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Effect of Inlet Flow Conditions on Flow Uniformity Within a Fuel Cell Manifold
Faculty Mentor: Lisa Grega Students: Manthan Kothari & Andrew Specian Fuel cells have the potential to become the next leader of renewable energy and have been researched in many areas of science to maximize this potential. Over the summer our lab worked with a scaled up model of a PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) fuel cell… Continue Reading
Wirelessly-Controlled Relay System for Power Engineering Laboratory
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Deese Student: Tyler Wardlow The goal of the project was to design and build a wireless three phase relay controller for use in the new Smart Electric Power Systems Laboratory in Armstrong Hall. This device will be an addition to the lab and will provide an increase in capabilities for future experiments… Continue Reading
A computational stochastic model of breathing embedded with fractal-like scaling
Faculty Mentor: Brett BuSha Student: George Banis While conscious, there is a stochastic feature of cardiorespiratory control that is responsible for natural variability, which can be expressed as a distribution of breath-to-breath (BBI) or heartbeat-to-heartbeat intervals (RRI). The integrative nature of the brain imparts memory into this system, where any present BBI or RRI is… Continue Reading
Fabrication of polymer and cellular composite constructs for tissue engineering applications
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Anderson Students: James Ferrie & Pamela Hitscherich Tissue engineering is a promising aspect of regenerative medicine that is aimed at constructing functional tissues and organs. This requires the integration of living cells, biodegradable materials, and biologically active molecules to promote cell and tissue growth. Currently, challenges remain for more complex tissues/organs that… Continue Reading
Developing Successful Paired Placements among Preservice Teachers
Faculty Mentors: Louise Ammentorp & Lauren Madden Students: Jacqueline DeNarie & Tara-Lyn Farrell In the education department at The College of New Jersey, students are partnered for their practicum placements during their sophomore and junior years. Our MUSE study sought to determine the various approaches used by faculty to create partnerships and examine their level of… Continue Reading
Applying Conversation Analysis to interviews with Japanese politicians about the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Faculty Mentor: Holly Didi-Ogren Student: Russell Wolf In our MUSE project we employed methods from Conversation Analysis (CA) in an analysis of verbal interactions in a 1.5-hour long panel discussion about Japan’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP has been extremely controversial in Japan, and we selected the NHK panel discussion partly because… Continue Reading
The Virtual Freedom Trail Project: Re-visioning Gender in African Liberation in Tanzania
Faculty Mentor: Marla Jaksch Students: Alyssa Fountain & Shannon Grooms Throughout the Summer of 2012, Women’s and Gender studies majors Alyssa Fountain and Shannon Grooms assisted Dr. Marla Jaksch on a transcontinental research project known as The Virtual Freedom Trail Project: Re-visioning Gender in African Liberation in Tanzania. The students used resources available to them… Continue Reading
The 2012 TCNJ Delegation to Nicaragua: Assessing International Service Learning
Faculty Mentor: Diane Bates Students: Brad Heisler & Nicole Thompson Throughout the summer Dr. Diane Bates lead Brad Heisler and Nicole Thompson during research of the Nicaraguan people, culture, history and the U.S’s involvement there. Nicaragua lies between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 5,727,707 people it is the second… Continue Reading
Ethnic Self-Stereotyping and Stereotype Awareness
Faculty Mentor: Julie Hughes Student: Iris Chiu U.S. society becomes more ethnically diverse every year, making individual experiences of interracial anxiety increasingly common. This summer Dr. Hughes and her student collaborator, Iris Chiu, have researched interracial anxiety and its antecedents. These antecedents of anxiety include: internal and external motivations to respond without prejudice (IMS and… Continue Reading