Graduate Students

Fisseha Meresa Alemayehu

Fatih Arslan

Martin Azese

1. Azese, M.N., 2011, "Modified time-dependent Penetration Length and inlet pressure Field in Rectangular and Cylindrical Channel flows driven by Non-mechanical forces, " Journal of Fluid Eng., ASME, accepted September 2011

Turgut B. Baturalp

Kyle Beck

Alejandro Bilbao

Eric Brannigan

Ryan Breighner

1. J. Hashemi, R. Breighner, N. Chandrashekar, D.M. Hardy, A.M. Chaudhari, S.J. Shultz, J.R. Slauterbeck, and B.D. Beynnon. 2010. Hip extension, knee flexion paradox: A new mechanism for non-contact ACL injury. J Biomech, Epub; 577-585.
2. J. Hashemi, R. Breighner, T.H. Jang, N. Chandrashekar, S. Ekwaro-Osire, and J.R. Slauterbeck. 2010. Increasing pre-activation of the quadriceps muscle protects the anterio r cruciate ligament during t he landing phase of a jump: an in vitro simulation. Knee, 17(13); 235-241.
3. J. Hashemi, R. Breighner, N. Chandrashekar, J.R. Slauterbeck, and B.D. Beynnon. 2010. Letter to the editor: A framework for assessing the viability of proposed anterior cruciate ligament injury mechanisms. Am J Sports Med, 38(7); NP3-7.

Josef Cepak

Zixi Chen

Eric Collins

Charles Crane

1. C.A. Crane, M.L. Pantoya, J. Dunn, Infrared Measurements of Energy Transfer from Energetic Materials to Steel Substrates, International Journal of Thermal Sciences 49 (10) (2010) 1877-1885.
2. C.A. Crane, E.S. Collins, M.L. Pantoya, B.L. Weeks, Nanoscale investigation of surfaces exposed to a thermite spray, Applied Thermal Engineering 31 (6-7) (2011) 1286-1292.
3. D.M. Lentz, H. Chen, Z. Yu, H.P. Patil, C.A. Crane, R.C. Hedden, Influence of strain rate and temperature on necking transition in a Polydomain Smectic Main Chain Elastomer, Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 49 (8) (2011) 591-598.

Ilker Durukan

Haileyesus Endeshaw

Aditya C Gaikwad

Richard George

Jeffrey Gesner

Jared Gragg

1. Gragg, J., Yang, J., and Howard, .B, "Hybrid Method for Driver Accommodation Using Optimization-Based Digital Human Models," Computer Aided Design (in press), DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2010.11.009.
2. Gragg, J., Yang, J., and Long, J., "Optimization-Based Approach for Determining Driver Seat Adjustment Range for Vehicles," International Journal of Vehicle Design, 2010.
3. Gragg, J., Yang, J., “Effect of Obesity on Seated Posture Inside a Vehicle Based on Digital Human Models,” SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, 2011.
4. Zou, Q., Yang, J., Zhang, Q., Boothby, R., and Gragg, J., "An Inverse Optimization Approach for Determining Weights of Joint Displacement Objective Function for Posture Prediction," Robotica (accepted), 2011.

Shehan Omantha Haputhanthri

Muyang He

Bradley Howard

1. Gragg, J., Yang, J., and Howard, .B, "Hybrid Method for Driver Accommodation Using Optimization-Based Digital Human Models," Computer Aided Design (in press), DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2010.11.009.
2. Ozsoy, B., Yang, J., Howard, B., Domire, Z., and Boros, R., Direct Optimization-Based Planar Human Vertical Jumping Simulation, International Journal of Human Factors Modeling and Simulation, 2011 - Vol. 2, No.1/2 pp.47-66.

Senay Imam

Daniel Jeffrey

Christopher Lane

Sungae Lee

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1. S. Lee and C.-D. Yeo, "Microwear mechanism of head carbon film during head disk interface sliding contact," Tribology International, in press (online available), 2011.

Zhipeng Lei

Email: Zhipeng.lei@ttu.edu
Office: ME 142
Phone: (806) 742-1613 x252
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Doctoral
Advisor: Dr. Jingzhou (James) Yang
Thesis/Dissertation Title: Customized Design of Personal Protective Equipment
Research Interests: Human-Centric Engineering, Healthcare Engineering, Finite Element Method, Mesh Generation, Computational Contact, and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Published Journal Papers:

1. Lei, Z., Yang, J., and Zhuang, Z., Human Face and N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Interaction: Contact Pressure Simulation and Validation, Under Review.
2. Lei, Z., and Yang, J., Methodology for Simulating Air Leakages of an N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator-A Pilot Study, (in press) Computer Aided Design and Applications.
3. Lei, Z., Yang, J., Zhuang, Z., Contact Pressure Study of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators Using Finite Element Method, Computer Aided Design and Applications, Vol. 7, Issue 6, 2010, 847-861.

James Long

Email: james.long@ttu.edu
Office: ME 142
Phone: (806) 742-3563 x281
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Masters
Advisor: Dr. James Yang
Thesis/Dissertation Title: Clothing Modeling and Simulation
Research Interests: Digital Human Modeling, and Dynamic FEA
Published Journal Papers:

1. Johnson, R., Yang, J., and Long, J., Finger Reach Envelope Using the Marching Cube Method, International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2010, 321-338.
2. Gragg, J., Yang, J., and Long, J., Optimization-Based Approach for Determining the Driver Seat Adjustment Range for Vehicles, (in press) International Journal of Vehicle Design

Archis Marathe

Email: archis.marathe@ttu.edu
Office: ME 139
Phone: (806) 742-3563 x268
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Doctoral
Advisor: Dr. Jharna Chaudhuri
Thesis/Dissertation Title:
Research Interests: High Resolution Electron Microscopy (TEM, SEM), Synthesis and Characterization of Nanomaterials, Nanomaterials with Photo luminescent, photovoltaic properties, Nanostructured materials
Published Journal Papers:
[1]“Functionalization of graphene sheets through fullerene attachment,” Yue Zhang, Liqiang Ren, Shiren Wang, Archis Marathe, Jharna Chaudhuri, Guigen Li,J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21 (14), 5386 - 5391

Peter McDonough

Email: peter.mcdonough@ttu.edu
Office: ME 124
Phone:
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Doctoral
Advisor: Dr. Alan Barhorst
Thesis/Dissertation Title:
Research Interests: Modeling kinesin microtubules, Robotics, Dynamics, Controls
Published Journal Papers:

Clayton Moore

Email: clayton.moore@ttu.edu
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Phone:
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Masters
Advisor: Dr. Jahan Rasty
Thesis/Dissertation Title: Small Fatigue Crack Detection using Phased Array Inspection Technologies and Prolonging Fatigue Life in Aircraft Panels
Research Interests: Finding the smallest detectable crack size in mock aircraft fuselage panels using phased array technologies.
Published Journal Papers:

Burak Ozsoy

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Email: b.ozsoy@ttu.edu
Office: ME 142 (Human Centric Design Research Lab)
Phone:(806) 742-3563 x281
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Doctoral
Advisor: Dr. James Yang
Thesis/Dissertation Title: Simulation and Validation of Vertical Jumping
Research Interests: Digital Human Modeling, Human dynamics, Sports Biomechanics, Multibody Dynamics
Published Journal Papers:[1] Burak Ozsoy, Jingzhou (James) Yang, Bradley Howard, Zachary Domire, Rhonda Boros, “Direct Optimization-Based Planar Human Vertical Jumping Simulation”, International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation, (accepted), 2011.

 

Kunal Patil

Email: kunal.patil@ttu.edu
Office:
Phone: (806) 742-3563
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Doctoral
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Maxwell
Thesis/Dissertation Title:
Research Interests: Modeling, Simulations and Hardware in Loop (HIL) testing of Hybrid Electric Vehicle using different simulation tools such as PSAT, Matlab, Simulink/RTI/RTW/Stateflow, dSPACE HIL, NI Veristand
Published Journal Papers:

Thomas Powelson

Email: thomas.powelson@ttu.edu
Office:ME 142
Phone: (806) 742-3563 x281
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Masters
Advisor: Dr. James Yang
Thesis/Dissertation Title:
Research Interests: Active Prosthetic Feet
Published Journal Papers:

Evan Shimek

Email: evan.shimek@ttu.edu
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Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Masters
Advisor:
Thesis/Dissertation Title:
Research Interests: Failure analysis, contact mechanics, fracture mechanics, finite element analysis (FEA), probabilistic analysis, corrosion, residual stress measurement
Published Journal Papers:

Christopher Umstead

Email: c.umstead@ttu.edu
Office: ME 124
Phone: (806) 742-3563 x254
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Doctoral
Advisor: Dr. Alan Barhorst
Thesis/Dissertation Title: Elucidating the Damage Mechanism of AHT
Research Interests: Dynamics, Vibrations, Bio medical engineering
Published Journal Papers:

Chelsea Weir

Email: chelsea.weir@ttu.edu
Office: ME 120
Phone: (806) 742-1613 x252
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Masters
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Pantoya
Thesis/Dissertation Title:
Research Interests: Spark initiation of nanothermites
Published Journal Papers:

Manjula Wickramasinghe

Email: m.wickramasinghe@ttu.edu
Office: ME 125
Phone: (806) 742-3563 x285
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Doctoral
Advisor: Dr. Jordan Berg
Thesis/Dissertation Title: "STABILIZATION OF THE SIDE PULL-IN BIFURCATION OF AN ELECTROSTATIC COMB DRIVE ACTUATOR MODEL USING OSCILLATORY OPEN-LOOP CONTROL"
Research Interests: Design and Control of MEMS, Control of Nonlinear Systems
Published Journal Papers:
[1] I. P. M. Wickramasinghe, D. H. S. Maithripala, B. D. Kawade, J. M. Berg, and W. P. Dayawansa, "Passivity-Based Control of a 1-DOF Electrostatic MEMS Model with a Parasitic Capacitance," IEEE transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 249|256, January 2009.

Jianzhe Wu

Email: jianzhe.wu@ttu.edu
Office: ME 126
Phone: (806) 742-3563
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Doctoral
Advisor: Dr. Yanzhang Ma
Thesis/Dissertation Title:
Research Interests: High pressure material science, high pressure instrument
Published Journal Papers:
[1] Jianzhe Wu, Hongyang Zhu, Dongbin Hou, Cheng Ji, C. E. Whiteley, J. H. Edgar, Yanzhang Ma*, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 72(2) (2011)
[2] Cheng Ji, Fuxiang Zhang, Dongbin Hou, Hongyang Zhu, Jianzhe Wu, Ming-Chien Chyu, Valery I. Levitas, Yanzhang Ma*, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, In Press (2011)

Haopeng Zhang

Email: haopeng.zhang@ttu.edu
Office: ME 144
Phone: (806) 786-7798
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Doctoral
Advisor: Dr. Qing Hui
Thesis/Dissertation Title:
Research Interests: Consensus control and formation control of multi-agents systems, resource allocation, agent-based coordination
Published Journal Papers:

Quiling Zou

Email: qiuling.zou@ttu.edu
Office: ME 142
Phone: (806) 742-3563 x281
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Graduate Status: Doctoral
Advisor: Dr. James Yang
Thesis/Dissertation Title: Stochastic Optimization-based Human Dynamic Motion Prediction
Research Interests: Digital Human Modeling, Multi-body Dynamics, Robotics, Ergonomics
Published Journal Papers:

1. Zou, Q., Yang, J., Zhang, Q., Boothby, R., and Gragg, J., "An Inverse Optimization Approach for Determining Weights of Joint Displacement Objective Function for Posture Prediction," Robotica (accepted), 2011.