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RESEARCH AND SPECIAL
AWARDS |
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Profs. Eli Fromm
and Adam Fontecchio received the National
Science Foundation GK-12 grant of $615,523 for
FY 2006 with a total of $1,847,998 expected by
the end of FY 2008 for the project entitled,
"Track 1, GK-12: Engineering as a Contextual
Vehicle for Science and Mathematics
Education." This project will be under the
direction of Eli Fromm (ECE), Adam K.
Fontecchio (ECE), Mary Jo Grdina
(School of Education), Mun Young Choi
(MEM) and William F. Lynch (School of
Education). This program will provide
fellowships for outstanding graduate students
who are interested in broadening their
educational experiences while pursuing their
engineering degrees at Drexel University.
Joanne Ferroni (MEM Director of Outreach)
prepared this successful proposal and assists in
every aspect of MEM's outreach activities. |
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Tein-Min Tan (PI), Alan Lau (Co-PI),
Jonathan Awerbuch (Co-PI) were recently
awarded an FAA contract entitled, “An Analytical
and Experimental Study of Widespread Fatigue
Damage in Aircraft Fuselage”. This project
involves experimental and computational
investigations of crack propagation and methods
to mitigate damage. The budget for this 3-year
project is $644,000 and will work to further
enhance the collaboration with FAA that had
started by this investigation team. |
| A.J.
Drexel Plasma Institute has just received
two new grants on Hydrogen production- one of
the important research directions of the
Institute. One of the grants is from the Florida
Institute of Phosphate Research and entitled,
“Hydrogen Production by H2S Decomposition in
Plasma” and the second one is from W2 Company
entitled, “Hydrogen Production by Plasma
Conversion of Biomass”. The combined budget for
these grants is $360K for 1.5 years. Prof.
Alex Fridman (MEM) will serve as the PI and
Dr. Alex Gutsol as the co-PI. |
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Prof. Sorin
Siegler (PI) received an R21 grant from NIH.
The grant entitled, “Skeletal Development of
Clubfoot Treatment,” focuses on a non-operative
serial casting procedure used to correct
congenital infant clubfoot deformity (Ponseti
Technique). This 2 year grant with a budget of
$405,000 is a collaborative effort that will
also involve Thomas Jefferson University,
University of Pennsylvania, and Royal Columbian
Hospital of Canada as subcontractors to Drexel. |
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The MEM Department
is proud to announce that two of our staff
members have been chosen as Drexel Salutes award
recipients! Kathie Donahue, MEM Office
Manager, and Mark Shiber, Director of the
Machine Shop, were selected for the award based
upon their outstanding service to students and
the department. Congratulations! |
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PRESENTATIONS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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Dr. Moses Noh
was the keynote speaker at the Drexel
Collaborative Research Forum on March 14th
entitled, "Microfluidics: Plumbing for
Bio-Applications." |
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Jonathan
Nagel, an undergrad in the School of Biomed
and
student of Dr. Moses Noh, presented a
paper entitled "Magnetically
Actuated
Micropumps Using an Fe-PDMS Composite Membrane"
at the SPIE Smart Materials, Nano- and
Micro-Smart Systems Conference on March 1st. |
| MEM graduate
students Abubaker Ahmed and Bao
Mosinyi presented their research at the 9th
Joint FAA/DOD/NASA Conference on Aging Aircraft
in Atlanta, GA during March 6-9. The Aging
Aircraft conference is an annual gathering of
people in the commercial and military aviation
industry including manufacturers, regulators,
operators, and academia. Sponsored by the FAA,
more than 1000 people attended this year's
conference. Presented research topics focused on
structures, corrosion, NDI, and electrical
systems. |
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Dr. Wei Sun,
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and Mechanics (MEM), was invited to conduct a
tutorial lecture on “Computer-Aided Tissue
Engineering” at the Computer-Aided
Design/Computer Graphics 2005 International at
the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Hong Kong, China, December 7, 2005.
He was also invited to conduct a seminar on
“Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering” at the Joint
Chapter of Robotics and Automation and Control
Systems, IEEE Hong Kong Section, Department of
Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong, on December 8,
2005. |
| Dr. Paul Oh,
MEM Assistant Professor, and a group of his
graduate and undergraduate students presented
papers and posters at the 2nd Annual ASME/AIAA
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Symposium
on Feb. 11th in Plymouth Meeting, PA. MEM
students included Bill Green, Vefa Narli,
Shrey Shah, Blake Rubin and Vivian
Premakumar. |
| Dr. Paul
Oh spoke at The Capitol Hill Steering
Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare
Informatics session held on February 22,
2006. The discussion consisted of the
lessons learned from recent natural
disasters and how the available monitoring
systems can be used in emergencies. Dr. Oh
spoke about the development of manned and
unmanned systems to handle disaster
preparedness. |
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Dr. Paul Oh was the Guest Co-Editor
for the IEEE Robotics and Automation
Magazine Special Issue entitled, "Software
Packages for Vision-Based Control of
Motion," in the December 2005 issue. |
| Dr. Howie
Pearlman and Michael Foster, MEM
graduate student, presented
"Diffusion-Controlled Cool Flame Propagation
Speeds" at the 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences
Meeting and Exhibit in Reno, NV. The
conference ran from Jan. 9-12, 2006. |
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Dr. Paul Oh attended the IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and
Automation Program Committee Meeting in
December 2005 in Orlando. |
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MEM
Assistant Professor, Dr. Brad Layton,
was an invited speaker at the Army
Research Laboratory: “Nanometrology and
Micrometrology of Cells, Organelles and
Proteins Under Mechanical and
Environmental Challenge” in December,
2005. |
| MEM
Research Professor and GLOBE Principal
Investigator Dr. David Brooks,
traveled recently to Trinidad as a guest
of the GLOBE Program in Trinidad and
Tobago. He participated in two teacher
training workshops, held 14-16 December,
2005, on the larger of the two main
islands that comprise the southernmost
country in the Caribbean island chain.
Dr. Brooks is providing GLOBE sun
photometers for schools in Trinidad and
Tobago, as part of a major expansion of
this country's GLOBE program. |
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Dr. Brad Layton
has two provisional patents granted and
in submission:
“A Pontoon Rowing Boat
for Children” (provisional patent,
November 29, 2005)
“An Integrated Atomic
Force Microscopy Nanomanipulation
Platform” (provisional patent, November
29, 2005) |
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Michael
Foster, a graduate student in MEM,
working in the area of low-temperature
combustion presented a paper "An
existing global heptane mechanism
augmented with diffusive transport," at
the Eastern States Section of the
Combustion Institute at the University
of Central Florida. This work is
supported by NASA. |
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Dr. Wei
Sun, Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics,
organized a Symposium “Advances on
Biomanufacturing” at the 2005 ASME
International Mechanical Engineering
Conference and Exposition in Orlando,
Florida, USA, November 5-12, 2005. Dr.
Sun was also an invited panelist for a
“Rapid Prototyping” panel at the 2005
ASME International Mechanical
Engineering Conference and Exposition in
Orlando, Florida, USA, November 11, 2005
and was invited for a seminar
presentation on “Computer-Aided Tissue
Engineering” at the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Purdue
University at West Lafayette, Indiana,
November 22, 2005. |
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