Photo: From Left to Right: Derrick Adams, Catherine Martin, Emma Speight, and Hunter Gedicke

Undergraduates Emma Speight, Catherine Martin, Hunter Gedicke, and Derrick Adams presented their project posters summarizing their Physics thesis work done with the Collins Group at the Fall Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy Poster Symposium. The Symposium included over a dozen posters from seniors preparing to graduate (most in the spring) as a part of their required PHYS 490 course on Science Communication.

Each student led their project in a team that included a graduate student and PI Collins:

  • Derrick Adams with Awwad Alotaibi: Measuring Radiative and Non-Radiative Charge Pair Recombination on Organic Photovoltaics
  • Emma Speight with Victor Murcia: Dynamics of Ordering of Conductive Polymer Films Printed Under Controlled Airflow
  • Catherine Martin with Tamanna Khan: Experimental Design Considerations to Determine the Environmental Effects on Polymer Mixed Ion/Electron Conducting Devices
  • Hunter Gedicke with Awwad Alotaibi: Methods and Accuracy for Analysis of OLED’s JV Curves

The PHYS 490 course culminates in a written thesis as well. A prerequisite course, PHYS 489, requires students to complete a project with a research group at WSU. Often the students start this project in the fall and complete it in the summer with supplemental funding provided by a variety of internal funding sources.