Month: March 2021
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Ph.D. Student Abhishek Deshpande Awarded IEEE EPS Fellowship
We would like to formally recognize Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student Abhishek Dashpande, who has been awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Electronics Packaging Society’s (EPS) Ph.D. Fellowship. The EPS Fellowship is open to all members of IEEE EPS currently pursuing a doctoral degree within the field, but only one fellowship is awarded annually to a…
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Dissertation Defense – Kiran Raj Goud Burra
Title: Investigation into Pyrolysis and Gasification of Solid Waste Components and Their Mixtures Author: Kiran Raj Goud Burra Date/Time: March 29th, 2021 | 11:00 AM Dissertation Committee:Professor Ashwani K. Gupta, ChairProfessor Nam Sun WangProfessor Bao YangProfessor Gary A. PertmerProfessor Dongxia Liu, Dean’s Representative Abstract:Carbon neutral sources such as abundant biomass reserves and landfill-destined high energy density wastes…
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Dissertation Defense: Harnoor Sachar
TItle: Atomistic and theoretical description of liquid flows in polyelectrolyte-brush-grafted nanochannels Author: Harnoor Singh Sachar Date/Time: March 30, 2021 (Tuesday), 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9765159282 List of Committee MembersDr. Siddhartha Das (Chair)Dr. Amir RiazDr. Peter W. ChungDr. Don DeVoeDr. Silvina Matysiak (Dean’s Representative) AbstractPolyelectrolyte (PE) chains grafted in close proximity stretch out…
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Dissertation Defense – Preethi Ravula
Title: Numerical and Experimental Studies on Dynamic Interactions of Robot Appendages with Granular Media Date/Time: Mar 25, 2021, 12:15 PM EST Committee Members:Professor Balakumar Balachandran, Chair and AdvisorProfessor Abhijit Dasgupta, Department of Mechanical EngineeringProfessor Teng Li, Department of Mechanical EngineeringProfessor Peter W. Chung, Department of Mechanical EngineeringProfessor Derek Richardson, Department of Astronomy (Dean’s Representative) Abstract:…
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Big10 Augmented Intelligence Bowl
The Midwest, despite multiple leading Engineering and Computer Science programs and Medical schools, is not well represented in the latest AI/ML literature https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2770833. As a newly launched institute at Northwestern University, the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM) is driven to raise the profile of both I.AIM and other Midwest schools doing great work in this area. To that…