2021 DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Summer Student Program, Volume II: Compendium of Abstracts

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Compiled by Danell Diggs

Abstract:

The US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory Summer Student Symposium is a DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Director’s Award Program for all the students participating in various summer scholarship and contract activities across DEVCOM ARL. The goal of the program is to recognize and publicize exceptional achievements made by the students and their mentors in support of Army science. All college undergraduate and graduate students receiving research appointments and conducting summer studies at DEVCOM ARL are automatically enrolled in the symposium program. As an integral part of their summer study, all students are required to give a presentation summarizing their major activity and its end product. The program is conducted on two separate competitive levels: undergraduate and graduate. While technical presentations followed the same format, the evaluation considered the difference in academic level. All students presented their work orally and directorate judging panels selected two technical presentations from each competition category for the annual laboratory-wide competition at the Summer Student Symposium, held on 12 August 2021. At the symposium, the students presented their technical presentations to the DEVCOM ARL Director and an ARL Fellows panel. This volume contains many of the abstracts for the technical presentations prepared for FY21.