Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 3 No. 3 Fall 2018

cise maneuvering of a reduced degree-of-freedom quadruped robot, W. Saab, J. Yang, P. Ben-Tzvi Akbari Hamed in IEEE Transactions Assistant Professor Kaveh Akbari Hamed had his paper, Decentralized event-based controllers for robots stabiliza- tion of hybrid periodic orbits: Application to under-actuated Akbari Hamed 3D bipedal walking, published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in August. Lee receives poster award Doctoral candidate Heonjoong Lee received the best poster award from the International Conference on Thermoelectrics Lee sponsored by the International Thermoelectric Society during a presentation in Caen, France in July. Lee works in the Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems and is advised by Pro- fessor Shashank Priya, currently associate vice president for research and director of strategic initiatives in the Office of the Vice President for Research at Penn State. Behkam publishes book Associate Professor Bahareh Behkam co-edited a book released in August with Professor Rachel Behkam Sirianni. The book is part of Springer’s Methods in Molecular Biology series called Methods and Protocols in Targeted Drug Delivery.

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