The ignition of flammable atmospheres due to a hot surface can cause industrial accidents. We investigate the constraints necessary to create an electrically heated hotspot capable of igniting n-hexane and air mixtures. The temperature profile of an electrically heated stainless steel disk (Ø 50.8 mm) was studied, with the requirement of reaching ignition temperatures (~1100K)…

The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover aims to explore the surface of Mars to analyze its habitability, seek biosignatures of past life, and obtain and cache rock and regolith samples (the outer rocky material of the bedrock). This article describes tools designed to aid with the processing of data to and from the Rover. The processed…

The ability of a robotic arm to be controlled only by human thought is made possible by the use of a brain-machine interface (BMI). This project sought to improve BMI user practicality by revising the Andersen Lab’s BMI robotic arm control system [1, 2]. It aimed to answer two questions: Does augmented reality benefit BMIs?…

Dark matter builds the backbone for galaxy formation in modern cosmological simulations. While the current dark matter paradigm is able to capture the large-scale structure of the Universe, it predicts more small-scale structure than is actually observed. This issue may be resolved with the theory of fuzzy dark matter, which is made of ultra-light, wavelike…