Projects

Predicting Healthcare Overextension

I am currently conducting research on predicting healthcare overextension during pandemics. More on this project's page

Flatwater Paddling Guide

The Flatwater Paddling Guide is a place for me to keep notes on where to canoe and kayak. It is also a convenient way to view the current flow rates on local rivers.

Pattern Formation in a Reaction-Diffusion System

Patterns can arise in chemical, physical, ecological, and biological systems due to the interaction of reaction and diffusion. This project analyzed two-dimensional Turing patterns in a modified Lotka-Volterra model. Animations and publication details are on this project's page.

TUSat1: Experimental Pico-Satellite

While at Taylor University I was one of three students who lead the project to build a pico-satellite. Our satellite, TUSat1, was a double CubeSat intended for the first CubeSat launch. TUSat1 was to be an experimental communications satellite with several scientific sensors. Most of my work was on the communications system. TUSat1 was completed but it was never launched. A successor satellite (TSAT) was eventually launched, and it even had my name printed on it.

This work was presented at three conferences:

• W. C. Holmes, Noel Schutt, et al. TUSat1: A novel communications and scientific satellite. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Small Satellite Conference, 2002.
• Noel Schutt, Jeremy Schea, and Will Holmes. The design of the electronics and communications systems for a low cost communications satellite. In Indiana Academy of Sciences 117th Annual Meeting, 2001.
• Jacob Oehrig, Noel Schutt, et al. TUSat1—An innovative low-cost communications satellite. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Small Satellite Conference, 2001.