Student Defenses

Author: Alec Van Slooten Date: Monday, April 3rd, 2023, at 2:00 pm Location: EGR-2164 Committee Members: Title of Thesis: Investigation of Latent Spaces for Airfoil Design and Optimization Abstract: Airfoil optimization is critical to the design of turbine blades and aerial vehicle wings, among other aerodynamic applications. This design process is often constrained by the computational time required to perform […]

Author: Andres Alfredo Ruiz-Tagle Palazuelos Title: Exploiting Causal Reasoning to Improve the Quantitative Risk Assessment of Engineering Systems Through Interventions and Counterfactuals Date and Time: 04/10/2023 at 11:30 AM Location:  Clark Memorial Conference, Room 1117, in Clark Hall Zoom invite:  https://umd.zoom.us/j/2803971669?pwd=SXZPazNZamczZ0xrMEVxV3MxTC9sQT09 Committee members: Abstract: The main strength of quantitative risk assessment (QRA) is to enable risk management by providing causal

Author: Chien-Ming Huang Title of dissertation: Durability distribution analysis of lead-free solder joints for printed circuit board applications The date, time, & location: Friday, April 7th, 2023, at 01:00 pm in EGR-2164 List of all your committee members: Dr. Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Chair and AdvisorDr. Abhijit DasguptaDr. Shapour AzarmDr. Katrina GrothDr. Aristos Christou, Dean’s Representative Abstract: Fatigue models for predicting the cycles

Title: MODELING OF ADVANCED HEAT PUMP CYCLES AND AERODYNAMIC DESIGN OF A SMALL-SCALE CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES Date: March 31st 9am-11am Location: EGR-4164B Join Zoom Meetinghttps://umd.zoom.us/j/2112804847?pwd=Q0lhdHp2NTZuNG40OTBodW10RjdjQT09 Meeting ID: 211 280 4847Passcode: 65hXXk Committee members:Dr. Amir RiazDr. Bao YangDr. Jelena SrebricDr. Peter B. Sunderland, Dean’s RepresentativeDr. Reinhard Radermacher, ChairDr. Yunho Hwang Abstract:Unlike conventional vehicles powered

Author: Nikhil Oberoi Title: MULTI-FIDELITY PARAMETRIC SENSITIVITY FOR LARGE EDDY SIMULATION Committee members: Professor Johan Larsson, Chair/AdvisorProfessor Christoph Brehm, Dean’s representativeProfessor Kenneth KigerProfessor Arnaud TrouvéProfessor Jacob Wenegrat Location: EGR-2164 Date and time: March 28, 2.00 pm Abstract: Designing engineering systems involving fluid flow under uncertainty or for optimality often requires performing many computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations. For

Author: Vishal S Sivasankar Title: Simulation of Polymeric Drop Dynamics: Effect of Photopolymerization, Impact Velocity, and Multi-material Coalescence Day/Time: March 29, 11:00 am | Location: EGR 2164 (DeWalt Seminar Room Committee Members: Dr. Siddhartha Das, Chair/Advisor Dr. Abhijit Dasgupta Dr. Amir Riaz Dr. Eleonora Tubaldi Dr. Peter Kofinas, Dean’s Representative

Author: Xiaotian Xu Date: Tuesday, March 28th, 2023, at 1:00 pm Location: EGR-1131B Zoom (for the Public Presentation):https://umd.zoom.us/j/7739971299?pwd=L3Z4T1dNTlVUT2kxU241ekwxS2RpZz09 Advisory Committee:Professor Yancy Diaz-Mercado, Chair/Advisor Professor Nikhil Chopra Professor Hosam K. Fathy Professor Jin-Oh Hahn Professor Erick Rodriguez-Seda, Special MemberProfessor Derek A. Paley, Dean’s Representative Title of Dissertation: Multi-Agent Spatial Coordination Via Time-Variations In Coverage Control Abstract: Coverage control of multi-agent systems (MASs) spatially spreads

Author: Sai Etha Dissertation title: Molecular-scale exploration of interactions between drops and particles with a polymeric layerDate, time and venue: 3/16/23 from 3-5pm in EGR 2164 Committee Members:  Dr. Siddhartha Das (Chair) Dr. Taylor J Woehl (Dean’s Representative) Dr. Pratyush Tiwary Dr. Amir Riaz Dr. Avik Dutt Abstract: Surface-grafted polymer molecules have been extensively employed for

Author: Namkyoung Lee Date: Friday, March 17th, 2023, at 10:30 am Location: EGR-2164 Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkfuCrrzwoH9aKI60Y6SIXknB_NnBugyuM?_x_zm_rtaid=6SbQ52e7TFKsE1qdZ94tGg.1678212040878.bfb2c061cac0aca9eb0188a0a320b8cd&_x_zm_rhtaid=709 Committee Members: Dr. Michael Pecht, Chair / AdvisorDr. Michael H. Azarian, Co-chair / Co-advisorDr. Yunfeng Zhang, Dean’s RepresentativeDr. Balakumar BalachandranDr. Mark FugeDr. Gregory W. Vogl Title of Thesis: Interpretable and Speed Adaptive Convolutional Neural Network for Prognostics and Health Management of

Author: Tanjebul Alam Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at 9:30 am Location:  Room EGR-2164 Committee Members: Research Professor Vikrant Aute, Mechanical Engineering, Chair/Advisor Professor Bao Yang, Mechanical EngineeringAssociate Professor Damena Agonafer, Mechanical Engineering Title of Thesis:  DEVELOPMENT, VALIDATION AND APPLICATION OF RESISTANCE -CAPACITANCE BASED MODELS (RCM) FOR PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL HEAT EXCHANGERS Abstract: Latent thermal energy storage use