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.

Lin Liu will defend her dissertation, entitled “Large-Scan-Range Electrothermal MEMS Micromirrors and Microlenses and Their Biomedical Imaging Applications" at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 9th in NEB 589. All are invited to attend. Refreshments will be provided.

Nik Zawodny will defend his dissertation, entitled "Aeroacoustic Characterization of Scaled Canonical Nose Landing Gears" at 9:45 a.m. on Friday, March 29th in MAE-B, room 210. Breakfast snacks will be provided, however seating is limited.

Dr. Arnold and Dr. Nishida will offer the next BEN 230 Microfab chemical safety training/orientation on Monday April 1, starting at 10:00am in Dr. Arnold's office, LAR 213.  This orientation is one of the required steps for gaining access to IMG's centralized wet-processing lab.  Additional instructions are on the IMG wiki page: Gaining Access to BEN 230.  Please email darnold@ufl.edu if you did not already RSVP.

Amit Gupta will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Investigation of Electrical Bias, Mechanical Stress, Temperature and Ambient Effect on AlGaN/GaN HEMT Time-Dependent Degradation" at 10:00am on Thursday, February 21st in NEB 401. Refreshments will be provided.

Jiping Li will defend his dissertation proposal, titled "Wafer-level fabrication of power inductors in silicon for compact DC-DC converters" at 1:00pm on Tuesady, January 15th, in LAR 234. Refreshment and drink will be provided.