Recent successful thesis defense abstracts organized by author last name.

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Author
Degree
Department
Thesis
Date

Arpali, Handenur

Masters

Chemical & Biological Engineering

Design and evaluation of an additive-manufactured microfluidic device for observing initial biofilm attachment on copper surfaces

04/23/2025

Culp, Matthew

Masters

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Design optimization and validating of a simulated microgravity biofilm reactor for simulating spacecraft wastewater systems
04/21/2025

Davidson, Leah

Masters

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering 

Alternative binders to improve hempcrete material properties and microbial viability
04/14/2025

Hoffman, Carter

PhD

Chemical & Biological Engineering

A parallelized, ultrahigh-throughput droplet microfluidic platform for single-cell antimicrobial susceptibility testing and heteroresistance detection
04/25/2025
Ketteler, Haley

Masters

Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Characterization of microfabricated resistance temperature detectors for electrochemical measurements
04/04/2025

Koepnick, Hannah
PhD

Chemical & Biological Engineering

Microbially-mediated nitrate-dependent iron oxidation for selenium bioremediation
07/01/2025

Maritan, Andrew
PhD

Microbiology & Cell Biology

Zooming in and out on coral reef microbiomes: Molecular patterns over space and time
04/08/2025
Mettler, Madelyn
PhD

Chemical & Biological Engineering

Material coatings and strategies for biofilm mitigation in spacecraft water systems
04/16/2025
Sherazi, Haider
Masters

Civil Engineering

Machine learning based feasibility analysis of geothermal bridge deck deicing systems
04/25/2025
Stanley, Maribelle
PhD

Chemical & Biological Engineering

RheoNMR as a technique to study shear-induced transitions in nanocolloidal suspensions
04/09/2025

Thomas, Mallory
PhD

Microbiology & Cell Biology

Development of droplet microfluidic technologies for negative-strand RNA viruses
03/25/2025

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