Candidate: Sasank Vemulapati
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: David Erickson (Chair), Saurabh Mehta, Ankur Singh
Time and Place: Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 12:00 p.m., 331 Upson Hall
Title: Advancing Diagnostic Technologies at the Point-of-Need
Candidate: Zhengda Lu
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: David Erickson (Chair), Saurabh Mehta, Tanzeem Choudhury
Time and Place: Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 2:30 p.m., 431 Upson Hall
Title: Rapid Diagnostic Testing for Iron and Vitamin A Deficiency
Candidate: Scott Hamill
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Hadas Kress-Gazit (Chair), Ross Knepper, Robert Shepherd
Time and Place: Tuesday, November 21, 2017, 3:00 p.m., 531 Upson Hall
Title: Gait Synthesis and Resilience Planning for Walking Soft Robots
Candidate: Katherine Polhemus
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Brian Kirby (Chair), Jefferson Tester, Emmanuel Giannelis
Time and Place: Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 1:30 p.m., 2159 Snee Hall
Title: A novel Microfluidic Device to Assess the Potential of Hairy Nanoparticles as a Sensor and a Surfactant in Oil Recovery
Candidate: Chris Budrow
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Matthew Miller (Chair), Paul Dawson, Christopher Earls
Time and Place: Friday, November 3, 2017, 2:00 p.m., 531 Upson Hall
Title: Design of an Optimized Residual Stress Measurement Technique for Energy Dispersive Diffraction
Candidate: Frances Zhu
Candidate’s Field: Aerospace Engineering
Committee: Mason Peck (Chair), Hadas Kress-Gazit, Silvia Ferrari
Time and Place: Thursday, October 26, 2017, 2:00 p.m., 531 Upson Hall
Title: Flux-Pinned Interfaces for Close-Proximity, High-Precision Spaceflight
Operations
Candidate: Jay Young
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Charles Williamson (Chair), Olivier Desjardins, Edwin Cowen
Time and Place: Thursday, October 12, 2017, 2:00 p.m., 531 Upson Hall
Title: A Cyber-Physical Approach to Airfoil Propulsion
Candidate: Sarah Morriw
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Charles Williamson (Chair), Olivier Desjardins, Edwin Cowen
Time and Place: Thursday, September 21, 2017, 2:00 p.m., 531 Upson Hall
Candidate: Hanwen Lu
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Abraham Stroock (Chair), Brian Kirby, Poul Petersen
Time and Place: Friday, September 8, 2017, 1:30 p.m., 274 Olin Hall
Candidate: Harris Bang
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Daniel Selva (Chair), Guy Hoffman, So-Yeon Yoon
Time and Place: Wednesday, August 16, 2017, 9:00 a.m., 178 Rhodes Hall