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The Department of Mechanical Engineering is a growing program that boasts outstanding faculty with strong commitment to research, education and outreach programs.
We specialize in areas from renewable energy to nanotechnology, and we're committed to giving our students an education that makes them competitive in a wide range of settings. Our students graduate with an understanding of mechanical design as well as an ability to translate and share that knowledge in multidisciplinary, real-world settings.
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Advanced Transport Technologies for NASA Thermal Management/Control Systems
(2016-04)The objective of this project is to develop technologies that can be used to design mechanicallypumped two-phase cooling loop in microgravity for NASA Space systems. Specifically, design a system with a ~1-m2 -flat coolant ... -
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Continuous-flow sorting of microalgae cells based on lipid content by high frequency dielectrophoresis
(2016)This paper presents a continuous-flow cell screening device to isolate and separate microalgae cells (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) based on lipid content using high frequency (50 MHz) dielectrophoresis. This device enables ... -
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Advanced Metal Matrix Nanocomposites
(2019)Lightweight high-strength metal matrix nano-composites (MMNCs) can be used in a wide variety of applications, e.g., aerospace, automotive, and biomedical engineering, owing to their sustainability, increased specific ... -
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Graphene Array-Based Anti-fouling Solar Vapour Gap Membrane Distillation with High Energy Efficiency
(2019)New concept of solar vapour gap membrane distillation (SVGMD) is based on synergizing of nanochannel-guided water transport, localized heating, and membrane separation from feed solution.First-time introduction of the gap ... -
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Versatile microrobotics using simple modular subunits
(2016)The realization of reconfigurable modular microrobots could aid drug delivery and microsurgery by allowing a single system to navigate diverse environments and perform multiple tasks. So far, microrobotic systems are limited ... -
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Characterizing the boundary lateral to the shear direction of deformation twins in magnesium
(2016)The three-dimensional nature of twins, especially the atomic structures and motion mechanisms of the boundary lateral to the shear direction of the twin, has never been characterized at the atomic level, because such ... -
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Modeling and evaluation of magnetic fluid deformable mirror with dual-layer actuators
(2019)In this paper, a rectangular magnetic fluid deformable mirror (MFDM) with dual-layer actuators is proposed, which is designed to improve the correction performance for full-order aberrations. Compared with the conventional ... -
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Effect of Micro- and Nano-Sized Carbonous Solid Lubricants as Oil Additives in Nanofluid on Tribological Properties
(2019)The tribological behavior of graphene and graphite as additives in canola oil was investigated with a pin-on-disk tribometer. The wear surfaces of the aluminum pins lubricated with the additive-containing canola oil were ... -
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A Bi-Directional, Liquid-Spring-Magnetorheological-Fluid-Damper System
(2019)The goal of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of a novel fail-safe, bi-directional liquid spring, controllable magnetorheological fluid damper (BDLS-CMRD). This research introduces a device with independently ... -
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Tribological performance of self-lubricating aluminum matrix nanocomposites: Role of graphene nanoplatelets
(2016)In the present investigation, aluminum matrix nanocomposites reinforced by graphene nanoplatelets were synthesized by powder metallurgy method. The microstructure of the Al-Graphene nanoplatelets sample was investigated ... -
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State of the art on tribological behavior of polymer matrix composites reinforced with natural fibers in the green materials world
(2016)Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites have emerged as a potential environmentally friendly and cost-effective alternative to synthetic fiber reinforced composites. Therefore, in the past decade, a number of major ... -
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Helicobacter pylori Couples Motility and Diffusion to Actively Create a Heterogeneous Complex Medium in Gastric Mucus
(2016)Helicobacter pylori swims through mucus gel by generating ammonia that locally neutralizes the acidic gastric environment, turning nearby gel into a fluid pocket. The size of the fluid zone is important for determining the ... -
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Choice of computational method for swimming and pumping with nonslender helical filaments at low Reynolds number
(2016)The flows induced by biological and artificial helical filaments are important to many possible applications including microscale swimming and pumping. Microscale helices can span a wide range of geometries, from thin ... -
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Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity of the Random Multilayer Structure with Lattice Imperfections
(2017)Randomizing the layer thickness of superlattices (SL) can lead to localization of coherent phonons and thereby reduces the lattice thermal conductivity kappa l. In this work, we propose strategies that can suppress incoherent ... -
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Carbon-Based Materials for Thermoelectrics
(2018)This article reviews the recent progress towards achieving carbon-based thermoelectric materials. A wide range of experimental and computational studies on carbon allotropes and composites is covered in this review paper. ... -
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Performance Analysis of Retrofitted Tribo-Corrosion Test Rig for Monitoring In Situ Oil Conditions
(2017)Oils and lubricants, once extracted after use from a mechanical system, can hardly be reused, and should be refurbished or replaced in most applications. New methods of in situ oil and lubricant efficiency monitoring systems ... -
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Bioinspired leaves-on-branchlet hybrid carbon nanostructure for supercapacitors
(2018)Designing electrodes in a highly ordered structure simultaneously with appropriate orientation, outstanding mechanical robustness, and high electrical conductivity to achieve excellent electrochemical performance remains ...
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