IMG is pleased to be hosting 3 students in the inaugual Summer Undergraduate Research at Florida (SURF) program, a 10-week immersive research experience for high-performing undergrads. The SURF cohort consists of 40 students from 23 universities in 16 states, as well as Puerto Rico. Please welcome:
Camilo Vélez Cuervo will defend his doctoral dissertation, entitled: "Engineering microscale magnetic devices for next-generation microrobotics" on Thursday, June 29th, at 9:00 AM in NRF 115. Refreshments will be provided.
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There is an increasing demand for wireless power charging of mobile electronic devices, electric vehicles, biomedical implants and IoT sensor networks. Many of the already available wireless power transmission systems are based on inductive coupling and the size ranges in the cm’s scale, linked to the large surface area requirement. A competing technology is based on an RF approach, with small size chip but impractical power levels of pW to µW, and efficiency close to unity. The alternative working principle that we propose results in a more compact solution that can be reduced to mm’s chip size while producing reasonable output power (1 mW range) at low frequency ranges (50 Hz to 1 kHz).
We have developed an electrodynamic wireless power transmission (EWPT) system that relies on the magnetic-to-mechanic-to electrical conversion from a transmitter to a remote resonator, through electrodynamic transduction. The mechanical motion of a permanent magnet is converted into electrical power, when the magnet is set in motion/rotation, by a time-varying magnetic field, next to the receiver windings.
Congratulations to Camilo Velez and Sheng-Po Fang for winning the Gator Engineering Attribute Awards for the 2017-2018 academic year, respectively for creativity and service to the global community. Considered the greatest distinction of any student award given by the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the Gator Engineering Attribute Awards are intended to provide an ideal guide for all members of the Gator Engineering community.
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Xiao Wen will defend his dissertation entitled "On the Exploration of Electro-Infiltrated Magnetic Nanocomposites" at 2:00 pm on Monday, April 3 in LAR 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Rob Carroll will defend his dissertation entitled "Microfabricated Magneto-Mechanical Oscillator Device for Tuning and Characterization of Bandgap Response Behaviors" at 9am on Thursday, November 17th in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Nicolas Garraud will defend his proposal entitled "Instrumentation for Characterizing the Rotational Dynamics of Magnetic Particles in Suspension" at 9:30 AM on Thursday, August 18th, in NRF 115. Refreshments will be provided.
Keisha Castillo-Torres will defend her proposal entitled "Bacterial Pathogen Detection via Optical Interrogation of Magnetic Microdiscs" at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, August 17th, in NEB 409. Refreshments will be provided.
Congratulations to Keisha Castillo-Torres and Nicolas Garraud for winning the SPIE ‘Smart Biomedical and Physiological Sensor Technology XIII’ Conference Best Paper Award for their paper titled ‘Investigation of magnetic microdiscs for bacterial pathogen detection’. Dr. Arnold and Dr. Eric McLamore (ABE Dept.) are co-authors.
Prof. David Arnold has been selected by the University of Florida Research Foundation as one of the 34 UFRF Professors for 2016-2019. The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields. IMG extends its warmest congratulations!
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