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Department news and Nonlinear Dynamics.
Professor Rolf
Mueller was
published in the
Journal of Experi-
mental Biology in
September. The
paper was titled,
Dynamic Rela-
tionship Between Noseleaf and Pinnae in
Echolocating Hipposiderid Bats. Vibration of Sandwich Beams with
Tip Mass: Numerical and Experimental
Investigations. Composite Structures.
Rolf Mueller
Oumar Barry
Assistant profes-
sor Oumar Barry
and his students
earned two best
paper awards at
the ASME Dy-
namic Systems and
Control Confer-
ence. The papers
were: On the
Dynamics and
Control of a Full
Wrist Exoskele-
ton for Tremor
Alleviation, and:
Self-Resonant
PhD students Hongjip Kim, left,
and Jiamin Wang, right, received
Energy Har-
Best Student Paper Finalist awards
vester with a
at the 2019 ASME DSCC.
Passively Tuned
Sliding Mass
Barry was also published in journals,
including:
Spectro-Spatial Analyses of a Nonlinear
Metamaterial With Multiple Nonlinear
Local Resonators. Nonlinear Dynamics.
Exact Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis
of a Beam with Nonlinear Vibration
Absorber and with Various Boundary
Conditions. ASME Journal of Computational
On the Improvement of Vibration
Mitigation and Energy Harvesting Using
Electromagnetic Vibration Absorber-In-
erter: Exact H2 Optimization. Journal of
Vibration and Acoustics.
Philip Graybill
At the 3rd
World Congress
on Electropo-
ration, and ITP
2019, graduate
student Philip
Graybill (Amrind-
er Nain lab) earned first place for best poster,
second place in the Engineering Division, and
first place for coolest image. Graybill also was
recognized for his work in biomedical engi-
neering being of exceptional quality. Graybill
also won a poster award from the Royal
Society of Chemistry.
Shima Shahab
Assistant
Professor Shima
Shahab has been
appointed as
Associate Editor
of the Journal of
Intelligent Materi-
al Systems and Structures.
Shahab also earned the 2019 ASME Energy
Harvesting Best Paper Award for: Acoustic
Holograms in Contactless Ultrasonic
Power Transfer Systems: Modeling
and Experiment, presented at the ASME
Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive
Structures and Intelligent Systems conference
in September.