Evan Linn '16 and Joshua Kuipers '18, advised by Dr. Michael Falcetta (Department of Chemistry) and Dr. Mark Fair (Departments of Physics and Mechanical Engineering), developed the computational tools necessary to efficiently calculate the vibrational excitation cross sections for electrons scattering off carbon monoxide molecules. These computer codes are being used in conjunction with a global optimization algorithm to find the input parameters that cause the computed cross sections to closely match the experimental cross sections available in the literature. The fitted parameters are compared with values obtained by Dr. Falcetta using a stabilization method in computational chemistry to calculate the complex potential energy of a CO- temporary anion state.