StudentNews MechE HostsAnnual Bennett Conference


EveryApril, the Department ofMechanical Engineering hosts the Bennett Conference, which showcases graduate students’ research through oral and poster presentations.This half-day event is open to anyMasters and Ph.D.MechE student with advisor approval,but participation in the Conference is required for M.S.-ProjectOption students. The 2009 Bennett Conference was held in


Scaife Hall,Room 125,on Friday,April 17. This year’s event featured 14 oral presentations and 13 posters,with topics ranging from water flow to robotics. Following typical conference style, students


Nearly 30MechE graduate students participated in the 2009 Bennett Conference,hosted by the Department inApril.


made 12-minute presentations and then answered audience questions for fiveminutes. A panel of judges, consisting of four to six facultymembers, then determined which students earned awards for their work.For “Best Presentation,”JohnThomas won first


place,while Sourav Chatterjee won second place. In the“Best Poster”category,Chih-Yang Chang received first place, and Eric Mellers received second place. The following list includes all students who participated in the 2009 Bennett Conference.


Oral Presentations


Sourav Chatterjee “Behavior of Focal Conic Defects in Shear Flow”


Umit Danis “Thrust and Efficiency of FlagellarMicro Propulsion SystemsAcquired by Particle ImageVelocimetry”


Sunny Jhurani “An Elastohydrodynamic (EHL)Model ofWear ParticleMigration in anArtificial Hip Joint”


Pilgyu Kang “Scaling Law for Driven Spreading and Coalescence of Sessile Droplets”


Nikhil Kaushal “Optimal Plug-In Hybrid ElectricVehicle Design and Allocation for Diverse Charging Patterns”


Manseong Kim “ActiveTape Edge Position Control System”


Namjung Kim “X-Ray Image-Based Shape Reconstruction and Finite ElementAnalysis of a Human Ribcage”


Varun Krishnakumar “Global DesignOptimization Using Black-BoxOptimizationTechniques”


Minyoung Lee “Investigation ofAtomicOxygen Embedment Into Copper Surface by DFT Calculation”


Hsiang Chun Lu “Sketch-Based Rapid ShapeModelingWith Beautification,Snapping, and Candidate Selection”


Yigit Menguc “A Biologically Inspired,Multi-Segmented Wall-Climbing Robot”


Scott Moreland “Mobility Performance Experimentation of a Concept Rover in LunarAnalogTerrain”


Tushar Porwal “Quantification of Parkinson’s DiseaseWith Non-Invasive DiagnosticMethod”


JohnThomas “The Structure and Flow ofWater Inside Carbon Nanotubes”


Xinghua Liang (right) shows his poster to visiting MechE alum Brian Demczyk (M.S.1981), currently with SynMat Investment and Technology Consulting.


Posters


Rodolphe Chabreyrie “Targeting Complete ChaoticMixing Regime for an Electro-OsmoticMixer”


Chih-Yang Chang “CameraMotion Compensation for RobustVideo Event Detection”


Ankit Desai “Biologically Inspired Robot ExhibitingMultiple Modes of Locomotion”


Luoting Fu “Recognizing Network-Like Hand-Drawn Sketches: A Convolutional Neural NetworkApproach”


Mark Fuge “ATestingMethod and CognitiveModel of Human Diagram Understanding forAutomating Design Sketch Recognition”


Xinghua Liang “Guaranteed-QualityAll-QuadrilateralMesh GenerationWith Feature Preservation”


Eric Mellers “Characterization ofMicro-NeedleMachining for Molding ofMicro-Needles”


Gunay Orbay “Learning Geometric Design Knowledge From Conceptual Sketches and Its Utilization in Shape Creation andOptimization”


Hyun Soo Park “Compliant Footpad DesignAnalysis and Experiments for a Bio-InspiredQuadrupedAmphibious Robot”


Jin Qian “Automatic 3DMesh Generation andQuality ImprovementTechniques forMicrostructureMaterials”


HanWang “STRIDE II:A Surface-Tension–DrivenWater Strider RobotWith Circular Footpads”


WenyanWang “Wavelets-Based NURBS Simplification,Fairing, andOffsetting”


Nathaniel Zaharia “Creation ofMicrodroplets via Pulsed Electric Fields”


MarkYour Calendars!


The 2010 Bennett Conference will be held on Friday, April 16, in Scaife Hall.We hope you will mark your calendars now and join us for this event as part of your participation in the annual Spring Carnival at CarnegieMellon.


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