Maha's Portfolio

During the summer of 2011, I had the opportunity to work under Dr. Michael S. Triantafyllou, head of the Center for Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), through the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) on a project titled “Drag Reduction Through Moving Surface Boundary-Layer Control on a Circular Cylinder.” Drag forces on [...]

In the summer of 2010, I worked jointly with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC), and Oregon State University (OSU) at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon studying the interaction of wave energy devices and the environment. Working under Dr. Sarah Henkel and Dr. [...]

As energy usage across the world continues to rise, there is a strong need to develop new methods for power generation that have less environmental impacts. Human power presents an alternative for energy harnessing, and a readily available resource can be easily found in the users of fitness facilities. This project focuses on the Recreational [...]

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)-Dar Al-Hekma College-UC Berkeley Partnership project is part of the broader Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) research being done in Professor Alice Agogino’s Berkeley Energy and Sustainability Technologies (BEST) Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. This project is a collaborative project between the [...]

As part of a Projects in Mathematics Class in Spring of 2009, I worked in a team researching the topic of Widely Spaced Vectors. An orthonormal basis of n vectors can always be found for a vector space of dimension n. It is impossible to find more than n such vectors, but one can come [...]

As part of a Projects in Mathematics Class in Spring of 2009, I worked in a team researching the topic of Decimal Expansions. Every rational number has a periodic decimal expansion. Extremely unique periods exist in the case of prime rational numbers. With the discovery of a lower bound on the distribution of the periods [...]