Benjamin Obeng

Mechanical engineering

Hometown: Accra, Ghana

Graduation date: Spring 2019

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MORE | Fall 2018

Design And Mechanical Analysis Of Thermogalvanic Brick

Buildings consume 40% of energy generated globally with an expected 50% increase by 2050. This calls for a sustainable conservative approach of energy generation for buildings. The researcher seeks to utilize the temperature difference across the brick walls of buildings to generate energy to reduce energy consumption. This research plans to investigate the effect of the brick’s mechanical properties on its performance. A lattice structure is used to increase the mechanical properties of the brick for which the researcher hopes to optimize its volume fraction and material composition. This would have a great impact on the building and construction industry.

Mentor: Mounir El Asmar, Patrick Phelan

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Arick Nitzsche

Manufacturing engineering

Development of Multi-Material Micro-Structures by Using Micro Continuous Interface Printing (µCLIP)

This research aims to speed up 3D printing and allow for the creation of more complex objects made from different materials at once.

Mentor: Xiangfan Chen

Program: FURI

Sean M. Lowe

Computer systems engineering

Improving Hardware Verification Coverage using LLMs

Integrating fine-tuned large language models in hardware verification automates testbench creation, cuts resources and speeds up the verification process.

Mentor: Aman Arora

Program: FURI

Shubham Chetan Shah

Software engineering

Improving YOLOv8 Transferability via Model Fine-Tuning with Domain-Specific Manufacturing Data

Fine-tuning YOLOv8 with manufacturing data improves crack detection, boosting model transferability across diverse industrial applications.

Mentor: Shenghan Guo

Program: MORE