Candidate: Julia Chen
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Marjolein van der Meulen (Chair), Christopher Hernandez, Derek Warner
Time and Place: Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 1:30 p.m., 106 Upson Hall
Dissertation Title: Alterations in Bone Tissue Properties with Parathyroid Hormone Treatment
Candidate: Jonathan Puder
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Amit Lal (Chair), Clifford Pollock, David Erickson, and Ronald Polcawich
Time and Place: Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 11:30 a.m., 254 Duffield Hall
Dissertation Title: The Rapid Analytical-FEA Technique for Reduced Simulation Times of Piezoelectric MEMS Resonators
Candidate: Fnu Apoorva
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Ankur Singh (Chair), Brian Kirby, Robert Shepherd, Lynden Archer
Time and Place: Friday, August 11, 2017, 11:00 a.m., 383 Kimball Hall
Dissertation Title: Engineered Technologies to Study the Role of Mechanical Signals in Human Lymphoma Growth and Therapeutic Response
Candidate: Amy Engelbrecht-Wiggans
Candidate’s Field: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Committee: Leigh Phoenix (Chair), Gennady Samorodnitsky, Meredith Silberstein
Time and Place: Monday, August 7, 2017, 2:00 p.m., 201 Thurston Hall
Dissertation Title: Analysis and Test Strategies for Stress Rupture in
Unidirectional Continuous Fiber Composite Structures
Candidate: Mark Obstalecki
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Matthew Miller (Chair), Paul Dawson, Leigh Phoenix
Time and Place: Wednesday, July 26, 2017, 10:00 a.m., 178 Rhodes Hall
Dissertation Title: Understanding Fatigue through High Energy X-ray Diffraction Studies
Candidate: Mohamed Houssem Kasbaoui
Candidate’s Field: Aerospace Engineering
Committee: Donald Koch (Chair), Olivier Desjardins, Paul Steen
Time and Place: Monday, July 24, 2017, 1:30 p.m., 178 Rhodes Hall
Dissertation Title: Clustering of Heavy Inertial Aerosols in Sheared Flows
Candidate: Meenakshi Sundaram Manivannan
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Meredith Silberstein (Chair), Herbert Hui, Derek Warner
Time and Place: Friday, July 14, 2017, 2:00 p.m., 204 Thurston Hall
Dissertation Title: Multiscale Modeling and Design of Mechanochemically Active Interfaces
Candidate: Henry Chu
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Roseanna Zia (Chair), Donald Koch, Brian Kirby
Time and Place: Friday, July 07, 2017, 2:00 p.m., 274 Olin Hall
Dissertation Title: The Non-equilibrium Microrheology of Hydrodynamically Interacting Colloids: Toward a Non-equilibrium Stokes-Einstein Relation
Candidate: Tunc Ertan
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Mark Psiaki (Chair), Mark Campbell, David Hysell
Time and Place: Monday, June 26, 2017, 3:00 p.m., 178 Rhodes Hall
Dissertation Title: Contributions to Global and Regional Radionavigation Robustness
Candidate: Yuhao Xu
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: C. Thomas Avedisian (Chair), Max Zhang, Perrine Pepiot
Time and Place: Monday, June 12, 2017, 1:30 p.m., 178 Rhodes Hall
Dissertation Title: Combustion Dynamics of Bio-Derived, Surrogate, and Transportation Fuel Systems