Student Defenses

Title: “Effects of Rest Time and Temperature on Graphite – LiCoO2 Battery Degradation”   Date: Friday, April 17thTime: 11:00amLink: https://umd.zoom.us/j/380744735 Committee Members: Professor Michael Pecht, Chair/Advisor Professor Abhijit Dasgupta Professor Peter Sandbord Professor Mark Fuge Professor Eric Wachsman, Dean’s Representative Abstract: Lithium-ion batteries are used as energy storage devices in a variety of applications ranging from small portable electronics […]

Title: “Experimental Investigation into the Heat Transfer Mechanism of Oscillating Heat Pipes using Temperature Sensitive Paints.” Date: Wednesday, April 08thTime: 11:00am Committee Members: Professor Jungho Kim, ChairProfessor Reinhardt RadermacherProfessor Bao Yang

Title: DYNAMICS AND HAZARDS OF CASCADING FAILURE IN CELL ARRAYS: ANALYSIS, PASSIVE MITIGATION, AND ACTIVE SUPPRESSION Defense date and time: Friday- Feb 28, 2020 at 10 am Location: A. James Clark Bldg.  (AJC 2132) Committee members:  Professor Stanislav I. Stoliarov, Chair  Professor Dongxia Liu, Dean’s Representative  Professor Arnaud Trouve  Professor Marino diMarzo  Professor Peter Sunderland

Title: Deep Adversarial Approaches in Reliability  Date: Tuesday, December 17th Time: 1pm Location: AV Williams 2460 ECE Conference Room  Committee Members: Professor Mohammad Modarres, Chair Associate Professor Enrique Lopez Droguett Assistant Professor Mark Fuge Assistant Professor Katrina Groth Professor Balakumar Balachandran Professor Mohamad Al-Sheikhly (Dean’s Representative) Abstract: Reliability engineering has long been proposed with the problem

Title: EIT BASED PIEZORESISTIVE TACTILE SENSORS: A SIMULATION STUDY Date: Wednesday December 11, 2019 Time: 1 pm Location: Martin Hall EGR 2164   Committee Members: Dr. Elisabeth Smela, Chair/AdvisorDr. Miao YuDr. Nikhil Chopra ABSTRACT: Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is an imaging technique that uses voltage measurements to map the internal conductivity distribution inside a body by

Title: Modeling Syndromic Surveillance and Outbreaks in Subpopulations Date: Monday, Dec. 16, 2019 Time: 12:00pm Location: Martin Hall  EGR-2164 Committee Members: Professor Jeffrey Herrmann Professor Robert Gold Assistant Professor Allison Reilly Professor Linda Schmidt Assistant Professor Monifa Vaughn-Cooke Abstract: This research is motivated by the need to assist resource limited communities by enhancing the use of syndromic

Title: Phonon mediated thermal transport in transition-metal dichalcogenides Date: Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, 2019 Time: 11:00am Location: Martin Hall  EGR-2164 Committee Members: Professor Peter Chung (Chair) Professor Bao Yang Professor Agis Iliadis (Dean’s Representative, Electrical and Computer Science Department) Professor Abhijit Dasgupta Professor Patrick McCluskey Dr. Sina Najmaei (Special Member for the committee, ARL research scientist)

Title: New Methodology for Predicting Ultimate Capacity of One-Sided Composite Patch Repaired Cracked Aluminum Plate Date: Wednesday, Dec 11th, 2019 Time: 10:00am Location: Martin Hall, EGR-2164 Committee: Professor Hugh Bruck (Chair) Professor Peter Chung Professor Abhijit Dasgupta Professor Teng Li Professor Sung Lee (Dean’s Representative, Aerospace Department) Abstract Composite patch repairs are an alternative to

Title: Design and Development of potassium formate based Atmospheric Water Harvester Date: Monday, Nov. 25, 2019 Time: 1:30PM Location: EGR-3164 Martin Hall (Aerospace conference room) Committee Members:  Dr. Jungho Kim, Chair Dr. Yunho Hwang Dr. Gary Pertmer

Title: MAXIMIZING THE FINANCIAL RETURNS OF USING LIDAR SYSTEMS IN WIND FARMS FOR YAW ERROR CORRECTION APPLICATIONS  Date: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 Time: 8:00am Location: DeWalt Conference Room Martin Hall (EGR-2162 Committee: Professor Peter Sandborn (Chair) Professor Patrick McCluskey Professor Abhijit Dasgupta Professor Laurent Fresard Professor James Baeder (Dean’s Representative) Abstract: Wind energy is an important