Final Defense Schedule
The following are the currently scheduled MS and PhD final thesis/dissertation defenses.
| Date & Time | Student, Thesis/Dissertation Title, Location |
|---|---|
| Fri., December 13, 2022 10:00 a.m. | Student: Roshan Roshankhah, PhD – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Ultrasound Multiple Scattering as a Source of Contrast to Investigate the Lung and Localize Pulmonary Nodules” Location: EB3, Room 3115 |
| Fri., November 17, 2022 1:00 p.m. | Student: Pratik Bhansali, PhD – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Heat Transfer on Rotating Surfaces” Location: Zoom |
| Thurs., November 3, 2022 10:00 a.m. | Student: James Robert Walz, MS – Aerospace Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Mitigation of Boundary Layer Separation and Skin Friction Drag through Implementation of Soft Materials in Supersonic Inlets” Location: Zoom |
| Tues., November 1, 2022 8:00 a.m. | Student: Josh Mitchell, MS – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Organic Tissue and Lung Phantom Fabrication” Location: EB3, Room 3115 |
| Tues., October 25, 2022 9:00 a.m. | Student: Michael Bonds Jr., PhD – Aerospace Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Evaluation of Complex Cooling Geometries with Jet Impingement/Effusion for Gas Turbine Combustor Liners” Location: Zoom |
| Fri., October 7, 2022 2:00 p.m. | Student: Obinna Okoye, PhD – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Gas Turbine Vane Film Cooling in a Subsonic Cascade” Location: Zoom |
| Fri., October 5, 2022 1:00 p.m. | Student: Yinding Chi, PhD – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Harnessing Bistability and Multistability for High-Performance Soft Robots” Location: EB3, Room 3115 |
| Fri., September 27, 2022 1:00 p.m. | Student: Tom Gemmer, PhD – Aerospace Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Astrodynamics of Spacecraft Under the Influence of the Solar Wind, and Design of Spacecraft Constellations for Solar Storm Early Warning Systems” Location: Zoom |
| Fri., August 19, 2022 10:00 a.m. | Student: Navyatha Kakumanu, MS – Aerospace Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Numerical Simulation of Underwater Burst Events using Sharp Interface Capturing Methods” Location: EB3, Room 3115 |
| Mon., August 15, 2022 2:00 p.m. | Student: Jacob Leff, MS – Aerospace Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Numerical Simulation of Internal Effervescent Atomization of Salt Water” Location: Zoom |
| Fri., August 12, 2022 3:00 p.m. | Student: Chia-Fu (Jeff) Wang, PhD – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Amplifying Ultrasonic Lamb Wave Transfer to Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors through Artificial Structures” Location: Zoom |
| Tues., July 19, 2022 11:00 a.m. | Student: Kartik Naik, PhD – Aerospace Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Fused Site, Plant, and Control System Co-Design with Application to Underwater Energy-Harvesting Kites” Location: EB3, Room 3115 and Zoom |
| Thurs., July 14, 2022 11:00 a.m. | Student: Jay Bate, MS – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Feasibility Study of Implementing Wind Turbines and Alternative Forms of Energy Storage at the Water Treatment Plants in the Outer Banks.” Location: Zoom |
| Wed., June 29, 2022 9:00 a.m. | Student: Huaiyu Wu, PhD – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Ultrasound Transducers and Arrays for Biomedical Imaging and Therapy.” Location: Zoom |
| Tues., June 28, 2022 9:30 a.m. | Student: Tamir Hasan, PhD – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Predictions of Crack Nucleation and Failure in Multiphase Materials Using Statistics and Machine Learning Methods” Location: EB3, Room 3115 |
| Wed., June 15, 2022 10:00 a.m. | Student: Sandhya Chandrasekaran, PhD – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Ultrasound Imaging of Shear Shock Waves in the Brain: Application to Traumatic Brain Injury” Location: Zoom |
| Tues., June 14, 2022 2:00 p.m. | Student: Tushar Mollik, PhD – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Topology Optimization for Nonlinear and Stochastic Systems” Location: Zoom |
| Fri., June 10, 2022 10:00 a.m. | Student: Yanbin Li, PhD – Mechanical Engineering Thesis/Dissertation Title: “Reconfigurable three-dimensional modular kirigami metamaterials: science and applications” Location: EB3, Room 3235 |