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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
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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
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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
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The LRGF is unique in that it requires, as an integrated part of the program, the student to participate in, at least two, 12-week residencies in one of the national labs with the intent of increasing the students understanding of, and exposure to, the programs and work environment of the Labs. Fellows are encouraged
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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