All students majoring in Physics complete a two-semester Senior Project of original research.
The project may include theoretical, experimental, and computational components.
The project may include theoretical, experimental, and computational components.
Senior Project Highlight
Bruno Becher (21') is taking a go-kart for a test drive. The go-kart was constructed by Joshua Etukudo (21') as part of his senior project. Joshua's goal was to build a car that can go at least 20 miles per hour. The tests in this video confirmed that Joshua's vehicle went well beyond his 20 mph goal.
Recent Senior Projects
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2021- Bruno Becher, The Complex Propagation of Light Explained Visually: How to Make a Hologram
- Cole Cecchetto, Explorations In Quantum Chaos
- Yanpei Deng, Electronic Properties of Flat and Curved Graphene Sheets
- Joshua Etukudo, Investigating the Efficiency of Energy Transfer in Vehicular Motion
- Zachary Hait, Dimentia: Footnotes of Time
- Nathalie Jones, Brightening of the Bridge: Reflections of a Past Sgr A* Outburst in Galactic Center Molecular Clouds
- Andrew Poverman, Quantum optics, entanglement, and Bell's Theorem
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2020 -
2019- Yu-Tien Chou, Practice Room Acoustics: What Matters to the Musicians About the Practice Space
- Isobel Curtin, The Invisible Sun: Building a Radio Interferometer Telescope
- Rory Maglich, Optimizing Glide-Flight Paths
- Mac Selesnick, What Causes Black Holes to Spin?
- Kyle Zigner, Methane Sensing in the Field
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2018- Daniel Godines Alcantara, A Microlensing Detection Algorithm for Wide-Field Surveys
- Hunter Manel, A Technical Analysis and Exploration of Guitar Pickups and Electronics
- Liam Schramm, A Study of Neural Networks for the Quantum Many-Body Problem
- Noah Schwink-Zanella, General Relativity and the Quartz Crystal Oscillator
- Nick Shenberger, Understanding, Designing, and Building a Hydroelectric Generator
