Summer 2015 Projects

You used to call me on my cell phone

late night when you need my love

	Using Gaussian Stochastic Processes (GaSP) for Hazard Mapping. Student Researchers: John Bihn, Tao Cui, Dakota Sullivan Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elaine Spiller
	Minimizing Total Distance in Sudoku Number Entry. Student Researcher: Trisha Handley Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kim Factor
	Developing Methods to Study Complex Food Webs. Student Researcher: Benjamin Barros Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kim Factor
	Application of Competition Graphs and (1,2)-step Competition Graphs. Student Researcher: Lenzi Cram Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kim Factor
	The Role of Leptin in Fat, Inflammation and the Immune System. Student Researcher: Sarah Minucci Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephen Merrill
	Linear Regression Model Trees for Electric Load Forecasting. Student Researcher: Abby Martin Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard Povinelli

Applied Computer Science

	Design of an Embedded Controller for a Bipedal Robot. Student Researcher: Muhsin King Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Williams
	Towards an Intel Galileo-Based Culturally Responsive Robotics Curriculum. Student Researcher: Ronald Moore Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Williams
	Personalizing Places of Interest Using Social Media Analysis. Student Researcher: Philip Martinkus Faculty Mentor: Dr. Praveen Madiraju

Mathematics and Computer Science Education

	Game Engine for Serious Educational Games. Student Researcher: Joseph Schmitt Faculty Mentors: Dr. Shaun Longstreet and Dr. Kendra Cooper.
	SimSys: Stability Within Chaos; Creating a Stable Tool in a Changing Environment. Student Researcher: Joseph Abolt Faculty Mentors: Dr. Shaun Longstreet and Dr. Kendra Cooper.
	Litmus for SimSYS:A User Study on a Serious Educational Game. Student Researcher: William Stolz Faculty Mentors: Dr. Shaun Longstreet and Dr. Kendra Cooper.
	Analyzing Algorithms for Weather Normalized Gas Consumption. Student Researcher: Maria Dela-Sancha Faculty Mentors: Dr. George Corliss and Dr. Richard Povinelli
	Embedded Xinu Operating System on Raspberry Pi. Student Researcher: Omokolade Hunpatin Faculty Mentors: Dr. Dennis Brylow
	XinuPi: Completion of the Hardware Conversion of Xinu to the Raspberry Pi. Student Researcher: Luke Mivshek Faculty Mentors: Dr. Dennis Brylow
	A Browser-Based IDE For The Modified ECS Curriculum. Student Researcher: Casey O'Hare Faculty Mentors: Dr. Dennis Brylow Matthew Bajzek, Heather Bort, Omokolade Hunpatin, Luke Mivshek, Tyler Much, Casey O'Hare, Dennis Brylow. MUzECS: Embedded Blocks for Exploring Computer Science. In Proceedings of Blocks & Beyond 2015, an IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2015) workshop, pages 127-132, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2015.
	Jason Arnold, Heather Bort, Ryan Naugle, Casey O'Hare, Dennis Brylow Multi-Track Programming Competitions with Scratch. In Proceedings of SIGCSE 2016: Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, pages 228-233, Memphis, Tennessee, March 2016. Preliminary version presented (lightening talk and poster) at RESPECT 2015: Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology, first international meeting of the IEEE Special Technical Committee on Broadening Participation, Charlotte, North Carolina, August 2015.

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