Projects in the ACE Lab come from (and go in) a variety of directions.
Course Projects: Projects from our courses provide the widest variety of subject matter. We've put together for each course a listing of projects that have been at least attempted. There is an asterisk by those that have been given special attention for presentation on the web.
| 2413 Honors Ordinary Differential Equations | |
| 6514 Industrial Mathematics I | |
| 6515 Industrial Mathematics II |
At least one student has also constructed a project for a report in MATH 4542 Dynamics and Bifurcations II. This was a Lorenz Water Wheel.
Educational/Demonstration Projects: We are developing a series of classroom demonstrations for MATH 2403 Ordinary Differential Equations. The demonstration closest to completion is on Torricelli's Law for draining containers. It is very challenging to create demonstrations from which one can collect meaningful (and consistent) data and compare to theoretical predictions in one lecture period.
We also have a classroom demonstrations on the shape of a hanging chain and Benjamin Franklin's Bells.
Research Projects: Our research has concentrated around capillarity phenomena and MEMS (micro-electrical mechanical devices) and the overlap between these two areas.
Rhode's Annular Soap Films
G.I. Taylor's Electrostatically Deflected
Soap Films
Plateau's Rotating Drops
Consultation Projects: On occasion mathematicians prove theoretical results, or just notice interesting physical phenomena that may lend itself to mathematical analysis, and contact us to find out if we can replicate the phenomena in our lab.