Kelly Cook

Thesis Topic: Design, Simulation, and Testing of an Innovative High-temperature Micromembrane for Gas Sensor Applications (Coupled thermal-electrical-structural simulation and design optimization using ANSYS Classic and ANSYS Workbench Platforms, experimental verification of simulation results, and presentation of discoveries at interdepartmental project meetings)

Department CT Sensor Systems & Applications Major Project: Sensor development which focused mainly on multivariate data analysis with help of MATLAB’s PLS Toolbox and the creation of a graphical user interface which automates several steps of the model creation and optimization processes based on user preferences and percent error associated with each available model

Research Topic: Development of a Lab-on-a-Chip Imaging Device and its Applications to the Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers (Detection of amyloids through spectroscopy, design of experimental set-ups, development of microfluidic structures, and analysis of CCD images in MATLAB and its Image Processing Toolbox)