Research Opportunities

Trinity Engineering undergraduates experience the kind of challenging advanced scientific inquiry which, at so many colleges, is reserved for graduate students. Student research has been presented at national and international conferences including meetings of the IEEE Engineering and Medicine in Biology Society, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Connecticut Microelectronics and Optics Consortium, and the International Digital Signal Processing Conference.  Student research has been funded by NASA Connecticut Space Grants, and by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, among other sources.  Examples of recent student publications are listed below, with student co-authors starred.

M. Bovard*, M. Gillette*, T. deLanerolle*, B. Marinkovic*, K. Nepal*, A. Tamrakar*, N. Trinh*, P. Votto*, and D. Ahlgren.  Design evolution of the Trinity College IGVC robot ALVIN.  J. Robotic Systems, special issue on the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, 21(9)461-470, 2004.

B. Greten-Harrison*, S. Bandhari*, A. Garrity*, and J.H. Blaise. Hippocampal plasticity is dependent on stimulus frequency in 30-day old rats.  Proceedings of the Annual Biomedical Engineeirng Society, October 13-16, 2004, Philadelphia, PA.

R.W. Downe*, J.H. Blaise, and J.D. Bronzino. Design of a digital radio frequency telemetry system for recording of electrophysiological data in freely moving rats.  Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference, March 22-23, 2003, Newark, NJ.

B. Marinkovic* and T. Ning. Real-time image processing with FPGA.  Proceedings of 14th Annual Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, pp. 48-49, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2005.

N. Trinh* and T. Ning. SOPC inplementation of real-time image processing.  Proceedings of the 13th Annual Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, pp. 68-69, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2004.

M.S. Bovard*, W.R. Connell*, S.E. Moore*, and J.L. Palladino. Quantifying impedance defined flow.  Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Springfield, MA, pp. 192-193, 2004.