Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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2015

• Nov. 2015: Sibo’s ASME IMECE 2015 paper, 40-MHz Micromachined PMN-PT Composite Ultrasound Array for Medical Imaging, won the 2nd prize in the PhD category of the Student Paper Competition for the Bio track. Congratulations!
• Nov. 2015: 2015 IDTechEx Best Technical Development within Energy Harvesting and Storage Award, This technology was invented and developed by the multidisciplinary team of Tian-Bing Xu (NIA/Langley), Emilie J. Siochi (Langley), Lei Zuo (Associate Prof. in ME at VT), Xiaoning Jiang (Prof. in MAE at NCSU), Jin Ho Kang (NIA/Langley), and Wanlu Zhou (Research Assistant. in ME at VT).
• Nov. 2015: Prof. Zhiwu An joined MNEL as a Visiting Scholar. Welcome, Prof. An!
• Nov. 2015: Jianguo Ma’s paper is among Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control– November 2015 edition
• Sep. 2015: Jianguo Ma’s paper is among Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control– September 2015 edition
• Aug. 21, 2015: Dr. Jiang received the 2015 MAE Research Excellence Award. Congratulations!
• Aug. 2015: Sibo won the conference travel award for 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposiums(IUS 2015) at Taipei. Sibo will present his work on micromachined high frequency 1-3 composite arrays. Congratulations!
• July 2015: Jianguo Ma’s paper is among Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control– July 2015 edition
• Jun. 2015: A new patent was granted to Dr. Jiang and his co-inventors: “Multistage Force Amplification of Piezoelectric Stacks”, US Patent #9048759 B2, 2015.
• May 2015: Jianguo Ma’s paper is among Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control– May 2015 edition
• Mar. 2015: Jianguo Ma’s paper is among Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control– March 2015 edition
• Jan. 2015: Jinwook’s paper, “Dual-frequency super harmonic imaging transducers for transrectal ultrasound”, has been chosen as one of the six finalists for the SPIE/ASME Best Student Paper Award.
• Jan. 2015: Jianguo Ma’s paper is among Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control– January 2015 edition

2014

• Dec. 2014: Jianguo Ma’s paper was included in “Editor’s Selection of Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control – December 2014 edition”
• Oct 2014: Wenbin Huang successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Huang!
• Oct 2014: Seol Ryung Kwon successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Kwon!
• Oct 2014: Jianguo Ma successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Ma!
• Jianguo Ma’s paper titled “Dual Frequency Transducers for Intravascular Ultrasound Super-harmonic Imaging and Acoustic Angiography” was picked as a finalist in student paper competition at 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium at Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• August 22, 2014: Dr. Jiang received the 2014 MAE Outstanding Research Award. Congratulations!
• August 19, 2014: Prof. Yongbin Liu joined MNEL as a Visiting Scholar. Welcome, Prof. Liu!
• August 12, 2014: Prof. Hui Zhang joined MNEL as a Visiting Scholar. Welcome, Prof. Zhang!
• August 15, 2014: Shujin Huang joined MNEL as a PhD student. Welcome, Shujin!
• August 15, 2014: Wei-Yi Chang joined MNEL as a PhD student. Welcome back, Wei-Yi!
• August 15, 2014: Taeyang Kim joined MNEL as a PhD student. Welcome, Taeyang!
• June 2014: Sijia Guo successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Guo!
• June 2014: Bringing out the flex in flexoelectrics – Longlong’s work on converse flexoelectricity is covered by Physics Today.
• 5/2014: Dr. Jiang and Dr. Dayton were selected as recipients of the 2015 NC State Chancellor’s Innovation Fund grant. Congratulations!
• 5/2014: Congratulations to Wenbin Huang on passing his PhD oral preliminary exam.
• New Ultrasound Device May Aid in Detecting Risk for Heart Attack, Stroke.
• Two new patents were granted to Dr. Jiang: “Piezoelectric Multilayer-Stacked Hybrid Actuation/Transduction System”, US Patent # 8680749 B2, 2014. “Advanced Modified High Performance Synthetic Jet Actuator with Curved Chamber”, US Patent #8662412 B2, 2014.
• 3/2014: Congratulations to Seol Ryung Kwon on passing her PhD oral preliminary exam.
• Feb. 2014: Dr. Jiang was appointed by the President of IEEE UFFC, Dr. Jian-yu Lu, as a UFFC Society representative to the IEEE Nanotechnology Council for 2014-2015.
• 2/2014: Congratulations to Jianguo Ma on passing his PhD oral preliminary exam.
• Dr. Bao-Yu Hsieh joined MNEL on 01/02/2014. Welcome, Dr. Hsieh!

2013

• 12/2013: Congratulations to Laura Tolliver on passing her PhD oral preliminary exam.
• Ultrasound, Nanoparticles May Help Diabetics Avoid the Needle
• 11/06/2013: Dr. Jiang receives the Certificate as the recipient of 2013 ASNT (American Society of Non-Destructive Testing) Faculty Grant Award.
• 10/2013: Kyungrim Kim successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Kyungrim Kim!
• 8/2013: Congratulations to Sijia Guo on passing his PhD oral preliminary exam on 8/27/2013.
• June 3, 2013: Dr. Jiang won the 2013 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award (DURIP).
• Jianguo Ma won a travel award to attend 2013 Joint IEEE UFFC, EFTF, PFM Symposium on July 21-25, 2013 at the Prague Congress Centre, Prague, Czech Republic.
• MNEL members will present papers at SPIE Smart Structures and NDE conference on 3/11-3/15, 2013: Design, fabrication and test of a small aperture, dual frequency ultrasound transducer (by Jianguo Ma, et al.); Tissue characterization using acoustic wave tactile sensor array (by Kyungrim Kim, et al.); High-temperature (> 1000 °C) acoustic emission sensor (by Joseph Johnson, et al.).
• Dr. Jiang gives a seminar on flexoelectricity at the meeting of NCSU Chapter of the MRS on 2/13/2013.

2012

• New Technique For Sorting Live Cells May Expedite Biomedical Research.
• Congratulations to Kyungrim Kim on passing his PhD oral preliminary exam on 9/27/2012.
• Kyungrim Kim and Sijia Guo won travel awards to attend 2012 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium at Dresden, Germany.
• Dr. Xiaoning Jiang receives NIH Grant on Cardiovascular Disease Atherogenesis.
• A U.S. patent was recently issued to Prof. Jiang and colleagues.    Xu, T., X.N. Jiang, and J. Su, “Advanced high performance horizontal piezoelectric hybrid synthetic jet actuator”, US patent # 8,235,309, 2012.
• Prof. Jiang gave an invited talk at CIMTEC 2012: Flexoelectric Materials, Structures and Sensing Applications
• Prof. Jiang was invited to present “Micromachined Piezoelectrics for Medical Sensors and Transducers” at 2012 Design of Medical Device Conference