraska, computer engineering: “Identifying Risk and Disease Markers for Delirium.”
• Kaylee Cunning, senior, Fort Collins, Colorado, civil engineering: “Evaluating the Use of Nebraska Agricultural Grain Bag Plastic Waste for Sustainable Asphalt Pavements.”
• Emily Fitzpatrick, senior, McKinney, Texas, mechanical engineering: “Improving Retention in engineering: Understanding How engineering Students’ Perspectives Influence their Experience in Statics.”
• Avery Florea, junior, Lincoln, Nebraska, biological systems engineering, “Wearable Ultrasound Device for Monitoring Blood Flow in the Middle Cerebral Artery.”
• Aiden Gnuse, junior, Elkhorn, Nebraska, chemical engineering: “Structural Basis for the ResR-Dependent Transcriptional Regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.”
• Sam Goddard, senior, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, electrical engineering: “Evaluation and Comparison of Multiomics Data Integration Using Probabilistic Graphs and Machine Learning.”
• Alaa Ismail, junior, Lincoln, Nebraska, computer science: “Equitable Access to Civil Justice: Interdisciplinary Research Project.”
• Will Johnson, senior, Grand Island, Nebraska, chemical engineering: “Investigating the Ionomer-Catalyst Interaction in Nafion Thin Films Embedded with Platinum Nanoparticles.”
• Adam Kamrath, senior, Columbus, Nebraska, computer engineering: “Long-Range High-Frequency RFID Communication System Design.”
• Peter Lux, junior, Blair, Nebraska, mechanical engineering: “Polydopamine Coating of Nanoparticles for Increased Physical Properties in Liquid Metal.”
• Bharath Kumar Manchikanti, Lincoln, Nebraska, senior, computer science: “Differences in Microaggressions, Sense of Belonging and Self-Efficacy in Undergraduate Female Students across Software Engineering and Social Sciences.”
• Chloe Mann, junior, Lincoln, Nebraska, civil engineering: “First-Generation Engineering Students: Passion vs. Stability.”
• Ved Patel, junior, Mumbai, India, biological systems engineering: “The Impact of Obesity on Satellite Cells Action in the Skeletal Muscle.”
• Braxton Peters, junior, Lincoln, Nebraska, mechanical engineering: “The Effect of Housing Shape on the Vibration Mitigation Performance of a Nonlinear Vibration Absorber.”
• Sam Peterson, junior, Elkhorn, Nebraska, chemical engineering: “Non-Alkaline Electrolytes for Zinc-Air Batteries.”
• Aram Pirali, sophomore, Lincoln, Nebraska, chemical engineering: “Fabrication of van der Waals Material Heterostructures with Emergent Quantum Transport Phenomena.”
• Luke Schwaninger, junior, Gretna, Nebraska, mechanical engineering: “Systematic Approach to Improve the Structural Integrity and the Mechanical Properties by Optimization of 3D Printing.”
• Mayank Sharma, sophomore, Lincoln, Nebraska, computer science: “engineering a Graph-Based Genome Visualizer for Viral Species.”
• Truman Stoller, senior, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, mechanical engineering: “Thermal Management of Hotspots in Electronics via Pool Boiling with a Dielectric in Dually Functionalized Silicon for Energy Efficiency Enhancement.”
• Edward Stone, sophomore, Leavenworth, Kansas, chemical engineering: “Investigating Neisseria gonorrhoeae's Metabolic Mysteries Through Proteome-Integrated Modeling.”
• Ethan Stowell, junior, Papillion, Nebraska, computer science: “Geophysical Mapping and Tectonic Evolution of the Kolbeinsey Ridge.”
• Kashish Syed, junior, Ratlam, India, computer science: “Explore the Parallelization Packages for R Programming.”
• Linh Khanh Truong, senior, Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, computer science: “Explore the Interpretability for Graph-Based Deep Learning Models in Gene Regulation.”
• Elizabeth Westfahl, junior, Lincoln, Nebraska, electrical engineering: “Evaluation and Comparison of Multiomics Data Integration Using Probabilistic Graphs and Machine Learning.”
• Haoze Zheng, junior, Yueqing, China, computer science: “Sequence Motif Generator by Machine Learning on Phosphorylated Proteins.”