MENG 472 Special Projects - Spring 2015

Departments: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Time: Monday, April 27, 2015 - 9:00am - 2:30pm
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Room/Office: Dunham 107
Location:
J. Robert Mann, Jr. Engineering Student Center
10 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
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MENG 472 Special Projects, Spring 2015

Monday, April 27, 2015
10 Hillhouse Ave., Dunham Lab 107

9:00 – 9:15am Hitoshi Kawashima, "Small-scale Real-time Sensors to Identify Gas Sources and Monitor Air Quality", Advisor: Drew Gentner

9:15 – 9:30am Regina Chan, "Synthesizing, Characterizing and Tuning Iridium Oxide Nanoparticles," Advisor: Sara Hashmi

9:30 – 9:45am Themis Davris-Sampatakakis, "Fabrication of mold for poking and blow molding of bulk metallic glasses" Advisor: Jan Schroers

9:45 – 10:00am James Doss-Gollin, "Adapting UVC-LEDs for Portable Water Disinfection," Advisor: Jaehong Kim

10:00 – 10:15am Henrik Hartman, "A 2D analysis of bilateral jumping", Madhusudhan Venkadesan

10:15 – 10:30am Chinmay Jaju, "Investigation of Abnormal Red Blood Cell Stiffness in Microcirculatory Flows: Motivating Diabetes Patients Through Visual Aids", Advisor: Sara Hashmi

10:30 – 10:45am Break

10:45 – 11:00am Mohammad Katkhuda, "Silicon‐Pyrex Anodic Bonding for Characterizing Bulk Metallic Glasses," Advisor: Jan Schroers

11:00 – 11:15am Sam Kaufman-Martin, "ThermoGreenWalls", Advisors: James Axley and Alexander Felson

11:15 – 11:30am Gordon McCambridge, "Data Monitor for the Developing World", Advisor: Joseph Zinter and Corey O'Hern

11:30 – 11:45am Carissa Sanchez, "Bulk Metallic Glass Applications: Glucose Sensor Development," Advisor: Themis Kyriakides

11:45 – 12:00pm Paul Napolitano, "Normothermic Liver Preservation Unit", Advisors: Eric Dufresne and Joe Zinter

12:00 – 12:15pm Huu Phong Nguyen, "Improved Laparoscopic Hernia Repair Device", Advisor: Joseph Zinter

12:15 – 12:30pm Lunch

12:30 – 12:45pm Hannah Robinson, "A method for producing bulk metallic glass articles using non-disposable molds," Advisor: Jan Schroers

12:45 – 1:00pm Bryan Santos, "Analysis of Patents Filed for Bulk Metallic Glasses," Advisor: Jan Schroers

1:00 – 1:15pm Bernardo Saravia, "Viscoelastic Response of Pneumatic Actuators: A Comparison with Muscle," Advisor: Madhusudhan Venkadesan

1:15 – 1:30pm Tyler Smith, "Performance and Characterization of Flexure Geometries," Advisor: Aaron Dollar

1:30 – 1:45pm Jennie Wang, "Optimizing Platinum-Based Metallic Glass Nanorods for Nanopatterning", Advisor: Jan Schroers

1:45 – 2:00pm Sarah Weil, "Kinematics and energetics of running on uneven ground", Advisor: Madhusudhan Venkadesan

2:00 – 2:15pm Hope Wilson, "Chalcogenide Nanofiber Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries," Advisor: Andre Taylor

2:15 – 2:30pm Sagar Yadama," Conductive Thin Films from Asphaltenes", Advisor: Sara Hashmi