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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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.
Shashank Sawant will defend his dissertation proposal, titled "Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Micro-Electrodynamic Zero-Net-Mass-Flux Actuators" at 9:00am on Monday, December 10, in LAR 234. Refreshment will be provided.
Cheolbok Kim and Xiaoyu Cheng, current IMG members, have been selected by the UFinternational center as recipients of the UF International Student Academic Award. The award highlights outstanding contributions of international students at the University of Florida in an effort to promote and foster exemplary academic achievement and service to UF diverse community.
For more information please visit http://www.ufic.ufl.edu/iss/UFdepAwards.html
Congratulations Cheolbok and Xiaoyu.
Viswanath Sankar will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Investigation and Mitigation of Abiotic Factors Affecting Reliability of Microelectrode Arrays in Chronic Neural Implants" at 10:00am on Friday, November 16th in NEB 409. Refreshments will be provided.
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.
Dr. Arnold and Dr. Nishida will offer the next BEN 230 Microfab chemical safety training/orientation, starting at 2:00pm in LAR 229. 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.
