News and events of Mark Sheplak's Research Group | Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group

Proposal Defense - Dylan Alexander

Submitted by Dylan Alexander on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 10:50pm

Event date:

Thu, 04/18/2013 - 12:30pm

Dylan Alexander will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Design, reliability-based optimization, and fabrication of a piezoresistive microelectromechanical microphone with back-side contacts for aeroacoustic measurements" at 8:30am on Thursday, April 18th in LAR 234. Refreshments will be provided.

Per Export Administration Regulations, which apply to the content of the proposal defense (ECCN 9E991), no persons from a designated "terrorist supporting country" is permitted to attend. This includes citizens of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.

Dissertation Defense for Brandon Bertolucci

Submitted by Brandon Bertolucci on Mon, 11/05/2012 - 10:51pm

Event date:

Thu, 11/08/2012 - 7:30pm to 10:00pm

Brandon Bertolucci will defend his dissertation entitled "An Experimental Investigation of the Grazing Flow Impedance Duct at the University of Florida for Acoustic Liner Applications" in Larsen 234 at 2:30 p.m.

Dissertation Defense: Tai-An Chen

Submitted by Tai-An Chen on Fri, 09/28/2012 - 10:20am

Event date:

Fri, 10/05/2012 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Tai-An Chen will defend his dissertation entitled "A Micromachined Floating Element Shear Stress Sensor Using Moiré Transduction for Harsh Environments" in NRF 115 at 12 p.m.

Dissertation Defense: Jess Meloy

Submitted by Jessica Meloy on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 9:50am

Event date:

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Jess Meloy will defend her dissertation entitled "An Instrumentation-Grade Differential Capacitive MEMS Shear Stress Sensor System for Wind Tunnel Applications" in LAR 234 at 10am. Light refreshments will be provided.

IMG @ Hilton Head

Submitted by David Arnold on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 3:03pm

IMG will be well-represented at the upcoming Hilton Head Workshop in June. This workshop is the preeminent microsystems meeting in North America, with an acceptance rate of only 46%. Congratulations to the following authors:

J. Meloy, J. Sells, V. Chandrasekharan, J. Griffin, L.N. Cattafesta, D.P. Arnold, and M. Sheplak, “Experimental Verification of a Capacitive Shear Stress Sensor for Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Applications” (Poster)
C.D. Meyer, S.S. Bedair, B.C. Morgan, D.P. Arnold "Ultra-miniaturized power converter modules using micromachined copper scaffolds" (Oral)
S. R. Samuelson, and H. Xie, “A Large Piston Displacement MEMS Mirror With Electrothermal Ladder Actuator Arrays for Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Applications” (Poster)
V. Tseng, and H. Xie, “A Novel High-Density Capacitor Design and Its Fabrication Technique Based On Selective Etching" (Poster)
J.C. Zito, R.J. Durscher, J. Soni, S. Roy, and D. P. Arnold "Mechano-fluidic characterization of microscale dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators" (Oral)