Naughton
Internships
for students from the University of Notre Dame
Tony Lewis
[One internship]
1.
HMRC: Ocean Energy Systems
Design and integration of marine renewable energy devices into the electricity grid system.
There are a large number of active research projects in progress and the intern will be
assigned to one of these for a specific research task. For further informa
tion on HMRC see
http://www.hmrc.ucc.ie
Alistair Borthwick
[One internship from …]
2.
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Mixing processes in shallow lakes are important regarding water quality and the health of
the aq
uatic eco
-‐
system. This internship will involve the development of a particle tracking
model for chaotic mixing driven by fluctuating wind over a shallow body of water.
3
.
HMRC: Coastal Hydrodynamics.
Tsunamis and storm
-‐
induced extreme wave events can l
ead to severe flood wave
inundation of land protected by sea defences. A Boussinesq model of sea waves
propagating in coastal waters will be used to simulate wave run up and overtopping of a sea
defence at laboratory and field scale. It is intended that
the model will be set up and
calibrated to reproduce wave conditions in one of the flumes/basins at HMRC.
4
.
One
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line beach modelling
This internship will consider the long
-‐
term response of beach profiles to climate change and
human influences. An existi
ng one
-‐
line beach response model will be validated against
standard cases
, and then calibrated and used
to determine the long
-‐
term effects of climate
and human changes to a particular (idealised) coastline
.
Dominic O’ Sullivan [One internship]
5
.
Building Automation and Control Systems
Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) have been used for the last 20 years to optimise
and manage the day
-‐
to
-‐
day operations of large facilities. During this time a number of different
hardware and software m
anufacturers have entered into this lucrative space with proprietary
products designed to solve specific problems. This has led to a situation where a number of different
BACS can be operating within a single facility controlling various systems and produc
ing significant
quantities of data. This data can be difficult to access due to the closed proprietary nature of the
individual applications and so a single central repository of all the available building automation and
control network system information
is difficult to achieve. The purpose of this research is to
establish the validity of utilising an OPC framework to coalesce the disparate information sources
that can exist within a facility into a unified database than can be easily accessed and manipula
ted
by a facility manager.
The student is to support this work through the investigation of utilising a universal OPC driver to
access information directly from a programmable logic controller (PLC) that is used to control an air
handling unit (AHU). The
data will then be stored in a database system. This will give a student a
significant insight in to the operation and control of air handling units as well as practical experience
in the implementation of the OPC Data Access specification.
Emanuel Popovici [Two internships from …]
7.
neuro
-‐
BAN
In the iBAN
-‐
Med project we aim to use a number of sensors to monitor and quantify the
movement of a patient. We intend to use a number of Wireless Inertial Units to build a body
area network for mon
itoring particularly the deterioration of movement of limbs. This type
of monitoring can be used to give a feedback for a number of neurological conditions or can
be potentially used in rehabilitation. We will use C/TinyOS to program and to collect the
dat
a as well as machine learning algorithms. Some integration with other sensors within the
body area network might be also feasible.
8.
iBAN
-‐
Play
In the iBAN
-‐
Play project we aim to build a body area network used for gesture recognition
for gaming. A numbe
r of sensors(wireless inertial measurement units) will be integrated
within the body area network and sensed data will be analyzed on an sMote DSP platform.
The main challenge will be in designing power/memory/energy efficient DSP for gesture
recognition o
n the Blackfin DSP. We will use embedded C and graphical interfacing to
demonstrate the technology.
9.
ECO: Wireless Sensor Networks for Energy Control and Optimisation
The aim of this project will be to deploy a wireless sensor network in a small wind f
arm
setup which is built using some scaled wind
-‐
turbines. The wireless sensor network will sense
for example data such as wind speed, and orientation which can be used in both modelling
and optimisation of the energy output.
Another goal of this internship
is to develop the
basic infrastructure for a centralised data collection using a web interface.
Padraig Cantillon
-‐
Murphy
[One internship]
10.
Magnetic compression for colon repair after colorectal cancer surgery
The goal of this work is to develop a
magnetic ring assembly
consisting in two coupled
magnetic components, for post
-‐
operative fusion of the human
colon. It is hypothesised that
a minimally
-‐
invasive alternative to suturing or stapling severed colon using
magnetic
components will improve pati
ents outcomes, reduce
anaesthesia and complications and
decrease healthcare costs.
Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer
-‐
related
death in
the western world. Iterative prototypes will be constructed using 3D rapid
prototyping. Integration o
f biodegradable films (e.g., PLA) into
the final assembly will be
examined.
Eoin O’Reilly
[One
internship
from ……..
]
11.
Tunneling through disordered barriers
Many semiconductor devices include an element where charge carriers are required to
tunnel
quantum mechanically through a barrier. There are simple models available to
estimate the tunneling rate, assuming that the tunneling is taking place through a perfect
barrier. Often however the barrier may be far from perfect, with various disorder effect
s
modifying the overall barrier structure. The aim of this project is to set up quantum
mechanical models to investigate the influence of disorder on tunneling rates through a
barrier. This project should both strengthen a student’s understanding of fundam
ental
physics, and in particular quantum mechanics, while also providing insight into factors
involved in the design of specific semiconductor devices, including the design of the tunnel
barrier in high
-‐
efficiency GaN
-‐
based LEDs.
12.
Quantum Entanglement
in site
-‐
controlled quantum dots
Site
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controlled (111)
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oriented InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) have attracted
considerable attention due to a number of very advantageous properties over more
conventional InGaAs/GaAs QDs. Due to the underlying crystal symm
etry, it is possible to
produce dots of sufficiently high symmetry to emit entangled photons, where orthogonally
polarized photons have identical energy. The emission of the entangled photons requires
that effects such as QD shape anisotropies and composit
ion disorder are minimized.
Disorder effects depend on the dot composition, height and base width. The aim of this
project is to study the impact of alloy fluctuations on the electronic structure of site
-‐
controlled such QDs. Since in practice it is very di
fficult to directly measure the dot shape
and composition, the calculations, in combination with experimental data on the optical
properties allow also for a deeper insight into the QD structural properties and their
application.
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