An Report 2008-2009D
DepartmentAdministrationandCommittees3
Highlights6
FacultyAwards13
Faculty16
Adjunct,Re-search,VisitingandAssociatedFaculty19
Staff20
NewFacultyandStaff20
Enrollment22
DegreesAward-ed23
CoursesOf-fered24
ObjectivesandOutcomes26
StudentAwards27
StudentOrganizations28
SeniorDesignProjects31
Recruitment36
EnrollmentbyProgram37
TeachingFellowsandResearchAssistants38
College of Engineering
Annual Report 2009-2010
DepartmentofMechanicalEngineering
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C O N T E N T S
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
OVERVIEW2 Highlights6 Faculty Awards
FACULTY AND STAFF9 Faculty12 New Faculty 13 Secondary Faculty13 Staff
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS15 Objectives and Outcomes16 Enrollment16 Degrees Awarded17 Undergraduate Courses Offered19 Student Awards20 Student Organizations23 Senior Design Projects
GRADUATE PROGRAMS28 Enrollment by Degree Program29 Graduate Student Awards30 Degrees Awarded31 Graduate Courses Offered32 MS Theses and PhD Dissertations33 Distance Learning
RESEARCH37 Research Funding45 Faculty Publications65 Research Laboratories70 Affiliated Research Centers72 Seminars74 Merril L. Ebner Fund
Iampleasedtosharewithyouthe2009-2010editionoftheBostonUniversityDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringAnnualReport.Ithasbeenanotheryearofgrowthandchangeaswecontinuewiththephasedrestructuringofourundergraduateprograms,aprocessthatbeganwhenthe formerManufacturingEngineeringandAerospaceandMechanicalEngineeringdepartmentsmergedin2008toformasingle,unifieddepartment.Boastingover40fulltimefacultydedi-catedtoqualityundergraduateandgraduateinstructionandactiveinamultiplicityofresearchtopics,MEfacultyhavejointappointmentsin otherDepartments andparticipateheavily in theCollege’sDivi-sionsofMaterialScienceandEngineeringandSystemsEngineering.Addtothemixalmost$10Minnewextramuralresearchfundingandyouhavearichtapestryofappliedandbasicresearchactivitythatcutsacrossdisciplinesandoffersenhancedbreadthanddepthofop-portunitytoourstudents.Currentareasofstrengthincludeacousticsandvibrations,automatedmanufacturing,biomaterialsandbiomedi-cal applications of mechanical engineering, thermo-fluid sciences,materialsengineeringandmechanics,energy,MEMS&NEMS,nano-biotechnology,robotics&controls,photonics,andsystemsengineer-ing.
ForstudentswhomatriculatedasofSeptember2008,weofferac-creditedBSdegreesinmechanical(ME),aerospace(AE),andmanu-facturingengineering(MFG).However,theDepartmentisengagedina4-yearprocessbywhichwewilldiscontinueourBSdegreepro-gramsinAEandMFGandreplacethemwithanaccreditedMEdegreecoupledwithoptionalconcentrationsinaerospaceandmanufactur-ing,togoalongwithnewCollege-wideconcentrationsinnanotech-nologyand inenergy technologiesandenvironmentalengineering.Thisprovidesstudentswiththebestofbothworlds:asolidfounda-tionaldegreeinthehighlymarketableandintellectuallymobiledis-cipline ofmechanical engineering, coupled to optional, specializededucationinselectedsub-disciplines.
Atthegraduatelevel,thedepartmentoffersthePhDinMEaswellasMSdegreesinbothMEandMFG.Boththesisandnon-thesisop-tionsareavailable,andinterestedstudentscanchoosetopursuetheMSinmanufacturingviadistancelearning,aspartofaninternationalpartnershipwithaconsortiumofGermaninstitutions,orevenasadualMS/MBAdegreeofferedjointlywiththeSchoolofManagement.Thisprogrammaticdiversity isadirectconsequenceof themerger,andpositionstheMEdepartmenttorespondtonewchallengesandopportunitiesinbotheducationandresearch.
Duringthe2009-2010academicyearwemadenewadditionstotheranksofME faculty atboth thenon-tenured teaching and tenure-tracklevels.MatthiasSchneiderjoinedusfromAugsburg,Germany,andHaroldParkjoinedusfromtheUniversityofColorado,Boulder.NewadditionstotheranksofteachingfacultyincludeDr.CalebFarnyandDr.WilliamHauser.
A number ofME facultymembers receivedwell-deserved awards.GregMcDanielreceivedBostonUniversity’sprincipalteachingaward,theMetcalfCupandPrize.RonaldRoywasawardedtheHelmholtz-RayleighSilverMedalof theAcousticalSocietyofAmerica. HaroldPark received the 2009 Richard H. Gallagher Young InvestigatorAward from the United States Association for ComputationalMe-chanics. Several faculty received College of Engineering teaching,researchandserviceawards,andthedepartmentbenefittedfromanumberofyoungfacultyandfoundationawards.
In 2009-2010, theME department featured a total undergraduateenrollmentof456andconferred99bachelorofsciencedegreesinME,AE,andMFG.TheMEfacultysupportedapproximately158MS/PhDstudents,towhom33degreeswereconferredinME,MFG,andothergraduateprogramswithintheCollege.ItisimportanttostressthattheMEfacultyresearchportfolioisextremelydiverseandcross-cutting.MEprofessorsserveasprincipalinvestigatorongrantsad-ministeredbynumerousCollegedepartmentsandresearchcenters,aswellas theBUMedicalCenter. Indeed,almost40%of thePhDstudentssupportedbyMEfacultyareearningdegrees inprogramsoutsideofmechanicalengineering,suchasBME,ECE,oroneoftheDivisions.
ItisbothanhonorandachallengetoleadthenewBUDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringintothefuture.Thenextfewyearswillwit-nessexcitingchangesinourresearchportfolio,facultydemographics,anddegreeprograms. I inviteyou toperuse theReportand learnmoreaboutthedepthandbreadthofourprograms,thespectrumofstudentactivities,profilesofaward-winning faculty, research inter-ests,andfacilities.
RonaldA.RoyProfessorandChairDepartmentofMechanicalEngineering
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
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O V E R V I E WHighl ightsFiscalYear2010wasaveryactiveyearthatsawmanyaccomplishmentsonallfronts.Inonlythesecondyearforthe“new”DepartmentofMechanicalEngineering–theresultofamergeroftheDepartmentsofAerospaceandMechanicalEngineering(AME)andManufacturingEngineering(MFG)–wecontinuedtostrengthenallaspectsoftheDepartment.Thetwo-yearprocessofupdatingtheundergraduateMEcurriculumculminatedinanewdesignsequence,andthefocusoftheDepartmentshiftedtothegraduateprograms.Thelistofspecificactivitiesandaccomplishmentsistoolongtoaddresshere.Ratherthanlaunchintoalengthynarrative,weinsteadprovideanitemizedsummaryoftheactivitiesinanumberofareas,someofwhichareexpandeduponinothersectionsofthisReport.
•Wecreateda10YearPlanfortheDepartment.
•WestrengthenedourdesignsequenceforMEundergradu-ateswiththeadoptionofnewcoursesandanenhancedseniorcapstoneexperience.
•WevotedtocreatetwonewprofessionalMastersdegrees:anMEnginMechanicalEngineering,andanMEnginManu-facturingEngineering.
•WecontinuedtheDistanceLearningPrograminMFG,andbegantheprocessofexpandingthattotheproposedprofes-sionalMEngdegrees,andtonewcertificateprogramsintopicalareassuchasengineeringmanagement.
•WebegantheprocessofcreatingaVisitingCommitteefortheDepartment.
•Wehadanextremelysuccessfulfacultyrecruitingseason,andforthefirsttimeindecadeshiredteachingfaculty,seepage12.
•WecreatedanexcitingnewwebsitefortheDepartment.
•WecompletelyrenovatedthepreviousMFGcomputerlabhousedin730CommonwealthAvenueandturneditintoasuiteofgraduatestudentsofficesandanadjoiningloungeforfacultyandgradstudents.
•Weupdatedthefoyerandmainhallwayspacesinthepri-maryMEdepartmentalbuilding–110CummingtonStreet.
•WehadaverysuccessfulABETreview.
MechanicalEngineeringOpenHouseinNovember2009.
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Senior Project Days
SeniorProjectDaysareaforumforMechanical,Aerospace,andManufacturingEngineeringseniorstopresenttheirCapstoneprojects.Withthreeactiveprogramspresentingontwoseparatedays,weweretreatedtoafullslateofpresen-tationscoveringabroadrangeoftopics.30April2010and3May2010.
Department Social / Awards Ceremony
TheannualMEDepartmentSocialandAwardsCeremonywasheldasaluncheventduringtheMESeniorProjectDay,tocelebratetheseniorsandpresenttheannualawardsforPro-fessoroftheYear,GTFoftheYear,andtheDesignPortfolioContestwinners.3May2010.
Student-Alumni Dinners
Twodinnerswereheldinwhichstudents,alumni,facultyandstaffcouldinteractininformalsettings.Inthefall,wehadaBBQdinnertowhichalldepartmentseniorswereinvitedtominglewithalumniandfaculty.TheCollegeCareerDevelop-mentOfficeco-sponsoredamoreformalnetworkingalumnidinner“Networking@ME”inMarchinwhichjuniorsandseniorswereinvitedtoamorestructurednetworkingevent.10November2009and29March2010.
Mechanical Engineering Open House
OurannualOpenHousefeaturedablendofinformationaltables,technicaldemonstrations,posterpresentationsofundergraduateandgraduateresearch,andexceptionalbakedgoodsfromthekitchensofseveralfacultyandstaff.20No-vember2009.
Design Portfolio WorkshopsThisyearweheldtwoDesignPortfolioWorkshops:oneaspartoftheOpenHouseinNovember,andanotheroneinMarch.November2009andMarch2010.
Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Class Meetings
TheMEChair,theundergraduateAssociateChairs,interestedfaculty,andtheUndergraduateCoordinatormeetannuallyinthespringwiththeundergraduatesinallthreeprogramstodiscussissuesandtopicsoftheirchoosing.Thisyear,theCollegeintroduceda“TownMeeting”forthefreshmenforthesamepurpose,sotheMEDepartmentmetonlywiththesophomoresandjuniors.Wealsoaddeda“FeedbackForum”inthefallforallundergraduatesintheMEdepartment.
Senior Exit Interviews
TheMEChairandtheUndergraduateCoordinatormeetan-nuallywiththeseniorsofallthreeprogramstogetfeedbackontheprogramsanddiscussissuesandtopicsoftheirchoos-ing.ThreedifferentdatesinMay2010.
ABET Visit Pub Quiz
TopreparethefacultyfortheFall2009ABETSiteVisit,an“ABETPubQuiz”washeldtheweekbeforethevisit.Novem-ber2009.
New Faculty Orientation
Beforethestartofthespringsemester,theundergraduateAssociateChairsheldanorientationtotheundergraduateprogramforthenewfacultymembers.Thiswasdeemedtobeveryusefulandwillberepeatedandperhapsexpandedinthefuture.January2010.
Research Symposium
Aresearchsymposiumwasheldinthefallforgraduatestudents.Facultypresentedtheirareasofresearch,anddescribedpotentialprojectsandthesistopics.13November2009.
Graduate Open House
Anopenhousewasheldinthespringforstudentsacceptedintothegraduateprograms.19March2010.
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Undergraduate Program Highlights
Mechanical Engineering
TheundergraduateMechanicalEngineeringprogramhasbeenundertheprocessofundergoingsubstantialrevisions,particu-larlyinthedesignsequence.ThenotableactivitiesrelatedtotheMEprogramintheAcademicYear09-10areitemizedbelow.
•WereceivedverypositivefeedbackfromtheABETaccredita-tionvisitteam.
•Wecreateda“LatestCurriculumUpdates”pageonourwebsitetokeepstudentsinformedofallcurricularchanges.
•WeexpandedtheoptionsforAdvancedElectivecoursesbyallowingstudentstotakeany300leveloraboveEngineeringcourseandalsoSMGSI480.Thisgivesstudentsmoreflexibilitytochooseanyconcentrationwithouttakingadditionalcourses.
•TheDesignCommitteecompletedtheimprovementsinthedesignsequence.Aspartofthis,wecreatedtwonewcoursesME359IntroductiontoCADandMachineComponentsandME460Electro-MechanicalSystemsDesign.TheseniorcapstonecoursewasmodifiedtoME461MechanicalEngineeringCap-stoneExperience.WealsorenumberedtheMFGcourseME415ProductDesigntoME360ProductDesign.ThesefourcourseswillbecomerequiredcoursesintheMEcurriculumforgraduatesin2013andbeyond.
•Wecreatedanew2-creditcourseME366ProbabilityandStatisticsforMechanicalEngineerstocomplementtheexisting2-creditEK102IntroductiontoLinearAlgebraasthereplace-mentforME400EngineeringMathematics.
•AsubsetoftheMEundergraduatecommitteewasawardeda“RedesigningtheUndergraduateLearningExperience(RULE)”grantfromtheUniversitytorevampEK301IntroductiontoEn-gineeringMechanics.Thepre-proposalistoincorporateamoreactivelearningenvironmentusingtabletcomputerstofacilitateinteractionbetweentheinstructorandstudentteams.
•WeimprovedthecontinuousimprovementprocessitselfthroughthecreationofCourseReviewPanelswhichwillbeginmeetingintheFallof2010.
•WephasedoutcoursesME311,ME312,andME400.
•Prof.WroblewskibeganincorporatingCoherentApplicationThreads(CATs)throughoutthecurriculum.ThefirstCATapplica-tion,windturbines,wasintroducedinEK127,EK301,andME303.
•WedevelopedaMEtrackintheEngineeringScienceminor,tobeofferedtonon-engineeringBUstudents.
Manufacturing Engineering
TheundergraduateManufacturingEngineering(MFG)programaccepteditslastfreshmanclassinthefallof2008.Wearenowinaprocessinwhichthedegreepro-gramwillbephasedoutby2012.Studentswithaninter-estinmanufacturingengineeringwillinsteadbeofferedtheoptionoftakingaconcentrationinthediscipline,inwhichthefourMEadvancedelectivesaresatisfiedbyfourcoursesfromtheMFGcurriculum,alongwitharequiredexperientialcomponentthatcouldbesatisfiedbytheCapstoneproject,undergraduateresearch,oranindustryexperience.CurrentlyweareinatransitionalperiodinwhichupperclassmencanchoosetheMFGma-jororconcentration.OthernotableAY09-10activitiesrelatedtotheMFGprogramareitemizedbelow.
•WeexpandedtheoptionsforAdvancedElectivecoursesbyallowingstudentstotakeany300leveloraboveEngineeringcourseandalsoSMGSI480.Thisgivesstudentsmoreflexibilitytochooseanyconcentra-tionwithouttakingadditionalcourses.
•Wecreateda“LatestCurriculumUpdates”pageonourwebsitetokeepstudentsinformedofallcurricularchanges.
•WephasedoutcourseME266,whichwaspartoftheMFGcurriculumbutwillnotberetainedfortheconcen-tration.
•WereceivedverypositivefeedbackfromtheABETac-creditationvisitteamonourterminationplan.
•TheDesignCommitteecompletedtheimprovementsintheMechanicalEngineeringdesignsequence.Aspartofthis,theProductDesigncoursethathadbeenarequiredManufacturingEngineeringcoursewasaddedtotheMErequireddesignsequence.ThecoursewasrenumberedfromME415ProductDesigntoME360ProductDesign.•TheannualManufacturingSeniorLunchwasheldatthehomeofProfessorsAttawayanddeWinterinApril2010.
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Professor Wroblewski’s Herding CATS: Weaving Coherent Application Threads through the ME Curric-ulum to Facilitate Course-to-Course Connectivity and Improve Material RetentionCoherentApplicationThreads (CATs) are specific engineeringapplicationexamplesthatwillbewoventhroughthefabricofthe Mechanical Engineering (ME) curriculum, exposing stu-dentstothevariedaspectsofoneapplicationinthecontextoftheirtechnicalcourses.Theideaistoimproveconnectivitynotonlyamongcoursesalongacommonpre-requisitepath(e.g.,thermal-fluids)butamongdissimilaronesaswell. CATswillbetopicsofcurrentinterest,mostlyconnectedtodepartmentresearchthrustareasandconcentrations.Ideally,theywillfol-low cohorts through their 4 year curriculum. The concept ofpre-requisiteisbackwardlooking,requiringstudentstosearchamongtheoceanofconceptslearnedinprevioussemesterstofindthoseneededtomoveahead.
The idea of Coherent Application Threads is more forwardlooking, providing waypoints that not only remind studentswherethey’vebeen,butmoreimportantlywherethey’rego-ing. Though themainmotivation for CATs ismaterial reten-tion, theyalsoaddressotherkeypedagogicalandcurriculumissues, including: framingengineering topics in the larger so-cietalcontext;couplingofdisparatetopicstoexposestudentstothesystemsaspectofengineering;exposingstudentstotheimportanceoflifelonglearning;andengagingstudentsthroughtopicsofcurrentinterest.SpecificimplementationofCATswillinclude: lecture modules, projects, homework problems, ex-ampleproblems,andlaboratoryexperiences.ThesewillallbeintegratedthroughaWebsite,thatwillprovideaframeworkforthecoursework,aswellasaportalforindependentinquiryintorelatedtopics.ThisprojectisoneoftwoinauguralInnovativeEngineeringEducationFacultyFellowship,fundedthroughtheCollegeofEngineering.
Aerospace Engineering
TheundergraduateAerospaceEngineering(AE)programaccepteditslastfreshmanclassinthefallof2008.Wearenowinaprocessinwhichthedegreeprogramwillbephasedoutby2012.Studentswithaninterestinaerospaceengineeringwillinsteadbeofferedtheoptionoftakingaconcentrationinthediscipline,inwhichthefourMEadvancedelectivesaresatisfiedbyfourcoursesfromtheAEcurriculum,alongwitharequiredexperien-tialcomponentthatcouldbesatisfiedbytheCapstoneproject,undergraduateresearch,oranindustryexperi-ence.CurrentlyweareinatransitionalperiodinwhichupperclassmencanchoosetheAEmajororconcentra-tion.OthernotableAY09-10activitiesrelatedtotheAEprogramareitemizedbelow.
•Wecreateda“LatestCurriculumUpdates”pageonourwebsitetokeepstudentsinformedofallcurricularchanges.
•WeexpandedtheoptionsforTechnicalElectivecoursesbyallowingstudentstotakeany300leveloraboveEngi-neeringcourseandalsoSMGSI480.Thisgivesstudentsmoreflexibilitytochooseanyconcentrationwithouttakingadditionalcourses.
•TheAIAAstudentchaptersuccessfullyhostedthe2010AIAARegion1-NortheastStudentConferenceinApril.
•WecreatedanewcourseME321IntroductiontoAero-spaceEngineering,a4creditcoursetoreplacethetwo2-creditcoursesME201andME202fortheconcentra-tion.
•WephasedoutcoursesME201andME202.
•WechangedthejuniormathanddesigncomponentstomapontothenewMErequirementsforgraduatesin2012.
•WereceivedverypositivefeedbackfromtheABETac-creditationvisitteamonourterminationplan.
•WehadourfirstgraduateswithBSdegreesinMEwiththeAerospaceEngineeringconcentration.
ProfessorWroblewskiexplainsaerodynamicswithCATswindturbine.
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Graduate Program Highlights
TheMEDepartmentcurrentlyhasthefollowinggraduatedegreeprograms: •MSinMechanicalEngineering •PhDinMechanicalEngineering •MSinManufacturingEngineering •MSinGlobalManufacturing •MSinManufacturingwithanMBA(dualdegree programwiththeSchoolofManagement)
ItisimportanttonotethatseveralMEfacultyhavesecond-aryappointmentsinotherDepartmentsandaremembersofboththeDivisionofSystemsEngineeringandtheDivi-sionofMaterialScienceandEngineering.ThesefacultyadviseandfinanciallysupportstudentsinbothDivisionsaswellasstudentsinthePhDprogramsinbothECEandBME.Detailsregardingenrollments,completeddegrees,andawardsrelatedtotheGraduateProgramsaregivenelsewhereinthisReport.BelowisashortlistofgraduateprogramactivitiesforFY2010.
•WecreatedanewQualifyingExamthatreflectstheneedsandscopeofthenewlymergedDepartment.
•WebegantheprocessofproposingnewprofessionalMastersdegrees:MEnginMechanicalEngineering,andMEnginManufacturingEngineering.
•WecontinuedtheDistanceLearningPrograminMFG,andbegantheprocessofexpandingthattotheproposedprofessionalMEngdegrees.
•Webegantheprocessofcreatingnewcertificatepro-gramsaspartoftheDistanceLearningProgram,intopicalareasrelatedtotheresearchstrengthsoftheDepartment.
•WecreatedaResearchSymposiumtobetteracquaintourgraduatestudentswiththeresearchactivitieswithintheMEDepartment.
Faculty AwardsKAMIL EKINCIwasnamedthe2010Distinguished Faculty FellowbytheCollegeofEngineering,BU.
J. GREGORY McDANIELwasawardedthe2010 Metcalf Cup and Prize,BostonUniversity’shighesthonorforteachingexcellence.ProfessorMcDanielwasalsotherecipientofthe2010 Award for Teaching ExcellenceintheDepartmentofMechanicalEngineering,conferredMay3,2010.
ELISE MORGANreceivedtheNIH National Research Service Award for Senior Fellows.
HAROLD PARK receivedthe2009 Richard H. Gallagher Young Investigator AwardfromtheUnitedStatesAssocia-tionforComputationalMechanics.Itisawardedonceevery2yearstoasinglerecipient,and“recognizesoutstandingaccomplishmentsbyresearchersof40yearsoryounger.”HewasgiventheGallagherawardfor“groundbreakingworkoncomputationalnanomechanicsandmaterials.”
TYRONE PORTER wastherecipientofthe2010EducatorAwardbestowedbytheBostonChapteroftheNationalAs-sociationofNegroBusinessandProfessionalWomen’sClub.
RONALD A. ROYreceivedtheHelmholtz-RayleighInterdisci-plinarySilverMedaloftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica.ProfessorRoyalsogavethePlenaryLectureatthe2010meetingonAdvancedMetrologyforUltrasoundinMedicine,London,UK.
DON WROBLEWSKIwasawardedthe Innovative Engineer-ing Education Faculty Fellowship 2009-2011.
KATHERINE ZHANGwasthewinnerofthe NSF CAREER Award.
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President Robert Brown’s address:
ProfessorJ.GregoryMcDanielunitesstimulatingteachingwithgroundbreakingresearch.Hispassionistocommunicatetostudentstheexcitementofmechanicalengineering,inparticularthewondersofmechanicalvibrationsandacous-tics.Evertheteacher,heconfesses:“VibrationisthelastthingIthinkaboutbeforeIgotosleepandthefirstthingthatIthinkaboutwhenIwakeup.IbelievethatithasthepowertochangetheworldandIbelievethatithasthepowertochangeeverysinglestudentwholearnsit.”
ProfessorMcDanielstrivestobea“studentofthestudent,”todeterminethestudents’needs,toengagethem,andthentoteach,guidedbythegroupdynamic.Heweavesintohislecturesstoriesabouthisresearch,whichrangesfromautomotivebrakesquealremediationtooceanwaveenergyharvestingtofundamentalstudiesofvibration-basedriskassessmentbyred-eyedtreefrogs.Astudentnotesthattheseanecdotesarefrequentlyfollowedbya“cheerfulboutofbaritonelaughter!”
J. Gregory McDaniel Awarded the 2010 Metcalf Cup and Prize
Hisstudentspraisehimas“adynamicandpowerfulcom-municator,abletomakecomplexsubjectsunderstandable,”andtheynotewithgratitude“hisselflesscommitmenttostudents.”“Itisgreattohaveaprofessorwhoissoexcitedaboutasubject!”“ProfessorMcDanielistheman.There’snoquestion,”oneseniorconcluded.
ProfessorMcDanielhascontributedtooutreachandcom-munityservice,attractingunder-representedstudentstoengineering,foundingtheBostonUniversitychapterofEn-gineersWithoutBorders,andhelpingthatgrouptolaunchasuccessfulprojectinChirimoto,Peru.Mostnotably,hetaughtandmentoredPeterWal,aSudaneserefugeewhosurvivedunspeakableatrocitiesandwentontostudyengineeringincollege.
Inspiredteacher,dedicatedmentor,andchampionofdiver-sity,ProfessorMcDanielhasenrichedandchangedthelivesofcountlessstudentsandmadethefieldofengineeringmoreaccessible.
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F A C U L T Y A N D S T A F FFaculty
Sean AnderssonAssistant ProfessorRobotics,ControlTheory,Scanningprobemicroscopy,Symbolic-basedcontrol*PhDUniversityofMaryland,CollegePark2003*AssociateEditor,ConferenceEditorialBoard,IEEECont-rolSystemsSocietyandRoboticsandAutomationSo-ciety*2009NSFCAREERAward
Stormy AttawayAssistant Professor &Associate Chair (MFG Undergraduate Program)Educationalmethods,Computerprogrammingforengineers*PhDBostonUniversity1988*1995BUCollegeofEngineeringFacultyServiceAward*2001BUCollegeofEngineeringFacultyServiceAward
John BaillieulProfessorRobotics,Controlofmechanicalsystems,Mathematicalsystemtheory,Information-basedcontroltheory*PhDHarvardUniversity1975*1992FellowoftheIEEE,2009InauguralFellowofSIAM*2000IEEEThirdMillenniumMedal*2008InauguralDistinguishedLecturerSeriesAwardCollegeofEngineering,BostonUniversity
Lorena A. BarbaAssistant ProfessorFluiddynamics,Novelcomputerarchitectures,Particlemethodsusedforfluidsimulation*PhDCaliforniaInstituteofTechnology2004*2008RisingStarTeachingAwardfortheFacultyofSci-ence,UniversityofBristol,UK
Soumendra BasuProfessor&Associate Division Head, Division of Materials Science and Engineering Thinfilmsforenergy,photonic,electronic,andsupercon-ductingapplications;thermalbarrierandenvironmentalbarriercoatingsforgasturbineandfuelcellapplications;environmentaldegradationofmaterialsatelevatedtem-peratures;structureandstabilityofinterfaces*PhDMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology1989
Paul BarboneAssociate ProfessorTheoretical&computational(bio)mechanicsand(bio)acoustics,Medical(ultrasound)imaging,Inverseproblems,Finiteelementmethods*PhDStanfordUniversity1991*1995YoungInvestigatorAwardONR*2000FulbrightDistiguishedScholarAward*2007FellowofAcousticalSocietyofAmerica
Eytan BarouchProfessorSimulationofindustrialprocesses,Numericalanalysis,Algorithmdevelopment*PhDUniversityofNewYorkatStonyBrook1969
Calin BeltaAssistant ProfessorVerificationandcontrolofdynamicalsystems,Hybridsys-tems,Symboliccontrol,Robotmotionplanningandcontrol,Geneandmetabolicnetworks*PhDUniversityofPennsylvania2003*1997FulbrightStudyAward*2005NSFCAREERAward*2008AFOSRYoungInvestigatorAward
James BethuneAssociate ProfessorComputer-aidedDesign*EdDBostonUniversity1991*1981CollegeofEngineeringProfessoroftheYear*1994AlumnioftheYear
Thomas BifanoProfessor and Director, Photonics CenterDeformableMirrors,MicroelectromechanicalSystems(MEMS)AdaptiveOptics,BiphotonicMicroscopy,Astronom-icalTelescope,Instrumentation,LaserWavefrontControl*PhDNorthCarolinaStateUniversity1988*AssociateEditor,JournalofMicro/Nanolithography,MEMSandMOEMS * 2009BepiColomboPrize
Michael CaramanisProfessorMathematicalprogramming,controlandstochasticsystems*PhDHarvardUniversity1976*2004BUCollegeofEngineeringServiceAward*PastEditor,IIETransactionsinDesignandManufacturing*Memberofeditorialboard,IIETransactionsinDesignandManufacturing
William CareyProfessorUnderwaterAutonomousSystems,Multiphasemedia,Acousticarrays,VibrationandAcousticSignalProcessing,SoundRadiationandScattering*PhDTheCatholicUniversityofAmerica1974*FellowofAcousticalSocietyofAmericaandIEEE*PastChiefEditor,IEEEJournalofOceanicEngineering *2007SilverMedalofAcousticalSocietyofAmerica
Robin ClevelandAssociate ProfessorShockWaveLithotripsy,AcousticImaging,MedicalUltrasonics,SonicBoomPropagation*PhDUniversityofTexasatAustin1995*1995F.V.HuntFellowofASA*2000R.BruceLindsayAwardoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica*2009MEDepartmentAwardofTeachingExcellence
Daniel ColeAssociate ProfessorManufacturingofsemiconductordevices,Electro-dynamicsystems,Microlithographysimulationmodelsandmethods*PhDCityUniversityofNewYork1985*Reviewerforseveraljournals*2005,2007,2008MFGDepartmentAwardofTeachingExcellence
Ontheleft,facultymembersoftheMechanicalEngineeringDepartmentinMay2010.
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Theo de WinterAssociate ProfessorSuperconductivity,Cryogenics,Heattransfer,Productdesign,Magneticsystemsapplication*MechEMIT1961*1985,1988,2000,2007CollegeofEngineeringProfessoroftheYear*1997CollegeofEngineeringFacultyServiceAward*2002BUMetcalfAwardforExcellenceinTeaching
Kamil EkinciAssociate ProfessorNanomechanics,Nanofluidics,Nanophotonics,ApplicationsofMEMSandNEMS*PhDBrownUniversity1999*2007NSFCAREERAward*2007BUCollegeofEngineeringDean’sCatalystAward
Caleb FarnyLecturerPhysicalacoustics,Medicaltherapeuticanddiagnosticultrasoundapplications,Cavitationdetection,Transcranialultrasoundimaging*PhDBostonUniversity 2007
Michael GevelberAssociate ProfessorElectrospinningofnanofibers,Plasmaspray,Ebeamdeposition,Crystalgrowth,CVD*PhDMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology1988
Srikanth GopalanAssociate ProfessorFuelcells,Chemicalthermodynamics,Kineticsandtransportphe-nomenatomodelthebehaviorofelectrochemicalsystems*PhDUniversityofUtah1997
Sheryl GraceAssociate ProfessorAerodynamics,Fluiddynamics,Acoustics*PhDUniversityofNotreDame1995*2001AIAANationalFacultyAdvisorAward*2002BUCollegeofEngineeringFacultyServiceAward*2005AIAAAssociateFellow
William HauserAssociate Professor of the Practice*PhDMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology1973
R. Glynn HoltAssociate ProfessorPhysicalAcoustics,Sonoluminescence,RheologyofFoam,Biomedi-calAcousticsandHigh-IntensityFocusedUltrasound*PhDUniversityofMississippi1988*2008Fellow,AcousticalSocietyofAmerica
Michael HoweProfessorFluidmechanics,Acoustics,Structuralvibrations*PhDImperialCollege,England1969*Fellow,AcousticalSocietyofAmerica*Fellow,InstituteofAcoustics,UK*2000PerBruelGoldMedaloftheASME*2007RayleighMedaloftheInstituteofAcoustics
Mort IsaacsonAssociate ProfessorEngineeringeducation,Engineeringethics,Interdisciplinaryinteractionsbetweentechnologyandsociety*PhDMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology1974*1993and1998BUCollegeofEngineering,FacultyServiceAward
Catherine KlapperichAssistant ProfessorNanomechanicsofhydratedbiomaterialsimplants,Tissueengi-neeringscaffoldmaterials,Drugdelivery,Bio-microelectrome-chanicalsystems(BioMEMs)*PhDUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley2000*1994-1997NSFGraduateResearchFellowship
Xi LinAssistant ProfessorMaterialstheory,Predictivesimulationofmaterialselectronic,optical,magnetic,andmechanicalproperties*PhDMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology2003
J. Gregory McDanielAssociate Professor &Associate Chair (ME Undergraduate Program)Structuralacoustics,Automotivebrakesqueal,Biologicalvibrations,Oceanwaveenergy*PhDTheGeorgiaInstituteofTechnology1992*2000NSFCAREERAward*2006Fellow,AcousticalSocietyofAmerica*2010MetcalfCupandPrizeforTeachingExcellence
Elise MorganAssociate ProfessorMechanicalbehaviorofbiologicalmaterials,Mechanicalstimula-tionoftissuedifferentiation,Micromechanicsofmultiscalemedia,Damagemechanics*PhDUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley2002*2005InternationalOsteoporosisFoundation–ServierYoungInvestigatorResearchAward*2009EarlyCareerResearchExcellenceAward,BUCOE
Ray NagemAssociate ProfessorStructuraldynamics,Randomvibration,Wavepropagation,Inverseproblems*PhDMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology1988*1999BUMetcalfAwardforExcellenceinTeaching*2002,2003,2009BUCOEProfessoroftheYear*2008BUDepartmentofAerospaceandMechanicalEngineeringAwardforTeachingExcellence
Yehonathan HazonyProfessorComputermethodsforindustrialautomation,Roboticsandeducation*PhDHebrewUniversity,Israel1965*1979AmericanChemicalSociety’sArthurK.DoolittleAward
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Uday PalProfessor &Division Head, Division of Materials Science and EngineeringFuelcells,Chemicalthermodynamics,Kineticsandtransportphe-nomenatomodelthebehaviorofelectro-chemicalsystems*PhDPennsylvaniaStateUniversity1984*PrincipalEditor,JournalofMaterialsResearch*2010BUCOEDean’sCatalystAward
Harold ParkAssistant ProfessorComputationalnanomechanics,Surfaceeffectsonthebehaviorandpropertiesofnanomaterials*PhDNorthwesternUniversity2004*2007NSFCAREERaward*2008DARPAYoungFacultyAward*2009GallagherYoungInvestigatorAwardfromtheUSAssociationforComputationalMechanics(USACM).
James R. PerkinsAssociate ProfessorReal-timeschedulingandcontrolofmanufacturingsystems’sup-plychainmanagement,Resourcepricingandcongestioncontrolincommunicationsnetworks*PhDUniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign1993*2002-2004DepartmentofManufacturingEngineeringAwardforTeachingExcellence
Allan PierceProfessorWavepropagationandscatteringinheterogeneousmaterials,Acousticaloceanography,underwatersound,Windturbines,Structuralacousticsandvibrations*PhDMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology1962*1992RayleighLecturer,ASME*1995PerBruelGoldMedal,ASME*Editor-in-Chief,JournaloftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica
Tyrone PorterAssistant ProfessorIntegrationofultrasoundtechnologieswithchemicalandbiomolecularengineeredvesiclesfordiagnosticandtherapeuticapplications*PhDUniversityofWashington2003*2003AcousticalSocietyofAmerica(ASA)FrederickV.HuntPostdoctoralFellowship*2008ASAR.BruceLindsayYoungInvestigatorAward
Ronald A. RoyProfessor & ChairmanPhysicalacoustics,Medicalultrasonicsforimagingandtherapy,Bubbledynamics,Nonlinearacoustics,Acoustooptics*PhDYaleUniversity1987*1993FellowoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica*2006-200765thGeorgeEastmanDistinguishedVisitingProfessor,UniversityofOxford,UK*2010Helmholtz-RayleighInterdisciplinarySilverMedalofASA
Vinod K. SarinProfessorMaterialsScience,SurfaceModification,PhysicalandChemicalVa-porDeposition,ConsolidationofCeramics/Composites,Structure/PropertyCorrelations,TransparentOpticalCeramics,ScintallatorMaterials*PhDMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology1971*1984GTE’sLeslieH.WarnerAchievementAward*Over80USandInternationalPatents
Matthias SchneiderAssistant ProfessorBiologicalphysics:thermodynamicsofinterfaces;physicsofnervesandsenses;celladaptation;Nanotechnologyforlifesci-ence;Surfaceacousticwaves;microfluidics;bloodclotting*PhDUniversityofMunich2003
Andre SharonProfessor & Director, Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing InnovationElectromechanicalmachinedesign,controls,automation,biotech/biomedicalinstrumentation,devices,rapidmicro-diag-nosticsplatforms*PhDMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology1988*Editor-in-ChiefInternationalJournalofRoboticsandComputerIntegratedManufacturing
Pirooz VakiliAssociate Professor &Associate Division Head, Division of Systems EngineeringMonteCarlosimulationandoptimization,Controlandmanage-mentofmanufacturingandcommunicationsystems,Productdevelopmentmanagement,Computationalfinance,Computa-tionalbiology*PhDHarvardUniversity1989
Hua WangAssociate ProfessorControlofnonlineardynamics,intelligentsystemsandcontrol,complexnetworks,cooperativecontrol,robotics,applicationsinbiological,energyandaerospacesystems*PhDUniversityofMaryland,CollegePark,1993*2000CheungKongScholar,MinistryofEducation,China andLiKaShingFoundation,HongKong,China*2001SeniorMemberIEEE
Donald WroblewskiAssociate Professor &Associate Chair (AERO Undergraduate Program)Experimentalfluidmechanicsandheattransfer,Atmosphericturbulence,Plasmadeposition*PhDUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley1990*2006NRC/AirForceSeniorAssociateshipAward*1999and2006AerospaceandMechanicalEngineeringDepartmentAwardforTeachingExcellence
Victor Yakhot ProfessorTurbulencetheory,Modelingandlarge-scaleengineeringsimula-tions,IndustrialCFD,Heattransfer,Mixingandcombustion,Lat-ticeBoltzmannmethodsforflowcomputations,Non-Newtonianfluids,Nanotechnologyandnanofluidics*PhDMoscowStateUniversity,Russia1971*2007AerospaceandMechanicalEngineeringDepartmentAwardforExcellenceinTeaching
Katherine Yanhang ZhangClare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Mechanicalbehaviorofsoftbiologicaltissue,Cardiovascularmechanics,Multi-scalemodelingofbiologicalcomposites,Micro-andnano-mechanicsofthinfilmdevices*PhDUniversityofColoradoatBoulder2003*2006ClareBootheLuceAssistantProfessorship*2007YoungFacultyAwardDARPA/MTO*2010NSFCAREERAward
Xin Zhang Associate Professor &Associate Chair (Graduate Program)MicroelectromechanicalSystems(MEMS)/NEMS;Specificissuesrelatedtomaterialsscience,micro/nanomechanicsandmicro/nanofabricationtechnologiesmotivatedbypracticalapplicationsinmicroandnanoscaleengineering*PhDHongKongUniversityofScienceandTechnology1998*2003NSFFacultyCAREERAward*2008COEDistinguishedFacultyFellow
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New Faculty
MATTHIAS SCHNEIDERInSeptember,2009MatthiasSchneiderjoinedusfromAugsburg,Germany,wherehewasservingasanAssistantProfessorofPhysics.HereceivedhisPhDinPhysicsfromtheMaxPlanckInstituteforBiophysicalChemistryandboastsaresearchportfolioaimedatachievinganenhancedphysicalunder-standingofbiologicalprocesses.Physicalconcepts(thermodynamics)aswellasnewnanotechnolo-gies(surfaceacousticwaves)areusedtounravelthefundamentalprinciplesofnervecommunicationandbloodclotting.Thegoalistountanglethecomplexityofbiologicalprocessesandfindaunifiedexplanationorlawofseeminglyindependentphenomenainnature.
HAROLD PARKInJanuary2010,theDepartmentwelcomedthearrivalofAssistantProfessorHaroldPark,whojoinedusfromtheUniversityofColorado,Boulder,wherehehadservedasanAssistantProfessorofMe-chanicalEngineering.ProfessorParkreceivedhisPhDfromNorthwesternUniversity.Hisresearchisfocusedondevelopingandutilizingbothatomisticandmultiscalemodelingapproachestounderstandsurfaceeffectsonthebehaviorandpropertiesoflow-dimensionalnanostructuressuchasnanowiresandgraphene.ProfessorPark’seffortshaveresultedin40refereedjournalpublications.Heisalsotherecipientofa2007NSFCAREERaward,a2008DARPAYoungFacultyAward,andthe2009Gal-lagherYoungInvestigatorAwardfromtheUSAssociationforComputationalMechanics(USACM).
CALEB FARNYDr.CalebFarnyjoinedtheDepartmentasanInstructorinJanuary,2010.Dr.FarnyreceivedhisPhDfromBostonUniversityandhasbeenservingontheresearchstaffoftheFocusedUltrasoundSurgeryLaboratoryofBrighamandWomen’sHospital,HarvardMedicalSchool.Hisresearchinterestscenteronphysicalacoustics,withafocusonmedicalapplicationsofultrasound.Hispastresearchhasexam-inedeffectsofbubblecavitationonultrasound-inducedheatingintissue,anddiagnosticmethodsfordetectingthepresenceandlocationofcavitationduringsonication.Mostrecentlyhehasfocusedondevelopingnovelmethodsforimagingbrainstructurethroughtheskullwithultrasound.Dr.FarnywillcoordinatethecoreEngineeringMechanicscoursefortheCollegeofEngineering.
WILLIAM HAUSERFinallywearepleasetoannouncethatProf.WilliamHauserhasbeenappointedthefirstAssociateProfessorofthePracticeintheCollegeofEngineering.FormerlyontheMFGDepartment’sadjunctteachingstaff,ProfessorHauserbringssubstantial industrialexperience intotheclassroom,havingservedasdesignerofmanufacturingmachinery,adesignerofspecializedconstructionequipment,asupervisorofengineersperformingmechanicaldesignoftelecomsequipment,aleaderofdesigndepartmentsthatspannedmultipleengineeringdisciplines,andaleaderofNewProductIntroduc-tionprocess improvement teams thatbridged the interfacebetweenproductdesignandproductmanufacture.ProfessorHauserreceivedhisPhDfromMIT.He’llbeteachingcoursesthatresideattheintersectionofengineeringpracticeandbusinessandtakingaleadroleinsupervisingseniorcapstoneandindependentstudyprojects.
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A D J U N C T T E A C H I N G F A C U L T Y
Frank DiBella SeniorLecturer
Jason Holmes Lecturer
Peter Kerney SeniorLecturer
Michael Koplow SeniorLecturer
William J. Palm Lecturer
A F F I L I A T E D A N D A D J U N C T F A C U L T Y
Mary Bouxsein AdjunctAssistantProfessor
Robert Brown Professor,UniversityPresident
Hudong Chen AdjunctProfessor
Robert C. Dean Jr. AdjunctProfessor
Pierre Dupont AdjunctProfessor
Theodore Fritz Professor
James F. Lynch AdjunctProfessor
Todd Murray AdjunctAssociateProfessor
Guido Sandri AdjunctProfessor
Xiaowen Shan AdjunctProfessor
R E S E A R C H F A C U L T Y
Yunze Cai PostdoctoralResearchAssociate
Anirban Chatterjee PostdoctoralResearchAssociate
Xu Chu Ding PostdoctoralResearchAssociate
Richard B. Evans ResearchAssociate
Helen Fawcett ResearchAssistantProfessorGonzalo R. Feijoo ResearchAssistantProfessor
Minghai (Timothy) Li ResearchAssistant
Robert Lund AdjunctProfessor
Nicholas Manzi ResearchAssistant
James McLaughlan ResearchAssistantProfessor
Ashwin Sampathkumar PostdoctoralResearchAssociate
Jana Tumova VisitingScholar
Ginu U. Unnikrishnan PostdoctoralResearchAssociate
Yanli Zou PostdoctoralResearchAssociate
StaffA D M I N I S T R A T I V E S T A F F
James Langell Director
Andrew Abrahamson ResearchAssistant,DLProgram
Megan Cunniff AcademicProgramsManager
Caity Fair UndergraduateCoordinator
Ryan Flament AdministrativeAssistant
Magda Hanna GrantsAdministrator
Saana McDaniel CommunicationsCoordinator
Steve Wolk FinanceManager
T E C H N I C A L S T A F F
David Campbell LaboratoryEngineer
Joseph Estano LaboratorySupervisor
Kara Mogensen LaboratorySupervisor
Gerry Sheppard LaboratorySupervisor
Bob Sjostrom SeniorCIMLABSpecialist
Secondary Faculty
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U N D E R G R A D U A T E P R O G R A M STheDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringoffersamultidis-ciplinaryeducationalexperienceinwhichaccrediteddegreesare currently offered in three programs: Mechanical Engi-neering(ME),AerospaceEngineering(AE,through2012),andManufacturingEngineering(MFG,through2012).Ourunder-graduateprogramsemphasizeprocessaswellasproduct,sothatourgraduatesnotonlydevelopthenecessarytechnicalskills required for immediate entry into industry or gradu-ate school, but also continue to educate themselves and toprosperinasocietywhoseproblemswillrequireincreasinglymulti-disciplinarysolutions.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers studentsthe option of getting an accredited foundational degree inMEwith optional Concentrations in Aerospace Engineering,ManufacturingEngineering,EnergyTechnologiesandEnviron-mentalEngineering,orNanotechnology.Thesestudentswillreceivethebestofbothworlds:afoundationaldegreeinar-guablythebroadestandmostmarketabledegreeprograminengineering(ME)withspecializedtraininginthealternatedis-cipline,withouthavingtotakeanyextracourses.Additionally,studentshavetheoptionofobtainingminors inBiomedical,Computer,Electrical,MaterialScience,orSystemsEngineeringaswellasmanyotherfieldswithintheUniversity.
TheeclecticportfoliooftheMEDepartmentiswellsuitedtoproviding students with both classroom and laboratory ex-posure to a broad range of engineering activities. Technicalcompetenceandfocusisestablishedthroughelectivesand–for thosewho choose to pursue it – researchopportunitiesthroughfacultyintheDepartmentandtheCollege.TheDe-partmentcontinues tomaintainstate-of-the-art laboratoriesfordemonstrationandprojectsinthevariousundergraduatecourses.
Duringtheyear,wecontinuedto improveallundergraduateprograms, utilizing a continuous improvement process thathasbeenstrengthenedby theadditionof studentgroup in-terviews.Thecurriculaculminateinsenior“capstone”designprojectsinwhichteamsofstudentstackledifficultmulti-facet-eddesignprojects,oftenstemmingfromtheneedsoffacultyresearchorindustrypartners.Thedesignthreadthatcarriesseamlesslyfromthesophomorethroughsenioryearswasen-hancedthisyearthroughtheadditionofrequiredcoursesinProductDesignandElectro-MechanicalSystemDesignaswellasarevisedseniorcapstonesequencethatwillofferstudentsmore flexibility (these will be implemented for the class of2013).
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Mechanical Engineering Program Objectives (Ratified by the ME Faculty March 2009)
Graduatesoftheprogramwillbepreparedto:
• Joinatechnicallysophisticatedworkforceassuccessful,practicingengineersinawiderangeofmechanicalengineeringfields.
• Continuouslyimproveandexpandtheirtechnicalandprofessionalskillsthroughformalmeansaswellasthroughin-formalself-study.
• Pursueadvanceddegreesinengineering,business,orotherprofessionalfields.
• Advancethemselvesprofessionallyandpersonallybyacceptingresponsibilitiesandpursuingleadershiproles.
Mechanical Engineering Program Outcomes (Ratified by the ME Faculty November 2008)
(a)anabilitytoapplyknowledgeofmathematics,science,andengineering
(b)anabilitytodesignandconductexperiments,aswellastoanalyzeandinterpretdata
(c)anabilitytodesignasystem,component,orprocesstomeetdesiredneedswithinrealisticconstraintssuchaseconomic,environmental,social,political,ethical,healthandsafety,manufacturability,andsustainability
(d)anabilitytofunctiononmultidisciplinaryteams
(e)anabilitytoidentify,formulate,andsolveengineeringproblems
(f)anunderstandingofprofessionalandethicalresponsibility
(g)anabilitytocommunicateeffectively
(h)thebroadeducationnecessarytounderstandtheimpactofengineeringsolutionsinaglobal,economic,environ-mental,andsocietalcontext
(i)arecognitionoftheneedfor,andanabilitytoengageinlife-longlearning
(j)aknowledgeofcontemporaryissues
(k)anabilitytousethetechniques,skills,andmodernengineeringtoolsnecessaryforengineeringpractice
(l)anabilitytointerpretresultsofanalysisofphysicalsystems,components,orprocesses,andutilizephysicalinsighttocheckforrealisticoutcomes
(m)anabilitytomodelanddesigninthethermalsystemsarea
(n)anabilitytomodelanddesigninthemechanicalsystemsarea
Object ives and outcomes
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Enrol lment
History of Undergraduate Degree Enrollment
Undergraduate Degrees Awarded
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Mechanical Aerospace Manufacturing Total
Freshmen* 104 n/a** n/a** 104
Sophomores* 75 24 6 105
Juniors 98 34 17 149
Seniors 65 21 12 98
Total 342 79 35 456
Note: * ENG Students are not required to declare their major until their Junior year. ** Starting in the Fall of 2009, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering will no longer be available for the incoming Freshmen.
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Undergraduate Courses Offered
CourseNumber CourseTitle Fall2009 Spring2010 Summer2010
EK102 IntroductiontoLinearAlgebraforEngineers BarouchPerkins
Hauser Attaway
EK127 EngineeringComputation Attaway Attaway Attaway
EK130/1/2 IntroductiontoEngineering BethunedeWinterSarin
BarouchBethunedeWinterGopalanGrace
EK156 DesignandManufacture deWinter deWinter
EK301 EngineeringMechanicsI BarboneKerneyWang
Farny Nagem
EK335 IntroductiontoEnvironmentalEngineering Pal
EK408 IntroductiontoCleanEnergyGenerationandStorageTechnologies Basu
EK409 EngineeringEconomy deWinter deWinter deWinter
EK546 AssessmentofSustainableEnergyTechnologies Gevelber
ME201 IntroductiontoAircraftPerformance Grace
ME202 IntroductiontoSpacecraftPerformance Nagem
ME266 ManufacturingOperationsManagement Hauser Hauser
ME302 EngineeringMechanicsII BeltaCarey
BeltaNagem
Nagem
ME303 FluidMechanics BarbaPorter
Schneider
ME304 EnergyandThermodynamics LinPalm
Palm Kerney
ME305 MechanicsofMaterials KlapperichNagem
PierceX.Zhang
ME306 IntroductiontoMaterialsScience Sarin Park
ME307 FlightStructures Barbone
ME308 StatisticsandQualityEngineering Caramanis Barouch
ME309 StructuralMechanics Nagem
ME310 InstrumentationandTheoryofExperiments Holt Holt
ME311 EngineeringDesignusingCAD Bethune Bethune
ME312 FundamentalsofEngineeringDesign Bethune Bethune
ME345 AutomationandManufacturingMethods Gevelber
ME400 EngineeringMathematics Howe HoweMcDaniel
ME403 AtmosphericFlightMechanicsandControl Wang
ME406 DynamicsofSpaceVehicles Nagem
ME407 Computer-AidedDesignandManufacture Cole deWinter
ME409 FlightVehiclesDesignI Wroblewski
ME410 FlightVehiclesDesignII Wroblewski
ME413 MachineDesignI IsaacsonDiBellaKoplow
ME414 MachineDesignII IsaacsonDiBellaKoplow
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CourseNumber CourseTitle Fall2009 Spring2010 Summer2010
ME415 ProductDesign Cole
ME419 HeatTransfer KerneyK.Zhang
ME420 SupplyChainEngineering Perkins
ME421 Aerodynamics Yakhot
ME422 FluidMechanicsII Yakhot
ME425 CompressibleFlowandPropulsion Grace
ME430 EnergyConversion Carey
ME441 MechanicalVibrations McDaniel
ME465 MaterialsProcessing Gopalan
ME495 SeniorDesignCapstoneinManufacturingEngineering deWinter
ME501 DynamicSystemTheory Li
ME502 IntellectualAssets:Creation,Protection,andCommercialization Cole
ME503 KineticProcessesinMaterials Basu
ME505 ThermodynamicsandStatisticalMechanics Gopalan
ME507 ProcessModelingandControl Gevelber
ME510 ProductionSystemsAnalysis Perkins
ME514 SimulationforManufacturing Vakili
ME515 VibrationofComplexMechanicalSystems Pierce
ME516 StatisticalMechanicalConceptsinEngineering Ekinci
ME520 AcousticsI Cleveland
ME521 ContinuumMechanicsforBiomedicalEngineers Stamenovic
ME523 MechanicsofBiomaterials Klapperich
ME525 TechnologyVentures Cole
ME533 EnergyConversion Carey
ME541 ClassicThermodynamics Lin
ME542 AdvancedFluidMechanics Howe
ME543 SustainablePowerSystems Caramanis
ME560 PrecisionMachineDesignandInstrumentation Sharon
ME579 MicroelectronicDeviceManufacturing Cole
ME582 MechanicalBehaviorofMaterials Ekinci
ME583 ProductManagement Hauser
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Student AwardsNICK CHILDS ASEESMARTScholarship
JORDAN CUMPER StudentLeaderAlumniAward CollegeofEngineeringStudentAdvisor ServiceAward
MEGHAN DAIGLE CollegeofEngineeringStudentAdvisor ServiceAward
SEAN DeLEO LutchenFellowship
SAMANTHA FISHMAN CollegeofEngineeringStudentAdvisor ServiceAward
WARREN HUFFMAN WinneroftheSeniorAwardinthe 5thAnnualUndergraduateDesignPort folioContest,sponsoredbyTheMerrill EbnerFund
MATTHEW KNOLL TheCenterforSpacePhysicsunder graduateResearchAward
TRACEY LANTZ CollegeofEngineeringStudentAdvisor ServiceAward
ANDREW MENARD CollegeofEngineeringStudentAdvisor ServiceAward
BRETT MEYER SigmaGammaTauStudentAward
PETER MORIARTY UROPSummerResearchAward2010
ERICA SQUILLACIOTI CollegeofEngineeringStudentAdvisor ServiceAward
PATRICK STEIGER CollegeofEngineeringStudentAdvisor ServiceAward
LIN YIN WinneroftheJuniorAward,andthe winneroftheoverallcontestinthe 5thAnnualUndergraduateDesignPort folioContest,sponsoredbyTheMerrill EbnerFund
OutstandingCapstoneDesignProjectinAerospaceEngineering:“WayfarerI:MartianUnmannedReusableISRUAircraftforResearchandExploration”
OutstandingCapstoneDesignProjectinMechanicalEngineering:“SpinalFractureLoadingDeviceTeam”
WarrenHuffman(l.)withProfessorWroblewski(r.)
MatthewKnoll(l.)withProfessorSemeter(r.)
JEFF HANDSETH A. MCKEEN TAHFIQ SALAMRIMAL PATELJAKE WOLOSCHIN
ANDREW LEGENDREANDREW BANGERTRAVI HEUGLE
MATTHEW GALICAMARTIN GOMEZVICTOR LINCHRISTIAN RIVERA
OutstandingCapstoneDesignProjectinManufacturingEngineering:“MKSInstruments”
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Student Organizat ionsAIAA – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIAA is the principalsociety for the aero-space profession,providing for the ad-vancement and dis-semination of knowl-edge of the theoryand practice of theaeronautical and as-tronautical sciences.BU’s chapter of the
AmericanInstituteofAeronauticsandAstronauticsisasmall,collegiate levelbranchof thenational chapterofAIAA.Thisyear,theyhostedtheAIAANortheastRegionalStudentCon-ferenceattheBUPhotonicsCenter.Anumberofprominentspeakers where brought in from the aerospace communityandover60peopleattendedtheconference.Throughouttheyeartheyalsohostedanumberofevents including industryand academic speakers, NASAmission discussion, and a GEFactoryTour.Theirprimarygoalistoraiseawarenessamongundergraduatesabouttheopportunitiesandadvancesintheaerospacecommunity.
ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers
This national society,withmorethan100,000regular members and250 student sections,is dedicated to advanc-ing the profession ofmechanical engineer-ing.Membersareactiveat all levels of almostevery segment of busi-
ness, industry, education, and government. Membership inthestudentsectionbringsstudentsintocontactwithpractic-ing engineers through technicalmeetingswith guest speak-ersandregionalandnationalsocietyfunctions,includingtheregularmeetingsoftheBostonsectionofASME.Thisyear,theexecutiveboardattended the2009ASME InternationalMe-chanicalEngineeringCongress&Exposition inFloridawherethestudentswereable tonetworkandexpandtheirknowl-edgethroughforums,workshops,industrytours,andacareerexposition.
BU Rocket Team
TheBURocketTeamisabranchoftheAIAA.Theteam’sgoalis to conduct research intohybrid rocketmotordesign, andisthereforemoredirectedattheoptimizationofhybridmo-
tors rather than the launchingof a rocket. The teamallowsstudents to use innovation and ingenuity outside of a classenvironment. The team’smembers set theirowndeadlines,tracktheirprogress,reportfindingsandencourageeachotheralmost daily. The design process goes from chalkboard andCADdrawingstomachiningandassemblingbytestingtheun-tappedengineeringskillsofeachmember.
BU SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Development of
Space
Students for theExplorationandDe-velopmentofSpacearededicatedtoex-panding the roleofhuman explorationand developmentof space. Student
members participate in national conferences and host aca-demicandindustryspeakersthroughouttheyear.Specificallytheyattended the International SpaceDevelopmentConfer-enceinFloridaandNewSpaceConferenceinCalifornia.
IIE – Institute of Industrial Engineers
ThestudentchapteroftheIIEaimstopromoteabetterenvi-ronmentforsuccessfulengineersbybridgingthegapbetweenschoolandindustry.Membersfamiliarizethemselveswiththeintricaciesofindustrythoughplanttours,speakers,andhands-onexperiences.Thehandsonexperiencestheyparticipatedinthis year included a trebuchet competitionandapinewoodderby race. Theorganizationhelps toprovide studentswithinsightintocareersinindustrialengineering.
Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society
Pi Tau Sigma is the national mechanical engineering honorsociety. The objectives of this society are to encourage andrecognizetheachievementsofundergraduatestudentsinme-chanicalengineering,tofosterhighidealsintheengineeringprofession,todevelopleadershipandcitizenship,tostimulateandsupportdepartmentalactivities,andtohonorpracticingengineers fordistinguishedtechnicalattainments.Theyholdan initiation ceremony each semester to honor their newmembersandawardtheirnewofficers.
SAE – Society of Automotive Engineers
The SAE comprises 50,000 engineers and scientistsworkingtogether toadvancethefieldofmobility.With theirdiverseeducationalbackgrounds,membersarededicatedtofurther-ingtheresearch,development,design,manufacture,anduti-lizationofland,sea,air,andspacevehicles.
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Sigma Gamma Tau Honor Society
SigmaGamma Tau is the honor society for aerospace engi-neering.Theobjectiveofthesocietyistorecognizeandhonorthoseindividuals inthefieldofaeronauticsandastronauticswho have, through scholarship, integrity, and outstandingachievement, been a credit to their profession. The societyseekstofosterahighstandardofethicsandprofessionalprac-ticeandtocreateaspiritofloyaltyandfellowship,particularlyamong students of aerospace engineering. Each year theyhaveaninductionceremonytowelcomenewmembers.
SME – Society of Manufacturing Engineers
This professional society stimulates research and dissemi-natesknowledgeinallphasesofmanufacturingengineering.Studentmembersparticipateinfieldtrips,technicalseminars,andlectureseries,andareupgradedautomaticallytoregularsocietymembershiponeyearaftergraduation.Theypartici-patedinthetrebuchetcompetitionwithmembersofIIEandalsoracedcardboardboatsagainstoneanother.
UAV Club – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Club
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Club is new student organi-zationatBostonUniversity.ThisgroupispartneredwithAu-
rora Flight Sciencesand is devoted toresearching andbuilding unmannedaerial vehicles.Members of theirexecutive board at-tended the AUVSIPrograms Review
AirConference inWashington,DC.Eventuallytheywillcom-peteintheAUVSIAnnual InternationalAerialRoboticsCom-petition.
MembersoftheBURocketTeamfromlefttoright:RyanLacy,KendraToole,LucasBannister,JeffreyGereige,NicolaRicci,BrianSerra,MonalAmin,DaneSarcone,JoeShifrin,andBrettMeyer.
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2010AerospaceEngineeringSeniors(top),ManufacturingEngineeringSeniors(bottom)andMechanicalEngineeringSeniorsonpage26.
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Senior Design Projects
Project Title Team MembersWayfarerI:MartianUnmannedReusableISRUAircraftforResearchandExplorationWinningTeam
Hand,McKeen,Patel,Salam,Woloschin
H.A.L.E.R.T.:HighAltitudeLongEnduranceforReliefTelecommunications Cumper,Kiyingi,Lyons,Miller,Valverde
Skyraider2:Carrier-basedCounterInsurgencyAircraft Hall,Jalali,Lau,McGrath,Voorhees
NTS:Wing-in-GroundEffectNavalTransportAircraft Ko,Maier,Meyer,Miller,Steiger,Yen
Aerospace Engineering
TheAerospaceEngineeringprogramculminateswithasenior“capstone”designproject inwhich teamsofstudents tackledifficultmulti-faceteddesignprojects.Thestudentsenroll inatwo-semesterFlightVehicleDesigncourse(ME409&410).Duringthesecourseseachteamconceives,plans,andcarriesout a significant aerospace vehicle design project in whicheachteammemberconcentratesonaseparatetechnicalarea.AttheSeniorProjectConferencealltheteamsgiveanoralpre-sentationoftheirprojects.ThisyearthewinnerwastheWay-farer I team,JeffHand,SethA.McKeen,TashfiqSalam,RimalPatal,andJakeWoloschin.
Wayfarer I is a small, rocket-propelledUAVweighing 53 lbs(MartianWeight)thatcanachievea48.5nauticalmileflightin thethinMartianatmospheretosurveytheMartian land-scape.TheaircraftisintendedforusefromamannedMartianbaseinthenearfutureandisthefirstknownplaneofitskinddesignedtobereusable.Theaircrafttakesoffandclimbsver-tically,firingitsliquidoxygenliquidmethanerocketenginetoachieveanaltitudeof12,280ft(atmosphericdensitycompa-rable to125,000ftonEarth!)beforegoing intoaglide seg-ment for theremainderof themission.Uponcompletionofthemission, theaircraftperformsaparachute-assisted,net-arrestedlanding.WayfarerI implementsin-situresourceuti-lization(ISRU)technology,usingpropellantsthatcanbehar-vestedfromMarswithsimplechemicalprocesses.ThismeansthatthepropellantsdonothavetobetransportedfromEarth,savingtimeandmoney,andmaking theaircraftmuchmorepragmatic.
WayfarerImodelscharacteristicsofarocketincludingaThrustVector Control (TVC) system and a drag-minimizing, ultra-streamlined fuselage,whilealso including traitsprevalent inhighaltitudegliderplanessuchasahighliftairfoil,largewing-span,andlowweightcarbonfiberstructuralcomponents.
WinningteaminAerospaceEngineering,WayfarerIteam:JeffHand(l.),RimalPatel,SethA.McKeen,TahfiqSalam,andJakeWoloschin(r.)
Winning Team
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Manufacturing Engineering
Project Title Team Members
ProductDevelopment Huffman,Minkoff,Jatia
MKSInstruments,Inc.WinningTeam
Bangert,Heugle,LeGendre
Safecor Kelly,Martin,Tworek
GreatPointEnergy Jahn,Lee,Spergel
Winning Team
TheManufacturingEngineeringprogramculminateswithaseniorcapstonedesignprojectinwhichteamsofstudentstackledifficultmulti-faceteddesignprojects.Thestudentsenroll in theProductDesign courseofME415 in the fallandthenintheSeniorDesignCapstoneinManufacturingEngineeringinthespringofthesenioryear.Eachteamhasanindustrialcustomerforwhomtheyworkonedayaweekonatypicalmanufacturingproject.Theteamsarerespon-sible forgivingweeklyprogressreportstotheir industrialcustomersandtothesupervisingfaculty.
ThewinningteaminManufacturingEngineeringwasMKS Instruments: Value Stream Mapping and Cell Capacity Analysis, Andrew LeGendre, Andrew Bangert, and Ravi Heugle. MKS Instruments, Inc. creates devices that areused in themanufacturing of a variety of semiconductorproducts. Recently, MKS Instruments has experienced alargerampupinthedemandfortheirgasflowcontrollers,whichistestingthecapacitylimitsoftheirassemblyopera-tions.
ThemanufacturingseniorcapstonegroupforMKSInstru-mentswasasked toanalyze the capacityof their currentoperationsforthreemajorproductlinesandtocreateval-ue streammapsof theassemblyand testprocesses.Theinformationinthesemapswasthenusedtoidentifylimita-tionsofthemanufacturinglineandprovidesuggestionsforimprovement.
WinningteaminManufacturingEngineering,MKSInstruments:AndrewLeGendre(l.),AndrewBangert,andRaviHeugle(r.)
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Mechanical Engineering
Project Title Team Members
SnowRemovalSystemforLongHaulTrucks Adams,Lantz,Magis-Agosta,Ozsivri,Pyun,Xiao
SnowandIceRemoverforTrucks Anderson,Chen,Nivorozhkin,Pereira,Ramroopsingh
TestChamberforSelf-CleaningSolarCells Babaniyi,Chin,Goldenbroit,Sadder,Srinivasan
Mudskipper-HumanPoweredAmphibiousVehicle Dzumaga,Fu,Harris,James,Miklos
Hydro-Rover-HumanPoweredAmphibiousVehicle Burriola,Foley,Friedensohn,Jimenez,Menard
RemoteCoastalCameraEnclosure Gerrior,McDowell,Miller,Worth
DeployableElectricFieldBoomforNano-Satellites Bailey,deSouza,Knoll,Salzberg,Vizzio,Zipfel
SpinalFractureLoadingDeviceWinningTeam
Galica,Gomez,Liu,Rivera
MitralValveDynamicsSimulator Flaten,Hsu,LeValley,Martel,Ryan
ThermalBarrierCoatingTestRig Hernandez,Jung,Marat,Martelly,Nirankari,Wong
DeBreezeGutterCleaner Contois,Fleming,Nesvold,Shivers,Squillacioti
GutterGuardCleaner Daigle,Fishman,Hanslon,Wang
PersonalDirtandRockSeparator Belmonte,Bogoian,Carter,Driscoll,Vanguilder
Winning Team
TheMechanicalEngineeringprogramalsoculminateswithasenior“capstone”designprojectinwhichteamsofstudentstackledifficultmulti-faceteddesignprojects,oftenstemmingfromfacultyresearch.Thestudentsenrollinatwo-semesterMachineDesigncourse(ME413&414).Duringthesecoursestheteamsconceive,plan,andcarryoutamajormechanicalengineeringdesignofamulticomponentsystem.EachteamgivesanoralpresentationofitsprojectattheSeniorProjectConference,whereoneteamisdeclaredawinner.
ThisyearthewinnerwastheSpinal Fracture Loading Device Team,MatthewGalica,MartinGomez,VictorLin,andChris-tianRivera.
Theteamdesignedandconstructedaloadingdevicetoapplyacompressiveloadincombinationwithaflexionloadwhichwill simulate thebendingof an individual and the resultantstrain that is induceduponhis orher vertebrae inorder toaccrueempiricaldataregardingspinalfracture.Theloadsareapplied through the use of amounted and removable gearboxwhichallowsuserstosimultaneouslyapplyapurecom-pressiveorflexionloadtothespinesamplebeingtested.Thecylindricalshellsurroundingthespinesampleismadeofara-diolucentmaterial,which allows x-rays to penetrate. Usingdigitalvolumecorrelationtheusersareabletocorrelatethestrainfieldinthedisktothespinesample.
WinningteaminMechanicalEngineering,SpinalFractureLoadingDeviceTeam:MartinGomez(l.),MatthewGalica,VictorLin,Chris-tianRivera(r.)
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G R A D U A T E P R O G R A M STheGraduatePrograminMechanicalEngineeringoffersava-rietyofadvancedandprofessionaldegrees.Studentspursu-ingtraditionalMSandPhDdegreesinMechanicalEngineeringworkcloselywithourfacultytoproducefoundationalresearchhavingbroadandprofoundimpactsonemergingtechnologiesinthebiomedical,energy,environment,anddefensespaces.Thisresearchisconductedininteractive,interdisciplinary,andwell-fundedresearchgroupsinacousticsandvibrations;bio-mechanics;computationalscienceandengineering;dynamics,robotics,systems,andcontrols;thermofluidsciences,energy,andsustainability;andMEMSandnanotechnology.Studentsconductingresearchintheseareasreceivesignificantfundingfrom internalandexternal sources, suchas research fellow-ships,teachingfellowships,andscholarships.
InadditiontotraditionalMSandPhDdegrees,thedepartmentalsooffersadvanceddegreeswithemphasesonmanufactur-ingandbusinessadministration.TheMSinGlobalEngineering
degree isaimedatcreatinganewtypeof“globalengineer”bothansweringtheindustrydemandandgivinganupcomingengineeracompetitiveadvantageintoday’smarketplace.InpartnershipwithBostonUniversity’sSchoolofManagement,acoordinatedMasterofScience/MasterofBusinessAdministra-tionprogrampreparesrecentgraduatesorpracticingprofes-sionalswhoarecommittedtocareersinindustryforpositionsasmanufacturingmanagers.TheMSdegreeinManufacturingisofferedwithanattractivedistancelearningoption,inwhichclassesareavailableasasynchronousandasynchronousex-tension of the on-campus classes. Distance learning classesallow forabroadparticipationof studentsatvariouscareerstagesandallowstudents toparticipatewhilecontinuing towork outside of academia. The Late Entry Accelerated Pro-gram (LEAP)allows talented individualsandworkingprofes-sionalswhohavebachelor’sdegreesinnon-engineeringfieldstoearngraduatedegreesinengineering.
Male Female FT PT GTF RA Fellow DF
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Intl. 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0
PHD US 6 0 6 0 4 0 0 2
Intl. 3 3 6 0 3 0 1 2
Total 27 8 23 12 11 3 2 4
New Matriculants 2009-2010
Fall 2009 Mean GRE Scores
Spring 2010 Mean GRE Scores
Ontheleft,2010MechanicalEngineeringSeniors.
Verbal % Quantitative % An. Writing %
MS US 523 66 738 78 4.14 31
Intl. 447 44 751 81 3.42 14
PHD US 552 73 765 84 4.33 47
Intl. 476 53 774 86 3.72 21
Total 500 59 757 82 3.9 26
Verbal % Quantitative % An. Writing %
MS US 568 77 729 75 3.31 12
Intl. 368 22 725 76 4.18 31
PHD US 550 73 760 83 5.0 70
Intl. 434 40 784 88 3.71 21
Total 480 54 750 81 4.0 27
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Enrol lment by Degree Program
History of MS Enrollment
History of PhD Enrollment
*MechanicalEngineeringProfessorsadviseandfinanciallysupportstudentsenrolledinalmosteverygraduatedegreeprogramofferedbytheCollegeofEngineering,withparticularemphasisonprogramsofferedbytheDivisionsofSystemsEngineeringandMaterialScienceandEngineering.
**TheformerdepartmentsofAerospaceandMechanicalEngineering,andManufacturingEngineeringmergedtoformtheMechanicalEngineeringDepartmentinFall2008.
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Graduate Student Awards
KYLE BRIDGEO Outstanding Graduate Teaching FellowAward,intheDepartmentofMechanicalEngineering,BostonUniversity.
MICHAEL CANNAMELA GLACIER Fellowship 2010-2011,TheNSFGLALCIER(GlobalChangeInitiative:Education&Re-search) program at Boston University supports fellowshipsandtrainingforgraduatestudentsinscience,technology,en-gineering,andmathematics.GLACIERfellowsreceiveastronginterdisciplinary perspectiveon global change research, andhavetheopportunitytoenhancetheirteachingskillsbylearn-inghowtotranslatetheirresearchintoexcitinganddynamicclassroomlessonsforchildreningrades5-8.
QINGQING CAO CIMITAppliedHealthcareEngineering Fel-low.
ANDY DRAUDT“Real-TimeMonitoringofHighIntensityFo-cusedUltrasoundLesionFormationwithCombinedAcousticForceElastographyandAcousto-OpticImaging,”BestStudentPaperAward,39thAnnualSymposiumoftheUltrasonicIndus-tryAssociation,Cambridge,MA,April2010.
KEBIN FANPhotonicsCenterGraduateStudentTravelAward;PhotonicsCenterSeniorResearchFellowship;andPhotonicsCenterBermanFutureofLightPrizeAward.
ELSE FROHLICHDraperFellowshipinFall2009.
AMIRA HUSSEIN BU/CIMITAppliedHealthcareFellowship,awardedtosecond-orthird-yeargraduatestudentsresearch-ingtopicsthathelpsolvehealthcarechallengessuchasmedi-caldevicedevelopment,creatingalgorithmsandsoftwareforuse in clinical practice, and engineering inmedical environ-ments.
BRADLEY KAANTANanoscience&NanotechnologyAward.
CHARLES LISSANDRELLO NSFGraduateFellowshipAward.
PUI LEONGBU/CIMITAppliedHealthcareFellowship,award-ed to second- or third-year graduate students researchingtopicsthathelpsolvehealthcarechallengessuchasmedicaldevicedevelopment,creatingalgorithmsandsoftwareforuseinclinicalpractice,andengineeringinmedicalenvironments.JIM MCLAUGHLAN “Nanoparticle-Targeted Photoacous-ticCavitationforDeepTissueOptical Imaging,”BestStudentPaperaward, theSanAntonioAcousticalSocietyofAmericameeting.
HU “TIGER” TAO “MEMSEnhancedMetamaterials:To-wardsFillingtheTerahertzGap,”wontheBestDissertationAwardatBUCollegeofEngineering,May2010.
YILING QIUPhotonicsCenterGraduateStudentTravelAward.
HU “TIGER” TAO received the most prestigious studentawardissuedbytheChinesegovernment,theNationalAwardforOutstandingOverseasChineseStudents;OSAFoundationGraduateStudentTravelAward;andIEEEMaimanOutstand-ingStudentPaper(semifinalist).
KyleBridgeo(l.)receivestheOutstandingGraduateTeachingFellowAwardfromProfessorDonWroblewski(r.)
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History of MS Degrees Awarded
History of PhD Degrees Awarded
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G r a d u a t e C o u r s e s O f f e r e d
COURSENUMBER
COURSETITLE FALL2009 SPRING2010 SUMMER2010
EK546 AssessmentofSustainableEnergyTechnologies Gevelber
EK720 BiophotonicSystemDesignandPrototyping Bifano
ME501 DynamicSystemTheory Li
ME502 IntellectualAssets:Creation,Protection,andCommercialization Cole
ME503 KineticProcessesinMaterials Basu
ME505 ThermodynamicsandStatisticalMechanics Gopalan
ME507 ProcessModelingandControl Gevelber
ME510 ProductionSystemsAnalysis Perkins
ME514 SimulationforManufacturing Vakili
ME515 VibrationofComplexMechanicalSystems Pierce
ME516 StatisticalMechanicalConceptsinEngineering Ekinci
ME520 AcousticsI Cleveland
ME521 ContinuumMechanicsforBiomedicalEngineers Stamenovic
ME523 MechanicsofBiomaterials Klapperich
ME525 TechnologyVentures Cole
ME533 EnergyConversion Carey
ME541 ClassicThermodynamics Lin
ME542 AdvancedFluidMechanics Howe
ME543 SustainablePowerSystems Caramanis
ME560 PrecisionMachineDesignandInstrumentation Sharon
ME579 MicroelectronicDeviceManufacturing Cole
ME582 MechanicalBehaviorofMaterials Ekinci
ME583 ProductManagement Hauser
ME700 AdvancedTopicsinMechanicalEngineering Porter
ME701 OptimalandRobustControl Andersson
ME702 ComputationalFluidDynamics Barba
ME707 FiniteElementAnalysis K.Zhang
ME709 TurbulentFlows Yakhot
ME710 DynamicProgrammingandStochasticControl Caramanis
ME714 AdvancedStochasticModelingandSimulation Vakili
ME720 AcousticsII Pierce
ME721 AcousticBubbleDynamics Holt
ME723 WavesinRandomMedia Carey
ME725 QueueingSystems Perkins
ME726 FundamentalsofBiomaterials Grinstaff
ME727 PrinciplesandApplicationsofTissues Wong
ME733 DiscreteEventandHybridSystems Cassandras
ME740 Vision,Robotics,andPlanning Baillieul
ME762 NonlinearSystemsandControl Wang
ME778 MicromachinedTranducers X.Zhang
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MS Theses and PhD Dissertat ions
PhD Dissertations
MS Theses
STUDENT NAME DISSERTATION ADVISOR DISSERTATION TITLE
Baggett,Keithe Grace,Sheryl CFDSimulationofanAcousticIgniter
Butler,Evan Wang,Hua
Modeling,Control,andFailureStabilizationofaModifiedF-15:ATakagi-SugenoFuzzyModelBasedApproach
Coombs,Joseph Fritz,Theodore
DesignofaPreliminaryThermalModelforAnalysisoftheBostonUniversityStudent-satel-liteforApplicationandTraining(BUSAT)
Ho,Sharon Howe,MichaelLowFrequencySoundProducedbyaVentilatedSupercavitatingVehicle
McLean,Erin Sharon,AndreDevelopmentandControlofanArticulatedJointEndoscope
Speyerer,Emerson Gevelber,MichaelOptimizingSweepPatternDesignsforImprovedElectronBeamDepositionofOpticalCoatings
Wasniewski,Joseph Cole,DanielAnExperimentalPlatformforProbabilisticRo-botMotionPlanningandControl
STUDENT NAME DISSERTATION ADVISOR DISSERTATION TITLE
Diouf,Aloune Bifano,Thomas
FabricationProcessesforMEMSDeformableMirrorsintheNextGenerationTelescopeInstru-ments
Lai,Puxiang Roy,RonaldPhotorefractiveCrystal-BasedAcousto-OpticIm-agingintheNear-InfraredanditsApplications
Qiu,Yiling Zhang,XinImpedanceSensingforCellularResponseStud-ies
Tao,Hu“Tiger” Zhang,XinMEMSEnhancedMetamaterials:TowardsFillingtheTerahertzGap
Zagadou,Franck Mountain,David&Barbone,PaulAnAnalysisoftheMicromechanicsoftheOrganofCorti:SignificanceofMicrofluidFlow
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Distance Learning
TheDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringoffersMSdegreesthroughadistance-learningprogram(DLP).TheDLPhasbeeninoperationsince1992,originallyintheDepartmentofManu-facturingEngineering.Thisprogramdiffersfromthemajorityofdistancelearningprogramsofferedatotheruniversitiesinthatclassesareofferedlive,sothatdistancestudentscanhearandseetheon-campusclassandspeakwiththeprofessorinrealtime.Thissynchronousapproachisparticularlyhelpfulifclassdiscussionorteamworkisimportantasdistancestudentsareintegratedintothenormalon-campusgroupofgraduatestudentsthroughweb-basedvideoconferencing.Thismutualparticipationbenefitsbothgroups:on-campusstudentsgainperspectiveontherealworldworkingenvironment throughtheexperienceofDLPstudents,andDLPstudentsbenefitbyengagingwiththeiron-campuspeersandbyseeingtheben-efits of graduate-level education. In contrast, most otherdistancelearningprogramsinengineeringareasynchronous,relyingonrecordedlecturesandotherweb-basedmaterialstodeliverclasscontent.
OurDLprogramprovidesMaster’s level classesprimarily toindustrialemployeeswishingtoaddtotheireducationback-ground,butisopentoothersiftheformatsuitstheirneeds.TheDLPcurrentlyoffers20M.S.levelcoursesinthefollowingareas:material science,systemsengineering,productdevel-opment, advanced manufacturing strategies, and high-techareassuchasmicro/nanoelectronicsandMEMS/NEMS.
OurDLPaddressesaneedidentifiedbythedepartment’sin-dustrialpartners–manyhigh-techemployees,includinglead-ersintheirindustries,arelackinginskillsneededtomass-pro-ducehigh-techproductswithhighyieldandlowcost.TheDLPisanexcellentvehicleforprovidingtheseskills,andforservingasaconvenientvehicleforlife-longlearninginarapidlychang-ingindustry.
Toparticipate in theDLP, studentsonly requirea computer,aninexpensivecameraandmicrophone,andaccesstoahigh-speedInternetconnection.Thiseaseofentryallowsstudentsfromanywheretoparticipate;indeed,wehavehadstudentsfromasfarawayasTaiwan,Hawaii,andMexico(mostlycom-pany-sponsored).Sincemostoftheinteractionismeanttobeinrealtime,arobusthigh-resolutionvideoconferencingsolu-tionisessentialtotheoperationoftheprogram.Whencom-binedwithveryhighqualitycamerasthatcapturemoreoftheclassroomactivityandpresentationmaterial,thistechnologyenablesustoconnectwiththestudentsatindividualPCs.Wehavealsousedthistechnologytoenableaguest lecturertoprovidehislecturefromadistance,openingachannelforhighprofileguestspeakerswhomightbeunavailableduetotravel
timesandbusyschedules.
Althoughwe still feel our synchronous approach is best forlearning,wealsoofferrecordedlecturestoaidstudentswhocannotattendlive lecturesbecauseofemploymentcommit-mentsortime-zonedifferences thatmake itdifficult topar-ticipate“live.”Specifically,allclasssessionsarerecordedandcan be viewed on-line by registered students, within a fewhours of the end of class. These are beneficial to studentswhotravel,ormayneedtomissclassduetoillnessorotheremergencies,andmanystudentsalsofindthemhelpfulwhenreviewingfortests.Wehavecontinuallyimprovedthequality,flexibilityandreliabilityofthesevideosoverthepastseveralyearsandwillcontinuetoexplorewaystoenhancetheuseful-nessandsimplifytheuseoftheserecordings.(Notethatvideoavailabilitytonon-DLstudentsisattheinstructor’sdiscretion).
Tofacilitateweb-baseddistributionofclassmaterial,theDLPmakesanelectronicwhiteboardavailableinoneoftheregularDLclassrooms.Anythingwrittenontheboardcanbesavedby instructors tomultipage PDF files, and easily distributedelectronicallyormadeavailableon-lineafterclass,atthepro-fessor’sdiscretion.
TheDLPcommitteeduringthefirsthalfofthepastacademicyearconsistedof:
DAN COLE(chairFall09)
ANDREW ABRAHAMSON
WILLIAM HAUSER
DON WROBLEWSKI (chairSpring10)
During the second semester, the group was joined by DonWroblewski who took over the role of chair for the DLP.
WeareintheprocessofexpandingtheDLPintwoways.First,weareaddingnewDLgraduatecoursesinsolarenergy,sus-tainablepowersystems,andacoustics,andplan toaddoneto two DL courses each semester over the next few years.WealsoplantooffercertificateprogramsinareaswithhighDLenrollmentandinareaswithstrongresearchexpertiseinthe department. Each certificatewill require three, 4-cred-it courses,which canalsobeusedaspartof anMSdegreeprogram (thoughenrollment in theMSprogramwill notbearequirementforreceivingacertificate). Currently,approv-als arepending for certificates in engineeringmanagement,sustainable energy, and MEMS and Nanotechnology. Wehopetobeginofferingthesewithininthenextacademicyear.
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Since technology is at the heart of theDLP and technologyisrapidlyevolving,weevaluateandadoptnewtechnologiesonanongoingbasis. Specifically,weareexploringaNiagrastreamingmediadevice that canoutputaudioandvideo toalargenumberofclients/studentsatveryhighquality.Chat/blogmediaarealsobeingexplored toaidstudentswhoarenot takingacourse live, inorder tocapturetheirdiscussionpoints.
TheDLPcontinuestoplayanimportantroleinpromotingthedepartment, as it provides important industrial connections
andhelps to develop key future industrial leaders.Distancelearningbyvideoconferencingorstreamingvideoenablesthedepartment toconductMastersdegreeclassesconcurrentlyon-campusandanywhere in theworldaccessiblebyahigh-speedinternetconnection.Thisallowsstudentstoparticipatein class froma varietyof locations, including at homeor ata hotel when traveling. Students can access videos on-lineandreplaypastclassesifitisnecessarytomissanoccasionallecture. This asynchronous option is becoming increasinglypopularwithsomeDLstudentsandmaybecomeanimportantaspectofourDLPinthefuture.
ProfessorDanielColeconductingadistancelearningclass.
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COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLE INSTRUCTOR
ME502 IntellectualAssets:Creation,Protection,andCommercialization Cole
ME/MS507 ProcessModelingandControl Gevelber
ME510 ProductionSystemsAnalysis Perkins
ME517 ProductDevelopment Hauser
ME518 ProductQuality n/a
ME520 AcousticsI Cleveland
ME525 TechnologyVentures Cole
ME/MS526 SimulationofPhysicalProcesses Cole
ME/MS534 MaterialsTechnologyforMicroelectronics Basu
ME/MS535 GreenManufacturing Pal
ME543 SustainablePowerSystems Caramanis
ME550 ProductSupplyChainDesign n/a
ME/MS555 MEMS:FabricationandMaterials Zhang
ME560 PrecisionMachineDesignandInstrumentation Sharon
MS/EC573 SolarEnergySystems Mazumder
ME579 MicroelectronicDeviceManufacturing Cole
ME583 ProductManagement Hauser
ME584 ManufacturingStrategy Hauser
ME/SE765 ProductionSystemDesign Caramanis
ME778 Micro-machinedTransducers Zhang
Distance Learning Courses Offered
Intotal,theDLPoffered10differentcoursesduringthepastacademicyear.Atotalof42individualDLPcourseenrollmentswere takenduring thisperiod.Theseenrollmentspermittedtalentedengineerstoremainonthejobwhileearninganad-vancedtechnicaldegree.TwoM.S.DLPdegreeswereaward-
ed. Most of those receiving M.S. degrees completed theirstudiesinaboutthreeyearsorless.Inaddition,severalotheron-campusstudentsusedonlyafewDLcoursestocompletetheirdegrees,toallowthemtotakeBUcourseswhilepartici-patinginsummerinternshipsinindustry.
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R E S E A R C H
Extramural Funding in 2009-2010
RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY GRANT PERIOD NEW FUNDS IN 2009-2010
AnderssonBelta
DynSystSpecialTopics:AFormalApproachtotheControlofStochasticDynamicSystems(REUSupple-ment)
NSF 9.1.09-8.31.12 $240,000
Andersson IDBR-SimultaneousTrackingofMultipleParticlesinConfocalMicroscopy
NSF 9.1.09-2.28.11 $1,875
Andersson DynSystSpecialTopics:AFormalApproachtotheControlofStochasticDynamicSystems
NSF 4.12.10-8.31.12 $5,000
BaillieulCastanon
BehavioralDynamicsintheCooperativeControlofMixedHuman/RoboticTeams(MURI-07)
DOD/AFSOR 12.1.09-6.30.10 $727,744
Baillieul StudentTravelSupportforthe2009IEEEConferenceonDecisionandControl
NSF 11.20.09-1.31.11 $15,000
BaillieulCastanon
BehavioralDynamicsintheCooperativeControlofMixedHuman/RoboticTeams(MURI-07)
DOD/AFSOR 7.1.10-11.30.10 $814,562
Barbone Feasibilityofin-vivoDeterminationofAbsoluteElas-ticTissuePropertiesin3D
HHS/NIH/NCI 3.1.09-2.28.10 $13,619
Barbone QuantitativeMechanicalImagingforImprovingBreastUltrasoundDiagnostics
HHS/NIH/NCI 7.1.09-5.31.10 $59,313
Barbone ExactModelingofTargetsinLittoralEnvironments(STTR)
DOD/Navy 7.15.09-6.30.10 $3,250
BeltaCassandras
MURI-SmartAdaptiveReliableTeamsforPersistentSurveillance
DOD/Navy 6.1.09-8.31.012 $290,000
Belta SpecificationLanguagesandDistributedControlSchemesforTeamsofUnmannedVehicles
DOD/Army 3.17.10-3.16.11 $75,847
Belta FormalVerificationandSynthesisofControlandCommunicationStrategiesforTeamsofUnmannedVehicles
DOD/AFSOR 12.1.09-11.30.10 $99,999
BeltaCassandras
MURI-SmartAdaptiveReliableTeamsforPersistentSurveillance
DOD/Navy 6.1.09-12.31.09 $96,000
Belta CSR-EHCS(EHS),SM:AFormalApproachtoControlofHybridSystemswithApplicationstoMobileRobotics
NSF 9.1.09-8.31.10 $99,951
Belta CAREER:HierarchicalAbstractionsforPlanningandControlofRoboticSwarms
NSF 5.10.10-1.31.11 $16,500
Research Funding
OntheleftProfessorMatthiasSchneider
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RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY GRANT PERIOD NEW FUNDS IN 2009-2010
Carey SoundSpeedandAttenuationinMultiphaseMedia DOD/Navy 1.1.04-3.31.11 $50,000
Carey SoundSpeedandAttenuationinMultiphaseMedia DOD/Navy 1.1.04-3.31.11 $20,000
Carey SoundSpeedandAttenuationinMultiphaseMedia DOD/Navy 5.1.10-4.30.11 $58,770
Cleveland DisposableLinearArraysforShockwaveLithotripterPressureMeasurements
HHS/NIH/NIDDK
2.1.10-1.31.11 $49,000
Cleveland TrackingKidneyStonesDuringShockWaveLitho-tripsy
HHS/NIH/NIDDK
4.1.10-3.31.11 $406,681
Cleveland StrategiesforImprovedShockWaveLithotripsy HHS/NIH/NIDDK
7.1.09-6.30.10 $201,651
Cleveland TheStructuralBasisofKidneyStoneFragility HHS/NIH/NIDDK
9.1.08-8.31.10 $75,969
Cleveland SteerableMEMSInstrumentsforPreciseIntracardiacSurgery
HHS/NIH/NHLBI
1.1.10-6.30.10 $58,750
EkinciYakhot
Tailor-MadeSuperhydrophobicSurfacesforMEMSandNEMS
NSF 5.1.10-4.30.13 $280,143
Ekinci CAREER:PhotonicIntegrationofSiliconNanoelectro-mechanicalSystems(REUSupplement)
NSF 5.1.08-2.28.11 $6,000
Ekinci CAREER:PhotonicIntegrationofSiliconNanoelectro-mechanicalSystems
NSF 3.1.10-2.28.11 $82,717
Gevelber RealTimeControlforEngineeringElectrospunNano-fiberDiameterDistributionsforAdvancedApplica-tions(REUSupplement)
NSF 6.1.09-8.31.11 $6,000
GopalanLin
StablePotentiometricSensorforCe(III),CeI(IV)andGd(III)IonsinAcidicMedia
DOE 7.24.09-9.15.09 $30,677
GopalanLin
StablePotentiometricSensorsforCe(III),Ce(IV)andGd(III)IonsinAcidicMedia
DOE 3.29.2010-9.30.10 $70,000
GopalanPal,BasuLudwig,Smith
SolidOxideFuelCellCathodes:UnravelingtheRela-tionshipBetweenOxygenReduction,Structure,andSurfaceChemistry
DOE 9.1.10-3.31.10 $28,824
GopalanPal,BasuLudwig,Smith
SolidOxideFuelCellCathodes:UnravelingtheRela-tionshipBetweenStructure,SurfaceChemistryandOxygenReduction
DOE 4.1.10-9.30.11 $196,177
Grace UsingCFDtoGuideRotorWakeFormulationforFanBroadbandNoiseSimulations
AeroAcousticsRe-searchConsortium
6.1.09-8.31.10 $96,933
Holt LaserNucleationandCollapseStabilityforAdvancedCavitationPowerTechnology
DOD/Army 2.18.08-6.28.10 $50,000
Howe SoundSourcesofPhonation HHS/NIH/NIDCD
12.1.09-11.30.10 $33,538
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RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY GRANT PERIOD NEW FUNDS IN 2009-2010
McDaniel EstimatingtheEffectsofDampingTreatmentsontheVibrationofComplexStructures
DOD/Navy 2.7.08-4.30.11 $178,536
Morgan 3-DVisualizationandPredictionofSpineFractures HHS/NIH/NIAMS
5.1.10-4.30.11 $313,737
MorganKlapperich
InducingSkeletalRepairbyMechanicalStimulation HHS/NIH/NIAMS
9.18.09-9.17.10 $64,152
Pal Low-Cost,Low-ImpactMagnesiumProductionbySolidOxygenMembraneElectrolysis
NSF 8.1.09-12.31.09 $32,009
Park MechanicalLossMechanismsinC-AxisGalliumNitrideNanowires
NSF 7.1.09-6.30.12 $147,321
Porter MRI-GuidedLocalizedDeliveryofChemotherapyUsingTemperature-SensitiveLipsomesandFocusedUltrasound
FocusedUltra-soundSurgeryFoundation
1.1.10-12.31.10 $50,000
Porter BRIGE-TheRoleofVaporizedPerfluorocarbonNa-noemulsionsinEnhancedUltrasound-InducedLesionFormationforCancerTherapy
NSF 9.1.09-8.31.11 $174,783
Roy TheUtilizationoftheAnalogicUltrasoundImagingEngineandtheTerasonSystem2000inAPI,HIFU,andMedBED(CenSSISIndustrialPartnerProgram)
NSF 5.1.03-8.31.10 $35,000
Sarin HighPerformance,LowCostScintillatorsforPET DOE 7.20.09-4.19.10 $15,000
Sarin HighPerformanceOpticalCeramicScintillatorThroughNanotechnology
HHS/NIH/NIBIB 9.1.09-8.31.10 $44,634
Sarin NovelCeramicScintillatorsforPET DOE 8.15.09-8.14.10 $50,000
Zhang,K. CAREER:IntegratingMulti-ScaleMechanicsandBiomaterialstoStudytheTranslationofMechanicalForcesfromTissuetoCell
NSF 2.1.10-1.31.15 $400,000
Zhang,K. GOALI:HighSensitivityThermalConductivitySensorforMicroGasChromatographyandHarshEnviron-mentChemicalDetection
NSF 7.1.09-6.30.12 $239,537
Zhang,X.Averitt
MaterialsandMechanicsofMetamaterialEnhancedMEMSforTerahertzTechnology
DOE/AirForce 9.30.09-3.31.10 $65,000
Zhang,X. MechanicalBehaviorofAmorphousPlasma-En-hancedChemicalVaporDepositedSiliconOxideFilmsforMEMSApplications(REUSupplement)
NSF 6.1.09-5.31.11 $6,000
Zhang,X. AnImpedance-BasedAssayMicrosystemforReal-TimeHighThroughputStudyofSingleCells
NSF 10.1.09-9.30.10 $86,435
Zhang,X.Averitt
CoupledEvanescentFieldMicro-ResonatorsforDownholeDataRelay
AdvancedEnergyConsortium
1.1.10-12.31.10 $200,000
Zhang,X. CollaborativeResearch:ElasticandViscoelasticCharacterizationandModelingofPolymerBasedStructuresforBiologicalApplications(REUSupple-ment)
NSF 6.1.10-8.31.11 $6,000
Zhang,X.Averitt
MaterialsandMechanicsofMetamaterialEnhancedMEMSforTerahertzTechnology
DOD/AirForce 4.1.10-3.31.11 $130,000
Total New Funds: $6,982,471
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Funding Administered Outside Mechanical Engineering Department for Which an ME Professor Serves as Principal Investigator of the Grant or Subcontract
Total Funding Administered Outside ME: $2,136,955
Funding Administered Outside Mechanical Engineering Department for Which an ME Professor Serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the Grant or Subcontract
Total: $2,412,513
RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY GRANT PERIOD NEW FUNDS IN2009-2010
Bifano PhotonicsResearchandTechnologyInsertion DOD/Army 7.1.09-6.30.10 $34,000
Bifano PhotonicsResearchandTechnologyInsertion DOD/Army 7.1.09-6.30.10 $60,000
Bifano PhotonicsResearchandTechnologyInsertion DOD/Army 7.1.10-6.30.11 $401,000
Klapperich DisposableMicrofluidicDevicesforPointCareDiag-nostics
HHS/NIH/NIAID 7.1.09-6.30.10 $262,625
Klapperich MicrochiptoDetectInfluenzaInfectionandTypeisNasopharyngealSwabs
HHS/NIH/NIBIB 9.1.09-8.31.11 $173,711
Klapperich PortableLowPowerNucleicAcidExtractionModule HHS/NIH/NIBIB 9.1.09-8.31.10 $140,343
Klapperich AMicrofluidicSystemforMonitoringSepsisatthePointofCare
DOD/Army/MRAA 12.16.09-9.30.10 $140,000
Klapperich MicroSolidPhaseExtractionModuleDevelopmentforEO-NAT-HIVRapidPoint-of-CareDiagnosticDeviceforResource-LimitedSwabs
HHS/NIH/NIAID 9.30.09-9.29.14 $627,485
RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY NEW FUNDING
AnderssonPorter
NUE:UndergraduateLaboratoryExperiencesinnanotechnologyDevicesandSystems(U-LENS)
NSF $200,000
Barba EAGER:ExperimentalClusterforFundamentalPhysicsCenterforComputa-tionalScience
NSF $297,971
Barbone ActiveFilteringintheCochlea HHS/NIH/NIDCD $717,322
Grace WIN:WomeninNetworks,BuildingCommunityandGainingVoice(AD-VANCEPartnershipsforAdaptation,Implementation,andDisseminationAward)
NSF $742,702
Porter CombinationofCatonicNanoemulsionandUltrasoundforsiRNADelivery CenterforNanosci-enceandNanobio-technology,BU
$20,000
Porter ANanoparticleEncapsulatedPhoto-sensitizerSystemforTargeting,Local-izing,Imaging,andTreatingLocalandMetastaticTumorinOnePlatform
CenterforNanosci-enceandNanobio-technology,BU
$20,000
RoyBarboneCleveland
CenSSISProgram-Year10 NSF $314,518
Zhang,X.Averitt
ActiveMetamaterialBasedTerahertzforSpectroscopicDetectionofChemi-calHazards
DOD/Army $100,000
412009-2010AnnualReport
INVESTIGATOR TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY
GRANT PERIOD
Andersson IDBR:SimultaneousTrackingofMultipleParticlesinConfocalMicroscopy NSF 7.3.08-2.28.11
Andersson CAREER:NonlinearControlforSingleMoleculeTracking NSF 7.1.09-6.30.14
AnderssonBelta
DynSyst_Special_Topics:AFormalApproachtotheControlofStochasticDynamicSystems
NSF 9.1.09-8.31.12
BaillieulCastanon
BehavioralDynamicsintheCooperativeControlofMixedHuman/RoboticTeams(MURI-07)
DOD/AirForce 12.1.08-11.30.10
Baillieul StudentTravelSupportforthe2009IEEEConferenceonDecisionandControl
NSF 1.31.11-11.20.09
Barbone ExactModelingofTargetsinLittoralEnvironments(STTR) DOD/Navy 7.15.09-6.30.10
Barbone Feasibilityofin-vivoDeterminationofAbsoluteElasticTissuePropertiesin3D
HHS/NIH/NCI 3.1.09-2.28.10
Barbone QuantitativeMechanicalImagingforImprovingBreastUltrasoundDiagnos-tics
HHS/NIH/NCI 7.1.09-5.31.10
Basu EBC/TBCCoatingSystemforSi-BasedCeramicComponentsforImprovedGasTurbinePerformanceandLifetimes
NSF 7.1.09-12.31.10
Belta CSR-EHCS(EHS),SM:AFormalApproachtoControlofHybridSystemswithApplicationstoMobileRobotics
NSF 9.15.08-8.31.09
Belta CAREER:HierarchicalAbstractionsforPlanningandControlofRoboticSwarms
NSF 2.1.09-1.31.11
Belta FormalVerificationandSynthesisofControlandCommunicationStrategiesforTeamsofUnmannedVehicles
DOD/AirForce 3.1.09-11.30.09
Belta SpecificationLanguagesandDistributedControlSchemesforTeamsofUnmannedVehicles
DOD/Army 3.17.09-3.16.10
BeltaCassandras
MURI-SmartAdaptiveReliableTeamsforPersistentSurveillance DOD/Navy 6.1.09-5.31.12
Carey AcousticSensorsandArrayProcessing DOD/Navy 3.1.05-2.28.10
Carey ONRPostdoctoralFellowshipResearchProposalforInvestigationofCom-plexRange-DependentShallowWaterSoundTransmission
DOD/Navy 1.1.07-12.31.09
Carey AcousticSensorsandArrayProcessing:TheAutonomousWideApertureClusterforSurveillance(AWACS)Project
DOD/Navy 3.1.05-2.28.10
Carey SoundSpeedandAttenuationinMultiphaseMedia DOD/Navy 1.1.04-3.31.11
Carey SoundSpeedandAttenuationinMuddySediments DOD/Navy 12.1.08-4.30.10
Cleveland UltrasonicImageGuidanceforHIFUCancerTreatment HHS/NIH/NCI 8.1.07-7.31.09
Cleveland CDI-TypeII:CollaborativeResearch-SimulationofUltrasonic-WavePropa-gationwithApplicationtoCancerTherapy
NSF 10.1.08-9.30.12
Cleveland TheStructuralBasisofKidneyStoneFragility HHS/NIH/NI-DDK
9.1.08-8.31.09
Cleveland DisposableLinearArraysforShockwaveLithotripterPressureMeasure-ments
HHS/NIH/NI-DDK
4.29.09-1.31.10
Cleveland StrategiesforImprovedShockWaveLithotripsy HHS/NIH/NI-DDK
7.1.09-6.30.10
Cleveland TrackingKidneyStonesDuringShockWaveLithotripsy HHS/NIH/NI-DDK
4.1.10-3.31.11
Cleveland SteerableMEMSInstrumentsforPreciseIntracardiacSurgery HHS/NIH/NI-DDK
1.1.10-6.30.10
Current Active Awards
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INVESTIGATOR TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY
GRANT PERIOD
Ekinci CAREER:PhotonicIntegrationofSiliconNanoelectromechanicalSystems NSF 5.1.08-2.28.11
EkinciYakhot
High-FrequencyNanofluidicsofBio-NEMS:TheoryandExperiments NSF 6.15.08-5.31.11
Ekinci NationalInstituteofStandardsandTechnology NIST 9.1.08-8.31.09
EkinciYakhot
Tailor-MadeSuperhydrophobicSurfacesforMEMSandNEMS NSF 5.1.10-4.30.13
Gevelber Real-TimeControlforEngineeringElectrospunNanofiberDiameterDistri-butionsforAdvancedApplications
NSF 9.1.08-8.31.11
GopalanPal,BasuLudwig,Smith
SolidOxideFuelCellCathodes:UnravelingtheRelationshipBetweenOxy-genReduction,Structure,andSurfaceChemistry
DOE 9.1.08-3.31.10
GopalanLin
StablePotentiometricSensorforCe(III),CeI(IV)andGd(III)IonsinAcidicMedia
DOE 7.24.09-9.15.09
GopalanPal,BasuLudwig,Smith
SolidOxideFuelCellCathodes:UnravelingtheRelationshipBetweenStruc-ture,SurfaceChemistryandOxygenReduction
DOE 9.1.08-3.31.10
Grace UsingCFDtoGuideRotorWakeFormulationforFanBroadbandNoiseSimulations
AeroAcousticsResearchCon-sortium
6.1.09--8.31.10
Holt LaserNucleationandCollapseStabilityforAdvancedCavitationPowerTech-nology
DOD/Army 2.18.08-6.28.10
Howe SoundSourcesofPhonation HHS/NIH/NI-DCD
12.1.07-11.30.09
Lin ConjugatedPolymerSolventAffinityandIon-SolventChannelDesign HondaR&DCompanyLimited
1.1.09-3.19.10
McDaniel EstimatingtheEffectsofDampingTreatmentsontheVibrationofComplexStructures
DOD/Navy 2.7.08-4.30.11
Morgan CollaborativeResearch:Micro-andNano-scaleCharacterizationandMod-elingofBoneTissue
NSF 9.1.08-8.31.11
Morgan InducingSkeletalRepairbyMechanicalStimulation HHS/NIH/NIAMS
9.1.08-8.31.10
Morgan 3-DVisualizationandPredictionofSpineFractures HHS/NIH/NIAMS
4.1.09-4.30.10
Pal SolidOxideMembraneElectrolyzerfortheProductionofPureHydrogenandSyn-GasfromaSourceofWasteandSteam
Comm.ofMass./Mas-sachusettsTech-nologyTransferCenter
9.1.08-8.31.09
Pal Low-Cost,Low-ImpactMagnesiumProductionbySolidOxygenMembraneElectrolysis
DOE 8.1.09-12.31.09
Pal SOMElectrolysisofMagnesium:Scale-UpResearchandEngineeringforLight-WeightVehicles
NSF 4.20.10-4.19.11
Park MechanicalLossMechanismsinC-AxisGalliumNitrideNanowires NSF 7.1.09-6.30.12
Porter BRIGE-TheRoleofVaporizedPerfluorocarbonNanoemulsionsinEnhancedUltrasound-InducedLesionFormationforCancerTherapy
NSF 9.1.09-8.31.11
Porter MRI-GuidedLocalizedDeliveryofChemotherapyUsingTemperature-Sensi-tiveLipsomesandFocusedUltrasound
FocusedUltra-soundSurgeryFoundation
1.1.10-12.31.10
Porter MRI-GuidedHIFU-MediatedHeatingandLesionFormationEnhancedwithPhase-ShiftNanoemulsions
HHS/NIH/NIBIB 7.1.10-6.30.11
432009-2010AnnualReport
INVESTIGATOR TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY
GRANT PERIOD
Roy DetectionandIdentificationofBuriedTargetsUsingTimeReversalAcous-tics
DOD/Navy 1.1.06-8.31.09
Roy CenterforSubsurfaceSensingandImagingSystems(CenSSIS)--ResearchThrust1-Acoustics
NSF 9.1.08-8.31.09
RoyClevelandHolt
R&DMitigationofCavitationDamage DOE 10.5.06-9.30.09
RoyClevelandHolt
TheUtilizationoftheAnalogicUltrasoundImagingEngineandtheTera-sonSystem2000inAPI,HIFU,andMedBED(CenSSISIndustrialPartnerProgram)
NSF 5.1.03-8.31.10
Sarin NovelCeramicScintillatorsforPET(SBIR) DOE 8.15.08-8.14.09
Sarin HighPerformance,LowCostScintillatorsforPET DOE 7.20.09-4.19.10
Sarin HighPerformanceOpticalCeramicScintillatorThroughNanotechnology HHS/NIH/NIBIB 9.1.09-8.31.10
Wang AdaptiveFuzzyControlforModifiedF-15 NASA 7.17.08-12.31.09
Wroblewski STTRPhaseII:PlasmaSprayExperimentsinSupportofDevelopmentofSensorandAdvancedControlforPlasmaSpray
8.1.07-7.31.09
Zhang,K. CAREER:IntegratingMulti-ScaleMechanicsandBiomaterialstoStudytheTranslationofMechanicalForcesfromTissuetoCell
NSF 2.1.10-1.31.15
Zhang,X. UncooledCantileverMicrobolometerFocalPlaneArrayswithMKTempera-tureResolution:EngineeringMechanicsfortheNextGeneration
DOE/AirForce 12.1.08-9.30.09
Zhang,X. Design,Fabrication,andCharacterizationofanHTMicroTCD SchlumbergerDollResearch
7.1.09-12.31.10
Zhang,X. CAREER:CreatingNanostructuredGratingsonMicrostructuresforResidualStrain/StressMeasurementinNEMS/MEMSandTractionForceMeasure-mentinCells
NSF 2.13.04-8.31.09
Zhang,X. GOALI:HighSensitivityThermalConductivitySensorforMicroGasChro-matographyandHarshEnvironmentChemicalDetection
NSF 7.1.09-6.30.12
Zhang,X. AnImpedance-BasedAssayMicrosystemforReal-TimeHighThroughputStudyofSingleCells
NSF 10.1.09-9.30.10
Zhang,X. MechanicalBehaviorofAmorphousPlasma-EnhancedChemicalVaporDepositedSiliconOxideFilmsforMEMSApplications
NSF 6.1.09-5.31.11
Zhang,X.Averitt
MaterialsandMechanicsofMetamaterialEnhancedMEMSforTerahertzTechnology
DOE/AirForce 9.30.09-3.31.10
Zhang,X.Averitt
CoupledEvanescentFieldMicro-ResonatorsforDownholeDataRelay AdvancedEnergyConsor-tium
1.1.10-12.31.10
Zhang,X. CollaborativeResearch:ElasticandViscoelasticCharacterizationandMod-elingofPolymerBasedStructuresforBiologicalApplications
NSF 6.1.10-8.31.11
Zhang,X. Developmentofanoveloptomechanicaluncooledmetamaterial-enhancedactiveTerahertzdetectionimager
NSF 7.1.08-6.6.11
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B O O K C H A P T E R S
S.O.Newburg,A.Zosuls, P.E. BARBONE,andD.C.Mountain, “Me-chanicalresponseofthebasilarmembranetolateralmicromanipula-tion,”inConcepts and Challenges in the Biophysics of Hearing,editedbyN.P.CooperandD.T.Kemp,pp.240-46,WorldScientific,London,2009.
C. BELTA,“AbstractionsforPlanningandControlofRoboticSwarms,”inBio-inspired Computing and Communication Networks,editedbyYangXiaoandFeiHu,AuerbachPublications,CRCPress,2009.
C. BELTA,“RobotMotionPlanning,” inWiley Encyclopedia of Com-puter Science and Engineering,editedbyBenjaminWah,vol.4,pp.2439-2446,JohnWiley&Sons,Inc,Hoboken,2009.
A.Draudt,P.Lai,R.A. ROY,T.W.Murray,andR.O. CLEVELAND,“De-tectionofHIFU lesions inexcisedtissueusingAcousto-Optic Imag-ing,”in8th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound,AIP,Melville,NY,pp.270-274,2009.
H.O. WANG,“RecentAdvancesinBifurcationControl,”inAdvances in Control Systems Theory and Applications,editedbyJ.SunandG.Tao,UniversityofScienceandTechnologyofChinaPress,2009.
X. ZHANG, “Micro/Nanostructures for Measuring Cellular Forcesin CardiacMyocytes,” inNanomanufacturing, edited by ShaochenChen,pp.213-233,AmericanScientificPublishers,2009.
S. ATTAWAY,MATLAB, A Practical Intro-duction To Programming And Problem Solving, pp.452+x, Burlington,MA, Else-vierInc,2009.
J. BETHUNE, Engineering Design and Graphics with AutoCAD 2009, pp.737+x,UpperSaddleRiver,NewJersey,PearsonEducationInc,2009.
J. BETHUNE, Engineering Design and Graphics with Autodesk Inventor 2009,pp.704+x, Upper Saddle River, New Jer-sey,PearsonEducationInc,2009.
J. BETHUNE,Engineering Design and Graph-ics with SolidWorks, pp.532+x, Columbus,Ohio, Prentice Hall, Pearson Education Inc,2009.
Science of Hard Materials9,Editors:D.Mari,L.M.Llanes,andV.K. SARIN,Elsevier,Oxford,2009.
F a c u l t y P u b l i c a t i o n s *
* Faculty Publications include all the published work by the Mechanical Engineering faculty during 1 January - 31 December 2009.
OntheleftProfessorKamilEkinci
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S.B. ANDERSSON,D.Hristu-Varsakelis,andM.Lahijanian,“Observ-ers in language-basedcontrol,”Communications in Information and Systems inaSpecial IssueDedicated to the70thBirthdayofRogerBrockett,vol.8.no.2,pp.85-106,2009.
S.B. ANDERSSONandT.Sun,“Linearoptimalcontrolfortrackingasinglefluorescentparticleinaconfocalmicroscope,”Applied Physics B:LasersandOptics,vol.94,no.3,pp.403-409,2009.
W.S.WongandJ. BAILLIEUL,“ControlCommunicationComplexityofNonlinearSystems,“inCommunications in Information and Systems,Special IssueontheLegacyofRogerW.Brockett,Vol.9,No.1,pp.103-140,2009.
F.A.CruzandL.A. BARBA,“Characterizationoftheaccuracyofthefastmultipolemethodinparticlesimulations,”Int. J. Num. Meth. En-grg.,Vol.79(13):1577–1604,2009.
C.E.TorresandL.A. BARBA,“FastradialbasisfunctioninterpolationwithGaussiansby localizationand iteration,” J. Comput. Phys.,Vol.228:4976–4999,2009.
L.A. BARBA and L.F. Rossi, “Global field interpolation for particlemethods,”J. Comput. Phys.,Vol.229(4):1292–1310,2009.
P.E. BARBONE,C.E.Rivas, I.Harari,U.Albocher,A.A.Oberai,andY.Zhang,“Adjoint-weightedvariationalformulationforthedirectsolu-tionofinverseproblemsofgenerallinearelasticitywithfullinteriordata,”Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng,Vol.81Issue13,pp.1713–1736,2009.
D.Orsogna,P.Lamarre,E.Bellotti, P.E. BARBONE,F.Smith,C.Fulk,P. Lovecchio,M.B.Reine, S.P. Tobin andMarkunas, “ANovel StressCharacterizationTechniquefortheDevelopmentofLow-StressOhmicContactstoHgCdTe,”J. Journal of Electronic Materials,38(8),2009.
U.Albocher,A.A.Oberai,P.E. BARBONE,I.Harari,“Adjoint-weightedequationforinverseproblemsofincompressibleplane-stresselastic-ity,”Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng., Volume198, Issues30-32,pp.2412-2420,2009.
M.S.Richards,P.E. BARBONE,andA.A.Oberai,“Quantitativethreedimensionalelasticityimagingfromquasi-staticdeformation:aphan-tomstudy,”Phys. Med. Biol.,vol.54pp.757-779,2009.
A.A.Oberai,N.H.G.S.Goenezen,P.E. BARBONE,T.J.Hall,A.M.Som-mer,andJ.Jiang,“LinearandNonlinearelasticityimagingofsofttis-suein-vivo:Demonstrationoffeasibility,”Phys. Med. Biol.,vol.54,pp.1191-1207,2009.
A.A.Oberai,G.R.Feijoo,P.E. BARBONE, “Lanczos iteratedtime-re-versal,”J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Express Letters,125(2),February2009.
S.N. BASU,G.Ye,R.Khare,B.McCandless,M. GEVELBER,andD. WROBLEWSKI,“DependenceofSubstrateRemeltandStressEvolu-tiononSurfaceRoughnessLengthScalesinPlasmaSprayedThermalBarrier Coatings,” International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials,27[2],479-484,2009.
T. Kulkarni,H.Z.Wang, S.N. BASU andV.K. SARIN, “Composition-allygradedmullitebasedCVDcoatings,”J. Materials Research,24[2],470-474,2009.
T.Kulkarni,H.Z.Wang,S.N. BASUandV.K. SARIN,“PhaseTransfor-mationsinMulliteBasedNanocomposites,”International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials,27[2],465-471,2009.
J.Warga,R.Li,S.N. BASU,andL.DalNegro,“Erbium-DopedSiliconNanocrystals in Silicon/SiliconNitride Superlattice Structures: LightEmissionandEnergyTransfer,”Physica E,41[6],1040-1043,2009.
S.Yerci,R. Li, S.O.Kucheyev,T. vanBuuren,S.N. BASU, andL.DalNegro,“EnergyTransferand1.54µmEmissioninAmorphousSiliconNitrideFilms,”Applied Physics Letters,95[3],031107,2009.
S.A.Cornelissen,P.A.Bierden,T.G. BIFANO,andC.V.Lam,“4096-ele-mentcontinuousface-sheetMEMSdeformablemirrorforhigh-con-trast imaging,” Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MO-EMS,[8],031308-031308,2009.
E.Guven,E.L.MillerandR.O. CLEVELAND,“Fastcomputationofthespatialtransferfunctionofacurvedrectangularultrasoundelement,”IEEE Trans. on UFFC56:1903-1912,2009.
A.G.SternandD.C. COLE,“Highsensitivity,widedynamicrangeava-lanchephotodiodepixeldesignforlargescaleimagingarrays,”Jour-nalofElectronicImaging,Vol.19,021102-1to021102-14,2009.
C.H. FARNY,R.G. HOLT,andR.A. ROY,“Temporalandspatialdetec-tionofHIFU-inducedinertialandhot-vaporcavitationwithadiagnos-ticultrasound system,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 35 (4),603-615,2009.
J.W.Fergus,S. GOPALAN,T.Gür,R.Mukundan,andW.J.F.Weppner,“ImpactoftheKiukkola-WagnerPaperontheDevelopmentofElec-trochemicalProbesandToolsforFundamentalStudiesandIndustrialApplication,”Electrochemical Society Interface,vol.18,no1,pp.51-55,Spring2009.
K.J.Yoon,P.Zink, S. GOPALAN,U.B. PAL,andL.R.Pederson,“DefectChemistryandElectricalPropertiesof(La0.8Ca0.2)(0.95)FeO3-delta”,J.Electrochem.Soc.,156(7)B795-B800,2009.
W.He, K.J. Yoon, R.S. Eriksen, S. GOPALAN, S.N. BASU, andU.B. PAL,“Out-of-CellMeasurementsofH2-H2OEffectiveBinaryDiffusiv-ity in thePorousAnodeofSolidOxideFuelCells (SOFCs),”Electro-chem. Soc.,Volume25,Issue2pp.1879-1886,2009.
P.Zink,K.J.Yoon,U.B. PAL,andS. GOPALAN,“AnalysisoftheElec-tronicandIonicConductivityofCalcium-DopedLanthanumFerrite,”Electrochem. Solid.State.Lett,12(10)B141-B143,2009.
K.J.Yoon,G.S.Ye,S. GOPALAN,andU.B.PAL,“Cost-effectiveSingleStep Co-firing Technique for Manufacturing Solid Oxide Fuel Cells(SOFCs)usingHighShearCompaction(HSC)Anode,”Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology,Volume7,Issue2,2010.
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K.J.Yoon,S. GOPALAN,andU.B. PAL,“AnalysisofElectrochemicalPerformanceofSOFCsUsingPolarizationModelingand ImpedanceMeasurements,”J.Electrochem.Soc.,156,B311-B317,2009.
S. Pati, K.J. Yoon, S. GOPALAN, andU.B. PAL, “Hydrogen Produc-tionUsingSolidOxideMembraneElectrolyzerwithSolidCarbonRe-ductant inLiquidMetalAnode,” J.Electrochem.Soc.,156 (9)B1067-B1077,2009.
S.Pati,K.J.Yoon,S. GOPALAN,andU.B. PAL,“ElectrochemicalChar-acterizationofaSolidOxideMembraneElectrolyzerforProductionofHigh-PurityHydrogen,”Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B,40,1041-1053,2009.
Z.Waters,B.Dzikowicz,R.G. HOLT,andR.A. ROY,”Sensingaburiedresonantobjectbysingle-channeltimereversal”, IEEE Trans. Ultra-son., Ferroelectr. and Freq. Control 56(7),1429-1441,2009.
E.G.KotsariandM.S. HOWE,“Soundgeneratedbyvortexring im-pingementonaheatedwall,”Journal of Sound and Vibration,Volume328,85-91,2009.
M.S. HOWE,M.IidaandT.Miyachi,“Soundproducedbyforcedflowthrough a baffled aperture, with application to compressionwavegenerationinatunnel,”Journal of Fluids and Structures,Volume25,205-227,2009.
A.ManelaandM.S. HOWE, “Onthestabilityandsoundofanun-forcedflag,”Journal of Sound and Vibration,Volume321,994-1006,2009.
M.S. HOWEandR.S.McGowan,“Analysisofflow-structurecouplinginamechanicalmodelofthevocalfoldsandthesubglottalsystem,”Journal of Fluids and Structures,Volume25,1299-1317,2009.
M.S. HOWE, A.M.Colgan andT.A. Brungart, “On self noise at thenoseof a supercavitatingvehicle,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, Volume322,772-784,2009.
A.ManelaandM.S. HOWE,“Theforcedmotionofaflag.”JournalofFluid Mechanics,Volume635,439-454,2009.
M.S.R. Jardeleza,M.K.Daly, J.D.Kaufman,C.M. KLAPPERICH, andP.A.Legutko,“Effectoftrypanbluestainingontheelasticmodulusofanteriorlenscapsulesofdiabeticandnondiabeticpatients,”Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery,35(2),pp.318-323,2009.
M.D.Kulinski,M.Mahalanabis,S.Gillers,J.Y.Zhang,S.SinghandC.M. KLAPPERICH, “Sample PreparationModule for Bacterial Lysis andIsolationofDNAfromHumanUrine,”Biomedical Microdevices, 11(3),pp.671-678,2009.
S.Gillers,C.D.Atkinson,A.C.Bartoo,M.Mahalanabis,M.O.Boylan,J.H.Schwartz,C.M. KLAPPERICH,andS.K.Singh,“MicroscalesamplepreparationforPCRofC.difficileinfectedstool,” Journal of Microbio-logical Methods,DOI:10.1016/j.mimet.2009.05.020,2009.
A.Sauer-Budge,P.Mirer,A.Chatterjee,C.M. KLAPPERICH,D.Char-gin,A.Sharon,“LowcostandmanufacturablecompletemicroTASfordetectingbacteria,”Lab on a Chip,DOI:10.1039/B904854E,2009.
M.Mahalanabis,H.Al-Muayad,M.D.Kulinski,D.AltmanandC.M. KLAPPERICH, “Cell lysis andDNA extraction ofGram-positive and
Gram-negativeBacteriafromWholeBloodinaDisposableMicroflu-idicChip,”Lab on a Chip,DOI:10.1039/B905065P,2009.
A.KushimaA,X. LIN,andS.Yip,“Commentaryonthetemperature-dependentviscosityofsupercooledliquids:aunifiedactivationsce-nario,”Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter,21:504104,2009.
A.Kushima,X. LIN,J.Li,X.F.Qian,J.Eapen,J.C.Mauro,P.DiepandS.Yip,“Computingtheviscosityofsupercooledliquids.II.Silicaandstrong-fragilecrossoverbehavior,”Journal of Chemical Physics,131:164505,2009.
A.Kushima,X. LIN,J.Li,J.Eapen,J.C.Mauro,X.F.Qian,P.Diep,andS. Yip, “Computing theviscosityof supercooled liquids,” Journal of Chemical Physics,130:224504,2009.
T.T.Lau,X. LIN,S.Yip,andK.J.VanVliet,“Atomisticexaminationoftheunitprocessesandvacancy-dislocationinteractionindislocationclimb,”Scripta Materialia,60,399-402,2009.
M.S. Caldwell, J.G. MCDANIEL, and K.M. Warkentin, “Frequencyinformationinthevibration-cuedescapehatchingofred-eyedtree-frogs,”The Journal of Experimental Biology,Vol.212,Pt.4,pp.566-575,2009.
P.L. Leong and E.F. MORGAN, “Correlations between indentationmodulusandmineraldensity inbone-fracturecalluses,” Integrative and Comparative Biology,49:59-68,2009.
A.V.Cuomo,M.Virk,F.Petrigliano, E.F. MORGAN,and J.R. Lieber-man,“Mesenchymalstemcellconcentrationandbonerepair:poten-tialpitfallsfrombenchtobedside,”Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery,91A(5):1073-83,2009.
M.V.Bais,N.Wigner,M.Young,R.Toholka,D.T.Graves,E.F. MOR-GAN,L.C.Gerstenfeld,andT.A.Einhorn,“BMP2isessentialforpostnatalosteogenesisbutnotforrecruitmentofosteogenicstemcells,”Bone,45(2):254-66,2009.
H.K.Kim,H.Bian,J.Aya-ay,A.Garces,E.F. MORGAN,andS.R.Gil-bert, “Hypoxia and HIF-1alpha expression in the epiphyseal carti-lagefollowingischemicinjurytotheimmaturefemoralhead,”Bone, 45(2):280-8,2009.
T.Gaur,J.J.Wixted,S.Hussain,S.O’Connel, E.F. MORGAN,D.Ayers,B.S.Komm,P.V.Bodine,G.S. Stein, and J.B. Lian, “Secreted frizzledrelatedprotein1isatargettoimprovefracturehealing,” Journal of Cellular Physiology,220(1):174-181,2009.
D.J.Hunter,L.C.Gerstenfeld,G.Bishop,Z.D.Mason,T.A.Einhorn,R.A.Maciewicz,P.Newham,andE.F. MORGAN, “Bonemarrow lesionsfromosteoarthritickneesarecharacterizedbyscleroticbonethatislesswellmineralized,” Arthritis Research,11(1):R11,2009.
K.T.S.Palomares,R.E.Gleason,Z.D.Mason,D.M.Cullinane,T.A.Ein-horn,L.C.Gerstenfeld,andE.F. MORGAN,“Mechanicalstimulationalters tissue differentiation andmolecular expression during bonehealing,” Journal of Orthopaedic Research,27(9):1123-32,2009.
L.N.M.HaywardandE.F. MORGAN,“Assessmentofamechano-reg-ulationtheoryofskeletaltissuedifferentiationinaninvivomodelofmechanicallyinducedcartilageformation,”Biomechanics and Model-ing in Mechanobiology,Volume8,Number6447-455,2009.
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L.C.Gerstenfeld,D.J.Sacks,M.Pelis,Z.D.Mason,D.T.Graves,M.Bar-rero,M.Ominsky, P.J. Kostenuik, E.F. MORGAN, and T.A. Einhorn,”Comparison of bisphosphonate alendronate versus the RANKL in-hibitordenosumabonmurinefracturehealing,”Journal of Bone and Mineral Research,24(2):196-208,2009.
E.F. MORGAN,K.B.Chien,Z.D.Mason,A.J.Pfeiffer,G.L.Barnes,T.A.Einhorn,andL.C.Gerstenfeld,“Micro-computedtomographyassess-mentoffracturehealing:relationshipsamongcallusstructure,com-position,andmechanicalfunction,”Bone,44(2):225-44,2009.
R.J. NAGEM,G. SANDRI,D.UminskyandC.E.Wayne,“GeneralizedHelmholtz-KirchhoffModel forTwo-DimensionalDistributedVortexMotion,”SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems,Vol.8,Issue1,pp.160-179,2009.
A.D. PIERCE andW.M. CAREY,Erratum: “Low-frequencyattenua-tionof acousticwaves in sandy/siltymarine sediments,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,Volume125,Issue2,pp.1246-1246,2009.
A.D. PIERCE,“Relationofsoundabsorptionandshallowwatermod-alattenuationtoplanewaveattenuation,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,Vol.126,Issue5,pp.EL153-EL159,2009.
G.YunandH.S. PARK,“SurfaceStressEffectsontheBendingProper-tiesofFCCMetalNanowires,” Physical Review B,79:195421,2009.
S.Y.KimandH.S. PARK. “Multilayer LayerFrictionandAttachmentEffectsonEnergyDissipationinGrapheneNanoresonators,” Applied Physics Letters,94:101918,2009.
S.Y.KimandH.S. PARK,“TheImportanceofEdgeEffectsontheIn-trinsicLossMechanismsofGrapheneNanoresonators,”Nano Letters, 9(3):969-974,2009.
H.S. PARK, “Quantifying theSize-DependentEffectof theResidualSurfaceStressontheResonantFrequenciesofSiliconNanowires ifFinite Deformation Kinematics are Considered,” Nanotechnology, 20:115701,2009.
S.Jun,S.Pendurti,I.-H.Lee,S.Y.Kim,H.S. PARKandY.-H.Kim,“Ac-tion-DerivedAbInitioMolecularDynamics,”International Journal of Applied Mechanics,1(3):469-482,2009.
H.S. PARK,W.Cai,H.D.EspinosaandH.Huang,“MechanicsofCrys-tallineNanowires,”MRS Bulletin,34(3):178-183,2009.
P.Lai,R.A. ROY,T.W.Murray,“Quantitativecharacterizationofturbidmedia using pressure contrast acousto-optic imaging,” Optics Lett.34(18),2850-2852,2009.
S.G.ToppingandV.K. SARIN,“CVDLu2O3:Eucoatingsforadvancedscintillators,” International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials,27(2),498-501,2009.
J.Griesbauer,A.Wixforth,M.F. SCHNEIDER,“Soundpropagationinlipidmonolayers,” Biophys J, 97,2710,2009.
3. M.Hennig, J.Neumann, A.Wixforth, J.O. Rädler and M.F. SCH-NEIDER, “Dynamic patterns in a supported lipid bilayer driven bysurfaceacousticwaves,” Lab Chip,DOI:10.1039/B907157A,2009.
T.Franke,C.T.Leirer,A.Wixforth,N.Dan,M.F. SCHNEIDER,“PhasetransitionandDissipation-DrivenBuddinginLipidVesicles,” ChemP-hysChem, 10(16),P2852-2857,2009.
C.Fillafer,G.Ratzinger,J.Neumann,Z.Guttenberg,S.Dissauer,I.K.Lichtscheidl,M.Wirth,F.Gabor,M.F. SCHNEIDER,“Anacoustically-drivenbiochip– Impactofflowon the cell-associationof targeteddrugcarriers,”Lab ChipCoverArticle&HighlightedinChemBiology9(19),2009.
B.Wunderlich,C.T.Leirer,T.Heimburg,A.Wixforth,U.Keyser,U.L.Id-zko,M.F. SCHNEIDER,“Phasestatedependentcurrentfluctuationsinpurelipidmembranes,“Biophys J,96,4592,2009.
T.Franke,C.L.Leirer,A.Wixforth,M.F. SCHNEIDER,“PhaseTransi-tion Induced Adhesion of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles,” ChemPhy-sChem,10(16),2858-61,2009.
8.C.L.Leirer,B.Wunderlich,V.M.Myles,M.F. SCHNEIDER,“PhaseTransition induced Fission in lipid vesicles,” BiophysChem 143, 1062009.
J.Q.Hu,C.Zhao,andP. VAKILI,“RevenueMaximizationinNetworkswith Capacity Constraints,” International Journal of Revenue Man-agement,Vol3(4),pp.371-392,2009.
Y.-W.Wang,M.Yang,H.O. WANG,andZ.-H.Guan,“RobustStabili-zationofComplexSwitchedNetworkswithParametricUncertaintiesandDelaysviaImpulsiveControl,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers,Vol.56,No.9,pp.2100-2108,September2009.
H. Aguesse,H.O. WANG and K. Tanaka, “Information Control in aUnifiedFrameworkofConsensusSeeking,” International Journal of Information and Systems Sciences,Vol.5,No.2,pp.199-209, June2009.
J.Yao,H.O. WANG,Z.-H.GuanandW.Xu,“PassiveStabilityandSyn-chronization of Complex Spatio-Temporal SwitchingNetworkswithTimeDelays,”Automatica,Vol.45,No.7,pp.1721-1728,July2009.
J.Yao,H.-N.Wang,Z.-H.GuanandH.O. WANG,“Synchronizationofleader-followersnetworkswithcouplingdelaysviavariablestructurecontrol,”Asian Journal of Control,Vol.11,No.4,pp.407-410, July2009.
K.Tanaka,H.OhtakeandH.O. WANG,“ASumofSquaresApproachtoModelingandControlofNonlinearDynamicalSystemswithPoly-nomialFuzzySystems,” IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems,Vol.17,No.4,pp.911-922,August2009.
K. Tanaka, H. Ohtake and H.O. WANG, “Guaranteed Cost ControlofPolynomialFuzzySystemsviaaSumofSquaresApproach,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B,Vol.39,No.2,pp.561-567,April2009.
N.Hara,K.Tanaka,H.OhtakeandH.O. WANG,“DevelopmentofaFlyingRobotwithPantograph-basedVariableWingMechanism,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics,Vol.25,No.1,pp.79-87,February2009.
K.Tanaka,K.Yamauchi,H.OhtakeandH.O. WANG,“SensorReduc-tion for Backing-UP Control of a Vehicle with Triple Trailers,” IEEE
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Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 497-509,February2009.
M.Yang,Y.-W.Wang,J.-W.Xiao,andH.O. WANG,“RobustSynchroni-zationofImpulsively-CoupledComplexSwitchedNetworkswithPara-metricUncertaintiesandtime-varyingDelays,” Nonlinear Analysis B: Real World Applications,DOI:10.1016/j.nonrwa.2009.10.021,2009.
F.Liu,Z.-H.Guan,andH.O. WANG,“ImpulsiveControlofBifurcation,MathematicsandComputersinSimulation,”Transactions of IMACS,Vol.79,No.7,pp.2180-2191,March2009.
F. Liu, Z.-H. Guan, and H.O. WANG, “Controlling bifurcations andchaosinTCP-UDP-RED,” Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, doi:10.1016/j.nonrwa.2009.03.005,2009.
C.Colosqui,H.Chen,X.ShanandV. YAKHOT,“Propagatinghigh-fre-quencyshearwavesinsimplefluids,”Phys.Fluids,v21,013105,2009.
S.C.C.Bailey,M.Hultmark,J.Schumacher,V. YAKHOTandA.Smits,“Measurementofoflocaldissipationscalesinturbulentpipeflow,”Phys. Rev. Lett,v103,0145002,2009.
D.Wei andY. ZHANG, “FrictionbetweenƒÑ-Al2O3 (0001 ) sur-faces and the effects of surface hydroxylation,” Surface Science,doi:10.1016/j.susc.2009.06.022,2009.
Y.Zou,andY. ZHANG,“Anexperimentalandtheoreticalstudyontheanisotropy of elastin network,” Annals of Biomedical Engineering,Vol.37,pp.1572-1583,2009.
Y. ZHANG andM.L.Dunn,“DeformationofPatternedBilayerPlateMicrostructuresSubjectedtoThermalLoading,” International Journal of Solids and Structures,Vol.46,pp.125-134,2009.
Y.Wang,X.Zheng,N.Riddick,M.Bryden,W.Baur,X. ZHANG,andH.K. Surks, “ROCK Isoform Regulation ofMyosin Phosphatase andContractilityinVascularSmoothMuscleCells,” Circulation Research,104(4),pp.531−540,2009.
Y. Qiu, R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “Impedance-Based Monitoring ofOngoing Cardiomyocyte Death Induced by Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha,”Biophysical Journal,96(5),pp.1985−1991,2009.
I-KLin,X. ZHANG,andY.Zhang,“ThermomechanicalBehaviorandMicrostructural Evolution of SiNx/Al Bimaterial Microcantilevers,”Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 19 (8), 085010,2009.
Y.Qiu,R.Liao,andX. ZHANG,“InterventionofCardiomyocyteDeathBasedonReal-TimeMonitoringofCellAdhesionthroughImpedanceSensing,”Biosensors and Bioelectronics,25(1),pp.147−153,2009.
I-KLin,K-SOu,Y-MLiao,Y.Liu,K-SChen,andX. ZHANG,“ViscoelasticCharacterizationandModelingofPolymerTransducersforBiologicalApplications,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,18(5),pp.1087−1099,2009.
H. Tao, A.C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG, and R.D.Averitt, “Reconfigurable TerahertzMetamaterials,” Physical Review Letters,103(14),147401,2009.
B.J.Hansen,N.Kouklin,G.Lu,I-KLin,J.Chen,andX. ZHANG,“Trans-port,AnalyteDetection,andOpto-ElectronicResponseofp-TypeCuONanowires,”Journal of Physical Chemistry C,114(6),pp.2440−2447,2009.
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M. Lahijanian, S.B. ANDERSSON and C. BELTA, “A probabilistic ap-proachforcontrolofastochasticsystemfromLTLspecifications,”Pro-ceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,pp.2236-2241,2009.
Z. Shen and S.B. ANDERSSON, “Trackingmultiple fluorescentmol-ecules intwodimensions inaconfocalmicroscope,”Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,pp.6052-6057,2009.
P.I. Chang and S.B. ANDERSSON, “Amaximum-likelihood detectionschemefor rapid imagingof string-likesamples inatomic forcemi-croscopy,” Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,pp.8290-8295,2009.
P.I.ChangandS.B. ANDERSSON,“Theoreticalboundsonanon-rasterscanmethodfortrackingstring-likesamples,” Proceedings of Ameri-can Control Conference,pp.1682-1687,2009.
Z.ShenandS.B. ANDERSSON,“LQG-basedtrackingofmultiplefluo-rescentparticles in two-dimensions inaconfocalmicroscope,”Pro-ceedings of American Control Conference,pp.2266-2271,2009.
J. BAILLIEUL andD. Raghunathan, “Exploiting information contentinrelativemotion,” Proceedings of American Control Conference,St.Louis,MO,ThA606.4,pp.2166-2171,June10-12,2009.
J. BAILLIEUL andD. Raghunathan, “Motion Based CommunicationChannelsbetweenMobileRobots–ANovelParadigmforLowBand-widthInformationExchange,” Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ Inter-national Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,St.Louis,MO,October11-15,2009.
J. BAILLIEUL, “The Standard Parts Problem and the Complexity ofControl Communication,” Proceedings of the Combined 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Con-ference, Shanghai, China, pp. 2723-2728. Digital Object Identifier:10.1109/CDC.2009.5400413,December16-18,2009.
C.CooperandL.A. BARBA,“Panel-freeboundaryconditionsforvis-cousvortexmethods,”19th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Con-ference,SanAntonio,TX,Paper#AIAA2009-3549,June22–25,2009.F.A.Cruz,C.Cooper,R.YokotaandL.A. BARBA,“Parallelimplementa-tionofpanel-freeboundaryconditionsforthevortexparticlemeth-od,” 21st International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics,MoffettField,CA,May18–22,2009.
L.A. BARBA,“Parallelandmeshfree:newfrontiersofCFD,”21st Inter-national Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics,Mof-fettField,CA,May18–22,2009.
B.Yordanovand C. BELTA,“TemporalLogicControlofDiscrete-TimePiecewiseAffineSystems,”Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Deci-sion and Control (CDC),Shanghai,China,2009.
M.Lahijanian,M.Kloetzer,S. Itani,C. BELTAandS.B. ANDERSSON,“Automaticdeploymentofautonomouscars ina roboticurban-likeenvironment(RULE),” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,pp.2055-2060,2009.
M.Lahijanian,C. BELTA,andS.B. ANDERSSON, “AProbabilisticAp-proach forControl of a Stochastic System fromLTL Specifications,”Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC),Shanghai,China,2009.
T.G. BIFANO, L. Schatzberg, J. Stewart and S. Cornelissen, “MEMSModulated retroreflectors for secure optical communication,”Pro-ceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition,Vol13,PtsAandB,NewYork,AmericanSocietyofMechanicalEngineers,395-399,2009.
K.K.Chu,A.Leray,T.G. BIFANOandJ.Mertz,“Two-photonfluores-cencemicroscopywithdifferentialaberrationimaging,”SPIE MEMS Adaptive Optics III,SanJose,CA,SPIE,[7209],720903-720905,2009.
L. Ziph-Schatzberg, T.G. BIFANO, S. Cornelissen, J. Stewart and Z.Bleier, “Secure optical communication system utilizing deformableMEMSmirrors,”SPIE MEMS Adaptive Optics III,San Jose,CA,SPIE,[7209],72090C-72015,2009.
L. Ziph-Schatzberg, T.G. BIFANO, S. Cornelissen, J. Stewart and Z.Bleier,“DeformableMEMSmirrorsinsecureopticalcommunicationsystem,”Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applica-tions,Orlando,FL,SPIE,[7318],73180T-73112,2009.
K.Chu,T.G. BIFANOandJ.Mertz,“Two-PhotonDifferentialAberra-tionImagingUsingaModulatingRetroreflectorMirror,”Novel Tech-niques in Microscopy,OpticalSocietyofAmerica,NMD3,2009.
K. Chu, T.G. BIFANO and J. Mertz, “Improvements in Two-PhotonFluorescence Microscopy,” Frontiers in Optics, Optical Society ofAmerica,FWA2,2009.
T.G. BIFANO,“MEMSWavefrontCorrectors,”Adaptive Optics: Meth-ods, Analysis and Applications,OpticalSocietyofAmerica,AOThD1,2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS and J. Foster, “Management of Electric VehicleCharging toMitigateRenewableGeneration IntermittencyandDis-tributionNetworkCongestion,”48th IEEE CDC, pp.4717-4722,De-cember,2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS ,C.Wu,I.C.Paschalidis,“ProductionPlanningandQualityofServiceAllocationacross theSupplyChain inaDynamicLeadTimeModel,”48th IEEE CDC,pp.7137-7144,December,2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS ,C.Cassandras,T.LittleandI.C.Paschalidis,“TheCyber-Physical(CP)ElectricPowerGeneration-Delivery-ConsumptionPlatform:ResearchChallengesforOptimalInvestmentTradeoffsbe-tween thePlatform’sCyberandPhysicalComponents,”PublicationandpresentationattheNSF-NIST-DOEworkshopontheSmart Grid, a Cyber Physical Energy System,Baltimore,MDJune3-4,2009.
W.M. CAREY,J.D.HolmesandJ.F.Lynch,“Theapplicabilityofasmallautonomousvehicletowedarraysystemtooceanacousticmeasure-mentsandsignalprocessing,”Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics,Volume4,pp.070007,2009.
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W.M. CAREY,“Ontheexponentialpowerlawforlowfrequencyat-tenuation inshallowwater,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics,Volume5,Issue1,pp.005002-005002-14,2009.
W.M. CAREYandA.D. PIERCE,“Acousticalcharacteristicsofmuddysediments,”Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics,Volume5,Issue1,pp.070002-070002-10,July22,2009.
W.M. CAREY,“Transversecoherencelengths,processinglimitsandimplications,”Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics,Volume6,Issue1,pp.005001-005001-15,2009.
W.M. CAREY,“Transversecoherencelengths,processinglimitsandimplications,”InvitedPaper157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,J.AcousticalSocietyofAmerica1252492,2009.
W.M. CAREYandJ.F.Lynch,“Theapplicabilityofasmalltowedarraysystemtotheoceanbottomsedimentclassificationproblem,”Invitedpaper158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,J.Acousti-calSocietyofAmerica126(4)2167,2009.
W.M. CAREY andA.D. PIERCE , ”Measurement of sound transmis-sionthroughmudatDodgePond,Connecticut,”158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, J.Acoustical SocietyofAmerica1262167,2009.
E.Johnsen,T.ColoniusandR.O. CLEVELAND,“Damagepotentialoftheshock-inducedcollapseofagasbubble,” Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2009), Ann Arbor,MI,August17-22,2009.
A.G.SternandD.C. COLE,“Highquantumefficiency,back-illuminat-ed,crystallographicallyetched,silicon-on-sapphireavalanchephoto-diodewithverywidedynamicrange,formanufacturablehighreso-lution imaging arrays,”Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering,v7249,72490R(12pp.),2009.
X.YanandM. GEVELBER,“InvestigationofElectrospunfiberDiam-eterDistributionandProcessDynamics,” Proceedings 2009 Electro-statics Joint Conference,2009.M. GEVELBER,“Real-TimeControlforEngineeringElectrospunNano-fiberDiameterDistributionforAdvancedApplications,” NSF Grantee Conference.
M. GEVELBER,D. WROBLEWSKI,M.Cannamela,O.Ghosh,M.Van-Hout, A. Lum, K.HogstromandS.N. BASU, “Plasma Spray ProcessModelingforControl:EffectofTorchInputsonParticleStateDistribu-tion,”2009 International Thermal Spray Conference, LasVegas,NV,May,2009.
M. GEVELBER,D. WROBLEWSKI,M.VanHout,O.Ghosh,D.Willough-byandS.N. BASU,“SensorandControlDesignIssuesforImplementa-tionofReal-TimeDepositionRateControlforPlasmaSpray,” IMECE 2008: Heat Transfer, Fluid Flows, and Thermal Systems,Vol.10,pp461-470,2009.
W.He,K.J.Yoon,R.Eriksen,S. GOPALAN,S.N. BASU,andU.B. PAL,“H2-H2OBinaryDiffusivityMeasurementinSolidOxideFuelCellUs-inganElectrochemicalCell,” 11th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,Vienna,Austria,ECSTransactions,Vol.25[2]1879-1886,October,2009.
W.Huang,S. GOPALAN,U.B. PALandS.N. BASU,“TransportThroughElectrophoretically Deposited CuMn1.8O4 Spinel Coatings on Cro-fer Interconnects,” Proceedings of MRS Symposium, Volume 1126,Warrendale,PA,1126-S11-05,2009.
A.VardyandM.S. HOWE,“Rapidpredictionoftrainnoseentrypres-sure gradients,” Proceedings of 13th International Symposium on Aerodynamics and Ventilation of Vehicle Tunnels,NewBrunswick,NJ,May13-15,2009.
A.BhattacharyyaandC.M. KLAPPERICH,“DifferentialGeneExpres-sionUsingmRNAIsolatedonPlasticMircofluidicChips,” Proceedings of the IEEE 31st Annual EMBS Conference,Minneapolis,MN,2009.
J.Do,J.ZhangandC.M. KLAPPERICH,“Masklesswritingmicrofluid-ics:Rapidprototypingof3Dmicrofluidicsusingscratchonapolymersubstrate,”mTAS,Jeju,Korea,2009.
M.C.Kim,B.C.Isenberg,J.Sutin,A.Meller,J.Y.WongandC.M. KLAP-PERICH,“Singlebacteriatrappingusingmicroscalesieveswithsubmi-cronfeatures:Simulationandexperiments,” mTAS,Jeju,Korea,2009.
J.Do,M.Mahalanabis,J.Zhang,H.AlMuayadandC.M. KLAPPERICH,“Anintegrateddisposablemicrofluidicdeviceforbacterialdetectionusingsolid-phaseDNAextractionandisothermalhelicase-dependentamplification,” mTAS,Jeju,Korea,2009.
J.Do,J.ZhangandC.M. KLAPPERICH“Rapidconcentrationofbacte-ria in adisposablemicrofluidicdeviceusingenhancedevaporationforpoint-of-caresamplepreparation,”mTAS,Jeju,Korea,2009.
A.D. PIERCE,“Realitiesofpublishinginajournal:whyshouldyousub-mit,whatshouldyousubmit,andwhatproblemsmightyouencoun-ter,”Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Volume6, Issue 1, pp.032004-032004-14,July13,2009.
A.D. PIERCEandA.Akay,“Intrinsicdampingmodelsandtheirroleinpredictingstructural response,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acous-tics,Volume6,Issue1,pp.065003-065003-14,July6,2009.
A.D. PIERCE andW.M. CAREY, “Card-house theory ofmud sedi-mentscontainingkaoliniteanditsacousticalimplications,”Proceed-ings of Meetings on Acoustics,Volume5,Issue1,pp.070001-070001-14,February10,2009.
A.D. PIERCE andW.M. CAREY, “Shearwave speed increaseswithdepthtotheone-sixthpowerinsandy-siltymarinesediments,”Pro-ceedings of Meetings on Acoustics,Volume4, Issue1,pp.070006-070006-15,February8,2009.
Y. Gong,M. Cabodi, T.M. PORTER, “Measurement of the attenua-tioncoefficientformonodispersepopulationsofultrasoundcontrastagents,”Proceedings IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc.,1964-1966,2009.
P.ZhangandT.M. PORTER,“Therelationshipbetweenacousticback-scattering and heating during bubble-mediated high intensity fo-cusedultrasound,”Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,Vol.126,2176,2009.
Y.Gong,M.CabodiandT.M. PORTER,“Aninvitrostudyoftherela-tionshipbetweensizeof lipid-coatedmicrobubblesand frequency-dependentattenuationcoefficient,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,Vol.126,2175,2009.
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J.A. Kopechek, T.M. PORTER,, C-C Coussios, S.R. Perrin, S. Huang,D.D.McPhersonandC.K.Holland,“Acousticcharacterizaionofecho-genic liposomes:attenuationandquantitativebackscatter,”Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,Vol.125,2712,2009.
P. Lai., R.A. ROY and T.W. Murray, “Sensing the optical proper-ties of diffusive media by acousto-optic pressure contrast imag-ing,” Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2009, A.A.OraevskyandL.V.Wangeds.,ProceedingsofSPIEVol.7177,71771G;DOI:10.1117/12.808531,2009.
P.V. Chitnis, J.Mamou, J.McLaughlan, T.W.Murray andR.A. ROY,“Photoacoustic Thermometry for Therapeutic Hyperthermia,” Pro-ceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium,10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.0430,pp.1757-1760,2009.
V.V.Nagarkar,S.G.Topping,S.R.Miller,B.Singh,C.H.Park,V.K. SARIN and C. Brecher, “Characterization of vapor deposited Lu2O3:Eu3+scintillatorforx-rayimagingapplications,” SPIE,2009.
M.Yang,Y.-W.Wang,Z.-H.Guan,andH.O. WANG,“RobustStabiliza-tionofUncertainComplexSingularDynamicalNetworksvia Impul-siveControl,” Proceedings of the combined 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference, Shanghai,China,pp.3891-3896,December16-18,2009.
K.Tanaka,H.Ohtake,M.Wada,H.O. WANGandY.-J.Chen,“Polyno-mialFuzzyObserverDesign:ASumofSquaresApproach,”Proceed-ings of the combined 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference, Shanghai, China, pp. 7771-7776,December16-18,2009.
Y.-J.Chen,H.Ohtake,K.Tanaka,W.-J.WangandH.O. WANG,“Infin-ityControlofT-SFuzzySystemsUsingPiecewiseLyapunovFunctionBasedSwitchingFuzzyController,” Proceedings of the combined 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference,Shanghai,China,pp.3087-3092,December16-18,2009.
M.Yang,Y.-W.Wang,H.O. WANGandY.-H.Huang,“RobustSynchro-nizationof Impulsively-CoupledComplexDynamicalNetworkswithParametricUncertaintiesandDelays,” Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control,St.Petersburg,Rus-sia,pp.165-170,July8-10,2009.
L.-L.Guo,Y.-W.Wang,H.O. WANGandY.-H.Huang,“Delay-DependentStabilityofDiscrete-TimeComplexNetworkswithMode-DependentUncertainParametersandTimeDelays,”Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control,St.Petersburg,Rus-sia,pp.177-182,July8-10,2009.
J.Yao,H.O. WANGandX.Jin,“PassiveSynchronizationofComplexSpatio-TemporalSwitchingNetworkswithCouplingDelays,”Proceed-ings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control,St.Petersburg,Russia,pp.1605-1609,July8-10,2009.
H. Ohtake, K. Tanaka andH.O. WANG, “FuzzyModel-Based ServoControl forNonlinear Systemswith Input Constraint,”Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control,St.Petersburg,Russia,pp.452-255,July8-10,2009.
Y.-J.Chen,H.Ohtake,W.-J.Wang,K.TanakaandH.O. WANG,“Guar-anteedCostControlofT-SFuzzySystemsUsingPiecewiseLyapunov
FunctionBasedSwitchingFuzzyController,” Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control,St.Petersburg,Russia,pp.440-445,July8-10,2009.
M.Yang,Y.-W.Wang,H.O. WANG,H.OhtakeandK.Tanaka,“Stabi-lizationofComplexSwitchedNetworkswithtwotypesofDelaysviaImpulsiveControl,”Proceedings of the 2009 American Control Con-ference,St.Louis,MO,pp.5783-5788,June10-12,2009.
H.Ohtake,K.TanakaandH.O. WANG,“ImprovedControllerDesignforSwitchingFuzzyModel-BasedControl,”Proceedings of the 2009 American Control Conference,St.Louis,MO,pp.4284-4289,June10-12,2009.
H.Ohtake,K.TanakaandH.O. WANG,“SwitchingFuzzyModelCon-structionbasedonOptimalDividingPlanes,”Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems,JejuIsland,Korea,August20-24,2009.
Y.-J.Chen,H.Ohtake,K.Tanaka,W.-J.WangandH.O. WANG,“RelaxedStabilizationConditionsofT-SFuzzySystemsUsingPiecewiseLyapu-novFunctionBasedSwitchingFuzzyController,”Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems,JejuIsland,Korea,August20-24,2009.
Y.Higashi,K.Tanaka,H.OhtakeandH.O. WANG,“ImprovementofSimulationModelandDevelopmentofControlMechanismofForceDirectionforaFlyingRobotwithCyclogyroWing,”Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Sys-tems,St.Louis,MO,October11-15,2009.
H. Jung,S.-H.Lee,D.H.KimandH.O. WANG, “Developmentof theCar-likeRobotwithVariableWheelPositionMechanismforFullMo-bility,” Proceedings of the 2009 CACS International Automatic Control Conference,Taipei,Taiwan,Nov.27-29,2009.
H.Jung,D.H.Kim,G.YeandH.O. WANG,“Self-organizationforSwarmSystemsBasedon Systematic SingularAssociation,”Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mechatronics Technology,Cebu,Philippines,October20-23,2009.
O.Cote,D. WROBLEWSKIandJ.Hacker,“RefractiveTurbulence,Tran-sientElectronicDisconnectivity,andPropagationSituationalAware-ness (PSA) ,” 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL,January,2009.
D. WROBLEWSKI,O.Ghosh,A.Lum,D.Willoughby,M.VanHoutM,K.Hogstrom,S.N. BASUandM. GEVELBER,“ModelingandParamet-ricAnalysisofPlasmaSprayParticleStateDistributionforDepositionRateControl,”IMECE 2008: Heat Transfer, Fluid Flows, and Thermal Systems,Vol.10,pp453-460,2009.
Y. Zou andY. ZHANG, “Time-DependentMechanics of ElastinNet-work,”Proceedings of the ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Con-ference,LakeTahoe,CA,2009.
I-KLin,X. ZHANGandY. ZHANG,“SuppressionofInelasticDeforma-tioninMultilayerMicrocantileverswithNanoscaleCoating,”Materi-als Research Society Symposia Proceedings,MRSFallmeeting,Bos-ton,MA,2009.
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B.C.KaantaandX. ZHANG,“HighSensitivityuThermalConductivityDetectorforGasChromatography,” Proceeding of the 22nd IEEE In-ternational Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS ‘09),Sorrento,Italy,pp.264−267,January25-29,2009.
H.Tao,K.Fan,C.M.Bingham,A.C.Strikwerda,D.V.Pilon,W.J.Padilla,R.D.AverittandX. ZHANG,“AbsorberBasedonPerfectlyImpedanceMatchedMetamaterialswith SimultaneouslyNegative Electric andMagneticResonanceResponsesbasedonBimaterialPopupStruc-tures,” Proceeding of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS ‘09), Sorrento, Italy, pp.108−111,January25-29,2009.
H.Tao,C.M.Bingham,A.C.Strikwerda,D.V.Pilon,D.Shrekenhamer,N.I.Landy,K.Fan,W.J.Padilla,X. ZHANGandR.D.Averitt,“FlexibleWideAngleTerahertzResonantAbsorberBasedonPerfectlyImped-anceMatchedMetamaterials,” Proceeding of the 29th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / International Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS ‘09),Baltimore,MD,CThFF2,May31-June5,2009.
A.C.Strikwerda,K.Fan,H.Tao,D.V.Pilon,X. ZHANGandR.D.Averitt,“ComparisonofBirefringentMetamaterialsandMeanderlineStruc-tureasQuarter-WavePlates at Terahertz Frequencies,”Proceeding of the 29th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / International Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS ‘09), Baltimore,MD,CThFF5,May31-June5,2009.
H.Tao,A.C.Strikwerda,K.Fan,C.M.Bingham,W.J.Padilla,X. ZHANGandR.D.Averitt,“FlexibleTerahertzMetamaterialsonPolyimideSub-strates,”Proceeding of the 29th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / International Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Confer-ence (CLEO/QELS ‘09),Baltimore,MD,CThFF1,May31-June5,2009.
Y. Qiu, R. Liao and X. ZHANG, “Preventing Cardiomyocytes fromTNF-Alpha-InducedCellDeathBasedonReal-TimeMonitoringCellAdhesionthroughImpedanceSensors,”Proceeding of the 15th Inter-
national Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsys-tems,Denver,CO,pp.65−68,June21-25,2009.
Y.Qiu,R.LiaoandX. ZHANG,“InterventionofCardiomyocyteDeathBasedontheImpedance-SensingTechniqueofMonitoringCellAdhe-sion,” Proceeding of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC ‘09),Min-neapolis,MN,pp.4457−4460,September2-6,2009.
X.ZhengandX. ZHANG,“DevelopmentofaVersatileCellForceTrans-ducerUsingMoireMechanism,”Proceeding of the 31st Annual Inter-national Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC ‘09), Minneapolis, MN, pp. 1180−1183, September2-6,2009.
X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Quantifying Contractility in MigrationalVascularSmoothMuscleCellsRegulatedbyContractileProteinsUs-ingaNovelMicrofluidicForceMappingChip,”Proceeding of the 13th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS ‘09),Jeju,Korea,pp.475−477,November1-5,2009.
I-KLin,K-SOu,K-SChenandX. ZHANG,“CellularForceMeasurementinCardiacMyocytesUsingPolymerMicropillarArraywithViscoelas-tic Characterization,” Proceeding of the 13th International Confer-ence on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (micro-TAS ‘09),Jeju,Korea,pp.269−271,November1-5,2009.
Y.Qiu,R.LiaoandX. ZHANG,“MonitoringSpreadingofSomaticStemCellsUsingan ImpedanceSensor,”Proceeding of the 13th Interna-tional Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sci-ences (microTAS ‘09),Jeju,Korea,pp.311−313,November1-5,2009.
P.Du,X.LiandX. ZHANG, “Characterizationof theCorrelationbe-tween Current Input and Curvature Output of Polypyrrole TrilayerActuators,”Proceeding of the 9th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications,Washington,DC,pp.578−581,December1-4,2009.
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I N V I T E D P R E S E N T A T I O N S
S.A. ANDERSSON,“Imagingforin-cellsurgery:studyingsinglemol-eculesthroughtracking,”givenattheLCSR/CISSTSeminarSeriesatTheJohnsHopkinsUniversity,25February2009.
S.A. ANDERSSON,“Non-rastermethodsforhigh-speedAFM,”givenatTheWorkshoponDynamicsandControlofMicro/NanoSystems,IBMZurich,11December2009.
J. BAILLIEUL,“Decision-MakinginthePerformanceofSearchTasks,”OnehourColloquiumTalkintheUniversityofWashingtonRobotics,ControlsandMechatronicsColloquium,15May2009.
J. BAILLIEUL,“TheCenterforHumanandRobotDecisionDynamics,”BriefingtoD.D.R.&E.,Roslyn,VA,26June2009.
J. BAILLIEUL, “TheCenter forHumanandRobotDecisionDynam-ics,”at the2009AFOSRDynamicsandControlProgramReview,14July2009.
J. BAILLIEUL,“ExplorationBehaviorsandDecisionsRegardingRapidExploration,”atKTHStockholm,Sweden,9September2009.
J. BAILLIEUL,“ExplorationBehaviorsandDecisionsRegardingRapidExploration,” SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications inDenver(http://www.siam.org/meetings/ct09/),6-8July2009.
L.A. BARBA,“FastsummationalgorithmsmaximizingperformanceonGPUarchitectures,”attheNSF-NAISWorkshoponIntelligentSoft-ware:TheInterfaceBetweenAlgorithmsandMachines,Edinburgh,Scotland,http://kac.maths.ed.ac.uk/NSF-NAIS/,19-21October2009.
L.A. BARBA,“TowardGPU-acceleratedmeshfreefluidsimulation,”attheInitiativeinInnovativeComputing(IIC),SchoolofEngineeringandAppliedSciences,HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,MA,http://iic.har-vard.edu/events/year/2009,4November2009.
L.A. BARBA, “Parallelandmeshfree:new frontiersofCFD,”at theCenterforComputationalScience,BostonUniversity,17April2009.
P.E. BARBONE, “Linear and nonlinear elasticity imaging in thebreast”InvitedKeynoteLecture,AmericanInstituteforUltrasoundinMedicine,AnnualConvention,NewYork,NY,2-5April2009.
P.E. BARBONE,“LinkingTime-reversaltoKrylovMethodsinAcousticFocusingandImaging,”atNavalUnderseaWarfareCenter,NewportRI,8January2009.
P.E. BARBONE,“Linkingtime-reversaltoKrylovmethodsinacousticfocusingandimaging,”presentedinUUSeminarSeries,DepartmentofMechanicalEngineering,BostonUniversity,3March2009.
S.N. BASU, “Energy Technologies of the Future,” at Dean’s WestCoast Advisory Committee meeting in San Francisco, CA, 10 June2009.
S.N. BASU, “What Can Technology Do for Us?” presented at thepanelon“TheFutureofCleanEnergy:OpportunitiesandChallenges
toWidespreadAdoptionof SustainableEnergyTechnology” in SanFrancisco,CA,10June2009.
C. BELTA,“Temporallogicmotionplanningandcontrol,”HarvardUni-versity,DepartmentofElectricalEngineering,6February2009.
C. BELTA,“SynthesisofProvably-CorrectControlandCommunicationStrategiesforDistributedSystems,”UniversityofDelaware,Depart-mentofMechanicalEngineering,30October2009.C. BELTA,“SynthesisofProvably-CorrectControlandCommunicationStrategiesforDistributedSystems,”UniversityofCalifornia,LosAnge-les,DepartmentofElectricalEngineering,22November2009.
C. BELTA, “Temporal LogicMotion Planning and Control,”MasarykUniversity,DepartmentofInformatics,27May2009.
C. BELTA,“Scalablealgorithmsforanalysisandcontrolofbiochemicalnetworks,”MasarykUniversity,Departmentof Informatics,28May2009.
C. BELTA,“Insightsintothefunctionalorganizationandrobustnessofgenomescalemetabolism,”NortheasternUniversity,CenterforCom-plexNetworksResearch,DepartmentofPhysics,2February2009.
C. BELTA,“RoboticsResearchatBostonUniversity,”MassTechnologyLeadershipCouncilSummitontheFutureofRobotics,Boston,MA,8December2009.
C.BELTA,“SynthesisofProvably-CorrectControlandCommunicationStrategies for Distributed Systems,” , Pasadena, CA, 23 September2009.
C. BELTA, “FormalApproaches toRobotMotionPlanningandCon-trol,”UnitedTechnologyResearchCenter,Hartford,CO,9September2009.
C. BELTA,“AutomaticDeploymentofRoboticTeamsfromTemporalLogicSpecifications,”AFOSRDynamicsandControlProgramReview,Washington,DC,16July2009.
C. BELTA,“Automaticdeploymentofroboticteamsfromrichspeci-fications,”ThirdWorkshoponSwarming inNaturalandEngineeredSystems,BlockIsland,RI,4June2009.
C. BELTA, “Automatic deployment of robotic teams from temporallogicspecifications,”WorkshoponFormalMethodsinRoboticsandAutomation,Kobe,Japan,2009.
T. BIFANO,“Micro-deformablemirrorsforastronomicaltelescopes,”BepiColomboinvitedpresentation,PaduaItaly,14February2009.
T. BIFANO,“MEMSAdaptiveOptics,”SPIESanJose,CA,USA,January2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS, “Geopolitics of Energy in Eurasia,” EuropeanStudiesCenter,HarvardUniversity,31March2009.
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M.C. CARAMANIS, “The Smart Grid: Synergies of Demand SideManagementand IntermittentCleanEnergyGeneration,”TuftsEn-ergyForum’s4thAnnualTuftsEnergyConference,TuftsUniveristy,28March2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS, “Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle loadmanage-ment,”RenewableEnergyNationalLaboratory,Denver,Colorado,4May2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS, “Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle loadmanage-ment,”LosAlamosNationalLaboratory,NewMexico,5May2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS,“IstheFutureRenewable?”InvitedtoPardee’shouseseminartotalkandleadadiscussionalongwithprofessorWil-liamMoomawofTuftsUniversityFletcherSchool,BostonUniversity,17November2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS,“TheSmartGridBroadlyConstruedasaCyber-PhysicalElectricPowerSystemBusinessPlatform,”IEEEDemystifyingtheSmartGridSymposium,MIT,21November2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS,WNYC’sprogram“PleaseExplain”todiscusstheElectricalPowerSystemalongwithCornellUniversityProfessorRob-ertThomas,30October2009.
R.O. CLEVELAND,“MUSICtoTrackKidneyStonesinSWL,”atthe3rdSymposiumInternationalKidneyStoneInstitute,Indianapolis,IN,De-cember2009.
R.O. CLEVELAND, “Mechanisms of stone disintegration,” at theWorldCongressonEndourology,Munich,Germany,October2009.
R.O. CLEVELAND,“TutorialonBiomedicalUltrasound,”atthe2009International SymposiumonBiomedical Imaging, Boston,MA, July2009.
R.O. CLEVELAND, “Lithotripsy:Ashockingblowtokidneystones,”PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,March2009.
K. EKINCI,“FluidDynamicsofNEMS,”ArgonneNationalLaboratory,CNMUsersMeeting,6October2009.K. EKINCI,“FluidDynamicsofNEMS:Fundamental,ChallengesandProspects,” at theNinthAnnual Sukant TripathyMemorial Sympo-sium,U.MassLowell,4December2009.
D. COLE,“Somethermodynamicprocessconsiderationsatthesmallandlargeenergeticscales,”MEfacultyseminar,BostonUniversity,17March2009.
S. GRACE, “Using CFD to Guide Rotor Wake Formulation for FanBroadbandNoseSimulations,”atGEGlobalResearch,26May2009.
S. GRACE, “Using CFD to Guide Rotor Wake Formulation for FanBroadbandNoseSimulations,”OhioAerospaceInstitute,Aeroacous-ticsResearchConsortiumMeeting,3December2009.
M.S. HOWE, “Indirect Combustion Noise,” Department of Math-ematics,KeeleUniversity,England,28May2009.
C.M. KLAPPERICH,“MolecularDiagnosticsinPlasticMicrofluidics,”BrandeisUniversity,Waltham,MA,DepartmentofPhysicsSeminarSeries,16July2009.
C.M. KLAPPERICH,“TinyChipsonTargettomakeaBigDifferenceinGlobalHealth,”BUWomen’sCouncil,Boston,MA,18March2009.
C.M. KLAPPERICH,“MolecularDiagnosticsinPlasticMicrofluidics,”BectonDickinson/Biosense,Raleigh,NC,15June2009.
C.M. KLAPPERICH,“MolecularDiagnosticsinPlasticMicrofluidics,”CIMITForum,Boston,MA,24March2009.
X. LIN,“Conductivepolymertopologicalsolitontheory,”DepartmentofChemistry(Host:FengWang),BostonUniversity,Boston,MA,4February2009.
X. LIN,“Conductivepolymersolitontheoryrevisited,”DepartmentofPhysics,UniversityofMassachusetts-Amherst,Amherst,MA,12February2009.
X. LIN,“Molecularconductance:Electron-phononcouplingandfrac-tal dimension,” NSF-IGERT Nanotechnology Seminar, University ofMassachusetts-Amherst,Amherst,MA,9April2009.
X. LIN,“Multiscalematerialsmodeling:Algorithmsandapplications,”DepartmentofMechanicalEngineering,UniversityofTokyo,Univer-sityofTokyo,Tokyo,Japan,22July2009.
X. LIN,“History-Penalizedbasinfillingalgorithm:Transitionstateandglobalminimum search,” Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chi-neseAcademyofSciences,Dalian,China,31July2009.
X. LIN, “Conducting polymer soliton theory,” College of ChemistryandMolecularEngineering,PekingUniversity,Beijing,China,10August2009.
J.G. MCDANIEL,“EstimatingtheEffectsofDampingTreatmentsontheVibrationofComplex Structures,”ONRAnnualReview,Carder-ock,Bethesda,Maryland,20August2009.
J.G. MCDANIEL,“VibrationsandFrogs:BetweentheDevilandtheDeepBlueSea,”WavesandSigns,Low-FrequencyVibration,CenterforAdvancedVisualStudies,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology,Friday,24April2009.
J.G. MCDANIEL, “OceanEnergyandSensors,”UUSeminar toMe-chanical Engineering Department, Boston University, 12 February2009.
J.G. MCDANIEL, “Ocean Wave Energy,” COE Undergraduate Re-searchSeminarentitled“Let’sConcentrate,”17November2009.
E.F. MORGAN, “RegulatingSkeletalRepairbyMechanical Stimula-tion,”DepartmentSeminar,Mechanical,Aerospace,andNuclearEn-gineering,RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute,November,2009.
E.F. MORGAN,“MeasurementoftheLocalMechanicalEnvironmentofSkeletalTissues,”DepartmentSeminar,Bioengineering,UniversityofUtah,February,2009.
E.F. MORGAN,“MechanicalRegulationofSkeletalHealing,”InvitedTalk, Symposiumon“Biomaterials:properties, variationandevolu-tion”,AnnualMeetingoftheSocietyforIntegrativeandComparativeBiology,Boston,January,2009.
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U.B. PAL,“PerformanceAnalysisofSingleStepCo-firedSolidOxideFuel Cells (SOFCs),” Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Eleventh InternationalSymposium(SOFC-XI),Vienna,Austria,October2009.
U.B. PAL,“GreenTechnologyResearchatBostonUniversity”,CleanEnergyWeek,Boston,MA,November2009.
U.B. PAL, “Clean Energy Research at Boston University-Fuel Cells,FuelProcessingandGreenManufacturing,”US-UKWorkshop,Bos-ton,MA,November2009.
A.D. PIERCE,“Asustainedrecordofdistinguishedservicetothepro-fession,”atmeetingoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmericainSanAn-tonio,October2009.
A.D. PIERCE,“Sedimentshearasaperturbationingeoacousticinver-sionsandanexplanationoftheanomalousfrequencydependenceoftheattenuation,”atmeetingoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmericainSanAntonio,October2009.
A.D. PIERCE,“MeasurementofsoundtransmissionthroughmudatDodgePond,Connecticut,”atmeetingof theAcoustical SocietyofAmericainSanAntonio,October2009.
A.D. PIERCE,“Realitiesofpublishing ina journal:Whyshouldyousubmit,whatshouldyousubmit,andwhatproblemsmightyouen-counter?”PresentedatmeetingoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmericainPortland,Oregon,May2009.
A.D. PIERCE,“Measurementmethodologiesfortheanalysisofinflu-enceofsurfacepanelsandtheirvibrationsoninteriorcabinnoise,”atmeetingoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmericainPortland,Oregon,May2009.
A.D. PIERCE,“Intrinsicdampingmodelsandtheirroleinpredictingstructuralresponse,”atmeetingoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmericainPortland,Oregon,May2009.
T.M. PORTER, “Measurement of the attenuation coefficient ofmonodispersepopulationsofultrasoundcontrastagent,”IEEEEngi-neeringinMedicineandBiologySociety,Minneapolis,MN,2-6Sep-tember2009.
T.M. PORTER,“Harnessingthepowerofbubblesinbiomedicalultra-sound,”DepartmentofPhysics,RyersonUniversity,Toronto,OntarioCanada,19March2009.
T.M. PORTER,“Engineeringnanoparticlesforlocalizednoninvasivecancertherapy,”DepartmentofHematologyandOncology,BostonUniversity,23April2009.
R.A. ROY,“Utilizinglightandsoundforbiomedicalimaging,”atthe34th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and TissueCharacterization,Arlington,VA,June2009.
R.A. ROY, “Optical propertymeasurement in diffusemedia usingacousto-opticpressurecontrast imaging,”atthe34th InternationalSymposiumonUltrasonic Imaging andTissueCharacterization,Ar-lington,VA,June2009.
R.A. ROY,“Introductionofagasbubblelayertomitigatecavitationerosiondamagetosolidsurfaces,”atOakRidgeNationalLaboratory,SNS,February2009.
R.A. ROY,“Averticalacousticwaveguidefortwo-phasemercury-he-liumflowvoidfractiondetermination,”atOakRidgeNationalLabora-tory,SNS,February2009.
V. SARIN, ”AdvanceMaterials andHighTemperatureCoatings,” IITMumbai,Mumbai,India,February2009.
V. SARIN,“LaminatedCVDMulliteCeramicComposites,”UPC,Barce-lona,Spain,June2009.
M. SCHNEIDER, “Life,quiteCritical:MemrbanesandProteinsneartransitions,”and“AcousticPumpsfromBloodClotting,”HarvardUni-versity,CambridgeMA,January2009.
M. SCHNEIDER, “AnewMicrofluidicDevice -SelforganizedBloodClotting” BostonUniversity,BostonMA,February2009.
M. SCHNEIDER,“HardandSOftInterfacesinBiophyiscs-BloodClot-ting,Microfluidics,Waves and Channels,” LMU,Munich, Germany,January2009.
M. SCHNEIDER, “BloodClottingonaChip,”Zurich,Switzerland,Feb-ruary2009.
M. SCHNEIDER, ”AcousticWaves -LabonaChipBloodandBloodClotting,”MIT,Cambridge,MA,March2009.
M. SCHNEIDER,“MembraneBiophysicsIntroduction,”MarieCuriesSchoolonMembranes,Graz,Austria,March2009.
M. SCHNEIDER,“BridgingtheGapbetweenMutationandFunctioninBlood,”EuropeanUnion:InvitationforStartingGrant,Brussel,Bel-gium,April2009.
M. SCHNEIDER, “Einsteins Entropy for Interfaces - Channels andPropagation,”MIT,Cambridge,MA,June2009.
M. SCHNEIDER, ”HardandSoftInterfacesinBiophyiscs-BloodClot-ting,Microfluidics,”Harvard,Cambridge,MA,June2009.
M. SCHNEIDER, “HardandSoftInterfacesinBiophysics-BloodClot-ting,Microfluidics,WavesandChannels,”CenterofNanoscienceandNaotechnology,BU,Boston,MA,September2009.
D. WROBLEWSKI, “Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) and Optical Turbu-lence(OpT) intheUpperTroposphere/LowerStratosphere(UTLS),”DepartmentSeminar,CaliforniaPolytechnicUniversity,4June2009.
V. YAKHOT,”Turbulentmixingandbeyond,”InternationalWorkshop,Trieste,Italy,July2009.
V. YAKHOT,”Nanofluidicsandnanoresonators,”Seminar,BrownUni-versity,Providence,RI,April2009.
X. ZHANG, “Development of opticalmoiré basedmicro and nanobiomechano sensor,” at Department of Physics, Boston University,Boston,MA,30October2009.
X. ZHANG, “Cellular BioMEMS: Miniaturized BiomechanosensorsforMeasuringCellularMechanical Forces inCardiacMyocytesandSmoothMuscleCells,”atDepartmentofChemistry,BostonUniver-sity,Boston,MA,4November2009.
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R.G. HOLT,T.R.Murray,andJ.R.Sukovich,“Amethodfornon-contactpressuresensingusing laser-induceddielectricbreakdownintrans-parentmedia,”filedMay15,2009.
C.C.Coussios,M.Arora,N.Hockhan,and R.A. ROY, “Adaptiveandspatialcontrolofacousticcavitationduringultrasoindexposure,”UKPatentApplicationNumber0916634.9,filedSeptember2009.
C.C. Coussios,M.Gyongy,M.Arora, andR.A. ROY, “Mapping andcharacterizationofcavitationactivity,”UKPatentApplicationNumber1100019454,filedNovember2009.
C.C.Coussios,M.Gyongy,M.Arora,andR.A. ROY,“Sensingchangesintemperatureandinthemechanicalandrheologiocalpropertiesoftissueandothermaterialsbyacousticcavitationnoisediagnostics,”UKPatentApplicationNumber0916635.6,filedSeptember2009.
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M.Lahijanian,S.B. ANDERSSON,andC. BELTA,“Aprobabilisticap-proach for control of a stochastic system from LTL specifications,”IEEEConferenceonDecisionandControl,pp.2236-2241,2009.
Z.ShenandS.B. ANDERSSON,“Trackingmultiplefluorescentmol-eculesintwodimensionsinaconfocalmicroscope,”IEEEConferenceonDecisionandControl,pp.6052-6057,2009.
P.I.ChangandS.B. ANDERSSON,“Amaximum-likelihooddetectionschemeforrapid imagingofstring-likesamples inatomicforcemi-croscopy,”IEEEConferenceonDecisionandControl,pp.8290-8295,2009.
P.I.ChangandS.B. ANDERSSON,“Theoreticalboundsonanon-ras-terscanmethodfortrackingstring-likesamples,”AmericanControlConference,pp.1682-1687,2009.
Z.ShenandS.B. ANDERSSON,“LQG-basedtrackingofmultiplefluo-rescentparticlesintwo-dimensionsinaconfocalmicroscope,”Amer-icanControlConference,pp.2266-2271,2009.
D.RaghunathanandJ. BAILLIEUL,“ExploitingInformationContentinRelativeMotion,”atthe2009AmericanControlConference,St.Louis,10-12June,2009.
J. BAILLIEUL, “TheStandardPartsProblemand theComplexityofControl Communication,” the Joint 48th IEEE Conference on Deci-sionandControland28thChineseControlConferenceShanghai,P.R.China,16December,2009.
S.K.Layton,F.A.Cruz,and L.A. BARBA,“ParallelfastGausstransforminaheterogeneouscomputingenvironment,”10thNationalCongresson Computational Mechanics USNCCM10, Columbus, Ohio, 16-19July,2009.
F.A. Cruz, and L.A. BARBA, “Parallelization of algorithms for het-erogeneouscomputingsystemswithapplicationtofastsummationmethods,” 10th National Congress on Computational MechanicsUSNCCM10,Columbus,Ohio,16-19July,2009.C. Cooper and L.A. BARBA, “Panel-free boundary conditions forviscousvortexmethods,”19thAIAAComputationalFluidDynamicsConference,SanAntonio,Texas,22–25June2009.F.A Cruz, C. Cooper, R. Yokota, and L.A. BARBA, “Parallel imple-mentationofpanel-freeboundaryconditionsforthevortexparticlemethod,” 21st International Conference on Parallel ComputationalFluidDynamics,MoffettField,California,18–22May,2009.
P.E. BARBONE, A.A. Oberai, and G.R. Feijoo, “Krylov methods intime-reversal imaging bymultiple-signal-classification,”Meeting ofAcoust.Soc.Am.,Portland,Oregon,2009.
C.E. Rivas, P.E. BARBONE, and A.A. Oberai, “A stabilized forwardelasticityfiniteelement formulationyieldsastableandconvergentinverse elasticity solution,”Meeting of Acoust. Soc. Am., Portland,Oregon,2009.
U.Albocher,A.A.Oberai,P.E. BARBONE,andI.Harari,“DirectCom-putationofInverseProblemsofIncompressiblePlaneStressElastic-itywithFullInteriorData,”USNationalCongressonComputationalMechanics,Cleveland,Ohio,July2009.
S.Goenezen,A.AOberai,andP.E. BARBONE, “NonlinearElasticityImagingforIncompressibleSolids,”USNationalCongressonCompu-tationalMechanics,Cleveland,Ohio,July2009.
C.E.Rivas,P.E. BARBONE,A.A.Oberai,andO.Babaniyi,“AstabilizedB-splines FEM formulation for the solution of an inverse elasticityproblemarisinginmedicalimaging,”presentedattheGordon-Cen-SSISNSFSiteVisit,Boston,MA,April2009.
J.M.Kracht,P.E. BARBONE,andR.O. CLEVELAND,“Kidneystonelo-calizationinvitrousingmultiple-signal-classification,”J.Acoust.Soc.Am.,1262213,2009.
M.Lahijanian,M.Kloetzer,S.Itani,C. BELTA,andS.B. ANDERSSON,“Automaticdeploymentofautonomouscars inaroboticurban-likeenvironment(RULE),”IEEEInternationalConferenceonRoboticsandAutomation,pp.2055-2060,2009.
T.G. BIFANO,L.Schatzberg,J.Stewart,andS.Cornelissen,“MEMSModulated retroreflectors for secure optical communication,” Pro-ceedingsoftheASMEInternationalMechanicalEngineeringCongressandExposition,Vol13,PtsAandB,NewYork,AmerSocMechanicalEngineers,395-399,2009.
K.K.Chu,A.Leray,T.G. BIFANO,andJ.Mertz,“Two-photonfluores-cencemicroscopywithdifferentialaberrationimaging,”SPIEMEMSAdaptiveOpticsIII,SanJose,CA,USA,SPIE,[7209],720903-720905,2009.
L. Ziph-Schatzberg,T.G. BIFANO, S. Cornelissen, J. Stewart, and Z.Bleier, “Secure optical communication system utilizing deformableMEMSmirrors,”SPIEMEMSAdaptiveOptics III,San Jose,CA,USA,SPIE,[7209],72090C-72015,2009.
L. Ziph-Schatzberg,T.G. BIFANO, S. Cornelissen, J. Stewart, and Z.Bleier,“DeformableMEMSmirrorsinsecureopticalcommunicationsystem,”Micro-andNanotechnologySensors,Systems,andApplica-tions,Orlando,FL,USA,SPIE,[7318],73180T-73112,2009.
K.Chu,T.G. BIFANO,andM.Jerome,“Two-PhotonDifferentialAb-erration Imaging Using aModulating RetroreflectorMirror,” NovelTechniquesinMicroscopy,OpticalSocietyofAmerica,NMD3,2009.
K. Chu K, T.G. BIFANO, and J.Mertz, “Improvements in Two-Pho-tonFluorescenceMicroscopy,”FrontiersinOptics,OpticalSocietyofAmerica,FWA2,2009.
T.G. BIFANO,“MEMSWavefrontCorrectors,”AdaptiveOptics:Meth-ods,AnalysisandApplications,OpticalSocietyofAmerica,AOThD1,2009.
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M.C. CARAMANIS,andJ.Foster“ManagementofElectricVehicleCharging toMitigateRenewableGeneration IntermittencyandDis-tributionNetworkCongestion,”48thIEEECDC,pp.4717-4722,Dec,2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS,C.Wu,andI.C.Paschalidis,“ProductionPlanningandQualityofServiceAllocationacrosstheSupplyChaininaDynam-icLeadTimeModel,”48thIEEECDC,7137-7144,Dec.2009.
M.C. CARAMANIS,C.Cassandras,T.Little,and I.Paschalidis,“TheCyber-Physical(CP)ElectricPowerGeneration-Delivery-ConsumptionPlatform:ResearchChallengesforOptimalInvestmentTradeoffsbe-tweenthePlatform’sCyberandPhysicalComponents,”presentedattheNSF-NIST-DOEworkshopontheSmartGrid,aCyberPhysicalEn-ergySystem,Baltimore,3-4June2009.
W.M. CAREY,J.D.Holmes,andJ.F.Lynch,“Theapplicabilityofasmallautonomousvehicletowedarraysystemtooceanacousticmeasure-mentsandsignalprocessing,”ProceedingsofMeetingsonAcoustics,vol.4,070007,2009.
W.M. CAREY,“Ontheexponentialpowerlawforlowfrequencyat-tenuationinshallowwater,”POMA5(1),005002-005002-14,2009.
W.M. CAREY,andA.D. PIERCE,“Acousticalcharacteristicsofmuddysediments,”ProceedingsofMeetingsonAcoustics,Volume5,Issue1,pp.070002-070002-10,22July2009.
W.M. CAREY, “Transverse coherence lengths, processing limitsand implications”, ProceedingsofMeetingsonAcoustics, vol. 6(1),005001-005001-15,2009.
C. Ormonde, R.O. CLEVELAND, R.G. HOLT, P.V. Chitnis, and R.A. ROY, “Mitigation of cavitation damage in the spallation neutronsourcemercurytarget:Anacousticresonatorfordeterminingthegasvolumefractioninmercury-heliumtwo-phaseflows,”posterpresent-edatthe2009NSFSiteVisitoftheCenterforSubsurfaceSensingandImagingSystems,Boston,MA,April,2009.
A.B. Draudt, L. Puxiang, T.W.Murray, R.O. CLEVELAND, and R.A. ROY,“Acousto-opticdetectionofhigh-intensity focusedultrasoundlesionsinrealtime,”J.Acoust.Soc.Am.1262239,2009.
R.O. CLEVELAND,“ShockingstoneswiththeKhokhlov–Zabolotska-ya–Kuznetsovequation,”J.Acoust.Soc.Am.,1262202,2009.
P.Blanc-Benon,M.V.Averiyanov,R.O. CLEVELAND,andV.A.Khokh-lova,“Nonlinearacousticwavepropagationininhomogeneousmov-ingmedia,”J.Acoust.Soc.Am.,1262201,2009.
R.O. CLEVELAND, J.M. Kracht, P.J.Mendoza, D.S.Wang, and R.K.Babayan,“InVitroAssessmentOfTheExtendedAndPreciseFocusOfTheStorzModulithSLX-F2,”J.ofUrology,181(4):725,2009.
D.E.Sacco,R.O. CLEVELAND,J.M.Kracht,andS.PDretler,“DoLith-otriptors Maintain Their Effectiveness Over Time?” J. of Urology,181(4):582,2009.
F.PadillaandR.O. CLEVELAND,“Shockwavesmicro-damageinduc-tionincorticalbones:Comparisonbetweenexperimentalandsimu-lationsresults,”J.Acoust.Soc.Am.,1252650,2009.
D.Bossis,F.Padilla,andR.O. CLEVELAND,“Cavitationbubbleactiv-ityduringtreatmentofcorticalbonesbyshockwaves,”(A)J.Acoust.Soc.Am.,1252650,2009.
J.M.KrachtandR.O. CLEVELAND,“Kidneystonetrackinginvitrous-inganacoustictriangulationparadigm,”(A)J.Acoust.Soc.Am.1252623,2009.
N.J.Manzi,R.O. CLEVELAND,R.G. HOLT,andR.A. ROY,“Detectingcavitationinliquidmercuryexposedtoahigh-energypulsedprotonbeam,”J.Acoust.Soc.Am.,1252561,2009.
A. Draudt, P. Lai, T.W. Murray, R.O. CLEVELAND and R.A. ROY,“Acousto-opticdetectionofhigh-intensityfocusedultrasoundlesionsinrealtime,”J.Acoust.Soc.Am.126(4,pt.2),2239,2009.
E.Johnsen,T.Colonius,andR.O. CLEVELAND,“Damagepotentialoftheshock-inducedcollapseofagasbubble,”Proceedingsofthe7thInternationalSymposiumonCavitation,AnnArbor,Michigan,August17-22,2009.
U.Kemiktarak,K.SchwabandK.L. EKINCI,“AnUltraHighVacuumRa-dioFrequencyScanningTunnelingMicroscope,”2009MarchMeetingoftheAmericanPhysicalSociety,Pittsburgh,PA,March16-20,2009.
X.Yan,andM. GEVELBER,“InvestigationofElectrospunfiberDiam-eterDistributionandProcessDynamics,”ElectrostaticsJointConfer-ence,2009.M. GEVELBER, “Real-Time Control for Engineering ElectrospunNanofiber Diameter Distribution for Advanced Applications,” NSFGranteeConference,2009.
M. GEVELBER,M.Cannamela,D. WROBLEWSKI,andS. BASU,“Al-ternativeReal-TimeControlStrategiesandSensingRequirementsforImprovingThermalSprayPerformance,”InternationalThermalSprayConference,May2009.
W.He,K.J.Yoon,R.Eriksen,S. GOPALAN,S. BASU,andU.B. PAL,“H2-H2OBinaryDiffusivityMeasurementinSolidOxideFuelCellUs-inganElectrochemicalCell,”11thInternationalSymposiumonSolidOxideFuelCellsheldatVienna,Austria,Oct2009,ECSTransactions25(2)1879-1886,2009.
H.Wang,R.Eriksen,S. GOPALAN,andU.B. PAL,“ChemicallyAssist-edHydrogenGenerationthroughOxygenIonConductingMIECMem-branes,”11thInternationalSymposiumonSolidOxideFuelCellsheldatVienna,Austria,Oct2009,ECSTransactions25(2)281-290,2009.
K.J.Yoon,S. GOPALAN,andU.B. PAL,“AnalysisofElectrochemicalPerformanceofSingleStepCo-firedSolidOxideFuelCell(SOFC)Ana-lyzedUsingPolarizationModelandImpedanceSpectroscopy,”MRSProceedings,SolidStateIonic2008,(1126)53-58,2009.
K.J.Yoon,S. GOPALAN,andU.B. PAL,“PerformanceAnalysisofSin-gleStepCo-FiredSolidOxideFuelCells,“11thInternationalSympo-siumonSolidOxideFuelCellsheldatVienna,Austria,Oct2009,ECSTransactions25(2)533-542,2009.
S.Pati,K.J.Yoon,J.Chin,S. GOPALAN,andU.B. PAL,“SolidOxideMembraneElectrolyzerUtilizingtheEnergyValue inSolidandGas-eous Reductant for Hydrogen Production,” May 2009, 215th ECSMeeting,SanFrancisco,CA,ECSTransactions19(10)1-8,2009.
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W.H. Huang, S. GOPALAN, U.B. PAL, and S. BASU, “TransportThrough Electrophoretically Deposited CuMn1.8O4 Spinel CoatingsonCrofer Interconnects,”MRSProceedings, Solid State Ionic2008,(1126)79-84,2009.
Z.J.Waters,B.R.Dzikowicz,R.G. HOLT,R.A. ROY,“Resonanceisola-tioninthepresenceofnoiseandclutterbysingle-channeltimere-versal,”BostonUniversityScienceandEngineeringResearchSympo-sium,BestPosterAward,March2009.
Z.J.Waters,R.G. HOLT,andR.A. ROY,“Resonance isolation inthepresenceofnoiseandclutterbysingle-channeltimereversal,”posterpresented at the 2009NSF Site Visit of the Center for SubsurfaceSensingandImagingSystems,Boston,MA,April,2009.
J.R.Sukovich,T.W.MurrayandR.G. HOLT,“Laser-induceddielectricbreakdownasamethodfornoncontactpressuremeasurement,”pre-sentedat the157thmeetingof theAcoustical SocietyofAmerica,Portland,Oregon,May,2009.
P.A.Anderson,T.W.MurrayandR.G. HOLT,“Lasernucleationofbub-bleclustersinasphericalresonator,”presentedatthe157thmeetingoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica,Portland,Oregon,May,2009.
P.A.Anderson, T.W.Murray andR.G. HOLT, “Collapsedynamics oflaser-nucleatedbubbleclusters inasphericalresonator,”presentedatthe157thmeetingoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica,Portland,Oregon,May,2009.
Q.Wang,N.J.Manzi,R.G. HOLT,R.A. ROY,andR.O. CLEVELAND,“Productionof cavitationerosiondamagebymeansof an electro-magneticshockwavesource,”J.Acoust.Soc.Am.,1252561,2009.
Q.Wang,N.J.Manzi,R.G. HOLT,R.A. ROY,andR.O. CLEVELAND,“Generationofcavitationinmercurybymeansofanelectromagneticacousticsource,”presentedatthe158thmeetingoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica,SanAntonio,TX,October,J.Acoust.Soc.Am.,1262161,2009.
A.VardyandM.S. HOWE,“Rapidpredictionoftrainnoseentrypres-sure gradients,” Proceedings of 13th International Symposium onAerodynamics and Ventilation of Vehicle Tunnels, New Brunswick,NewJersey,May13-15,2009.
R.S.McGowanandM.S. HOWE,“Thesuctionforceonthevocalfoldsasanenergysourceforvibrationandasanacousticsource,”present-edat the158thMeetingof theAcoustical societyofAmerica, SanAntonio,Texas,26-30October,2009.
A.BhattacharyyaandC.M. KLAPPERICH,“DifferentialGeneExpres-sionUsingmRNAIsolatedonPlasticMircofluidicChips,”ProceedingsoftheIEEE,31stAnnualEMBSConference,Minneapolis,MN,2009.
J.Do,J.Zhang,andC.M. KLAPPERICH,“Masklesswritingmicrofluid-ics:Rapidprototypingof3Dmicrofluidicsusingscratchonapolymersubstrate,”mTAS,Jeju,Korea,2009.
M.C.Kim,B.C.Isenberg,J.Sutin,A.Meller,J.Y.Wong,andC.M. KLAP-PERICH,“Singlebacteriatrappingusingmicroscalesieveswithsub-micron features: Simulation and experiments,” mTAS, Jeju, Korea,2009.
J. Do, M. Mahalanabis, J. Zhang, H. AlMuayad, and C.M. KLAPP-ERICH, “An integrated disposable microfluidic device for bacterialdetectionusingsolid-phaseDNAextractionandisothermalhelicase-dependentamplification,”mTAS,Jeju,Korea,2009.
J.Do,J.Zhang,andC.M. KLAPPERICH,“Rapidconcentrationofbac-teriainadisposablemicrofluidicdeviceusingenhancedevaporationforpoint-of-caresamplepreparation,”mTAS,Jeju,Korea,2009.
M.Mahalanabis, H.Muayad, and C.M. KLAPPERICH, “Disposablebacterial detectiondevice applyingDNAextraction and isothermalhelicase-dependent amplification,” 41st Annual Oakridge Confer-ence,BreakthroughTechnologiesforClinicalDiagnostics,Baltimore,MD,16April2009.
N.Spencer,C.Kaiser,C.M. KLAPPERICH,andD.Cotanche,“Assess-ing the invitro regenerationpotentialofaviancochlearhaircells,”Association for Research in Otoloaryngology, Midwinter Meeting,Baltimore,MD,20February2009.
M.Kim,Q.Cao,andC.M. KLAPPERICH, “AnalysisofDNAAmplifi-cation Performance: Applying Lagrangian Thermal Modeling to AContinuous-FlowMicrofluidicPolymeraseChainReaction,”41stAn-nual Oakridge Conference, Breakthrough Technologies for ClinicalDiagnostics,Baltimore,MD,16April2009.
A.F.Sauer-Budge,C.M. KLAPPERICH,P.L.Mirer,A.Chatterjee,andA.Sharon,“Bacteriadetectionwithintegratedon-chipsampleprepara-tion,PCR,andfluorescencedetectionwithnovelremotevalveswitch-ingfluidiccontrol,”41stAnnualOakridgeConference,BreakthroughTechnologiesforClinicalDiagnostics,Baltimore,MD,16April2009.
J.P.Do, J.Y.Zhang,andC.M. KLAPPERICH,“Rapidconcentrationofbacteriainadisposablemicrofluidicdeviceusingenhancedevapora-tiontechniqueforaPoint-of-Care(POC)infectiousdiseasediagnosticdevice,”41stAnnualOakridgeConference,BreakthroughTechnolo-giesforClinicalDiagnostics,Baltimore,MD,16April2009.
M. Li, andX. LIN, “ACatchmentBasin Self-avoiding SimulatedAn-nealingAlgorithmforUnbiasedGlobalOptimizationSearch,”Materi-alsResearchSociety,Boston,MA,December2009.
M.Li,andX. LIN,“TwinInstabilityofPeierlsDistortioninTrans-Poly-acetylene: a Spontaneous Soliton Induced ActuationMechanism,”MaterialsResearchSociety,Boston,MA,Nov.2009.
A.L.Botelho,andX. LIN,“ExploringElectron-PhononInteractionsinConjugatedPolymersasaFastActuationMechanism,”MaterialsRe-searchSociety,Boston,MA,December1,2009.
M.Li,A.KushimaandX. LIN,“ACatchmentBasinSelf-avoidingSimu-latedAnnealingAlgorithm,”AmericanChemicalSociety,(selectedtotheEmergingTechnologiesinComputationalChemistryCompetitionSymposiumandvideo-recorded,availableathttp://www.softconfer-ence.com/ACSchem/sessionDetail.asp?SID=177562), WashingtonDC,Aug.2009.
M.Li,andX. LIN,“Unexpecteddoping-inducedactuationmechanismofconductingpolymerscausedby twin instabilityofPeierlsdistor-tion,”AmericanChemicalSociety,WashingtonDC,Aug,2009.
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A.L.Botelho,andX. LIN“Fastactuationmechanismbasedonmul-tiple solitons, polarons, and bipolarons in conjugated polymers,”AmericanChemicalSociety,WashingtonDC,August17,2009.
Y.Shin,M.Li,andX. LIN,“Potentialenergysurfaceofpolyacetylene,”AmericanChemicalSociety,WashingtonDC,August18,2009.
Y.Shin,andX. LIN,“Intrinsicchargemobilityacrossconjugatedjunc-tionsindendrimerstructures,”AmericanChemicalSociety,Washing-tonDC,August16,2009.
M.Li,A.Botelho,andX. LIN,“Twin InstabilityofPeierlsDistortionanditsMechanicalConsequenceonConductivePolymerActuation,”AmericanPhysicalSociety,Pittsburgh,PA,March2009.
A.L.Botelho,andX. LIN,“Solitonandpolaroninduced3Dconforma-tional changes in conjugatedpolymers.”AmericanPhysical Society,Pittsburgh,PA,March17,2009.
Y.Shin,M.Li,andX. LIN,“Solitonmigrationalongtrans-polyacety-lenebackbone,”AmericanPhysicalSociety,Pittsburgh,PA,March17,2009.
H.ÖztürkandJ.G. MCDANIEL,“Spatialmappingofmodaldampinginvibratingplates,”presentedatthe158thMeetingoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica,SanAntonio,Texas,October28,2009.
J.G. MCDANIEL,C.Boucher,andH.Ozturk,“Spatialmapsofmodaldampingfromfrequencyresponsemeasurements,”presentedatthe157thMeeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Or-egon,May19,2009.
K.M.Flores,K.Altman,andE.F. MORGAN, “Micromachiningbonespecimens formechanical testing,”NSFCMMIConferenceonEngi-neeringResearchandInnovation,2009.
H. Bian, J. Aya-ay,A.Garces,E.F. MORGAN, S.R.Gilbert, andH.K.Kim,“Epiphysealcartilageplaysanimportantroleinrevascularizationofthefemoralheadfollowingischemicosteonecrosis,”AnnualMeet-ingofthePediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmerica.VernonT.ToloBasicSciencePaperAward,2009.
A.I. Hussein, Z.D.Mason, and E.F. MORGAN, “The effect of intra-vertebralheterogeneityinstructureonvertebralstrengthandfailurepatterns,”55thAnnualMeetingoftheOrthopaedicResearchSociety,2009.
E.F. MORGAN,A.H.Baker,Z.D.Mason,andA.I.Hussein,“Quantita-tiveimage-guidedfailureanalysisofthehumanvertebra,”55thAn-nualMeetingoftheOrthopaedicResearchSociety,2009.
K.Altman, K. Flores,D. Farson, and E.F. MORGAN, “Femtosecondlasermicromachiningofbonemechanicaltestspecimens,”TheMin-erals,Metals,andMaterialsSocietyAnnualMeetingandExhibition,SanFrancisco,2009.
LincolnMiara, JacobDavis, Kevin Smith,U.B. PAL, Karl Ludwig, S. BASU,andS. GOPALAN,“In-SituSynchrotronandElectrochemicalMeasurementsofHeteroepitaxialThin-FilmsofSOFCCathode,”the10thAnnualSolidStateEnergyConversionAllianceWorkshop, July14-16,2009.
L.Miara,J.Davis,T.Kaspar,L.Saraf,U.B. PAL,S. BASU,K.Ludwig,S. GOPALAN,“SurfaceSegregationStudiesofSOFCCathodes:Combin-ing Soft X-Rays and Electrochemical Impedence Spectroscopy,” theFallMRSMeetinginBoston,30Nov-4Dec2009.
P. Zink, K.J. Yoon, U.B. PAL, and S. GOPALAN, “Electrical Perfor-mance of Calciumdoped Lanthanum Ferrite for use in Single-StepCo-firedSolidOxideFuelCells(SOFCs),”MRSProceedings,SolidStateIonic2008,(1126)59-64,2009.
A.D. PIERCE, “Realitiesof publishing in a journal:why should yousubmit,whatshouldyousubmit,andwhatproblemsmightyouen-counter,”ProceedingsofMeetingsonAcoustics,Volume6, Issue1,pp.032004-032004-14,July13,2009.
A.D. PIERCE andA.Akay,“Intrinsicdampingmodelsandtheirroleinpredictingstructuralresponse,”ProceedingsofMeetingsonAcous-tics,Volume6,Issue1,pp.065003-065003-14,July6,2009.
A.D. PIERCE and W.M. CAREY, “Card-house theory ofmud sedi-mentscontainingkaoliniteanditsacousticalimplications,”Proceed-ingsofMeetingsonAcoustics,Volume5,Issue1,pp.070001-070001-14,February10,2009.
A.D. PIERCE andW.M. CAREY, “Shearwavespeed increaseswithdepthtotheone-sixthpowerinsandy-siltymarinesediments,”Pro-ceedingsofMeetingsonAcoustics,Volume4, Issue1,pp.070006-070006-15,February8,2009.
T.M. PORTER, “An in vitro study of phase-shift nanoemulsions infocusedultrasoundsurgery: itspotential forenhancingultrasound-mediatedhyperthermia.”IEEE35thAnnualNortheastBioengineeringConference,Boston,MA,3-5April2009.
T.M. PORTER,“High-intensityfocusedultrasoundtriggeredreleaseof doxorubicin from thermosensitive liposomes.” NanomedicineSymposium,BostonUniversity,May13,2009.
T.M. PORTER,“Highintensityfocusedultrasound-controlledreleaseof Doxorubicin from thermosensitive liposomes,” Biomedical Engi-neeringSocietyAnnualMeeting,Pittsburgh,PA,October7-10,2009.
T.M. PORTER,“Highintensityfocusedultrasound-triggeredreleaseofDoxorubicinfromthermosensitiveliposomes,”US-JapanDrugDe-liverySymposium,Maui,Hawaii,December16-20,2009.
T.M. PORTER,“Triggeringgenetic-toggleswitchthroughultrasound-inducedheating,”NanomedicineSymposium,BostonUniversity,May13,2009.
T.M. PORTER, ”Acoustically-driven microbubbles mediate cellularuptakeof impermeablemicrobubbles,”Nanomedicine Symposium,BostonUniversity,May13,2009.
P. Zhang and T.M. PORTER, “The relationship between acousticbackscattering and heating during bubble-mediated high intensityfocusedultrasound,”JAcoustSocAm,Vol.126,2176,2009.
Y.Gong,M.Cabodi,andT.M. PORTER,“Aninvitrostudyofthere-lationshipbetweensizeoflipid-coatedmicrobubblesandfrequency-dependentattenuationcoefficient,”JAcoustSocAm,Vol.126,2175,2009.
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J.A.Kopechek,T.M. PORTER,C.C.Coussios,S.R.PerrinSHuang,D.D.McPherson,andC.K.Holland,“Acousticcharacterizaionofechogenicliposomes: attenuation and quantitative backscatter,” J Acoust SocAm,Vol.125,2712,2009.
J.R.McLaughlan,R.A. ROYandT.W.Murray,“Nanoparticle-targetedphotoacousticcavitationfordeeptissueopticalimaging,”J.Acoust.Soc.Am.126(4,pt.2),2239,2009.
P. Lai, R.A. ROY and T.W.Murray, “Quantitative sensing of opticalpropertiesofdiffusivemediabypressurecontrastacousto-opticim-aging,”J.Acoust.Soc.Am.126(4,pt.2),2239,2009.
J.R.McLaughlan,P.V.Chitnis,J.Mamou,T.W.Murray,andR.A. ROY,“Theuseof thephotoacousticeffect fornon-invasive temperaturemonitoring during high intensity focused ultrasound exposures,” J.Acoust.Soc.Am.126(4,pt.2),2239,2009.
P. Chitnis, J. McLaughlan, X. Mamou, T.W.Murray, and R.A. ROY,“Photoacoustic thermometry for therapeutic hyperthermia,” pre-sentedattheIEEEInternat.UltrasonicsSymp.,Rome,Italy,Septem-ber2009.
H.Ju,J.McLaughlan,T.W.Murray,andR.A. ROY,“Nanoparticle-tar-getedphotoacousticcavitationfortissueimagingandtherapy,”post-erpresentedatthe2009NSFSiteVisitoftheCenterforSubsurfaceSensingandImagingSystems,Boston,MA,April,2009.
A.Draudt,R.A. ROY,T.W.Murray,andR.O. CLEVELAND,“Character-izingthedynamicpropertiesofHIFUlesions,”posterpresentedatthe2009NSFSiteVisitoftheCenterforSubsurfaceSensingandImagingSystems,Boston,MA,April,2009.
P. Lai,R.A. ROY, and T.W.Murray, “Quantitative optical character-izationoftissue-likemediausinglightandsound,”posterpresentedatthe2009NSFSiteVisitoftheCenterforSubsurfaceSensingandImagingSystems,Boston,MA,April,2009.
N.Manzi,andR.A. ROY,“Detectingcavitationinliquidmercuryex-posedtoahigh-energypulsedprotonbeam,”posterpresentedatthe2009NSFSiteVisitoftheCenterforSubsurfaceSensingandImagingSystems,Boston,MA,April,2009.
P.Lai,R.A. ROYandT.W.Murray,“PressureContrastImaging:ANewApproachtotheAcousto-opticDetectionofOpticalScatteringInho-mogeneitiesatDepthinDiffuseMedia”(poster),SPIEPhotonicsWest2009,BiomedicalOptics,SanJoseCA,January2009.
Vivek Nagarkar, S.G. Topping, S.R. Miller, B. Singh B, C.H. Park,V.K. SARIN, and C. Brecher, “Characterization of vapor depositedLu2O3:Eu3+scintillatorforx-rayimagingapplications.”SPIE,2009.
P. VAKILI andT.Borogovac,“DataBaseMonteCarlo:LearningtobeEfficient,”AppliedProbabilityConference,July14,2009,Ithaca,NY.
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P. VAKILI, “Efficient C/Ho-mputation DataBase Monte Carlo andPerturbationAnalysis,”Ho-ntrolandHo-ptimizationWorkshop,48thCDCConference,Shanghai,December15,2009.-M.Yang,Y.W.Wang,Z.H.Guan,andH.O. WANG,“RobustStabiliza-tionofUncertainComplexSingularDynamicalNetworksvia Impul-siveControl,”Proceedingsofthecombined48thIEEEConferenceonDecisionandControland28thChineseControlConference,Shang-hai,China,pp.3891–3896,December16-18,2009.
K.Tanaka,H.Ohtake,M.Wada,H.O. WANG, andY.J.Chen, “Poly-nomial Fuzzy Observer Design: A Sum of Squares Approach,” Pro-ceedings of the combined 48th IEEE Conference on Decision andControland28thChineseControlConference,Shanghai,China,pp.7771-7776December16-18,2009.
Y.J.Chen,H.Ohtake,K.Tanaka,W.J.Wang,andH.O. WANG,“HInfin-ityControlofT-SFuzzySystemsUsingPiecewiseLyapunovFunctionBasedSwitchingFuzzyController,”Proceedingsofthecombined48thIEEEConferenceonDecisionandControland28thChineseControlConference,Shanghai,China,pp.3087-3092,December16-18,2009.
M.Yang,Y.W.Wang,H.O. WANGandY.H.Huang,“RobustSynchro-nizationof Impulsively-CoupledComplexDynamicalNetworkswithParametricUncertaintiesandDelays,”Proceedingsofthe24thIEEEInternationalSymposiumonIntelligentControl,St.Petersburg,Rus-sia,pp.165-170,July8-10,2009.
L.L.Guo,Y.W.Wang,H.O. WANGandY.H.Huang,“Delay-DependentStabilityofDiscrete-TimeComplexNetworkswithMode-DependentUncertainParametersandTimeDelays,”Proceedingsofthe24thIEEEInternationalSymposiumonIntelligentControl,St.Petersburg,Rus-sia,pp.177-182,July8-10,2009.
J.Yao,H.O. WANGandX.Jin,“PassiveSynchronizationofComplexSpatio-TemporalSwitchingNetworkswithCouplingDelays,”Proceed-ingsofthe24thIEEEInternationalSymposiumonIntelligentControl,St.Petersburg,Russia,pp.1605-1609,July8-10,2009.
H.Ohtake, K. Tanaka andH.O. WANG, “FuzzyModel-Based ServoControl for Nonlinear Systemswith Input Constraint,” Proceedingsofthe24thIEEEInternationalSymposiumonIntelligentControl,St.Petersburg,Russia,p.452-255,July8-10,2009.
Y.J.Chen,H.Ohtake,W.J.Wang,K.TanakaandH.O. WANG,“Guar-anteedCostControlofT-SFuzzySystemsUsingPiecewiseLyapunovFunctionBasedSwitchingFuzzyController,”Proceedingsofthe24thIEEEInternationalSymposiumonIntelligentControl,St.Petersburg,Russia,pp.440-445,July8-10,2009.
M.Yang,Y.W.Wang,H.O. WANG,H.Ohtake,andK.Tanaka,“Stabi-lizationofComplexSwitchedNetworkswithtwotypesofDelaysviaImpulsiveControl,”Proceedingsofthe2009AmericanControlCon-ference,St.Louis,Missouri,USA,pp.5783-5788,June10-12,2009.
H.Ohtake,K.Tanaka,andH.O. WANG,“ImprovedControllerDesignforSwitchingFuzzyModel-BasedControl,”Proceedingsofthe2009American Control Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, pp. 4284-4289,June10-12,2009.
H.Ohtake,K.TanakaandH.O. WANG,“SwitchingFuzzyModelCon-structionbasedonOptimalDividingPlanes,”Proceedingsofthe2009InternationalConferenceonFuzzysystems,JejuIsland,Korea,August20-24,2009.
Y.J.Chen,H.Ohtake,K.Tanaka,W.J.Wang,andH.O. WANG,“RelaxedStabilizationConditionsofT-SFuzzySystemsUsingPiecewiseLyapu-novFunctionBasedSwitchingFuzzyController,”Proceedingsofthe2009InternationalConferenceonFuzzysystems,JejuIsland,Korea,August20-24,2009.
Y.Higashi,K.Tanaka,H.Ohtake,andH.O. WANG,“ImprovementofSimulationModelandDevelopmentofControlMechanismofForceDirectionforaFlyingRobotwithCyclogyroWing,”Proceedingsofthe2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots andSystems,St.Louis,MO,USA,October11-15,2009.
H.Jung,S.H.Lee,D.H.Kim,andH.O. WANG,“DevelopmentoftheCar-likeRobotwithVariableWheelPositionMechanismforFullMo-bility,”Proceedingsofthe2009CACSInternationalAutomaticControlConference,Taipei,Taiwan,Nov.27-29,2009.
H. Jung, D.H. Kim, G. Ye, and H.O. WANG, “Self-organization forSwarmSystemsBasedonSystematicSingularAssociation,”Proceed-ingsofthe13thInternationalConferenceonMechatronicsTechnol-ogy,Cebu,Philippines,October20-23,2009.
O. Cote, D. WROBLEWSKI, and J. Hacker, “Refractive Turbulence,Transient Electronic Disconnectivity, and Propagation SituationalAwareness(PSA),”47thAIAAAerospaceSciencesMeeting,Orlando,January,2009.
D. WROBLEWSKI, M. Cannamela, M. GEVELBER, O. Ghosh, M.VanHout,A.Lum,K.Hogstrom,andS. BASU,“PlasmaSprayProcessModelingforControl:EffectofTorchInputsonParticleStateDistribu-tions,”InternationalThermalSprayConference,May2009.
Y.Zou,andY. ZHANG,“Time-DependentMechanicsofElastinNet-work,”ProceedingsoftheASME2009SummerBioengineeringCon-ference,LakeTahoe,CA,2009.
B.Xu,andY. ZHANG,“BiaxialMechanicalPropertiesofCollagenScaf-foldswiththeeffectsofCrosslinkingandFiberalignment,”FallBMESMeeting,Pittsburgh,PA,2009.
I.K.Lin,X. ZHANG,andY. ZHANG,“SuppressionofInelasticDefor-mationinMultilayerMicrocantileverswithNanoscaleCoating,”Ma-terials Research Society Symposia Proceedings, MRS Fall meeting,Boston,MA,2009.
B.C.KaantaandX. ZHANG,“HighSensitivityMicro-ThermalConduc-tivityDetectorforGasChromatography,”presentedatthe22ndIEEEInternationalConferenceonMicroElectroMechanicalSystems,Sor-rento,Italy,January25-29,2009.
H. Tao, K. Fan, C.M. Bingham,A. Strikwerda,D. Pilon,W.J. Padilla,R.D.Averitt,andX. ZHANG,“TerahertzMetamaterialswithSimulta-neouslyNegativeElectricandMagneticResonanceResponsesBasedonBimaterialPopupStructures,”presentedatthe22ndIEEEInter-nationalConferenceonMicroElectroMechanicalSystems,Sorrento,Italy,January25-29,2009.
B.J.Hansen,J.Chen,andX. ZHANG,“TemplateforStraightforwardFabricationofSingleNanowireDevices,”presentedattheNanoman-ufacturingSummit,Boston,MA,USA,May27-29,2009.
H. Tao, C.M. Bingham, A.C. Strikwerda, D. Pilon, D. Shrekenhamer,N.I.Landy,K.Fan,W.J.Padilla,X. ZHANG,andR.D.Averitt,“FlexibleWideAngleTerahertzResonantAbsorberBasedonPerfectlyImped-
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ance Matched Metamaterials,” presented at the 29th ConferenceonLasersandElectroOpticsandInternationalQuantumElectronicsandLaserScienceConference,Baltimore,MD,USA,May31-June5,2009.
A.C.Strikwerda,K.Fan,H.Tao,D.V.Pilon,X. ZHANG,andR.D.Averitt,“ComparisonofBirefringentMetamaterialsandMeanderlineStruc-tureasQuarter-WavePlatesatTerahertzFrequencies,”presentedatthe29thConferenceonLasersandElectroOpticsandInternationalQuantumElectronicsandLaserScienceConference,Baltimore,MD,USA,May31-June5,2009.
H.Tao,A.C.Strikwerda,K.Fan,C.M.Bingham,W.J.Padilla,X. ZHANG,andR.D.Averitt,“FlexibleTerahertzMetamaterialsonPolyimideSub-strates,”presentedatthe29thConferenceonLasersandElectroOp-ticsandInternationalQuantumElectronicsandLaserScienceConfer-ence,Baltimore,MD,USA,May31-June5,2009.
P. Du, X. Lin, and X. ZHANG, “Electromechanical CharacterizationofPolypyrroleBilayerActuators,”presentedatthe5thInternationalWorkshoponAdvancedSmartMaterialsandSmartStructuresTech-nology,Boston,MA,USA,July29-August1,2009.
X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Development of a Versatile Cell ForceTransducerUsingMoiréMechanism,”presentedatthe31stAnnualInternationalConferenceoftheIEEEEngineeringinMedicineandBi-ologySociety,Minneapolis,MN,USA,September2-6,2009.
Y.Qiu,R.Liao,andX. ZHANG,“InterventionofCardiomyocyteDeathBasedontheImpedance-sensingTechniqueofMonitoringCellAdhe-sion,”presentedatthe31stAnnualInternationalConferenceoftheIEEEEngineeringinMedicineandBiologySociety,Minneapolis,MN,USA,September2-6,2009.
X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Quantifying Contractility inMigrationalVascularSmoothMuscleCellsRegulatedbyContractileProteinsUs-ingaNovelMicrofluidicForceMappingChip,”presentedatthe13thInternationalConferenceonMiniaturizedSystemsforChemistryandLifeSciences,JejuIsland,Korea,November1-5,2009.
I.-K. Lin, K.-S.Ou, K.-S. Chen, andX. ZHANG, “Cellular ForceMea-surementinCardiacMyocytesUsingPolymerMicropillarArraywithViscoelastic Characterization,” presented at the 13th InternationalConferenceonMiniaturizedSystemsforChemistryandLifeSciences,JejuIsland,Korea,November1-5,2009.
Y. Qiu, R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “Monitoring Spreading of SomaticStemCellsUsinganImpedanceSensor,”presentedatthe13thInter-nationalConferenceonMiniaturizedSystemsforChemistryandLifeSciences,JejuIsland,Korea,November1-5,2009.
H.Tao,C.M.Bingham,K.Fan,D.V.Pilon,A.C.Strikwerda,W.J.Padilla,X. ZHANG,andR.D.Averitt,“Dual-BandMetamaterialAbsorber intheTerahertzRegime,”presentedattheMaterialsResearchSocietyFallMeeting,Boston,MA,USA,November30–December3,2009.
K.Fan,A.C.Strikwerda,H.Tao,X. ZHANG,andR.D.Averitt,“TerahertzMagneticResponsefrom3DMetamaterials,”MaterialsResearchSo-cietyFallMeeting,Boston,MA,November30–December3,2009.
H.Tao,A.C.Strikwerda,C.M.Bingham,N.I.Landy,K.Fan,D.V.Pilon,D.Shrekenhamer,X. ZHANG,W.J.Padilla,andR.D.Averitt,“TheMar-riageofMEMSandMetamaterialsatTHzFrequencies,”presentedat
theMaterialsResearchSocietyFallMeeting,Boston,MA,USA,No-vember30–December3,2009.
P.Du,H.Lu,andX. ZHANG,“MeasuringtheYoung’sRelaxationMod-ulusofPDMSUsingStressRelaxationNanoindentation,”presentedattheMaterialsResearchSocietyFallMeeting,Boston,MA,USA,No-vember30–December3,2009.
K.-S.Ou,I.-K.Lin,P.-H.Wu,X. ZHANG,andK.-S.Chen,“MechanicalCharacterizationofAtomicLayerDeposited(ALD)AluminaforAppli-cations inCorrosiveEnvironments,”MaterialsResearchSocietyFallMeeting,Boston,MA,USA,November30–December3,2009.
I.-K. Lin,K. Zhang,andX. ZHANG, “Suppressionof InelasticDefor-mationinMultilayerMicrocantileverswithNanoscaleCoating,”pre-sentedattheMaterialsResearchSocietyFallMeeting,Boston,MA,USA,November30–December3,2009.
X.Wang,S.Yerci, I.-K.Lin,L.DalNegro,andX. ZHANG,“Mechani-calandOpticalPropertiesofReactivelySputteredSilicon-RichSiliconNitrideFilms,”presentedattheMaterialsResearchSocietyFallMeet-ing,Boston,MA,USA,November30–December3,2009.
I.-K.Lin,P.-H.Wu,K.-S.Ou,K.-S.Chen,andX. ZHANG,“TheTunabilityinMechanicalPropertiesandFractureToughnessofSputteredSiliconOxynitrideThinFilmsforMEMS-BasedInfraredDetectors,”present-edattheMaterialsResearchSocietyFallMeeting,Boston,MA,USA,November30–December3,2009.
B.C. Kaanta, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Control and OperationSchemesforMicro-ThermalConductivityDetectors inGasChroma-tography,”presentedattheMaterialsResearchSocietyFallMeeting,Boston,MA,USA,November30–December3,2009.
Y. Qiu andX. ZHANG, “ANovel Impedance Sensing Technique forMonitoringSpreadingofSomaticStemCells,”MaterialsResearchSo-cietyFallMeeting,Boston,MANovember30–December3,2009.
X.ZhengandX. ZHANG,“AMicrofluidicChipforAnalysisofMechani-calForcesGeneratedduringCellMigration,”presentedattheMateri-alsResearchSocietyFallMeeting,Boston,MA,USA,November30–December3,2009.
B.J.Hansen,G.Lu,I.-K.Lin,N.Kouklin,J.Chen,andX. ZHANG,“TheGrowth and Characterization of Copper (II) Oxide Nanowires withSingleNanowireElectrical,GasSensing,andPhotoconductionMea-surements,”presentedattheMaterialsResearchSocietyFallMeet-ing,Boston,MA,USA,November30–December3,2009.
P. Du, X. Lin, and X. ZHANG, “Characterization of the CorrelationBetweenCurrentInputandCurvatureOutputofPolypyrroleTrilayerActuators,” presented at the9th InternationalWorkshoponMicroandNanotechnology for PowerGenerationandEnergyConversionApplications,WashingtonDC,USADecember1-4,2009.
B.J.Hansen,G.Lu,I.-K.Lin,N.Kouklin,J.Chen,andX. ZHANG,“TheGrowth and Characterization of Copper (II) Oxide Nanowires withSingleNanowireElectrical,GasSensing,andPhotoconductionMea-surements,”presentedatthe3rdInternationalConferenceonOne-DimensionalNanomaterials,Atlanta,GA,USA,December7-9,2009.
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Research Laborator ies
Advanced Materials Process Control Lab
The primary re-search focus of theAdvanced Materi-als Process Control Laboratory is to ap-ply a systems-basedapproachtoimprov-ing material pro-cessing capabilities.
Researchprojectsinvolveanintegratedeffortofphysicalmodeling,sensordevelopment,systemdesign,andcontroldevelopment.
Current projects includework on plasmadeposition for protectivecoatings,crystalgrowthforelectronicapplications,andchemicalva-pordeposition. AnexperimentalCVDsystemhasbeendevelopedforimplementingreal-timecontrol.Amicrobalanceisusedtomeasuregrowthratesinsitu,andparallelDSPboardsareusedfordataanaly-sis and control. Related research includesdevelopmentof analysismethodsforidentifyingfundamentalprocessconstraints,aswellasdevelopmentofadvancedsensorsandobserverstoinfertheprocessstate.
Biomedical Microdevices and Microenvironments
The BiomedicalMicrodevices andMicroenvironments laboratory is fo-cused on materialsresearch activitiesin the broad areasof tissue engineer-ing and biomedical
devicedesign.Thelaboratoryisequippedforpolymerandhydrogelsynthesis,microfluidicdevicerapidprototyping,fabricationoftissueengineeringscaffoldmaterials,molecularanalysis,andtissueculture.Ithousesadynamicmechanicalanalyzerfortimeandtemperaturesensitivetestingofgelandpolymermacroscalemechanicalproper-ties.
This facility is a fully functional laboratory for integratedmechani-cal,chemical,andbiologicaltestingofbiomaterials.Thelaboratoryisadjacenttothesharedbio-micro/nanofabricationcenter.Thisclean-room contains a mask aligner, AFM, DekTak Profilometer, e-beamevaporator,andaspincoater.ThelabalsomaintainsaHysitronTribo-scopeNanoindentationInstrumentlocatedintheLowVibrationAreaofthePhotonicsCenter.Laboratoryprojectsincludeexperimentsandmodelingof the contactproblem fornanoscaleprobeson softhy-dratedbiomaterials,cell-biomaterialinteractionsintissueengineer-ingmaterials,anddiagnosticmicrofluidicdevicedesign.
Biomedical Ultrasonics Lab
Thislaboratoryisequippedforwetanddryexperimentssup-porting a broad spectrum ofultrasound research, includingnonlinearacoustics,bubble-re-lated physical and biomedicalacoustics, therapeutic ultra-sound,acousticcavitation,andtransduction. There are two
fully instrumented ultrasonic scan tanks with computer-controlledpositioners. One is for research into high-intensity-focused ultra-soundforsurgeryandtheothercontainsapeizo-electricarraywith170elementscapableofgeneratingintenseshockwavesforresearchinlithotripsy.Thelabhasascanningacousticmicroscope(SAM)thatcanemployultrasoundpulseswithfrequenciesupto150MHzforim-agingsamples.Thelabiswellstockedwithgeneral-purposetestandmeasurementequipmentsuchasfunctiongenerators,multimeters,poweramplifiers,preamps,analoganddigitaloscilloscopes.Thelabisequippedwithafull-sizefumehood,awaterpurificationsystem,andvariousinstrumentsforfluidandbiomaterialcontrol,processing,andmeasurement.
BioRobotics Lab
The BioRobotics ResearchGroup(BRG)solvestheoreticalandpracticalproblemsinmini-mally invasive surgery. Theyspecializeinmedicalrobotandinstrument design, develop-ment of imaging techniquesfor surgical guidance, model-ingtool-tissueinteraction;andteleoperation / automationof instrument motion. Theyutilize analytical tools fromrobotics, dynamics and con-
trol togetherwith innovative design techniques to create success-ful solutions. The teammembers come from diverse backgroundswithdegreesinmechanical/biomedical/electricalengineeringandmedicine. Their specialties range frombiomedical robotics, clinicalpracticeandimagingtoproductdesignandmanyareasinbetween.
Control in Nanoscale Systems
Andersson’s research group uses this facility to develop and applynewtechniquesforthestudyofdynamicsinnanoscalesystems.Theyuse advanced systems and controlmethods to design and analyzealgorithmswhichofferextremelyhighspatialandtemporal resolu-tion.Thetargetsystemslieprimarilyintherealmofsinglemoleculesandmolecular systems. The lab includes an optical microscope, ananopositioning stage,ahomebuilt confocalmicroscope,and laserexcitationsources.
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Fabrication Lab
TheFabricationLaborato-ryhelpssupporttheover-allresearchmissionofthedepartmentbyfabricatinginstrumentationandcom-ponents for researchuse.Currently, the major ma-chinery in the laboratoryconsists of 3 Sharp endmillswithCNCcontrolsys-tems,twoSharp lathes,a
bandsaw,someolderdrillpresses,atablesaw,agrinderandsander,andmiscellaneoushandtools.Thelaboratoryoccupies1305sq.ft.intwoadjacentrooms:ENGB02andENGB07of110CummingtonSt.Itsoperationisunderthesupervisionofthedepartment’slaboratorysupervisorandlaboratoryengineer.
Green Manufacturing Lab
Research in Green Manufacturing Laboratory focuses on environ-mentallybenignpowergenerationtechnologiessuchassolidoxidefuel cells (SOFCs). They explore the material science and electro-chemistryofSOFCsusingtoolssuchasimpedancespectroscopy,gal-vanostatsandpotentiostats.Studiesinthislabincludemeasurementoftheratesofchargetransferreactionsthatoccurattheinterfacesofsolidstateelectrochemicaldevices,explorationofnewmaterialsandprocessesandmodelingofthetransportphenomenathatoccurinsuchdevices.Inthislab,theyalsoconductresearchonceramicgasseparationmembranes for the separationof industrially importantgasessuchasoxygenandhydrogen.
Ongoing projects conducted in close collaboration with industrialpartners includethedevelopmentofelectrodeandelectrolytema-terialsforloweroperatingtemperatureSOFCsandthedevelopmentof mixed ionic and electronic conducting materials for separationofhydrogen.ThelaboratoryisequippedwithaPerkinElmer263APotentiostat/Galvanostatusedforcharacterizationofelectrochemi-cal systems such as fuel cells, ceramic gas separationmembranes,batteriesandsensors,aHoriba910particlesizeanalyzercapableofobtainingparticlesizedistributionsofpowdersintherangeof0.01micronsto1mmusing lightscatteringtechnique,aSolartron1255FrequencyResponseAnalyzer(FRA)usedforACimpedancespectros-copy,hightemperaturefurnacesthatcanoperateupto1700˚C,andaSpex8000millcapableofproducingsub-micronparticles forusein solid stateelectrodesbyhigh-energyballmilling ina very shortperiodoftime.
High Temperature Materials Processing Lab
TheHighTemperatureMaterialsProcessingLaboratoryiscompletelyequipped for studying most high-temperature chemical and elec-trochemical processes involving metals and ceramics. It includesseveral high-temperature furnaces, residual gas analyzers, CO/CO2analyzers,potentiostats,impedanceanalyzers,state-of-the-artther-mogravimetricCahnBalance,highprecisionpowersuppliescapableof operating under constant current/voltage mode, viscometers,state-of-the-artdataacquisitionsystems,powderprocessingfacility,andfuelcellteststations.
Thelaboratorycurrentlysupportsthefollowingresearchprograms:greenelectrochemicalsynthesisofhigh-energycontentmetalssuch
asmagnesium,titanium,calcium,andtantalum,novelmaterialspro-cessing for hydrogen storage,membrane technology for hydrogenproductionandseparation,hybridone-stepprocessingofsolidoxidefuelcells,andmaterialsforintermediatetemperaturesolidoxidefuelcells.
High Temperature Oxidation Lab
Theresearchfocus isto investigatehigh-temperatureoxidationbe-haviorofmaterialsbyexposingmetalandceramicsamples tocor-rosive atmospheres containing oxygen and sulfur at elevated tem-peratures up to 1,600˚C. The laboratory is equippedwith a CAHN(thermogravi-metric)balanceandaMettlermicrobalanceforweightgainmeasurements, aswell as anapparatus foroxidation inO–18atmospheres,inordertodetermineoxidationmechanisms.
Hybrid and Networked Systems (HyNeSs) Lab
Belta’sresearchgroupisinterestedinphenomenathatoccurwhencontinuousdynamics,describedbysystemsofdifferentialequations,are combined with discrete dynamics, modelled as automata orstatetransitiongraphs.Suchsystemsarecalledhybrid,andexamplesrange fromman-madesystemssuchasmobile robots, tonaturallyoccurringsystemssuchasbiochemicalnetworks,wherethecontinu-ousdynamicsofmetabolicprocessesisregulatedbythelogicofgeneexpression.Itsapproachtotheanalysisandcontrolofsuchsystemscombines concepts and tools from computer science and controltheory.Itscurrentapplicationareasarenetworkedmobilerobotics,swarming,genenetworks,andgenomescalemetabolicanalysis.
Intelligent Mechatronics
The mission of the Labora-tory for Intelligent Mecha-tronic Systems (LIMS), for-merly called the BU RoboticsLab, is to understand thede-sign and integration of novelsensing and actuation tech-nologies for a wide varietyof control applications. TheLab is particularly interestedin active materials exploitingelectrostrictive and magne-tostrictive effects, as well astherapidlygrowingvarietyofsilicon-based microelectro-mechanical (MEMs) devices.Incorporating these into ac-tuator and sensor arrays, the
LIMSstudiesmechatronicsystemsinwhichglobaldynamicaleffectsareachievedthroughtheaggregationofdistributedparallellocalac-tions.Control ofpattern formation inmultiagent systems inwhichband limited communication channelsmediate real-timedata-flowbetweensensorandactuatorarraysiscentraltotheresearch.Appli-cationsofinterestincludefluidstructureinteractions,roboticsysteminteractionswithfluidsandelasticsolids,microelectromechanisms,rotatingshafts,andturbinedynamics.
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UDAY PAL
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Laser Acoustics Lab
Thelaseracousticslabsupportsresearch in the nondestructivecharacterizationofconventionalandbiologicalmaterials.Currentresearch projects include thedevelopment of acousto-opticimaging systems for the detec-tionofabnormalitiesdeepwith-inbiologicaltissues,thestudyoflightandsoundinteractionwithnanoparticleswithpotentialap-plications intissue imagingandtherapy, and the developmentof full-field techniques for the
characterizationofarraysofnanostructures.Thelabhousesavarietyofultrasonicimagingandopticalequipment.
Lab for Microsystems Technology
The Laboratory for Microsystems Technology (LMST) is dedicatedtointerdisciplinaryresearchinthedesign,fabrication,characteriza-tion, packaging, and operation ofMicroelectromechanical Systems(MEMS)andNanoelectromechanicalSystems(NEMS).TheyperformresearchonMEMSandNEMS.Specifically,theyareinterestedinap-plying materials science, micro/nanomechanics, and micro/nano-manufacturing technologies to solve various engineering problemsthat are motivated by practical applications in MEMS/NEMS andemergingnanobiotechnologies.LMSTisaClass1000cleanroomthatprovidesresourcesforthedesign,fabrication,characterization,andtestingofMEMS/NEMSdevices.LMSTisalsoageneralbiochemistrylaboratorythathasastrongcollaborationwiththeBostonUniversitySchoolofMedicine.
Materials Theory Lab
The Materials Theory Groupseekstounderstandtheprop-ertyofmaterials viamodelingand simulation. The Groupmakes functional materialsdevices following theoreticalpredictions in the MaterialsTheoryLaboratory.
Medical Acoustics Lab
TheMedical Acoustics Laboratory aims at studying the interactionbetweenultrasound,tissue,andbiomaterialsanddevelopingnewul-trasoundtechnologiesformedicalapplications.ResearchthrustsintheMedicalAcousticsLabincludethedevelopmentoftemperature-andpressure-sensitivedrugcarriers,theformulationandcharacter-izationofmonodisperseultrasound contrast agents, anddesigningsystemstomonitorandcontrolbubble-enhancedultrasoundthermalablationofsolidtumors.
Microscopy Lab
TheMicroscopyLaboratory isdedicatedtothepreparationofelec-trontransparentspecimensforobservationintheTransmissionElec-tronMicroscope(TEM).Thespecimenshavetobereducedtoathick-nessontheorderof100ÅinordertostudyatomicarrangementsbyhighresolutionTEM.Equipmentavailableforthispurpose includesaGATANdimplerandion-mill,aswellasprecisiongrindingandpol-ishingapparatus.Thelaboratoryisalsoequippedwithadarkroom,capableofprocessingTEMnegativesandprints.
Multiscale Tissue Biomechanics Lab
IntheMultiscaleTissueBiomechanicsLab,K.Zhang’sresearchgroupintegratesknowledgeofbiology,nonlinearsolidmechanics,andfi-niteelementmodeling,especiallyofcomplexmaterialsandconsti-tutive behavior. Through the research, the lab provides insights inunderstandingtherelationshipbetweenmicroscopicbiologicalpro-cessesandchangesinmacroscopictissuemechanicsduetodiseases,andhelpsthedevelopmentofdiagnostic,therapeutic,andpharma-ceutical techniques. TheMulti-ScaleTissueBiome-chanics Laboratory wasestablished in 2006 andincludes a fully equippedwetlabandcomputation-al facilities for character-ization and modeling ofthe mechanical behaviorof soft biological tissuesand composites atmulti-scale.
Nanoscale Engineering Lab
TheNanoscaleEngineeringLaboratoryisusedtofabricatenanome-ter scale semiconductor mechanical devices using electron beamlithography,plasma, andwetetching techniques.After fabrication,variousstate-of-the-artcharacterizationtechniquesareemployedtostudythephysicalprocessesdominantinthesenanomechanicalde-vices.Amongthefundamentalphenomenastudiedaredissipation,fluctuations,andsurfaceeffectsatthenanometerlengthscales.Thepracticalaspectsofthisresearchinvolvethedesignandfabricationof ultra-high-speed nanomechanical sensors and development ofsurfacenano-engineeringtechniquesforimproveddevicecharacter-istics.
Orthopaedic and Developmental Biomechanics Lab
Morgan’s research group uses experimental and computationalmethods to explore the relationships between structure and me-chanicalfunctionofbiologicaltissuesatmultiplelengthscalesintheOrthopaedicandDevelopmentalBiomechanicsLab.Currentresearchprojects include quantification of physiological loading conditions,3-Dvisualizationandpredictionofspinefractures,andtheeffectsofmechanicalstimulationonjointandarticularcartilagedevelopment.
Thelaboratoryhousesabiaxial(axial-torsional)servohydraulicmate-rialstestingsystemwithavarietyofextensometersandloadcells,aminiaturetorsionaltestingsystem,twomicro-computedtomography
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XIN ZHANG
XI LIN
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systems,amulti-channelsignalconditionalandamplificationsystem,anX-raycabinet,andvariouscuttingtoolsincludingasledgemicro-tomeandlow-speedwaferingsaw.Additionalspaceisdedicatedtocellandtissueculture.Computationalfacilities includePCworksta-tions equippedwith software for image processing, finite elementanalysis,andgeneralcomputing.
Photo-acoustics and Photo-thermal Microscopy Lab
Research inthePhoto-acousticsandPhoto-thermalMicroscopylabfocusesonthedevelopmentoflaser-basedtechniquesforthechar-acterizationandnondestructiveevaluationofsmallscalestructuresincludingthinfilmsandcoatings,membranes,MEMSandnanoscaledevices. The laboratory includespulsed andhigh frequency ampli-tudemodulatedlasersources,opticalinterferometers,andavarietyofhighspeedelectronicandsignalprocessingcomponents.
Physical Acoustics Lab
The interaction of soundwith with fluids, especiallythosewith free surfaces, isat theheartof thework inthe Physical Acoustics Lab.The coupling of sound tointerfacial motion leads toavarietyofinterestingphe-nomena involving free sur-faces, bubbles and drops.Manyof thesephenomena
havesurprisingpracticalapplications.Afewofourprojectsarede-scribedbelow.
Inoneexternallyfundedproject,weareinvestigatingthecollectivecollapseofcavitationclustersinhigh-static-pressureliquids.Weuti-lizehigh-powerpulsedlaserbeamarraystocontrolclusternucleationandinvestigatetheonsetofcollectivebubbleeffectsinhigh-pressurespherical resonators. Understanding thephysicsof collective clus-tercollapsewillleadtoapplicationsinvolvinghigh-temperatureandhigh-pressurereactions.
In anotherproject, in collaborationwith abiomedical device com-pany,weareusingultrasonicacoustic levitationasa technique forinvestigatingtherheologyofbloodclots.Theuniquenessofthisnon-contactmethod allows the determination of the intrinsic strengthofclotsasafunctionofavarietyofcontrolfactors,inturnallowingmedicaldevicedesignerstomoreeffectivelybreakupclots.Intwootherprojectsweareinvestigatingtheuniquepropertiesofacousti-cally-drivennonlinearparametricinstabilitywavesknownasFaradaywaves. These waves spontaneously form patterns, and efficientlyfocusvibrationalenergyata freesurface. Oureffortsaredirectedatinvestigatingpatternfreezingasanalternativetotraditionaltime-consumingapproaches,andtowardsunderstandingFaradaywavesinperiodicstructures.
Powder Metallurgy & X-ray Lab
Thepowderprocessinglaboratoryisequippedtobatch,process,anddensifyawidevarietyofmaterials.Particlesizereductionanduni-formmixingareessentialinanypowderpreparation.Inadditiontoa500cccapacityattritormillforprocessingsmallpowderbatches,an
extensiveselectionofballmill sizesandavarietyofmillingmedia,includingsiliconnitrideandtitaniumcarbide,areavailable.Diesandpressesforpowdercompactionandcomponentdevelopmenthavebeen established. Consolidation and sintering capabilities includevacuum,overpressure,andhotpressingupto25,000KgFandtem-peraturesinexcessof2,400˚C.Thesecapabilitiesmakethepowderprocessing laboratory uniquely equipped for developing high tem-peraturemonolithicandcompositematerials.
ThelaboratoryisalsoequippedwithaBrukerD8Focusdiffractome-terwithindependentthetaandtwothetaaxiswithcopperradiation.Thisunitextendsthelaboratory’scapabilitytoperformsinglecrystalbackreflectionLauestudiesforcrystalorientation.Thestandardde-tector isthescintillationcounter,withhighdynamicrangeandlowinternal background. In addition, several Debye Scherrer powdercamerasarealsoavailable.Thisunit isequippedwithallnecessarycomponentsforqualitativeorquantitativephaseanalysis,crystallitesizedetermination,andstructuredeterminationandrefinement.
Precision Engineering
The Precision Engineering Research Laboratory (PERL) is home toanactiveprogram inMicro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS) re-search. InMEMS,thetoolsthatemergedfromthesemiconductormanufacturingrevolutionareemployedtodesignandbuildelectron-ic,mechanical,andopticaldeviceswhosedimensionsaremeasuredinnanometersandmicrometers.Liketheirmicroelectroniccounter-parts,MEMSdevicescanbemadeextremelysmallandingreatnum-berseconomically.TheresearchprogramatPERLfocusesonOpticalMEMS systems—electromechanical devices to improve the perfor-manceofimagingandcommunicationsystems.Oneofthemoresuc-cessfuloutcomesof this researchhasbeenthedesign, fabrication,andtestingofanewclassofmicromirrorarraythatcanbeusedtoimprovetheresolutionofmicroscopes, telescopes,andbiomedicalinstruments.
Two specific typesof thesedevices, developedat theUniversity—MEMSdeformablemirrorsandMEMSspatiallightmodulators—havebeenincorporatedintotest-bedsworldwidetoexploitthisnewtech-nology.TheworkonopticalMEMSincludesdesign,manufacturing,andtestingofthesedevices.PERLishousedinthePhotonicsCenter,whereworld-classfacilitiesformodeling,producing,andmeasuringopticalMEMSdevicesareavailable.
Shock Wave Lab
TheShockWaveLaboratoryhousesanumberofshockwavesourcesfor research into lithotripsy (breaking of kidney stones) and shockwavetherapy(thetreatmentofmusculoskeletalpain).Therearetwoelectrohydraulic(sparkbasedsource)lithotripters:oneisaresearchdevicewhichallowscontrolovervariousaspectsoftheshockwaveandthesecondisaclinicaldevicecompletewithfluoroscopicimag-ing.Thelabisalsohometotwoshockwavetherapy(SWT)devicesfor research into theuseofshockwaves to treatsoft-tissue injury.Acousticalandopticalcavitationdetectionsystemsareusedtosensebubbleactivitygeneratedbyshockwaves.There isahigh-pressurechamber with acoustically transparent windows that is equippedwithacousticandopticalportstoallowforthestudyofshockwaveinteractionwithstonesunderpressure.
The laboratory also houses the Drop Physics Module, an acousticlevitationapparatusthatflewontheSpaceShuttleintheSpace-labmoduleduringthemissionsSTS-50(FirstUnitedStatesMicro-gravity
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Laboratory, USML-1) and STS-73 (USML-2). The apparatus enabledthe study of drop dynamics and surface rheology inmicro-gravity.This apparatus is currently being refurbished andwill be used forstudiesofthedynamicrheologyoffoams.
Undergraduate Machining Lab
This lab isused toprototypemanufacturingprojects,andprovidesfundamental engineering research support. The lab emphasizesmodernprocessingmachineryandmanufacturingaidssuchascom-puter-aideddesignandcomputer-aidedmanufacturing(CAD/CAM).
Thislabisusedfordemonstrationandprojectsinseveralmanufac-turingcoursesforcarryingoutmilling,cutting,anddrillingofdiffer-entmaterials.Thisstate-of-the-artshopisequippedwithaHAASVF2VerticalMachiningCenter,2Sharp1224VerticalMachiningCenters,anOKUMALB15CNC12StationTurret Lathe,aFANUCTAPECUTW0WireEDM,aHARDINGEHLV-HToolroomLathe,aSharpSG618SurfaceGrinder,2BRIDGEPORTverticalmills,aLEBLOND16”enginelathe,3BRIDGEPORTSeriesI-CNCverticalmillsw/AnilamControls,aGROBverticalbandsaw,aCLAUSING-COLCHESTER15”enginelathe,aKEARNEYTRECKERhorizontalmill,andaRUEMELINsandblaster.The labalsohas2computerstationsusingVirtualGibbsCadCam,Delcam’sArtCam,andSolidWorkssoftware.
Underwater Sound and Ultrasound Lab
The focusof this laboratory is thepropagationof sound innaturalbodiesofwater.Facilitiesincludeawetlabtestingfacilityaswellasvariousinstrumentationforsoundgeneration,detection,andpropa-gationexperiments.Thelabalsocontains2workstationsforcom-putationalmodeling. In addition to lab and computational efforts,at-searesearchprojectsareunderwaythroughcollaborationswithotherregionalfacilities.
Facilities include alarge-water-filled,ultrasound scantank (with preci-sion positioners,supporting com-puters and acous-tic-electronic in-strumentation) forgeneral-purposeultrasound re-search and twodiagnostic ultra-soundscannersforbiomedical imag-ing research. TheSNSwork features
anacousticresonatordesignedfordetectingfreegasbubblesinflow-ingmercuryandalasercavitationsystemforgeneratingreproduciblebubblecloudcollapsenearboundariesunderwell-controlledaque-ousconditions.Cloudcollapsediagnosticsincludehigh-speedpho-tography, acoustic emissionmeasurements, and boundary surfacevibrationsmeasuredusingalaserDopplervibrometer.
Vibrations Lab
The laboratory offers a full suite of sensors, instrumentation, andsoftwarenecessarytoresearchthevibrationsofcomplexstructuresandtechnologiesthatreducevibrationandnoise.Oneareaofcur-rent interest is thespatialmappingofenergy removalbydampingtreatments inorder tobetterdesigndamping treatments for com-plexstructures.Anotherareaisthemitigationofautomotivebrakesqueal.
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Aff i l iated Research Centers
Center for BioDynamics (CBD)
TheCenter forBiodynam-ics (CBD) is a multidisci-plinary, interdepartmentalcenter, which strives toadvance training and re-searchbetweendynamical
systems,biology, andengineering. TheCBD trainsundergraduates,graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in leading techniquesfrom these disciplines. The CBD emphasizes the integration of re-searchandeducation,aswellastheverticalintegrationofstudentsandmentorsatall levelswithinBostonUniversity.Training isoftendone through involvement in cross-disciplinary collaborations andco-mentoredprojects.
Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation
The Fraunhofer USA Cen-ter for Manufacturing In-novation(FHCMI)providesproduct development as-sistance and manufactur-
ingsolutionstolocalandinternationalindustry.Theyworkwiththeir-clientstodevelopnewtechnologies,improvecurrentmanufacturingoperations and, based on our global view, benchmark against theworld’sbestpractices.Theiruniqueabilitytoaccessaglobalresearchbaseandtheirownvastexperiencegiveourclientsanunparalleledadvantage.
Fraunhoferhasbeenbridging the gapbetweenacademic researchand industrial needs formore than 50 years. It is Europe’s largestR&Dorganization spanning over fifty locations across Europe,AsiaandNorthAmerica;andincludesanannualclientbaseofmorethanthreethousandcorporations.
Themodel isverysimple:Fraunhofer Institutesworkwith industryanduniversitiestoscaleupcuttingedgeresearchintorealworkingtechnologiesonanindustrialtimetable.Theirengineeringleadstothedevelopmentofadvancedmachineryandprocessesforavarietyofapplications.Theserangefromsubmicronprecisionassemblyforthephotonics,biotechandsemiconductorindustries,tohighvolumemanufactureofconsumerproducts.
Photonics Center Tohelp industrybridge thegap between basic researchand practical application,Boston University launchedthePhotonicsCenterin1994
with$29millioninseedfundingfromthefederalgovernment.ThecenterisnowforgingtruebusinesspartnershipsinwhichcompaniesdrawontheUniversity’sexceptionalexpertiseandresourcesinengi-neering,science,medicine,andmanagementtobuildactualproductprototypesandspawnagrowingstreamofnewcompanies.
ThePhotonicsCenterisaboldnewmodelforuniversity-industrycol-laboration.Ithasbeenestablishedtoworkdirectlywithinvestorsand
industrialpartnerstoturnemergingconceptsinphotonicstechnol-ogyintocommercialproducts.TheCenterisstaffedandequippedtohelpindustrypartnersreducethetechnicalandfinancialriskinvolvedindevelopingnewideas,refiningtheminlaboratory,buildingwork-ingprototypes,andstartingupcompanies.Todate theCenterhasforgedjointventureswithadozencompaniestodevelopnewprod-uctsindatastorage,environmentalmonitoring,optoelectronics,andbiotechnology.
Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)
The Bernard M. Gordon Centerfor Subsurface Sensing and Imag-ing Systems is a multi-universityNational Science Foundation En-gineering Research Center (NSF-ERC) founded in 2000. Itsmissionis to develop new technologiesto detect hidden objects—and touse those technologies to meetreal world subsurface challenges
inareasasdiverseasnoninvasivebreast cancerdetectionandun-derground pollution assessment. The center’smultidisciplinary ap-proachcombinesexpertise inwavephysics (photonics,ultrasonics,electromagnetics), multisensor fusion, image processing, and 3DCAT-scan-like reconstruction and visualization. The Gordon Centeroperateswiththespeedandagilitymoretypicalofaresults-drivenprivatecompanythanofanacademicinstitution,consistentwiththeneeds of its industrial and government partners.With its commit-ment to leveraging technology transfer to spur economicdevelop-ment,theGordonCenterisintendedtobeanationalmodelforthefusionofacademicresearchandprivate-sectorcollaboration.
Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE)
TheCenterforInfor-mationandSystemsEngineering pro-videsahomeacross
departmentsforfacultyandstudentsinterestedininformationandsystemsengineeringmethodologiesandtheir relevancetoapplica-tiondomainsencompassingtheanalysis,design,andmanagementofcomplexsystems. InformationandsystemsengineeringresearchatBostonUniversityisstrongandaccomplishedbutalsospreadsacrossdepartments,collegesandschoolswithintheUniversity.In2002,theTrusteesapprovedthenewCISEinordertofostergreaterinteractionsamongresearchersspeakingthesametechnicallanguageacrossdi-verseapplicationdomains.Currently,thereare30affiliatedfacultyfromthedepartmentsofBiomedicalEngineering,ComputerScience,Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics and Statistics,MechanicalEngineering,OperationsManagementand theDivisionofSystemsEngineering. Currentfocalapplicationdomainsinclude:Automation,roboticsandcontrol;Communicationsandnetworking;Computational Biology; Information Sciences; Production, ServiceSystems,andSupplyChains.
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Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology
Nanoscience andnanotechnology re-searchanddevelop-ment are leading a
revolutioninbasicmaterialsscienceandengineering.Newadvance-mentswithdesignedfunctionalityarepoisedtoenableahugerangeofapplicationsineverythingfromdevelopingfundamentalbuildingblocks in the electronics, photonics, andmaterials sectors, to sen-sors, biomimetic andbiocompatible platforms throughout thebio-medicalandhealthsectors.
ThestrengthofBostonUniversity’seffortsininterdisciplinarynano-science andnanotechnology forman axis that begins in basicma-terialsscience,surfacescience,physics,chemistry,andengineering,extending intomolecular and cellular biology, biophysics, and thetechnologiesofmicrofluidics,MEMS,andontomanufacturing.Ourstrengthsare indevelopingandusingnanotechnologyadvances inmaterialsandplatformswithourcapabilitiesinbiomedicalengineer-
ingtofocusonapplicationsinunderstandingsubcellularprocesses,biomolecularfunctionandhumanphysiology.
ThenewCenterforNanoscienceandNanobiotechnologywasestab-lishedtoadvanceacademicandtechnologicalresearchanddevelop-mentinnanoscienceandnanobiotechnology.TheCenterservesasahubfornanoscienceresearchersfromtheCharlesRiverandMedicalCampusesandbuildsactivitiesthatdevelopinterdisciplinaryresearchandtraining.TheCenterwillconnectscientistsfromdisparatedisci-plineswitheachotherinseminars,meetings,jointvisitorprogramsandseededprojectstoenhancethedevelopmentofinterdisciplinarynanoscaleresearch.TheCenterwillleadlarge,interdisciplinarypro-posaldevelopmentandrunfundedprogramsforbothresearchandtraining,aswellassupportindividualresearchersintheireffortsbylinkingthemwithresourcesthroughouttheUniversityandbeyond.TheCenterwillalsobuild linkagesbetweentheresearchandtech-nologicalcommercializationresourcesatBUincludingthePhotonicsCenter,theTechnologyCommercializationInstitute,andFraunhoferandwithexternalpartnersandindustrialaffiliates.
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Seminars
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
9.4.09 Catherine KlapperichDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringBostonUniversity
MiniaturizingMolecularDiagnostics:EngineeringforPortability,PerformanceandEaseofUse
9.11.09 Gretar TryggvasonMechanicalEngineeringWorcesterPolytechnicInstitute
Directnumericalsimulationsofmultiphaseflow
9.18.09 Pierre DupontDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringBostonUniversity
Developmentofrobottechnologyforminimallyinvasivesurgery
9.25.09 Clare M. Rimnac DepartmentofMechanicalandAerospaceEngineeringCaseWesternReserveUniversity
Engineeringthenaturalhistoryoftotaljointreplace-ments
10.2.09 Richard WlezienDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringTuftsUniversity
Hybridlaminarflowforefficientsubsoniccruise
10.9.09 Julie ChenDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringUniversityofMassachusettsLowell
Emergingopportunitiesandstrategiesforresearchandpartnershipsinmechanicalengineering
10.16.09 Michael P. BrennerSchoolofEngineeringandAppliedSciencesHarvardUniversity
Physicsandmathematicsofselfassembly
10.23.09 Kamil EkinciDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringBostonUniversity
FluiddynamicsofNEMS:Fundamentals,challenges,andprospect
10.26.09 Semyon M. MeerkovElectricalEngineeringandComputerScienceDepartmentUniversityofMichigan
ProductionSystemsEngineering:Problems,Solutions,andApplications
11.6.09 Chiang C. MeiDepartmentofCivilandEnvironmentalEngineeringMIT
The2009FelsenLecture:Modelingofthehydrodynam-icsofpowerextractionfromseawaves
11.13.09 James F. LynchAppliedOceanPhysicsandEngineeringWoodsHoleOceanographicInstitution
The2009MunkAwardLecture:Acousticaloceanographyandshallowwateracoustics
12.4.09 George G. AdamsMechanicalandIndustrialEngineeringDepartmentNortheasternUniversity
Analyticalmodelingandexperimentsinthecontactofaroughmicrospherewithaflatsolidsurface
12.11.09 Louis L. BucciarelliSchoolofEngineeringMIT
Howmanyengineersdoesittaketodesignalightbulb?
1.15.10 George KarniadakisAppliedMathematicsDepartmentBrownUniversity
Multiscalemodelingofcomplexfluids,softmatter,andredbloodcells
1.22.10 Robert D. WhiteMechanicalEngineeringDepartmentTuftsUniversity
Microsystemsforacousticsensing-biomimeticsandengineeredsystems
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1.27.10 Ismail B. CelikMechanicalandAerospaceEngineeringDepartmentWestVirginiaUniversity
Applicationofmicromachineddevicestocochlearme-chanics,biomedicalultrasound,andaeroacoustics
2.5.10 Federico CapassoSchoolofEngineeringandAppliedSciencesHarvardUniversity
Casimir-Lifshitzforces:vacuumfluctuations,quantumlevitation,andthefutureofnanomachines
2.12.10 Alexander GorlovDepartmentofMechanicalandIndustrialEngineeringNortheasternUniversity
TheGorlovHelicalTurbineanditsapplicationstotheextractionofpowerfromwatercurrentsandwind
2.19.10 Arun ShuklaDepartmentofMech.EngineeringandAppliedMechanicsUniversityofRhodeIsland
Novellayeredmaterialsforblastmitigationandaero-spaceapplications
2.26.10 Jim SlinkmanIBM
ScanningSurfacePhotoVoltageMicroscopyforcharac-terizationofstressonsilicondevicestructure
3.19.10 Alexander SmitsDepartmentofMechanicalandAerospaceEngineeringPrincetonUniversity
TurbulenceathighReynoldsnumbers
3.26.10 Patricia DaviesSchoolofMechanicalEngineeringPurdueUniversity
Soundqualityandtheassessmentofaircraftnoise
4.2.10 Robin Cleveland DepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringBostonUniversity
Lithotripsy:ashockingblowtokidneystones
4.9.10 Brian StoreyOlinCollege
Electrokineticflowinmicrofluidics:problemsatlargevoltages
4.16.10 Jeff MendozaUnitedTechnologiesResearchCenter
Silencingadiversecorporation
4.30.10 Robert C. Dean Jr.SynergyInnovations,Inc.andDartmouthCollege
Invention,innovationandentrepreneurship
ProfessorChiangC.Meigivingthe2009FelsenLecture:Modelingofthehydrodynamicsofpowerextractionfromseawaves.
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Merri l L . Ebner Fund
B A C K G R O U N D
Since2003,TheMerrillL.EbnerFundhasbeenusedtosupportanumberofactivities,allcenteredaroundthekeyaimtoencour-ageeducationalactivitiesinengineeringinvolvingcreativedesignandcommercialization.RogerandSandraDorfofAustin,Texas,establishedthefinancialbasisofthisinitialfund,towhichothershavecontinuedtocontribute.Prof.MerrillEbnerdesignedthemainactivitiesandusesoftheFund,whichwillbediscussedbelow.SincetheSpringof2008,whenProf.Ebnerpassedaway,theMerrillEbnerFundCommitteehascontinuedtoorganizeanddirectthiswork.
Thecommitteeforthepresentacademicyearincluded:
STORMY ATTAWAY Co-Chair
DAN COLECo-Chair
RONALD ROY
J. GREGORY MCDANIEL
DONALD WROBLEWSKI
XIN ZHANG
WithintheFundaretwodistinctsub-funds.The“EndowedFund”receivescontributionsfromwhichtheaccumulatedinterestisavail-ableforuse.Contributionstothe“CurrentUseFund”areavailableforuseimmediatelyuponreceipt.TheMerrillEbnerFundCommit-teeprovidesoversightforbothFunds.
ActivitiesoftheFund,whichimpactboththeundergraduateandgraduateprograms,areinsomecasesfullyfinancedbytheFund.InothercasestheFundleveragesitsalumniandcorporatecontribu-tionsbyprovidingstart-upfundsforaproject.TheFundcontinuestobeprimarilyusedtoencouragecreativedesignandcommercial-izationwithinMechanicalEngineering,withemphasisonmanufac-turingoperations.
F U N D S T A T U S
TheEndowedFundhasreceived$-0-andtheCurrentUseFundhasreceived$1000thisfiscalyear.AsofJuly1,2010,totalcumulativecashcontributions(currentprincipal)intheEndowedFundhavebeen$127,658.AsofthatdatetheavailablefundsintheEndowedFund(interestontheprincipal)are$14,785andintheCurrentUseFund$8039.
D E S I G N P O R T F O L I O C O N T E S T
OneofthefirstmajoractivitiesattheundergraduateleveloftheEndowedFundwastheestablishmentofanannualUndergraduateDesignPortfolioContest.Thecontestwasstartedinthespringof2005,andhasbeenheldannuallysincethen.Inthepast,thisdesigncompetitionwasopentoallsophomoresandjuniorsintheCollegeofEngineering,withtheintentionofencouragingallengineeringstudentstobegintodeveloptheirdesignportfoliosearlyintheircollegecareer.Thisyear,however,inordertoincreasethelevelofparticipationinthecontest,itwasopeneduptoundergraduatesatalllevels.Judgingproceduresthatwereestablishedin2005statethateveryyearaPortfolioReviewJuryistobedesignatedconsistingminimallyoftheChair(orCo-chair)oftheEbnerFundCommittee,amemberofthedesignfaculty,aseniorengineeringstudent,anengineeringalumnaoralumnusandtheMechanicalEngineeringDepartmentChairmanorhisorherdesignee.Thisyearthejuryconsistedof:
STORMY ATTAWAYCo-Chair
DAN COLE DesignFaculty
JOSEPH SHIFRINSeniorEngineeringStudent
CHARLIE LISSANDRELLOEngineeringAlumnus
MORT ISAACSONChairDesignee
Inordertoencouragestudentparticipationinthecontest,atleastonePortfolioWorkshophasalsobeenheldeveryyear.Attheseworkshopsstudentsandalumniexhibittheirportfolios;theinten-tionistoprovidelowerdivisionengineeringstudentswithanideaofwhatreasonablycompleteportfolioslooklike.Thisyearthereweretwodifferentworkshops.ThefirstwasheldinconjunctionwiththeDepartmentOpenHouseinDecember;thiswassetupasaninformaltablestudentscoulddropby.Subsequently,Prof.ColeheldanotherworkshopinMarchthatwasattendedbyapproximately20undergraduatestudents.Thisworkshopwasmoreformallystructured.
Thejurydecidesonthecontestwinners.Sincethecontestwasopeneduptoallundergraduates,theprizestructurewasrevampedaccordingly.Itwasdecidedthatcashawardsof$500forthebestseniorportfolio,$400forthebestjuniorportfolio,$250forthebestsophomoreportfolio,$100forthebestfreshmanportfolio,and$500forthebestoverallportfoliowouldbeawardedattheDepart-ment’send-of-yearsocialonMay3,2010.Thisyear’swinnerswere:
SAMIR AHMED(EE2013)Freshman
YIN LIN (ME2011)Junior
WARREN HUFFMAN(MFG2010)Senior
Overallwinner: YIN LIN
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ThefreshmanwinneroftheDesignPortfolioContestSamirAhmed(l.)receivinghisawardfromProfessorWroblewski(r.)
Thethirdannual“GraduateThesiswiththeGreatestCommercialPotential”awardcompetitionwasheldthisyear.AnyM.S.orPh.D.thesisproducedbyastudentintheDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringwaseligibletobeconsideredforthisaward.Thetotalawardforwinningthisjuriedcompetitionis$3,000,paidfromtheEbnerEndowedFund.Theawardissplitevenlybetweentheauthor(s)ofthewinningthesisandthefacultyadvisorforthethesis,tobeusedinsupportofthefacultyadvisor’slaboratory.
ThenominationprocessthatwasestablishedrequiresthattheFacultyAdvisermustnominatethestudent/thesistobeconsideredbythejury.Inthisprocess,thefacultyadvisorwritesasingle-pageletterofnominationforthethesis,includingadiscussiononthecommercialpotentialofthethesisandanyotherhelpfulback-groundonthethesisworktohelpfacilitatejudging.Thethesisandnominatingletterarethenreviewedbyajuryconsistingofachairandknowledgeablepeoplechosenfromthefacultyandindustry.Inthepast,thejuryhasincludedatleasttwofacultymembers,atleasttwopeoplefromindustry,andoftenaBUalumni.
Thisyearthejuryendedupbeingsmallerthanusualforanum-berofreasons,althoughthenumberofapplicantswasactuallyhigher.Themake-upofthejurywillneedtobeaddressednextyear.Fortunately,however,regardingtheapplications,thequalityofthesubmittedtheseswasfelttobequitehighbythejury.Allhadverygoodtoexcellentpotentialcommercialapplicability,combinedwithexcellentresearchefforts.
TheJuryforthe2010Awardconsistedofthreefacultymembers:
DAN COLEME(Chair)
TED dE WINTERME
DON WROBLEWSKIME
Thewinningthesis,whichwasnominatedbyProf.VinodSarin,waswrittenbyTusharKulkarni.ThePh.D.thesiswasentitled,“Function-allyGradedMulliteCoatingsforGasTurbines.”Byprovidingcoat-ingsonturbinebladesthatcanwithstandmuchhighertempera-tures,theefficiencyofaturbinecanbesignificantlyincreased.
D E S I G N F E L L O W S H I P
Alsoatthegraduatelevel,acompany-designated“DesignFellow-ship”hasbeenestablishedthroughtheCurrentUseFund.ThestructureofthisDesignFellowshiphasbeensetupasa16-monthexperienceleadingtoaMaster’sdegree.Designintensityispro-videdintheprogrambyfourelements:(1)graduatecourseworkwithspecialemphasisontheM.S.programoptioninSensorsandInstruments,(2)paiddesignassignmentsfor20-30hoursperweekatthesponsoringcompany,(3)participationwithafacultydesignmentorprovidinganopportunityforthestudenttoenhancethedesignandcomputationcomponentinaseniororgraduatecourse(referredtohereasa“designpracticum”),and(4)anM.S.thesiswithadesignthrust.
TuitioncostsaresharedbetweentheCollegeofEngineeringandthesponsoringcompanyandabookstipendisprovided.AllfellowshippaymentstoBostonUniversityonbehalfofthesponsoringcompanyarepaidthroughthefundasthesponsorofthefellowshipprogram.Since2005,TheRaytheonCompanyhasbeentheprimarysupporterofDesignFellows.
TwoRaytheonFellowsfinishedtheirM.S.degreeandgraduatedinMay2009.Theyare:JosephWasniewskiandMichelleBoudreau.JosephchosetodoaMSthesiswithProf.CalinBeltaentitled,“AnExperimentalPlatformforProbabilisticRobotMotionPlanningandControl.”Thisworkinvolvedthecontrolandcommunicationofau-tonomousrobotnetworks.MichellecarriedoutaresearchprojectwithProf.TheodoreFritzintheCASAstronomyDept.onaerospaceapplications.Michelle’sworkinvolveddesignworkfortheAuroralImager,whichisakeysubsystemofaBUsatelliteproject.
NonewRaytheonFellowswerestartedthisyear,buttwomoreareexpectedtobegininayearfromnow.
Thus,theMerrillL.EbnerFundcontinuestoincreasethedesignandcommercializationemphasisinactivitiesofinteresttomechanicalandmanufacturingengineering.Itisexpectedthatitsinfluencewillcontinuetoevolveandgrowinfutureyears.
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