Congratulations are in order for both Brian Homeijer and Naigang Wang, who both recently passed their dissertation proposal defenses. Brian presented his topic, "Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a MEMS piezoresistive Microphone for use in Aeroacoustic Measurements." Naigang's topic was "Fabrication and Integration of Microscale Permanent Magnets in Magnetic MEMS."
IMG undergraduate researcher Randy Gruby is one of several UF students featured on the UF College of Engineering website as a part of their rotating "spotlight" feature. You can read a brief article about Randy's work here.
Last night, the first IMG Spring Social was held at Mr. Han's Restaurant. The social was generously sponsored by Dr. Sheplak and organized by Alina Soderholm and Janhavi Agashe, with help from several other students. The social featured dinner, an awards ceremony ("MEMSees Awards"), an IMG "homecoming court," and karaoke. Thanks to everyone for attending and for your ongoing work as members of IMG.
Brian will present his thesis proposal, "Design, fabrication and characterization of a MEMS piezoresistive microphone for use in aeroacoustic measurements" in LAR234 on Thursday, 5/1 beginning at 11:30 am.
Naigang will present his thesis proposal, "Fabrication and Integration of Microscale Permanent Magnets in Magnetic MEMS" in LAR234 on Monday, 4/28 beginning at 1 pm.
Undergraduate Rodney Dagulo has been selected as one of 22 students for a 10 week internship with the Fluid System Technologies division at the Kennedy Space Center (more info). Congratulations Rodney!
Vinod John was awarded 2nd place for his poster on the “Comparison of Laser and Spark Based Acoustic Shock Sources for MEMS Diaphragm Characterization" at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations to Vinod!
Last week the National Science Foundation announced that two senior undergraduate members of IMG, Cesar Moreno and Jessica Sockwell, won Graduate Research Fellowships. As winners of this prestigious award, both students will receive funds for graduate study worth $44,550/yr for three years. Cesar and Jessica will begin graduate study at IMG in the fall under Drs. Lou Cattafesta and Mark Sheplak, respectively.
Yawei Li will be defending her dissertation, "Side-Implanted Piezoresistive Shear Stress Sensor for Turbulent Boundary Layer Measurement" at 11:30am, Monday 4/14/08 in Larsen 234. All are invited to attend and refreshments will be served.
Mathworks will be hosting a seminar entitled "Technical Computing with MATLAB" on Thursday, April 3 from 9am-12pm in the 2nd floor Reitz Union Auditorium. One of the application engineers teaching the seminar will be IMG Alumnus Todd Schultz. Welcome back, Todd.