Announcements

Author: Mohamed Mohsen Ahmed Title: Development of a Lagrangian-Eulerian Modeling Framework to Describe Thermal Degradation of Porous Fuel Particles in Simulations of Wildland Fire Behavior at Flame Scale Date and time: May 26, 2023, at 9:00 AM Location: Fire and Risk Alliance Conference Room, 3106 J.M. Patterson Building Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7685207098 Zoom meeting ID: 768 520 […]

Author: Jacob Welch Date/Time/Location: April 24th, 1:30-3PM, ERF 1207. Title of Thesis: Spectral Methods of Modeling and Calculating Fatigue in Electronic Interconnects List of Committee Members: Abhijit Dasgupta (Chair) Michael Osterman Avik Dutt Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to provide a predictive estimate of fatigue damage accumulation in PWA interconnects using purely frequency-domain (spectral)

Author: Drew Hohenhaus Title: Prediction and Closed-Loop Control of Blood Pressure for Hemorrhage Resuscitation Date/Time: April 17th at 11:00 am Location: EGR 2162 Committee: Dr. Jin-Oh Hahn, ChairDr. Hosam FathyDr. Yancy Diaz-Mercado Abstract: Hemorrhage is responsible for a large percentage of mortality worldwide and the majority of fatalities on the battlefield. Resuscitation procedures for hemorrhage

Author: Mohamed Mohsen Ahmed Title of Dissertation: Development of a Lagrangian-Eulerian Modeling Framework to Describe Thermal Degradation of Porous Fuel Particles in Simulations of Wildland Fire Behavior at Flame Scale Date and time: April 14, 2023, at 8:30 AM Location: Fire and Risk Alliance Conference Room, 3106 J.M. Patterson Building Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7685207098 | Zoom

Author: Eesh Kamrah Date: Monday, April 10th, 2023 at 1:30 pm Location: EGR-4164B Committee Members: Title of Thesis: ‘A STUDY TO EVALUATE WHEN TO NOT USE DIVERSE EXAMPLES Abstract: Design researchers have struggled to provide quantifiable forecasts on whether diversity helps or hinders the design search process. [1] This thesis studies this problem by answering the following question “how

Author: He (Andy) Yun Title of dissertation: Manufacturability and Reliability of Additively Manufactured Planar Transformer Windings using Silver-based Paste Date, time, & location of defense: Monday, 4/10, from 1 – 3 PM, at 1131B Martin Hall Committee members: Prof. F. Patrick McCluskey (Advisor & Chair) Prof. Aris Christou Prof. Abhijit Dasgupta Prof. Hugh Bruck Prof.

Author: Kendyl Waddell Title: NEAR-LIMIT SPHERICAL DIFFUSION FLAMES AND COOL DIFFUSION FLAMES Committee Members:Dr. Peter Sunderland, ChairDr. Christopher Cadou, Dean’s RepresentativeDr. Fernando Raffan-MontoyaDr. Stanislav StoliarovDr. Arnaud Trouve Date and time: April 10, 2023 at 1:00 pm Location: Fire and Risk Alliance Conference Room, 3106 J.M. Patterson Building Zoom link:https://umd.zoom.us/j/7068085301?pwd=MEpuemxyOStaN0h2MkZ6Sno1ZG1vUT09 Abstract: To combat the rising threats of climate change, current combustion technologies

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 A. James 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