Spring Research Opportunities

Spring Research Opportunities Available to Returnee Students (March - May)

The research opportunities highlighted below are available for students to conduct remotely. Students returning from study abroad are asked not to return the the UMD campus.

If you are interested in persuing on of these opportunities upon your return to UMD, please complete this request form. You will need to provide a copy of your resume and a brief description of your interest in the opportunity and background in the area of research.

Conduct research support to to the in the Computational Turbulence Laboratory.

Faculty Lead: Dr. Johan Larsson

Project options:

  1. Identification of separation lines in 3D flow fields. The project requires a lot of programming (in Matlab, Python or C++) and some math (systems of ODEs).
  2. Make a professional-looking video that explains my research to the public. Would require camera and editing software (which I don't have) and a student who loves this kind of stuff. I'm envisioning a combination of interviews, computer animations of turbulent flows, etc.

In the Metabolic Engineering Lab they use chemical engineering concepts to study carbon flow through cellular chemical reactions. Their research involves both experiments and computation, and lies at the intersection of engineering and cell biology.

Faculty Lead: Dr. Ganesh Sriram

Student will have an opportunity to conduct research in metabolic network analysis of photosynthetic metabolism.

Dr. Elisabeth Smela's lab is conducting research in the area of tactile sensors for robotics, medical, other applications.

Faculty Lead: Dr. Elisabeth Smela

Work on development of sensors, which might include coding, materials, testing, electronics, mechanics, prototyping, literature review, data processing, or machine learning.  Other projects could be considered, such as related to robots for greening cities.

Students will likely be working on teams.

Dr. Allison Reilly is an Assistant Professor at UMD in the area of risk and resilience. Her research group explores the intersection of hazards, infrastructure, and decision-making under uncertainty. Current work explores how coastal communities adapt and change in response to repeated floods, long-term infrastructure investment planning under sea-level rise in rural communities, and how the distribution of disaster aid improves infrastructure resilience.

Faculty Lead: Dr. Allison Reilly

Billons of dollars flow from the federal government to states each year to help communities and their infrastructure recover from disasters. Little is known about where this money goes, whether it helps build resilience in the future, or even who doesn't end up receiving this money. This work will support a project examining disaster aid and what influences decisions on who and what receives aid.

Dr. Miroslaw Skibniewski is conducting work with sensor systems and precise positioning devices for monitoring submersible vibrators during concrete pours.

Faculty Lead: Dr. Miroslaw Skibniewski

Students will be assisting a doctoral student in Civil Engineering in ensuring proper calibration and operation of sensors in order to obtain reliable position measurements in 3D space.  Setting up a field experiment on a construction site in proximity to campus during concrete pour.

*Background in field sensing technology strongly preferred.


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