Current and Past Personnel

A Picture from Summer 2002: 

Back Row: Miao Sun, Becky Woodward, Raymond Pete, Amala Mamalla, Lin Lin, Wenjin Luo
Front Row: Jeremy Win, Anish Senan

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Current Ph.D. Students and Research Areas

• Douglas Read -Intelligent Optimization of Design for Surface Ships - Ph.D. University of Maine
• Lin Lin - The Role of Slow Waves and Detection of Porosity in Polymeric Materials - Ph.D. Candidate - University of Maine

Current M.S. Students and Research Areas

Graduates:

With a Ph.D. Degree:

• Becky Woodward
  Thesis: Locomotory Strategies, Dive Dynamics, and Functional Morphology of the Mysticetes: Using Morphometrics, Osteology, and DTAG Data to Compare Swim Performance in Four Species of Baleen Whales
  Ph.D. University of Maine
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
• Anthony Puckett -
  Thesis:
  High Temperature Sensing using Thick Transversely Isotropic Waveguides
  Ph.D. University of Maine
  Research Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Peihong Zhang -
  Thesis: Elastic Wave Imaging in Layered Media
  Ph.D. Colorado State University Spring 2003 --
  Engineer, Jacobs Engineering, Inc. Web: www.jacobs.com, 260 Madison Avenue, 12 Floor. NY, NY.
• Raoul Reiser -
  Thesis: Biomechanics of Recumbent Cycling, Instrumentation, Experimentation and Modeling  
  Ph.D. Colorado State University, Spring 2000 --
  Associate Professor, Colorado State University
• Richard Laverty -
  Thesis: Modeling of Layered Transversely Isotropic Material -
  Complete Text (in PDF Format)
  Ph.D. Colorado State University, Summer 2001 --
  Davies Fellow at the U.S. Military Academy

MS Degrees -- Thesis Supervised in Lab or Collaboratively Advised:

• Lin Lin - Summer 2003
  Plate Wave Propagation in Porous Polymeric Materials
  Continued for Ph.D. University of Maine
• Amala Mamalla - Summer 2004
  High Temperature Couplants for the Characterization of Carbon-Carbon Composite Materials
• Anish Senan - Summer 2003
  Visco-elastic Response of Polymeric and Elastomeric Matrix Composites
• Miao Sun - University of Maine - Fall 2001
  Recovery of General Isotropic Material Properties for High Temperature Material Characterization
  Continued for a Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Polytechnic
  Thesis Text (in PDF Format)
• Shaun Bunker- University of Maine - Summer 2001
  A System for In-Situ Monitoring of the Oxidation of Carbon-Carbon Composites
  Job: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
  Thesis Text (in PDF Format)
• Raul Urbina - University of Maine - Fall 2000
  Optimization of a Multi-Axis Electromechanical Scanning System
  Job: Account Manager, Bentley Nevada, GE
  Thesis ABSTRACT
  Complete Text (in PDF Format)
• Tim Gerler, Colorado State University - Spring 2001
  Electromechanical Design of a Wicket Gate System
• Anthony Puckett - Colorado State University - Fall. 2000
  Fidelity of a Finite Element Model for Longitudinal Wave Propagation in Thick Cylindrical Waveguides
  Thesis ABSTRACT
  Complete Text (in PDF Format at Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Theodore Druffel - Colorado State University - Summer 2000
  Modeling and Experiment for Design of a Wedge Retention System
  Thesis ABSTRACT
• Ming Gang - Colorado State University -
  Acoustic Emission Sensing for Monitoring the Effect of Slurry Resupply in Chemical Mechanical Planarization
  Thesis ABSTRACT
• Krishnan Nair - Colorado State University
  Image Resolution and Display of NDE Data
  Thesis ABSTRACT
• Kenwood Dayton - Colorado State University
  Detection of Distributed Surface Damage from Lapping
  Job: Bentley Nevada Corp
• Rick Kumar - Colorado State University
  Thesis: DEVELOPMENT OF A MACHINE VISION SYSTEM WITH VERIFICATION USING STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL
  Job: Storage Technology Corp
• Sumana Srinath - Colorado State University
  Thesis: DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPE FOR BONE CHARACTERIZATION
  Job:
• Jim Bilodeau - Colorado State University
  Thesis: Dynamic Event Monitoring Across Tapered Roller Bearings
  Job: Transportation Technology Center, Pueblo Colorado
• David McKinley - Colorado State University
  Thesis: Cost Effective Strategies for Flat Lap Process Capability Improvement
  Job: Lockheed Martin - Design, Denver Colorado
• Michael Ellis - Colorado State University
  Thesis: Advanced Visualization and Automatic Flaw Detection For Ultrasonic C-Scan Data
  Job: Olin Aerospace, Seattle Washington

 Undergraduates Researchers

1999-2000 University of Maine

Josh Botting -- University of Maine -- NSF REU Student
Jason Mulherin -- University of Maine -- NSF REU Student
Lala Espinosa (NSF REU Student)
Sara Wright -- University of Maine -- Engineering Physics