Congratulations to the 2010 Engineering Graduate Symposium Award Recipients from the Mechanical Engineering Department:
II. Symposium Theme Award
1st: Chiao-Ting Li, ME, “Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle Charging Control on the Electricity Grid”
2nd: Daniel Opila, ME, “Wind farm reactive support and voltage control”
III. Technical Session Award
Design, Manufacturing, Automotive, and Marine Engineering
1st: WonHee Kim, ME, “A design method for shape memory alloy actuators accounting for cyclic shakedown with constrained allowable strain”
MEMS and Microfluidics
2nd: Sameh Tawfick, ME, “Design and fabrication of 3D carbon nanotube microarchitectures”
Thermodynamics, Fluids, Vibrations, and Acoustics
1st: Janardhan Kodavasal, ME, “An Energy-Based Multi-Zone Combustion Model for PCI simulation”
2nd: Mehdi Abarham, ME, “Experimental Investigations of Nano-particulate Deposition in Turbulent Channel Flows”