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Congratulations to Dr. Robert C. Randall, III, who successfully defended his Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Dissertation in May on feedback stability of motion controlled sensor for sonar. His faculty advisor was Dr. John Buck. He is pictured here with his father, Robert C. Randall, II (right) who graduated from SMU in 1987 and his grandfather, Robert C. Randall, (left) who graduated in 1954 from New Bedford Institute. We proudly recognize three alumni generations of engineers in the Randall Family.
Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security: the conference’s highest award, in a competitive field with security technology professionals. Their “Study of Authentication with IoT Testbed” is about the Internet of Things (IoT), which promises to connect potentially everything to the Internet, from home appliances to key components of the nation’s critical infrastructure. Matthew and Prof. Liu describe a laboratory test environment for analyzing the security of smart devices, offering a way to experiment with real attacks in a controlled environment Congratulations to Dr. Honggang Wang who was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor this year.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Congratulations to Abdul Rahman Kehail, a BMEBT student, advised by Dr. Chris Brigham (BNG), who impressed his peers at the Three-Minute-Thesis Competition and won the graduate People’s Choice Award for his focus on Bio-polymer Production: From Bacteria to Medical Devices.
Ray Bausita ’15 and his advisor, Dr. John Buck work with mic array that allows further test research on spatial co-prime sampling theory.
Congratulation to Patrick Pasteris ’15 who tied for the First Prize in the Undergraduate Sigma Xi competition for his poster titled “Summer Monsoons using In-Situ Data from Ocean Robots: 2010 – 2014.” He was advised by Dr. Amit Tandon, mechanical engineering.
Winning Mechanical Engineering Capstone Senior Design Projects this year included the following: 1st prize– Heat Transfer Products Team for their study of a variable appliance test load. 2nd prize– Precix, Inc. Team for their development and implementation of a media reclamation method. 3rd prize– AFC Cable Team- for their development of a faulty insulation detection method. Well wishes to Professor Emeritus, Dr. John Rice on his retirement after thirty-one years of service. PHYSICS Associate Professor Dr. Gaurav Khanna continues to use his low-cost supercomputer built from 176 Sony PlayStation 3 gaming consoles stored in a refrigerated shipping container to garner national attention on his research. Check out the article in this newsletter about two recent donations that will triple the computational power of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research and offer faculty and students expanded research capacity. Congratulations to Graduate level Three-Minute Thesis Competition Winner, Kathryn St. Laurent, MS Physics ’15, who won second prize for her research on Short Duration Microlensing Events in OGLE IV. She was advised by Dr. Robert Fisher.
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