Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 3 No. 1 Spring 2018 | Page 8

Haghighat patent, talks
Professor Alireza Haghighat
filed a provisional U.S. patent for
RAPID Particle Transport Meth-
odology for Real-time Simulation
of Nuclear Systems.
Tarazaga at Rutgers, with students at
IMAC
Associate Professor Pablo
Tarazaga, John R. Jones III Faculty
Fellow, took a dozen students to
Florida in February for the Soci-
ety of Experimental Mechanics,
IMAC XXXVI Conference.
Tarazaga
Tarazaga gave a presentation at the Rut-
gers University as part of the Mechanical &
Aerospace Engineering Colloquium Series in
January. His talk was: "Have You Talked to
Your Building Lately? A Few Ideas of What
Can be Leveraged From an Instrumented
Building."
Sandu in Romania
Professor Corina Sandu gave a
keynote lecture on Highlights of
the Higher Education System in
the U.S. at the 2017 International
Sandu
Congress of Automotive and
Transport Engineering, Mobility Engineering
and Environment in Pitesti, Romania. She
contributed two presentations: "Real-Time
Parameter Estimation for Vehicle Systems;"
and "Robust Design Optimization and
Optimal Uncertainty Apportionment for
Nonlinear Vehicle Systems." She also chaired
two sessions at the conference organized by
SIAR, the Society of Automotive Engineers of
Romania, of which she is a member.
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Haghighat
Haghighat gave a talk, "Creation of a
Collaborative Virtual Reality System" at the
Web3D Consortium, Users Group Meeting.
He also gave a talk in conjunction with the
Department of Physics as part of a site visit to
the North Anna Generating Station, Virginia
to discuss the project to develop the CHAN-
DLER Reactor Neutrino Detector Technology
for a Sterile Neutrino Search.
Cheng proposal approved
A proposal by Associate Pro-
fessor Jiangtao Cheng, titled
"Investigation of Droplet Impact
on Soft Materials and Engineered
Surfaces," has been accepted by the Cheng
Center for Nanophase Materials
Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The proposal period begins Feb. 1 and will
allow Cheng to use cleanroom facilities to do
advanced fabrication.
Students earn fellowships
Doctoral students
Fatemeh Yazdan-
doost and Mohamad
Ghodrati, received
the Davenport
Ghodrati
Fellowship, and Pratt Yazdandoost
Fellowship, respec-
tively. The pair work as part of the MultiScale
Mechanics of Advanced Materials Laboratory
and are advised by Assistant Professor Reza
Mirzaeifar.
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