Grove City College Electrical and Computer Engineering students earned a pair of awards this spring at the Penn State Behrend Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference.
Sophomore Gavin Moroney won first place in the Engineering – Physics Poster competition for “Performance Analysis of Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) under Degraded Underwater Visual Conditions.” Moroney’s research, conducted with Dr. He Zhang, assistant professor of Computer Science, explores the performance of methods used to navigate unmanned aerial and ground vehicles in underwater settings.
A team of four students – Joshua Lee, Jiaqi "Chrissy" Kang, Noah Reardon, and Bryce Taglialatella – took second place in the Engineering – Physics Poster category for “Personal Space Weather Station Receiver.” The poster describes how the students, working with Dr. James Brooks, professor of Electrical Engineering, built a radio receiver to participate in a project that collects data about conditions in the earth's upper atmosphere at multiple locations based on a transmitted signal’s frequency and duration.
The conference also featured a talk by junior Reagan Moyer about work he and fellow students Benjamin Hargrove, Jacob Rohrer, and Noah Lawler did on mapping and modeling underwater environments with a custom underwater camera they developed.
The Penn State Behrend Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference provides an opportunity for students to present their research and creative accomplishment results in a public setting.