bu me annual report 2010-2011

the merged Depart-ment and the re-structured College.

Work fell under two main categories:

o The implementation and fine-tuning the curricular changes approved in May 2008 as well as new changes introduced in FY09.

o The creation of a continuous improvement processes in the ME undergraduate program.

College of Engineering

Annual Report 2010-2011

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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C O N T E N T S

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

OVERVIEW2 Highlights6 Faculty Awards

FACULTY AND STAFF9 Faculty13 Committees14 New Faculty 14 Retired Faculty15 Secondary Faculty15 Staff

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS17 Objectives and Outcomes18 Enrollment18 Degrees Awarded19 Courses Offered to Undergraduate Students20 Undergraduate Student Awards22 Student Organizations25 Senior Design Projects

GRADUATE PROGRAMS30 Enrollment by Degree Program31 Graduate Student Awards32 Degrees Awarded33 Graduate Courses Offered34 MS Theses 35 PhD Dissertations37 Distance Learning

RESEARCH41 Research Funding47 Faculty Publications65 Research Laboratories70 Affiliated Research Centers72 Seminars74 Merril L. Ebner Fund

I am pleased to share with you the 2010-2011 edition of the Boston University Department of Mechanical Engineering Annual Report. After another year of growth and change, we now are poised to conclude the phased restructur-ing of our undergraduate programs, a process that began in 2008 when the former Manufacturing Engineering and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineer-ing departments merged to form a single unit with over 40 full time faculty dedicated to quality instruction and active in a multiplicity of research topics ranging from acoustic levitation to bone mechanics. Many ME faculty have joint appointments in other Departments and are participating faculty in the BU Division of Material Science and Engineering and Division of Systems En-gineering. Add approximately $9M in new extramural research funding in FY2011 and you have a rich tapestry of applied and basic research activity that cuts across disciplines and offers enhanced breadth and depth of op-portunity to our students. Current areas of strength within the Department include, but are not limited to, acoustics and vibrations, automated manufac-turing, biomaterials and biomedical applications of mechanical engineering, thermo-fluid sciences, materials engineering and mechanics, MEMS & NEMS, nanobiotechnology, robotics & controls, photonics, and systems engineering.

For students who matriculated September 2008, the Department offered ac-credited BS degrees in mechanical, aerospace, and manufacturing engineer-ing. The Department is entering the final year of a 4-year process in which we “sunset” our BS degree programs in aerospace and manufacturing engineer-ing and replace them with an accredited degree in mechanical engineering with concentrations in aerospace and manufacturing. This provides students with the best of both worlds: a solid foundational degree in the highly market-able and intellectually mobile discipline of mechanical engineering, coupled to optional, specialized education in either aerospace or manufacturing engi-neering. The College has also created two new concentrations accessible to ME students, one in “Energy Technology and Environmental Engineering” and one in “Nanotechnology.” The new ME program is designed with flexibility in mind.

At the graduate level, the Department offers PhD in mechanical engineering as well as MS degrees in both mechanical and manufacturing engineering. Both MS degrees require a thesis, and interested students can choose to pur-sue the MS in manufacturing via distance learning, as part of an international partnership with a consortium of German institutions, or even as a dual MS/MBA degree offered jointly with the School of Management. In FY 2012 the Department has expanded its programmatic portfolio to include two new ex-

M E S S A G E F R O M T H E C H A I R ecutive masters degrees, the MEng in mechanical engineering and manufac-turing engineering. The MEng caters to the advanced student who aspires to work in industry and features a suite of courses, taught by engineering profes-sors, that reside in the intersection of engineering and management. This programmatic diversity is a direct consequence of the merger, and positions the ME Department to respond to new challenges and opportunities in both education and research.

During the AY2010-2011 academic year we made three new additions to the ranks of full-time and adjunct ME teaching faculty. Adjunct Lecturer Dr. Jason Holmes is on the research staff at BBN Technologies and joined the depart-ment as a part time instructor, specializing in thermo-fluids courses. Dr. Peter Zink, another BU alumnus, joined the department in a full-time capacity and serves as an Assistant Research Professor and Instructor. Finally, Dr. John Pe-ter Voccio recently came on as a part-time Adjunct Lecturer in the area of dynamics. I am particularly pleased to welcome a new addition to the ranks of ME tenure track faculty. Assistant Professor Aaron Schmidt received his PhD from MIT in 2008. A member of the BU Photonics Center, his research focuses on the development and application of the latest optical tools to study and manipulate transport of energy in solids and liquids from the nanoscale to the macroscale, with applications in developing new materials, energy con-version, thermal management, and furthering fundamental understanding of nanoscale transport phenomena.

Several ME faculty members received well-deserved awards. John Baillieul was the Univ. of Maryland Booz Allen Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium Lec-turer and the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Hendrik W. Bode Prize. Elise Morgan was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award for Senior Fellows (F33) by the NIH and had a research paper named winner of the 2010 Ameri-can Association of Orthodontists Milo Hellman Research Award. Xin Zhang received the Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC) Award, the Schlumberger Award for Excellence and Leadership in MEMS/NEMS Research, and boasts Best Paper awards in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and in IEEE Sensors. More locally, Soumendra Basu received the BU College of Engineering Service Award, Don Wroblewski received the ENG Excellence in Teaching Award, and Ray Nagem was given the ME Department Award for Excellence in Teaching.

In AY2010-2011, the Department featured a total undergraduate enrollment of 499 and conferred 144 BS degrees in three active programs. Several stu-dents won significant awards including approximately 80% of the awards con-ferred by the College. The graduate program hosted approximately 98 MS/PhD students, with 54 degrees conferred in three programs. Several gradu-ate students won best paper awards and extramural fellowships (NSF, Clare Boothe Luce). It is important to stress that the ME faculty research portfolio is extremely diverse and crosscutting. Mechanical engineering professors serve as PI on grants administered by numerous College departments and research centers, as well as the BU Medical Center. Indeed, almost 50% of the PhD students supported by ME faculty are earning degrees in programs outside of mechanical engineering, mostly in BME, ECE, or one of the Division programs.

It is both an honor and a challenge to lead the new BU Department of Me-chanical Engineering into the future. The next few years will witness ongo-ing changes in our research portfolio, faculty demographics, and degree pro-grams. I invite you to peruse the Report and learn more about the depth and breadth of our programs, the spectrum of student activities, profiles of award-winning faculty, research interests, and facilities.and manipulate trans-

Ronald A. RoyProfessor and ChairDepartment of Mechanical Engineering

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Fiscal Year 2011 was a very active year that saw many accomplishments on all fronts. Our main focus areas were the gradu-ate programs and faculty recruiting. The list of specific activities and accomplishments is too long to address here. Rather than launch into a lengthy narrative, we instead provide an itemized summary of the activities in a number of areas, some of which are expanded upon in other sections of this Report.

• We had an extremely successful faculty search in the area of Mechatronics/Systems/Controls, resulting in one new hire.

• We had an extremely successful faculty search in the area of Energy, resulting in two new hires.

• We created two new professional Masters degrees: a Mas-ter of Engineering (MEng) in Mechanical Engineering, and a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Manufacturing Engineering. These programs will launch in Fall 2011.

• The College of Engineering hired Kirstie Miller to fill the newly created position of Director of Professional Education and Corporate Relations. Although this is a College position, her responsibilities include promotion of the Distance Learn-ing Program which is currently primarily within the Mechani-cal Engineering Department.

• We approved Graduate Certificate Programs in the areas of Engineering Innovation, MEMS, Energy and Sustainability, and Product Design. The programs require 12 credits of gradu-ate courses chosen from short lists, and allow professionals to develop advanced-level expertise in a focused area of study.

• We expanded the Distance Learning Program with the addi-tion of several new DL courses in ME, to supplement the exist-ing MFG DL courses.

• The College of Engineering created a new database system for tracking graduate applicants/admissions, which was used extensively by the graduate committee members in handling a large applicant pool.

• Course Review Panels were created to oversee the core un-dergraduate courses and course streams. As part of this pro-cess, we updated course coordinators for all required under-graduate courses.

• We began the process of incorporating more Active Learning beginning with EK 301 Introduction to Engineering Mechanics, as part of the “Redesigning the Undergraduate Learning Experi-ence (RULE)” grant from the University.

• We conducted a major Space Inventory for the Department and successfully navigated a university audit of our operations.

• For the first time, we had live video streaming of the Senior Capstone Presentations for all majors, enabling alumni and oth-ers to participate via live chats.

Research SymposiumA research symposium was held in the fall for graduate stu-dents. Faculty presented their areas of research, and de-scribed potential projects and thesis topics. 3 September 2011.

Student-Alumni DinnersTwo dinner events were held, one each semester, in which the Department juniors and seniors could mingle with alumni and faculty. The College Career Development Office co-sponsored these “Networking@ME” events, which were a huge success. 16 November 2010 and 29 March 2011.

Mechanical Engineering Open House ME@BUOur annual Open House “ME@BU Day” featured a blend of in-formational tables, technical demonstrations, poster presenta-tions of undergraduate and graduate research, and exceptional baked goods from the kitchens of several faculty and staff. 19 November 2010.

Design Portfolio WorkshopsThis year we held two Design Portfolio Workshops: one as part of the Open House in November, and another one in February. 19 November 2010 and 2 February 2011.

OVERVIEW

HIGHLIGHTS

PROGRAMMATIC HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

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Senior Project DaysSenior Project Days are a forum for Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering seniors to present their Cap-stone projects. With three active programs presenting on two separate days, we were treated to a full slate of presentations covering a broad range of topics. 6 May 2011 and 9 May 2011.

Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Class MeetingsThe ME Chair, the undergraduate Associate Chairs, interested faculty, and the Undergraduate Coordinator meet annually in the spring with the undergraduates in all three programs to discuss issues and topics of their choosing. Again this year the College held a “Town Meeting” for the freshmen for the same purpose, so the ME Department met only with the soph-omores and juniors. We also conducted a “Feedback Forum” in the fall for all undergraduates in the ME department. 5 No-vember 2010, 25 March 2011, and 1 April 2011.

Graduate Open HouseAn open house was held in the spring for students accepted into the graduate programs. 25-26 March 2011.

Undergraduate Open HousesWe held three Undergraduate Open Houses for the prospec-tive new undergraduate students who got to explore different aspects of the Departement of Mechanical Engineering. 8, 15, 22 April 2011.

Senior BrunchTo celebrate the seniors in the Department (Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing), we created an exciting new brunch, held during the week before commencement. Well-attended by students, faculty, and staff within the Depart-ment, the brunch featured awards for the best senior projects for each of the three majors as well as the presentation of the Professor of the Year award. A slide show depicting many of the seniors through their four years was a highlight of the event. 18 May 2011.

Ebner Fund Awards CeremoniesThe awards for the two contests sponsored by the Merrill Eb-ner Fund were given during two separate events at the end of the academic year. The Design Portfolio Contest winners were announced at a lunch event during the MFG/AE Senior Project Day. The Thesis with the Greatest Commercial Potential was awarded during a new lunch social for graduate students, at which the Graduate Teaching Fellow of the Year was also an-nounced. 6 May 2011 and 18 May 2011.

Senior Exit InterviewsThe ME Chair and the Undergraduate Coordinator meet annu-ally with the seniors of all three programs to get feedback on the programs and discuss issues and topics of their choosing. Three different dates in May 2011.

Below, Professor Belta with ME students at the ME@BU Event in November 2010.

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Mechanical Engineering

The undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program contin-ues to undergo substantial improvement, particularly in the design sequence. The notable activities related to the ME pro-gram in the Academic Year 10-11 are itemized below.

• The Design Committee continued the process of refining the improvements in the design sequence; in particular, the four courses that will become required courses in the ME curricu-lum for graduates in 2013 and beyond: ME 359 Introduction to CAD and Machine Components, ME 360 Product Design, ME 460 Electro-Mechanical Systems Design, and ME 461 Me-chanical Engineering Capstone Experience.

• A subset of the ME undergraduate committee, headed up by Caleb Farny, was awarded a “Redesigning the Undergradu-ate Learning Experience (RULE)” grant from the University to revamp EK 301 Introduction to Engineering Mechanics. The proposal is to incorporate a more active learning environment using tablet computers to facilitate interaction between the instructor and student teams.

• We improved the continuous improvement process itself through the creation of Course Review Panels in the areas of Mechanical Systems, Thermal Systems, Design, and Engineer-ing Mathematics as well as in the concentration areas Aero-space, Manufacturing, and Energy Technologies & Environ-mental Engineering. To streamline the reporting process, we created an online reporting form for the panels.

• The Mechanical Systems Course Review Panel modified the contents of EK 301 Engineering Mechanics, as well as the fol-low-on courses ME 302 and ME 305.

• We reviewed and updated the course coordinators for all required courses.

• The undergraduate Program Planning Sheets were revised to color-code courses that can be taken in either Fall or Spring. In the sophomore year, we tried to balance the enrollments in EK 301 Engineering Mechanics and EK 307 Electric Circuit Theory; in the past EK 301 was mostly a fall course and EK 307 mostly spring.

• We reviewed and ratified the Objectives for the Mechanical Engineering Program.

• Prof. Wroblewski continued incorporating Coherent Applica-tion Threads (CATs) throughout the curriculum. The first CAT application, wind turbines, was introduced in EK 127, EK 301, and ME 303.

Manufacturing Engineering

Major

The undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering program ac-cepted its last freshman class in the fall of 2008. We are now in a process in which the degree program will be phased out by 2012, and replaced by a concentration in manufacturing (see below). AY 10-11 activities related to the MFG program are itemized below.

• We phased out course ME 308, which was part of the MFG curriculum but will not be retained for the concentration.

• The annual Manufacturing Senior Lunch was held at the home of Professors Attaway and de Winter in April 2011.

Concentration

Students with an interest in manufacturing engineering now have the option of taking a concentration in the discipline, in which the four ME advanced electives are satisfied by four courses from the MFG curriculum, along with a required ex-periential component that could be satisfied by the Capstone project, undergraduate research, or an industry experience.

• We had our first graduates with BS degrees in ME with the Manufacturing Engineering concentration.

• For students graduating in 2012 with a concentration in manufacturing, we are allowing the substitution of ME 560 and ME 495 for ME 413 and ME 414. This allows the concen-trators the option of doing a senior capstone design in indus-try, while retaining the machine design and elements from the core mechanical engineering curriculum.

• One of the concentration courses, Product Design, is becom-ing a required course for all mechanical engineering students. Therefore, for students graduating in 2013 and later, we modi-fied the concentration by replacing Product Design with a manufacturing elective.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS


Aerospace Engineering

Major

The undergraduate Aerospace Engineering program accepted its last freshman class in the fall of 2008. We are now in a pro-cess in which the degree program will be phased out by 2012, and replaced by a concentration in aerospace (see below). AY 10-11 activities related to the AE program are itemized below.

• We phased out the course ME 307 Flight Structures

Concentration

Students with an interest in aerospace engineering now have the option of taking a concentration in the discipline, in which the four ME advanced electives are satisfied by four courses from the AE curriculum, along with a required experiential component that could be satisfied by the Capstone project, undergraduate research, or an industry experience.

• For students graduating in 2012 with a concentration in aerospace engineering, we are allowing the substitution of ME 409 and ME 410 for ME 413 and ME 414 as long as students also take ME 560. This allows the concentrators the option of doing a comprehensive, system-level aerospace senior cap-stone design project, while retaining the machine design and elements from the core mechanical engineering curriculum.

• We made the following course changes:

• Added ME 408 Aircraft Performance and Design

• Modified the required courses within the concentration to be ME 406 Dynamics of Spaceflight and ME 408 Aircraft Per-formance and Design, for students graduating in 2013 or later.

The ME Department currently has the following graduate de-gree programs: • MS in Mechanical Engineering • MEng in Mechanical Engineering (launches Fall 2011) • PhD in Mechanical Engineering • MS in Manufacturing Engineering • MS in Global Manufacturing • MS in Manufacturing with an MBA (dual degree program with the School of Management) • MEng in Manufacturing Engineering (launches Fall 2011)

It is important to note that several ME faculty have secondary appointments in other Departments and are members of both the Division of Systems Engineering and the Division of Mate-rial Science and Engineering. These faculty advise and finan-cially support students in both Divisions as well as students in the PhD programs in both ECE and BME. Details regarding enrollments, completed degrees, and awards related to the Graduate Programs are given elsewhere in this Report. Below is a short list of graduate program activities for FY 2011.

• We implemented a new Qualifying Exam that reflects the needs and scope of the newly merged Department.

• We created new professional Masters degrees: MEng in Me-chanical Engineering, and MEng in Manufacturing Engineer-ing.

• We expanded the Distance Learning Program within the Department, adding new courses in ME to complement the existing DL MFG Engineering courses.

• We approved Graduate Certificate Programs in the areas of Engineering Innovation, MEMS, Energy and Sustainability, and Product Design. The programs require 12 credits of gradu-ate courses chosen from short lists, and allow professionals to develop advanced-level expertise in a focused area of study.

• We held a Research Symposium to better acquaint our grad-uate students with the research activities within the ME De-partment. 3 September 2010.

Prof. Perkins teaching ME510 Production Systems Analysis.

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JOHN BAILLIEUL

John Baillieul was named Booz Al-len Hamilton Distinguished Collo-quium Lecturer at the University of Maryland. He is also the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Hendrik W. Bode Prize. This prize recognizes distin-guished contributions to control systems science or engineering.

SOUMENDRA BASU

Soumendra Basu was a recipient of the BU College of Engineering Ser-vice Award 2011 that recognized Professor Basu’s valuable contri-butions and continuing service to the College.

ELISE MORGAN

Elise Morgan was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award for Senior Fellows (F33) by the National Institutes of Health. Additionally, her research paper was a Winner of the 2010 Ameri-can Association of Orthodontists Milo Hellman Research Award; SS Baloul, LC Gerstenfeld, EF Mor-gan, RS Carvalho, TE Van Dyke, and A Kantarci, “Mechanism of action and morphological changes in the alveolar bone in response to selec-tive alveolar decortication facili-tated tooth movement,” American Journal of Orthodontics and Den-tofacial Orthopedics.

RAYMOND NAGEM

Raymond Nagem received the Me-chanical Engineering Department Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award is decided by the Me-chanical Engineering seniors who vote on the professors.

DONALD WROBLEWSKI

Donald Wroblewski was awarded the BU College of Engineering Ex-cellence in Teaching Award.

XIN ZHANG

Xin Zhang received the Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC) Award 2010. She was also a recipient of Schlumberger Award for Excel-lence and Leadership in MEMS/NEMS Research 2010, and Nano-medicine Phase II Award 2010. Furthermore, she won Best Paper in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2010; and Best Paper Award in IEEE Sensors 2010.

FACULTY AWARDS


Achieving Coherent and Interactive Instruction in Engineering Mechanics

The Depaprtment received funding from the Center for Excel-lence and Innovation in Teaching via a Redesigning the Un-dergraduate Learning Experience (RULE) grant to restructure and improve EK301, the introductory Engineering Mechanics I course. Based on feedback from students on the course evalu-ations, we decided to extensively restructure the course. As a service course to the College of Engineering, the student en-rollment is high, resulting in five sections taught by 3-5 faculty members. Section-to-section disparity is a common concern voiced by the students throughout the semester, since incon-sistency in pace and depth of the material presentation is in-evitable and common. Increased exposure to example prob-lems is another common request.

Starting in the Fall 2012 semester, the yearly enrollment will be more evenly divided, allowing us to spread out the cur-rent enrollment into two sections per semester. Each section will be team-taught by 3 faculty instructors and five graduate teaching fellows (GTFs). The same instructor will teach the two sections, in order to deliver uniform instruction and common assessment. The faculty involved will each assume a dedicated role in teaching the course, with one Lecturer, and two Active Learning Facilitators. The 110-minute lecture period will be organized into a structured Presentation-Learning-Discussion (PLD) Cell that will be presented twice per lecture:

1. Presentation: The Lecturer will present a 15-20 minute lec-ture on the new material to the entire class. 2. Learning: An Active Learning Example will be presented, and students will form 5-person groups to solve the problem over a period of 15 minutes. The Active Learning Facilitators

and GTFs will circulate throughout the hall, to assist in under-standing the problem.3. Discussion: The class will re-convene and the Lecturer will highlight correct and incorrect steps exposed from the group work.

Rather than seating in auditorium-style rows, the students will be arranged around circular tables, to allow for group inter-action. The active learning environment will be improved by providing real-time feedback on the steps taken by the groups to solve the problem. Each five-person group and the Lecturer will be supplied with a wireless-enabled tablet, allowing the students to draw out the relevant Free Body Diagrams and equilibrium analysis. The work will be transmitted to the Lec-turer’s tablet, allowing the Lecturer to visualize and discuss common misconceptions about the material.

The Lecturer will present the material from a base set of digital images on a tablet-enhanced notebook. The tablet will allow the Lecturer to annotate the image in a dynamic illustration of a concept and capture the concept development both visu-ally and aurally. A digital record of the lecture will allow the students to review a movie of the Presentation and Discussion components for study purposes.

The important role played by the GTFs will be recognized by investing faculty time towards instructing the GTFs in how to guide the students during lecture and the discussion section. Combining the multiple sections into a single section and dis-tributing the enrollment evenly throughout the academic year will effectively decrease the student-to-faculty ratio, since the GTFs will serve as teachers during lecture as well.

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Sean AnderssonAssistant ProfessorRobotics , Control Theory, Scanning probe microscopy, Symbolic-based control * PhD University of Maryland, College Park 2003 * Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Cont- rol Systems Society and Robotics and Automation So- ciety * 2009 NSF CAREER Award

Stormy AttawayAssistant Professor &Associate Chair (MFG Undergraduate Program)Educational methods, Computer programming for engineers * PhD Boston University 1988 * 1995 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award * 2001 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award

John BaillieulProfessorRobotics, Control of mechanical systems, Mathematical system theory, Information-based control theory * PhD Harvard University 1975 * 1992 Fellow of the IEEE, 2009 Inaugural Fellow of SIAM * 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal * 2011 IEEE Bode Prize

Lorena A. BarbaAssistant ProfessorFluid dynamics, Novel computer architectures,Particle methods used for fluid simulation * PhD California Institute of Technology 2004 * 2008 Rising Star Teaching Award for the Faculty of Sci- ence, University of Bristol, UK

Soumendra BasuProfessor & Associate Division Head, Division of Materials Science and Engineering Thin films for energy, photonic, electronic, and supercon-ducting applications; thermal barrier and environmental barrier coatings for gas turbine and fuel cell applications * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1989 * 2011 COE Service Award

Paul BarboneAssociate ProfessorTheoretical & computational (bio) mechanicsand (bio) acoustics, Medical (ultrasound) imaging,Inverse problems, Finite element methods * PhD Stanford University 1991 * 1995 Young Investigator Award ONR * 2000 Fulbright Distiguished Scholar Award * 2007 Fellow of Acoustical Society of America

Eytan BarouchProfessorSimulation of industrial processes, Numerical analysis,Algorithm development * PhD University of New York at Stony Brook 1969

Calin BeltaAssistant ProfessorVerification and control of dynamical systems, Hybrid sys-tems, Symbolic control, Robot motion planning and control, Gene and metabolic networks * PhD University of Pennsylvania 2003 * 1997 Fulbright Study Award * 2005 NSF CAREER Award * 2008 AFOSR Young Investigator Award

James BethuneAssociate ProfessorComputer-aided Design * EdD Boston University 1991 * 1981 College of Engineering Professor of the Year * 1994 BU Alumnus of the Year

Thomas BifanoProfessor and Director, Photonics CenterDeformable Mirrors, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Adaptive Optics, Biphotonic Microscopy, Astronom-ical Telescope, Instrumentation, Laser Wavefront Control * PhD North Carolina State University 1988 * Associate Editor, Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS * 2009 Bepi Colombo Prize

Michael CaramanisProfessorMathematical programming, control and stochastic systems * PhD Harvard University 1976 * 2004 BU College of Engineering Service Award * Past Editor, IIE Transactions in Design and Manufacturing * Member of editorial board, IIE Transactions in Design and Manufacturing

William CareyProfessorUnderwater Autonomous Systems, Multiphase media, Acoustic arrays, Vibration and Acoustic Signal Processing, Sound Radiation and Scattering * PhD The Catholic University of America 1974 * Fellow of Acoustical Society of America and IEEE * Past Chief Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering * 2007 Silver Medal of Acoustical Society of America

Robin ClevelandAssociate ProfessorShock Wave Lithotripsy, Acoustic Imaging, Medical Ultrasonics, Sonic Boom Propagation * PhD University of Texas at Austin 1995 * 1995 F. V. Hunt Fellow of ASA * 2000 R. Bruce Lindsay Award of the Acoustical Society of America * 2009 ME Department Award of Teaching Excellence

Daniel ColeAssociate ProfessorManufacturing of semiconductor devices, Electro- dynamic systems, Microlithography simulation models and methods * PhD City University of New York 1985 * 2005, 2007, 2008 MFG Department Award of Teaching Excellence

On the left, faculty members of the Mechanical Engineering Department in May 2011.

FACULTY AND STAFFFACULTY

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Theo de WinterAssociate ProfessorSuperconductivity, Cryogenics, Heat transfer, Product design, Magnetic systems application * MechE MIT 1961 * 1985, 1988, 2000, 2007 College of Engineering Professor of the Year * 1997 College of Engineering Faculty Service Award * 2002 BU Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching

Kamil EkinciAssociate ProfessorNanomechanics, Nanofluidics, Nanophotonics, Applications of MEMS and NEMS * PhD Brown University 1999 * 2007 NSF CAREER Award * 2007 BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award

Caleb FarnyLecturerPhysical acoustics, Medical therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound applications, Cavitation detection, Transcranial ultrasound imaging * PhD Boston University 2007

Michael GevelberAssociate ProfessorElectrospinning of nanofibers, Plasma spray, Ebeam deposition, Crystal growth, CVD * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1988

Srikanth GopalanAssociate ProfessorFuel cells, Chemical thermodynamics, Kinetics and transport phe-nomena to model the behavior of electrochemical systems * PhD University of Utah 1997

Sheryl GraceAssociate ProfessorAerodynamics, Fluid dynamics, Acoustics * PhD University of Notre Dame 1995 * 2001 AIAA National Faculty Advisor Award * 2002 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award * 2005 AIAA Associate Fellow

William HauserAssociate Professor of the Practice * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1973

R. Glynn HoltAssociate ProfessorPhysical Acoustics, Sonoluminescence, Rheology of Foam, Biomedi-cal Acoustics and High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound * PhD University of Mississippi 1988 * 2008 Fellow, Acoustical Society of America

Michael HoweProfessorFluid mechanics, Acoustics, Structural vibrations * PhD Imperial College, England 1969 * Fellow, Acoustical Society of America * Fellow, Institute of Acoustics, UK * 2000 Per Bruel Gold Medal of the ASME * 2007 Rayleigh Medal of the Institute of Acoustics

Mort IsaacsonAssociate ProfessorEngineering education, Engineering ethics, Interdisciplinary interactions between technology and society * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1974 * 1993 and 1998 BU College of Engineering, Faculty Service Award

Xi LinAssistant ProfessorMaterials theory, Predictive simulation of materials electronic, optical, magnetic, and mechanical properties * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003

J. Gregory McDanielAssociate Professor &Associate Chair (ME Undergraduate Program)Structural acoustics, Automotive brake squeal, Biological vibrations, Ocean wave energy * PhD The Georgia Institute of Technology 1992 * 2000 NSF CAREER Award * 2006 Fellow, Acoustical Society of America * 2010 Metcalf Cup and Prize for Teaching Excellence

Elise MorganAssociate ProfessorMechanical behavior of biological materials, Mechanical stimula-tion of tissue differentiation, Micromechanics of multiscale media, Damage mechanics * PhD University of California, Berkeley 2002 * 2005 International Osteoporosis Foundation–Servier Young Investigator Research Award * 2009 Early Career Research Excellence Award, BU COE

Ray NagemAssociate ProfessorStructural dynamics, Random vibration, Wave propagation, Inverse problems * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1988 * 1999 BU Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching * 2002, 2003, 2009 BU COE Professor of the Year * 2008, 2011 BU Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence

Uday PalProfessor &Division Head, Division of Materials Science and EngineeringFuel cells, Chemical thermodynamics, Kinetics and transport phe-nomena to model the behavior of electro-chemical systems * PhD Pennsylvania State University 1984 * Principal Editor, Journal of Materials Research * 2010 BU COE Dean’s Catalyst Award

Harold ParkAssistant ProfessorComputational nanomechanics, Surface effects on the behavior and properties of nanomaterials * PhD Northwestern University 2004 * 2007 NSF CAREER award * 2008 DARPA Young Faculty Award * 2009 Gallagher Young Investigator Award from the US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM).


James R. PerkinsAssociate ProfessorReal-time scheduling and control of manufacturing systems’ sup-ply chain management, Resource pricing and congestion control in communications networks * PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1993 * 2002-2004 Department of Manufacturing Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence

Allan PierceProfessorWave propagation and scattering in heterogeneous materials, Acoustical oceanography, underwater sound, Wind turbines, Structural acoustics and vibrations * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1962 * 1992 Rayleigh Lecturer, ASME * 1995 Per Bruel Gold Medal, ASME * Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Tyrone PorterAssistant ProfessorIntegration of ultrasound technologies with chemical and biomolecular engineered vesicles for diagnostic and therapeutic applications * PhD University of Washington 2003 * 2003 Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship * 2008 ASA R. Bruce Lindsay Young Investigator Award

Ronald A. RoyProfessor & ChairmanPhysical acoustics, Medical ultrasonics for imaging and therapy, Bubble dynamics, Nonlinear acoustics, Acousto optics * PhD Yale University 1987 * 1993 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America * 2006-2007 65th George Eastman Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, UK * 2010 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal of ASA

Vinod K. SarinProfessorMaterials Science, Surface Modification, Physical and Chemical Va-por Deposition, Consolidation of Ceramics/Composites, Structure/Property Correlations, Transparent Optical Ceramics, Scintallator Materials * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1971 * 1984 GTE’s Leslie H. Warner Achievement Award * Over 80 US and International Patents

Matthias SchneiderAssistant ProfessorBiological physics: thermodynamics of interfaces; physics of nerves and senses; cell adaptation; Nanotechnology for life sci-ence; Surface acoustic waves; microfluidics; blood clotting * PhD University of Munich 2003

Andre SharonProfessor & Director, Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing InnovationElectromechanical machine design, controls, automation, biotech/biomedical instrumentation, devices, rapid micro-diag-nostics platforms * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1988 * Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Pirooz VakiliAssociate Professor Monte Carlo simulation and optimization, Control and manage-ment of manufacturing and communication systems, Product development management, Computational finance, Computa-tional biology * PhD Harvard University 1989

Hua WangAssociate Professor &Associate Division Head, Division of Systems EngineeringControl of nonlinear dynamics, intelligent systems and control, complex networks, cooperative control, robotics, applications in biological, energy and aerospace systems * PhD University of Maryland, College Park, 1993 * 2000 Cheung Kong Scholar, Ministry of Education, China and Li Ka Shing Foundation, Hong Kong, China

Donald WroblewskiAssociate Professor &Associate Chair (AERO Undergraduate Program)Experimental fluid mechanics and heat transfer, Atmospheric turbulence, Plasma deposition * PhD University of California, Berkeley 1990 * 2006 NRC/Air Force Senior Associateship Award * 1999 and 2006 Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department Award for Teaching Excellence

Victor Yakhot ProfessorTurbulence theory, Modeling and large-scale engineering simula-tions, Industrial CFD, Heat transfer, Mixing and combustion, Lat-tice Boltzmann methods for flow computations, Non-Newtonian fluids, Nanotechnology and nanofluidics * PhD Moscow State University, Russia 1971 * 2007 Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department Award for Excellence in Teaching

Katherine Yanhang ZhangClare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Mechanical behavior of soft biological tissue, Cardiovascular mechanics, Multi-scale modeling of biological composites, Micro- and nanomechanics of thin film devices * PhD University of Colorado at Boulder 2003 * 2006 Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professorship * 2007 Young Faculty Award DARPA/MTO * 2010 NSF CAREER Award

Xin Zhang Associate Professor &Associate Chair (Graduate Program)Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)/NEMS; Specificissues related to materials science, micro/nanomechanicsand micro/nanofabrication technologies motivated bypractical applications in micro and nanoscale engineering * PhD Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 1998 * 2003 NSF Faculty CAREER Award * 2008 COE Distinguished Faculty Fellow

Aaron SchmidtAssistant Professor Nanoscale energy transport, ultrafast laser metrology, and laser-material interaction * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2008

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Seminars

Course ReviewPanel-Design

Course ReviewPanel-Thrml Systems

Course ReviewPanel-Mech Systems

COMMIT TEES

ExecutiveR. RoyS. AttawayJ. LangellJ. McDanielD. WroblewskiX. Zhang

Faculty Search-ControlsJ. BaillieulC. BeltaM. CaramanisD. Castañón (ECE)

R. Roy (Ex Officio)

H. WangX. Zhang

Faculty Search-EnergyS. BasuM. CaramanisM. GevelberS. Gopalan J. McDanielR. Roy (Ex Officio)

Qualifying ExamsP. BarboneS. GopalanM. HoweR. NagemP. VakiliV. YakhotX. Zhang (Ex Officio)

GraduateX. ZhangC. BeltaM. CunniffG. HoltX. LinH. ParkA. SchmidtM. SchneiderP. VakiliD. Wroblewski (Ex Officio)

K. Zhang

UndergraduateJ. McDanielS. AttawayD. ColeC. FairC. FarnyS. GopalanS. GraceM. IsaacsonR. NagemJ. PerkinsM. SchneiderD. Wroblewski

A. PierceD. ColeG. Holt

SpaceJ. LangellS. AnderssonR. ClevelandC. FarnyU. Pal

WebsiteS. GraceS. Andersson S. AttawayC. FarnyS. McDanielT. Porter

Ebner FundS. AttawayD. ColeJ. McDanielR. RoyX. Zhang

Distance LearningD. WroblewskiA. AbrahamsonD. ColeW. HauserW. Palm

Course ReviewPanel-AerospaceD. WroblewskiS. GraceR. NagemV. Yakhot

C. FarnyP. BarboneS. BasuC. BeltaR. NagemH. ParkA. PierceT. Porter

M. SchneiderL BarbaC. FarnyG. HoltX. LinW. PalmA. SchmidtK. Zhang

W. HauserJ. BethuneD. CampbellD. ColeT. de WinterJ. EstanoM. IsaacsonA. SharonR. SjostromD. Wroblewski

LaboratoryC. FarnyD. CampbelJ. EstanoM. GevelberK. EkinciM. IsaacsonK. MorgensenV. SarinA. SchmidtG. SheppardR. Sjostrom

Course SchdedulingJ. PerkinsS. AttawayM. CunniffC. FairJ. LangellR. Mason (Divisions)

J. McDanielR. Roy (Ex Officio)

D. WroblewskiX. Zhang

Course ReviewPanel-MFGS. AttawayT. BifanoD. ColeT. de WinterM. GevelberW. HauserJ. Perkins

Course ReviewPanel-EnergyS. GopalanS. BasuM. CaramanisM. GevelberU. Pal

UndergraduateLab SafetyJ. LangellS. Attaway (Ex Officio)

D. CampbellJ. EstanoJ. McDaniel (Ex Officio)

K. MogensenG. ShephardR. SjostromD. Wroblewski (Ex Officio)

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AARON SCHMIDTIn September 2010 the Department welcomed the arrival of Assistant Professor Aaron Schmidt, who was recruited following a nation-wide faculty search that attracted well over 250 qualified applicants. The search was part of the Department’s ongoing effort to expand its strength and competence in energy conversion and nanoscience, part of the larger departmental goal of building excellence in selected focus areas.

Professor Schmidt received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT in May 2008, after which he did a 3-month postdoc at MIT in which he studied the thermal boundary conductance between met-als and highly ordered pyrolytic graphite. This was followed by 8 months service as a postdoc at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, where he worked on frequency-domain methods for nano-scale property measurement and assisted the Institute in establishing a photon-ics-based materials characterization laboratory. He completed his postdoctoral training with a year working at the University of Michigan where he studied the growth and optical processing of carbon nanotube structures.

Professor Schmidt’s research focus is on the development and application of the latest optical tools to study and manipulate transport of energy in solids and liquids from the nanoscale to the macroscale, with applications in developing new materials, energy conversion, thermal management, and further-ing fundamental understanding of nanoscale transport phenomena. To date, his work has resulted in 10 refereed journal articles and 6 conference proceedings papers. He is a member of the BU Photon-ics Center and a former recipient of the NSF and National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships.

JAMES BETHUNEProfessor James Bethune has been the embodiment of a Boston University Terrier as he went from being a BU student to BU professor. Professor Bethune received a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1964, an MBA from the School of Management in 1974, and his Doctorate degree in Education in 1991. Before accepting his position in the College of Engineering in 1979, he worked as an engineer all over the country, including Philadelphia, California, and Texas.

“A CAD Genius,” is what his colleague Professor Mort Isaacson calls Bethune. From early on, he has been the master of mechanical graphics, and how to visualize ideas by sketching them. He has taught all basic engineering design classes, primarily for the freshman class. “The first year is a transition between high school and college, and a lot of students, for the first time in their lives, fail.” Bethune has been there to guide the students through the challenges in Visual Thinking, and Introduction to Engineering.

Professor Bethune received the Most Outstanding Professor award in 1984. He was the recipient the College’s 1994 Distinguished Alumnus award for his service to the students and his profession. Most notably he published over twenty books in computer-aided design, such as Engineering Graphics with AutoCAD, Engineering Design with Mechanical Desktop, and Engineering Graphics and Design with Inventor. Many of his books were translated to other languages. There might not be a more devoted Terrier fan than Professor Bethune. He can be found at every single BU hockey game cheering for the team. He was also “green” before it became trendy. He would ride his bike, and later years his scooter, to campus all through the year regardless of the weather.

Professor Bethune may be retired, but he will still be found cheering at the BU hockey games. He will devote his time to his family, golf, BU Terriers, and Red Sox Nation. He will divide his time between Boston, and East Greenwich, RI.

NEW FACULTY

RETIRED FACULTY


A D J U N C T T E A C H I N G F A C U L T Y

Frank DiBella Senior Lecturer

Jason Holmes Lecturer

Peter Kerney Senior Lecturer

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

Robert Brown Professor, University President

Hudong Chen Adjunct Professor

Robert C. Dean Jr. Adjunct Professor

Pierre Dupont Adjunct Professor

Theodore Fritz Professor

Catherine Klapperich Assoc. Professor, 2d Appointment

James F. Lynch Adjunct Professor

Theodore Morse Professor, 2d Appointment

Todd Murray Adjunct Associate Professor

Guido Sandri Adjunct Professor

Xiaowen Shan Adjunct Professor

R E S E A R C H F A C U L T Y

Yunze Cai Postdoctoral Research Associate

Anirban Chatterjee Postdoctoral Research Associate

Xu Chu Ding Postdoctoral Research Associate

Richard B. Evans Research Associate

Helen Fawcett Research Assistant Professor Gonzalo R. Feijoo Research Assistant Professor

Christian Fillafer Postdoctoral Associate

Robert Lund Adjunct Research Professor

Nicholas Manzi Research Assistant

James McLaughlan Research Assistant Professor

Ashwin Sampathkumar Postdoctoral Research Associate

Jana Tumova Visiting Scholar

Ginu U. Unnikrishnan Postdoctoral Research Associate

Conshung Wang Postdoctoral Associate

Yanli Zou Postdoctoral Research Associate

A D M I N I S T R A T I V E S T A F F

James Langell Director

Andrew Abrahamson Research Assistant, DL Program

Megan Cunniff Academic Programs Manager

Caity Fair Undergraduate Coordinator

Magda Hanna Grants Administrator

Emily Howieson Administrative Assistant

Saana McDaniel Communications Coordinator

Steve Wolk Finance Manager

T E C H N I C A L S T A F F

David Campbell Laboratory Engineer

Joseph Estano Laboratory Supervisor

Kara Mogensen Laboratory Supervisor

Gerry Sheppard Laboratory Supervisor

Bob Sjostrom Senior CIMLAB Specialist

SECONDARY FACULTY

STAFF

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The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a multidis-ciplinary educational experience in which accredited degrees are currently offered in three programs: Mechanical Engi-neering (ME), Aerospace Engineering (AE, through 2012), and Manufacturing Engineering (MFG, through 2012). Our under-graduate programs emphasize process as well as product, so that our graduates not only develop the necessary technical skills required for immediate entry into industry or gradu-ate school, but also continue to educate themselves and to prosper in a society whose problems will require increasingly multi-disciplinary solutions.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers students the option of getting an accredited degree in ME with optional Concentrations in Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing En-gineering, Energy Technologies and Environmental Engineer-ing, or Nanotechnology. Students who take a concentration will receive the best of both worlds: a foundational degree in arguably the broadest and most marketable degree program in engineering (ME) with specialized training in the focused discipline, without having to take any extra courses. Addition-ally, students have the option of obtaining minors in Biomedi-cal, Computer, Electrical, Material Science, or Systems Engi-neering as well as many other fields within the University.

The eclectic portfolio of the ME Department is well suited to providing students with both classroom and laboratory ex-posure to a broad range of engineering activities. Technical competence and focus is established through electives and – for those who choose to pursue it – research opportunities through faculty in the Department and the College. The De-partment continues to maintain state-of-the-art laboratories for demonstration and projects in the various undergraduate courses.

During the year, we continued to improve all undergraduate programs, utilizing a continuous improvement process that has been strengthened by the addition of Course Review Pan-els. The curricula culminate in senior “capstone” design proj-ects in which teams of students tackle difficult multi-faceted design projects, often stemming from the needs of faculty research or industry partners. The design thread that carries seamlessly from the sophomore through senior years was en-hanced this year through the addition of required courses in CAD & Machine Components and Product Design. Next year, the revised curriculum in the senior year will feature a new course on Electro-Mechanical System Design as well as a se-nior capstone sequence that will offer students more flexibil-ity.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS


Mechanical Engineering Program Objectives (Ratified by the ME Faculty March 2009)

Graduates of the program will be prepared to:

• Join a technically sophisticated workforce as successful, practicing engineers in a wide range of mechanical engineering fields.

• Continuously improve and expand their technical and professional skills through formal means as well as through in-formal self-study.

• Pursue advanced degrees in engineering, business, or other professional fields.

• Advance themselves professionally and personally by accepting responsibilities and pursuing leadership roles.

Mechanical Engineering Program Outcomes (Ratified by the ME Faculty November 2008)

(a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering

(b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data

(c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability

(d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams

(e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems

(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility

(g) an ability to communicate effectively

(h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environ-mental, and societal context

(i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning

(j) a knowledge of contemporary issues

(k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice

(l) an ability to interpret results of analysis of physical systems, components, or processes, and utilize physical insight to check for realistic outcomes

(m) an ability to model and design in the thermal systems area

(n) an ability to model and design in the mechanical systems area

On the left, the Tandem Bicycle Wheelchair System-team: Pia Trivedi (l.), Carolyn Barber, Michael Robichaud, Neha Dave, John Stefanski, and Natalie Swenson (r.)

OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES

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History of Undergraduate Degree Enrollment

History of Undergraduate Degrees Awarded

Note: * ENG Students are not required to declare their major until their Junior year. ** Since the Fall of 2009, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering have no longer been available for the incoming Freshmen.

ENROLLMENT

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES AWARDED

Mechanical Aerospace Manufacturing Total

Freshmen* 121 n/a** n/a** 121

Sophomores* 102 n/a** n/a** 102

Juniors 87 24 10 121

Seniors 102 34 19 155

Total 412 58 29 499

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Course Number Course Title Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Summer 2011

EK 102 Introduction to Linear Algebra for Engineers BarouchHolt

BeltaVakili

Attaway

EK 127 Engineering Computation Attaway Attaway Attaway

EK 130/1/2 Introduction to Engineering Bethunede WinterHoltSarin

Bethunede WinterGopalanHoltSarin

EK 156 Design and Manufacture de Winter de Winter

EK 301 Engineering Mechanics I BarboneCareyFarnyHolmesKerney

Farny Nagem

EK 335 Introduction to Environmental Engineering Pal

EK 408 Introduction to Clean Energy Generation and Storage Technologies Basu

EK 409 Engineering Economy de Winter de Winter de Winter

EK 500 Probability with Statistical Applications Perkins

EK 546 Assessment of Sustainable Energy Technologies Gevelber

ME 202 Introduction to Spacecraft Performance Nagem

ME 266 Manufacturing Operations Management Hauser Hauser

ME 302 Engineering Mechanics II EkinciPorter

Ekinci Nagem

ME 303 Fluid Mechanics BarbaSchneider

Porter

ME 304 Energy and Thermodynamics LinPalm

Kerney DiBella

ME 305 Mechanics of Materials NagemPierce

PierceX.Zhang

ME 306 Introduction to Materials Science Sarin ParkZink

ME 307 Flight Structures Barbone

ME 308 Statistics and Quality Engineering Barouch

ME 309 Structural Mechanics Nagem

ME 310 Instrumentation and Theory of Experiments Farny Farny

ME 321 Introduction to Aerospace Engineering GraceNagem

ME 345 Automation and Manufacturing Methods Gevelber

ME 366 Probability and Statistics for Mechanical Engineers Barouch BarouchMcDaniel

ME 403 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics and Control Wang

ME 404 Dynamics and Control Wang

ME 406 Dynamics of Space Vehicles Nagem

ME 407 Computer-Aided Design and Manufacture BethuneCole

BethuneCole

de Winter

ME 409 Flight Vehicles Design I Wroblewski

ME 410 Flight Vehicles Design II Wroblewski

ME 413 Machine Design I DiBellaHauserIsaacson

COURSES OFFERED TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

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Course Number Course Title Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Summer 2011

ME 414 Machine Design II DiBellaHauserIsaacson

ME 415 Product Design Cole

ME 419 Heat Transfer Yakhot SchmidtK.Zhang

ME 420 Supply Chain Engineering Perkins

ME 421 Aerodynamics Yakhot

ME 425 Compressible Flow and Propulsion Grace

ME 441 Mechanical Vibrations McDaniel

ME 465 Materials Processing Gopalan

ME 495 Senior Design Capstone in Manufacturing Engineering de Winter

ME 500* Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering Howe GraceSchneider

ME 501* Dynamic System Theory Baillieul

ME 502* Intellectual Assets: Creation, Protection, and Commercialization Cole

ME 503* Kinetic Processes in Materials Basu

ME 504* Polymers and Soft Materials Klapperich

ME 507* Process Modeling and Control Gevelber

ME 508* Computational Methods in Materials Science Lin

ME 510* Production Systems Analysis Perkins

ME 514* Simulation for Manufacturing Vakili

ME 515* Vibration of Complex Mechanical Systems Pierce

ME 517* Product Development Hauser

ME 520* Acoustics I Cleveland

ME 521* Continuum Mechanics for Biomedical Engineers Barbone

ME526* Simulation of Physical Processes Cole

ME 527* Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing Gopalan

ME 533* Energy Conversion Carey

ME 534* Materials Technology for Microelectronics Basu

ME 542* Advanced Fluid Mechanics Howe

ME 543* Sustainable Power Systems Caramanis Caramanis

ME 545* Electrochemistry of Fuell Cells and Batteries Pal

ME 555* MEMS: Fabrication and Materials X.Zhang

ME 560* Precision Machine Design and Instrumentation Sharon

ME 579* Microelectronic Device Manufacturing Cole

ME 580* Theory of Elasticity Nagem

* Graduate courses open to undergraduate enrollment.


NEHA DAVE

MICHELLE HURTADO

ABENA KWAKYI

IAN LEATHERMAN

MAEGAN LEE

DAVID LESSARD

LACEY MANNEX

STEPHEN MAOUYO

PETER MORIARTY

STEPHEN ORTEGA

ANDREW REMICK

MICHAEL ROBICHAUD

JOSEPH SHIFRIN

PIA TRIVEDI

FELICE ULIBARRI

ROXANNA WALKER

JAMES WEKWERT

ELIZABETH WOODCOCK

Neha Dave

BRANDON HONGZLATAN JAKUPOVICJAMES TUMBERGREG VULIKHLAWRENCE WIRSING

BASSAM AL-SHAMALIEGE GUROCAKMAX KONIG

MAHMOOD AL-HUSSEINIMICHAEL BRAZDAJEFFREY GEREIGEKRISTINA HOGSTROMSTEPHEN MAOUYODANIEL RAMSPACHER

Outstanding Capstone Design Project in Manufacturing Engineering: “Failure Analysis & Corrective Redesign of the ENDO 360 Sternal Suturing Device for Open Heart”

Outstanding Capstone Design Project in Aerospace Engineering: “Blended Wing Body Commercial Transport”

Outstanding Capstone Design Project in Mechanical Engineering: “ Nitinol Actuated Normally Open Valve Assem-bly (NA-NOVA)”

Engineering Alumni Association Stu-dent Leader Award, and Outstanding Dean’s Host Award

Engineering Alumni Association Student Leader Award, and Student Advisor Service Award

Scarlet Key Award, Engineering Alumni Association Student Leader Award, and Student Advisor Service Award

Engineering Alumni Association Student Leader Award, and Student Advisor Service Award

Sigma Gamma Tau Student Award

Student Advisor Service Award











Ging S. Lee Community Service Award

Michael Robichaud

Ian Leatherman

Lacey Mannex

Pia Trivedi

Michelle Hurtado Abena Kwakyi

Maegan Lee David Lessard

Stephen Maouyo

Stephen Ortega Andrew Remick

Joseph Shifrin Felice Ulibarri

Roxanna Walker James Wekwert Elizabeth Woodcock

2010 Robert W. Young Award, ASA

Peter Moriarty

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS

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AIAA – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

AIAA is the prin-cipal society for the aerospace p r o f e s s i o n , providing for the advance-ment and dis-semination of knowledge of the theory and practice of the a e r o n a u t i c a l and astronauti-

cal sciences. BU’s chapter of the American Institute of Aero-nautics and Astronautics is a small, collegiate level branch of the national chapter of AIAA. Spring 2010, they hosted the AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference at the BU Pho-tonics Center. A number of prominent speakers were brought in from the aerospace community and over 60 people attend-ed the conference. Throughout the year they also hosted a number of events including industry and academic speakers, NASA mission discussion, and a GE Factory Tour. Their primary goal is to raise awareness among undergraduates about the opportunities and advances in the aerospace community.

ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers

This national society, with more than 100,000 regu-lar members and 250 stu-dent sections, is dedicated to advancing the profession of mechanical engineering.

Members are active at all levels of almost every segment of business, industry, education, and government. Membership in the student section brings students into contact with prac-ticing engineers through technical meetings with guest speak-ers and regional and national society functions, including the regular meetings of the Boston section of ASME. In 2009, the executive board attended the ASME International Mechani-cal Engineering Congress & Exposition in Florida where the students were able to network and expand their knowledge through forums, workshops, industry tours, and a career ex-position.

BU Rocket Team

The BU Rocket Team is a branch of the AIAA. The team’s goal is to conduct research into hybrid rocket motor design, and is therefore more directed at the optimization of hybrid mo-tors rather than the launching of a rocket. The team allows students to use innovation and ingenuity outside of a class environment. The team’s members set their own deadlines, track their progress, report findings and encourage each other almost daily. The design process goes from chalkboard and CAD drawings to machining and assembling by testing the un-tapped engineering skills of each member.

BU SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Development of

Space

Students for the Explora-tion and De-v e l o p m e n t of Space are dedicated to expanding the role of human e x p l o r a t i o n

and development of space. Student members participate in national conferences and host academic and industry speak-ers throughout the year. Specifically they attended the Inter-national Space Development Conference in Florida and New Space Conference in California.

IIE – Institute of Industrial Engineers

The student chapter of the IIE aims to promote a better envi-ronment for successful engineers by bridging the gap between school and industry. Members familiarize themselves with the intricacies of industry though plant tours, speakers, and hands-on experiences. The hands on experiences they participated in this year included a trebuchet competition and a pinewood derby race. The organization helps to provide students with insight into careers in industrial engineering.

Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society

Pi Tau Sigma is the national mechanical engineering honor society. The objectives of this society are to encourage and recognize the achievements of undergraduate students in me-chanical engineering, to foster high ideals in the engineering profession, to develop leadership and citizenship, to stimulate and support departmental activities, and to honor practicing engineers for distinguished technical attainments. They hold an initiation ceremony each semester to honor their new members and award their new officers.

On the right, AIAA North Regional Student Conference 2010

STUDENT OGRANIZATIONS


SAE – Society of Automotive Engineers

The Society of Automotive Engineers comprises 50,000 engi-neers and scientists working together to advance the field of mobility. With their diverse educational backgrounds, mem-bers are dedicated to furthering the research, development, design, manufacture, and utilization of land, sea, air, and space vehicles.

Sigma Gamma Tau Honor Society

Sigma Gamma Tau is the honor society for aerospace engi-neering. The objective of the society is to recognize and honor those individuals in the field of aeronautics and astronautics who have, through scholarship, integrity, and outstanding achievement, been a credit to their profession. The society seeks to foster a high standard of ethics and professional prac-tice and to create a spirit of loyalty and fellowship, particularly among students of aerospace engineering. Each year they have an induction ceremony to welcome new members.

SME – Society of Manufacturing Engineers

This professional society stimulates research and dissemi-nates knowledge in all phases of manufacturing engineering. Student members participate in field trips, technical seminars, and lecture series, and are upgraded automatically to regular society membership one year after graduation. They partici-pated in the trebuchet competition with members of IIE and also raced cardboard boats against one another.

UAV Club – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Club

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Club is new student organiza-tion at Boston University. This group is partnered with Aurora Flight Sciences and is devoted to researching and building unmanned aerial vehicles. Members of their executive board attended the AUVSI Programs Review Air Conference in Wash-ington, DC. Eventually they will compete in the AUVSI Annual International Aerial Robotics Competition.

AIAA BU Chapter Hosted the North Regional Student Conference 2010 In the Spring of 2010 the Boston University chapter of the AIAA hosted the North Eastern Regional student conference. The planning committee consisted of students ranging from freshmen to seniors. The two-day conference included a site visit at General Electric’s Lynn factory, student paper presenta-tions, keynote speakers, and a final banquet. Students from the North East region including MIT, Daniel Webster, and WPI competed in individual and group technical paper presenta-tions. Seventy-five students, professors, and professionals attended participating in panels. The activities fair featured rocket teams from Boston University and MIT as well as Design Build Fly projects. These projects were judged by a panel of BU and MIT professors.

Guest speakers included Boston University alumnus Luke Col-by who spoke on his work as a propulsion engineer at Scaled Composites and the future of the Virgin Galactic space tourism program. Jenny Gruber, another BU alumna, spoke about her career path working in mission control for NASA in Houston, Texas. William Watson, the Executive Director for the Space Frontier Foundation, shared how students can become more involved in the NewSpace industry on a local as well as na-tional level. Ron Sostaric shared his work on Mars and Moon exploration through NASA’s Johnson Space Center inHouston, Texas.

The conference ended with a banquet held at the Castle and hosted by Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, founder of Yuri’s Night.Yuri’s Night is an international celebration marking the anni-versary of man’s first visit to space. She gave a inspirational talk on going beyond the large goals that many students set and encouraged the students to set high standards in academ-ics and careers.

The conference presented a great opportunity for students in-terested in air and space to come together and see how they can expand their interests. The goal of theconference was achieved by setting the groundwork for a net-work of students passionate about the same fields to work together as they advance in college and later as young profes-sionals.

The national AIAA board later recognized the co-chairmen, Brett Meyer (class of 2010) and Kendra Toole (class of 2011) for their contribution to the organization through the planning of a conference which far surpassed the regular structure of a regional student conference. The conference raised over five thousand dollars in revenue for the department’s extracur-ricular clubs.

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2011 Aerospace Engineering Seniors (top), Manufacturing Engineering Seniors (bottom) and Mechanical Engineering Seniors on page 26.


Project Title Team Members

MUAV: Mothership Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Lingenfelter, Reddy, Remick, Siegel, Walsh

Blended Wing Body Commercial Transport Winning Team

Hong, Jakupovic, Tumber, Vulikh, Wirsing

SHARC: Ship-Launched Aerial Reconnaissance Combat Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Medikepura Anil, Hernandez, Li, Liu, Nakanish, Sakai

Sniping Precision Aerial Reconnaisance Weapon Bentley, Eichenbaum, Giri, Nappy, Reilly, Rice

AIDA: Vertical Takeoff and Landing, Cargo Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Brown, Meehan, Sarcone, Schoemakers, Serra, Toole

RUTAG: Rocket-propelled Unmanned Transformable Aerial Glider Maeng, Ricci, Shifrin, Yee, Williams

Aerospace Engineering

The Aerospace Engineering program culminates with a senior “capstone” design project in which teams of students tackle difficult multi-faceted design projects. The students enroll in a two-semester Flight Vehicle Design course (ME 409 & 410). During these courses each team conceives, plans, and carries out a significant aerospace vehicle design project in which each team member concentrates on a separate techni-cal area. At the Senior Project Conference all the teams give an oral presentation of their projects. This year the winning team was Blended Wing Body Commercial Transport, Brandon Hong, Zlatan Jakupovic, James Tumber, Greg Vulikh, and Larry Wirsing.

The Blended Wing Body (BWB) commercial transport is an environmentally responsible next generation, long range commercial transport. Capable of carrying 400 passengers and 80,000 pounds of cargo with a maximum range of over 11,000 miles. The BWB is designed with next generation pro-pulsion technology, composite materials, and advanced lifting surfaces. As a result, the BWB is more efficient than current generation commercial aircraft. The cabin consists of three adjoined cylindrical sections which allow for any number of seating configurations. The BWB can takeoff and land at any major international airport in the world. The aircraft promises to deliver new standards in efficency and passenger comfort.

Winning team in Aerospace Engineering, Blended Wing Body Commercial Transport: Brandon Hong (l.),Lawrence Wirsig, Zlatan Jakupovic, Greg Vulikh, and James Tumber (r.)

Winning Team - Aerospace Engineering

SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS

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Manufacturing Engineering


ACME Packet Boumil, El-Zein, Mashayekh, Sagadiyev

Boston Centerless Barry, Pelucarte, Veltman

MKS Abrams, Kwakyi, Komolvipat

Paradigm Precision Leatherman, Lessard, Mannex

Bleck DesignWinning Team

Al-Shamali, Konig, Gurocak

Le Maitre

Winning Team - Manufacturing Engineering

The Manufacturing Engineering program culminates with a senior capstone design project in which teams of stu-dents tackle difficult multi-faceted design projects. The students enroll in the Product Design course of ME 415 in the fall and then in the Senior Design Capstone in Manu-facturing Engineering in the spring of the senior year. Each team has an industrial customer for whom they work one day a week on a typical manufacturing project. The teams are responsible for giving weekly progress reports to their industrial customers and to the supervising faculty.

The winning team in Manufacturing Engineering was Bleck Design: Failure Analysis & Corrective Redesign of the ENDO 360 Sternal Suturing Device for Open Heart Surgery with Bassam Al-Shamali, Ege Gurocak , and Max Konig. Bleck De-sign Group presented a problem with Endo360’s electronic suturing device. The device is used in open-heart surgery to stitch the patient’s sternum together. It was recalled in 2008 after surgeons experienced two specific problems with the device in surgery: (1) the pawl that pushes the needle misses the notch in the needle causing the needle to get stuck in the bone.; and (2) the needle does not make it through a full cycle and the device shuts off with an error reading with the needle half way through the bone. Both problems were analyzed and tested. The data and recom-mendations were presented to the company.

Winning team in Manufacturing Engineering, Bleck Design: Ege Gurocak (l.), Max Konig and Bassam Al-Shamali (r.)

Mechanical Engineering


Passive Thermal Control of a Spacecraft Using a Phase Change Material DeLeo, Goldfarb, Jablonski, Moriarty, VanGaasbeek

Static Test Stand for Model Rockets Angjeli, Escobedo, Kondili, Peterson

Titan Balloon Mission Grossman, Morse, Reynolds, Wekwert


Storable Exercise Bike Appleton, Brizzee, Huh, Ortega, Tvedten

Storable Stationary Bike Chow, Chu, Lew, Phuong, Yin

Solar-Powered Fuel Cell Demonstrator Dill, Hatfield, Lopez, Medina, Passemato

Camera-Accelerometer Alignment Calibration and Testing for Motion Study Balder, Boyd, Carlson, Kouskoulas, Sefrioui

Automated Defender Berry, Briggs, Molloy, M.Schmitt

CubeSat Solar Panel Deployment System Hall, Klimp, Lee, Mehta, Weingarten

Nitinol Actuated Normally Open Valve AssemblyWinning Team

Al-Husseini, Brazda, Gereige, Hogstrom, Maouyo, Ramspacher

Tandem Bicycle Wheelchair System Barber, Dave, Robichaud, Stefanski, Swenson, Trivedi

Sun Tracking Mechanism for Utility-Pole Mounted Solar Cell Array Chierci, Hassan, Lei, Rocheteau, Steber, Strader

Sun Tracking Mechanism for Pole Mounted Solar Cell Arrays Asokan, Ifaz, Isildakli, Ma, Mathur

Photovoltaic Sun Tracking Device Docherty, Griffin, Lynch, McDade, Widzinski

Launch and Retrieval System for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Child, Karlicek, Tangard, Walker, Woodcock

Retrieval System for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Cain, Garcia, Hathaway, J.Jones, Z.Jones

Automated Straightening Machine for Slender Shafts Ahsan, Barnes, Melo, Miller, Nunez, Orr

Solar Storage Demonstration Unitt Hora, Malu, Park, Spaulding, Srinivasan

Release Mechanism for a Small Energy Harvester Eng, Prata, E.Schmitt, Sheehan

Winning Team - Mechanical Engineering

The Mechanical Engineering program also culminates with a senior “capstone” design project in which teams of stu-dents tackle difficult multi-faceted design projects, often stemming from faculty research. The students enroll in a two-semester Machine Design course (ME 413 & 414). Dur-ing these courses the teams conceive, plan, and carry out a major mechanical engineering design of a multicomponent system. Each team gives an oral presentation of its project at the Senior Project Conference, where one team is declared a winner.

This year the winner was the Nitinol Actuated Normally Open Valve Assembly team: Mahmood Al-Husseini, Michael Brazda, Jeffrey Gereige, Kristina Hogstrom, Stephen Maouyo and Daniel Ramspacher. In recent qualification testing, the industry standard pyrovalves failed the during actuation, prompting NASA’s interest in a new valve system. Datayek Engineering designed the Nitinol-Actuated Normally Open Valve Assembly (NA-NOVA). NA-NOVA utilized the unique properties of the shape memory alloy, Nitinol, to achieve a leak-tight seal. To actuate the valve, a compressed piece of Nitinol is heated, ausing it to recover its original shape. Dur-ing recovery, the elongating Nitinol fractures the valve stem at a designed notch, thus releasing a preloaded spring. This spring moves the stem toward the valve outlet and presses the PTFE seat against the outlet interface, creating a leak-tight seal. This valve design was put through rigorous feasi-bility analysis, and a mock-up was built and tested to dem-onstrate its sealing capability.

Winning team in Mechanical Engineering, Nitinol Actuated Nor-mally Open Valve Assembly: Jeffrey Gereige (l.), Michael Brazda, Kristina Hogstrom, Stephen Maouyo, Mahmood Al-Husseini, and Daniel Ramspacher (r.)

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The Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering offers a va-riety of advanced and professional degrees. Students pursu-ing traditional MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering work closely with our faculty to produce foundational research having broad and profound impacts on emerging technologies in the biomedical, energy, environment, and defense spaces. This research is conducted in interactive, interdisciplinary, and well-funded research groups in acoustics and vibrations; bio-mechanics; computational science and engineering; dynamics, robotics, systems, and controls; thermofluid sciences, energy, and sustainability; and MEMS and nanotechnology. Students conducting research in these areas receive significant funding from internal and external sources, such as research fellow-ships, teaching fellowships, and scholarships.

In addition to traditional MS and PhD degrees, the department also offers advanced degrees with emphases on manufactur-ing and business administration. The MS in Global Engineering

degree is aimed at creating a new type of “global engineer” both answering the industry demand and giving an upcoming engineer a competitive advantage in today’s market place. In partnership with Boston University’s School of Management, a coordinated Master of Science/Master of Business Administra-tion program prepares recent graduates or practicing profes-sionals who are committed to careers in industry for positions as manufacturing managers. The MS degree in Manufacturing is offered with an attractive distance learning option, in which classes are available as a synchronous and asynchronous ex-tension of the on-campus classes. Distance learning classes allow for a broad participation of students at various career stages and allow students to participate while continuing to work outside of academia. The Late Entry Accelerated Pro-gram (LEAP) allows talented individuals and working profes-sionals who have bachelor’s degrees in non-engineering fields to earn graduate degrees in engineering.

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PHD US 6 1 7 0 4 1 0 2

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New Matriculants 2010-2011

Fall 2010 Mean GRE Scores

Spring 2011 Mean GRE Scores

On the left, 2011 Mechanical Engineering Seniors.

Verbal Percentile Quantitative Percentile An. Writing Percentile

MS US 488 60 628 54 4.00 45

Intl. 458 52 765 85 3.60 31

PHD US 574 81 744 81 4.20 55

Intl. 420 41 737 79 3.60 31

Total 478 57 709 72 3.83 39

Verbal Percentile Quantitative Percentile An. Writing Percentile

MS US 546 72 738 79 4.00 45

Intl. 437 45 770 86 4.00 45

PHD US 565 79 675 65 3.50 26

Intl. 445 47 735 78 3.50 26

Total 511 66 736 79 3.86 40

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

* Graduate Teaching Fellowship

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History of MS Enrollment

History of PhD Enrollment

* Mechanical Engineering Professors advise and financially support students enrolled in almost every graduate degree program offered by the College of Engineering, with particular emphasis on programs offered by the Divisions of Systems Engineering and Material Science and Engineering.

** The former departments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering merged to form the Mechanical Engineering Department in Fall 2008.

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STEVEN FERNANDEZ Recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellow Award, the Department of Mechanical Engi-neering, Boston University.

AMIRA HUSSEIN Recipient for the second year of the BU/CIMIT Applied Healthcare Fellowship, awarded to second- and third-year graduate students researching topics that solve health care challenges such as medical device development, creating algorithms and software for use in clinical practice, and engineering in medical environments.

ALEKSANDER JONCA Awarded Draper Fellowship for the Fall 2010.

BRADLEY KAANTA Recipient of Graduate Thesis with the Greatest Commercial Potential Award, sponsored by the Merrill Ebner Fund, May 2011, “MEMS Thermal Conductivity Sensor with Flow Rate Detection and Invariance for Gas Chro-matography Systems.”

PENG ZHANG Best Student Paper Award in Biomedical Ul-trasound, 161st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, May 2011, “The application of phase-shift nano-emulsion in high intensity focused ultrasound-mediated heat-ing and its potential in monitoring lesion formation.”

XIAOYU “RAYNE” ZHENG Recipient of the Best Poster Award at IEEE Sensors 2010. He also received the most pres-tigious student award issued by the Chinese government: the National Award for Outstanding Overseas Chinese Students. In addition, he was awarded the Best Dissertation Award, Boston University College of Engineering 2011.

YU ZOU Finalist for Y.C. Fung Student Paper Competition on Biomechanics ad Biophysics, EMI 2011 Conference.

Peng Zhang

Amira Hussein

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS

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Course Number

Course Title Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Summer 2011

ME 500 Special Topics: Engineering Math Howe GraceSchneider

ME 501 Dynamic System Theory Baillieul

ME 502 Intellectual Assets: Creation, Protection, and Commercialization Cole

ME 503 Kinetic Process in Materials Basu

ME 504 Polymers and Soft Materials Klapperich

ME 507 Process Modeling and Control Gevelber

ME 508 Computational Methods in Materials Science Lin

ME 510 Production Systems Analysis Perkins

ME 514 Simulation for Manufacturing Vakili

ME 515 Vibration of Complex Mechanical Systems Pierce

ME 517 Product Development Hauser

ME 520 Acoustics I Cleveland

ME 521 Continuum Mechanics for Biomedical Engineers Barbone

ME 526 Simulation of Physical Processes Cole

ME 527 Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing Gopalan

ME 533 Energy Conversion Carey

ME 534 Materials Technology for Microelectronics Basu

ME 542 Advanced Fluid Mechanics Howe

ME 543 Sustainable Power Systems Caramanis Caramanis

ME 545 Electrochemistry of Fuel Cells and Batteries Pal

ME 555 MEMS: Fabrication and Materials X.Zhang

ME 560 Precision Machine Design and Instrumentation Sharon

ME 579 Microelectronic Device Manufacturing Cole

ME 580 Theory of Elasticity Nagem

ME 583 Product Management Hauser

ME 702 Computational Fluid Dynamics Barba

ME 704 Adaptive Control of Dynamical Systems Andersson

ME 706 Acoustics and Aerodynamics Howe

ME 709 Turbulent Flows Yakhot

ME 710 Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control Caramanis

ME 714 Advanced Stochastic Modeling and Simulation Vakili

ME 720 Acoustics II Cleveland

ME 734 Hybrid Systems Belta

ME 740 Vision, Robotics, and Planning Baillieul

ME 762 Non-Linear Control of Mechanical Systems Wang

ME 766 Advanced Scheduling Models and Methods Perkins

ME 788 Soft Tissue Biomechanics K.Zhang

GRADUATE COURSES OFFERED

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MS Theses

Student Name Dissertation Advisor Dissertation Title

Bridgeo, Kyle McDaniel, J. GregoryThe Potential for Thermal Imaging Techniques in Identifying Damping Effectiveness

Cheung, Theresa Cleveland, Robin

Application of the Khokhlov-Zabolotskaya-Kuznetsov (KZK) Equation to Modeling High-intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Beams

Frohlich, Else Zhang, Xin

A Microscale Tissue Modeling Device (MTMD) to Influence Renal Epithelial Cell Function through Controlled Topography and Flow-induced Shear Stress

Gallagher, John Morgan, EliseIntra-Vertebral Variation of Orthotropic Elastic Properties

Kuroda, Mitsuo Sharon, AndreEvaluation of Technology Diversification Using Decision Trees

Laing, Genevieve Dupont, Pierre

Development Of A Novel Mitral Valve Chordal Replacement Device For Minimally Invasive Beating Heart Surgery

LeGendre, Andrew Bifano, ThomasHigh Reflectance Dielectric Coatings for MEMS Deformable Mirrors

Maunus, Jeremy Grace, SherylEffect of Rotor Wake Structure on Fan Interac-tion Noise

Ozturk, Mehmet Zhang, XinElectro Thermally Actuated Tunable Terahertz Metamaterial (ETAMM)

Shore, Spencer Morgan, Elise

Transversely Isotropic Elasticity Imaging of Cancellous Bone: Feasibility and Uniqueness of Solutions

Slater, Mark Barbone, PaulElastic Modulus Reconstructions via Sparse Data Sampling

MS THESES AND PHD DISSERTATIONS


PhD Dissertations

Student Name Dissertation Advisor Dissertation Title

Baronov, Dimitar Baillieul, JohnNonlinear Control and Human Decision Em-bedding for Robotic Reconnaissance

Basarir, Onur Ekinci, KamilNear-field Optical Probing of Nanomechanical Systems

Draudt, Andrew Cleveland, Robin

Monitoring HIFU Lesion Formation Using Har-monic Motion Elastography and Acousto-Optic Imaging

Kaanta, Bradley Zhang, Xin

Designing A MEMS Thermal Conductivity Sen-sor with Flow Rate Detection and Invariance for Gas Chromatography Systems

Lin, I-Kuan Zhang, Xin

Mechanical And Material Characterization Of Bilayer Microcantilevers For MEMS-Based IR Detector Applications

Luo, Haibiao Cleveland, Robin

Three-Dimensional Model of Elastic Wave Propagating in Kidney Stones with Application to Shock Wave Lithotripsy

Magliula, Elizabeth McDaniel, GregWave Propagation in Anisotropic Plates and Shells

McCoy, Lester Baillieul, JohnRigid Formations and Control of Distributed Groups of Mobile Robots

Raghunathan, Dhananjay Baillieul, John

Novel Directions in Human-Robot Interactions -- Information in Motion and Human Decision Dynamics in Search Tasks

Shen, Zhaolong Andersson, SeanDesign And Optimization Of A Tracking Confo-cal Microscope

Yan, Xuri Gevelber, Michael

Electrospinning of Nanofibers: Analysis of Diameter Distribution and Process Dynamics for Control

Zhang, Peng Porter, Tyrone

The Application of Phase-Shift Nanoemulsion in HIFU-Mediated Thermal Ablation: An In Vitro Study

Zheng, Xiaoyu Zhang, XinMicrosystem Based Opto-Mechano Platform For Cardiovascular Cell Contraction Study

Zou, Yu Zhang, KatherineMechanobiological Study Of The Elastic And Viscoelastic Behavior Of Extracellular Matrix

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The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers both indi-vidual courses and full MEng degrees through its Distance-Learning Program (DLP). Our DL program provides Master’s level classes primarily to industrial employees wishing to add to their education background, but it is open to others if the format suits their needs. It differs from the majority of offerings at other universities in that our classes are offered as live extensions of the on campus classroom. Remote stu-dents can hear and see the on-campus class and communi-cate with the professor in real time. They can participate in class from a variety of locations, including work, home, ho-tel, and they are welcome to come to class on campus if their schedule permits it. In contrast, most other distance learn-ing programs in engineering are exclusively asynchronous, relying on recorded lectures and other web-based materi-als to deliver class content. Since our students can also ac-cess videos on-line and replay past classes whenever they have the need we can offer students the best of both worlds.

The DLP committee for the past academic year consisted of:

DON WROBLEWSKI (chair)

ANDREW ABRAHAMSON

DAN COLE

WILLIAM HAUSER

KIRSTIE MILLER

Kirstie Miller joined the DLP commitee in March of 2011 in her role as Director of Professional Education & Corporate Relations.

The DLP currently offers 21 different masters level courses with 14 of those available during the past academic year.

In the interest of introducing new instructors to the DL delivery method and broadening the pool of classes available by DL and we offered a DL section for 2 classes which had not previously been offered by DL. Those were ME520 Acoustics I, taught by Robin Cleveland in Fall 2010 and ME706 Acoustics and Aero-dynamic Sound taught by Michael Howe in Spring 2011. We expect to continue to offer new courses over the coming year.

The certificate program introduced by DLP last year has been officially approved and will be promoted along with

the MEng degrees in the coming year. Certificate programs are targeted at areas with high DL enrollment and areas with strong research expertise in the department. The ap-proved certificate areas are Micro-Electro-Mechanical Sys-tems (MEMS), Engineering Innovation, Energy and Sustain-ability, and Product Design. Each certificate will require three, 4-credit courses, which can also be used as part of an MS or MEng degree program (though enrollment in a masters pro-gram will not be a requirement for receiving a certificate).

In Fall 2010 we ran our first classes in the newly upgraded EMB 105. The room’s sophisticated cameras and camera controls allow DL instructors to teach freely in their most natural mode, be that handwriting on the whiteboard, com-puter based presentation or a combination of the two.

In Spring 2010 we experimentally introduced Adobe Con-nect as a new delivery and recording platform for DL. The ease of use and university level support have made it a boon to the quality and reliability of class delivery. We can now offer classes on both Mac and PC with mo-bile device support expected in the near future. We plan to be using the platform exclusively in the coming year.

We also developed a mobile DL cart, allowing us to ex-pand DL functionality beyond the constraints of our tra-ditional conference room installations in EMB105 and PHO210. The cart contains a camera, camera controller, echo cancelling speaker/microphone, and a conferenc-ing computer. With the aid of this cart we hope to be able to offer DL classes in a wider variety of rooms in the future.

The combination of Adobe Connect and our new mo-bile cart enabled us to support the streaming and record-ing a number of events for ME and COE this year. We ful-filled a request for live streaming and recording of four faculty tenure seminars for ME and one for BME. We pro-vided a live stream and chat connection for the LEAP and MEng open houses. Both Open Houses had significant on-line audiences during the events and the recording of the events have been watched online hundreds of times since.

Live streaming and recording of all the senior project presen-tations for ME, Aero, and MFG seniors was our largest single effort on behalf of the ME department outside of DL classes themselves. This allowed seniors’ friends and family to join them for their final presentations from locations all over the world. The online discussion was quite lively and the presenta-tions were recorded and posted online so they would be avail-able for those who couldn’t sign in during the presentation

On the left, Prof. McDaniel with his Ph.D. student Elizabeth Magliula.

DISTANCE LEARNING

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Technical assistant supervising Professor Perkin’s Distance Learning class in session.

time. The feedback from students and parents was exuberant and we look forward to supporting it again in the coming year.

Looking forward we hope to transition DL to serve the new MEng degree. Although we still feel our synchronous ap-

proach is preferable, we are looking into the possibili-ties of providing more asynchronous options in order to broaden the windows of time available for students to participate in classes. This asynchronous option is be-coming increasingly popular with some DL students and may become an important aspect of our DLP in the future.


COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLE INSTRUCTOR

ME 502 Intellectual Assets: Creation, Protection, and Commercialization Cole

ME/MS 507 Process Modeling and Control Gevelber

ME 510 Production Systems Analysis Perkins

ME 517 Product Development Hauser

ME 520 Acoustics I Cleveland

ME 526 Simulation of Physical Processes Cole

ME/MS 534 Materials Technology for Microelectronics Basu

ME 543 Sustainable Power Systems Caramanis

ME/MS 555 MEMS: Fabrication and Materials Zhang

ME 560 Precision Machine Design and Instrumentation Sharon

MS/EC 573 Solar Energy Systems Mazumder

ME 579 Microelectronic Device Manufacturing Cole

ME 583 Product Management Hauser

ME 706 Acoustics and Aerodynamic Sound Howe

Distance Learning Courses Offered

In total the DLP offered 14 different courses during the past academic year. A total of 38 individual DLP course enrollments were taken during this period. These enrollments permitted talented engineers to remain on the job while earning an advanced technical degree. 3 M.S. degrees were completed

through DL. In addition, several other on-campus students used only a few DL courses to complete their degrees, allowing them to take courses that would otherwise be unavailable to them due to work, internship, or other schedule restrictions.

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Extramural Funding in 2010-2011

RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY GRANT PERIOD NEW FUNDS IN 2010-2011

Andersson A Novel SFM-Based Method for Studying Single Molecule Dynamics

HHS/NIH/NCRR 9.15.10-8.31.11 $125,000

Baillieul AIRFOILS: Animal Inspired Robust Flight with Outer and Inner Loop Strategies (MURI)

DOD/ONR 8.1.10-12.31.10 $ 76,487

BaillieulCastañón

Behavioral Dynamics in the Cooperative Control of Mixed Human/Robotic Teams (MURI-07)

DOD/AFSOR 12.1.10-11.30.11 $1,511,222

Barba Scientific Computing in the Americas: The Challenge of Massive Parallelism; Valparaiso, Chile

NSF 9.15.10-8.31.11 $116,000

Barba Multiplying Algorithmic and Hardware Speed-Up: Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method on GPU Applied to Biomolecular Electrostatics

DOD/ONR 2.1.11-12.31.13 $49,414

Barbone Quantitative Mechanical Imaging for Improving Breast Ultrasound Diagnostics

HHS/NIH/NCI 7.1.09-5.31.11 $55,534

Belta CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Efficient Control Synthesis and Learning in Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems

NSF 9.15.10-8.31.13 $400,000

Belta Formal Verification and Synthesis of Control and Communication Strategies for Teams of Unmanned Vehicles

DOD/AFSOR 12.1.09-11.30.11 $99,999

Belta Specification Languages and Distributed Control Schemes for Teams of Unmanned Vehicles

DOD/Army 3.17.10-3.16.12 $78,881

BeltaCassandras

MURI - Smart Adaptive Reliable Teams for Persistent Surveillance

DOD/Navy 6.1.09-5.31.12 $72,500

Bifano Scalable, Cost-Effective, High-Actuator-Count De-formable Mirrors for Astronomical Adaptive Optics

NSF 7.1.11-6.30.12 $423,166

Caramanis EFRI-SEED Framework for Advanced Sustainable Building Design

NSF 1.1.05-9.30.11 $52,743

Carey Sound Speed and Attenuation in Multiphase Media DOD/Navy 1.1.04-9.30.11 $52,743

Carey Sound Speed and Attenuation in Muddy Sediments DOD/ONR 5.1.11-4.30.12 $60,843

Carey Sonic Properties of Multiphase Media DOD/ONR 3.1.11-12.31.13 $119,384

Cleveland The Structural Basis of Kidney Stone Fragility HHS/NIH/NIDDK 9.1.08-8.31.11 $73,658

Cleveland Steerable MEMS Instruments for Precise Intracardiac Surgery

HHS/NIH/NHLBI 1.1.10-12.31.10 $102,532

Cleveland Strategies for Improved Shock Wave Lithotripsy HHS/NIH/NIDDK

7.1.09-6.30.11 $155,500

Ekinci Tailor-Made Superhydrophobic Surfaces for MEMS and NEMS

NSF 5.1.10-4.30.13 $6,000

RESEARCHRESEARCH FUNDING

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Ekinci CAREER: Photonic Integration of Silicon Nanoelectro-mechanical Systems

NSF 3.1.07-2.29.12 $85,295

GopalanLin

Stable Potentiometric Sensor for Ce(III), CeI(IV) and Gd(III) Ions in Acidic Media

DOE 11.17.10-9.30.11 $120,000

GopalanLudwig, SmithBasu, Pal

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes: Unraveling the Rela-tionship Between Structure, Surface Chemistry and Oxygen Reduction

DOE 4.1.10-9.30.11 $25,000

Grace Further Investigation into Fan Broadband Noise Simulations

AeroAcoustics Re-search Consortium

5.1.11-6.30.12 $91,955

Holt Laser Nucleation and Collapse Stability for Advanced Cavitation Power Technology

DOD/Army 2.18.08-3.31.11 $168,525

Howe Sound Sources of Phonation HHS/NIH/NIDCD

12.1.10-11.30.11 $34,879

Howe The Self Noise from Ventilated Supercavities DOD/ONR 1.1.11-12.31.13 $75,000

Morgan Micro-Computed Tomography Assessment of TRUFIT Smith & Nephew, Inc., Endoscopy Division

12.1.10-11.30.11 $48,762

Morgan 3-D Visualization and Prediction of Spine Fractures HHS/NIH/NIAMS 5.1.11-4.30.12 $305,559

Pal SOM Electrolysis of Magnesium: Scale-Up Research and Engineering for Light-Weight Vehicles

DOE 4.20.10-4.19.11 $99,580

Pal Efficient One-Step Electrolytic Recycling of Low-Grade and Post-Consumer Magnesium Scrap

DOE 9.1.10-8.31.11 $139,910

Pal Characterization of Multivalent Metal Oxide Elec-trolysis Using Solid-Oxygen-Ion Diffusion

DOE 1.14.11-9.30.11 $60,229

Pal Low-Cost, Low-Impact Magnesium Production by Solid Oxide Membrane Electrolysis (SBIR Phase II)

NSF 5.1.11-4.30.12 $74,973

Park CAREER: Multiscale Design of the Coupled Optome-chanical Properties of Silicon Nanowires

NSF 2.12.10-7.31.12 $264,599

Porter MRI-Guided Localized Delivery of Chemotherapy Using Temperature-Sensitive Liposomes and High Intensity Focused Ultrasound

Focused Ultra-sound Surgery Foundation

1.1.10-8.31.11 $50,000

Porter MRI-Guided HIFU-Mediated Heating and Lesion For-mation Enhanced with Phase-Shift Nanoemulsions

HHS/NIH/NIBIB 7.1.11-6.30.12 $191,179

Roy An External Pipe Sound Pressure Level Sensor DOD/ONR 7.27.10-4.30.11 $21,000

RoyCleveland, Holt

Shock Wave Source and Cavitation Detection for the Spallation Neutron Source

DOE 10.05.06-12.31.11 $26,595

Sarin High Performance Optical Ceramic Scintillator Through Nanotechnology

HHS/NIH/NIBIB 9.1.09-7.31.11 $45,087

Schneider Max Kade Postdoctoral Research Exchange Grant - Christian Fillafer

Max Kade Founda-tion, Inc.

4.1.11-3.31.12 $56,000

Wroblewski Sensor and Control Development for Thermal Spray Cyber Materials, LLC

5.15.11-12.31.11 $27,500

Zhang, K. An Integrative Multi-Scale Model of Extracellular Matrix Mechanics in Vascular Remodeling

HHS/NIH/NHLBI 12.15.10-11.30.11 $285,104

Zhang, K. Effects of Immediate Biochemical Environments on the Structure and Function of Aortic Elastin

NSF 5.1.11-4.30.14 $370,000

Zhang, X. Mechanical Behavior of Amorphous Plasma-En-hanced Chemical Vapor Deposited Silicon Oxide Films for MEMS Applications (REU Supplement)

NSF 6.1.09-8.31.11 $6,000

Zhang, X. An Impedance-Based Assay Microsystem for Real-Time High Throughput Study of Single Cells

NSF 10.1.10-9.30.11 $182,552



Zhang, X. Draper Laboratory Fellow Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

9.1.10-8.31.11 $76,324

Zhang, X.Averitt

Coupled Evanescent Field Micro-Resonators for Downhole Data Relay

Advanced Energy Consortium

7.1.11-6.30.12 $208,209

Zhang, X.Averitt

Materials and Mechanics of Metamaterial Enhanced MEMS for Terahertz Technology

DOE /AFOSR 4.1.11-3.31.12 $130,000

Zink Sr--B”- Alumina Surrogate Potentiometric Sensor DOE 4.27.11-9.30.11 $60,000

Total New Funds: $8,895,285

Current Active Awards

INVESTIGATOR TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY

GRANT PERIOD

Andersson IDBR: Simultaneous Tracking of Multiple Particles in Confocal Microscopy NSF 9.1.09-2.28.12

Andersson CAREER: Nonlinear Control for Single Molecule Tracking NSF 7.1.09-6.30.14

AnderssonBelta

DynSyst_Special_Topics: A Formal Approach to the Control of Stochastic Dynamic Systems

NSF 9.1.09-8.31.12

Andersson A Novel SFM-Based Method for Studying Single Molecule Dynamics HHS/NIH/NCRR 9.15.10-8.31.11

BaillieulCastanon

Behavioral Dynamics in the Cooperative Control of Mixed Human/Robotic Teams (MURI-07)

DOD/Air Force 9.15.10-8.31.11

Barba Scientific Computing in the Americas: The Challenge of Massive Parallel-ism; Valparaiso, Chile

NSF 9.15.10-8.31.11

Barba Multiplying Algorithmic and Hardware Speed-Up: Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method on GPU Applied to Biomolecular Electrostatics

DOD/ONR 2.1.11-12.31.13

Belta CAREER: Hierarchical Abstractions for Planning and Control of Robotic Swarms

NSF 2.1.09-1.31.12

Belta CSR-EHCS(EHS), SM: A Formal Approach to Control of Hybrid Systems with Applications to Mobile Robotics

NSF 9.1.10-8.31.12

BeltaCassandras

MURI - Smart Adaptive Reliable Teams for Persistent Surveillance DOD/Navy 7.1.11-6.30.12

Belta CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Efficient Control Synthesis and Learning in Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems

NSF 9.15.10-8.31.13

Belta Specification Languages and Distributed Control Schemes for Teams of Unmanned Vehicles

DOD/Army 3.17.11-3.16.12

Belta Formal Verification and Synthesis of Control and Communication Strategies for Teams of Unmanned Vehicles

DOD/Air Force 12.1.10-11.30.11

Bifano Scalable, Cost-Effective, High-Actuator-Count Deformable Mirrors for Astro-nomical Adaptive Optics

NSF 7.1.11-6.30.12

CaramanisBaillieul

EFRI-SEED Framework for Advanced Sustainable Building Design NSF 8.15.10-7.31.14

Carey Sonic Properties of Multiphase Media DOD/ONR 3.1.11-12.31.13

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GRANT PERIOD

Carey Sound Speed and Attenuation in Multiphase Media DOD/Navy 1.1.04-9.30.11

Carey Sound Speed and Attenuation in Muddy Sediments DOD/Navy 5.1.11-4.3.12

Cleveland CDI-Type II: Collaborative Research - Simulation of Ultrasonic-Wave Propa-gation with Application to Cancer Therapy

NSF 10.1.08-9.30.12

Cleveland The Structural Basis of Kidney Stone Fragility HHS/NIH/NI-DDK

9.1.08-8.31.11

Cleveland Steerable MEMS Instruments for Precise Intracardiac Surgery HHS/NIH/NI-DDK

1.1.11-12.31.11

Ekinci CAREER: Photonic Integration of Silicon Nanoelectromechanical Systems NSF 5.1.08-2.21.12

EkinciYakhot

High-Frequency Nanofluidics of Bio-NEMS: Theory and Experiments NSF 6.15.08-5.31.11

EkinciYakhot

Tailor-Made Superhydrophobic Surfaces for MEMS and NEMS NSF 5.1.10-4.30.13

Gevelber Real-Time Control for Engineering Electrospun Nanofiber Diameter Distri-butions for Advanced Applications

NSF 9.1.08-8.31.11

GopalanPal, BasuLudwig, Smith

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes: Unraveling the Relationship Between Oxy-gen Reduction, Structure, and Surface Chemistry

DOE 4.1.10-9-30.11

GopalanLin

Stable Potentiometric Sensor for Ce(III), CeI(IV) and Gd(III) Ions in Acidic Media

DOE 11.17.10-9.30-11

Grace Further Investigation into Fan Broadband Noise Simulations AeroAcoustics Research Con-sortium

5.1.11-6.30.12

Howe Sound Sources of Phonation HHS/NIH/NI-DCD

12.1.10-11.30.11

Howe The Self Noise from Ventilated Supercavities DOD/ONR 1.1.11-12.31.13

McDaniel Estimating the Effects of Damping Treatments on the Vibration of Complex Structures

DOD/Navy 2.7.08-4.30.12

Morgan Collaborative Research: Micro- and Nano-scale Characterization and Mod-eling of Bone Tissue

NSF 9.1.08-8.31.11

Morgan Micro-Computed Tomography Assessment of TRUFIT Smith & Nephew, Inc., Endoscopy Divi-sion

12.1.10-11.30.11

Morgan 3-D Visualization and Prediction of Spine Fractures HHS/NIH/NIAMS

5.1.11-4.30.12

Pal Efficient One-Step Electrolytic Recycling of Low-Grade and Post-Consumer Magnesium Scrap

DOE 9.1.10-8.31.11

Pal Low-Cost, Low-Impact Magnesium Production by Solid Oxide Membrane Electrolysis (SBIR Phase II)

DOE 5.1.11-4.30.12

Pal SOM Electrolysis of Magnesium: Scale-Up Research and Engineering for Light-Weight Vehicles

NSF 4.20.10-4.19.11

Pal Characterization of Multivalent Metal Oxide Electrolysis Using Solid-Oxy-gen-Ion Diffusion

DOE 1.14.11-9.30.11

Park Mechanical Loss Mechanisms in C-Axis Gallium Nitride Nanowires NSF 7.1.09-6.30.12

Park CAREER: Multiscale Design of the Coupled Optomechanical Properties of Silicon Nanowires

NSF 2.12.10-7.31.12

Porter BRIGE - The Role of Vaporized Perfluorocarbon Nanoemulsions in Enhanced Ultrasound-Induced Lesion Formation for Cancer Therapy

NSF 9.1.09-8.31.11



GRANT PERIOD

Porter MRI-Guided Localized Delivery of Chemotherapy Using Temperature-Sensi-tive Lipsomes and Focused Ultrasound

Focused Ultra-sound Surgery Foundation

1.1.10-12.31.11

Porter MRI-Guided HIFU-Mediated Heating and Lesion Formation Enhanced with Phase-Shift Nanoemulsions

HHS/NIH/NIBIB 7.1.10-6.30.12

Roy Shock Wave Source and Cavitation Detection for the Spallation Neutron Source

DOE 10.5.06-12.31.11

Roy Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) -- Research Thrust 1-Acoustics

NSF 9.1.08-8.31.12

RoyClevelandHolt

R&D Mitigation of Cavitation Damage DOE 10.5.06-12.31.11

RoyClevelandHolt

The Utilization of the Analogic Ultrasound Imaging Engine and the Tera-son System 2000 in API, HIFU, and MedBED (CenSSIS Industrial Partner Program)

NSF 5.1.03-8.31.12

Sarin Novel Ceramic Scintillators for PET (SBIR) DOE 8.15.09-7.15.11

Sarin High Performance Optical Ceramic Scintillator Through Nanotechnology HHS/NIH/NIBIB 9.1.09-7.31.11

Schneider Max Kade Postdoctoral Research Exchange Grant - Christian Fillafer Max Kade Foun-dation, Inc.

4.1.11-3.31.12

Sharon Bacterial Drug Susceptibility Identification by Surface Enhanced Raman Microscopy

NIH RO1

Wroblewski Sensor and Control Development for Thermal Spray Cyber Materi-als, LLC

5.15.11-12.31.11

Zhang, K. CAREER: Integrating Multi-Scale Mechanics and Biomaterials to Study the Translation of Mechanical Forces from Tissue to Cell

NSF 2.1.10-1.31.15

Zhang, K. An Integrative Multi-Scale Model of Extracellular Matrix Mechanics in Vascular Remodeling

HHS/NIH/NHLBI 12.15.10-11.30.11

Zhang, K.Ziegler

Effects of Immediate Biochemical Environments on the Structure and Func-tion of Aortic Elastin

NSF 5.1.11-4.30.14

Zhang, X. Draper Laboratory Fellow Charles Stark Draper Labora-tory, Inc.

9.1.10-8.31.11

Zhang, X. GOALI: High Sensitivity Thermal Conductivity Sensor for Micro Gas Chro-matography and Harsh Environment Chemical Detection

NSF 7.1.09-6.30.12

Zhang, X. An Impedance-Based Assay Microsystem for Real-Time High Throughput Study of Single Cells

NSF 10.1.09-9.30.11

Zhang, X.Averitt

Mechanical Behavior of Amorphous Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposited Silicon Oxide Films for MEMS Applications

NSF 6.1.09-8.31.11

Zhang, X.Averitt

Materials and Mechanics of Metamaterial Enhanced MEMS for Terahertz Technology

DOE/Air Force 4.1.10-9.30.11

Zhang, X.Averitt

Coupled Evanescent Field Micro-Resonators for Downhole Data Relay Advanced Energy Consor-tium

1.1.10-12.31.10

Zhang, X. Collaborative Research: Elastic and Viscoelastic Characterization and Mod-eling of Polymer Based Structures for Biological Applications

NSF 6.1.10-8.31.11

Zink, Peter Sr--B”- Alumina Surrogate Potentiometric Sensor DOE 4.27.11-9.30.11

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L.A. BARBA, “Parallel and meshfree: New frontiers of CFD,” in Paral-lel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Recent Advances and Future Direc-tions, Rupak Biswas, ed., Inc. ISBN:978-1-60595-022-8, pp.160–166, DEStech Publications, 2010.

P.E. BARBONE and A.A. Oberai, “A review of the mathematical and computational foundations of biomechanical imaging,” in Computa-tional Modeling in Biomechanics, Suvranu De, Farshid Guilak, Mo-hammad Mofrad, eds., pp. 375-408, Springer, 2010.

C. BELTA, “Abstractions for Planning and Control of Robotic Swarms,” in Bio-inspired Computing and Communication Networks, eds. Yang Xiao and Fei Hu Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, , 2010.

J. Winkler, M. Neubert, J. Rudolph, N. Duanmu, and M. GEVEL-BER, “Czochralski Process Dyanamics and Control Design,” in Crystal Growth Processes Based on Capillarity: Czochralski, Floating zone, shaping and crucible techniques, edited by Thierry Duffar, pp. 115-202, Wiley, 2010.

STORMY ATTAWAY, MATLAB a Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving (Korean translation,) pp. 515, New York, NY, Elsevier Inc. 2010.

* Faculty Publications include all the published work by the Mechanical Engineering faculty during 1 January - 31 December 2010.

On the left engineering students at Student Groups Open House, September 2010.

JAMES D. BETHUNE, Engineering Graphics with AutoCAD 2011, pp. 730+x,Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, Pearson Edu-cation, Inc., 2011.

RAYMOND J. NAGEM and GUIDO SANDRI, annotated translation of The Theory of the Top, Vol II, by Felix Klein and Arnold Sommerfeld, Birkhauser, 2010.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

BOOK CHAPTERS

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D. Baronov and S.B. ANDERSSON, “Controlling a magnetic force mi-croscope to track a magnetized nanosize particle,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 367-394, 2010.

R. Yokota, L.A. BARBA,” Comparing the treecode with FMM on GPUs for vortex particle simulations of leapfrogging vortex rings,” Comput-ers & Fluids, published online, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compflu-id.2010.11.029, 2010.

F.A. Cruz, M.G. Knepley,L.A. BARBA, “PetFMM—a dynamically load-balancing parallel fast multipole library,” International Journal for Nu-merical Methods in Fluids, 85(4):403–428, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.2972, 2010.

R. Yokota, L.A. BARBA, M.G. Knepley, “PetRBF—a parallel O(N) algo-rithm for radial basis function interpolation,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 199(25–28):1793–1804, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2010.02.008, 2010.

S. Goenezen, P.E. BARBONE, A.A. Oberai, “Solution of the nonlinear elasticity imaging inverse problem: The incompressible case,” Com-put. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng., 200 (2011) doi:14061420, 27 Decem-ber 2010.

R. Leiderman, A.A. Oberai, and P.E. BARBONE, “Reconstructing the spatial distribution of the filtration coefficient in vascularized soft tis-sues: Exact and approximate inverse solutions,” Comptes Rendus Me-canique, 338, pp. 412423, 2010.

T.G. Fisher, T.J. Hall, S. Panda, M.S. Richards, P.E. BARBONE, J. Jiang, J. Resnick, S. Barnes,“Volumetric Elasticity Imaging with a 2-D CMUT Array,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 36(6), 978–990, 2010.

R.A. Crescenti, J.C. Bamber, A.A Oberai, P.E. BARBONE, J.P. Richter, C. Rivas, N.L. Bush, and Steve Webb, “Quantitative ultrasonic elastog-raphy for gel dosimetry,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 36(2), 268–275, 2010.

P.E. BARBONE, C.E. Rivas, I. Harari, U. Albocher, A.A. Oberai, and Y. Zhang, “Adjoint-weighted variational formulation for the direct solu-tion of inverse problems of general linear elasticity with full interior data,” Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng, doi: 10.1002/nme.2760, 2010.

S. Yerci, R. Li, S.O. Kucheyev, T. van Buuren, S.N. BASU, and L. Dal Negro “Visible and 1.54 μm Emission from Amorphous Silicon Nitride Films by Reactive Co-Sputtering,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 16 [1], 114-123, 2010.

M. Imielinski and C. BELTA, “Deep epistasis in human metabolism,” Chaos, vol.20, doi:10.1063/1.34560562010, 2010.

B. Yordanov and C. BELTA, “Formal analysis of discrete-time piece-wise affine systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 2834-2840, 2010.

M. Kloetzer, C. Mahulea, C. BELTA, and M. Silva, “An automated framework for formal verification of timed continuous Petri nets,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 460-471, 2010.

M. Kloetzer and C. BELTA, “Automatic deployment of distributed teams of robots from temporal logic motion specifications,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 48-61, 2010.

M. Kloetzer and C. BELTA, “Reachability analysis of multi-affine sys-tems,” Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Special Issue on Hybrid Systems, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 445 – 467, 2010.

T.G. Leighton and R.O. CLEVELAND, “Lithotripsy,” Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 224(2): 317-342, 2010.

J. Condliffe, H.A. Schiffter, R.O. CLEVELAND, C-C. Coussios, “An Acoustic Microscopy Technique to Assess Particle Size and Distribu-tion Following Needle-free Injection,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127: 2252-2261, 2010.

W.J. Duncanson, K. Oum, J.R. Eisenbrey, R.O. CLEVELAND, M.A. Wheatley and J.Y. Wong, “Targeted binding of PEG-lipid modified polymer ultrasound contrast agents with tiered surface architecture,” J. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 106(3):501-6, 2010.

P.V. Chitnis, N.J. Manzi, R.O. CLEVELAND, R.A. ROY and R.G. Holt, “Mitigation of Damage to Solid Surfaces From the Collapse of Cavita-tion Bubble Clouds,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, 132, p. 051303-1 - 051303-6, 2010.

A.G. Stern and D.C. COLE, “High-sensitivity, wide-dynamic-range ava-lanche photodiode pixel design for large-scale imaging arrays,” Jour-nal of Electronic Imaging, Special Section on Digital Photography, Vol. 19 (2), 2010.

O. Basarir, S. Bramhavar and K.L. EKINCI, “Near-field optical trans-ducer for nanomechanical resonators,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 97, 253114, 2010.

K.L. EKINCI, V. YAKHOT, C.Colosqui, S. Rajauria and D.M. Karabacak, “High-Frequency Nanofluidics: A Universal Formulation of the Fluid Dynamics of MEMS and NEMS,” Lab Chip, 10, 3013, 2010.

O. Basarir, S. Bramhavar, G. Basilio-Sanchez, T. Morse and K.L. EKINCI “Sensitive Micromechanical Displacement Detection by Scattering Evanescent Optical Waves,” Opt. Lett., 35, 1792, 2010.

C. Colosqui, D.M. Karabacak, K.L. EKINCI, and V. YAKHOT, “Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Electromechanical Resonators in Gaseous Media,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 652, 241, 2010.

C.H. FARNY, R.G. HOLT, R.A. ROY, “The correlation between bub-ble-assisted heating and cavitation noise power,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 57(1): 175-184, 2010.

X. Yan, and M. GEVELBER, “Investigation of Electrospun Fiber Diam-eter Distribution and Process Dynamics,” Journal of Electrostatics, 68, pp. 458-264, October 2010.

K.J. Yoon, G. Ye, S. GOPALAN, and U.B. PAL, “Cost-effective Single Step Co-firing Process for Manufacturing Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOF-Cs) using High Shear Compaction (HSC)TM Anode,” Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, vol. 7(2), 2010, p. 1010.

JOURNAL ARTICLES


W. He, K.J. Yoon, R.S. Eriksen, S. GOPALAN, S.N. BASU, and U.B. PAL, “Out-of-cell measurements of H2–H2O effective binary diffusiv-ity in the porous anode of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs),” Journal of Power Sources, 195 (2) 532-535, 2010.

N. J. Manzi, P. V. Chitnis, R.G. HOLT, R.A. ROY, R.O. CLEVELAND, B Riemer and M. Wendel, “Detecting cavitation in mercury exposed to a high-energy pulsed proton beam,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127(4): 2231-2239, 2010.

D.F. Gaitan, R.A. Tessien, R.A. Hiller, J. Gutierrez, C. Scott, H. Tardif, B. Callahan, T.J. Matula, L.A. Crum, R.G. HOLT, C.C. Church and J.L. Raymond, “Transient cavitation in high-quality-factor resonators at high static pressures,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127 (6), 3456-3465, 2010.

N.J. Manzi, P.V. Chitnis, R.G. HOLT, R.A. ROY and R.O. CLEVELAND, “Detecting cavitation in mercury exposed to a high-energy pulsed proton beam,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127 (4), 2231-2239, 2010.

M.S. HOWE and R.S. McGowan, “On the single-mass model of the vocal folds,” Fluid Dynamics Research, Volume 42, 015001, p. 16, 2010.

M.S. HOWE, “Indirect combustion noise,” Journal of Fluid Mechan-ics, Volume 669, 267 - 288, 2010.

M.S. HOWE and R.S. McGowan, “Production of sound by un-steady throttling of flow into a resonant cavity, with applica-tion to voiced speech,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, doi:10.1017/S0022112010006117, 2010.

R.S. McGowan and M.S. HOWE, “Influence of the ventricular folds on a voice source with specified vocal fold motion,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Volume 127, 1519 - 1527, 2010.

R.S. McGowan and M.S. HOWE, “Comments on single-mass models of vocal fold vibration,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Volume 127, EL215 - EL221, 2010.

A.W. Foley, M.S. HOWE and T.A. Brungart, “Spectrum of the sound produced by a jet impinging on the gas-water interface of a supercav-ity,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, Volume 329, 415 - 424, 2010.

P.R. Murray and M.S. HOWE, “Influence of hood geometry on the compression wave generated by a high-speed train,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, Volume 329, 2915 - 2927, doi:10.1016/j.jsv.2010.01.036, 2010.

M.H. Li and X. LIN, “Twin distortions of the Peierls instability,” Physi-cal Review, B 81: Act. No.153102, 8 Apr. 2010.

M.H. Li and X. LIN, “Adapted Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Hamiltonian for polypyrrole,” Physical Review, B 82: Act. No. 155141, 26 Oct 2010.

Y.W. Shin, M.H. Li, A.L. Botelho, and X. LIN, “Escape mechanism of a self-trapped topological soliton,” Physical Review, B 82: Act. No. 193101, 17 Nov 2010.

P. Du, X. LIN, and X. Zhang, “A multilayer bending model for conduct-ing polymer actuators,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 163: 240, 22 Jun 2010.

M. Kabir, T.T. Lau, X. LIN, S. Yip, and K. Van Vleit, “Effects of vacancy-solute point defect clusters on diffusivity in metastable Fe-C alloys,”Physical Review, B 82: Act. No. 134112, 15 Oct 2010.

M.S. Caldwell, J.G. McDANIEL and K.M. Warkentin, “Is it safe? Red-eyed treefrog embryos assessing predation risk use two features of rain vibrations to avoid false alarms,” Animal Behavior, Vol. 79, pp. 255–260, February 2010.

M.S. Caldwell, J.G. McDANIEL and K.M. Warkentin, “Vibrational sig-naling in the agonistic interactions of red-eyed treefrogs,” Current Biology, Vol. 20, pp. 1012-1017, June 2010.

E.F. MORGAN, K.T. Salisbury Palomares, R.E. Gleason, D.L. Bellin, K.B. Chien, G.U. Unnikrishnan, and P.L. Leong, “Correlations between local strains and tissue phenotypes in an experimental model of skeletal healing,” J Biomech., 26; 43(12), pp. 2418-24, 2010.

G.J. Miller, E.F. MORGAN, “Use of microindentation to characterize the mechanical properties of articular cartilage: comparison of bipha-sic material properties across length scales,” Osteoarthritis Cartilage, 18(8), pp. 1051-7, 2010.

K.T. Salisbury Palomares, L.C. Gerstenfeld, N.A. Wigner, M.E. Lenburg, T.A. Einhorn, and E.F. MORGAN, “Transcriptional profiling and bio-chemical analysis of mechanically induced cartilaginous tissues in a rat model,” Arthritis Rheum, 62(4), pp. 1108-18, 2010.

L.J. Miara, K.J. Yoon, S.G. Topping, L. Saraf, U.B. PAL, and S. GOPA-LAN, “Polarization Resistance of La0.85Ca0.15MnO3 Cathodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) Measured Using Patterned Electrodes,” ECS Transactions, 28 (23) 137-146, 2010. S.Y. Kim and H.S. PARK, “On the Utility of Vacancies and Tensile Strain-Induced Quality Factor Enhancement for Mass Sensing Using Graphene Monolayers,” Nanotechnology, 21:105710, 2010.

X.H. Qian and H.S. PARK, “The Influence of Mechanical Strain on the Optical Properties of Spherical Gold Nanoparticles,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 58:330-345, 2010.

H.S. PARK and X.H. Qian, “Surface Stress Driven Lattice Contraction Effects on the Extinction Spectra of Ultrasmall Silver Nanowires,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114:8741-8748, 2010.

Z.N. Qi, F.P. Zhao, X.Z. Zhou, H.S. PARK and H.A. Wu, “A Molecu-lar Simulation Analysis of Producing Monatomic Carbon Chains by Stretching Ultranarrow Graphene Nanoribbons,” Nanotechnology, 21:265702, 2010.X.H. Qian and H.S. PARK, “Strain Effects on the SERS Enhancement for Spherical Silver Nanoparticles,” Nanotechnology, 21:365704, 2010.

H.S. PARK, “A Multiscale Finite Element Method for the Dynamic Analysis of Surface-Dominated Nanomaterials,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 83:1237-1254, 2010.

S. Dai, H.S. PARK and M.L. Dunn. “Piezoelectric Constants for ZnO Calculated Using Classical Polarizable Core-Shell Potentials,” Nano-technology, 21:445707, 2010.

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M. Farsad, F.J. Vernerey and H.S. PARK, “An Extended Finite Element/Level Set Method to Study Surface Effects on the Mechanical Behav-ior and Properties of Nanomaterials,” International Journal for Nu-merical Methods in Engineering, 84:1466-1489, 2010.

P. A. T. Olsson, H.S. PARK and P.C. Lidstrom, “The Influence of Shear-ing and Rotary Inertia on the Resonant Properties of Gold Nanow-ires,” Journal of Applied Physics, 108:104312, 2010.

Y. Gong, M. Cabodi, and T.M. PORTER, “Relationship between size and frequency-dependent attenuation of monodisperse populations of lipid-coated microbubbles,” Bubble Science, Engineering, and Tech-nology, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 41-47, 2010.

P. Zhang, and T.M. PORTER, “An in vitro study of a phase-shift na-noemulsion: a potential nucleation agent for bubble-enhanced HIFU tumor ablation,” Ultrasound Med Biol, Vol 36, No. 11, pp. 1856-1866, 2010.

T. Ta, A. Convertine, C. Reyes, P. Stayton, and T.M. PORTER, “Ther-mosensitive liposomes modified with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-propylacrylic acid) copolymers for triggered release of Doxorubi-cin,” Biomacromolecules, Vol. 11, pp. 1915-1920, 2010.

J. Trojan-Piegzaa, J. Glodo and V.K. SARIN, “CaF2(Eu2+):LiF – Struc-tural and spectroscopic properties of a new system for neutron de-tection,” Radiation Measurments, Volume 45, Issue 2, pp.163-167, 2010.

E. V. van Loef , Y. Wang, S. R. Miller, C. Brecher, W. H. Rhodes, G. Baldoni, S. Topping, H Lingertat, V.K. SARIN, and Kanai S. Shah, “Ef-fect of microstructure on the radioluminescence and transparency of Ce-doped strontium hafnate ceramics,” Optical Materials, 33, pp. 84-90, 2010.

A.J. SCHMIDT, R. Cheaito and M. Chiesa, “Characterization of thin metal films via frequency-domain thermoreflectance,” Journal of Ap-plied Physics, Vol. 107(2), 024908, 2010.

A.J. SCHMIDT, K. Collins, A. Minnich, and G. Chen, “Thermal con-ductance and phonon transmissivity of metal-graphite interfaces,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 107(10), p. 104907, 2010.

D. Steppich, J. Griesbauer, T. Frommelt, W. Appelt, , A. Wixforth, M.F. SCHNEIDER, “Thermomechanic- electrical coupling in phospholipid monolayers near the critical point,” Phys Rev, E (81) 061123, 2010.

M.A. Fallah, V.M. Myles, T. Krüger, K. Sritharan, A. Wixforth, F. Varnik, S.W. Schneider, and M.F. SCHNEIDER, “Acoustic driven flow and Lat-tice-Boltzmann simulations to study cell adhesion in biofunctional-ized μ-fluidic channels with complex geometry,” Biomicrofluidics, 4 (1), 2010.

C.E. Sing, L. Schmid, M.F. SCHNEIDER, T. Franke and A. Alexander-Katz, “Controlled surface-induced flows from the motion of self-as-sembled colloidal walkers,” PNAS, 107, pp. 535-40, 2010.

M. Sikor, J. Sabin, A. Keyvanloo, M.F. SCHNEIDER, J. L. Thewalt, A. E. Bailey, and B. J. Frisken, “Interaction of a Charged Polymer with Zwit-terionic Lipid Vesicles,” Langmuir, 26(6), 4095, 2010.

J. Neuman, M. Hennig, A. Wixforth, J. Rädler, and M.F. SCHNEIDER, “Transport, Separation, and Accumulation of Proteins on Supported Lipid Bilayers,” Nanoletters ,10 (8), pp 2903–2908, 2010.

D. Kozakov, D. Hall, D. Beglov, R. Brenke,S.R. Comeau, Y. Shen, K. Li, J. Zheng, P. VAKILI, I.C. Paschalidis and S. Vajda, “Achieving reliabil-ity and high accuracy in automated protein docking: Cluspro, PIPER, SDU, and stability analysis in CAPRI rounds 13-19,” Proteins: Struc-ture, Function, and Bioinformatics, Vol 78 (15), pp. 3124-3130, 2010.

Y.-W. Wang, H.O. WANG, J.-W. Xiao, and Z.-H. Guan, “Synchronization of Complex Dynamical Networks under Recoverable Attacks,” Auto-matica, Vol. 46, pp. 197-203, 2010.

Y.-W. Wang, J.-W. Xiao, and H.O. WANG, “Global Synchronization of Complex Dynamical Networks with Network Failures,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol. 20, No. 15, pp. 1667-1677, DOI: 10.1002/rnc.1537, 2010.

M. Yang, Y.-W. Wang, J.-W. Xiao, and H.O. WANG, “Robust Synchro-nization of Impulsively-Coupled Complex Switched Networks with Parametric Uncertainties and time-varying Delays,” Nonlinear Analy-sis B: Real World Applications, Vol. 11, pp. 3008-3020, DOI:10.1016/j.nonrwa.2009.10.021, 2010.

F. Liu, Z.-H. Guan, and H.O. WANG, “Controlling bifurcations and cha-os in TCP-UDP-RED,” Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, Vol. 11, No 3, pp. 1491-1501, doi:10.1016/j.nonrwa.2009.03.005, 2010.

B. Wang, H. Fang, and H.O. WANG, “Second-order consensus in net-works of dynamic agents with communication time-delays,” Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 88-94, 2010.

D. WROBLEWSKI, G. Reimann, M. Tuttle, D. Radgowski, M. Can-namela, S.N. BASU, M. GEVELBER, “Sensor Issues and Requirements for Developing Real Time Control for Plasma Spray Deposition,” Jour-nal of Thermal Spray Technology, 19 [4], 723-735, 2010.

D. WROBLEWSKI, O. Cote, J. Hacker, and R. Dobosy, “Velocity and Temperature Structure Functions in the Upper Troposphere and Low-er Stratosphere from High Resolution Aircraft Measurements,” J. of Atmos. Sciences, Vol. 67, pp 1157-1170, 2010.

V. YAKHOT, S. Bailey, and A. Smits, “Scaling of global properties of turbulence and skin friction in pipes and channels,” J. Fluid. Mech, vol. 652, 65, 2010.

V. YAKHOT, “Skin friction in zero-pressure-gradient boundary laay-ers,” Phys.Rev.E, v82, 045301(R), 2010.

I.-K. Lin, X. ZHANG and K. ZHANG, “Inelastic deformation of bilayer microcantilevers with nanoscale coating,” Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical, 168, pp. 1-9, 2010.

B.J. Hansen, N. Kouklin, G. Lu, I-K Lin, J. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Trans-port, Analyte Detection and Opto-Electronic Response of p-Type CuO Nanowires,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114 (6), pp. 2440-2447, 2010.


B.C. Kaanta, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “A Monolithically Fabricated Gas Chromatography Separation Column with an Integrated High Sensitivity Thermal Conductivity Detector,” Journal of Micromechan-ics and Microengineering, 20 (5), 055016, 2010.

H. Tao, C.M. Bingham, D. Pilon, K. Fan, A.C. Strikwerda, D. Shreken-hamer, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG and R.D. Averitt, “A Dual Band Tera-hertz Metamaterial Absorber,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 43 (22), 225102, 2010.

H. Tao, A. Strikwerda, K. Fan, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Averitt, “MEMS Based Structurally Tunable Metamaterials at Terahertz Fre-quencies,” Journal of Infrared, Milimeter, and Terahertz Waves, In-vited Review Article, 2010.

X. Zheng, H.K. Surks, and X. ZHANG, “Single Cell Contractility Stud-ies Based On Compact Moire System Over Periodic Gratings,” Applied Physics Letters, 96 (21), 213705, 2010.

H. Tao, J.J. Amsden, A.C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, D.L. Kaplan, X. ZHANG, R.D. Averitt, and F.G. Omenetto, “Metamaterial Silk Composites at Terahertz Frequencies,” Advanced Materials, 22 (32), pp. 3527-3531, 2010.

P. Du, X. Lin, and X. ZHANG, “A Multilayer Bending Model for Con-ducting Polymer Actuators,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 163 (1), pp. 240-246, 2010.

X. Zheng, H.K. Surks, and X. ZHANG, “A Versatile Cell Contractility Mapping Transducer Utilizing Moire-Based Technique,” Journal of Mi-croelectromechanical Systems, 19 (4), pp. 764-773, 2010.

P. Du, I-K Lin, H. Lu, and X. ZHANG, “Extension of the Beam Theory for Polymer Bio-Transducers with Low Aspect Ratios and Viscoelastic Characteristics,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 20 (9), 095016, 2010.

B.C. Kaanta, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Novel Device for Calibration-Free Flow Rate Measurements in Micro Gas Chromatographic Sys-tems,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 20 (10), 095034, 2010.

H. Tao, A.C. Strikwerda, M. Liu, J.P. Mondia, E. Ekmekci, K. Fan, D.L. Kaplan, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG, R.D. Averitt, and F.G. Omenetto, “Performance Enhancement of Terahertz Metamaterials on Ultrathin Substrates for Sensing Applications,” Applied Physics Letters, 97 (26), 261909, 2010.

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M. Lahijanian, J. Wasniewski, S.B. ANDERSSON, and C. BELTA, “Mo-tion planning and control from temporal logic specifications with probabilistic satisfaction guarantees,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, 3-8 May 2010.

R. Walker IV, S.B. ANDERSSON, C. BELTA, and P. DUPONT, “In-Hap-tics: Interactive navigation using haptics,” IEEE Haptics Symposium, Waltham, MA, pp. 463-466, 2010.

S.B. ANDERSSON, “A nonlinear approach to tracking single nanome-ter-scale fluorescent particles,” American Controls Conference, pp. 4981-4986, 2010.

Z. Shen and S.B. ANDERSSON, ”Optimal measurement constellation of the fluoroBancroft localization algorithm for position estimation in tracking confocal microscopy,” 5th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, TuA3.4, 2010.

Z. Shen and S.B. ANDERSSON, “Minimum time control of a second order system,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp.4819-4824, 2010.

D. Raghunathan, and J. BAILLIEUL, “Search Decisions in a Game of Polynomial Root Counting,” Proceedings of the 2010 American Con-trol Conference, Baltimore, MD, pp. 2396 - 2403, 30 June - 2 July 2010.

D. Baronov, and J. BAILLIEUL, “Topology guided search of potential fields,” Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, December 15-17, 2010, pp. 5511 - 5517, DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2010.5717407, 15-17 December 2010.

F.A. Cruz and L.A. BARBA, “Heterogeneous FMM acceleration for hy-brid finite difference/vortex method simulations,” 22nd International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 17–21 May 2010.

R. Yokota and L.A. BARBA,, “Comparing the treecode with FMM on GPUs for vortex particle simulations of leapfrogging vortex rings,” 22nd International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dy-namics, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 17– 21 May 2010.

P.E. BARBONE and G.R. Feij´oo. “Coupling polynomial nite element meshes to spectral meshes for complex acoustic scattering and long range propagation,” 10th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, 2010, Istanbul, 5-7 July 2010.

P.E. BARBONE, G.R. Feij´oo, Z.J. Waters, and A.A. Oberai, “Krylov methods in target detection and imaging,” 10th European Confer-ence on Underwater Acoustics, Istanbul, 5-7 July 2010.

L. Miara, L.F.J. Piper, J.N. Davis, L. Saraf, T. Kaspar, S. BASU, K.E. Smith, U.B. PAL, and S. GOPALAN: “Surface Reconstruction Studies of SOFC Cathodes Using a Combination of Synchrotron Radiation Techniques and Electrochemical Measurements,” Catalytic Materials for Energy, Green Processes and Nanotechnology, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Vol 1217, 1217-Y07-04, Warrendale, PA, 2010.

Y. Chen, X. C. Ding, A. Stefanescu, and C. BELTA, “A Formal Approach to Deployment of Robotic Teams in an Urban-Like Environment,”

10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010 .

J. Tumova, B. Yordanov, C. BELTA, I. Cerna, and J. Barnat, “A Symbolic Approach to Controlling Piecewise Affine Systems,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Atlanta, GA, 2010.

X.C. Ding,C. BELTA, and C.G. Cassandras, “Receding Horizon Surveil-lance with Temporal Logic Specifications,” IEEE Conference on Deci-sion and Control (CDC), Atlanta, GA, 2010.

B. Yordanov, J. Tumova, C. BELTA, I. Cerna, and J. Barnat, “Formal Analysis of Piecewise Affine Systems through Formula-Guided Refine-ment,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Atlanta, GA, 2010.

Y. Chen, A. Stefanescu, and C. BELTA, “A Hierarchical Approach to Automatic Deployment of Robotic Teams with Communication Con-straints,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.

S. L. Smith, J. Tumova, C. BELTA, and D. Rus, “Optimal path planning under Temporal Logic Constraints,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.

L.C.G.J.M Habets and C. BELTA, “Temporal Logic Control for Piece-wise-Affine Hybrid Systems on Polytopes,” 9th International Sym-posium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2010), Budapest, Hungary, July 2010.

M. Kloetzer, S. Itani, S. Birch, and C. BELTA, “On the Need for Com-munication in Distributed Implementations of LTL Motion Specifica-tions,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), , Anchorage, Alaska, 3-8 May 2010.

R.D. Tabors, G. Parker, M.C. CARAMANIS, “Development of the Smart Grid: Missing Elements in the Policy Process,” IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-43), pp. 978-0-7695-3869-3/10-1-6, Jan 2010.

J.M. Foster, M.C. CARAMANIS, “Energy Reserves and Clearing in Sto-chastic Power Markets: The Case of Plug-In-Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery Charging,” 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp.1037-1044, Dec 2010.

M.C. CARAMANIS, J. M. Foster, and E. A. Goldis, “Load Participation in Electricity Markets: Day-Ahead and Hour-Ahead Market Coupling with Wholesale/Transmission and Retail/Distribution Cost and Con-gestion Modeling,” First IEEE Conference on Smart Grid Communica-tions, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, pp 513-518, 6 Oct 2010.

J. D. Holmes, W.M. CAREY, and J.F. LYNCH, “An overview of un-manned underwater vehicle noise in the low to mid frequencies,” Invited paper, 159th Mtg. of the Acoust. Soc. Am., POMA 9 065007, 2010.

W.M. CAREY, “Oceanic Noise: mechanisms, radiation characteristics, and array results,” Invited paper, 159th Mtg. of the Acoust. Soc. Am., POMA 9 070005, 2010.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS


W.M. CAREY and A.D. PIERCE, “POMA Measurement of sound transmission through mud at Dodge Pond, Connecticut,” 158th Mtg. of the Acoust. Soc. Am., POMA 8 070004, 2010.

W.M. CAREY and J.F. LYNCH, “The applicability of a small towed ar-ray system to the ocean bottom sediment classification problem,” In-vited paper, 158th Mtg of the Acoust. Soc. of Am., POMA 8 070003, 2010.

E. Speyerer, M. GEVELBER, D. Radgowski, “Development of an Adap-tive System ID Method for Enabling Advanced E-Beam Sweep Pattern Design,” 2010 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Pro-ceedings, pp 1-8 TuAT6.1, Cambridge, MA, September 2010.

M. GEVELBER, D. WROBLEWSKI, M. Cannamela, S. BASU, D. Rad-gowski, and M. Tuttle, “Sensor and Control Design Issues for Devel-oping Real-Time Deposition Rate Control for Plasma Spray,” 2010 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Proceedings, pp 1-8, TuAT6.6, Cambridge MA, September 2010.

M. GEVELBER, D. WROBLEWSKI, M. Canemella, and S. BASU, “Sen-sor Design Issues for Implementation of Real-Time Depsoition Rate Control for Plasma Spray,” 2010 International symposium on Flexible Automation Conference Proceedings, Tokyo Japan, July 2010.

X. Yan and and M. GEVELBER, “Process Dynamics and Control Analy-sis for Electrospinning Nanofibers,” 2010 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Proceedings, pp 1-8, WeBT4.1, Cambridge MA, September 2010.

X. Yan, and M. GEVELBER, “Elecrospinning of Nanofibers: Analysis of Diameter Distribution and Process Dynamics for Control,” 2010 Inter-national symposium on Flexible Automation Conference Proceedings, Tokyo Japan, July 2010.

J. Maunus, S. GRACE, and D. Sondak, “Effect of Rotor Wake Structure on Fan Interaction Noise,” Aeroacoustics Conference, AIAA Paper No. 2010-3746, 2010.

Y. Lu, Y. Cao, J.G. MCDANIEL, and M.L. Wang, “Finite element analy-sis of surface wave radiation for pavement debonding,” SPIE Proceed-ings on Nondestructive Characterization for Composite Materials, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Infrastructure, and Homeland Security, Volume 7649, 8 March 2010.

A.D. PIERCE and W.M. CAREY, “ Sediment shear as a perturbation in geoacoustic inversions and an explanation of the anomalous fre-quency dependence of the attenuation,” 158th Mtg of the Acoust. Soc. of Am., POMA 8 005001, 2010.

Y. Gong, M. Cabodi, T.M. PORTER, “Pressure-dependent resonance frequency for lipid-coated microbubbles at low acoustic pressures,” Proceedings IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 1932 - 1935, 2010.

T. Borogovac, N. Sun, and P. VAKILI, “Control Variates for Sensitivity Estimation,” Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 2624-2641, Dec 2010.

X. Tang and P. VAKILI, “Importance Sampling for Efficient Parametric Simulation,” Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 2666-2677, Dec 2010.

E. Butler, H.O. WANG, and J. Burken, “Modeling, Control, and Fail-ure Stabilization of a Modified F-15: A Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Model Based Approach,” Proceedings of the 2010 AIAA Guidance, Naviga-tion, and Control Conference (GNC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2-5 August 2010.

K. Tanaka, H. Ohtake, T. Yamaguchi and H.O. WANG, “Stability Analy-sis of Nonlinear Systems via Multiple Mixed Max-Min based Lyapunov Functions,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Com-putational Intelligence, pp. 2899-2905, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010.

H. Ohtake, K. Tanaka, and H.O. WANG, “Fuzzy Model-based Servo Control with Constraints on both of Inputs and States,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, pp.107-110, Yokohama, Japan, 8-19 Sept, 2010.

F. Liu, Z.-H. Guan, Y. Li, G. Zhu, and H.O. WANG, “Analysis and Control of Bifurcations in TCP Fluid Model,” Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Inter-national Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), pp. 1764-1768, Xiamen, China, 9-11 June, 2010.

Y.-J. Chen, H. Ohtake, K. Tanaka, W.-J. Wang, and H.O. WANG, “Sta-bility Analysis for the Polynomial Fuzzy Systems by Utilizing Equality Constraints of Sum-of Squares Program,” Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on System Science and Engineering, pp. 36-40, Taipei, 1-2 July, 2010.

J. Wei, H. Fang, and H.O. WANG, “Consensus of multi-agent system with communication delays by self-delay PD control,” Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCI-CA), pp. 2295 – 2300, Jinan, China, 6-9 July 2010.

F. Liu, Z.-H. Guan, G. Zhu, T. Li, and H.O. WANG, “Stability Analysis and Impulsive Control of Bifurcations and Chaos in Fluid Flow Model for TCP/AQM Networks,” Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), pp. 1257-1261, Jinan, China, 6-9 July 2010.

F. Liu, Z.-H. Guan, G. Zhu, and H.O. WANG, “Stability analysis and impulsive control of bifurcations in delayed networks,” Proceedings of the 29th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 559-563, Beijing, China, 29-31 July 2010.

F. Liu, Z.-H. Guan, G. Zhu, and H.O. WANG, “Passive control of chaos in TCP/AQM networks with time delay,” Proceedings of the 29th Chi-nese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 3453-3457, Beijing, China, 29-31 July 2010.

D. WROBLEWSKI, J. Werne, O. Cote, J. Hacker, and R. Dobosy, “Tem-perature and velocity structure functions in the upper troposhere and lower stratosphere from aircraft measurements,” AGU Fall Meet-ing, San Francisco, Dec 2010.

I-K Lin, X. ZHANG, and Y. Zhang, “Inelastic deformation in multilayer microcantilevers with nanocoatings,” Proceedings of the USNCTAM, 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, State College, PA, June 27-July 2, 2010.

B.C. Kaanta, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Monolithic Micro Gas Chro-matographic Separation Column and Detector,” Proceeding of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Sys-tems (MEMS ‘10), pp. 907-910, Hong Kong, China, 24-28 Jan 2010.

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K. Fan, A.C. Strikwerda, H. Tao, W.J.Padilla, R.D. Averitt, and X. ZHANG, “3D Standup Metamaterials with Purely Magnetic Reso-nance at Terahertz Frequencies,” Proceeding of the 23rd IEEE Inter-national Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS ‘10), pp. 843-846, Hong Kong, China, 24-28 January 2010.

P. Du, I-K Lin, H. Lu, and X. ZHANG, “Measuring the Young’s Relax-ation Modulus of PDMS Using Stress Relaxation Nanoindentation,” Microelectromechanical Systems--Materials and Devices III, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1222, 1222-DD02-03, 2010.

K-S Ou, I-K Lin, P-H Wu, Z-K Huang, X. ZHANG, and K-S Chen, “Me-chanical Characterization of Atomic Layer Deposited (ALD) Alumina for Applications in Corrosive Environments,” Microelectromechani-cal Systems--Materials and Devices III, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1222, 1222-DD02-14, 2010.

I-K Lin, X. ZHANG, and Y. Zhang, “Suppression of Inelastic Deforma-tion in Multilayer Microcantilevers with Nanoscale Coating,” Micro-electromechanical Systems--Materials and Devices III, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1222, 1222-DD02-19, 2010.

I-K Lin, P-H Wu, K-S Ou, K-S Chen, and X. ZHANG, “The Tunability in Mechanical Properties and Fracture Toughness of Sputtered Sili-con Oxynitride Thin Films for MEMS-Based Infrared Detectors,” Mi-croelectromechanical Systems--Materials and Devices III, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1222, 1222-DD02-20, 2010.

B.C. Kaanta, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Control and Operation Schemes for Micro-Thermal Conductivity Detectors in Gas Chroma-tography,” Microelectromechanical Systems--Materials and Devices III, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1222, 1222-DD05-20, 2010.

X. Zheng, E. Frohlich, S. Collignon, and X. ZHANG, “A Microfluidic Chip for Analysis of Mechanical Forces Generated During Cell Migra-tion,” Biosurfaces and Biointerfaces, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1236E, 1236-SS05-25, 2010.

H. Tao, A.C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Aver-itt, “Structurally Reconfigurable Metamaterials at Terahertz Frequen-cies,” Proceeding of the 30th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / International Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS ‘10), CTuF3, San Jose, CA, 18-20 May 2010.

K. Fan, A.C. Strikwerda, H. Tao, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Averitt, “3D Stand-up Metamaterials with a Purely Magnetic Resonance at Tera-hertz Frequencies,” Proceeding of the 30th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / International Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS ‘10), CTuF1, San Jose, CA, 18-20 May 2010.

H. Tao, J.J. Amsden, A.C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, D.L. Kaplan, F.G. Omen-etto, R.D. Averitt, and X. ZHANG, “Large Area Spraying of Terahertz Metamaterials on Free-Standing Biocompatible Silk Films,” Techni-cal Digest of IEEE Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop (Hilton Head ‘10), pp. 138-141, Hilton Head Island, SC, 6-10 June 2010.

B.C. Kaanta, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Flow Rate Insensitive Thermal Conductivity Detector,” Technical Digest of IEEE Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop (Hilton Head ‘10), pp. 294-297, Hilton Head Island, SC, 6-10 June 2010.

X. Zheng, H.K. Surks, and X. ZHANG, “Sensing Single Cell Contractility Utilizing Moire Frigines,” Technical Digest of IEEE Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop (Hilton Head ‘10), pp. 274-277, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 6-10, 2010.

P. Du, X. Zheng, I-K Lin, H. Lu, and X. ZHANG, “Extended Timoshenko Beam Formula for Cellular Contraction Force Calculation,” Proceed-ing of the 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS ‘10), pp. 509-511, Groningen, Netherlands, 3-7 October 2010.

X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “A Micro Moire Chip for Automated Whole Field Cell Analysis,” Proceeding of the 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS ‘10), pp. 1625-1627, Groningen, Netherlands, 3-7 October 2010.

X. Wang, S.W. Anderson, and X. ZHANG, “Microengineered Multi-Spectral Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” Proceed-ing of the 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS ‘10), pp. 1310-1312, Gronin-gen, Netherlands, 3-7 October 2010.

X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Whole Field Living Cell Mapping Using Dif-fraction Moire Sensor,” Proceeding of the 9th IEEE Sensors Confer-ence (IEEE Sensors ‘10), pp. 1564-1567, Waikoloa, HI, 1-4 November 2010.

B.C. Kaanta, A.J. Jonca, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “A Novel uThermal Conductivity Detector Capable of Flow Rate Measurements,” Pro-ceeding of the 9th IEEE Sensors Conference (IEEE Sensors ‘10), pp. 2508-2511, Waikoloa, HI, 1-4 November 2010.

X. Wang, S.W. Anderson, and X. ZHANG, “A Novel Contrast Agent for Multispectral Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” Proceeding of the 9th IEEE Sensors Conference (IEEE Sensors ‘10), pp. 1305-1308, Waikoloa, HI, 1-4 November 2010.


S.B. ANDERSSON, “High-speed AFM through non-raster scanning,” XII Linz Winter Workshop - Advances in single-molecule research for biology and nanoscience, Linz, Austria, 6 February 2010.

S. ATTAWAY, “The Voice of the Customer,” Elsevier Conference, Bos-ton, MA, 11 January 2010.

J. BAILLIEUL, “Decision Making in Search, Surveillance, and Recon-naissance,” Booz, Allen, Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium in Elec-trical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, Friday, 16 April 16 2010.

J. BAILLIEUL, “Decision Making in Search, Surveillance, and Recon-naissance,” Seminaire, Laboratoire des Signaux & Systemes, Univer-site Paris-Sud 11, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 15 June 2010.

J. BAILLIEUL, “Random Differentiable Structures and Games of Search, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance,” Workshop on Geometric Methods in control and robotics, La Cristalera, Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, Spain, 4--6 October 2010.

J. BAILLIEUL, “Decision Making in Search, Surveillance, and Recon-naissance,” United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), 17 August 2010.

L.A. BARBA, “The triad of extreme computing— fast algorithms, open software and heterogeneous systems,” the GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, 20–23 Sep 2010.

L.A. BARBA, “Multiplying speedups: fast algorithms on GPUs. A case study on biomolecularelectrostatics,” Keynote lecture at the VSCSE Summer School: Advanced Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 5 Aug 2010.

L.A. BARBA, “PetFMM—A dynamically load-balancing parallel fast multipole library,” Accelerated Computing conference, Tokyo, Japan, 28–29 Jan 2010.

L.A. BARBA, “PetFMM—A dynamically load-balancing parallel fast multipole library,” Keynote at the GSIC international workshop on GPGPU applications at Tokyo Institute of Technology, 26 Jan 2010.

L.A. BARBA, “Game-changing triad: fast algorithms, many-core hard-ware, open software. A case study with biomolecular electrostatics,” Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Applied Physics & Applied Math-ematics Department, Columbia University, 4 Sep 2010.

L.A. BARBA, “The need for speed: fast algorithms, fast hardware (is not always equal to fast code),” Scientific Computing Seminar, Brown University, 2 Apr 2010.

L.A. BARBA, “Why gamers have caused a revolution in the super-computing world,” Mechanical Engineering Colloquium, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 17 Feb. 2010

R. Yokota and L.A. BARBA, “Radial basis function methods for dis-continuous problems, RBF interpolation using Gaussians with do-

main decomposition on GPUs,” SIAM 2010 Annual Meeting, 12-16 July 2010.

S. BASU, “Functionally Graded Environmental Barrier Coatings on SiC for Gas Turbine Applications,” MS&T 2010 meeting, Houston, TX, 17-21 October 2010.

S. BASU, “Synthesis of Provably-Correct Control and Communication Strategies for Distributed Systems,” School of Engineering and Ap-plied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 11 Feb 2010.

S. BASU, “A Formal Approach to the Deployment of Robotic Teams,”AFOSR Dynamics and Control Program Review, Arlington, VA, 11 Aug 2010.

S. BASU, “Synthesis of provably-correct control and communica-tion strategies for distributed mobile systems,” Workshop on Formal Methods for Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2010, Anchorage, Alas-ka, 3 May 2010.

S. BASU, “Formal Approaches to the Design, Synthesis, and Control of Synthetic Gene Networks,” Workshop on Synthetic Biology, Ohio State University, 28 Jan 2010.

M. CARAMANIS, “Widespread adoption of Intermittent Renewable Energy Generation, the Smart Grid and Electric Vehicles: Barriers and Synergies,” the Jones Seminar Series on Science, Technology and So-ciety, Dartmouth College, 19 February 2010.

M. CARAMANIS, “Renewable Generation Intermittency and Demand Provided Reserves: Are Market Solutions Viable?,” the INFORMS Na-tional Meetings, Austin, TX, 8 Nov 2010.

R. CLEVELAND, “Medical Applications of Shock Waves,” Keynote Lec-ture, Ultrasonic Industry Association Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 14 April 2010.

R. CLEVELAND, “Lithotripsy: A shocking blow to kidney stones” Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 18 October 2010.

R. CLEVELAND, “Biomedical Ultrasound,” Invited short course, Physi-cal Acoustics Summer School, Santa Fe, NM, 31 May 2010.

R. CLEVELAND, ”Lithotripsy: A shocking blow to kidney stones,” Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, 2 April 2010.

D. COLE, “Physical aspects of neurons, electrochemical signals, and pharmacological influences,” the Harvard Medical School, 21 Apr 10. D. COLE, “Physical aspects of neurons, electrochemical signals, and Pharmacological influences,” the Boston University School of Dental Medicine, 30 April 2010.

D. COLE, “Discussion on Engineering and Related Areas,” the Minor-ity Engineer’s Society’s Technology Awareness Event, Northeastern University, 17 March 2010.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

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D. COLE, “Innovation and intellectual Assets,” the Entrepreneurial Club, Boston Univeristy, 19 Nov 2010.

K. EKINCI, “Nanoscale Mechanical Resonators for Probing Physical Phenomena: Fluid Dynamics of High-frequency Flows,” UIUC, Me-chanical Science and Engineering Seminar, 30 November 2010.

M. GEVELBER, “Material Process Controls and Sustainability Initia-tives at Boston University,” ASM, Boston Chapter, 18 Nov 2010.

S. GRACE, “Strategies for computing interaction sounds from fans,” Pratt and Whitney, 22 January 2010.

S. GRACE, “Effect of Rotor Wake Structure on Fan Interaction Noise,” Institute for Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southamp-ton, UK, 14 June 14 2010.

S. GRACE, “Prediction of Turbofan Noise,” Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, 27 October 2010.

S. GRACE, “CFD Simulation of an Acoustic Igniter,” the BU CCS semi-nar series, 19 December 2010.

M. HOWE, “Flow noise and perforated plates,” the EU sponsored LIMOUSINE workshop on Analytical methods in thermo-acoustics, Keele University, England, 26 May 2010.

M. HOWE, “Indirect combustion noise,” the EU sponsored LIMOU-SINE workshop on Analytical methods in thermo-acoustics, Keele University, England, 26 May 2010.

J.G. MCDANIEL and A.M. Shivers, “Analysis of rotating ocean wave energy converters,” the Second Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun, Mexico, 16 November 16 2010.

J.G. MCDANIEL, “Optimization of local damping treatments for plate vibrations,” the 159th ASA Meeting/NOISE-CON 2010, Baltimore, Maryland, 21 April 21 2010.

J.G. MCDANIEL, “Ocean Wave Energy,” COE Undergraduate Re-search Seminar entitled “Let’s Concentrate,” 17 November 2010.

J.G. MCDANIEL, “Engineering Challenges in Ocean Wave Energy,” Society of Women Engineers Regional Conference, Boston, MA, 10 April 2010.

E.F. MORGAN, “Measurement of the Local Mechanical Environment of Skeletal Tissues,” Department Seminar, Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, October 2010.

E.F. MORGAN, “Regulating Skeletal Repair by Mechanical Stimula-tion,” Department Seminar, Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, October 2010.

U. PAL, “Novel large scale rapid response energy storage system for addressing intermittency in electric power generation and use,” MTTC, Boston, MA, 24 May 2010.

U. PAL, “Solid Oxide Membrane (SOM) Electrolyzer for Waste to Ener-gy Conversion,” Sadoway Symposium, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 11 June 2010.

U. PAL, “Solid Oxide Membrane Process for the Production of Electro-positive Metals,” ARPA-E, Washington DC, 6 December 2010.

H.S. PARK, “Mechanics of Crystalline Nanostructures”, University of Vermont, 5 March 2010.

H.S. PARK, “Mechanics of Crystalline Nanostructures”, Boston Uni-versity Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology (CNN), 2 April 2010.

H.S. PARK, and G. Yun. “Multiscale Modeling of Surface-Induced In-stabilities in Nanomaterials”, ECCM 2010, Paris, France, 19 May 2010.

H.S. PARK, “Mechanics of Crystalline Nanostructures”, University of Paris-East, 20 May 2010.

H.S. PARK, and G. Yun. “Multiscale Modeling of Surface-Induced In-stabilities in Nanomaterials”, SIAM 2010, Philadelphia, 25 May 2010.

H.S. PARK, and G. Yun. “Multiscale Modeling of Surface-Induced In-stabilities in Nanomaterials”, USNCTAM 2010, State College, 27 June 2010.

H.S. PARK, “Mechanics of Crystalline Nanostructures”, Chinese Acad-emy of Sciences (CAS), 3 August 2010.

H.S. PARK, “Mechanics of Crystalline Nanostructures”, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 5 August 2010.

H.S. PARK, “Mechanics of Crystalline Nanostructures”, Tsinghua Uni-versity (China), 12 August 2010.

H.S. PARK, “Computational Modeling of Surface Effects: Distinctions from Classical Surface Elasticity Theory”, IUTAM Symposium on Sur-face Effects in the Mechanics of Nanomaterials and Heterostructures, 2010, Beijing, China, August 2010.

H.S. PARK, “Atomistic and Multiscale Modeling of Surface Effects on the Mechanical Behavior and Properties of Nanomaterials”, Michigan Technical University, 7 October 2010.

H.S. PARK, “A New Multiscale Formulation for the Electromechani-cal Behavior of Nanomaterials”, Northwestern University, 8 October 2010.

H.S. PARK, “Electromechanical Phenomena in Crystalline Nanostruc-tures”, Lehigh University, 14 October 2010.

H.S. PARK, “Computational Modeling of Surface Effects on Mechani-cal and Electromechanical Phenomena in Nanomaterials”, Harvard University, 21 October 2010.

V. SARIN, “ECB’s - Technology for the Future,” IITB, Mumbai, India, February 2010.

V. SARIN, “‘Sabtrinite’ - a new phase in the Alumina-Silica System,” UTC Seminar Series, Barcelona, Spain, August, 2010.

A.J. SCHMIDT, and M. Chiesa, “Optical Metrology for Nanoscale Transport,” First International Congress on Nanotechnology Ruben Orellana, Quite, Eduador, 7-11 June 2010.


P. VAKILI, “DataBase Monte Carlo (DBMC) & Generic Control Vari-ates for Efficient Parametric Estimation,” Information Science and Technology Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 16 June 2010.

D. WROBLEWSKI, “Coherent Structures in Upper Troposphere/Low-er Stratosphere Clear Air Turbulence: Comparisons of Aircraft Mea-surements and DNS; Atmospheric Turbulence and Boundary Layers,” A symposium in honor of John C. Wyngaard, Penn State University, 25 June 2010.

V. YAKHOT, “Small scale universality and combustion,” International program on Turbulence, Stockholm, Sweden, 15-27 May 2010.

V. YAKHOT, “Small-scale PDFs in combustion,” International work-shop on turbulent combustion, Aachen, Germany, 3-6 June 2010.

V. YAKHOT, “Lattice Boltzmann theory and simulation of visco-elas-tic transition in simple fluids,” International DFDM meeting, Rome, Italy, 4-9 July 2010.

K. ZHANG, “Mechanobiological Study of Extracellular Matrix Me-chanics,” Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua Univer-sity, Beijing, China, 25 June 2010.

K. ZHANG, “Mechanobiological Study of Extracellular Matrix Me-chanics,” Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tex-as, Austin, TX, 7 October 2010.

X. ZHANG, “Materials and Mechanics of Metamaterial Enhanced MEMS for Terahertz Technologies,” Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials & Microsystems, Multifunctional Materials for Defense Workshop, Reston, VA, May 2010.

X. ZHANG, “MEMS Enhanced Metamaterials: Towards Filling the Terahertz Gap,” DoD Workshop on Tri-Service Metamaterials, Virginia Beach, VA, May 2010.

X. ZHANG, “Coupled Evanescent Field Micro-Resonators for Down-hole Data Relay,” Advanced Energy Consortium Workshop, Cam-bridge, MA, June 2010.

X. ZHANG, “Nanobiotechnology: An Engineering’s Foray into Biol-ogy,” Advanced Micro/Nano Technology Workshop, Beijing, China, July 2010.

X. ZHANG, “MEMS-based Terahertz Metamaterial Structures and Devices,” Workshop on Organic Materials Chemistry and Molecular Design and and Synthesis, National Harbor, MD, Sept 2010.

X. ZHANG, “Spying on Cells: Opto-Mechanical Platforms for Cell Force Study,” Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, Nov 2010.

X. ZHANG, “MEMS Enhanced Metamaterials: Towards Filling the Terahertz Gap, “ Annual Future of Light Symposium, Boston, MA, Dec 2010.

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M. Lahijanian, J. Wasniewski, S.B. ANDERSSON, and C. BELTA, “Mo-tion planning and control from temporal logic specifications with probabilistic satisfaction guarantees,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 3-8 May 2010.

R. Walker IV, S.B. ANDERSSON, C. BELTA, and P. Dupont, “In-Hap-tics: Interactive navigation using haptics,” Haptics Symposium, pp. 463- 466, Waltham, MA, March 2010.

S.B. ANDERSSON, “A nonlinear approach to tracking single nanome-ter-scale fluorescent particles,” American Controls Conference, June, 2010.

Z. Shen and S.B. ANDERSSON, ”Optimal measurement constellation of the fluoroBancroft localization algorithm for position estimation in tracking confocal microscopy,” 5th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, September, 2010.

Z. Shen and S.B. ANDERSSON, “Minimum time control of a second order system,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December, 2010.

D.Raghunathan, and J.BAILLIEUL, “Search Decisions in a Game of Polynomial Root Counting,” Proceedings of the 2010 American Con-trol Conference, pp. 2396 - 2403, Baltimore, MD, June 30 - July 2, 2010.

D. Baronov, and J.BAILLIEUL, “Topology guided search of potential fields,” Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5511 - 5517, DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2010.5717407, Atlanta, GA, 15-17 December 2010.

R. Yokota and L.A. BARBA, “Performance of the fast multipole meth-od on GPUs using various kernels,” World Congress of Computational Mechanics, WCCM, Sydney, Australia, July 2010.

F.A. Cruz, L.A. BARBA, and M.G. Knepley, “Heterogeneous extension of PetFMM: a fast multipole library, “ World Congress of Computa-tional Mechanics, WCCM, Sydney, Australia, July 2010.

L.A. BARBA, R. Yokota, J.P. Bardhan, and M.G. Knepley, “Multiplying the speed-ups: GPU-accelerated, fastmultipole BEM, for applications in protein electrostatics,” GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, 2010.

J.P. Bardhan, R. Yokota, M.G. Knepley, and L.A. BARBA, “Rigorous approximation of continuum electrostatics: the impact of fast algo-rithms and GPU computing.” 24th Symposium of the Protein Society, San Diego, CA, August 2010.

F.A. Cruz and L.A. BARBA, “Heterogeneous FMM acceleration for hy-brid finite difference/vortex method simulations,” 22nd International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 17–21 May 2010.

R. Yokota and L.A. BARBA, “Comparing the treecode with FMM on GPUs for vortex particle simulations of leapfrogging vortex rings,” 22nd International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dy-namics, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 17– 21 May 2010.

F.B. Zagadou, P.E. BARBONE, and D.C. Mountain “Vibration Response of the Organ of Corti at the Sensitive Location,” 33rd Annual MidWin-ter Meeting, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Anaheim, CA, 6-10 February 2010.

C.R. Aroni, P.E. BARBONE, and A.A. Oberai, “Augmented Lagrang-ian Stabilization Yields Stable and Convergent FEM Formulation of Inverse Elasticity Problem Formulated as an Optimization Problem,” ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 12-16 Nov 2010.

J.M. Kracht, N. J. Manzi, G.R. Feijo’o, P.E. BARBONE, R.O. CLEVE-LAND, “Acoustic stone localization during lithotripsy,” 2nd Pan-Amer-ican/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 128, Issue 4, pp. 2417-2417, Cancun, Mexico, 15-19 November 2010.

Z.J. Waters and P.E. BARBONE, “Single-channel time reversal with Lanczos iterations,”J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 127, Issue 3, pp. 2013-2013, 2010.

P.E. BARBONE, A.A. Oberai, S. Goenezen, J-F Dord, “Role of bound-ary conditions in nonlinear elasticity imaging,” Fourth European Con-gress on Computational Mechanics, Paris, 2010,

S Goenezen, Z. Sink, A.A. Oberai, J.F. Dord, P.E. BARBONE, T.J. Hall, and J. Jiang. “Breast cancer diagnosis using nonlinear elasticity im-aging: Some initial results,” Ninth International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Snowbird, Utah, October 2010.

S. Goenezen, J.F. Dord, P.E. BARBONE, and A.A. Oberai, “Algorithms for quantitative nonlinear elasticity imaging in three dimensions,” Ninth International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Snowbird, Utah, October 2010.

J.F. Dord, S. Goenezen, A.A. Oberai, P.E. BARBONE, T.J. Hall, and J. Jiang, “Identification of nonlinear material properties of tissue phan-toms using a regularized inversion method,” Ninth International Con-ference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elas-ticity, Snowbird, Utah, October 2010.

Y. Zhang, A.A. Oberai,P.E. BARBONE, I. Harari, “A direct algorithm for the time-harmonic elasticity imaging with multiple sources,” Ninth International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imag-ing of Tissue Elasticity, Snowbird, Utah, October 2010.

S.W. Shore, A.A. Oberai, P.E. BARBONE, and E.F. Morgan, “Anisotro-pic Elasticity Imaging of Cancellous Bone,” 6th World Congress of Bio-mechanics (WCB 2010), Singapore, 1-6 August 2010.

U. Albocher, A. Oberai, P.E. BARBONE, I. Harari, “Direct Computa-tion of Inverse Problems of Incompressible Elasticity with Full Inte-rior Data,” Ninth World Congress on Computational Mechanics and Fourth Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM- APCOM 2010, Sidney, Australia, 19-23 July 2010.

P.E. BARBONE, G.R. Feij´oo, Z.J. Waters, and A.A. Oberai, “Krylov methods in target detection and imaging,” 10th European Confer-ence on Underwater Acoustics, Istanbul, Turkey, 5-7 July 2010.

CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS


J.N. Davis, L. Miara, S. BASU, S. GOPALAN, U.B. PAL, K.F. Ludwig, L. Saraf and T.C. Kaspar, “Synchrotron X-ray study of strontium-doped lanthanum manganite (LSM) films under solid oxide fuel cell operat-ing temperature and pressure,” the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston, MA, Nov 29-Dec 3, 2010.

A. Roan, S. Pati, S. BASU, and U.B. PAL, “Solid Oxide Membrane Pro-cess for Solar Grade Silicon Production Directly from Silicon Dioxide, ” the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston, Nov 29-Dec 3, 2010.

L.J. Miara, L.F.J. Piper, J.N. Davis, L. Saraf, T.C. Kaspar, S. BASU, K.E. Smith, K. Ludwig, U.B. PAL, and S. GOPALAN, “Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes: Unraveling the Relationship between Structure, Surface Chemistry and Oxygen Reduction,” the 11th Annual SECA Workshop, Pittsburg, PA, 27-29 July 2010.

L.J. Miara, J.N. Davis, S. BASU, U.B. PAL and S. GOPALAN, “Under-standing Cathode Kinetics through and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy,” the Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition, San Antonio, TX, 18-21 October 2010.

L.F.J. Piper, A.R.H. Preston, S.-W. Cho, A. DeMasi, B. Chen, K. E. Smith, L. Miara, J.N. Davis, S. BASU, U.B. PAL, S. GOPALAN, L. Saraf and T.C. Kaspar, “Soft X-ray Spectroscopy at Beamline X1B of Energy Conver-sion Materials:Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes,” the 2010 Joint NSLS/CFN Users’ Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 24-26 May 2010.

Y. Chen, X.C. Ding, A. Stefanescu, and C. BELTA, “A Formal Approach to Deployment of Robotic Teams in an Urban-Like Environment,” 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010.

J. Tumova, B. Yordanov, C. BELTA, I. Cerna, and J.Barnat, “A Symbolic Approach to Controlling Piecewise Affine Systems,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Atlanta, GA, 2010.

X.C. Ding, C. BELTA, and C.G. Cassandras, “Receding Horizon Surveil-lance with Temporal Logic Specifications,” IEEE Conference on Deci-sion and Control (CDC), Atlanta, GA, 2010.

B. Yordanov, J. Tumova, C. BELTA, I. Cerna, and J. Barnat, “Formal Analysis of Piecewise Affine Systems through Formula-Guided Refine-ment,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Atlanta, GA, 2010.

Y. Chen, A. Stefanescu, and C. BELTA, “A Hierarchical Approach to Automatic Deployment of Robotic Teams with Communication Con-straints,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.

S.L. Smith, J. Tumova, C. BELTA, and D. Rus, “Optimal path planning under Temporal Logic Constraints,” IEEE/RSJ International Confer-ence on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.

L.C.G.J.M Habets and C. BELTA, “Temporal Logic Control for Piece-wise-Affine Hybrid Systems on Polytopes,” 9th International Sym-posium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2010), Budapest, Hungary, July 2010.

M. Kloetzer, S. Itani, S. Birch, and C. BELTA, “On the Need for Com-munication in Distributed Implementations of LTL Motion Specifica-tions,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, AK, 3-8 May 2010.

R.D. Tabors, G. Parker, M.C. CARAMANIS, “Development of the Smart Grid: Missing Elements in the Policy Process,” IEEE Hawaii In-ternational Conference on System Sciences, (HICSS-43), pp. 978-0-7695-3869-3/10-1-6, Jan 2010.

J.M. Foster, M.C. CARAMANIS, “Energy Reserves and Clearing in Sto-chastic Power Markets: The Case of Plug-In-Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery Charging,” 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp.1037-1044, Dec 2010.

M.C. CARAMANIS, J. M. Foster, and E. A. Goldis, “Load Participation in Electricity Markets: Day-Ahead and Hour-Ahead Market Coupling with Wholesale/Transmission and Retail/Distribution Cost and Con-gestion Modeling”, Proceedings First IEEE Conference on Smart Grid Communications, pp 513-518, Gaithersburg, MD, 6 Oct 2010.

W.M. CAREY, R.A. ROY and P.S. Wilson, “Low-frequency sound scat-tering from microbubble distributions,” (A) J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128 2277, 160th Mtg. of the Acoust. Soc. Am., 2010.

W.M. CAREY, “Oceanic Noise: mechanisms, radiation characteristics, and array results,” POMA 9 070005, 159th Mtg. of the Acoust. Soc. Am., 2010.

C.J. Kearney, T. Prevost, S. Socrate, R.O. CLEVELAND, and M. Spector, “Pressure-time profiles of a focused and a radial shockwave device: Measurements in tissue, ex vivo, and in a water bath,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 2364, 2010.

J.M. Kracht, J.A. Ketterling, and R.O. CLEVELAND, “Hydrophone ar-ray for instantaneous measurement of lithotripter fields,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 1761, 2010.

V.A. Khokhlova, O.V. Bessonova, M.V. Averiyanov, J.E. Soneson, and R.O. CLEVELAND, “Modeling of nonlinear shock wave propagation and thermal effects in high-intensity focused ultrasound fields,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 1827, 2010.

T. Cheung, R.O. CLEVELAND, N. Albin, and O.P. Bruno, “Comparison of the Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetsov equation and Fourier-con-tinuation for modeling high-intensity focused ultrasound beams,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 1866, 2010.

A.B. Draudt and R.O. CLEVELAND, “Nonlinear distortion associated with high-intensity focused ultrasound creates apparent displace-ments in acoustic radiation force imaging,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 1759, 2010.

E. Speyerer, M. GEVELBER, D. Radgowski, “Development of an Adap-tive System ID Method for Enabling Advanced E-Beam Sweep Pattern Design,” pp 1-8 TuAT6.1, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Confer-ence Proceedings, Cambridge, MA, Sept 2010.

M. GEVELBER, D. WROBLEWSKI, M. Cannamela, S. BASU, D. Rad-gowski, and M. Tuttle, “Sensor and Control Design Issues for Devel-oping Real-Time Deposition Rate Control for Plasma Spray,” pp 1-8, TuAT6.6, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Proceed-ings, Cambridge MA, Sept 2010.

X. Yan and M. GEVELBER, “Process Dynamics and Control Analysis for Electrospinning Nanofibers,” pp 1-8, WeBT4.1, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Proceedings, Cambridge MA, Sept 2010.

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X. Yan, and M. GEVELBER, “Elecrospinning of Nanofibers: Analysis of Diameter Distribution and Process Dynamics for Control,” Interna-tional symposium on Flexible Automation Conference Proceedings, Tokyo, Japan, July 2010.

M. GEVELBER, D. WROBLEWSKI, M. Canemella, and S. BASU, “Sen-sor Design Issues for Implementation of Real-Time Depsoition Rate Control for Plasma Spray,” 2010 International symposium on Flexible Automation Conference Proceedings, Tokyo, Japan, July 2010.

J. Maunus, S. GRACE, and D. Sondak, “Effect of Rotor Wake Structure on Fan Interaction Noise,” AIAA Paper No. 2010-3746, Aeroacoustics Conference, 2010.

J.D. HOLMES, W.M. CAREY, and J.F. LYNCH, “An overview of un-manned underwater vehicle noise in the low to mid frequencies,” POMA 9 065007, 159th Mtg. of the Acoust. Soc. Am., 2010.

J.R. Sukovich and R.G. HOLT, “Pressure, temperature and dissolved gas dependence of dielectric breakdown in water,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 1984, 2010.

P.A. Anderson and R.G. HOLT, “Temporal evolution of laser-nucleat-ed bubble clouds in an acoustic resonator,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 1985, 2010.

M. Li, and X. LIN, “Catchment basin self-avoiding simulated anneal-ing for global optimization method,” American Physical Society, Port-land, OR, March 2010.

Q. Lu and X. LIN,, “Exciton transfer rate between two neutral textit{trans}-polyacetylene chains,” American Physical Society, Port-land, OR, March 2010.

A. Botelho and X. LIN, “Ab-initio study of polypyrrole as a pervapo-ration membrane,” American Physical Society, Portland, OR, March 2010.

M. Li and X. LIN, “An adapted Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Hamiltonian for conducting polymers,” American Physical Society, Portland, OR, March 2010.

Y. Shin and X. LIN, “New conduction mechanism in doped trans-poly-acetylene through soliton-bipolaron transition,” American Physical Society, Portland, OR, March 2010.

Q. Lu and X. LIN, “The complex band perspective of self-localization in conducting polymers,” American Physical Society, Portland, OR, March 2010.

Y. Shin and X. LIN, “Charge and energy transports via poly-phenyl-acetylene based dendrimers,” American Physical Society, Portland, OR, March 2010.

Y. Shin and X. LIN, “Mobility of self-localized defects in conjugated dendrimers,” American Physical Society, Portland, OR, March 2010.

A. Botelho and X. LIN, “Ab initio study of polypyrrole doped with sul-fonated ions for pervaporation of ethanol-water mixtures,” American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, Aug 2010.

Y. Shin and X. LIN, “Modeling the localization of excitations in poly-phenylacetylene based dendrimers,” American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, Aug 2010.

M. Li and X. LIN, “A 2-dimensional adapted Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model for conducting polymer polypyrrole,” American Chemical Soci-ety, Boston, MA, Aug 2010.

Y. Shin and X. LIN, “Migration mechanism of self-localized defects in conductive polymers,” American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, Aug 2010.

A. Botelho and X. LIN, “Application of the Nudged Elastic Band-method to the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model reveals a new conduc-tionmechanism in trans-polyacetylene,” American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, Aug 2010.

A. Botelho and X. LIN, “Ab initio study of cerium(III) trapping by the Schiff-base complex N,N’-bis[2-(salicylideneamino)ethyl]ethane-1,2-diamine for sensing applications,” American Chemical Society, Bos-ton, MA, Aug 2010.

Q. Lu and X. LIN, “Exciton transfer rate between conjugated polymer chains,” American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, Aug 2010.

A. Botelho and X. LIN, “Ab initio study of polypyrrole doped with sul-fonated ions for pervaporation of ethanol-water mixtures,” American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, Aug 2010.

Q. Lu and X. LIN, “Complex band perspective of defect states in conducting polymers,” American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, Aug 2010.

A. Botelho and X. LIN, “Shrinkage induced self-localized electronic states in trans-polyacetylene,“ Materials Research Society, Boston, MA, Dec 2010.

Y. Shin and X. LIN, “Migration Mechanism of Self-localized Topologi-cal Defects in Conductive Polymers,” Materials Research Society, Bos-ton, MA, Dec 2010.

P. Du, X. LIN, and X. Zhang, “Characterization on the Electrical Prop-erties of PDMS Nanocomposites by Conducting Polymer Nanowires,” Materials Research Society, Boston, MA, Dec 2010.

P. Du, X. LIN, and X. Zhang, “Characterization on the Viscoelastic Property of PDMS in the Frequency Domain,” Materials Research So-ciety, Boston, MA, Dec 2010.

R.T. LUND and W. HAUSER, “Remanufacturing: An American Per-spective,” Green Manufacturing, International Conference on Re-sponsive Manufacturing, University of Nottingham, Ningbo campus, China, 11-13 Jan 2010.

K.R. Bridgeo and J.G. MCDANIEL, “Detecting vibration damping from thermal images,” the Journal of the Acoustical Society of Amer-ica, Vol. 128, No. 4., the Second Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun, Mexico, 17 Nov 2010.

H. Öztürk and J.G. MCDANIEL, “Application of time windowing to spatial maps of damping,” the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 27, No. 3, the 159th ASA Meeting/NOISE-CON 2010, Baltimore, MD, 21 Apr 2010.

Y. Lu, Y. Cao, J.G. MCDANIEL, and M.L. Wang, “Finite element analy-sis of surface wave radiation for pavement debonding,” SPIE Proceed-ings on Nondestructive Characterization for Composite Materials,


Aerospace Engineering, Civil Infrastructure, and Homeland Security, Volume 7649, 8 March 2010.

E.F. MORGAN, B.A. Al-Awadhi, D.E. Hogan, A.I. Hussein, Z. Al-Alq, J. Fitch, B. Andre, L.C. Gerstenfeld, “Vascular development during distraction osteogenesis proceeds by the sequence of arteriogenesis exterior to bone followed by angiogenesis within the bone,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, To-ronto, Sept 2010.

A.I. Hussein, and E.F. MORGAN, “Direct visualization of the initiation and progression of vertebral fractures, “ ASME Summer Bioengineer-ing Conference, Naples, FL, Jun 2010.

P.L. Leong, L.C. Gerstenfeld, and E.F. MORGAN, “Spatial expression of chondrogenic genes and chondrocyte morphology in mechanically stimulated pseudoarthroses,” 6th World Congress on Biomechanics, Singapore, Aug 2010.

S.W. Shore, E.F. MORGAN, A.A. Oberai, and P.E. BARBONE, “Aniso-tropic elasticity imaging of cancellous bone,” 6th World Congress on Biomechanics, Singapore, Aug 2010.

A.I. Hussein, and E.F. MORGAN, “Direct, quantitative visualization of vertebral deformation and failure,” 6th World Congress on Biome-chanics, Singapore, Aug 2010.

E.F. MORGAN, B. Andre, D.E. Hogan, B.A. Al-Awadhi, and L.C. Ger-stenfeld, “Quantitative, 3-D imaging to co-localize bone and vascular tissues during bone healing,” ASME Summer Bioengineering Confer-ence, Naples, FL, Jun 2010.

P.L. Leong, L.N.M Hayward, L.C. Gerstenfeld, and E.F. MORGAN, “Regional expression of cartilage genes in mechanically stimulated pseudoarthroses,” 56th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2010.

A.I. Hussein, H. Kim, and E.F. MORGAN, “The effect of femoral head ischemia on bone strength, microstructure and failure patterns,” 56th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2010.

M. Young, F. Hsu, Z.D. Mason, L.C. Gerstenfeld, E.F. MORGAN, T. Tan-noury, and T.A. Einhorn, “Effect of cyclic parathyroid hormone 1-31 (cPTH) on spine fusion in ovariectomized (OVX) rats,” 56th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2010.

N. Nowlan, K.J. Jepsen, and E.F. MORGAN, “Smaller, weaker, and less stiff bones evolve from changes in lifestyle,” 56th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2010.

G.E. Miller, and E.F. MORGAN, “Use of nanoindentation to deter-mine biphasic material properties of cartilage,” 56th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2010.

L.N.M. Hayward, N. Joshi, L.C. Gerstenfeld, M. Grinstaff, and E.F. MORGAN, “Non-invasive evaluation of cartilage in fracture calluses with a cationic CT contrast agent,” 56th Annual Meeting of the Ortho-paedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2010.

L.N.M. Hayward, and E.F. MORGAN, “Evolution of tissue material properties in a mechanically stimulated bone defect,” 56th Annual

Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society,New Orleans, LA, Feb 2010.

K. Altman, S. Vansickle, E.F. MORGAN, and K.M. Flores, “Microscale uniaxial compression testing of bone tissue specimens,” TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Seattle, WA, Feb 2010.

A.I. Hussein, E.F. MORGAN, and H. Kim, “Early effects of femoral head ischemia on bone structure-function relationships and failure patterns,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Min-eral Research, Toronto, Sept 2010.

R. Grimes, K.J. Jepsen, J. McLean, R. Marsell, J. Fitch, T. Smith, T.A. Ein-horn, E.F. MORGAN, P. Sebastiani, and L.C. Gerstenfeld, “Identifica-tion of coordinated differences in the development of vascular, neu-rogenic, and skeletal tissues during endochondral bone formation of C57/B6 and C3H strains by comparison of the transcriptomes of fracture healing,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Toronto, Sept 2010.

S. Viguet-Carrin, D. Panus, H. Follet, P.D. Delmas, E.F. MORGAN, R. Chapuriat, and M.L. Bouxsein, “Collagen cross-link concentration in-fluences the fatigue behavior of human vertebral trabecular bone,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Re-search, Toronto, Sept 2010.

P. Lai, J.R. McLaughlan, A.B. Draudt, T.W. MURRAY, R.O. CLEVE-LAND, and R.A. ROY, “Acousto-optic monitoring of high-intensity focused ultrasound lesion formation in optically diffuse tissue,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 2039, 2010.

L. Miara, K. Yoon, L. Saraf, U. PAL, and S. GOPALAN, “Oxygen Reduc-tion Reaction in SOFC Cathodes: An Investigation Using Thin Films,” Symposium on Solid State Ionics Devices, Las Vegas, NV, 2010.

Y. Gong, M. Cabodi, and T.M. PORTER, “Pressure-dependent reso-nance frequency for lipid-coated microbubbles at low acoustic pres-sures,” IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, San Diego, CA, 10-14 October 2010.

T. Ta, A. Convertine, P. Stayton, and T.M. PORTER, “Polymer-modi-fied thermosensitive liposomes for controlled delivery of Doxorubi-cin,” 37th Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Controlled Release Society, Portland, OR, 10-14 July 2010.

P. Zhang, and T.M. PORTER, “Effects of vaporized phase-shift nano-emulsion on high-intensity focused ultrasound-mediated heating and lesion formation in gel phantom,” J Acoust Soc Am, Vol. 127, No. 3, 1977, 2010.

A. DeJesus, T.M. PORTER, M. SCHNEIDER, J. Griesbauer, and Böss-inger, “Study of the thermodynamic properties of a lipid monolayer and p(NIPAAm-co-PAA) by use of Langmuir balance trough,” BU Un-dergraduate Research Symposium, October 2010.

A.J. SCHMIDT, R.Murphy, S. Park, S. Yalisove, and A.J. Hart, “Machin-ing and Structural Modification of Carbon Nanotubes Using Ultrafast Laser Irradiation,” MRS Fall Meeting, 2 December 2010.

R.A. ROY, P. Lai, J.R. McLaughlan, A.B. Draudt, R.O. CLEVELAND, and T.W. Murray, “Acousto-optic sensing for the real-time monitoring and feedback control of non-cavitating high-intensity focused ultrasound lesion formation in optically diffuse tissues,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 2416, 2010.

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T. Borogovac, N. Sun, and P. VAKILI, “Control Variates for Sensitivity Estimation,” Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 2624-2641, 5-8 Dec 2010.

X. Tang, and P. VAKILI, “Importance Sampling for Efficient Parametric Simulation,”Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 2666-2677, 5-8 Dec 2010.

E. Butler, H.O. WANG, and J. Burken, “Modeling, Control, and Fail-ure Stabilization of a Modified F-15: A Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Model Based Approach,” Proceedings of the 2010 AIAA Guidance, Naviga-tion, and Control Conference (GNC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2-5 August 2010.

K. Tanaka, H. Ohtake, T. Yamaguchi and H.O. WANG, “Stability Analy-sis of Nonlinear Systems via Multiple Mixed Max-Min based Lyapu-nov Functions,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pp. 2899-2905, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010.

H. Ohtake, K. Tanaka and H.O. WANG, “Fuzzy Model-based Servo Control with Constraints on both of Inputs and States,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, pp.107-110, Yokohama, Japan, 8-19 Sept 2010.

F. Liu, Z.-H. Guan, Y. Li, G. Zhu and H.O. WANG, “Analysis and Control of Bifurcations in TCP Fluid Model,” Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Inter-national Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), pp. 1764-1768, Xiamen, China, 9-11 Jun 2010.

Y.-J. Chen, H. Ohtake, K. Tanaka, W.-J. Wang, H.O. WANG, “Stability Analysis for the Polynomial Fuzzy Systems by Utilizing Equality Con-straints of Sum-of Squares Program,” Proceedings of the 2010 Inter-national Conference on System Science and Engineering, pp. 36-40, Taipei, 1-3 July 2010.

J. Wei, H. Fang, and H.O. WANG, “Consensus of multi-agent system with communication delays by self-delay PD control,” Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCI-CA), pp. 2295 – 2300, Jinan, China, 6-9 July 2010.

F. Liu, Z.-H. Guan, G. Zhu, T. Li, H.O. WANG, “Stability Analysis and Impulsive Control of Bifurcations and Chaos in Fluid Flow Model for TCP/AQM Networks,” Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), pp. 1257-1261, Jinan, China, 6-9 July 2010.

F. Liu, Z.-H. Guan, G. Zhu, and H.O. WANG, “Stability analysis and impulsive control of bifurcations in delayed networks,” Proceedings of the 29th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 559-563, Beijing, China, 29-31 July 2010.

F. Liu, Z.-H. Guan, G. Zhu, and H.O. WANG, “Passive control of chaos in TCP/AQM networks with time delay,” Proceedings of the 29th Chi-nese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 3453-3457, Beijing, China, 29-31 July 2010.

D. WROBLEWSKI, J. Werne, O. Cote, J. Hacker, and R. Dobosy, “Tem-perature and velocity structure functions in the upper troposhere and lower stratosphere from aircraft measurements,” AGU Fall Meet-ing, San Francisco, Dec 2010.

Y. Zou, and K. ZHANG, “The elastic and viscoelastic behaviors of aor-tic elastin network,” BMES Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, 6-9 Oct 2010.

I.-K. Lin, P. Du, K. ZHANG, and X. Zhang, “Mechanical and material characterization of bilayer Microcantilever-based IR detectors,” MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, 29 Nov - 3 Dec 2010.

B. Xu, M.J. Chow, and K. ZHANG, “Elastic and viscoelastic properties of collagen scaffolds,” MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, 29 Nov - 3 Dec 2010.

M.-J. Chow, and K. ZHANG, “Remodeling in arteries as a result of a pulmonary vascular obstruction,” MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, 29 Nov - 3 Dec 2010.

Y. Zou, and K. ZHANG, “Viscoelastic properties of elastin network with solvent effects,” MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, 29 Nov - 3 Dec 2010.

B.C. Kaanta, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Monolithic Micro Gas Chro-matographic Separation Column and Detector,” Proceeding of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Sys-tems (MEMS ‘10), pp. 907-910, Hong Kong, China, 24-28 Jan 2010.

K. Fan, A.C. Strikwerda, H. Tao, W.J.Padilla, R.D. Averitt, and X. ZHANG, “3D Standup Metamaterials with Purely Magnetic Reso-nance at Terahertz Frequencies,” Proceeding of the 23rd IEEE Inter-national Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS ‘10), pp. 843-846, Hong Kong, China, 24-28 Jan 2010.

P. Du, I-K Lin, H. Lu, and X. ZHANG, “Measuring the Young’s Relax-ation Modulus of PDMS Using Stress Relaxation Nanoindentation,” Microelectromechanical Systems--Materials and Devices III, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1222, 1222-DD02-03, 2010.

K-S Ou, I-K Lin, P-H Wu, Z-K Huang, and X. ZHANG, and K-S Chen, “Mechanical Characterization of Atomic Layer Deposited (ALD) Alu-mina for Applications in Corrosive Environments,” Microelectrome-chanical Systems--Materials and Devices III, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1222, 1222-DD02-14, 2010.

I-K Lin, X. ZHANG, and Y. Zhang, “Suppression of Inelastic Deforma-tion in Multilayer Microcantilevers with Nanoscale Coating,” Micro-electromechanical Systems--Materials and Devices III, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1222, 1222-DD02-19, 2010.I-K Lin, P-H Wu, K-S Ou, K-S Chen, and X. ZHANG, “The Tunability in Mechanical Properties and Fracture Toughness of Sputtered Silicon Oxynitride Thin Films for MEMS-Based Infrared Detectors,” Micro-electromechanical Systems--Materials and Devices III, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1222, 1222-DD02-20, 2010.

B.C. Kaanta, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Control and Operation Schemes for Micro-Thermal Conductivity Detectors in Gas Chroma-tography,” Microelectromechanical Systems--Materials and Devices III, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1222, 1222-DD05-20, 2010.

X. Zheng, E. Frohlich, S. Collignon, and X. ZHANG, “A Microfluidic Chip for Analysis of Mechanical Forces Generated During Cell Migra-tion,” Biosurfaces and Biointerfaces, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1236E, 1236-SS05-25, 2010.


H. Tao, A.C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Averitt, “Structurally Reconfigurable Metamaterials at Terahertz Fre-quencies,” Proceeding of the 30th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / International Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Confer-ence (CLEO/QELS ‘10), San Jose, CA, 18-20 May 2010.

K. Fan, A.C. Strikwerda, H. Tao, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Averitt, “3D Stand-up Metamaterials with a Purely Magnetic Resonance at Tera-hertz Frequencies,” Proceeding of the 30th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / International Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS ‘10), San Jose, CA, 18-20 May 2010.

H. Tao, J.J. Amsden, A.C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, D.L. Kaplan, F.G. Omen-etto, R.D. Averitt, and X. ZHANG, “Large Area Spraying of Terahertz Metamaterials on Free-Standing Biocompatible Silk Films,” Techni-cal Digest of IEEE Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop (Hilton Head ‘10), , pp. 138-141, Hilton Head Island, SC, 6-10 Jun 2010.

B.C. Kaanta, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Flow Rate Insensitive Thermal Conductivity Detector,” Technical Digest of IEEE Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop (Hilton Head ‘10), pp. 294-297, Hilton Head Island, SC, 6-10 June2010.

X. Zheng, H.K. Surks, and X. ZHANG, “Sensing Single Cell Contractility Utilizing Moire Frigines,” Technical Digest of IEEE Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop (Hilton Head ‘10), pp. 274-277, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA, 6-10 Jun 2010.

P. Du, X. Zheng, I-K Lin, H. Lu, and X. ZHANG, “Extended Timoshenko Beam Formula for Cellular Contraction Force Calculation,” Proceed-ing of the 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS ‘10), pp. 509-511, Groningen, Netherlands, 3-7 Oct 2010.

X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “A Micro Moire Chip for Automated Whole Field Cell Analysis,” Proceeding of the 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS ‘10), pp. 1625-1627, Groningen, Netherlands, 3-7 Oct 2010.

PATENTS

C.A. DiMarzio, R.A. ROY, T.W. MURRAY, F.J. Blonigen, L. Sui, and G.N. Maguluri, “Enhanced Detection of Acousto-Photonic Emissions in Optically Turbid Media Using a Photo-Refractivew Crystal-Based Detection System,” US Patent No. 7,652,773 B2, issued 26 Jan 2010.

X. Wang, S.W. Anderson, and X. ZHANG, “Microengineered Multi-Spectral Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” Proceed-ing of the 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS ‘10), pp. 1310-1312, Gronin-gen, Netherlands, 3-7 Oct 2010. X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Whole Field Living Cell Mapping Using Dif-fraction Moire Sensor,” Proceeding of the 9th IEEE Sensors Confer-ence (IEEE Sensors ‘10), pp. 1564-1567, Waikoloa, HI, 1-4 Nov 2010.

B.C. Kaanta, A.J. Jonca, H. Chen, and X. ZHANG, “A Novel uThermal Conductivity Detector Capable of Flow Rate Measurements,” Pro-ceeding of the 9th IEEE Sensors Conference (IEEE Sensors ‘10), pp. 2508-2511, Waikoloa, HI, 1-4 November 2010.

X. Wang, S.W. Anderson, and X. ZHANG, “A Novel Contrast Agent for Multispectral Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” Proceeding of the 9th IEEE Sensors Conference (IEEE Sensors ‘10), pp. 1305-1308, Waiko-loa, HI, 1-4 November 2010.

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MICHAEL GEVELBER

CATHERINE KLAPPERICH

ROBIN CLEVELAND, R.GLYNN HOLT, TYRONE PORTER, RON ROY

SEAN ANDERSSON

Advanced Materials Process Control Lab

Biomedical Microdevices and Microenvironments

The primary re-search focus of the Advanced Materials Pro-cess Control Laboratory is to apply a systems-based approach to improving

material processing capabilities. Research projects involve an inte-grated effort of physical modeling, sensor development, system de-sign, and control development.

Current projects include work on plasma deposition for protective coatings, crystal growth for electronic applications, and chemical va-por deposition. An experimental CVD system has been developed for implementing real-time control. A microbalance is used to measure growth rates in situ, and parallel DSP boards are used for data analy-sis and control. Related research includes development of analysis methods for identifying fundamental process constraints, as well as development of advanced sensors and observers to infer the process state.

The Biomedical M i c ro d e v i c e s and Microenvi-ronments labo-ratory is focused on materials research activi-ties in the broad areas of tissue engineering and

biomedical device design. The laboratory is equipped for polymer and hydrogel synthesis, microfluidic device rapid prototyping, fab-rication of tissue engineering scaffold materials, molecular analysis, and tissue culture. It houses a dynamic mechanical analyzer for time and temperature sensitive testing of gel and polymer macroscale me-chanical properties.

This facility is a fully functional laboratory for integrated mechani-cal, chemical, and biological testing of biomaterials. The laboratory is adjacent to the shared bio-micro/nanofabrication center. This clean-room contains a mask aligner, AFM, DekTak Profilometer, e-beam evaporator, and a spin coater. The lab also maintains a Hysitron Tribo-scope Nanoindentation Instrument located in the Low Vibration Area of the Photonics Center. Laboratory projects include experiments and modeling of the contact problem for nanoscale probes on soft hy-drated biomaterials, cell-biomaterial interactions in tissue engineer-ing materials, and diagnostic microfluidic device design.

Biomedical Ultrasonics Lab

This laboratory is equipped for wet and dry experiments supporting a broad spectrum of ultra-sound research, includ-ing nonlinear acoustics, bubble-related physical and biomedical acoustics, therapeutic ultrasound, acoustic cavitation, and

transduction. There are two fully instrumented ultrasonic scan tanks with computer-controlled positioners. One is for research into high-intensity-focused ultrasound for surgery and the other contains a peizo-electric array with 170 elements capable of generating intense shock waves for research in lithotripsy. The lab has a scanning acous-tic microscope (SAM) that can employ ultrasound pulses with fre-quencies up to 150 MHz for imaging samples. The lab is well stocked with general-purpose test and measurement equipment such as function generators, multimeters, power amplifiers, preamps, analog and digital oscilloscopes. The lab is equipped with a full-size fume hood, a water purification system, and various instruments for fluid and biomaterial control, processing, and measurement.

Control in Nanoscale Systems

Andersson’s research group uses this facility to develop and apply new techniques for the study of dynamics in nanoscale systems. Advanced sys-tems and control meth-ods are used to design and analyze algorithms which offer extremely

high spatial and temporal resolution. The target systems lie primar-ily in the realm of single molecules and molecular systems. The lab includes an optical microscope, a nanopositioning stage, a homebuilt confocal microscope, and laser excitation sources.

Fabrication LabJOE ESTANO

The Fabrication Laboratory helps support the overall research mis-sion of the department by fabricating instrumentation and compo-nents for research use. Currently, the major machinery in the labo-ratory consists of 3 Sharp end mills with CNC control systems, two Sharp lathes, a band saw, drill presses, a table saw, a grinder and sander, and miscellaneous hand tools. The laboratory occupies 1305 sq. ft. in two adjacent rooms. Its operation is under the supervision of the department’s laboratory supervisor and laboratory engineer.

RESEARCH LABORATORIES

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SRIKANTH GOPALANGreen Manufacturing Lab

Research in the Green Manufacturing Labo-ratory focuses on en-vironmentally benign power generation tech-nologies such as solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). They explore the mate-rial science and elec-trochemistry of SOFCs

using tools such as impedance spectroscopy, galvanostats and po-tentiostats. Studies in this lab include measurement of the rates of charge transfer reactions that occur at the interfaces of solid state electrochemical devices, exploration of new materials and processes and modeling of the transport phenomena that occur in such devic-es. In this lab, research is also conducted on ceramic gas separation membranes for the separation of industrially important gases such as oxygen and hydrogen.

Ongoing projects conducted in close collaboration with industrial partners include the development of electrode and electrolyte ma-terials for lower operating temperature SOFCs and the development of mixed ionic and electronic conducting materials for separation of hydrogen. The laboratory is equipped with a Perkin Elmer 263 A Potentiostat/Galvanostat used for characterization of electrochemi-cal systems such as fuel cells, ceramic gas separation membranes, batteries and sensors, a Horiba 910 particle size analyzer capable of obtaining particle size distributions of powders in the range of 0.01 microns to 1 mm using light scattering technique, a Solartron 1255 Frequency Response Analyzer (FRA) used for AC impedance spectros-copy, high temperature furnaces that can operate up to 1700˚C, and a Spex 8000 mill capable of producing sub-micron particles for use in solid state electrodes by high-energy ball milling in a very short period of time.

High Temperature Materials Processing LabUDAY PAL

The High Temperature Materials Processing Laboratory is completely equipped for studying most high-temperature chemical and elec-trochemical processes involving metals and ceramics. It includes several high-temperature furnaces, residual gas analyzers, CO/CO2 analyzers, potentiostats, impedance analyzers, state-of-the-art ther-mogravimetric Cahn Balance, high precision power supplies capable of operating under constant current/voltage mode, viscometers, state-of-the-art data acquisition systems, powder processing facility, and fuel cell test stations.

The laboratory currently supports the following research programs: green electrochemical synthesis of high-energy content metals such as magnesium, titanium, calcium, and tantalum, novel materials pro-cessing for hydrogen storage, membrane technology for hydrogen production and separation, hybrid one-step processing of solid oxide fuel cells, and materials for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells.

High Temperature Oxidation LabSOUMENDRA BASU

The research focus is to investigate high-temperature oxidation be-havior of materials by exposing metal and ceramic samples to cor-rosive atmospheres containing oxygen and sulfur at elevated tem-peratures up to 1,600˚C. The laboratory is equipped with a Cahn (thermogravimetric) balance and a Mettler microbalance for weight gain measurements, as well as an apparatus for oxidation in O–18 atmospheres, in order to determine oxidation mechanisms.

Hybrid and Networked Systems (HyNeSs) LabCALIN BELTA

Belta’s research group is interested in phenomena that occur when continu-ous dynamics, described by systems of differential equations, are combined with discrete dynamics, modelled as automata or state transition graphs. Such systems are called

hybrid, and examples range from man-made systems such as mobile robots, to naturally occurring systems such as biochemical networks, where the continuous dynamics of metabolic processes is regulated by the logic of gene expression. The approach to the analysis and control of such systems combines concepts and tools from com-puter science and control theory. The current application areas are networked mobile robotics, swarming, gene networks, and genome scale metabolic analysis.

Intelligent MechatronicsJOHN BAILLIEUL

The mission of the Lab-oratory for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (LIMS), formerly called the BU Robotics Lab, is to understand the design and integration of novel sensing and actuation technologies for a wide variety of control applica-

tions. The Lab is particularly interested in active materials exploiting electrostrictive and magnetostrictive effects, as well as the rapidly growing variety of silicon-based microelectro-mechanical (MEMs) devices. Incorporating these into actuator and sensor arrays, the LIMS studies mechatronic systems in which global dynamical effects are achieved through the aggregation of distributed parallel local ac-tions. Control of pattern formation in multiagent systems in which band limited communication channels mediate real-time data-flow between sensor and actuator arrays is central to the research. Appli-cations of interest include fluid structure interactions, robotic system interactions with fluids and elastic solids, microelectromechanisms, rotating shafts, and turbine dynamics.


Laser Acoustics LabRONALD A. ROY

Professor Ronald A. Roy’s Laser Acoustics Laboratory supports research in the nondestructive characterization of conventional and biological materials. Current research projects include the de-velopment of acousto-optic imag-ing systems for the detection of abnormalities deep within biologi-cal tissues, the study of light and sound interaction with nanopar-ticles with potential applications in tissue imaging and therapy, and the development of full-field tech-niques for the characterization of arrays of nanostructures. The laboratory houses a variety of ul-

trasonic imaging and optical equipment.

Lab for Microsystems TechnologyXIN ZHANG

The Laboratory for Microsys-tems Technol-ogy (LMST) is dedicated to in-terdisciplinary re-search in the de-sign, fabrication, characterization, packaging, and operation of Mi-

croelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS). They perform research on MEMS and NEMS. Spe-cifically, the group is interested in applying materials science, micro/nanomechanics, and micro/nanomanufacturing technologies to solve various engineering problems that are motivated by practical applica-tions in MEMS/NEMS and emerging nanobiotechnologies. LMST is a Class 1000 cleanroom that provides resources for the design, fabrica-tion, characterization, and testing of MEMS/NEMS devices. LMST is also a general biochemistry laboratory that has a strong collaboration with the Boston University School of Medicine.

Materials Theory LabXI LIN

The Materials Theory Group seeks to understand the prop-erty of materials via model-ing and simulation. The Group makes functional materials devices following theoretical predictions in the Materials Theory Laboratory.

Nanomedicine and Medical Acoustics LabTYRONE PORTER

The Nanomedicine and Medical Acous-tics Laboratory aims at studying the in-teraction between ultrasound, tissue, and biomaterials and developing new ultrasound tech-nologies for medical applications. Re-search thrusts in the Nanomedicine and

Medical Acoustics Lab include the development of temperature- and pressure-sensitive drug carriers, the formulation and characteriza-tion of monodisperse ultrasound contrast agents, and the design of systems to monitor and control bubble-enhanced ultrasound thermal ablation of solid tumors.

Microscopy LabSOUMENDRA BASU

The Microscopy Laboratory is dedicated to the preparation of elec-tron transparent specimens for observation in the Transmission Elec-tron Microscope (TEM). The specimens have to be reduced to a thick-ness on the order of 100Å in order to study atomic arrangements by high resolution TEM. Equipment available for this purpose includes a GATAN dimpler and ion-mill, as well as precision grinding and pol-ishing apparatus. The laboratory is also equipped with a darkroom, capable of processing TEM negatives and prints.

Multiscale Tissue Biomechanics LabKATHERINE YANGHANG ZHANG

In the Multiscale Tissue Biomechan-ics Lab, K. Zhang’s research group integrates knowl-edge of biology, nonlinear solid me-chanics, and finite element modeling, especially of com-plex materials and constitutive behav-ior. Through the research, the lab

provides insights in understanding the relationship between micro-scopic biological processes and changes in macroscopic tissue me-chanics due to diseases, and helps the development of diagnostic, therapeutic, and pharmaceutical techniques. The Multiscale Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory was established in 2006 and includes a fully equipped wet lab and computational facilities for characterization and modeling of the mechanical behavior of soft biological tissues and composites at multi-scale.

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Nanoscale Engineering LabKAMIL EKINCI

The Nanoscale Engineering Labo-ratory is used to fabricate nano-meter scale semiconductor me-chanical devices using electron beam lithography, plasma, and wet etching techniques. After fabrication, various state-of-the-art characterization techniques are employed to study the physi-cal processes dominant in these nanomechanical devices. Among the fundamental phenomena studied are dissipation, fluctua-tions, and surface effects at the nanometer length scales. The practical aspects of this research involve the design and fabrica-tion of ultra-high-speed nano-

mechanical sensors and development of surface nano-engineering techniques for improved device characteristics.

Orthopaedic and Developmental Biomechanics LabELISE MORGAN

Morgan’s research group uses experimental and computational methods to explore the relationships between structure and me-chanical function of biological tissues at multiple length scales in the Orthopaedic and Developmental Biomechanics Lab. Current research projects include quantification of physiological loading conditions, 3-D visualization and prediction of spine fractures, and the effects of mechanical stimulation on joint and articular cartilage development.The laboratory houses a biaxial (axial-torsional) servohydraulic mate-rials testing system with a variety of extensometers and load cells, a miniature torsional testing system, two micro-computed tomography systems, a multi-channel signal conditional and amplification system, an X-ray cabinet, and various cutting tools including a sledge micro-tome and low-speed wafering saw.

Physical Acoustics LabR. GLYNN HOLT

The interaction of sound with fluids, especially those with free surfaces, is at the heart of the work in the Physical Acoustics Lab. The coupling of sound to interfa-cial motion leads to a variety of

interesting phenomena involving free surfaces, bubbles and drops. Many of these phenomena have surprising practical applications.

In one externally funded project, the group is investigating the col-lective collapse of cavitation clusters in high-static-pressure liquids. High-power pulsed laser beam arrays are utilized to control cluster nucleation and investigate the onset of collective bubble effects in high-pressure spherical resonators. Understanding the physics of collective cluster collapse will lead to applications involving high-temperature and high-pressure reactions.

In another project, in collaboration with a biomedical device com-pany, ultrasonic acoustic levitation is being used as a technique for investigating the rheology of blood clots. The uniqueness of this non-contact method allows the determination of the intrin-sic strength of clots as a function of a variety of control factors, in turn allowing medical device designers to more effectively break up clots. Two other projects are investigating the unique properties of acoustically-driven nonlinear parametric instability waves known as Faraday waves. These waves spontaneously form patterns, and effi-ciently focus vibrational energy at a free surface. Efforts are directed at investigating pattern freezing as an alternative to traditional time-consuming approaches, and towards understanding Faraday waves in periodic structures.

Powder Metallurgy & X-ray LabVINOD SARIN

The Powder Metallurgy & X-ray Laboratory is equipped to batch, process, and densify a wide variety of materials. Particle size reduc-tion and uniform mixing are essential in any powder preparation. In addition to a 500cc capacity attritor mill for processing small pow-der batches, an extensive selection of ball mill sizes and a variety of milling media, including silicon nitride and titanium carbide, are available. Dies and presses for powder compaction and component development have been established. Consolidation and sintering capabilities include vacuum, over pressure, and hot pressing up to 25,000 KgF and temperatures in excess of 2,400˚C. These capabilities make the powder processing laboratory uniquely equipped for de-veloping high temperature monolithic and composite materials. The laboratory is also equipped with a Bruker D8 Focus diffractometer with independent theta and two theta axis with copper radiation. This unit extends the laboratory’s capability to perform single crys-tal back reflection Laue studies for crystal orientation. The standard detector is the scintillation counter, with high dynamic range and low internal background. In addition, several Debye Scherrer powder cameras are available.

Nano Heat Transfer LabAARON SCHMIDT

The Nano Heat Transfer Lab is focused on nanoscale heat transfer, ultrafast thermal measurements, and laser-material interaction. The focus is on the development and application of optical instruments to study and manipulate energy in solids and liquids from the atomic scale up to the macroscale. Applications include development of new materials, solid-state energy conversion, thermal management, new imaging technolgies, and furthering the fundamental understanding of nanoscale transport phenomena.


WILLIAM CAREY, ROBIN CLEVELAND, R.GLYNN HOLT, RAYMOND NA-GEM, RONALD A. ROY

J.GREGORY McDANIEL

Precision Engineering LabTOM BIFANO

The Precision Engineering Re-search Laboratory (PERL) is home to an active program in Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS) research. In MEMS, the tools that emerged from the semiconductor manufac-turing revolution are employed to design and build electronic, mechanical, and optical devices whose dimensions are measured in nanometers and micrometers. Like their microelectronic coun-terparts, MEMS devices can be made extremely small and in great numbers economically. The research program at PERL focus-

es on Optical MEMS systems—electromechanical devices to improve the performance of imaging and communication systems. One of the more successful outcomes of this research has been the design, fab-rication, and testing of a new class of micromirror array that can be used to improve the resolution of microscopes, telescopes, and bio-medical instruments.

Two specific types of these devices, developed at the University—MEMS deformable mirrors and MEMS spatial light modulators—have been incorporated into test-beds worldwide to exploit this new tech-nology. The work on optical MEMS includes design, manufacturing, and testing of these devices. PERL is housed in the Photonics Center, where world-class facilities for modeling, producing, and measuring optical MEMS devices are available.

Shock Wave LabROBIN CLEVELAND

The Shock Wave Laboratory houses a number of shock wave sources for research into lithotripsy (breaking of kidney stones) and shock wave therapy (the treatment of musculoskeletal pain). There are two electrohydraulic (spark based source) lithotripters: one is a research device which allows control over various aspects of the shock wave and the second is a clinical device complete with fluoroscopic imag-ing. The lab is also home to two shock wave therapy (SWT) devices for research into the use of shock waves to treat soft-tissue injury. Acoustical and optical cavitation detection systems are used to sense bubble activity generated by shock waves. There is a high-pressure chamber with acoustically transparent windows that is equipped with acoustic and optical ports to allow for the study of shock wave interaction with stones under pressure.

The laboratory also houses the Drop Physics Module, an acoustic levitation apparatus that flew on the Space Shuttle in the Space-lab module during the missions STS-50 (First United States Micro-gravity Laboratory, USML-1) and STS-73 (USML-2). The apparatus enabled the study of drop dynamics and surface rheology in micro-gravity. This apparatus is currently being refurbished and will be used for studies of the dynamic rheology of foams.

Undergraduate Machining LabBOB SJOSTROM

This lab is used to prototype manufacturing projects, and provides fundamental engineering research support. The lab emphasizes modern processing machinery and manufacturing aids such as com-puter-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM). This lab is used for demonstration and projects in several manufac-turing courses for carrying out milling, cutting, and drilling of differ-ent materials. This state-of-the-art shop is equipped with a HAAS VF2 Vertical Machining Center, 2 Sharp 1224 Vertical Machining Centers, an OKUMA LB 15 CNC 12 Station Turret Lathe, a FANUC TAPE CUT W0 Wire EDM, a HARDINGE HLV-H Toolroom Lathe, a Sharp SG618 Surface Grinder, 2 BRIDGEPORT vertical mills, a LEBLOND 16” engine lathe, 3 BRIDGEPORT Series I-CNC vertical mills w/Anilam Controls, a GROB vertical band saw, a CLAUSING-COLCHESTER 15” engine lathe, a KEARNEY TRECKER horizontal mill, and a RUEMELIN sand blaster. The lab also has 2 computer stations using Virtual Gibbs Cad Cam, Delcam’s ArtCam, and Solid Works software.

Underwater Sound and Ultrasound Lab

The focus of this laboratory is the propagation of sound in natural bodies of water. Facilities include a wet lab testing facility as well as various instrumentation for sound generation, detection, and propa-gation experiments. The lab also contains 2 workstations for com-putational modeling. In addition to lab and computational efforts, at-sea research projects are under way through collaborations with other regional facilities.

Facilities include a large-water-filled, ultrasound scan tank (with pre-cision positioners, supporting computers and acoustic-electronic instrumentation) for general-purpose ultrasound research and two diagnostic ultrasound scanners for biomedical imaging research. The SNS work features an acoustic resonator designed for detecting free gas bubbles in flowing mercury and a laser cavitation system for generating reproducible bubble cloud collapse near boundaries un-der well-controlled aqueous conditions. Cloud collapse diagnostics include high-speed photography, acoustic emission measurements, and boundary surface vibrations measured using a laser Doppler vi-brometer.

Vibrations Lab

The Vibrations Labo-ratory offers a full suite of sensors, in-strumentation, and software necessary to research the vi-brations of complex structures and tech-nologies that reduce vibration and noise. One area of current

interest is the spatial mapping of energy removal by damping treat-ments in order to better design damping treatments for complex structures. Another area is the mitigation of automotive brake squeal.

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Center for BioDynamics (CBD)

The Center for Biodynam-ics (CBD) is a multidisci-plinary, interdepartmental center, which strives to advance training and re-search between dynamical

systems, biology, and engineering. The CBD trains undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in leading techniques from these disciplines. The CBD emphasizes the integration of re-search and education, as well as the vertical integration of students and mentors at all levels within Boston University. Training is often done through involvement in cross-disciplinary collaborations and co-mentored projects.

Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation

The Fraunhofer USA Cen-ter for Manufacturing In-novation (FHCMI) provides product development as-sistance and manufactur-

ing solutions to local and international industry. They work with their-clients to develop new technologies, improve current manufacturing operations and, based on their global view, benchmark against the world’s best practices. Their unique ability to access a global research base and their own vast experience give their clients an unparalleled advantage.

Fraunhofer has been bridging the gap between academic research and industrial needs for more than 50 years. It is Europe’s largest R&D organization spanning over fifty locations across Europe, Asia and North America; and includes an annual client base of more than three thousand corporations.

The model is very simple: Fraunhofer Institutes work with industry and universities to scale up cutting edge research into real working technologies on an industrial time table. Their engineering leads to the development of advanced machinery and processes for a variety of applications. These range from submicron precision assembly for the photonics, biotech and semiconductor industries, to high volume manufacture of consumer products.

Photonics Center To help industry bridge the gap between basic research and practical application, Boston University launched

the Photonics Center in 1994 with $29 million in seed funding from the federal government. The center is now forging true business part-nerships in which companies draw on the University’s exceptional expertise and resources in engineering, science, medicine, and man-agement to build actual product prototypes and spawn a growing stream of new companies.

The Photonics Center is a bold new model for university-industry col-laboration. It has been established to work directly with investors and

industrial partners to turn emerging concepts in photonics technol-ogy into commercial products. The Center is staffed and equipped to help industry partners reduce the technical and financial risk involved in developing new ideas, refining them in laboratory, building work-ing prototypes, and starting up companies. To date the Center has forged joint ventures with a numerous companies to develop new products in data storage, environmental monitoring, optoelectronics, and biotechnology.

Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)

The Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imag-ing Systems is a multi-university National Science Foundation En-gineering Research Center (NSF-ERC) founded in 2000. Its mission is to develop new technologies to detect hidden objects—and to use those technologies to meet real world subsurface challenges

in areas as diverse as noninvasive breast cancer detection and un-derground pollution assessment. The center’s multidisciplinary ap-proach combines expertise in wave physics (photonics, ultrasonics, electromagnetics), multisensor fusion, image processing, and 3D CAT-scan-like reconstruction and visualization. The Gordon Center operates with the speed and agility more typical of a results-driven private company than of an academic institution, consistent with the needs of its industrial and government partners. With its commit-ment to leveraging technology transfer to spur economic develop-ment, the Gordon Center is intended to be a national model for the fusion of academic research and private-sector collaboration.

Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE)

The Center for Infor-mation and Systems Engineering pro-vides a home across

departments for faculty and students interested in information and systems engineering methodologies and their relevance to applica-tion domains encompassing the analysis, design, and management of complex systems. Information and systems engineering research at Boston University is strong and accomplished but also spreads across departments, colleges and schools within the University. In 2002, the Trustees approved the new CISE in order to foster greater interactions among researchers speaking the same technical language across di-verse application domains. Currently, there are 30 affiliated faculty from the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics and Statistics, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Management and the Division of Systems Engineering. Current focal application domains include: Automation, robotics and control; Communications and networking; Computational Biology; Information Sciences; Production, Service Systems, and Supply Chains.

AFFIL IATED RESEARCH CENTERS


Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology

Nanoscience and nanotechnology re-search and develop-

ment are leading a revolution in basic materials science and engi-neering. New advancements with designed functionality are poised to enable a huge range of applications in everything from developing fundamental building blocks in the electronics, photonics, and ma-terials sectors, to sensors, biomimetic and biocompatible platforms throughout the biomedical and health sectors.

The strength of Boston University’s efforts in interdisciplinary nano-science and nanotechnology form an axis that begins in basic ma-terials science, surface science, physics, chemistry, and engineering, extending into molecular and cellular biology, biophysics, and the technologies of microfluidics, MEMS, and onto manufacturing. The strengths are in developing and using nanotechnology advances in materials and platforms with our capabilities in biomedical engineer-ing to focus on applications in understanding subcellular processes, biomolecular function and human physiology.

The new Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology was estab-lished to advance academic and technological research and devel-opment in nanoscience and nanobiotechnology. The Center serves as a hub for nanoscience researchers from the Charles River and Medical Campuses and builds activities that develop interdisciplinary research and training. The Center connects scientists from disparate disciplines with each other in seminars, meetings, joint visitor pro-grams and seeded projects to enhance the development of interdis-ciplinary nanoscale research. The Center leads large, interdisciplinary proposal development and runs funded programs for both research and training, as well as supporting individual researchers in their ef-forts by linking them with resources throughout the University and beyond. The Center also builds linkages between the research and technological commercialization resources at BU including the Pho-tonics Center, the Technology Commercialization Institute, and the Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation and with external partners and industrial affiliates.

Photonics Center at Boston University

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DATE SPEAKER TITLE

9.3.10 Mechanical Engineering FacultyDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBoston University

Sampled snapshots of research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

9.10.10 Calin BeltaDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBoston University

Formal approaches to motion planning and control

9.17.10 Xin ZhangDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBoston University

Spying on cells: polymeric micro/nanosystem for cel-lular force measurements

9.24.10 J. Gregory McDanielDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBoston University

Biologically inspired sensing in acoustics and vibrations

10.8.10 Mark L. KachanovDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringTufts University

Micromechanics of heterogeneous materials and the interconnections between their material properties

10.15.10 Uriel FrischThe National Center For Scientific Research (CNRS)France

The extended self-similarity procedure for turbulence and its potential applications

10.22.10 Melik DemirelEngineering Science and MechanicsThe Pennsylvania State University

Bio-inspired nano-coatings for medical and renewable energy applications

10.29.10 Katepalli R. SreenivasanDepartment of PhysicsNew York University

Some cool stuff at cold temperatures

11.5.10 R. Glynn HoltDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBoston University

Laser-nucleated, shock-controlled bubble cloud dy-namics in a high-pressure spherical resonator

11.12.10 Daniel ColeDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBoston University

Electromechanical bending of carbon nanotube fabric for logic and memory applications

11.19.10 Cara LewisCollege of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesBoston University

Using a robotic hip exoskeleton for gait modification

12.3.10 Andrew Norris, Felsen LectureMechanical and Aerospace EngineeringRutgers University

Cloaking of acoustic and elastic waves

12.10.10 Joseph KlewickiMechanical Engineering DepartmentUniversity of New Hampshire

On the hierarchical structure of turbulent wall-flows

1.21.11 Clifford GoudeyResolute Marine

Fusion of fisheries, aquaculture, and ocean-based re-newable energy

1.28.11 Ufuk TopcuCalifornia Institute of Technology

Building robust and sustainable systems: Synthesis of embedded control protocols

1.31.11 Austin MinnichMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Exploring heat transfer at the nanoscale in thermoelec-tric materials

2.3.11 Liangbing HuStanford University

One dimensional nanomaterial networks for energy conversion and storage

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DATE SPEAKER TITLE

2.4.11 Ken VisserClarkson University

The DAWT: A Niche wind turbine or just another pass-ing fancy

2.10.11 Meredith SilbersteinMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Micromechanics of polymer electrolyte membranes in low temperature fuel cells

2.11.11 Karen A. TholeMechanical and Nuclear Engineering DepartmentThe Pennsylvania State University

Evolution of turbine vane endwalls

2.18.11 Ketan SavlaMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Control policies for dynamical queues and flow net-works

2.25.11 Fumin ZhangGeorgia Institute of Technology

Bio-inspired exploration and marine autonomy

3.4.11 Mac SchwagerUniversity of Pennsylvania

Multi-robot systems for monitoring and controlling large scale systems

3.7.11 Yun Young KimNorthwestern University

Ordered self-assembly of nanopatterns on thin-films

3.11.11 Nader MoteeCalifornia Institute of Technology

Structural properties of spatially distributed dynamical systems

3.21.11 Chuanhua DuanBerkeley

Enhanced ion transport in nanoscale

3.22.11 Yonggang HuangNorthwestern University

Mechanics of stretchable electronics

3.28.11 M.-Reza AlamMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Bragg resonance of water waves and ocean renewable energy

3.31.11 Emily RyanPacific Northwest National Laboratory

Sustainable energy, fueling the future: Numerical mod-eling of reactive transport in energy systems

4.4.11 Daniel AttingerColumbia University

Multiscale engineering of solid-liquid interfaces

4.15.11 Harold ParkDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBoston University

Atomistic and multiscale modeling of mechanical and electromechanical phenomena in crystalline nano-structures

4.21.11 Michael ChertkovLos Alamos National Laboratories

Intermittency in fluid flow and power flows

4.22.11 Sean AnderssonDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBoston University

Studying dynamics in nanometer-scale systems through tracking

4.29.11 Katherine ZhangDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBoston University

The importance of elastin to the mechanics of artery

5.13.11 Tyrone PorterDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBoston University

Acoustic stimulation of colloids for diagnostic and therapeutic applications

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Since 2003, The Merrill L. Ebner Fund has been used to support a number of activities, all centered around the key aim to encourage educational activities in engineering involving creative design and commercialization. Roger and Sandra Dorf of Austin, Texas, estab-lished the financial basis of this initial fund, to which others have con-tinued to contribute. Prof. Merrill Ebner designed the main activities and uses of the Fund, which will be discussed below. Since the Spring of 2008, when Prof. Ebner passed away, the Merrill Ebner Fund Com-mittee has continued to organize and direct this work.

The committee for the present academic year included:

STORMY ATTAWAY Co-Chair

DANIEL COLE Co-Chair

WILLIAM HAUSER

BRUCE JORDAN

J. GREGORY MCDANIEL

RONALD ROY

XIN ZHANG

Within the Fund are two distinct sub-funds. The “Endowed Fund” re-ceives contributions from which the accumulated interest is available for use. Contributions to the “Current Use Fund” are available for use immediately upon receipt. The Merrill Ebner Fund Committee pro-vides oversight for both Funds.

Activities of the Fund, which impact both the undergraduate and graduate programs, are in some cases fully financed by the Fund. In other cases the Fund leverages its alumni and corporate contribu-tions by providing start-up funds for a project. The Fund continues to be primarily used to encourage creative design and commercializa-tion within Mechanical Engineering, with emphasis on manufactur-ing operations.

The Ebner Endowed Fund received $150 and the Current Use Fund received $2200 this fiscal year. As of July 1, 2011, the total cumu-lative cash contributions (current principal) in the Endowed Fund is $127,958. This will generate $5438 in annual income which will be added to the Current Use Fund, which had $5889 in balance, for a total of $11,327 in anticipated total usable income.

One of the first major activities at the undergraduate level of the Endowed Fund was the establishment of an annual Undergraduate Design Portfolio Contest. The contest was started in the spring of 2005, and has been held annually since then. In the past, this design competition was open to all sophomores and juniors in the College of Engineering, with the intention of encouraging all engineering students to develop their design portfolios early in their college ca-reer. Since 2010, the contest has been opened to undergraduates at all levels. Judging procedures that were established in 2005 state that every year a Portfolio Review Jury is to be designated consisting minimally of the Chair (or Co-chair) of the Ebner Fund Committee, a member of the design faculty, a senior engineering student, an engi-neering alumna or alumnus and the Mechanical Engineering Depart-ment Chairman or his or her designee. This year the jury consisted of:

STORMY ATTAWAY Co-Chair of Ebner Fund Committee

DANIEL COLE Design Faculty

JOSEPH SHIFRIN 2009 winner, Senior Eng Student

CHARLIE LISSANDRELLO BU Engineering Alumnus

WILLIAM HAUSER Chair Designee

In order to encourage student participation in the contest, at least one Portfolio Workshop has also been held every year. At these workshops students and alumni exhibit their portfolios; the intention is to provide lower division engineering students with an idea of what reasonably complete portfolios look like. This year, Prof. Cole held three different workshops. The first was held in conjunction with the Department Open House in November 2010; this was set up as an informal set of displays that students could drop by, hopefully pique their interest, and ask questions. More structured workshops with speakers, demonstrations, and Q&A, were then held in December 2010 and early February 2011. The last one generated our highest interest to date, with standing room only in Room 245.

The jury decides on the contest winners. The prizes given were of the following amounts: $500 for the best senior portfolio, $400 for the best junior portfolio, $250 for the best sophomore portfolio, $100 for the best freshman portfolio, and $500 for the best overall portfolio; these were awarded during the Department’s end-of-year luncheon with students on May 6, 2011. This year’s winners were:

Best Senior (tie): ANA PELUCARTE MFG11 YIN LIN ME11

Best Junior: IAN SCHON ME12

Best Sophomore: SAMIR AHMED EE13

Best Freshman: JONATHAN MANCINI Undecided14

Best Overall (tie): ANA PELUCARTE and YIN LIN

MERRIL L . EBNER FUND

BACKGROUND DESIGN PORTFOLIO CONTEST

FUND STATUS


The fourth annual “Graduate Thesis with the Greatest Commercial Potential,” award competition was held this year. Any M.S. or Ph.D. thesis produced by a student in the Department of Mechanical Engi-neering was eligible to be considered for this award. The total award for winning this juried competition is $3,000, paid from the Ebner Endowed Fund. The award is split evenly between the author(s) of the winning thesis and the faculty advisor for the thesis, to be used in support of the faculty advisor’s laboratory.

The nomination process that was established requires that the Facul-ty Adviser must nominate the student/thesis to be considered by the jury. In this process, the faculty advisor writes a single-page letter of nomination for the thesis, including a discussion on the commercial potential of the thesis and any other helpful background on the the-sis work to help facilitate judging. The thesis and nominating letter are then reviewed by a jury consisting of a chair and knowledgeable people chosen from the faculty and industry. In the past, the jury has included at least two faculty members, at least two people from industry, and often a BU alumnus.

This year the jury ended up being smaller than usual for a number of reasons, although the number of applicants was actually higher. The former aspect will need to be addressed next year. Fortunately, how-ever, regarding the applications, the quality of the submitted theses was felt to be quite high by the jury. All had very good to excellent potential commercial applicability, combined with excellent research efforts.

The Jury for the 2011 Award consisted of two faculty members from BU and three people outside of BU, but with considerable experience in one or more of the following: entrepreneurship, technology devel-opment in industry, intellectual assets.

VINOD SARIN Professor at BU in ME Dept., Chair

TOM BIFANO Professor at BU in ME Dept.

ARTHUR L. FOX MSEE MIT

IBRAHIM HALLAJ PhD University of Washington

DON YANSEN PhD MIT

Professor Sarin formed the above jury, accumulated the theses, and with the jury made the selection.

The winning thesis, which was nominated by his thesis adviser Prof. Xin Zhang, was written by BRDLEY KAANTA . The title of his thesis was, “MEMS Thermal Conductivity Sensor with Flow Rate Detection and Invariance for Gas Chromatography Systems.” The industry col-laborator on this project, Schlumberger, is in the process of incor-porating Bradley’s research into analytical equipment for resource exploration. This work has generated both publications and patents.

Also at the graduate level, a company-designated, “Design Fellow-ship,” has been established through the Current Use Fund. The structure of this Design Fellowship has been set up as a 16-month experience leading to a Master’s degree. Design intensity is pro-vided in the program by four elements: (1) graduate course work with special emphasis on the M.S. program option in Sensors and Instruments, (2) paid design assignments for 20-30 hours per week at the sponsoring company, (3) participation with a faculty design mentor providing an opportunity for the student to enhance the design and computation component in a senior or graduate course (referred to here as a “design practicum”), and (4) an M.S. thesis with a design thrust.

Tuition costs are shared between the College of Engineering and the sponsoring company and a book stipend is provided. All fellowship payments to Boston University on behalf of the sponsoring company are paid through the fund as the sponsor of the fellowship program. Since 2005, The Raytheon Company has been the primary supporter of Design Fellows.

A number of Raytheon Fellows have completed their M.S. degrees in this way. However, due to a number of changes in BU programs, included the introduction of the MEng program, the need to change the required credits for these fellows, this program was delayed until next year. Kirstie Miller, our new Director of Professional Edu-cation & Corporate Relations, has begun negotiating a new program for Raytheon Fellows, that should work well in future years, and that may well serve as a template for adding other companies who would like to be involved.

Thus, the Merrill L. Ebner Fund continues to increase the design and commercialization emphasis in activities of interest to mechanical and manufacturing engineering. It is expected that its influence will continue to evolve and grow in future years.

The junior winner Ian Schon (l.), with the senior and overall co-winners Ana Pelucarte (m.) and Yin Lin (r.)

GRADUATE THESIS AWARD WITH THE GREATEST COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL

DESIGN FELLOWSHIP

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