IIT Armour College of Engineering announces the award recipients for the Fall 2014 Armour R&D program. Armour R&D is a Distinctive Education initiative of the Armour College of Engineering which enables undergraduate engineering to have a more complete understanding of the research and development processes with the help of a faculty mentor.
Below is a list of all 25 accepted projects. The projects will be presented at the Fall 2014 Armour R&D Expo from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 in the Hermann Hall Gallery Lounge.
| Theme | Student | Faculty Mentor | Project Title |
| Health | Isabel Arias | Eric Brey | Role of rowth media variation in the formation of mineralized issue in vitro |
| Energy | Leonardo Bellincatnta de Souza | Sohail Murad | Role of Ion Exchange Membranes on Redox Flow Batteries |
| Energy | Ming Chen | Alexander Flueck | Faster than Real-Time Power System Dynamics Simulation |
| Health | Szu-Chun Chen | Georgia Papavasiliou | Effect of Nanoparticle Characteristics and Loading Density of Scaffold Properties and Cell invasion |
| Energy | Dina Curioni | Brent Stephens | Energy and Environmental Characterization of an Unoccupied Test Apartment on IIT’s Campus |
| Energy | Deion DeBose | Brent Stephens | Wireless Connectivity of Open Source Building Science Sensors |
| Health | Ritika Dhawan | Georgia Papavasiliou | Doxycicline loaded nanoparticles for healing of anastomotic leaks |
| Security | David Finol | Ankit Srivastava | Flutter migration through tuned mass damping |
| Health | Nicole Frantz | Ali Cinar | The Effects of Exercise in Blood Glucose Concentration |
| Health/Security | Jose Gibaja | Matthew Spenko | Electrostatic-Dry Adhesion in Bio-Inspired Robotics |
| Security | Georgi Hristov | David Williams | Innovative Control Effectors for Maneuvering of Air Vehicles |
| Health/Security | Cameron Ketchmark | Joohee Kim | Improving Feature Descriptors for Pedestrian Detection |
| Security | Joaquin Lares | Matthew Spenko | Vehicle Terrain Interaction |
| Energy | Yanxin Li | Vijay Ramani | Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalyst for Solid-State Alkaline Water Electrolysis |
| Health | Roshani Patil | Kenneth Tichauer | Identification of Optimal Fluorophores for Dual-tracer Fluorescence Molecular Imaging to Quantify Cancer Specific Cell Surface Receptor Concentration |
| Energy | Huilen Quiroga | Carrie Hall | Analysis of the Comustion Timing in Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Engines |
| Health | Yusra Sarhan | David Mogul | Finding Improved Protocols for Using Deep-Brain Stimulation for Treating Epileptic Seizures in Rats |
| Energy | Nicholas Taluzek | Dietmar Rempfer | Improving Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Performance |
| Security | Ibrahim Tamimi | Mehdi Modares | Sensor-Based Structural Health Monitoring in Tall Buildings |
| Energy | Nina Townley | Brent Stephens | Energy and Environmental Characterization of an Unoccupied Test Apartment on IIT’s Campus |
| Health | Sijia Wu | Jovan G. Brankov | Three-dimensional Quantitative Imaging of Molecular Heterogeneity in Tumor Specimens |
| Energy | Zhe Yi Soo | Ankit Srivastava | Determination propafation of sound waves in phononic crystal using photoelasticity method |
| Energy | Rou Yi Yeap | Brent Stephens | Modeling the Energy Impacts of Filter Fouling in Existing and Old Homes |
| Energy/Health | Jihad Zeid | Brent Stephens | Continuation of research regarding the tranport of outdoor air pollutants into indoor environments. |
| Health | Olha Zvarych | Fouad Teymour & Britt Burton-Freeman | Development of Engineering Devices for Affordable Nutrition |