The Hawai'i Space Grant Consortium awarded undergraduate fellowships in the Spring of 2002 to students at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa and Hilo.

University of Hawai'i at Manoa:

• Jason Akagi, a senior in Electrical Engineering will continue experiments under the guidance of mentor Dr. Wayne Shiroma of the Department of Electrical Engineering on a project titled "Remote Robotic Control Via Internet Protocol." Final Report
• Tai Blechta, a senior in Mechanical Engineering will continue working with mentor, Dr. Lloyd Hihara of the Department of Mechanical Engineering on a research project titled "Ambient Temperature Cure Glass Coatings." Final Report
• Michael Hall, a senior in Electrical Engineering will continue his project titled "Tunable External-Cavity Diode Laser with Applications to Atmospheric DIAL Measurements" under the guidance of mentor Dr. Audra Bullock of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Final Report
• Dennis Higashiguchi, a senior in Entomology will continue working with mentor Dr. Claudia Husseneder of the Department of Entomology on the project titled "The Gut Flora of the Formosan Subterranean Termite as a Model of an Exotic Ecosystem." Final Report
• Jonathan Iloreta, a senior in Mechanical Engineering will continue development of mathematical models with mentor Dr. Beei-Huan Chao of the Department of Mechanical Engineering on a project titled "Effects of Structure, Hydrodynamics, and Radiation on the Sooting Behavior of Spherical Diffusion Flames." Final Report
• Aaron Ohta, a junior in Electrical Engineering, will work under the guidance of mentor Dr. Wayne Shiroma of the Department of Electrical Engineering on a project titled "CubeSat: Student Projects in Satellite Technology."
• Lynnette Ramirez, a senior in Mechanical Engineering, will continue working with mentor Dr. Carlos Coimbra of the Department of Mechanical Engineering on her project titled "Characterization of Particle Motion in a Microgravity Simulator for Biomedical Applications." Final Report
• Randy Sakagawa, a senior in Mechanical Engineering will continue working on his project titled "Integration of Active Composite Struts and Panels into an Adaptive Platform for Vibration Suppression and Precision Positioning" with mentor Dr. Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Final Report
• Cory Soon, a senior in Mechanical Engineering, will continue working with mentor Dr. Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad of the Department of Mechanical Engineering on the project titled "Design, Analysis, Manufacture, and Testing of Active Composite Panel Prototypes with Embedded Sensors/Actuators and Vibration Suppression and Precision Positioning Capabilities." Final Report
• Michael Tamamoto, a junior in Electrical Engineering, will work under the guidance of mentor Dr. Wayne Shiroma of the Department of Electrical Engineering on a project titled "CubeSat: Student Projects in Satellite Technology."

• Meredith Acly, a senior in Marine Science will work with mentor, Dr. Michael Parsons of the Department of Marine Science, on a project titled "Assessing the Affects of Excess Nutrients due to Non-point Source Pollution on Phytoplankton Production Levels in Hilo Bay, Hawaii using ASTER and In Situ Data."
• Jennifer Halsted, a senior in Astronomy, will continue her project titled "'Starpile' in Abell 545" under the direction of mentor Dr. Michael West of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
• Anthony Matulonis, a senior in Astronomy, will work with mentor Dr. Richard Crowe of the Department of Physics and Astronomy on a project titled "Site Testing of Mauna Kea and Hale Pohaku."