Current URCF Projects

---

MORE SPRING 2026 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS COMING SOON!

The following table contains links to the Individual Projects Information:

Architectured Materials Development and Testing for Helmet Liner Applications	Decreasing the Incidence of Intraventricular Hemorrhage on Neonatal Populations by Mitigating the Vibrations and Noise Levels Experienced During Transport	Design and development of low-cost rheology tools
Design of a human-robot interface for robots to learn grasping from humans	Developing a Biosolids Risk Assessment Tool	Engineering Methods to Reduce Human Milk Nutrient Loss During Enteral Feeding
Environmentally-responsive delivery of therapeutics from injectable microparticles	Machine Learning for RF Signal Classification	MRI Evaluation of Central Auditory Pathway Preservation Following Deafness
NeoWarm: Kangaroo Mother Care with Integrated Thermal Management and Vital Signs Monitoring	Occurrence and fate of PFAS at the water-sediment interface	Pediatric PET/CT Dose Reduction Using Deep Learning
Pre-Silicon Side Channel Analysis	Remote (manual) control of a microrobot moving in an EM-shielded space	Secure Sensing Electronics for Precision Agriculture.
Stochastic bilevel optimization and its applications to neural architecture search

Note - "Some projects are multi-disciplinary; a project in one area may be of interest to students from another major. Be sure to look at the projects in related areas to widen your choices."

Contact: Dr. Gautam Pillay, Ph.D.,
Associate Dean for Research
College of Engineering & Applied Science (Email: pillaygm@ucmail.uc.edu)