FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2007 -- LIBRARY AUDITORIUM |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2007 -- STUDENT UNION BUILDING |
| 8:00 AM |
Welcoming Reception -- 2nd Floor |
| 8:30 AM |
Opening Remarks & Introductions -- Big Butte/Highlands Room |
| 8:35 AM |
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| 9:20 AM |
BREAK |
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Name |
Title of Presentation |
Mentor |
| SESSION 1 -- Roger Oldenkamp (Chair) -- Pintlar Room |
| 9:40 AM |
John Little |
Neonatal Circumcision and Male-Prevalent Neuropsychological Disorders: Is There a Correlation? |
Dave Carter |
| 10:00 AM |
Vanessa Murray |
Prime-Time Education: The Effects of Media as it Relates to College Education |
Dave Carter |
| 10:20 AM |
Michelle Sullivan |
The Language of Mine Waste Clean Up: Exploring the Visual Rhetoric of Reclamation, Remediation, and Restoration |
Pat Munday |
| 10:40 AM |
BREAK |
| 11:00 AM |
Kenneth Bates |
Investigations of Diel Changes in the Concentration of Metals and Sediment-Water Interactions |
Stephen Parker |
| 11:20 AM |
M. Garrett Smith |
Preliminary Investigations of Temporal Variability in the Concentration and Composition of DIC and DOC in Streams |
Stephen Parker |
| 11:40 AM |
Erika Sholey and Stacy Wilcox |
Sources of Nitrate Contamination in the Butte Summit Valley |
Chris Gammons |
| NOON |
LUNCH |
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| SESSION 2 -- Marisa Pedulla (Chair) -- Pintlar Room |
| 1:30 PM |
Andrew Ramstead |
Protein Analysis of Bacteriophages |
Marisa Pedulla |
| 1:50 PM |
Christine Hash |
Isolation, Amplification, Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of Mycobacteriophage Macayla |
Marisa Pedulla |
| 2:10 PM |
Kirk Caddell |
Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of Mycobacteriophage Shabema |
Marisa Pedulla |
| 2:30 PM |
Amanda Mondloch |
Drug Discovery in Acid Mine Waste, Searching for Unique Secondary Metabolites in a Berkeley Pit Microbe |
Andrea Stierle |
| 2:50 PM |
BREAK |
| 3:10 PM |
Michalee Moen |
Drug Discovery in Acid Mine Waste: Searching for Unique Secondary Metabolites from the Berkeley Pit Microbe Bp 2-0-A Cu500G3 |
Andrea Stierle |
| 3:30 PM |
Carrie Duff |
Karyotypical Investigation and Generation of Color Mutation in Mielichhoferia Mielichhoferi |
Grant Mitman |
| 3:50 PM |
Jason Park |
Monitoring Use of Artificial Burrows by Peromyscus Maniculatus |
Amy Kuenzi |
| 4:10 PM |
Jonnae Lumsden |
Patterns of Sin Nombre Virus RNA Prevalence and Seroconversion in Montana Deer Mice: A Continuation |
Amy Kuenzi |
| 4:30 PM |
CONCLUDING REMARKS |
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| SESSION 3 -- Chip Todd (Chair) -- Big Butte/Highlands |
| 9:40 AM |
Mathew Michels |
Voluntary Simplicity: An Investigation of Individual Effect in a Grassroots Movement |
Pat Munday |
| 10:00 AM |
James Holmes |
Characterization of Geodesics |
Laurie Battle |
| 10:20 AM |
Jeffrey Scott |
Mathematical Examination of Principal Component Analysis |
Chip Todd |
| 10:40 AM |
BREAK |
| 11:00 AM |
Scott LaForest |
An Examination and Proof of the Multivariate Central Limit Theorem |
Chip Todd |
| 11:20 AM |
Russell Akers |
The Vec-Permutation Matrix |
Chip Todd |
| 11:40 AM |
Kristen Anderson |
Parameter Estimation Techniques |
Chip Todd |
| NOON |
LUNCH |
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| SESSION 4 -- Rick Rossi (Chair) -- Big Butte/Highlands |
| 1:30 PM |
Christopher Dienes |
Estimation of the Parameters of a Probability Distribution Using Kernel Density Estimators |
Rick Rossi |
| 1:50 PM |
Jennifer Erin Esp |
Fitting Mixture Models to Madison River Obsidian Glass Flake Rind Thicknesses |
Rick Rossi |
| 2:10 PM |
Brittany Deffinbaugh |
A Study for Comparing the Expected Returns for Keno Games to Determine Which Game Has the Highest Chance of Winning |
Rick Rossi |
| 2:30 PM |
Celeste McGregor |
Deal or No Deal |
Rick Rossi |
| 2:50 PM |
BREAK |
| 3:10 PM |
Gregg Feddes |
NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament Predictor |
Rick Rossi |
| 3:30 PM |
Haley Doleshal |
A Study to Determine the Effectiveness and Usefulness of the Montana Tech Learning Center |
Rick Rossi |
| 3:50 PM |
Justin Wiseman |
An Analysis to Gather the Interests of Young Minds to the Computer Science Field and Ways to Improve Interest |
Celia Schahczenski |
| 4:10 PM |
Christopher LoCoco |
Descriptive Phrase Mining for Field Imagery Annotation |
Jeff Braun |
| 4:30 PM |
CONCLUDING REMARKS |
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| SESSION 5 -- Mary McLaughlin (Chair) -- Kelley/Steward |
| 9:40 AM |
Sara Morrison |
Influences of Industrial Contributions to Water Levels in the Sand Creek Drainage |
Willis Weight |
| 10:00 AM |
Emma Garman |
Dynamic Evolution of the Spectral Signature and Brightness Temperature Signature of Barley Under Drought Conditions |
Xiaobing Zhou |
| 10:20 AM |
Whitney Harris |
Processing Snow-Streamer Seismic Reflection Data From the Mandrill Immured Ice Shelf Drill Site, Antarctica |
Marvin Speece |
| 10:40 AM |
BREAK |
| 11:00 AM |
Michael Frawley |
Determining Beta Factors in Hydraulic Fractures |
John Evans |
| 11:20 AM |
Cassie Ward |
Numerical Modeling and Tri axial Shear Testing of Cemented Rock fill |
Rich McNearny |
| 11:40 AM |
Christina Lamer |
Blasting Procedures of the Mining Industry |
Mary MacLaughlin |
| NOON |
LUNCH |
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| SESSION 6 -- Julie Hart (Chair) -- Kelley/Steward |
| 1:30 PM |
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OPEN |
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| 1:50 PM |
Christopher Linhart |
The Effect of Creatine on Muscle Power Output |
Susan Gazioglu |
| 2:10 PM |
Sally Carey and Sarah Thielen |
The Effects of Yoga on Heart Rate and Blood Pressure |
John Amtmann |
| 2:30 PM |
Jennifer Dobb |
Lactate and RPE Responses of Athletes Training for and Competing in a Regional Mixed Martial Arts Event |
John Amtmann |
| 2:50 PM |
BREAK |
| 3:10 PM |
Shelli Vicars |
Training Methods of Mixed Martial Artists |
John Amtmann |
| 3:30 PM |
Daniel Kleckner and Ashley Zimpel |
An Investigation to Compare Injury Analysis of Mixed Martial Arts with Other Mainstream Sports |
John Amtmann |
| 3:50 PM |
Michael Faroni |
Public Noise Associated with Commercial Aircraft and Helicopters Arriving and Departing from the Bert Mooney Airport |
Julie Hart |
| 4:10 PM |
Erin Jenrich |
Safety Message Formats for Printed Manuals |
Roger Jensen |
| 4:30 PM |
CONCLUDING REMARKS |
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| SESSION 7 -- Rick Donovan (Chair) -- Mountain Con |
| 9:40 AM |
Andrew Taylor |
To Investigate the Performance of Circuits Used to Measure the Fundamental Frequency of Noisy Sinusoid Near 60 Hz. |
Dan Trudnowski |
| 10:00 AM |
Tami Infante |
An Investigation to Validate and Improve Upon an Ultra Wideband Radar Distribution Model in Order to Improve Field Performance @ Bert Mooney Airport |
Rick Donovan |
| 10:20 AM |
Desiree Overcast |
An Investigation to Develop Robust Wireless Network in Order to Increase the Probability of Detections with a Sensor Network |
Rick Donovan |
| 10:40 AM |
BREAK |
| 11:00 AM |
Aaron Wirth |
To Investigate the Incorporation of Active RFID into a Smart Sensor Network |
Rick Donovan |
| 11:20 AM |
James Chandler |
Development and Execution of Manufacturing Plans for the Machining Chassis of the Electra CubeSat at the RAVE Creativity Forge |
Rick Donovan |
| 11:40 AM |
Robert Miller |
Calibrate the Haas CNC VMC Machine Tool Using a Force Measuring Plate, Correlating Load Percentage to Force in a Particular Axis |
Rick Donovan |
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LUNCH |
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| SESSION 8 -- Courtney Young (Chair) -- Mountain Con |
| 1:30 PM |
Casey Cotter |
Heat Sensing with a Smart Tool |
Bruce Madigan |
| 1:50 PM |
Edwin Wold |
An Investigation into the Feasibility of an Oscillating Friction Stir Welding Process and Procedure |
Bruce Madigan |
| 2:10 PM |
Ryan Ciolkosz |
Study of the Effects of Carbon Dioxide Saturated Water on the Steel Tubing of a Well |
John Evans |
| 2:30 PM |
Wyatt Adams |
Study of the Effects of 15% HCI Acid on Steel Tubing Commonly Used in the Oil Field and the Effectiveness of Corrosion Inhibitors |
John Evans |
| 2:50 PM |
BREAK |
| 3:10 PM |
Josef Bilant and Adam Hammes |
Solubility and Solidification Behavior of Molybdenum in Cu-Zn Liquids |
Kevin Jaansalu |
| 3:30 PM |
Alex Macgregor and Katie Schumacher |
Characterization of Gold Ore from Newmont Mining Corporation's Twin Creek Mine, Nevada |
Courtney Young/ Jerome Downey |
| 3:45 PM |
Robert Stepper and Erin Stevens |
Characterization of Newmont Ore Body Using Cyanide Leach Method |
Courtney Young/ Jerome Downey |
| 4:00 PM |
Taylor Flotre and Matthew Huey |
Thiocyanate Leach of a Twins Creek Ore |
Courtney Young/ Jerome Downey |
| 4:15 PM |
Robert Gow and Kelly Murphey |
Thiosulphate Leach of a Twins Creek Ore |
Courtney Young/ Jerome Downey |
| 4:30 PM |
CONCLUDING REMARKS |
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12:00 - 1:15 PM LUNCH -- Student Union Building
A FREE Lunch will be provided for all student presenters, faculty mentors, and URP Committee members.
RSVP is required for ALL lunch attendees--Contact Cheryl duToit at
cdutoit@mtech.edu (496-4781).
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