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TAMU Online REU Program

Texas A&M University College of Engineering

2024 Summer O-REU Students

Kathryn Chain

University of Nebraska

email:kchain@unomaha.edu

TAMU mentor:  Michael Dimitriyev

Project Title:  Prototyping inhomogeneous swelling responses in polymer gel systems via a linear elastic model

Jesse Contreras

Oregon State University

email:contreje@oregonstate.edu

LANL mentor:  Khanh Dang

Project Title:  Investigating Mechanical Properties of Li-Alloys for Application in Solid-State Batteries

Emily Dunn

Duke University

email: emily.dunn@duke.edu

TAMU mentor:   Jean-Briac le Graverend 

Project Title:  Bimodal Microstructures in Ni-based Single-crystal Superalloys subjected to Non-isothermal Loading via Phase-field Method

Landon Ellis

Oklahoma Christian University

email: landon.ellis@eagles.oc.edu

TAMU mentor:   Don Lipkin 

Project Title:  Extracting Thermal Diffusivity During High-Heat Flux Testing

Ryan Le

Texas A&M University  

email:ryanmle@tamu.edu

LANL mentors:  John Bernardin & Jacob Mingear

TAMU mentor:  Darren Hartl

Project Title:  Advanced Modeling of Shape Memory Alloy Applications

Kayla Levy

Texas A&M University

email:klevy@tamu.edu

TAMU mentor:  David Eckman

Project Title:  A Julia Package for Plausible Inference Methods

Jackson Martin

Texas A&M University

email:martijb02@tamu.edu

TAMU mentor:  Michael J. Demkowicz

Project Title:  Nickel Dissolution and Hydrogen Uptakes in Different Electrolytes

Trevont Moore

Oral Roberts University

email:mooretre@oru.edu

TAMU mentor:  Raymundo Arroyave   

Project Title:  Gradient-based Discovery of Initial Feasible Solutions for Inverse Materials Design

Mikayla Obrist

Penn State University

email:mao5591@psu.edu

TAMU mentor:  Raymundo Arroyave   

Project Title:  Identifying Suitable Subgraphs for Design of Compositionally Graded Alloys
(CGAs) 

Gabriela Polakovic

Boston University

email:  gabypol1@bu.edu

LANL mentor:  Bernard Gaskey

Project Title:  3D Apples and Oranges:  Comparing Residual Stress and Distortion Modeling for Metal Additive Manufacturing

Jason Richards

University of Rochester

email:  jricha48@u.rochester.edu

LANL mentor:  Anup Pandey

Project Title:  Optimizing He Dopants in Nuclear Materials through Machine Learning Interatomic Potential

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