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Scholarship Opportunity with Kurz Industrial Solutions

Applications Due: May 15, 2021 KURZ is awarding (4) $1,000 scholarships to four candidates willing to propel the growth of Wind in the states for generations to come. View More Here: https://kurz.com/kurz-wind-scholarship/ SHOULD I APPLY? You are passionate and invested in wind energy.  You believe in the importance of renewable energy for our present and our […]

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Mechanical Engineering & Thermal Sciences Webinar with Exponent

At Exponent, we work on many of the most challenging andprominent engineering and scientific problems in the world, andwe need you now more than ever. If you are a Ph.D. candidatewith strong communication skills, are motivated to learn on thejob, and have a desire to apply your education in unexpected andinnovative ways, Exponent will be

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Dissertation Defense: Saurabh Saxena

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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Dissertation Defense: Ahmed O. Said

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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Dissertation Defense: David Verstraete

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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