Kudos to
our Faculty
The American
Society of Mechanical Engineers presented Mechanical Engineering
Professor Mohammad Faghri with a certificate of appreciation at
the International Mechanical Congress & Exposition held in
November, 2003. Dr. Faghri was honored for his service as associate
editor of the Journal of Heat Transfer.
Professor Faghri also published and presented the following papers:
“Effect of Surface Roughness on Nitrogen Flow in Micro-Channel Using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo,” Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, Vol 1., pp. 1-8, 2003.
“Effect of Compressibility on Gaseous Flows in Micro-Channels,” Int. J. of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol. 46, pp. 3041-3050, 2003.
“Gas Flow and Heat Transfer in Microchannels,” Proceedings of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea, I’D Summer Annual Conference, Muju, Korea, July 2-4, 2003.
“Numerical Solution of Melting in Side-Heated Rectangular Enclosure under Electromagnetically Simulated Low Gravity,” presented at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Washington, D. C., November 16-21, 2003.
Professor Arijit Bose and Associate Professor Michael L. Greenfield of chemical engineering participated in the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored U.S.-Japan Young Scientist Exchange on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, held in November, 2003. The exchange consisted of visits by the U.S. team to numerous nanotechnology labs in Osaka, Sendai, Tokyo, and Tsukuba, Japan, followed by an analogous visit by the Japanese team to U.S. university labs. The exchange was designed to increase collaborations among Japanese and U.S. nanotechnology researchers. Arijit Bose was also named associate editor of IEEE Transactions in Nanotechnology in October 2003.
The URI International Engineering Program was awarded a 235,000 Euro grant from the German Economics Ministry. The money will support the IEP’s new dual degree master’s program.
Assistant Professor Donna Meyer of mechanical engineering gave an invited lecture at the 2nd annual BRIN (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network) Retreat in July, 2003 on NIH-supported research. Dr. Meyer was also conference session chair for the Lubricants, Additives, and Surface Reactions Session at the International Tribology Conference held in October, 2003.
Professor Dewhurst, research assistant Sriruk Srithongchai, and Ph.D. students Murat Demircubuk and Arun Nair, were guests of Abaqus Corporation at its annual conference, held in Munich, Germany in June 2003. Dewhurst gave the lead-off engineering design presentation, entitled “The Design of Minimum-Weight Structures: A Preliminary Case Study Combining Theoretical Optimum Layout Analysis and FEM Studies,” co-authored by Professor David Taggart.
Assistant Professor Valerie Maier-Speredelozzi received her first grant through the RI-BRIN (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network) for a pilot/feasibility study entitled “Manufacturing Processes for Biomedical Implants Using Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) Technology.”
Visiting Professor Kyung Soo Chon gave a special seminar on “Planning and Development of Incheon International Airport - A Gateway to Korea and Northeast Asia,” at URI in October 2003. His seminar was co-sponsored by the URI Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the RI Transportation Research Center (TRC).
Professor K. Wayne Lee attended the control member meeting of the Bituminous Materials Committee (BMC) of the Construction Institute (CI) on November 13, 2003, where he reported the status of the 150th anniversary publication, entitled “Past, Present and Future of Bituminous Materials Technologies.”
Research Professor Augustus K. Uht has a provisional patent application pending on his TEAtime (Timing Error Avoidance) technology. TEAtime allows operation of any standard digital system (with redesign) at greater than worst-case specification operating frequencies. In other words, performance is improved dramatically, sometimes almost doubling performance. TEAtime also allows the system to adapt its operating frequency to changing environmental, operating, and manufacturing conditions. In addition to his technology achievements, Professor Uht was recently made a member of the editorial board of the online Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism.
The IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing (UASP) Workshop was held October 8-11, 2003 at the URI Alton Jones campus, chaired by Professors Don Tufts and Rick Vaccaro. Forty-seven people from the U.S. and abroad attended.
Two undergraduate students in the Biomedical Engineering program presented papers at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2003 Fall Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Meghan Collins presented “The Biomechanics of Spinal Cord Injury,” and Gary Comtois presented “Short Range Light Activated Switch for People with Disabilities.”
Papers presented at conferences by electrical and biomedical engineering faculty and grad students include:
Professor Ramdas Kumaresan and graduate students Gopi Allu, J. Swaminathan, and Yadong Wang, “Decompostion of a Bandpass Signal and Its Application to Speech Processing,” 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Sytems, and Computers, Nov. 9-12, 2003, Monterey, CA.
Professor Don Tufts and graduate student Tim Toolan, “Detection and Estimation in Nonstationary Environments,” 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Sytems, and Computers, Nov. 9-12, 2003, Monterey, CA.
Professors Rick Vaccaro, Norm Owsley, and graduate student Pranab Majumdar, “An Approach to Direction Finding Based on a Subspace Perturbation Expansion,” 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Sytems, and Computers, Nov. 9-12, 2003, Monterey, CA.
Assistant Professor Fred Vetter, “Nonuniform Biquintic Finite Element Meshes for Anatomic Surface Reconstruction,” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2003 Fall Conference, Oct. 1-4, 2003, Nashville, TN.
Professor Ying Sun, “Comparison of Mitral Regurgitant Orifice and Left Atrial Compliance as Mechanisms for Improved Hemodynamics by Resynchronization Therapy: A Computer Model Approach,” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2003 Fall Conference, Oct. 1-4, 2003, Nashville, TN.
Professor Faghri also published and presented the following papers:
“Effect of Surface Roughness on Nitrogen Flow in Micro-Channel Using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo,” Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, Vol 1., pp. 1-8, 2003.
“Effect of Compressibility on Gaseous Flows in Micro-Channels,” Int. J. of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol. 46, pp. 3041-3050, 2003.
“Gas Flow and Heat Transfer in Microchannels,” Proceedings of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea, I’D Summer Annual Conference, Muju, Korea, July 2-4, 2003.
“Numerical Solution of Melting in Side-Heated Rectangular Enclosure under Electromagnetically Simulated Low Gravity,” presented at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Washington, D. C., November 16-21, 2003.
Professor Arijit Bose and Associate Professor Michael L. Greenfield of chemical engineering participated in the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored U.S.-Japan Young Scientist Exchange on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, held in November, 2003. The exchange consisted of visits by the U.S. team to numerous nanotechnology labs in Osaka, Sendai, Tokyo, and Tsukuba, Japan, followed by an analogous visit by the Japanese team to U.S. university labs. The exchange was designed to increase collaborations among Japanese and U.S. nanotechnology researchers. Arijit Bose was also named associate editor of IEEE Transactions in Nanotechnology in October 2003.
The URI International Engineering Program was awarded a 235,000 Euro grant from the German Economics Ministry. The money will support the IEP’s new dual degree master’s program.
Assistant Professor Donna Meyer of mechanical engineering gave an invited lecture at the 2nd annual BRIN (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network) Retreat in July, 2003 on NIH-supported research. Dr. Meyer was also conference session chair for the Lubricants, Additives, and Surface Reactions Session at the International Tribology Conference held in October, 2003.
Professor Dewhurst, research assistant Sriruk Srithongchai, and Ph.D. students Murat Demircubuk and Arun Nair, were guests of Abaqus Corporation at its annual conference, held in Munich, Germany in June 2003. Dewhurst gave the lead-off engineering design presentation, entitled “The Design of Minimum-Weight Structures: A Preliminary Case Study Combining Theoretical Optimum Layout Analysis and FEM Studies,” co-authored by Professor David Taggart.
Assistant Professor Valerie Maier-Speredelozzi received her first grant through the RI-BRIN (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network) for a pilot/feasibility study entitled “Manufacturing Processes for Biomedical Implants Using Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) Technology.”
Visiting Professor Kyung Soo Chon gave a special seminar on “Planning and Development of Incheon International Airport - A Gateway to Korea and Northeast Asia,” at URI in October 2003. His seminar was co-sponsored by the URI Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the RI Transportation Research Center (TRC).
Professor K. Wayne Lee attended the control member meeting of the Bituminous Materials Committee (BMC) of the Construction Institute (CI) on November 13, 2003, where he reported the status of the 150th anniversary publication, entitled “Past, Present and Future of Bituminous Materials Technologies.”
Research Professor Augustus K. Uht has a provisional patent application pending on his TEAtime (Timing Error Avoidance) technology. TEAtime allows operation of any standard digital system (with redesign) at greater than worst-case specification operating frequencies. In other words, performance is improved dramatically, sometimes almost doubling performance. TEAtime also allows the system to adapt its operating frequency to changing environmental, operating, and manufacturing conditions. In addition to his technology achievements, Professor Uht was recently made a member of the editorial board of the online Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism.
The IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing (UASP) Workshop was held October 8-11, 2003 at the URI Alton Jones campus, chaired by Professors Don Tufts and Rick Vaccaro. Forty-seven people from the U.S. and abroad attended.
Two undergraduate students in the Biomedical Engineering program presented papers at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2003 Fall Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Meghan Collins presented “The Biomechanics of Spinal Cord Injury,” and Gary Comtois presented “Short Range Light Activated Switch for People with Disabilities.”
Papers presented at conferences by electrical and biomedical engineering faculty and grad students include:
Professor Ramdas Kumaresan and graduate students Gopi Allu, J. Swaminathan, and Yadong Wang, “Decompostion of a Bandpass Signal and Its Application to Speech Processing,” 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Sytems, and Computers, Nov. 9-12, 2003, Monterey, CA.
Professor Don Tufts and graduate student Tim Toolan, “Detection and Estimation in Nonstationary Environments,” 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Sytems, and Computers, Nov. 9-12, 2003, Monterey, CA.
Professors Rick Vaccaro, Norm Owsley, and graduate student Pranab Majumdar, “An Approach to Direction Finding Based on a Subspace Perturbation Expansion,” 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Sytems, and Computers, Nov. 9-12, 2003, Monterey, CA.
Assistant Professor Fred Vetter, “Nonuniform Biquintic Finite Element Meshes for Anatomic Surface Reconstruction,” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2003 Fall Conference, Oct. 1-4, 2003, Nashville, TN.
Professor Ying Sun, “Comparison of Mitral Regurgitant Orifice and Left Atrial Compliance as Mechanisms for Improved Hemodynamics by Resynchronization Therapy: A Computer Model Approach,” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2003 Fall Conference, Oct. 1-4, 2003, Nashville, TN.