IMG research focuses on micro- and nanosystems for healthcare, energy, security, aerospace, transportation, consumer electronics, and other industries. Efforts include design, fabrication, characterization, and ultimately deployment of micro and nanotechnologies for a wide variety of applications. IMG is playing a leading role in the MIST Center (Multi-functional integrated system technology), an NSF I/UCRC program.
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Sean Samuelson will defend his dissertation, entitled “MEMS Electrothermal Actuators in Guided and Unguided Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Systems” at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 25th in LAR 229. Refreshments will be provided.
Congratulations to Cheolbok Kim on receiving the 2013 IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Award! The IEEE AP-S awards up to ten PhD fellowships each year to encourage students to pursue a career in the area of Antenna and Electromagnetics. The awards are intended to support students involved in project work directed by a faculty member at their institution who is a member of the IEEE AP-S. The title of his research is: "Low Loss and High Gain Terahertz Antenna Systems Using Micromachined Air-lifted 3D Structures and Metamaterials" The award selection is based on creativity and quality of the proposed project, discussion of the technical interests and skills of the student as well as the recommendation letter.
Miguel Palaviccini will defend his dissertation, entitled "Control of Three-Dimensional Flow Over a Turret" at 10AM, on Monday, April 22nd, in NRF 115. Refreshments will be provided.
Yuan Rao will defend her dissertation, entitled "Input-powered Interface Circuits for Electrodynamic Vibrational Energy Harvesting Systems" at 9:30AM, on Wednesday, April 24th, in NRF 115. All are invited to attend. Breakfast snacks will be provided.
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.
Kelly McEachern (first-year PhD student) and Zachary Kaufman (graduating undergraduate student) were each awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Please join me in congratulating both!
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.
PhD candidate Haixiong Tang from Dr. Henry Sodano’s group has been awarded the 1st Place SPIE/ASME Best Student Paper Award at SPIE’s 20th International Symposium on Smart Materials in San Diego on March 13, 2013. In addition, Haixiong received the 2012 ChineseGovernment Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Studying Abroad, a prestigious Chinese government award given to selected students studying abroad in recognition of excellent academic achievement. Haixiong was one of 489 researcher from 29 countries selected for this award. Congratulations!
