Dr. Vijay Chandrasekharan received a full page feature in the Fall 2009 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Newsletter. The feature discusses Vijay's work on a capacitive wall shear stress sensor for turbulence measurements.

Tai-An Chen recently presented his work at the 48th Annual AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeeting in January 2010 in Orlando, FL. Tai-An presented a paper entitled "Optical Miniaturization of a MEMS-Based Floating Element Shear Stress Sensor with Moiré Amplification" 

Vijay Chandrasekharan recently presented his work at the 48th Annual AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeeting in January 2010 in Orlando, FL. Vijay presented a paper entitled "Effect of Dynamic Pressure on Direct Shear Stress Sensor Design."

Drew Wetzel will be proposing his dissertation topic, "An Experimental Investigation of Circulation Control Acoustics" next Monday, December 14th at 10 AM in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome to attend.

Professor Mark Sheplak has been selected to become a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America "for contributions to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) acoustic transducers." Congratulations to Dr. Sheplak on this distinguished achievement!

An IMG journal paper, Manufacturable plastic microfluidic valves using thermal actuation, has recently been named a "Hot Article" by Lab on a Chip. Articles featured in this way have been rated as very significant by expert reviewers in the field. Congratulations to the authors, Karthik Pitchaimani, Brian Sapp, Adam Winter, Austin Gispanski, Toshikazu Nishida and Z. Hugh Fan!

Robert Dieme will defend his dissertation on the subject of noise in piezoresistors on Friday, October 9th at 9:30am in Larsen 234. All are invited to attend and food will be served.

Kemiao Jia will defend his dissertation, entitled "Development and applications of high fill-factor, small footprint MEMS micromirrors and micromirror arrays," on Wednesday, October 14th at 2:00pm in Larsen 234. All are welcome to attend and refreshments will be provided.