The Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group (IMG) is a college-wide multi-departmental education and research program of the College of Engineering at the University of Florida.
David Mills will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Sapphire MEMS-Based Optical Shear Stress Sensors for High-Temperature Applications" at 2:30pm on Friday, December 9th in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
On Sunday at 1:09 pm fellow graduate student Raphael Puzio and family welcomed a new baby into their family. Baby girl "TBD" Puzio weighed 6 lbs 14 oz and was 19" long. Congratulations to Rafael and his whole growing family!
Antonio Acosta will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Investigation of Stress Effects on Ferroelectric Capacitors for Performance Enhancement of Ferroelectric Random Access Memory" at 9:30am on Friday, December 2nd in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Haixiong Tang will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Investigation of Structure Property Relations in Active Nanocomposites for Energy Storage" at 2:00pm on Monday, December 5th in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be available from 1:45pm.
Chris Meyer will defend his dissertation, entitled "Micromachined Inductors and Transformers for Miniaturized Power Converters" at 9:30am on Wednesday, Novermber 30th in Larson 234.
Hongzhi Sun will defend his dissertation, entitled "Sensing and Control Electronics Design for Capacitive CMOS-MEMS inertial sensors" at 9:00am on Monday, November
21st in Larson 234. Refreshments will be available from 8:45am.
Shuo Cheng will defend his dissertation, entitled "Theory, Design and Application of Electrodynamic Transformers" at 9:00am on Wednesday, Novermber 23rd in Larson 234. Refreshments will be available from 8:45am.
The Materials Science Division of the Army Research Office has selected Prof. Henry Sodano's proposal titled "Photoresponsive Polymers for Autonomous Structural Materials with Controlled Toughening and Healing" to be awarded $640,000 (11/2011 - 10/2015). Congratulations Prof. Sodano!
Andrew Koehler will defend his dissertation, entitled "Impact of Mechanical Strain on AlGaN/GaN HEMT Performance: Channel Resistance and Gate Current," at 1pm on Friday, October 28th in NEB 589.
Hyunwoo Park will defend his dissertation, entitled "Impact of Uniaxial Stress on Silicon Diodes and Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor-Field-Effect-Transistors under Radiation," at 9:30am on Friday, October 21st in Larson 234. Refreshments will be available from 9:15am.
