Projects

Strategies for Understanding Novel Candidate Gene Functions in Down Syndrome Neural Circuit Development

The development and function of the human brain require precise interactions among cells, genes, and proteins. Brain cells compose a complex network of circuits with billions of neurons, each having…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours (+1)

Neuroscience

AME - Effect of turbulence on optical performance of airborne laser systems

Our Aero-Optics group (https://aero-optics.nd.edu/) is the leader in studying optical distortions caused by air turbulence at various speeds including hypersonic ones. It has a wide range of…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

CSE - Decentralized Data Sharing Infrastructure

Nowadays, data centers hold the ownership of consumers' data, and data owners often do not have control over their data once data is released. One of the research areas of ND-DSP is decentralized…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+3)

Computer Science & Engineering

Bacterial Motility and Biofilm Development

Description The Shrout Lab studies bacterial behavior. We combine research methods that include microscopy, imaging, mathematics, chemistry, and microbiology used at different spatial and temporal…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+3)

CBE - Drug Delivery & Biomaterials

The Webber lab works to develop new biomaterials and drug delivery tools for treatment of disease, beginning with molecular-scale design and extending to functional application. Undergraduates…

5 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+4)

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Climate Change Research

Undergraduate research opportunities are available in The MAB Lab ( https://themablab.net/ ), where we use chemical and analytical techniques to reconstruct climate and environmental changes around…

5 sp. | 1 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+1)

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+2)

AME - Machine Learning for Turbulence and Combustion

We focus on developing high-performance simulation and machine learning tools to more accurately predict turbulent, reacting, and high-speed/nonequilibrium flows. Students can focus on either or both…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours (+1)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (+1)

AME 47560 - Independent UG Design Project - Centerpin Fishing Reel

Students will design and machine a centerpin fishing reel. This type of fishing reel has become a popular way of catching trout and salmon in the various Lake Michigan tributary streams. Examples of…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

AME 47560 - Independent UG Design Project - Mars Rover Design

Students will design various components and systems for a Mars rover vehicle to compete in the University Rover Challenge. https://urc.marssociety.org/ Students must be active members of the Domer…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Computer Science & Engineering (+3)

CSE - Drone Response: Engineering multi-UAV Autonomous Systems

The DroneResponse Lab focuses on Software Engineering for multi-vehicle autonomous UAV systems. Mission overview: https://youtu.be/DyKqxkesgg0?si=OnNHl0Y6dSzn_Ap-

4 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Computer Science & Engineering

AME - Microfiber for noise reduction

A hair-structure coating called microfiber coating has been developed for noise reduction on a rotating blade. Optimum structure and location of the coating on a rotating blade are still under…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (+2)

AME - Machine Learning and Scientific Computing with Python

There are several opportunities in the McClarren research group for people interested in scientific computing and machine learning. Topics include (but are not limited to): Fusion energy Nuclear…

3 sp. | 1 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+4)

Computer Science & Engineering (+3)

CBE - Solving the Structure Identification Problem with Machine Learning

The structure identification problem consists of determining the chemical structure of a species based on indirect pieces of information like spectra or property measurements. Structure identification…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

EE - Fabricating superconducting devices

In this project, the students are expected to fabricate superconducting devices, ferroelectric capacitor with superconducting electrode, in the cleanroom. Working with Physics department, we will aim…

2 sp. | 1 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+3)

Electrical Engineering

Electronic structure of organic-inorganic metal oxides

This project aims to elucidate the electronic structure of a variety of organic-inorganic metal oxides using first-principle simulations. Specifically, we want to gain fundamental insight into the…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+1)

What determines recruitment of new trees in U.S. forests?

Many processes determine what species of trees exist within a given forest, and how big those trees are. "Recruitment" is perhaps one of the most understudied these processes. Recruitment specifically…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours

Biological Sciences

AME - Biomedical Applications of Spectral Photon Counting CT

X-ray computed tomography (CT) allows scientists and clinicians to non-invasively visualize deep tissue structures within the human body in three-dimensions and at high spatial resolution. However…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (+1)

Exploring Discrete Geometry (MATH 46800 Directed Reading)

Reading: Exploring Discrete Geometry by Thomas Q. Sibley Discrete geometry, like all of mathematics, has developed piecemeal. It is still new enough to have unsolved problems that seem just a few…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours

Mathematics

EE - Bioinspired robotic systems

In our lab (MiNiRo-Lab) we have opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in research projects focusing on the design, development, testing, and analysis of bioinspired robots. These projects…

5 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+4)

Electrical Engineering

Autonomous Additive Manufacturing for Sustainable Energy and Personalized Health

The mission of the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing for Energy and Health (AM2EH) Lab directed by Prof. Yanliang Zhang is to innovate and transform manufacturing science and technology to address…

3 sp. | 1 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Analysis of Customer Behavior in Banking

Collaborate with a local bank and a data scientist from the Applied Analytics & Emerging Technology Lab (AETL) of the Lucy Institute for Data & Society to derive data-driven insights on customer…

4 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours

Computer Science & Engineering (+1)

CEEES - Biological floc characterization via image analysis and machine learning

Wastewater treatment is based on biological flocs that should have good settling properties. A new treatment approach uses hydrocyclones to retain larger, denser flocs with good settling properties…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+1)

Civil & Environmental Engineerng & Earth Sciences

Adaptive Learning for Machine Learning in Chemistry

This project is part of a multidisciplinary project between chemistry, computer science and psychology, funded by the National Science Foundation. It designed to help people learn about data chemistry…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+1)

Chemistry and Biochemistry

CBE - Bioanalysis and Ion Separations with Membranes

These projects have two directions. In the first, we develop membranes for purifying rare-earth ions or other critical ions that are important in batteries and wind mills. The separations are designed…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+3)

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+1)

CEEES - Structural Dynamics and System Identification

Various topics are available for students in the area of structural dynamics, signal processing, and statistical methods. These projects largely deal with data analysis and modeling. Work may include…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours

Civil & Environmental Engineerng & Earth Sciences

AME - Independent Undergraduate Design Project

AME 47560 - Independent Design Project - Seelinger Students are welcome to propose a 1-3 credit independent design project that has background in my areas of expertise: robotics, design, dynamics, and…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

CSE - AI-based People Search

This is a collaborative industry-academic research project. The problem the company has is that there is a list of 100,000+ people in their database, but they need to search with natural language…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Computer Science & Engineering

Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry

Research in the Hixon group focuses on understanding and quantifying the behavior of actinide elements in natural and engineered systems. The actinide elements are those with atomic numbers 89 - 103…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+2)

CBE - Manufacturing Next-Generation Membranes from Advanced Materials

This project focuses on the fabrication, structural characterization, and transport testing of next-generation membranes manufactured from self-assembled materials.

3 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+4)

CBE - Computational catalysis

Undergraduate will work with a PhD student on an on-going project in which we build models to describe and predict the performance of known and possible catalysts for practically relevant chemical…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+4)

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

CSE - Probabilistic Programming and Graph Grammars

We are developing a programming language called PERPL (https://github.com/diprism/perpl) that is probabilistic (programs compute a probability distribution over values instead of a single value) and…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Computer Science & Engineering

CBE - Organic Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductor Research

Organic mixed ionic electronic conductors (OMIECs) are polymers (plastics) that efficiently transport and couple both ionic (salt) and electronic charge (electricity). This ionic-electronic coupling…

2 sp. | 1 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+5)

Electrochemical Transistor Design for Neuromorphic and Biosensing Applications

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are the building blocks of bioelectronic circuits. They are uniquely able to transduce and amplify biological/neurological signals. Further, unlike…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (+5)

AME - Chemical flow control using hydrophobic and hydrophilic patterning

Some functional chemical surfaces interact with flows. Some of the well-known surfaces are hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces. The former repels and the other attracts the water flows. This project…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Civil & Environmental Engineerng & Earth Sciences (+2)

Examining Sustainability Avenues for Human & Robotic Space Exploration

The goal of this project is to identify different avenues that add value to human and robotic space exploration such that an enduring, long term endeavor is established. The students will identify…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (+12)

AME: Engineering Education

Variety of projects focused on engineering education which will include defining research question(s), conducting a literature search of other related research, analysis of data collected, preparation…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours

Computer Science & Engineering (+2)

GPU Accelerated Optimization Algorithms

GPU Accelerated Optimization Algorithms A Proposal of Undergraduate Research Project by Zhiliang Xu Project Narrative. Training a machine learning model is essentially an optimization problem…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Part Time

Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics

AME - Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors to Power Knee Exosuit

Knee exosuits have the potential to reduce joint torques during sit-stand transitions. Our Wearable Robotics Laboratory has developed energetically passive knee exosuits that reduce 25% of root-mean…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

CSE - Designing Accountable Software Systems

As part of our ongoing work on Designing Accountable Software Systems, we are building an interactive tool to help software engineers understand the role of human values within the domain and…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Computer Science & Engineering

CSE - HCI Research with the MetoyerLab

This project includes the design, development, and evaluation of interfaces with a particular focus on 1) healthy food choice, 2) Future of Social Services Work, and 3) Generative AI for Education

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours

Computer Science & Engineering

AME - Biomechanics of Human Balance

This project seeks to understand the effects of repeated subconcussive head impacts on the dynamic balance control of young, healthy amateur athletes. Preliminary results indicate that such impacts do…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+1)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

AME - Control of Robotic Lower-Limb Prostheses

This project aims to evaluate the feasibility of new control strategies for robotic lower-limb prostheses. For individuals with lower-limb amputation, both below- and above-knee, robotic protheses…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+1)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

AME - Tissue Mechanics Laboratory Undergraduate Research

The Notre Dame Tissue Mechanics Laboratory is focused on diseases related to bone and bone marrow. We have three focuses at this time: Bone adaptation to mechanical load. This affects normal bone…

3 sp. | 4 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Biological Sciences (+2)

AME - Design of Balance Measurement Device for Health Assessment

This project will have two parts: Research on existing devices for measuring human balance ability with specific use in the health care industry Design of a new human balance measurement and…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

AME - Nanoparticle Carriers for Novel Anti-Leishmania Chemotherapeutics

Leishmaniasis is a grouping of diseases caused by the protozoan parasites Leishmania spp., affecting 12 million people per year, with almost 350 million people at risk. Therefore, the WHO has declared…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (+1)

AME - Additive Manufacturing of Micro/nanofibers for Tissue Engineering

Professor H.B. Chang's research group focuses on building fibrous materials for use at the biotic-abiotic interface with b iology and m edicine . Specifically, we are deeply interested in exploring…

3 sp. | 1 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+4)

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (+4)

AME - Microfiber for Flow Control

Students will either focus on the measurement of fluid properties or the fabrication of the hair structure called the microfiber coating. This coating is studied for a drag-reduction device The…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (+2)

Modeling Nuclei via Machine Learning Networks

EE - Spectrum Sharing Technologies and Policy for Interfering Radio Systems

A Dietary Epigenetic Therapy for Friedreich's Ataxia

Strategies for Understanding Novel Candidate Gene Functions in Down Syndrome Neural Circuit Development

AME - Effect of turbulence on optical performance of airborne laser systems

CSE - Decentralized Data Sharing Infrastructure

Bacterial Motility and Biofilm Development

CBE - Drug Delivery & Biomaterials

Climate Change Research

AME - Machine Learning for Turbulence and Combustion

AME 47560 - Independent UG Design Project - Centerpin Fishing Reel

AME 47560 - Independent UG Design Project - Mars Rover Design

CSE - Drone Response: Engineering multi-UAV Autonomous Systems

AME - Microfiber for noise reduction

AME - Machine Learning and Scientific Computing with Python

CBE - Solving the Structure Identification Problem with Machine Learning

EE - Fabricating superconducting devices

Electronic structure of organic-inorganic metal oxides

What determines recruitment of new trees in U.S. forests?

AME - Biomedical Applications of Spectral Photon Counting CT

Exploring Discrete Geometry (MATH 46800 Directed Reading)

EE - Bioinspired robotic systems

Autonomous Additive Manufacturing for Sustainable Energy and Personalized Health

Analysis of Customer Behavior in Banking

CEEES - Biological floc characterization via image analysis and machine learning

Adaptive Learning for Machine Learning in Chemistry

CBE - Bioanalysis and Ion Separations with Membranes

CEEES - Structural Dynamics and System Identification

AME - Independent Undergraduate Design Project

CSE - AI-based People Search

Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry

CBE - Manufacturing Next-Generation Membranes from Advanced Materials

CBE - Computational catalysis

CSE - Probabilistic Programming and Graph Grammars

CBE - Organic Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductor Research

Electrochemical Transistor Design for Neuromorphic and Biosensing Applications

AME - Chemical flow control using hydrophobic and hydrophilic patterning

Examining Sustainability Avenues for Human & Robotic Space Exploration

AME: Engineering Education

GPU Accelerated Optimization Algorithms

AME - Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors to Power Knee Exosuit

CSE - Designing Accountable Software Systems

CSE - HCI Research with the MetoyerLab

AME - Biomechanics of Human Balance

AME - Control of Robotic Lower-Limb Prostheses

AME - Tissue Mechanics Laboratory Undergraduate Research

AME - Design of Balance Measurement Device for Health Assessment

AME - Nanoparticle Carriers for Novel Anti-Leishmania Chemotherapeutics

AME - Additive Manufacturing of Micro/nanofibers for Tissue Engineering

AME - Microfiber for Flow Control

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