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Name
Qtr
Type
Faculty
Chair
Title
Sebastijanovic,
Neb
W'08 PhD Yang Monitoring and Restabilizing Structures under External Excitations through Detection and Prediction of Changes in Structural Properties
Selvam,
Balakrishnan
W'08 PhD Meiburg Stability of Miscrible Core-Annular Flows with
Viscosity Stratification
Cunningham,
Nicholas
W'08 MS Odette Determining Processing Variable Effects on Nano-Particle Distribution in Nanostructured Ferritic Alloys
Sevier,
Michael
F'07 PhD Yang A Finite Element Approach to Predicting Deformation Field Parameters in Plane Strain Machining
Soni, Gaurav F'07 MS Meinhart Nonlinear Effects in Induced-Charge Electroosmosis
Ding,
Changsong
M'07 PhD MacDonald Bulk Titanium for MEMS Switches
Purvis, Keith M'07 PhD Khammash Cooperative Control and Estimation for Multiple Agents with Strongly Coupled Tasks
Siddavaram,
Vikram
M'07 PhD Homsy The Effects of Gravity Modulation on Fluid
Xu, Xiumei M'07 PhD Homsy Electrohydrodynamic Flow and Chaotic Mixing Inside Drops
Gao, Chunkai M'07 MS Bullo Averaging Algorithms and Coverage Control
Helgadottir,
Asdis
M'07 MS Beltz Cracking in thin films with stress graidnets grown on substrates
Horst, Allison M'07 MS Holden Effects of Hexavalent uranium and nanoparticulate TIO2 on pseudomonas Putida
Pommer, Matthew S'07 PhD Meinhart Fluid Manipulations on Cells
Spier, Christopher S'07 PhD Bruch Analytic and Finite Element Solutions for Active Vibration Control of a Cantilever Beam Using Piezoceramic Sensor and Actuator Patches
Yang, Li S'07 PhD Homsy Interfacial Flow inside Microgeometries Theories, Simulations, and Experiments
Du Chene, Antoine S'07 MS Gibou High Resolution Computations of Curvatures in a Level Set Method Framework
Durham, Joseph S'07 MS Moehlis Controlling Canards Using Ideas from the Theory of Mixed-Mode Oscillations
Birman, Vineet W'07 PhD Meiburg Topics in Gravity an Turbidity Current Research
John, Thomas W'07 PhD Mezic Reaction, Transport and Mixing in low Reynolds number flows
Feldman, Hope W'07 MS Meinhart AC Electrothermal Enhancement of Heterogeneous assays in microfluidics
Schmitt, Chris W'07 MS Bamieh Rijke Tube Identification
Weibin, Zhang F'06 PhD Turner Energy Dissipations in MEMS Resonators: Fluid Damping of the Flexural Resonator and Thermoelastic Damping
Gramlich, Carolyn M'06 PhD Homsy Some Interfacial Creeping Flows
Requa, Michael M'06 PhD Turner Parametric Resonance in Microcantilevers with Applications in Mass Sensing
Srivastava, Abhishek M'06 PhD Turner  
Vanaparthy, Surya Harith M'06 PhD Meiburg Variable Density and Viscosity, Miscible Flows in Capillary Tubes
Zhang, Weibin M'06 PhD Turner Energy Dissipations in MEMS Resonators: Fluid Damping of Flexural Resonators and Thermoelastic Damping
Zhu, Yuqiao M'06 PhD Kedward Stress Analysis and Failure Prediction for Adhesively Bonded Joints
DeMille, Brandon S'06 MS Kedward Resonant Frequency Manipulations in Anisotropic Plates with Circular Clamped Boundary Conditions
Hsu, Kathryn S'06 MS Evans Design and Optimization of Actively cooled Panels for Pressure Containment
Fardad, Makan S'06 PhD Bamieh The Analysis of Distributed Spatially Periodic Systems
Goyal, Nisheet S'06 PhD Meiburg Interfacial Instabilities of Miscible Fluids in a Hele-Shaw Cell
Parker, Emily S'06 PhD MacDonald Bulk Micromachined Titanium Microneedles for Minamally Invasive Drug Delivery
Singh, Amarendra S'06 MS Soh Towards a Micro Total Analysis System by Integrating Continuous Magnetic Cell Sorting and On-chip Polymerase Chain Reaction
Turney, Damon S'06 MS Holden A Novel Method of Imaging Flow Tracers for an Air-Water Interface
Ayktlug, Erkut W'06 MS Khammash Convex Optimization of Metallic Sandwich Panels
Bradford, Stephen W'06 MS Meinhart Numerical Simulation of Conductivity Gradient-Induced Electrokinetic Flow Instabilities
Chen, Liguo W'06 MS Clarke A Level-Set Based Sharp Interface Method for the Multiphase Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Phase Change
Mathew, George W'06 PhD Petzold Control of Mixing in Fluid Flows and Applications to Microfluidic Mixing
Zhang, Yanting W'06 PhD MacDonald Titanium as a BioMems Material: A DEP Study
Gray, Harry Michael F'05 PhD Meinhart Methodology for Determining Influence of Soft Surface Layers in Porous Solids on Compressive Behavior: Application to NASA’s Lightweight Ceramic Ablator
Grivopolous, Symeon F'05 PhD Bamieh Optimal Control of Quantum Systems
Lam, Johnny F'05 PhD MacDonald Active Suppression of Panel Flutter Using Feedback Control
Liu, Xiaojun F'05 PhD Meinhart Reducing Viscous Losses in Microchannels using Modified Surfaces
Luo, Xuan (Gloria) F'05 PhD Lick Sediment-Water Flux of Hydrophobic Organic Chemicals due to Molecular Diffusion ad Bioturbation
Stone, Shannon F'05 PhD Meinhart Velocity Analysis of Surface/Fluid Interactions in Microfluidic Devices
Yu, Fengling F'05 PhD Bennett The Nondestructive Evaluation of Thermal Barrier Coatings: Measurements of Thermal Properties and Associated Defects
Banicevic, Paul M'05 MS Soh Toward the Detection of Blood- and Food-borne Pathogens via On-Chip Polymerase Chain Reaction and Electornic DNA Detection
Callaghan, Lori M'05 PhD MacDonald Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Beam- Supported Aluminum Nitride Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators
Kaplan, Annie M'05 PhD McMeeking Design of High Performance Ultra-High-Frequency Micro-Electro-Mechanical Resonators Array
Kim, Lina M'05 MS Moehlis Transient Growth for a Sinusoidal Shear Flow Model
Livnajic, Zoran M'05 MS Mezic Ergodic Partition Theory and Visualization of Invariant Sets and Resonances in Discrete Dynamical Systems
Schauss, Mike M'05 MS Paden Neural Oscillator Identification via Phase-Locking Behavior
Feraboli, Paolo S'05 PhD Kedward A New Composite Structure Impact Performance Assessment Program
Zhao, Jian W'04 PhD Bennett Thermophysical and Optical Investigations of CO2 Laser Beam Interaction with Silica Glass and PMMA
Ranaweera, Aruna 2000
2004
MS
PhD
Dahleh
Bamieh
Investigations with Optical Tweezers: Construction, Identification, and Control
Dohlie-Evanson, Thomas W'04 MS Khammash Design Issues Resulting from the Hardware Implementation of Advanced Control Algorithms
Purvis, Keith W'04 MS Khammash Using Unmanned Air Vehicle Teams Engaged in Cooperative Deception for Estimation of Radar Positions
Napoli, Maria W'04 PhD Bamieh / Turner Modeling and Control of Electrostatically Actuated Microantilever Arrays
Lee, Byeong Ha W'04 MS Matthys Characterization of Mechanical Degradation effects on the drag-reducing behavior of polymer solutions
Hall, Kimbal S'04 MS Matthys The Applicability of Marine Algal Biopolymers as Drag-Reducing Activities
Klein, Kerry S'04 MS Kedward Systematic Modeling of One-Dimensional Truss Structures Utilizing the Distributed Transfer Function Method
Wang, Dazhi S'04 PhD Meinhart Investigation of AC Electrokinetics Using m-PIV
Srivastava, Abhishek S'04 MS Turner Design of a MEMS Accelerometer for a Low Cost Inertial Navigation System
Priester, John M'04 MS Holden Ruthenium Red Based Staining Enhancement of Pseudomonas Aeruginesa Biofilms Examined with Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy
Zhang, Wenhua M'04 PhD Turner Nonlinear Dynamics of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Oscillators and the Application in Mass Sensing
Callaghan, Lori M'04 MS MacDonald Micro processing Techniques for Aluminum Nitride Acoustic Resonators with Plate and Beam Geometrics
Buoni, Matt M'04 MS Banerjee Numerical Simulations of Two Phase Fluid Flow with Long Range Surface Forces
Dogan, Liyakat M'04 MS Paden Chaos Experiment - Simulation of the Bouncing Ball Apparatus
Dwivedi, Vinay M'04 MS Banerjee Phase-Field Modeling of Visoelastic Fluid and Brittle Materials.
El Samad, Hana M'04 PhD Khammash  
Flores, Shane M'04 MS Evans Analytic Simulation and Optimization of Sandwich Beams Subject to Shock Loading
Jovanovic, Mihailo M'04 PhD Bammieh Distributed Control of Systems of Lattices
Nausieda, Anton M'04 MS Evans The Passive Load Capacity of Kagome Truss Panels
Nave, JC M'04 PhD Banerjee Direct Numerical Simulation of Liquid Films
Palsak, Tim M'04 MS MacDonald Simulation of High Performance Digital Micromirror Device with Sloping Electrode Geometry
Ranaweera, Aruna M'04 PhD Bammieh Investigations with Optical Tweezers: Construction, Identification, and Control
Smith, Walter M'04 MS Banerjee Wind-driven surface Turbulence Characterization: Methods Development and Results
Vaidya, Umesh M'04 PhD Mezic Analyssis and Control of Invariant Structure in Volume-preserving Systems
Garten, Matt F'04 MS Turner Aluminum Nitride Acoustic Wave Sensors for Bacteria Detection in Liquids
Riaz, Amir
(Stanford, Post-Doc)
S'03 PhD Meiburg Three-dimensional Miscible, Porous Media Displacements for the Quarter Five-Spot Configuration
Di Carlo, Anthony S'03 PhD Yang Assessing Mechanical Properties From Cone Indentation Hardness
Baskaram, Rajashree
(Intel, Packing Research Group)
S'03 PhD Turner Mechanical domain coupled mode parametric resonance and amplification in torsional mode Micro Electro Mechanical Oscillator
Ma,
Tian-Wei (David)
S'03 PhD Yang Adaptive Feedback-Feedforward Control and Sensor Fault Accommodation via Neural Networks for Seismically Loaded Infrastructures
Zhang, Yanting S'03 MS MacDonald Microchannel Networks for High Resolution optical Detection of Biomaterials
Ding, Changsong S'03 MS MacDonald Motor Preparation and Multilevel Nano-wire Fabrication
Riley, Anton S'03 MS MacDonald Analog Micro Mirror Device
Kayacik, Ozcan Sep 2003 MS Bruch Piezoelectric Vibration Control
Shi, Jian F'03 MS Turner Characterization and Q-Control of Micro-Cantilevers
Ward, III, Thomas F'03 PhD Homsy Electrohydrodynamically Driven Chaotic Advection Inside a Translating Loop
Keihl, Lisa F'03 MS Mahowald Mineral Aerosols and Cloud Interactions
Karlsson, Niklas S'02 PhD Bamieh & Åstrom Constructive Methods for Nonlinear Control of Finite and Infinite Dimensional Systems
Rathbun, Howard S'02 PhD Odette Size Effects on Fracture Toughness for Cleavage Initiation in the Ductile to Brittle Transition
Chang, Margherita 1998 2002 MS
PhD
Beltz Multi-Scale Multi-Plane Model for Stacking Fault abd Twinning Formation in BCC Iron
Hagen, Greg W'01 PhD Mezic Large Scale Flow Phenomena in Axial Compressors: Modeling, Analysis and Control with Air Injectors
Tracy, Gregory W'01 PhD Kedward Characterization of the Properties of a Stitched Hybrid Composite Laminate
Daniele, Andrew 1999 2001 MS
PhD
Dahleh
Bamieh
Position Sensing and Control of Piezoelectric Tubes for the Atomic Force Microscope
Farrelly, Mark W'01 MS Bennett A Process for Forming Microsystem Optical Interconnects Using A CO2 Laser
Betz, David S'01 PhD Mezic Physical Mechanisms of Mixing
Morse, Nancy W'00 PhD Smith Fundamental Robustness and Performance Limits for Unstable Systems; Application to Magnetic Bearings
Sears, Kerry W'00 MS Lick The Sorption and Interactive Effects of Benzene and Toluene in Suspended Sediment
Fischer, William S'00 MS Beltz Strain Fields in Self-Assembled Quantum-Dot Lattices: A Finite-Element Study
Volpert, Marion S'00 MS Meinhart Analysis of An Actively Controlled Micromixer
Yang, Hongyuan S'00 MS Bennett Accommodation Coefficient-Experimental Measurements and Numerical DSMC Studies of its Effects on Gas Flows
Brown, Aaron 1997
2000
MS
PhD
Yang Multi-Objective Civil Structural Control Incorporating Neural Networks
Ghosh, Jayati F'00 PhD Paden Tracking of Periodic Trajectories in Nonlinear Plants
Jones, Craig 1997 2000 MS
PhD
Lick An Accurate Model of Sediment Transport
Li, Lei F'00 PhD Bennett Laser Surface Modification of Silicate Glass
Lu, Yang F'00 MS Meinhart Combination of Micro-Particle Image Velocimetry and Atomic Force Microscopy
Nguyen, Vu F'00 PhD Kedward Nonlinear Modeling of Tubular Adhesive Scarf Joints Loaded in Tension
Fischer, Lisa 1996 1999 MS
PhD
Beltz The Mechanics of Crack Blunting at the Atomic Scale
Dal Bello, Dominic S'96 MS Leckie Transverse Response of SCS6/Ti-15-3 Under Constant and Cyclic High Temperature Excursions
Gong, Xiao-Yan S'96 PhD Suo Analysis of Cracking in Ceramic Multilayer Actuators
Gurevitch, Douglas S'90 MS Nakamura Optimal Force Control Using Linearized Friction Cone Constraints

 


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