Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Student Progress: Exams, Papers, Special Events, Job Opportunities

Sheng Wang completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

November2

Candidate: Sheng Wang

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Olivier Desjardins (chair), Paul Steen, David Bindel

Time and Place: Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, 10:30 a.m., 106 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Towards Large-Scale Simulations of Two-Phase Flows with Moving Contact Lines

Jordan Chipka completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

October8

Candidate: Jordan Chipka

Candidate’s Field: Aerospace Engineering

Committee: Mark Campbell (chair), Hadas Kress-Gazit, Bart Selman

Time and Place: Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, 2:00 p.m., 106 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Estimation and Navigation Methods with Limited
Information for Autonomous Urban Driving

 

Quanxing Lu completes M.S. exam

October8

Candidate:  Quanxing Lu

Candidate’s Field:  Mechanical Engineering

Committee:  Silvia Ferrari (Chair), Douglas MacMartin

Time and Place:  Monday, October 1, 2018, 9:00 a.m., 531 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  A POMDP Approach to Underwater Robot Path Planning for Multiview Multi-target Classification

Matthew Walsh completed admission to Ph.D. candidacy

September25

Candidate:  Matthew Walsh

Candidate’s Field:  Mechanical Engineering

Committee:  Mason Peck (Chair), Dmitry Savransky, Ross
Knepper

Time and Place:  Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 331 Upson Hall

Title:  Toward General Orbital Rendezvous

Duhan Zhang completed admission to Ph.D. candidacy

September6

Candidate:  Duhan Zhang

Candidate’s Field:  Mechanical Engineering

Committee:  Robert Shepherd (Chair), Lynden Archer, Christopher Ober, Carla Gomes

Time and Place:  Thursday, August 30, 2018, 3:00 p.m., 431 Upson Hall

Title:  Zinc Electrodeposition in Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polymer Aqueous Electrolyte

Kyle Wellmerling completed admission to Ph.D. candidacy

September4

Candidate:  Kyle Wellmerling

Candidate’s Field:  Mechanical Engineering

Committee:  Brian Kirby (Chair), Ankur Singh, Benjamin Cosgrove

Time and Place:  Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 383 Kimball Hall

Title:  Removal of Teratoma-forming Cells from Human-induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Neural Progenitor Cells

Ashish Newale completed admission to Ph.D. candidacy

September4

Candidate:  Ashish Newale

Candidate’s Field:  Mechanical Engineering

Committee:  Perrine Pepiot (Chair), Olivier Desjardins, Stephen Pope

Time and Place:  Friday, August 17, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 531 Upson Hall

Title:  An Improved Pre-Partitioned Adaptive Chemistry (PPAC) Methodology for Efficient Particle PDF Computations

Yu-Chern (Chad) Wong completes M.S. exam

August9

Candidate:  Yu-Chern (Chad) Wong

Candidate’s Field:  Mechanical Engineering

Committee:  Christopher Hernandez (Chair), Chung-Yuen Hui

Time and Place:  Thursday, Aug 2, 2018, 12:00 p.m., 431 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Stress Analysis of Bacteria Submitted to Extrusion Loading

Matthew Mosquera completed admission to Ph.D. candidacy

August7

Candidate:  Matthew Mosquera

Candidate’s Field:  Mechanical Engineering

Committee:  Ankur Singh (Chair), Ilana Brito, David Putnam

Time and Place:  Monday, July 30, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 383 Kimball Hall

Title:  Biomaterials-based Immunomodulation in Metabolic Syndrome Models

Alexander Ivanov completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

August7

Candidate: Alexander Ivanov

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Mark Campbell (chair), Alexander Vladimirsky, Silvia Ferrari, Hadas Kress-Gazit

Time and Place: Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 531 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Guaranteed Robotic Planning and Exploration in Unknown Environments

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