Pinhas Ben-Tzvi , associate professor , and doctoral students Anil Kumar and Wael Saab , published " Wireless Telemetry System for Real-Time Estimation of Ship Air Wake With UAVs " in the peer-reviewed Mechatronics Journal , Vol . 36 , June 2016 .

Corina Sandu , professor , and Saied Taheri , associate professor recently had a paper published with Anudeep Bhoopalam with Giti Tire . Bhoopalam is a former doctoral student co-advised by Sandu and Taheri . The paper , A Tire-Ice Model ( TIM ) for Traction Estimation , appeared in the Journal of Terramechanics . The work resulted from a project lead by Sandu and funded by the National Science Foundation I / UCRC Center for Tire Research ( CenTiRe ).

Doctoral students

SeungBeum Suh and Aziz Traore were co-authors with Bahareh Behkam , associate professor , on a recent paper entitled , Bacterial Chemotaxis-Enabled Autonomous Sorting of Nanoparticles of Comparable Sizes , published in Lab On a Chip . Traore is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Washington University in St . Louis .

Chris Williams , associate professor and Pete White Chair for Innovation in Engineering Education , was quoted in a recent article on the vulnerability of 3D printing by Science Magazine . The article appeared in the April 8 edition .

A student research team has had a manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of Humanitarian Engineering . Ashley Taylor , a graduate student in ME and Public Health ; Jeff Turovskiy , BSME ' 15 ; and Ben Drew , BSME ' 15 wrote the paper titled , A Sustainable Engineering Solution for Pediatric

Dehydration in Low-Resource Clinical Environments . The students were joined by Andre Muelenaer , associate professor of pediatrics , Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine ; Kerry Redican , professor of public health administration and director

of the public health program with the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine ; Kevin Kochersberger , associate professor of mechanical engineering ; and Lissett Bickford , assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics .

Dexter Austin , who graduated with a BSME this spring , took first place in the Oral Presentation category at the VA-NC Alliance for Minority Participation Symposium April 11 at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville . Austin ’ s presentation was entitled , “ Quantitative Assessment of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome ( NAS ) Symptoms .” Austin is an Initiative for Maximizing Student Development ( IMSD ) Undergraduate Scholar and is enrolled in the accelerated undergraduate / graduate degree program . His faculty mentor is associate professor Al Wicks .