Undergraduate earns German scholarship
7933-7940 , November 2016 .
Ben-Tzvi & Ma
Pinhas Ben-Tzvi , former doctoral student Zhou Ma and collaborator Jerome Danoff from the George Washington University , had their paper , The Design Evolution of a Sensing and Force-Feedback Exoskeleton Robotic ( SAFER ) Glove for Hand Rehabilitation Application , published in the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics , Transactions of the ASME .
Nain in Biophysical Journal
Amrinder Nain ’ s manuscript , Nanonet Force Microscopy for Measuring Cell Forces was published in the Biophysical Journal . Nain The journal also selected a movie clip involving his work to be added the journal ’ s website as well . You can view the video clip here .
Tian has book chapter accepted
Assistant Professor Zhiting Tian and her doctoral student Eurydice Kanimba have had an invited book chapter titled , Modeling of a Thermoelectric Generator Device accepted for publication . The book Thermoelectric Power Generation – Advanced Materials and Devices does not yet have a publication date .
Tian , Li and Ma publish work
Chen Li , Hao Ma , and Assistant Professor Zhiting Tian have published a paper on Thermoelectric Properties of Crystalline and Amorphous Polypyrrole : A Computational Study , in the journal Applied
Thermal Engineering . The results may shed light on improving the figure of merit ZT of conducting polymers for organic thermoelectric applications . Li and Ma are PhD students in the Tian lab .
Cheng awarded best paper
Jiangtao Cheng received a Best Paper Award for his paper , Electrowetting-Controlled Dual Liquid Prism for Adaptive Beam Steering at the 12th International Conference on Heat Transfer , Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics held in Costa del Sol , Spain .
Zhao takes 3rd at IMECE
Lei Zhao , a doctoral student with Jiangtao Cheng ' s lab , took 3rd place at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2016 ' s National Science Foundation Student Competition . Zhao ' s poster was titled , Molecular Dynamics Study of Contact Line Dynamics of Water Droplets on Polytetrafluoroethylene Surfaces .
Associate Professor Pinhas Ben-Tzvi has been invited to serve as an associate editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society ' s conference editorial board for the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2017 ). The 2017 conference will be held from May 29 to June 3 , 2017 at Sands Expo and Convention Centre , Marina Bay Sands in
Undergraduate earns German scholarship
Mechanical engineering student Megan Lorey was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service , DAAD , scholarship . The group is the largest funding organization in the world supporting international exchange of students and scholars . Recipients of the highly-competitive scholarships are selected on outstanding academics and convincing project proposals .
Lorey , is enrolled in the ME Dual Degree Program with Technische Universitat , Darmstadt , where she began her semester in October .
" The scholarship was suggested to me by my program coordinator , Professor ( Jan Helge ) Bøhn ," she said . " I was interested in learning a language and diversifying my engineering education and started learning German at Virginia Tech a little more than a year ago . I ' ve taken three German classes at Tech and two more intensive courses in Germany ."
To learn more about the dual Master of Science Programs , visit the TUD / VT website .
Ben-Tzvi , Williams invited as associate , guest journal editors
Singapore . ICRA is the society ' s flagship conference .
Associate Professor Christopher Williams has been invited as a guest editor on a special issue of the ASME
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Journal of Mechanical Design on " Designing for Additive Manufacturing " which is scheduled to be published in October 2017 .