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PRESENTATIONS, AWARDS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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Dr. Brad Layton
(MEM),
an invited speaker at the Drexel University GPBA
Bio-Nanotechnology Symposium, presented “An
update of the micromanipulation and
nanomanipulation capabilities at Drexel
University” in July 2005. |
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Senior Design Brings Honors to MEM Teams-
Drexel University's College of Engineering
hosted the Senior Design Competition on June 1,
2005. The Department of Mechanical Engineering
& Mechanics was well represented with five teams
receiving Honorable Mentions in both Senior and
Freshmen Design as well. |
MEM Grad
Student Announced as a 2005 Business Plan
Competition Winner-6/14/05
Andrew Darling, MEM PhD candidate, a finalist of
the 2005 Business Plan Competition, came in
third place to win a cash award of $4,000.
Hosted by the Laurence A. Baida Center for
Entrepreneurship in Technology, six finalists
competed to win cash awards and presented at the
2005 Entrepreneur Conference, held on May 26.
Darling, with the aid of his advisor, Dr. Wei
Sun (MEM), presented his work "Biostrut:
Practical Tissue Engineering Applications" at
the competition. |
MEM’s
Formula SAE Team Finishes Strong in Detroit–
6/18/05
Drexel University students again show
off the diversity of their skills by
competing in the 25th annual Formula SAE
competition in Detroit Michigan from May
18th to the 21st. Highlights for Drexel's
Formula SAE team this year include a 3rd
place finish in the acceleration event, a
2nd place for the design of the engine
cooling system for the car along with a
first place award for the quietest car. For
the overall competition, Drexel's team
finished with a respectable 21st place out
of 140 other schools from around the world. |
Dr.
Paul Oh Invited to Demo at 2005 WTEC
International Study of Robotics Workshop-6/23/05
MEM associate professor Dr. Paul Oh was one
of very few in the nation to be invited to
demonstrate at the 2005 World Technology
Evaluation Center (WTEC) Workshop on the
International Study of Robotics. The free
workshop will be held on September 16, 2005
at the National Science Foundation's (NSF)
headquarters' in Arlington, VA. Dr. Oh will
be demonstrating aerial robots designed for
near-Earth environments, such as flying
caves and tunnels. |
| Dr. Wei
Sun, Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Mechanics, was featured in
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) magazine, Mechanical Engineering,
cover story, “Life, meet Engineering” in the
July 2005 issue (vol. 127, No.7). In this
article, Drexel’s research on BioCAD has
been reported as “… on the forefront of
research that aims to introduce proven
mechanical engineering technologies to
bioengineers who seek to grow new tissues
and, perhaps one day, entire organs”. This
is the second article in last two months to
report Drexel’s research in developing and
applying enabling technologies for
biological and tissue engineering, after
“Machining the Body”, a feature article
reported by The Scientists on May 9 issue
(The Scientists, Vol. 19, Issue 9, May 9,
2005 http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/features/lifemeet/lifemeet.html
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| Dr. Wei
Sun, Associate Professor in the MEM
Department, co-organized an International
Workshop on Biomanufacturing at Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China from June 29-
July 1, 2005. Sponsored by NSF, Chinese NSF
and Chinese Society of Mechanical
Engineering, this workshop brought together
multi-disciplinary researchers to review an
emerging field of biomanufacturing and its
applications to biomedical and tissue
engineering. The workshop sought to identify
synergies between engineering
design/manufacturing and life sciences and
its challenges and opportunities for future
research and development. The invited
workshop participants and presenters
included leading researchers from MIT,
Harvard, Stanford, UC-Berkley, U. Mich.,
UT-Austin, Drexel, etc., as well as
representatives from NSF and NIH. Dr.
Selcuk Güçeri, Dean of the College of
Engineering, conducted an invited
presentation at the workshop as well as
Dr. Sun. Detailed information about the
workshop can be found at:
http://www.mem.drexel.edu/biomanufacturing/ |
| Dr.
Jaydev P. Desai, James Hing, and
Dr. Ari Brooks have been invited to
present their work titled: Reality-based
Estimation of Needle and Soft-tissue
Interaction for Accurate Haptic Feedback in
Prostate Brachytherapy Simulation at the
12th International Symposium of Robotics
Research (ISRR) in San Francisco, CA from
October 12-15, 2005. ISRR is a single-track
premier conference in Robotics held every
two years. |
| Dr.
Jaydev P. Desai has been elected to
serve as a member of the Program Committee
for the Haptics Symposium for a three year
period. The Haptics Symposium is a premiere
conference in the area of haptic interfaces
for virtual environment and teleoperator
systems. The three-year term will end in
2008. |
| Dr.
Bakhtier Farouk, J. Harland Billings
professor in Mechanical Engineering &
Mechanics, organized a technical session on
"Computational Acoustics and Thermoacoustics'
at the 2005 ASME Heat Transfer Conference
held at San Francisco, California. Farouk
presented two papers at the conference,
'Experimental and Numerical Study of
Acoustic Streaming in a Cylindrical
Enclosure’, coauthored with Yiqiang Lin,
MEM Ph. D. candidate , and 'Numerical
Simulation of Piston Effect in Supercritical
Carbon Dioxide' coauthored with Zhiheng
Lei, MEM Ph. D. candidate, and Elaine
S. Oran, senior scientist, Naval
Research laboratories, Washington, DC.
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Dr. Wei
Sun, Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
(MEM), was invited as a keynote speaker
to present “Computer-Aided Tissue
Engineering” at the 2005 International
Conference for Mechanical and Automotive
Technologies, June 1st-3rd, at Chonbuk
National University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk,
South Korea. |
| Dr.
Wei Sun, Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
(MEM), conducted an invited keynote
presentation on “CAD/CAM in
Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering” at
the CAD’05 International Conference in
Bangkok, Thailand, June 20, 2005. |
Dr.
Bor Chin Chang, Dr. Harry Kwatny
(MEM) and former graduate students
presented four papers at the 2005 AIAA
Guidance, Navigation and Control
Conference in San Francisco in August,
reporting on their work on improving
single aircraft safety through
reconfigured control systems for
actuator failure accommodation:
Suba Thomas, Gaurav Bajpai,
H. G. Kwatny and B.-C. Chang,
“Nonlinear Dynamics, Stability &
Bifurcation in Aircraft: Simulation and
Analysis Tools”; B.-C. Chang,
H. G. Kwatny, S. Thomas,
G. Balpai, D. C. Hu, and
C. Belcastro, “Reconfigurable
Control of Aircraft in Nonlinear Flight
Regimes” ; S. Thomas, H.
G. Kwatny, B.-C. Chang,
and C. Belcastro, “Regulator
Design for Surface Failure Accommodation
in an F-16” ;C. Belcastro, T.
H. Kong, J-Y Shin, H.
Kwatny, B.-C. Chang, and
G. Balas, Uncertainty Analysis for
Aircraft Control Robustness Analysis in
Upset Prevention and Recovery Systems.” |
| Dr.
Wei Sun, Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
(MEM), presented an invited talk on
“Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering: A
Modern Engineering Approach for Tissue
Scaffold” at the 2005 Annual Technical
Conference for Society for In-Vitro
Biology in Baltimore, MD, June 6, 2005.
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Related
work was presented at the 2005 IFAC
World Congress in Prague in July:
S. Thomas, H. G. Kwatny,
and B.-C. Chang, “Bifurcation
Analysis of Flight Control Systems,” as
well as at the 2005 IEEE Conference on
Control Applications in Toronto in
August: S. Thomas, H. G.
Kwatny, and B.-C. Chang,
“Bifurcation-Induced Limits of a
Controller-Reconfigured F-16 subject to
Actuator Failures.” |
| Dr.
Wei Sun, Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
(MEM), was invited to present a seminar
on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”
at the Department of Bioengineering at
Clemson University, Clemson, SC, on June
9, 2005. |
| Symbolic
computing in power system analysis was
the subject of a special session at the
IEEE Power Engineering Society 2005
General Meeting in San Francisco (June).
MEM was represented in two
presentations. The first described a
software package for power system
voltage stability analysis developed by
Drs. Kwatny and Nwankpa (ECE)
and their students: C. NWANKPA,
C. DAFIS, H. KWATNY, and
S. AYASUN, “Symbolic
Analysis and Simulation for Power System
Dynamic Performance Assessment.” The
second, presented by graduate student
Ed Mensah, described results on a
new line of research initiated by
Drs. Kwatny and Niebur (ECE):
H. KWATNY, E. MENSAH,
D. NIEBUR, and C. TEOLIS,
“Symbolic Construction of Dynamic Mixed
Integer Programs for Power System
Management.” |
| Dr.
Wei Sun, Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
(MEM), conducted an invited presentation
on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering”
at the 2005 ACM Symposium on Solid and
Physical Modeling (SPM) at MIT,
Cambridge, MA, on June 14, 2005. |
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Dr.
Jaydev P. Desai has been invited to
be the Theme Co-Chair for "Biomechanics,
Bio-Robotics, and Surgical Planning" at
IEEE 2006 International Conference of
the Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society to be held in New York from
August 31-September 3, 2006. |
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