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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Professor Z. Hugh Fan won the E. T. S. Walton Award from Science Foundation Ireland in Aug. 2009. The award enables him to take a two-semester sabbatical, assuming Walton Visiting Professorship in the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (BDI) at Dublin City University in Ireland. BDI is comprised of more than 100 scientists, developing diagnostic platforms through integration of clinical, industrial and academic expertise. Professor Fan’s work at BDI will focus on device design and testing for sorting and concentration of rare circulating tumor cells.
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!
