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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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!
Dr. David Arnold was selected as one of four recipients of the 2012-13 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award by the College of Engineering. This award encourages and rewards excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral students through their final dissertation.
Pitfee Jao, current IMG member, have been selected as a recipient of the 2013 UF-HHMI Science for Life Graduate Student Award.The award rewards excellence in graduate students who participate in research and publication opportunities in the life sciences in collaboration with undergraduates.
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Congratulations Pitfee.
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.
Dr. David Arnold has joined the editorial board of the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, a leading journal in the field of MEMS/microsystem technology. More information about this journal can be found here.
