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Why are you specifically interested in the two projects choices that you selected?
MCSI has identified approved summer projects.
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Please rank order your top two project choices.
Although you are not guaranteed your choice of projects, the URP committee will do its best to match you with the best project/ advisor based on your background and interests.
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Assessing Environmental (In)justices in U.S. Public Housing Siting Decisions
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS)
Analysis of impact of Connected and Automated operations on fuel consumption at signalized intersections
Analyzing operations of commercial fleets to reduce fuel consumption on urban roads
A novel process for purely thermal desalination
Bugs Against Drugs: Taking the Headache out of Ibuprofen and Naproxen Pollution by Harnessing the Degradation Power of Microorganisms
Clogging riparian zones in small tributaries throughout Western, New York: How non-native plant species are reshaping our riparian forests.
Comparative Study of Plastic First Mile Policies
Design of high strength alloys for energy efficiency
Design spinel ferrite magnetic adsorbents for water purification
Develop a novel multi-material 3D printing system
Data Science for Sustainability: Real-World Problem-Solving Techniques for Teachers
Data-Driven Vaccine Allocations (Parallelization and Cluster Computing)
Data-Driven Vaccine Allocations (API and Dashboard Design)
Developing a wireless sensing system for in-situ seed imbibition monitoring
Developing a wireless localization technique to track small animals
Electrically Reconfigurable Phase-Change Optics
Entrapment of manganese ions in sol-gel derived silicates for contaminant degradation by manganese peroxidase
Exploring cryptic diversity in temperate forests: Do seed banks promote forest sustainability and resilience in wind-disturbed and logged temperate forests?
Electrochemistry for a zero-waste chemical economy
Environmental Justice Teaching
Global projects for developing cultural diversity and global awareness in engineering careers.
Improving the efficiency of microgrids by integrating weather forecasts into optimization models
Low-Energy Computing with Photonic Integrated Circuits
Life cycle analysis of computational chemistry
Metal distributions in Urban Soils and Green Infrastructure
Machine learning green chelating agents
Machine Learning for Metal Additive Manufacturing Data Analytics
Machine learning of graded alloys made by additive manufacturing for power plant with high energy efficiency
Microbial Fuel Cells to degrade emerging contaminants of concern
Outreach projects for promoting STEM careers and the social appreciation of engineers.
Optical fiber diameter tracking via machine vision
Rapid Thermal Processing of Soft Magnetic Nanocomposites
Smarter Riversheds –real-time sensor networks
Soft Robotics for Environmental Monitoring and Sampling
The sustainable ocean in the box
Simulation of FirstSolar Solar Modules
Self-Cleaning and Antireflecting Solar Glass
Simulating social-distanced crowd
Towards a Circular Economy: Chemical Recycling of Plastics Waste via Liquid Metal Catalysis
Using machine learning models to identify wildlife species in field recordings
Pick your 2nd choice for project topic
Select
Assessing Environmental (In)justices in U.S. Public Housing Siting Decisions
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS)
Analysis of impact of Connected and Automated operations on fuel consumption at signalized intersections
Analyzing operations of commercial fleets to reduce fuel consumption on urban roads
A novel process for purely thermal desalination
Bugs Against Drugs: Taking the Headache out of Ibuprofen and Naproxen Pollution by Harnessing the Degradation Power of Microorganisms
Clogging riparian zones in small tributaries throughout Western, New York: How non-native plant species are reshaping our riparian forests.
Comparative Study of Plastic First Mile Policies
Design of high strength alloys for energy efficiency
Design spinel ferrite magnetic adsorbents for water purification
Develop a novel multi-material 3D printing system
Data Science for Sustainability: Real-World Problem-Solving Techniques for Teachers
Data-Driven Vaccine Allocations (Parallelization and Cluster Computing)
Data-Driven Vaccine Allocations (API and Dashboard Design)
Developing a wireless sensing system for in-situ seed imbibition monitoring
Developing a wireless localization technique to track small animals
Electrically Reconfigurable Phase-Change Optics
Entrapment of manganese ions in sol-gel derived silicates for contaminant degradation by manganese peroxidase
Exploring cryptic diversity in temperate forests: Do seed banks promote forest sustainability and resilience in wind-disturbed and logged temperate forests?
Electrochemistry for a zero-waste chemical economy
Environmental Justice Teaching
Global projects for developing cultural diversity and global awareness in engineering careers.
Improving the efficiency of microgrids by integrating weather forecasts into optimization models
Low-Energy Computing with Photonic Integrated Circuits
Life cycle analysis of computational chemistry
Metal distributions in Urban Soils and Green Infrastructure
Machine learning green chelating agents
Machine Learning for Metal Additive Manufacturing Data Analytics
Machine learning of graded alloys made by additive manufacturing for power plant with high energy efficiency
Microbial Fuel Cells to degrade emerging contaminants of concern
Outreach projects for promoting STEM careers and the social appreciation of engineers.
Optical fiber diameter tracking via machine vision
Rapid Thermal Processing of Soft Magnetic Nanocomposites
Smarter Riversheds –real-time sensor networks
Soft Robotics for Environmental Monitoring and Sampling
The sustainable ocean in the box
Simulation of FirstSolar Solar Modules
Self-Cleaning and Antireflecting Solar Glass
Simulating social-distanced crowd
Towards a Circular Economy: Chemical Recycling of Plastics Waste via Liquid Metal Catalysis
Using machine learning models to identify wildlife species in field recordings
Faculty references are encouraged, but not required. Please have all references sent to mcsi@pitt.edu directly with the student’s last name/Reference in the subject line.
This position is full time. All participants are required to work 40 hours per week.
Pending approval from the faculty advisor, MCSI will allow a MAXIMUM of one course during the program.
Vacation requests will not be considered / approved during the 12-week program.
Only US students are eligible to apply
Housing is not provided.
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