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Alabama in Huntsville
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Honors Senior Projects

Listed by College, Department, Year, Student, Project Title, and Advisor

College of Administrative Science

Department of Accounting and Information Systems

2001. Jana Lindsay Black: "Dynetic's Contracts System Requirements Project." Advisor: Dr. Stephen Floyd

1998. Shvetal Khanna: "The Impact of Information Technology on the Accounting Profession." Advisor: Dr. Merle Maddocks

Department of Economics and Finance

2006-07. Christy Lynn Davis: “Use of Electronic Data Interchange Technology in the Tennessee Valley,” Advisor: Dr. Dorla Evans

2003. Kristofer Gibbs: "The Role of Anticipated Wealth in Risk Preferences." Advisor: Dr. Dorla Evans

2001. Rodolfo Antonio Bernal: " How Does an Acceleration in the Change of the Fed Funds Rate Compare with an Acceleration in the GDP?"Advisor: Dr. Niles Schoening

College of Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering

2007-08. Roy E. Berryman: "A Comparison of Simulated Traffic Delay to Actual Traffic Delay." Advisor: Dr. Michael Anderson.

2004. Sarah Louise Yeldell: "Alternative Post-Treatment Processes in the NASA Luna-Mars Habitat." Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Leonard

1999. Amy Louisa Cunningham: "Analysis of and Correctional Procedure for the Operation of the Huntsville Botanical Garden Reciprocating Constructed Wetland." Advisor: Dr. Sampson Gholston

1995. Lori Delaine Goolesby: "Hydrologic Model of Flint River Basin." Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Leonard

1994. Richard Wayne Humphrey: "Engineered vs. Traditional: A Comparison of Wood Beams." Advisor: Dr. Crull

1993. Christy Womack Vines: "Constructed Wetlands as an Innovative, Cost-Effective Solution for Wastewater Treatment in Small Communities." Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Leonard

Department of Chemical Engineering

1995. Lisa Nicole Jones Crawford: "Ethanol Production from Municipal Solid Wastes." Advisor: Dr. Krishnan Chittur

Department of Computer Engineering

2007-08. Ryan L. Tonini. "Design and Implementation of an Algorithm for Accurate Multi-Environment Position Tracking." Advisor: Dr. Emil Jovanov

2006-07. Michael Cody Mitchell. "Design and Assembly of Electronic Test Boards" Advisor: Dr. Jennifer English

1999. Charles Thomas Yarbrough, III: "A Scaleable Multiprocessor." Advisor: Dr. Earl Wells

1997. Timothy Allen Lewis: "Mail Server Installation and Integration."

1996. Monish Sharma: "Software Design Control of an Autonomous Vehicle." Advisor: Dr. William Cohen

1995. Lysle Edward Shields, III: "Creating Dedicated Processors Using a VHDL to C Translator." Advisor: Dr. Rhonda Gaede

Department of Electrical Engineering

2006-07. Michael Cody Mitchell: "Design and Assembly of Digital Electronic Test Boards." Advisor: Dr. Jennifer English.

1998. Jared Lee Bell: "Rapid Prototyping Using Reprogrammable Logic." Advisor: Dr. Rhonda Gaede

1998. Tarique Kazi: "Improving Performance on Incremental Compilation of Java Bytecodes." Advisor: Dr. William Cohen

1997. Kristopher Lee Young: "Design of a Low-Cost, One-Way, Wireless Digital Communication System." Advisor: Dr. Reza Adhami

1995. Tiffany Michelle Brooks: "A VHDL Design of a Reconfigurable Cache Memory System." Advisor: Dr. Rhonda Gaede

Department of Industrical and Systems Engineering

1997. Yongke Thio: "As-Is Evaluation & Process Design of the 17/18 Foot Refrigerator at General Electric in Decatur, Alabama." Advisor: Dr. Bernard Schroer

1993. Brian Joseph Finzel: "CAD System Selection for Boat Design." Advisor: Dr. Bernard Schroer

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

2000. Scott David Thomas: "Stress and Thermal Analysis of the LoTEC Carrier." Advisor: Dr. Francis Wessling

1998. Michael Paul (P.J.) Benfield: "ISWE: A Case Study of Technology Transfer." Advisor: Dr. Brian Landrum

1997. Imran Mukhtar: "Hybrid Rocket Powered Upper Stage Design Report." Advisor: Dr. Robert Frederick

1997. Bryan Michael Rasmussen: "Testing of Solid Rocket Propellants with an Ultrasonic Transducer." Advisor: Dr. Robert Frederick

1997. Jason Ford Duckworth: "1998 Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunity: Thin Film Extrusion in Microgravity." Advisor: Dr. Feikema

1997. Timothy Doyle Messer: "Optimization of a Methane Transmission and Power Generation System." Advisor: Dr. Shutzenhofer

1996. Michael W. Selby and Patrick Lee Newton: "Space Trajectory Simulation for the Internet." Advisor: Dr. Robert Frederick

1996. Eve Joy Blair: "Robotic Arm Design for Compressor Handling." Advisor: Dr. Don Wallace

1995. Derek Shane Lindsay: "Reduced Small Engine Emissions with Perforated Plates." Advisor: Dr. Gerald Karr

1993. Keith Patrick Bain: "Superplastic Forming System Design." Advisor: Dr. Don Wallace

College of Liberal Arts

Department of Art and Art History

1997. Carrie Elena Alderfer: "New Beginnings: Art, Computers, and the Internet." Advisor: Mr. Keith Jones

Department of Communication Arts

2006-07. Ashley Perry: "The Internet: A Cure for Political and Social Fragmentation" Advisor: Dr. Christopher Paul

2001. Cindy Shakay Hughey: "When the Personal is Not Political in a Personal is Political Social Movement: Analysis of a Muted Group's Muting of Members." Advisor: Dr. Sherry Smith

1997. Michael Napier: "The Language and Format of Sports News: An Analysis of ESPN's SportsCenter." Advisor: Dr. Clarke Rountree

Department of Education

2007-08. Emily H. Park: "The Music-Literacy Connection." Advisor: Dr. Mary Piersma.

1998. Kristen Renee Byrd: "Technology for Teachers." Advisor: Dr. Christy Carroll

1997. Tammy Goode Embry: "Putting Theory to Practice: Application of Constructivist Learning Theories in Social Studies Education." Advisor: Dr. Mary Piersma

Department of English

2006-07. Jennifer Barefoot: "A Hierarchical View of Case Assignment." Advisor: Ms. Andrea Word-Albritton

2005. Kate Howard: "'Resting in Unvisited Tombs': Middlemarch and Eliot's Ideal of Feminine Heroism." Advisor: Dr. Julie Early

2003. Bradley T. Bain: "The Aeneid and The Tempest: Reflections on Authority." Advisor: Dr. John Mebane

1999. Kenneth Matthew Potter: "Ishmael's Definitions of Self in Melville's Moby Dick." Advisor: Dr. Richard Moore

1998. Thomas Joseph (Jody) Lawton: "Resolving the "hateful siege/ of contraries": The Regeneration of Ideal Desire in Milton's Paradise Lost." Advisor: Dr. Nancy Dillard

1996. Jennifer Ann McCay: "Figure, Ground, and Gender in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter: A Romance." Advisor: Dr. Richard Moore

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

2006-07. Christina Wegman: “Writing in Rhythm: The Works of Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann as an Introduction to German Literature” Advisor: Dr. Peter Meister

2006-07. Daniel Taylor: “Sex in the Spotlight: Applying Butlerian Gender Theory to the Transgender Woman in Popular Culture” Advisor: Dr. Rolf Goebel

2006. Rebecca Lynne Chambers: “Fantastic Literature in Argentina in the 20th Century,” Advisor: Dr. Linda Maier

2005. Letisha Jenkins: "García Lorca vs. Esquivel: A Comparative Study of Women in Hispanic Society as They Are presented in The House of Bernarda Alba and Like Water for Chocolate." Advisor: Dr. Linda Maier

2005. Michele Faris: "Culturally Influenced Marketing Practices Between the United States and Germany with Methods for Integration." Advisor: Dr. Sharron Abernethy

2004. Catherine Margaret Hughes Pycko: "Comparative Analysis of the Causes of Change in Russian Myths from Ancient Times to the 19th Century." Advisor: Dr. Irena Buksa

1996. Jessaka Bailey: "Baudelaire's Criminality and Its Consequences." Advisor: Dr. James Winchell

1995. Alex Tonus: "Individual, Group, and Paradox: Essentials of the Social Bond." Advisor: Dr. James Winchell

1994. Kathy Ratzer Evetts: "The Historical Spirit in Isabel Allende's La casa de los espiritus." Advisor: Dr. Linda Maier

1994. Christopher Patrick Ball: "The Difficult Road to Germany's Reunification: Prospects for the Forgotten Outsider."

Department of History

2002. Elisa Scipioni: "Popular Participation in the Comitia Centuriata of the Late Republic." Advisor: Dr. Richard Gerberding

1999. Julie Rebecca Lollar: "Simply Phonetics: Issues of Accent and Dialect in Nineteenth Century England and Twentieth Century United States." Advisor: Dr. John Severn

1997. David Wayne Lescarini: "London Poor Relief During the Second Industrial Revolution: 1867-1907." Advisor: Dr. John Severn

1997. Eric L. McGee: "The Road to Hartford: The Ideological Shift and Internal Self-Destruction of the Federalist Party." Advisor: Dr. John Severn

1995. Ann E. Milner: "Princeps or Tyrannus: The Literature of Kingship in the First Century A.D." Advisor: Dr. Carolyn White

1995. Elizabeth Pollard Cottrell: "Sacerdotium, Imperium et Studium:" Politics and the Curriculum at the University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century." Advisor: Dr. Carolyn White

1993. Susan E. Dils: "Understanding Theodora: The Role of the Empress in Imperial Religious Policy." Advisor: Dr. Carolyn White

Department of Music

2007-08. Erin E. Maguire: "Early Childhood Music Programs: Are Teachers Using Methods Effectively?" Advisor: Dr. Carolyn Sanders.

2004. Aaron J. Tauchen: "Melodia: An Online Web-based Program for Teaching Melody and Rhythmic Dictation." Advisor: Dr. Don Bowyer

2002. Michael Jason Richardson: "Symphony No. 3 'Ragnarok' Final Movement Orchestration for Wind Ensemble." Advisor: Dr. Carolyn Sanders

2000. Jennifer Joy Allen: "The Effects of Synesthesia on Musical Composition." Advisor: Dr. Carolyn Sanders

1999. Danielle L. DeBraccio: "An Association of Music Technology: An Analysis of an Original Musical Composition Created with Musical Instrument Digital Interface." Advisor: Dr. Les Hutson

Department of Philosophy

2007-08. Vandiver L. Chaplin: "Political Structure and Continuing Reality." Advisor: Dr. William Wilkerson.

2004. Natalia Baeza: "Foundationalism and the Search for Certainly in Mathematics." Advisors: Dr. Andrew Cling and Dr. Claudio Morales

2004. Shiloh Y. Whitney: "The Epistemic Availability of Transcendental Self-Experience: Husserl and the Paradox of the Pure Ego." Advisor: Dr. William Wilkerson

2004. William Doug Bolden: "Philosophical Study of Responsibility." Advisor: Dr. Deborah Heikes

2002. Michael Patrick Provancha: "The Role of Paradigms in the Social Sciences." Advisor: Dr. Andrew Cling

1999. Ron Keith Rowe, II: "Difference in Sameness: Indeterminacy in Reflective Identity." Advisor: Dr. Brian Martine

1996. Ingrid Goree: "Us Against Them: The Emotionally Open Audience and the Aesthetic Experience." Advisor: Dr. Melinda Campbell

1995. Stephen Barnes: "Individuality, Identity, and Relation: Ontological and Moral Dilemmas." Advisor: Dr. Brian Martine

1995. Gerry Curtis Bridgeman: "Foundationalism without the Regress Argument." Advisor: Dr. Andrew Cling

1995. Joseph Sandor Kallo: "Art as Other: Relation in Esthetic Experience." Advisor: Dr. Brian Martine

Department of Political Science

2007. Emily Caldwell: “The Impact of Latin-American Immigrants on the US” Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Hawk

2007. Derek Chris: “Achieving Stability in Iraq: A Crisis of Legitimacy” Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Hawk

2006. Brandon LaRue: “Dissent and Democracy: A New Imperative for the Global Community,” Advisor: Dr. John Pottenger

2005. Amanda Colvin: "Women and the Law: Gender Discrimination in the American Legal System." Advisor: Dr. Roy Meek

1998. Christa Lee Clarke: Judicial Review: Democratic Institution or Undemocratic Policy Tool, An Historical Perspective." Advisor: Dr. Roy Meek

1996. Sean Jefferson Crawford: "Hungarians in Transylvania: A Struggle for Equality." Advisor: Dr. John MacDougall

1996. Naomi Ann Burke: "The Failure to Contain Communism: State Department Reaction to the 1958 Iraqi Revolution." Advisor: Dr. Allan Spitz

Department of Psychology

2004. Matthew Eaton Cornwell: "The Effect of Post Identification Feedback and Delay on the Witnessing Experience." Advisor: Dr. Jeff Neuschatz,

1999. Lesley Elizabeth Johnson: "Relationships Between Gender, Personal and Collective Self-Esteem, and Feminist Identity." Advisor: Dr. Sandra Carpenter

1993. Cheryl Leatherwood: "Moral Reasoning: A Study of Gender, Dilemma Content, and Moral Orientation with Implications for Criminal Justice Systems." Advisor: Dr. Sue Kirkpatrick

College of Nursing

2007-08. Leah K. Harwell: "Spirituality as a Coping Resource for Family Caregivers Dealing with Cancer." Advisor: Dr. Linda Riley.

1997. Amy Horton Weeks: "Pregnancy, Bedrest, and the Family." Advisor: Dr. Janet Brookman

College of Science

Department of Biological Sciences

2007-08. Emily L. Jones: "Identification of Genes Involved in Signaling during Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis." Advisor: Dr. Gopi Podila.

2007-08 . Clint T. Patterson: "Colonization of a Cloud Forest Landslide by Guettarda poasana and Clibadium leiocarpum." Advisor: Dr. Robert Lawton.

2001. Darren Scott Ferree: "Mapping the Toxic and Regulatory Domains of Doc of the P1 Plasmid Addiction Operon." Advisor: Dr. Roy Magnuson

2001. April Elizabeth Hennebeck: "Comparative Composition of Undisturbed Forest and the 1974 Tornado Track Forest Recovery on Monte Sano." Advisor: Dr. Robert Lawton

2001. Jessica Lynn Williams: "Effects of Sleep Deprivation on College Students." Advisor: Ms. Theresa Brooks

2000. Ross Martin Vander-Noot: "Conjugal transfer of a transcriptional fusion plasmid containing the toluene 2-monooxygenzse gene promoter from an E. Coli host to the parental strain, Burkholderia cepacia G4." Advisor: Dr. Joseph Leahy

1999. Priya Narayana Bhat: "Amplification of the Phenol Hydroxylase Promoter Region of Pseudomonas putida CF600 as a Precursor for Transcriptional Fusion." Advisor: Dr. Joseph Leahy

1999. Kanika Singh: "Cytotoxic Activity on HepG2 Cells." Advisor: Dr. Debra Moriarity

1998. Alexis Robert Penot: "The Characterization of an Amiid Species from the Fort Union Rock Formation of the Early Paleocene." Advisor: Dr. William Garstka

1997. William D. Hornsby: "Behavioral Response of the Crayfish Procambarus clarkii to the Crustacean Molting Hormone 20-Hydroxyecdysone." Advisor: Dr. Richard Modlin

1995. Gregory Charles Batson: "Chemical Characterization of Condensate from Steam Classified Municipal Solid Waste." Advisor: Dr. Michael Eley

1995. Adrienne Froelich: "Respiration Rates of Mysidopsis bahia Under Varying Temperature and Salinity." Advisor: Dr. Richard Modlin

1993. Mark Tafazolf: "Antitumor Cell Compounds from Neotropical Plants." Advisor: Dr. Debra Moriarity

Department of Chemistry

2006-07. Sarah Ridout Bolden: “A COmputational Study of Factors Governing Proton Transport in Anhydrous Proton-Conducting Polymeric Membranes for Fuel Cells.” Advisors: Dr. Steven Paddison

2006. Ashley Francis Penton: “Natural Products as Potential Inhibitors of Cruzain,” Advisors: Dr. William N. Setzer and Dr. Bernhard Vogler

2002. Kerry Jeannette Townsend: "Method Development Using a Multi-angled Laser Light Scattering System for Characterization of Poly (ethylene)glycol Derivatives." Advisors: Drs. Congo and Scholz

1997. Ryan Merrell: "Computer Modeling of Molecular Vibrational Frequencies and its Application to the Modeling of Silane Molecules." Advisors: Drs. Weimer, Meehan, and Mishra

1996. Karen Suzanne Lewis: "Improvements Made in Solution Composition and Sample Preparation for Chromium-Cobalt Electrodeposition." Advisors: Dr. Clyde Riley and Dr. Dwain Coble

Department of Computer Science

2004. Aaron J. Tauchen: "Melodia: An Online Web-based Program for Teaching Melody and Rhythmic Dictation." Advisor: Dr. Don Bowyer

2003. Beth Michelle Davis: "Avoiding Deadlock in a Multi-Processor Environment" Advisor: Dr. Glenn Cox

2003. Stephen Daniel Daugherty: "CK Metrics for DAML Documents." Advisor: Dr. Anthony Orme

2001. Jennifer Lynn Hood: "A Night Out Itinerary Creator." Advisor: Dr. Delbart Hart

2001. Jeremy Kentrez Tillman: "Babylon 5 Collectable Card Game Network Interface." Advisor: Mr. Brad Vinz

1996. Stacy Kelley Lukins: "Software Engineering and Hypermedia Application Design: The Classic Life Cycle vs. Relationship Management Methodology." Advisor: Dr. Anthony Orme

1996. Terence Michaels: "On-Line Registration." Advisor: Dr. Timothy Newman

1996. Jason Saint: "Roll the Bones, A Study of Random Events Using Interactive Simulation." Advisor: Dr. Kyle Siegrist

1995. Lee Seitz: "Designing a UNIX Novice Interface." Advisor: Dr. Sajjan Shiva

1993. Gary Warren: "Structured and Object-Oriented Software Methodologies: A Comparative Analysis Based Upon a Case Study." Advisor: Dr. Davis

1993. Hemi Peng: "The Object Teacher: Adapting Object-Oriented Design to Instructional Design." Advisor: Dr. Harry Delugach

Department of Mathematical Sciences

1998. Blane Hollingsworth: "Dynamical Systems: Predictability and Chaos." Advisor: Dr. Claudio Morales

1993. Maria Kujawski: "Bandwidth and Additive Bandwidth of Graphs" Advisor: Dr. Peter Slater

1994. Debra Meiers: "Mimimum Average Distance (MAD) Partitioning for Grid Graphs." Advisor: Dr. Peter Slater

Department of Physics

2007-08. John Ira Bailey, III: "A New Method for Finding Exoplanets." Advisor: Dr. Russel White.

2006-07. Lisa Kodgis: “Investigating a Triality Hypothesis for Quantum Gravity” Advisor: Dr. Robert Preece

2006-07. Simon Porter: “Young Stars in the Gum Nebula” Advisor: Dr. Russel White

2006. Thomas Kenneth Spain: “Expression and Structural Characterization of RAB8 Protein,” Advisor: Dr. Pamela Twigg

2002. Daniel Britton: "Comparison of Measured Convection Velocities with Calculations Based on an Electric Potential Model." Advisor: Dr. Horwitz

2001. Buckley Allen Hopper: "Searching for a Quantum Algorithm to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem." Advisors: Drs. Pethel and Bowden

1996. Nathan Good: "Linear Control Techniques for the Stabilization of High Order Periods of Chaotic Systems." Advisors: Dr. Charles Bowden and Shawn Pethel

1996. Aaron Trickey: "Modeling the Effects of a Phase-Locked Higher Harmonic in Synchronous Sonoluminescence." Advisor: Dr. Frederick Seeley

1994. Dorothy Seitz: "Resolving a Conflict between Coherence Theory and Classical Radiometry, Incoherent Planar Sources are Lambertian." Advisor: Dr. Hillman

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