2009 Annual Report 3 Aerospace Engineering G R a D U a T E P R O G R a M H I G H L I G H T S

An Report 2008-2009 D

College of Engineering Annual Report 2008-2009 Department Administration and Committees3

Highlights6 Mechanical Engineering Department

Faculty Awards13

Faculty16

Adjunct, Research, Visiting and Associated Faculty19

Staff20

New Faculty and Staff20

Enrollment 22

Degrees Awarded23

Courses Offered24

Objectives and Outcomes 26

Student Awards27

Student Organizations28

Senior Design Projects31

Recruitment36

Enrollment by Program37

Teaching Fellows and Research Assistants38

Graduate Student Awards38

Degrees Awarded40 C O N T E N T S

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

OVERVIEW 2 Highlights 5 Faculty Awards

FACULTY AND STAFF 7 Faculty 10 New Faculty and Staff 11 Adjunct, Research, Visiting and Associated Faculty 11 Staff

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS 13 Objectives and Outcomes 14 Enrollment 14 Degrees Awarded 15 Courses Offered 17 Student Awards 18 Student Organizations 21 Senior Design Projects

GRADUATE PROGRAMS 25 Recruitment 26 Enrollment by Program 27 Graduate Student Awards 28 Degrees Awarded 29 Courses Offered 30 MS Theses and PhD Dissertations 31 Distance Learning

RESEARCH 33 Research Funding 40 Faculty Publications 55 Research Laboratories 60 Affiliated Research Centers 62 Seminars 64 Merril L. Ebner Fund

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At the graduate level, the department offers the PhD in ME as well MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR as MS degrees in both ME and MFG. Both thesis and non-thesis op- tions are available, and interested students can choose to pursue the MS in manufacturing via distance learning, as part of an international partnership with a consortium of German institutions, or even as a dual MS/MBA degree offered jointly with the School of Management. This programmatic diversity is a direct consequence of the merger, and positions the ME department to respond to new challenges and opportunities in both education and research.

During the 2008-2009 academic year we made new additions to the ranks of ME faculty at both the adjunct and tenure track level. Ad- junct Professor James Lynch, a world expert in underwater acoustics, joins us from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Assistant Professor Lorena Barba specializes in the computational modeling of fluid flow, specifically the use of “particle methods” in modeling and the pursuit of fast and efficient algorithms. Lorena received her PhD in aeronautics in 2004 from the California Institute of Technology and joined BU by way of the University of Bristol (UK). Ronald A. Roy A number of ME faculty members received well-deserved awards. New Society Fellows include John Baillieul (SIAM), R. Glynn Holt (ASA) and Victor Yakhot (APS). Allan Pierce received the Gold Medal of the I am pleased to share with you the 2008-2009 edition of the Bos- Acoustical Foundation of India, Tom Bifano received the prestigious ton University Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Annual Report. It has Bepi Columbo prize for his work with micro-deformable mirrors, and been a year of significant growth and change, starting with the July James Lynch received the Walter Monk Award for his contributions 2008 merger of the BU Manufacturing Engineering and Aerospace to underwater acoustics. Several faculty received College of Engi- and Mechanical Engineering departments, a union that resulted in a neering research and service awards, and the department benefitted single, unified department of Mechanical Engineering, boasting over from a number of young faculty and foundation awards. 40 full time faculty dedicated to quality undergraduate and graduate instruction and active in a multiplicity of research topics. ME faculty In 2008-2009, the ME department featured a total undergraduate en- have secondary appointments in other departments and are partici- rollment of 482 and conferred about 95 bachelor of science degrees. pating faculty in the newly established Divisions of Material Science The graduate program boasts approximately 100 MS/PhD students and Engineering and Systems Engineering. Add to the mix approxi- enrolled and 35 degrees conferred. It is important to stress that the mately $12M in new extramural research funding and you have a rich ME faculty research portfolio is extremely diverse and crosscutting. tapestry of applied and basic research activity that cuts across disci- ME professors serve as principal investigator on grants administered plines and offers enhanced breadth and depth of opportunity to our by numerous College departments and research centers, as well as students. Current areas of strength include acoustics and vibrations, the BU Medical Center. Indeed, almost 50% of the PhD students sup- automated manufacturing, biomaterials and biomedical applications ported by ME faculty are earning degrees in programs outside of me- of mechanical engineering, thermo-fluid sciences, materials engi- chanical engineering, such as BME, ECE, or one of the Divisions. neering and mechanics, MEMS & NEMS, nanobiotechnology, robotics & controls, photonics, and systems engineering. It is both an honor and a challenge to lead the new BU Department of Mechanical Engineering into the future. The next few years will wit- For students who matriculated as of September 2008, we offer ac- ness exciting changes in our research portfolio, faculty demographics, credited BS degrees in mechanical (ME), aerospace (AE), and manu- and degree programs. I invite you to peruse the Report and learn facturing engineering (MFG). However, the Department has since more about the depth and breadth of our programs, the spectrum of initiated a 4-year process by which we will discontinue our BS degree student activities, profiles of award-winning faculty, research inter- programs in AE and MFG and replace them with an accredited degree ests, and facilities. in mechanical engineering coupled with optional concentrations in aerospace and manufacturing. This will provide students with the best of both worlds: a solid foundational degree in the highly marketable and intellectually mobile discipline of mechanical engineering, coupled to optional, specialized education in either AE or MFG. The new program is designed with flexibility in mind, and we have since Ronald A. Roy introduced additional concentrations in the emerging areas of energy Professor and Chair and environmental engineering and nanotechnology. Department of Mechanical Engineering OVERVIEW

Highlights

Fiscal Year 2009 was a banner year for the “new” Department of Mechanical Engineering – the result of a merger of the Depart- ments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) and Manufacturing Engineering (MFG). In this year of profound change, the list of activities and accomplishments is too long to address in detail. Rather than launch into a lengthy narrative, we instead provide an “itemized” summary of ME activities in a number of areas, some of which are expanded upon in other sections of this Report.

P R O G R A M M A T I C H I G H L I G H T S E V E N T S

ME Faculty Retreat o On July 1, 2008, we formally merged the AME and MFG Departments and initiated the multi-year process of both The Department held its inaugural Retreat in January of 2009. In- expanding the BS program in mechanical engineering tended to serve a vehicle for getting to know each other, we dis- and sun-setting the aerospace engineering and manufac- cussed several matters ranging from our evolving research portfolio turing programs. (We are retaining the Manufacturing to faculty recruitment to academic program planning and evolution. (January 30, 2009) MS program and the associated Distance Learning component.) The merger effectively doubled the size of the Senior Project Day department and substantially enhanced the scope of our research portfolio. Senior Project Day is a forum for Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manu- facturing Engineering seniors to present their Capstone projects. We created two new Concentrations to supplement our With three active programs presenting in multiple rooms, we were o treated to a full slate of presentations covering a broad range of top- BSME program (see pages 3-4). ics. (May 1, 2009) o The ME front office staff, headed by Director James -Lan Mechanical Engineering Open House gell, was expanded to include a number of new positions and infused with fresh talent. In addition to the usual staff Our annual Open House featured a blend of informational tables, positions, we have now added dedicated positions that technical demonstrations, poster presentations on undergraduate and graduate research, and exceptional baked goods from the kitch- focus on financial administration, undergraduate program ens of several faculty and staff. (November 21, 2008) coordination, and communications coordination. Manufacturing Engineering Industrial Advisory Board o We established a leadership structure that includes 4 new and dedicated Associate Chairs for the various academic At this meeting the IAB members pitched senior project ideas to MFG programs. seniors. (November 21, 2008) ME/AE/MFG Design Summit o We established a formal mentoring program for the junior faculty. We invited alumni and industry representatives to join us to listen to our best student Capstone presentations from the three undergraduate programs and to offer feedback on proposed changes to the over- o We adopted annual meetings with all of our undergraduate classes. all design curriculum. (May 14, 2009) Freshman, Sophomore and Junior Class Meetings o We became fully integrated (faculty-wise) with both new Divisions, perhaps more so than any other Department We initiated a process in which the ME Chair, the Associate Chairs, within the College. interested faculty, and the Undergraduate Coordinator meet annually with the freshman, sophomore and junior classes of all three programs to discuss issues and topics of their choosing. (Four dates in o We had an extremely successful faculty recruiting season (see page 10). March and April, 2009)

Senior Exit Interviews We initiated a process in which the ME Chair and the Undergraduate Coordinator meet annually with the seniors of all three programs to get feedback on the programs and discuss issues and topics of their choosing. (Three different dates in May, 2009)

2 www.bu.edu/me/ • We instituted yearly meetings with the Undergradu- ate Committee and Chairman and our various stu- U N D E R G R A D U A T E P R O G R A M dent groups (met with all ME/AE/MFG freshmen and H I G H L I G H T S sophomores in one meeting, separate meetings with ME juniors, AE juniors, MFG juniors). These proved Mechanical Engineering to be extremely revealing and positive engagements. The undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program is in the • We instituted an ME Senior Class Exit Interview with process of undergoing a substantial revision to accommodate the Chair and the Undergraduate Coordinator. the needs of the merged Department and the restructured College. The main work involved: • We generated a summer reading list for incoming freshmen in Mechanical Engineering that has been The implementation and fine-tuning the curricular changes piloted this summer. approved in May 2008 as well as new changes introduced in academic year 2008-2009. • We assembled a detailed Self Study for ABET. Specifically, here is a list of some of the changes and improve- ments incurred in Academic Year 08-09: Manufacturing Engineering • Professor Greg McDaniel was installed as the Associ- The undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering program ac- ate Chair in charge of the ME Program. cepted its last freshman class in the fall of 2008. We have • We created a departmental Executive Committee now initiated a process in which the degree program will be consisting of the Chair, the Associate Chairs and the phased out over the next four years. Students with an inter- Director, which met weekly. est in manufacturing engineering will instead be offered the option of taking a concentration in the discipline, in which • We changed the math requirement from a choice of the four ME advanced electives are satisfied by four courses 2 of 3 courses to two required courses: EK 102 Linear from the current MFG curriculum, along with a required ex- Algebra and ME 366 Probability and Statistics for -Me periential component that could be satisfied by the Capstone chanical Engineers (new course). project, undergraduate research, or an industry experience. Other notable FY09 activities related to the MFG program are • We implemented a change from a Core elective to EK itemized below. 156 and the two math courses listed above for students graduating in 2012 and beyond. • Professor Stormy Attaway was installed as the Asso- ciate Chair in charge of the MFG Program. • The Design Subcommittee proposed changes in the curriculum but this is a long process; not yet imple- • We held an IAB meeting in Fall 2008 so that IAB mented. members could pitch senior project ideas to MFG seniors • We created new courses to support a new Concentra- tion in Energy Technologies and Environmental Engi- • The ME Department Chairman and MFG Undergrad- neering. uate Associate Chair met with all the MFG juniors (collectively). • The ME faculty ratified a Department Mission and revised ME Program Objectives and Outcomes and set • The ME Department Chairman and the Undergradu- ME program Outcomes Achievement Targets. ate Coordinator conducted a MFG Senior Exit Inter- view. • We created experiential components for the Aero- space and Manufacturing concentrations within ME. • We began the process of sun-setting two courses: ME 308 Statistics and Quality Engineering, which • We held a Design Summit with alumni and industry was offered only one semester and ME 266 Manu- representatives (the best senior Capstone projects in facturing Operations Management. ME, AE and MFG were presented here). • We filed a Termination Plan with ABET. • We created a Leadership Council with our Under- graduate Coordinator and student organization leaders to coordinate events.

2008-2009 Annual Report 3 Aerospace Engineering G R A D U A T E P R O G R A M H I G H L I G H T S

The undergraduate Aerospace Engineering program accepted The ME department now has degree programs in the follow- its last freshman class in the fall of 2008. We have now initi- ing areas: ated a process in which the degree program will be phased out over the next four years. Students with an interest in aero- • MS in Mechanical Engineering space engineering will instead be offered the option of taking a concentration in the discipline, in which the four ME advanced • PhD in Mechanical Engineering electives are satisfied by four courses from the AE curriculum, • MS in Manufacturing Engineering along with a required experiential component that could be satisfied by the Capstone project, undergraduate research, or • MS in Global Manufacturing an industry experience. Other notable FY09 activities related to the AE program are itemized below. • MS in MFG with an MBA (a dual degree program joint with the School of Management) • Professor Donald Wroblewski was installed as the Associate Chair in charge of the AE Program. It is important to note that several ME faculty have secondary appointments in other Departments and are members of • Two program changes approved in 2007-2008 were both the Division of Systems Engineering and the Division of implemented: Material Science and Engineering. These faculty advise and financially support students in both Divisions as well as stu- Offered new course ME 425 Compressible o dents in the PhD programs in both ECE and BME. Details re- Flow and Propulsion to replace ME 423 garding enrollments, completed degrees, and awards related (Compressible Aerodynamics) and ME 405 to the Graduate Program are given elsewhere in this Report. (Propulsion) Below is a short list of fundamental changes brought on by the merger, along with and other notables for FY 2009. o Added a second technical elective. We are phasing out the MS & PhD programs in AE as • The ME Department Chairman and AE Undergradu- • ate Associate Chair met with all the AE juniors (col- well as the PhD program in MFG. lectively). • Courses were eliminated or combined due to duplica- tion and others were phased out. Some courses were • The ME Department Chairman and the Undergradu- ate Coordinator conducted an AE Senior Exit Inter- significantly revised to reflect the addition of other view. courses from the department merger and the formation of the MSE Division. • We filed a Termination Plan with ABET. • Established a new math requirement for the mechanical engineering PhD program.

• Took the first steps towards establishing a core curriculum for the Mechanical Engineering MS program

• Took the first steps towards establishing a new Quali- fying Exam that reflects the needs and scope of the merged department.

4 www.bu.edu/me/ Faculty Awards plishments of tenure-track faculty less than 10 years removed from their PhD. In addition, Elise Morgan received theVernon T. Tolo Basic Science Paper Award: H Bian, J Aya-ay, A Garces, EF Morgan, SR Gil- SEAN ANDERSSON was the winner of the NSF CAREER Award. bert, HK Kim, “Epiphyseal cartilage plays an important role in revas- cularization of the femoral head following ischemic osteonecrosis,” JOHN BAILLIEUL was selected as a Fellow of the Society for Indus- at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of trial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The organization instituted North America. its fellowship program last year, and Baillieul is among its first class of fellows. He was also honored with 2008 Inaugural Distinguished TODD MURRAY was elected as a winner of the International Photo- Lecturer Series Award by College of Engineering, Boston University. acoustic and Photothermal Association, IPPA Junior Prize 2009. This prize is awarded for exceptional promise for future leadership in the CALIN BELTA was awarded a Young Investigator Research Program field, based on their early contributions to the field of Photoacoustic grant by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to con- and Photothermal Science and Technology. duct basic research in developing control and communication strategies for teams of unmanned vehicles. The three-year AFOSR grants RAYMOND NAGEM was voted the College of Engineering Teacher of are awarded to early-career scientists and engineers who show ex- the Year 2009. ceptional ability and promise for conducting research in aerospace, physics, electronics, life sciences, and chemical and material sciences. UDAY PAL received a Massachusetts Technology Investigation Award from the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC). The in- TOM BIFANO received the Bepi Colombo Prize for his career-long vestigation awards, which support proof of concept development to research in micro-deformable mirrors for astronomical telescopes. bridge the gap between invention and private sector investment, are The prize is named for Giuseppe “Bepi” Colombo, an Italian scientist conferred to Massachusetts researchers who have developed new best known for his research on the planet Mercury. The Bepi Prize technologies that aim to develop into commercially-viable products. is awarded every two years to a single researcher for outstanding He was also the recipient of 2008 TMS Materials Processing and achievements in research and technology transfer. Manufacturing Division Education Resource Award.

ROBIN CLEVELAND won the Departmental Award for Teaching Ex- ALLAN PIERCE received 2009 Gold Medal of the Acoustical Founda- cellence 2009. He also received a BU College of Engineering Dean’s tion of India. Catalyst Award for his work with Elise Morgan on the effects of shock wave therapy (SWT) on bone non-unions, a condition where the nat- RONALD A. ROY was the recipient of the Francis Crow Medal that is ural repair response of bone in response to a fracture stops. awarded annually by the University of Maine to alumni who have distinguished themselves in the field of engineering. He was also elected SRIKANTH GOPALAN received a Massachusetts Technology Investi- Chair of the Physical Acoustics Technical Committee and Technical gation Award from the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center Council of the ASA, Acoustical Society of America. (MTTC). The investigation awards, which support proof of concept development to bridge the gap between invention and private sector VINOD SARIN was a winner of the BU College of Engineering Dean’s investment, are conferred to Massachusetts researchers who have Catalyst Award for his research with Srikanth Gopalan on different developed new technologies that aim to develop into commercially- methods of storing hydrogen. viable products. He was also a winner of a BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award for his research with Vinod Sarin on different ANDRE SHARON was named Massachusetts Technology Investiga- methods of storing hydrogen. tion Awardwinner by the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC). The investigation awards, which support proof of concept R. GLYNN HOLT was named a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of development to bridge the gap between invention and private sector America. investment, are conferred to Massachusetts researchers who have developed new technologies that aim to develop into comercially- JAMES LYNCH received a Walter Munk Award from The Oceanogra- viable products. phy Society in recognition of his work related to the sound and the sea. The Walter Munk Award is granted jointly by The Oceanography VICTOR YAKHOT was named a Fellow by the American Physical Soci- Society, the Office of Naval Research and the Office of the Oceanog- ety. Less than one-half of one percent of the society’s 46,000 mem- rapher of the Navy. According to the society, recipients are selected berships is included in this select group. In naming Yakhot a fellow, based on their significant original contributions to the understanding the APS particularly noted his contributions to the field of turbulence of physical ocean processes related to sound in the sea, and signifi- theory. cant original contributions to the application of acoustic methods . XIN ZHANG won a BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award ELISE MORGAN received a BU College of Engineering Dean’s Cata- with Stephan Anderson, a radiologist at the School of Medicine, to lyst Award for her work with Robin Cleveland on the effects of shock develop a new MRI contrast agent that would advance the study of wave therapy (SWT) on bone non-unions, a condition where the biological systems. She was also named an inaugural Distinguished natural repair response of bone in response to a fracture stops. She Faculty Fellow. The Distinguished Faculty Fellows Award is given to was also the winner of the BU College of Engineering Early Career Re- tenured College of Engineering faculty who are on a clear trajectory search Excellence Award. The annual Excellence in Research Award toward exemplary leadership careers in all dimensions of science and celebrates the significant, recent and high-impact research accom- engineering. It is a five-year appointment .

2008-2009 Annual Report 5 6 www.bu.edu/me/ FACULTY AND STAFF FACULTY AND STAFF Faculty Faculty

Sean Andersson Soumendra Basu Assistant Professor Professor Robotics , Control Theory, Scanning probe microscopy, Thin ﬁlms for energy, photonic, electronic, and superconducting Symbolic-based control applications; thermal barrier and environmental barrier coatings for * PhD University of Maryland, College Park 2003 gas turbine and fuel cell applications; environmental degradation of * Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Cont- materials at elevated temperatures; structure and stability of inter- rol Systems Society and Robotics and Automation So- faces; and characterization of structure and phase transformations ciety in materials using electron microscopy techniques * 2009 NSF CAREER Award * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1989

Stormy Attaway Calin Belta Assistant Professor & Assistant Professor Associate Chair (MFG Undergraduate Program) Veriﬁcation and control of dynamical systems, Hybrid sys- Educational methods, Computer programming tems, Symbolic control, Robot motion planning and control for engineers Gene and metabolic networks * PhD Boston University 1988 * PhD University of Pennsylvania 2003 * 1995 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award * 1997 Fulbright Study Award * 2001 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award * 2005 NSF CAREER Award * 2008 AFOSR Young Investigator Award John Baillieul James Bethune Professor Associate Professor Robotics, Control of mechanical systems,Mathematical Computer-aided Design system theory, Information-based control theory * EdD Boston University 1991 * PhD Harvard University 1975 * 1994 Alumni of the Year * Fellow of the IEEE, 1992, Inaugural Fellow of SIAM 2009 * 1981 College of Engineering Professor of the Year * IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000 * Inaugural Distinguished Lecturer Series Award College of Engineering, Boston University, 2008 Lorena A. Barba Thomas Bifano Assistant Professor Professor and Director, Photonics Center Fluid dynamics, Novel computer architectures Deformable Mirrors, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Particle methods used for ﬂuid simulation Adaptive Optics, Biphotonic Microscopy, Astronomical Telescope * PhD California Institute of Technology 2004 Instrumentation, Laser Wavefront Control * 2008 Rising Star Teaching Award for the Faculty of Sci- * PhD North Carolina State University 1988 ence, University of Bristol, UK * Associate Editor, Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS * 2009 Bepi Colombo Prize Paul Barbone Michael Caramanis Associate Professor Professor Theoretical & computational (bio) mechanics Mathematical programming, control and stochastic systems and (bio) acoustics, Medical (ultrasound) imaging * PhD Harvard University 1976 Inverse problems, Finite element methods * 2004 BU College of Engineering Service Award * PhD Stanford University 1991 * Past Editor, IIE Transactions in Design and Manufacturing * 1995 Young Investigator Award ONR * Member of editorial board, IIE Transactions in Design and Manu- * 2000 Fulbright Distiguished Scholar Award facturing * 2007 Fellow of Acoustical Society of America Eytan Barouch William Carey Professor Professor Simulation of industrial processes, Numerical analysis, Underwater Autonomous Systems, Multiphase media, Acoustic Algorithm development arrays, Vibration and Acoustic Signal Processing, Sound Radiation * PhD University of New York at Stony Brook 1969 and Scattering * PhD The Catholic University of America 1974 * 1986 Fellow of Acoustical Society of America * Past Chief Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering * Fellow IEEE

2008-2009 Annual Report 7 Robin Cleveland Yehonathan Hazony Associate Professor Professor Shock Wave Lithotripsy, Acoustic Imaging, Computer methods for industrial automation, Robotics Medical Ultrasonics, Sonic Boom Propagation and education * PhD University of Texas at Austin 1995 * PhD Hebrew University, Israel 1965 * 1995 F. V. Hunt Fellow of ASA * 1979 American Chemical Society’s Arthur K. Doolittle * 2000 R. Bruce Lindsay Award of the Acoustical Award Society of America * 2009 ME Department Award of Teaching Excellence

Daniel Cole R. Glynn Holt Professor Associate Professor Manufacturing of semiconductor devices, Electro- Physical Acoustics, Sonoluminescence, Rheology of Foam, dynamic systems, Microlithography simulation Biomedical Acoustics and High-Intensity Focused Ultra- models and methods sound * PhD City University of New York 1985 * PhD University of Mississippi 1988 * Reviewer for several journals * Fellow, Acoustical Society of America * 2005, 2007, 2008 MFG Department Award of Teaching Excellence

Theo de Winter Michael Howe Associate Professor Professor Superconductivity, Cryogenics, Heat transfer, New Ventures Fluid mechanics, Acoustics, Structural vibrations Product design, Magnetic systems application * PhD Imperial College, England 1969 * MechE MIT 1961 * Fellow, Acoustical Society of America * 1997 College of Engineering Faculty Service Award * Fellow, Institute of Acoustics, UK * 1985, 1988, 2000, 2007 College of Engineering * 2000 Per Bruel Gold Medal of the ASME Professor of the Year * 2007 Rayleigh Medal of the Institute of Acoustics * 2002 BU Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching Pierre Dupont Jian-Qiang Hu Professor Associate Professor Robot kinematics, dynamics and control; Medical Discrete event systems, Optical communication networks, applications of robotics, Image guidance of minimally Queueing networks, Production and inventory systems, invasive surgery Simulation * PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1988 * PhD Harvard University 1990 * Associate Vice President of Publications, IEEE Robot- ics and Automation Society

Kamil Ekinci Mort Isaacson Associate Professor Associate Professor Nanomechanics, Nanoﬂuidics, Nanophotonics, Engineering education, Engineering ethics, Interdisciplinary Applications of MEMS and NEMS interactions between technology and society * PhD Brown University 1999 * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1974 * 2007 NSF CAREER Award * 1993 and 1998 BU College of Engineering, * 2007 BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award Faculty Service Award

Michael Gevelber Catherine Klapperich Associate Professor Assistant Professor Electrospinning of nanoﬁbers, Plasma spray, Ebeam Nanomechanics of hydrated biomaterials implants, Tissue deposition, Crystal growth, CVD engineering scaﬀold materials, Drug delivery, Bio-micro * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1988 electromechanical systems (BioMEMs) * PhD University of California, Berkeley 2000 * 1994-1997 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Srikanth Gopalan Xi Lin Associate Professor Assistant Professor Fuel cells, Chemical thermodynamics, Kinetics and Materials theory, Predictive simulation of materials electronic, transport phenomena to model the behavior of optical, magnetic, and mechanical properties electrochemical systems * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003 * PhD University of Utah 1997

Sheryl Grace J. Gregory McDaniel Associate Professor Associate Professor & Aerodynamics, Fluid dynamics, Acoustics Associate Chair (ME Undergraduate Program) * PhD University of Notre Dame 1995 Structural acoustics, Automotive brake squeal, * 2001 AIAA National Faculty Advisor Award Biological vibrations, Ocean wave energy * 2002 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award * PhD The Georgia Institute of Technology 1992 * 2005 AIAA Associate Fellow * 2000 NSF CAREER Award * 2006 Fellow, Acoustical Society of America * 2006 BU College of Engineering Professor of the Year

8 www.bu.edu/me/ Elise Morgan Vinod K. Sarin Assistant Professor Professor Mechanical behavior of biological materials, Mechanical Materials Science, Surface Modification, Physical and, stimulation of tissue differentiation, Micromechanics of Chemical Vapor Deposition, Consolidation of Ceramics/ multiscale media, Damage mechanics Composites, Structure/Property Correlations, Transparent * PhD University of California, Berkeley 2002 Optical Ceramics and Scintallator Materials. * 2005 International Osteoporosis Foundation–Servier * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1971 Young Investigator Research Award * 1984 GTE’s Leslie H. Warner Achievement Award * 2009 Early Career Research Excellence Award, BU COE * Over 80 US and International Patents Todd Murray Andre Sharon Assistant Professor Professor & Laser ultrasonics, Nanoscale materials characterization, Director, Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation Acoustic wave propagation, Optical sensors and NDE, Electromechanical machine design, controls, automation, Photorefractive materials and devices, Optoacoustic biotech/biomedical instrumentation, devices, & rapid imaging micro-diagnostics platforms * PhD Johns Hopkins University 1998 * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1988 * 2002 BU SPRInG Award * Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Robotics and * 2005 NSF CAREER Award Computer Integrated Manufacturing Ray Nagem Pirooz Vakili Associate Professor Associate Professor & Structural dynamics, Random vibration, Wave Associate Division Head, Division of Systems Engineering propagation, Inverse problems Monte Carlo simulation and optimization, Control and * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1988 management of manufacturing and communication systems * 1999 BU Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching Product development management, Computational finance, * 2002, 2003, 2009 BU COE Professor of the Year Computational biology * 2008 BU Department of Aerospace and Mechanical * PhD Harvard University 1989 Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence * Member of IEEE

Uday Pal Hua Wang Professor & Associate Professor Division Head, Division of Materials Science and Engineering Control of nonlinear dynamics, intelligent systems and control, Fuel cells, Chemical thermodynamics, Kinetics and complex networks, cooperative control, robotics, and applications transport phenomena to model the behavior of electro- in biological, energy and aerospace systems. chemical systems * PhD University of Maryland, College Park, 1993 * PhD Pennsylvania State University 1984 * 2000 Cheung Kong Scholar, Ministry of Education, China * Principal Editor, Journal of Materials Research and Li Ka Shing Foundation, Hong Kong, China * 2001 Senior Member IEEE

James R. Perkins Donald Wroblewski Associate Professor Associate Professor & Real-time scheduling and control of manufacturing systems Associate Chair (AERO Undergraduate Program) Supply chain management, Resource pricing and congestion Experimental ﬂuid mechanics and heat transfer, control in communications networks Atmospheric turbulence, Plasma deposition * PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1993 * PhD University of California, Berkeley 1990 * 2002-2004 Department of Manufacturing Engineering * 2006 NRC/Air Force Senior Associateship Award Award for Teaching Excellence * 1999 and 2006 Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department Award for Teaching Excellence

Allan Pierce Victor Yakhot Professor Professor Wave propagation and scattering in heterogeneous materi- Turbulence theory, Modeling and large-scale engineering als, Acoustical oceanography, underwater sound, Wind simulations, Industrial CFD, Heat transfer, Mixing and turbines, Structural acoustics and vibrations combution, Lattice Boltzmann methods for flow computations * PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1962 Non-Newtonian fluids, Nanotechnology and nanofluidics * 1992 Rayleigh Lecturer, ASME * PhD Moscow State University, Russia 1971 * 1995 Per Bruel Gold Medal, ASME * 2007 Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department * Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Award for Excellence in Teaching Tyrone Porter Katherine Yanhang Zhang Assistant Professor Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Integration of ultrasound technologies with chemical and Mechanical behavior of soft biological tissue, Cardiovascular biomolecular engineered vesicles for diagnostic and thera- mechanics, Multi-scale modeling of biological composites, peutic applications Micro- and nanomechanics of thin film devices * PhD University of Washington 2003 * PhD University of Colorado at Boulder 2003 * 2003 Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Frederick * 2006 Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professorship V. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship * 2007 Young Faculty Award DARPA/MTO * 2008 ASA R. Bruce Lindsay Young Investigator Award Ronald A. Roy Xin Zhang Professor & Chairman Associate Professor Physical acoustics, Medical ultrasonics for imaging and Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)/NEMS; Specific therapy, Bubble dynamics, Nonlinear acoustics, Acousto issues related to materials science, micro/nanomechanics optics and micro/nanofabrication technologies motivated by * PhD Yale University 1987 practical applications in micro and nanoscale engineering * 1993 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America * PhD Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 1998 * 2006-2007 65th George Eastman Distinguished Visiting * NSF Faculty CAREER Award, 2003 Professor, University of Oxford, UK * COE Distinguished Faculty Fellow, 2008

2008-2009 Annual Report 9 New Faculty and Staff

The Mechanical Engineering Department welcomed one new faculty member in the fall of 2008, LORENA BARBA. Originally from Chile, Assistant Professor Barba is a computational scientist and a fluid dynamicist who obtained her PhD in Aeronautics from California Institute of Technology. Her research is focused on fluid dynamics, novel computer architectures, development of fast and efficient algorithms, as well as particle methods used for fluid simulation. Prior to joining the Department, she served as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol, U.K. In addition, she is an accomplished jazz singer, and a licensed pilot.

A new faculty Search Committee headed by Xin Zhang made recommendations that led to the following three junior hires:

• Matthias Schneider, PhD, Max Planck Institute for biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, -Ger many. Currently Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Augsburg. Matthias’ expertise is in acoustically driven micro-fluidics, the application of surface acoustic waves in biotechnology, Professor Lorena A. Barba and lipid membrane hydrodynamics. His start date is September, 2009.

• Harold Park, PhD, Northwestern University. Currently Assistant Prof. of Mechanical Engi- neering at University of Colorado, Boulder. Harold works in the areas of computational mechanics, material science, and interdisciplinary nano-science. His start date is January 2010.

• Aaron Schmidt, PhD, MIT. Currently a postdoc at the University of Michigan. Aaron’s focus is on the on photo-thermal characterization of nano-scale heat transport and interfacial phenomena as well as thermal-fluids engineering and energy conversion. His start date is September 2010.

A D D I T I O N S T O T H E M E S T A F F

In FY 2009, the Department added three new staff members to its front office. One of these positions (Undergraduate Coordinator) is a new position. Another (Communications Coordinator) was frozen and is currently staffed on an interim basis. We intend to permanently fill this position at the first available opportunity.

• Megan Cunniff, Graduate Coordinator. Megan oversees the overall administration of the graduate programs, working closely with Associate Chair Xin Zhang. She also coordinates graduate teaching activities.

• Caity Fair, Undergraduate Coordinator. Caity oversees the overall administration of the undergraduate programs, working closely with Associate Chairs McDaniel, Attaway, and Wroblewski.

• Magda Hanna, Grants Administrator. Hanna oversees all the research grant activities within the Mechanical Engineering Depart- ment.

• Saana McDaniel, Communications Coordinator. Saana oversees activities related to external departmental communications. This includes the web site, departmental reports, news releases, outreach activities, etc. She also provides administrative support to the Chair, Ronald A. Roy, and the Director, James Langell.

Megan Cuniff Caity Fair Magda Hanna Saana McDaniel

10 www.bu.edu/me/ Adjunct, Research, Visiting and Associated Faculty A D J U N C T F A C U L T Y V I S I T I N G F A C U L T Y William Hauser Adjunct Assistant Professor Niamh Nowlan Visiting Scholar Peter Kerney Senior Lecturer Yanwu Wang Visiting Scholar Michael Koplow Senior Lecturer

Robert Lund Adjunct Professor Adam Clayton Powell Lecturer

R E S E A R C H F A C U L T Y A S S O C I A T E D F A C U L T Y Gianni Campion Research Associate Mary Bouxsein Adjunct Assistant Professor Anirban Chatterjee Research Associate Helen Fawcett Research Assistant Professor Parag Chitnis Research Associate Ted Fritz Professor Jon Collis Research Associate James Lynch Adjunct Professor Richard Evans Senior Research Associate Ed Sullivan Senior Research Associate Claudia Ionascu Research Associate Minghai Li Research Associate Nick Manzi Research Assistant James McLaughlan Research Associate Mohsen Mohammady Assistant Research Professor Lauren O’Malley Research Associate Frederic Padilla Research Associate

Staff A D M I N I S T R A T I V E S T A F F T E C H N I C A L S T A F F James Langell Director David Campbell Laboratory Engineer Steve Wolk Finance Manager Joseph Estano Laboratory Supervisor Magda Hanna Grants Administrator Kara Mogensen Laboratory Supervisor Megan Cunniff Academic Programs Manager Gerry Sheppard Laboratory Supervisor Caity Fair Undergraduate Coordinator Bob Sjostrom Senior CIMLAB Specialist Sarah Cowen Distance Learning Administra- tor (until April 2009) Andrew Abrahamson Research Assistant, Distance Learning Program Ryan Flament Administrative Assistant Saana McDaniel Communications Coordinator

2008-2009 Annual Report 11 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a multidis- The eclectic portfolio of the new ME Department is well suit- ciplinary educational experience in which accredited degrees ed to providing students with both classroom and laboratory are currently offered in three programs: Aerospace Engineer- exposure to a broad range of engineering activity. Technical ing (AE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), and Manufacturing competence and focus is established through electives, a de- Engineering (MFG). Our undergraduate programs emphasize sign thread that carries seamlessly through the sophomore process as well as product, so that our graduates not only de- through senior years, and – for those who choose to pursue velop the necessary technical skills required for immediate en- it – research opportunities through faculty in the Department try into industry or graduate school, but also continue to edu- and the College. The curricula culminate in senior “capstone” cate themselves and to prosper in a society whose problems design projects in which teams of students tackle difficult will require increasingly multi-disciplinary solutions. multi-faceted design projects, often stemming from the needs of faculty research or industry partners. The Department con- The result of a recent merger between the Department of tinues to maintain state-of-the-art laboratories for demonstra- Manufacturing Engineering and the Department of Aerospace tion and projects in the various undergraduate courses. and Mechanical Engineering, the new Department of Mechan- ical Engineering will offer incoming ME students starting in the During the year, we continued to strengthen all undergraduate Fall of 2009 the option of getting an accredited foundational programs, utilizing a continuous improvement process in the degree in ME with optional Concentrations in Aerospace or newly established Department which drew on best practices Manufacturing. These students will receive the best of both from the former Aerospace & Mechanical and Manufactur- worlds: a foundational degree in arguably the broadest and ing Engineering Departments. The continuous improvement most marketable degree program in engineering (ME) with process for the Mechanical Engineering program, which had specialized training in the alternate discipline. been in place for years, was strengthened with the addition of student group interviews.

12 www.bu.edu/me/ Objectives and outcomes

Mechanical Engineering Program Objectives (Ratified by the ME Faculty March 2009)

Graduates of the program will be prepared to:

• Join a technically sophisticated workforce as successful, practicing engineers in a wide range of mechanical engineering fields.

• Continuously improve and expand their technical and professional skills through formal means as well as through in- formal self-study.

• Pursue advanced degrees in engineering, business, or other professional fields.

• Advance themselves professionally and personally by accepting responsibilities and pursuing leadership roles.

Mechanical Engineering Program Outcomes (Ratified by the ME Faculty November 2008)

(a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering

(b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data

(c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability

(d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams

(e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems

(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility

(g) an ability to communicate effectively

(h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context

(i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning

(j) a knowledge of contemporary issues

(k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.

(l) an ability to interpret results of analysis of physical systems, components, or processes, and utilize physical insight to check for realistic outcomes

(m) an ability to model and design in the thermal systems area

(n) an ability to model and design in the mechanical systems area

2008-2009 Annual Report 13 Enrollment

Mechanical Aerospace Manufacturing Total Freshmen* 62 32 5 99 Sophomores* 71 38 13 122 Juniors 68 24 12 104 Seniors 51 27 29 107 Total 252 121 59 432

*Note: ENG Students are not required to declare their major until their Junior year.

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14 www.bu.edu/me/ Courses Offered

Course Num- Course Title Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Summer 2009 ber EK 102 Introduction to Linear Algebra for Engineers Barouch Hazony Attaway Hazony EK 127 Engineering Computation Attaway Attaway Attaway EK 130/1/2 Introduction to Engineering Barouch Barouch Bethune Bethune Bifano de Winter de Winter Gopalan Hazony Holt Holt Sarin Sarin EK 156 Design and Manufacture de Winter de Winter EK 301 Engineering Mechanics I Andersson Kerney Nagem Hazony B. Roy K. Zhang EK 409 Engineering Economy de Winter de Winter de Winter ME 201 Introduction to Aircraft Performance Grace ME 202 Introduction to Spacecraft Performance Nagem ME 266 Manufacturing Operations Management Hauser Hauser ME 302 Engineering Mechanics II Porter Porter Nagem ME 303 Fluid Mechanics Cleveland Barba ME 304 Energy and Thermodynamics Lin Gopalan Kerney ME 305 Mechanics of Materials Morgan Pierce X. Zhang ME 306 Introduction to Materials Science Sarin Basu ME 307 Flight Structures Nagem ME 308 Statistics and Quality Engineering Caramanis Barouch ME 309 Structural Mechanics Nagem ME 310 Instrumentation and Theory Experiments Murray Holt ME 311 Engineering Design Using CAD Bethune Bethune ME 312 Fundamentals of Engineering Design Bethune Bethune ME 345 Automation and Manufacturing Methods Gevelber ME 400 Engineering Mathematics Howe Howe ME 403 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics and Control Wang ME 404 Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems Andersson ME 406 Dynamics of Space Vehicles Nagem ME 407 Computer-Aided Design Manufacture Cole de Winter ME 409 Flight Vehicles Design I Wroblewski ME 410 Flight Vehicles Design II Wroblewski ME 411 Operations Research ME 413 Machine Design I Isaacson Koplow

2008-2009 Annual Report 15 Course Num- Course Title Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Summer 2009 ber ME 414 Machine Design II Isaacson Koplow ME 415 Product Design Cole ME 419 Heat Transfer K. Zhang ME 420 Supply Chain Engineering Perkins ME 421 Aerodynamics Yakhot ME 422 Fluid Mechanics II Yakhot ME 425 Compressible Flow and Propulsion Grace ME 430 Energy Conversion Carey ME 441 Mechanical Vibrations McDaniel ME 465 Materials Processing Powell ME 495 Senior Design Capstone in Manufacturing Engineering de Winter ME 500 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering Gevelber ME 501 Dynamic System Theory Baillieul ME 502 tionIntellectual Assets: Creation, Protection, and Commercializa- Cole ME 503 Kinetic Processes in Materials Basu ME 504 Polymers and Soft Materials Klapperich ME 505 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Gopalan ME 507 Process Modeling and Control Gevelber ME 508 Computational Methods in Materials Science Lin ME 510 Production Systems Analysis Perkins ME 514 Simulation for Manufacturing Vakili ME 515 Vibration of Complex Mechanical Systems Pierce ME 517 Product Development Hauser ME 520 Acoustics I Carey ME 521 Continuum Mechanics for Biomedical Engineers Stamenovic ME 523 Mechanics of Biomaterials Klapperich ME 525 Technology Ventures Cole ME 534 Material Technology for Microelectronics Basu ME 542 Advanced Fluid Mechanics Howe ME 545 Electrochemistry of Fuel Cells and Batteries Gopalan Pal ME 555 MEMS: Fabrication and Materials X. Zhang ME 560 Precision Machine Design and Instrumentation Sharon ME 570 Robot Motion Planning Belta ME 579 Microelectronic Device Manufacturing Cole ME 580 Theory of Elasticity Barbone ME 582 Mechanical Behavior of Materials Murray ME 583 Product Management Hauser

Note: The 500 level courses are cross-listed between the undergraduate and graduate programs.

16 www.bu.edu/me/ Student Awards

KAREN CHIEN NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

NICHOLAS DOUCETTE Student Leader Alumni Award

JULIA DELOGU Anita Cuadrado Memorial Award

VADIM GUREVICH Outstanding Dean’s Host

JENNIFER HARRIS Earle and Mildred Bailey Memorial Award

GIANNI JAVIER NSF REU Award, June 2009

AMY JONES Outstanding Dean’s Host

ANDREW LeGENDRE Harold C. Case Scholarship and second place Winner of 5th Annual Undergrad uate Design Portfolio Contest, sponsored by The Merrill Ebner Fund

CHARLIE LISSANDRELLO NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

SAMUEL MINKOFF Third place Winner of 5th Annual Undergraduate Design Portfolio Con- test, sponsored by The Merrill Ebner Fund

KEVIN RYAN Harold C. Case Scholarship

JOSEPH SHIFRIN First place Winner of 5th Annual Under graduate Design Portfolio Contest, sponsored by The Merrill Ebner Fund Roxanna Walker ROXANNA WALKER Clare Boothe Luce Award

WEN XIAO BU STAR Award and BU Work Study Award

JONAH ZIMMERMAN Student Leader Alumni Award and the Sigma Gamma Tau Student Award.

Student Advisor Service Award: ASHLEY ALFS, TINA BOURGEOIS, JULIA DELOGU, ADAM DETWILER, VADIM GUREVICH, DIONTE HEN- DERSON, ANN SHEDD, and KYLE WINTERS

Outstanding Capstone Design Project in Aerospace Engineering: “Mach A: Next Generation Rocket Racer” – KYLE BRIDGEO, NICHO- LAS DOUCETTE, VADIM GUREVICH, ROSHAN KALGHATGI, and JONAH ZIMMERMAN

Outstanding Capstone Design Project in Manufacturing Engineering: “Harpoon Brewery Team: Automated Packaging of Assorted Cases” – PATRICK CRAWFORD, HUMBERTO GARZA, ANN SHEDD, and NICOLE WIART

Outstanding Capstone Design Project in Mechanical Engineering: “Wave-in-a-Box” – MELISSA BOWLER, LAWRENCE JOHNSTON, STE- VEN MARSH, JEFFREY NORELL, and EUGENIA ROMANTSEVA

Andrew LeGendre (l.) and Kevin Ryan (r.)

2008-2009 Annual Report 17 Student Organizations

AIAA – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics BU SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Development of Space AIAA is the principal society for the aerospace profession, providing for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge Students for the Explora- of the theory and practice of the aeronautical and astronau- tion and Development of tical sciences. BU’s chapter of the AIAA is a small, collegiate Space is a new student level branch of the national chapter. AIAA hosts industry and group at Boston Univer- academic speakers, contests and general meetings catered sity. This group is dedi- towards the aerospace and aeronautical fields. Their primary cated to expanding the goal is to raise awareness among undergraduates about the role of human exploration opportunities and advances in the aerospace community. and development of space. Student members participate in national conferences and host academic and industry speak- ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers ers throughout the year. This year five members attended the International Space Development Conference in Orlando, FL. This national society, with more than 100,000 IIE – Institute of Industrial Engineers regular members and 250 student sections, is dedi- The Institute of Industrial cated to advancing the Engineers aims to promote profession of mechanical a better environment for engineering. Members successful engineers by are active at all levels of bridging the gap between almost every segment school and industry. Mem- of business, industry, education, and government. Member- bers familiarize them- ship in the student section brings students into contact with selves with the intricacies practicing engineers through technical meetings with guest of industry though plant tours, speakers, and hands-on experi- speakers, field trips to local industries, and regional and na- ences. The organization helps to provide students with insight tional society functions, including the regular meetings of the into careers in industrial engineering. This year’s high-lights Boston section of ASME. Upon graduation, student members include Pumpkin Carving, Trivia Night, Pinewood Derby Race, can become associate members of the society. and Senior Banquet.

BU Rocket Team Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society

The BU Rocket Team Pi Tau Sigma is the national mechanical engineering honor is a branch of the society. The objectives of this society are to encourage and AIAA. The team’s recognize the achievements of undergraduate students in me- goal is to conduct chanical engineering, to foster high ideals in the engineering research into hybrid profession, to develop leadership and citizenship, to stimulate rocket motor design, and support departmental activities, and to honor practicing and is therefore engineers for distinguished technical attainments. more directed at the optimization of- hy SAE – Society of Automotive Engineers brid motors rather than the launching The Society of Automotive Engineers comprises 50,000 engi- of a rocket. The team allows students to use innovation and neers and scientists working together to advance the field of ingenuity outside of a class environment. The team’s members mobility. With their diverse educational backgrounds, mem- set their own deadlines, track their progress, report findings bers are dedicated to furthering the research, development, and encourage each other almost daily. The design process design, manufacture, and utilization of land, sea, air, and goes from chalkboard and CAD drawings to machining and as- space vehicles. sembling by testing the untapped engineering skills of each member. BURT has a very promising future and as Vice Presi- dent Nick Doucette puts it, “BURT develops some of the best engineering students at BU.”

18 www.bu.edu/me/ Sigma Gamma Tau Honor Society SME – Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Sigma Gamma Tau is the honor society for Aerospace Engi- This professional so- neering. The objective of the society is to recognize and honor ciety stimulates re- those individuals in the field of aeronautics and astronautics search and dissemi- who have, through scholarship, integrity, and outstanding nates knowledge in all achievement, been a credit to their profession. The society phases of manufactur- seeks to foster a high standard of ethics and professional prac- ing engineering. Stu- tice and to create a spirit of loyalty and fellowship, particularly dent members par- among students of aerospace engineering. ticipate in field trips, technical seminars, and lecture series, and are upgraded automatically to regular society member- ship one year after graduation. This year SME hosted a guest speaker Bill Harding from GE. They had successful company tours and Egg Drop event. SME closed the year with a Manu- facturing Dinner. Members of Society of Automotive Engineers

2008-2009 Annual Report 19 2009 Aerospace Engineering Seniors (top), Manufacturing Engineering Seniors (bottom) and Mechanical Engineering Seniors on page 24.

20 www.bu.edu/me/ Senior Design Projects

Aerospace Engineering

Project Title Team Members Alcmene: Mothership UAV for Delivering Indoor Uninhabited Aerial Systems Chizinski, Delogu, Giammalvo, Messer, Tolentino

Hyperion: Electric UAV for Aerial Reconnaissance from Unmanned Surface Vehicles Bartlett, Bonhomme-Isaiah, Jones, Reynolds, Winters

A/B-1 FOG: High Altitude Close Air Support Aircraft Fultz, Loycano, Ma, Phillips, Thorley, Ward

C-76 Atlas: Next Generation Strategic Airlifter Bentson, Butler, Chan, Rodriguez, Mikheev

Mach A: Next Generation Rocket Racer Winning Team Bridgeo, Doucette, Gurevich, Kalghatgi, Zimmerman

Winning Team

velope. Using short periods of burn coupled with spectacular maneuvers and glide segments, the Rocket Racers race in front of live crowds and fans at home.

The current Rocket Racer is an adapted Velocity SE kit plane retrofitted with an XCOR rocket engine. Due to the original purpose of the Velocity SE, Mach A believes the current model does not meet the demands of a high performance rocket powered aircraft. To address this deficiency, Mach A has -de veloped a next-generation Rocket Racer, which is faster, more maneuverable and ultimately more entertaining. This was done by combining an innovative liquid rocket engine capable of providing 8800 lbs. of thrust, a unique and streamlined aircraft profile with a robust underlying structure, and a dynamic control system designed to achieve high performance and maneuverability. Together, these remarkable features are con- The Aerospace Engineering program culminates with a senior tained within a novel and aesthetically pleasing design. “capstone” design project in which teams of students tackle difficult multi-faceted design projects. The students enroll in Due to this unique mission, the Mach A aircraft structural a two-semester Flight Vehicle Design course (ME 409 & 410). design addresses the issues of creating a structure to with- During these courses each team conceives, plans, and carries stand high-g maneuvers in a race course environment while out a significant aerospace vehicle design project in which maintaining a relatively low-weight capable of optimizing its each team member concentrates on a separate technical area. periods of glide. The design addresses these issues in the At the Senior Project Conference all the teams give an oral pre- materials selection and analysis as well as the optimization of sentation of their projects. This year the winner was theMach structural members and systems in accordance with the loads A: Rocket Racer Team, Kyle Bridgeo, Nicholas Doucette, Vadim analysis conducted throughout the design process. Further, Gurevich, Roshan Kalghatgi and Jonah Zimmerman who de- layout concerns necessitate the need for a wing-box without signed a next generation Rocket Racer. a fuselage carry-through. Additionally special consideration is given to the design of the tail booms as they must opti- By combining the exhilarating rush of Formula One racing with mize weight while carrying the full lifting force applied by the the thrill of roaring rocket engines, the Rocket Racing League tail. All of these concerns are addressed utilizing both com- (RRL) entertains spectators with a new, high intensity sport. posite and metal materials as certain elements require the Founded in 2005, the RRL pits rocket powered aircraft against strength and weight properties of composites while all other each other on a course designed to push the performance en- elements utilize aircraft grade aluminum for its cost efficiency.

2008-2009 Annual Report 21 Manufacturing Engineering

Project Title Team Members

Harpoon Brewery Team: Automated Packaging of Assorted Cases Crawford, Garza, Wiart, Shedd

Winning team Raytheon: Value Stream Mapping of Missile Rework Farber, Rocheleau, Weber

Z Corporation: Optimization of 3-D Printer Lines Alfs, Detwiler, Diep, Ogucu

New Balance: Redesign of Upper Stitching Fixtures Green, John, Regojo, Tong

Necco: Improving the Drying Process for Candy Wafers Allen, Mainzhausen, Menking, Stephenson

Codman Division, Johnson & Johnson: Sterile Packaging Line & U-shaped Produc- Al Sayegh, Kang, Kaynar, Shammout tion Cell Redesign Axcelis: Vacuum Pump Mounting Fixture Design & Fabrication Escoto, Hubbard, Kyung Lee, Packard

Winning Team The Manufacturing Engineering program culminates with a senior “capstone” design project in which teams of students tackle difficult multi-faceted design projects. The students enroll in the Product Design course ME 415 in the fall and then in the Senior Design Capstone in Manufacturing Engineering during the spring of their senior year (ME 495). During this course, they work in teams. Each team has an industrial customer for whom they work one day a week on typical manufacturing project. The teams are responsible for giving weekly progress reports to their industrial cus- tomers and to the supervising faculty. The final project reports are presented at the Senior Project Conference. This year the winning team, the Harpoon Brewery Team, Patrick Crawford, Humberto Garza, Ann Shedd and Nicole Wiart, worked at the Harpoon Brewery. The team constructed a manufacturing system to sort variety packs of beer. The Harpoon Brewery plans to use this system from now on in their packaging facility.

22 www.bu.edu/me/ Mechanical Engineering

Project Title Team Members

Dual Resistance Concentric Muscle Trainer Al-Husseini, Ayrikyan, Macris, Maloney, Sharkey

Lumalign – Bulk Feed Attachment for a Reverse Vending Machine Can Collector Brady, Bustin, Laing, Lovett

Chamber for Ultrasonic Testing of Individual Biological Cells Benn, Calcara, Long, Sanders, Weldon

Bioreactor System for Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels Chin, Fung, Hasan, Sefrioui, Szeto

DampIT – Vibration Isolation System for Roof Mounted Camera Cai, Chalupa, Henderson, Mason, Munson

Underwater Field Observer – Housing for Underwater Camera Clausen, Durkin, Harris, Murphy, Wilinski

Sun Spy – Mechanical Sun Tracking Device for Solar Ovens Bourgeois, Davis, Groll, Lissandrello, Neidorff

The Elevation Azimuth Tracker for Solar Ovens Campbell, Davidsson, Johnson, Lim, Valeri

Wave-In-A-Box – Wave Motion Simulator Winning team Bowler, Johnston, Marsh, Norell, Romantseva

Vertical Wave Simulator – A Testing Apparatus for Ocean Wave Energy Convert- Axten, Burbank, Deane, Southard, Walker ers

Winning Team The Mechanical Engineering program also culminates with a senior “capstone” design project in which teams of students tackle difficult multi-faceted design projects, often stemming from faculty research. The students enroll in a two-semester Machine Design course (ME 413 & 414). During these courses the teams conceive, plan, and carry out a major mechanical engineering design of a multicomponent system. Each team gives an oral presentation of its project at the Senior Project Conference, where one team is declared a winner.

This year the winner was the Wave-in-a-Box Team, Melissa Bowler, Lawrence Johnston, Steven Marsh, Jeffrey Norell and Eugenia Romantseva, who developed Vertical Wave Stimula- tor. The lab apparatus is used to facilitate model testing of Wave Energy Converters.

The team designed a laboratory-scale ocean wave simulator for Professor J. Gregory McDaniel’s research into ocean wave energy. The system creates a simulated ocean wave environment for testing specific wave energy collectors (WECs) known as point absorbers. Point absorbers are relatively small compared to the wave-length of ocean waves and require only the vertical displacement of the wave to stimulated the appropriate ocean environment. Currently, the majority of existing wave tanks are 30 to 40 meters long and several meters wide and deep. Wave-in-a-Box is unique in that it is scaled to fit within a small laboratory while still creating user defined waves with a period comparable to natural ocean waves.

2008-2009 Annual Report 23 24 www.bu.edu/me/ GRADUATE PROGRAMS Recruitment

Two new PhD students were awarded Dean’s Fellowships (DFs) to the MS program. 15 applicants were offered admission as and matriculated in Fall 2008. Seven new doctoral students post-BS PhDs and 8 as post-MS PhDs. This is in comparison to matriculated with Graduate Teaching Fellowships (GTFs) in Fall 2008, which had a total of 51 admits with 25 for the MS the same period; six of these students have secured Research program, 17 for the post-BS PhD program, and 9 for the post- Assistantships (RAs) for the Fall 2009 semester. We have re- MS PhD program. cruited five new Dean’s Fellows and eight new GTFs for the Fall 2009 semester. The numbers for the Fall 2009 semester are comparable in volume to previous years. However, while the number of We received 206 applications for the Fall 2009 semester, up doctoral applicants admitted remains constant in comparison from 191 in Fall 2008, and up from 204 in Fall 2007. We of- to prior years, the number of MS students admitted has in- fered admission to a total of 95 students; 72 of which were creased nearly three-fold from the previous year.

New Matriculants 2008-2009

Male Female FT PT GTF RA Fellow DF MS US 10 4 4 10 0 1 0 0 Intl. 4 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 PHD US 4 1 5 0 4 1 0 1 Intl. 4 0 4 0 2 1 0 1 Total 22 8 20 10 6 3 0 2

Fall 2008 Mean GRE Scores

Verbal % Quantitative % An. Writing % MS US 530 68 725 78 4.5 53 Intl. 280 5 783 91 2.5 3 PHD US 560 75 756 85 5.0 70 Intl. 465 50 753 84 4.33 47 Mean 459 50 754 85 4.0 44

Spring 2009 Mean GRE Scores

Verbal % Quantitative % An. Writing % MS US 527 66 722 77 4.33 47 Intl. 340 16 675 67 2.75 4.5 PHD US ------Intl. ------Mean 434 41 699 72 3.5 26

2009 Mechanical Engineering Seniors (l) 2008-2009 Annual Report 25 Enrollment by Program

History of MS Enrollment

90 90 80 80 70 70 60 53 60 53 50 44 33 31 31 MFG 50 44 33 35 34 31 31 25 MFG 40 34 28 25 40 35 30 28 AME* (AME & MFG AME* (AME & MFG 30 44 Merged into ME Fall 2008) 20 34 34 Merged into ME Fall 2008) 20 32 27 33 31 44 28 32 34 25 33 24 34 10 28 27 31 10 25 24 0 0

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100 90 80 70 45 60 53 47 50 45 MFG 50 44 40 40 37 AME*(AME & MFG 30 27 58 Merged into ME Fall 2008) 20 43 33 35 34 34 22 21 26 10 15 0

26 www.bu.edu/me/ Graduate Student Awards

KEITHE BAGGETT Outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellow MARKO SUPUT Mann Redmayne Award given to a non-cor- Award. porate member, under 35 years of age, who is the author of the best paper published in the Transactions of the Institute. RACHEL DELUCAS Mann Redmayne Award given to a non- Awarded to M Suput, U Pal, R Delucas, S Pati, G Ye, and A corporate member, under 35 years of age, who is the author Powell, for their paper “Solid oxide membrane technology for of the best paper published in the Transactions of the Insti- environmentally sound production of titanium,” Mineral Pro- tute. Awarded to M Suput, U Pal, R Delucas, S Pati, G Ye, and A cessing and Extractive Metallurgy, Vol 117, No 2, pp118-122, Powell, for their paper “Solid oxide membrane technology for July 2008. environmentally sound production of titanium,” Mineral Pro- cessing and Extractive Metallurgy, Vol 117, No 2, pp118-122, HU “TIGER” TAO Best Poster Award at 2008 Photonics Center July 2008. Symposium, December 2008.

KEBIN FAN Photonics Center Berman Future of Light Prize Award, March 2009; Photonics Center Graduate Student Trav- el Award, May 2009; and Photonics Center Senior Research Assistantship Award, 2009-2010.

BENJAMIN HANSEN Best Graduate Thesis Award, sponsored by The Merrill Ebner Fund, May 2009;and NSF Graduate Fel- lowship Award.

BRADLEY KAANTA BU Technology Development Award, March 2008; and BU Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Award, March 2009.

UTKU KEMIKTARAK American Physical Society GIMS travel award.

I-KUAN LIN Best Poster Award for his poster, “Elastic and Viscoelastic Characterization and Modeling of Polymer based Structures for Biological Applications,” at 2008 ASME Interna- tional Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Novem- ber 2008.

SOOBHANKAR PATI Mann Redmayne Award given to a non- corporate member, under 35 years of age, who is the author of the best paper published in the Transactions of the Insti- tute. Awarded to M Suput, U Pal, R Delucas, S Pati, G Ye, and A Powell, for their paper “Solid oxide membrane technology for Zach Waters environmentally sound production of titanium,” Mineral Pro- cessing and Extractive Metallurgy, Vol 117, No 2, pp118-122, ZACH WATERS Best Student Paper in Underwater Acoustics June 2008. and Best Student Paper in Signal Processing at Acoustical Soci- ety of America Meeting in Paris, July 2008. YILING QIU Photonics Center Graduate Student Travel Award, PEN ZHANG BU/CIMIT Fellowship, awarded to second- or June 2009. third-year graduate students researching topics that help CARLOS RIVAS 2008 NSF Travel Fellowship to attend Interna- solve healthcare challenges such as medical device develop- tional Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, Dour- ment, creating algorithms and software for use in clinical prac- don, France. tice, and engineering in medical environments.

MICHELE SAVERY Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship, presented by XIAOYU “RAYNE” ZHENG BU Nanoscience & Nanotechnol- the Clare Booth Luce Foundation, the largest source of private ogy Award, March 2008; Best Poster Award (Third-Place Prize) funding for women in science, mathematics and engineering. at 2008 Photonics Center Symposium, December 2008.

2008-2009 Annual Report 27 Graduate Degrees Awarded

History of MS Degrees Awarded

50 45 40 35 30 23 32 21 19 MFG 25 22 26 8 20 17 AME*(AME & MFG 15 19 25 Merged into ME Fall 2008) 10 21 19 17 14 16 5 12 11 12 5 0

History of PhD Degrees Awarded

10 9 8 11 MFG 8 6 6 4 2 1 4 AME*(AME & MFG 4 Merged into ME Fall 2008) 5 5 2 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 1 0

28 www.bu.edu/me/ Courses Offered

Course Course Title Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Summer 2009 Number

ME 500 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering Gevelber ME 501 Dynamic System Theory Baillieul ME 502 Intellectual Assets: Creation, Protection, and Commercialization Cole ME 503 Kinetic Processes in Materials Basu

ME 504 Polymers and Soft Materials Klapperich

ME 505 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Gopalan ME 507 Process Modeling and Control Gevelber ME 508 Computational Methods in Materials Science Lin ME 510 Production Systems Analysis Perkins ME 514 Simulation for Manufacturing Vakili ME 515 Vibration of Complex Mechanical Systems Pierce ME 517 Product Development Hauser ME 520 Acoustics I Carey ME 521 Continuum Mechanics for Biomedical Engineers Stamenovic ME 523 Mechanics of Biomaterials Klapperich ME 525 Technology Ventures Cole ME 534 Material Technology for Microelectronics Basu ME 542 Advanced Fluid Mechanics Howe ME 545 Electrochemistry of Fuel Cells and Batteries Gopalan Pal ME 555 MEMS: Fabrication and Materials X. Zhang ME 560 Precision Machine Design and Instrumentation Sharon ME 570 Robot Motion Planning Belta ME 579 Microelectronic Device Manufacturing Cole ME 580 Theory of Elasticity Barbone ME 582 Mechanical Behavior of Materials Murray ME 583 Product Management Hauser ME 704 Adaptive Control of Dynamic Systems Andersson ME 706 Acoustics and Aerodynamics Howe ME 709 Turbulent Flows Yakhot ME 710 Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control Caramanis ME 713 Viscous Flow Grace ME 714 Advanced Stochastic Modeling and Stimulation Vakili ME 720 Acoustics II Cleveland ME 725 Queuing Systems Perkins ME 726 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering I Grinstaff ME 727 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering II Wong ME 740 Vision, Robotics and Planning Dupont ME 762 Non-Linear Control of Mechanical Systems Belta ME 765 Production System Design Caramanis

2008-2009 Annual Report 29 MS Theses and PhD Dissertations

MS Theses

Student Name Dissertation Advisor Dissertation Title

The Inter-Relationship Between MR Diffusion Measures and the Mechanical Status of the Brideau, Holly Zhang, Katherine Intervertebral Disc

The Growth and Characterization of Copper (II) Oxide Nanowires with Single Nanowire Electri- cal, Gas Sensing, and Photoconduction Mea- Hansen, Benjamin Zhang, Xin surements

A Flow-Through Acoustic Waveguide for Two- Ormonde, Christopher Roy, Ronald Phase Bubbly Flow Void Fraction Measurement Tracking a Single Fluorescent Particle in a Confo- cal Microscope: Source Localization and Control- Sun, Ting Andersson, Sean ler Design

PhD Degrees Dissertations

Student Name Dissertation Advisor Dissertation Title Theory and Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Rapidly Oscillating Flows: Application to Nano- Colosqui, Carlos Yachot, Victor fluidics Investigations of the Sound Generated by Super- Foley, Alia Howe, Michael cavity Ventilation

Analysis of Novel Finite Element Formulations Rivas Aroni, Carlos Barbone, Paul for Iterative Solution of Elastic Inverse Problems

Sensing Resonant Objects in the Presence of Noise and Clutter Using Iterative, Single-Channel Waters, Zachary Roy, Ronald Acoustic Time Reversal

30 www.bu.edu/me/ Distance Learning

The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a distance additional DLP technology in the following way. All class ses- learning program (DLP) for a Master’s degree for engineering sions are recorded and can be viewed on-line by registered students. The DLP has been in operation since 1992, originally students very soon after the end of class. This feature has con- starting in the Department of Manufacturing Engineering and tinuously improved in quality, flexibility and reliability over the now continuing in the Department of Mechanical Engineer- past years. Students who travel, or may need to miss class ing. This program is historically distinct from many other dis- due to illness or other emergencies, have found this utility tance learning programs in that our aim has been to trans- extremely useful. Many students also find this feature help- parently extend the reach of our existing on-campus classes, ful when reviewing for tests. We are constantly looking for rather than creating different course material for delivery over ways to enhance the usefulness and simplify the use of these the internet. Our distance students use videoconferencing recordings. To that end we have been continuing an evalua- to participate in real time interaction with the instructor and tion of Apreso and Echo 360 capture solutions. These provide with students seated in the on-campus sections. a number of advantages over our current Real Media platform and we expect to be continuing this evaluation into the new The program provides Master’s level classes primarily to indus- fiscal year. trial employees wishing to add to their education background, but is open to others if the format suits their needs. DLP Since most of the interaction is meant to be in real time, a courses have included as many as 25 M.S. level courses in the robust high resolution videoconferencing solution is essential following areas: material science, systems engineering, prod- to the operation of the program. Radvision’s “Click to Meet” uct development, advanced manufacturing strategies, and software has been at the heart of our videoconferencing ca- high-tech areas such as micro/nanoelectronics and MEMS/ pability for a few years now. This software enables us to pro- NEMS. vide learning in real time to DLP students at individual PCs, provided they have an inexpensive camera and microphone As emphasized by a number of our Industrial Advisory Board and a high speed internet connection. This has been working members (IAB) in the past, many employees and leaders in so successfully that more than one guest lecturer has given the industry involved with creating new high-tech products, his lecture from a distance via this means. This has opened a do not have the necessary training to mass-produce these channel for high profile guest speakers who might be unavail- products with high yield and low cost. Many are finding the able due to travel times and busy schedules. DLP to be an excellent vehicle for providing this information, and for serving as a convenient means for life-long learning of To facilitate web based distribution of class material, the DLP ever-growing technology. makes an electronic whiteboard available in one of the regular DL classrooms. This is used by professors to generate multi- DLP students may participate from anywhere there is a high page PDFs of notes written on the board. These are easily dis- speed internet connection available to them, in this country tributed electronically and can be made available on-line after or even abroad. Indeed, recently we have had students from class, at the professor’s discretion. as far away as Taiwan, Hawaii, and Mexico. Typically technology companies sponsor these students. Our DLP classes inte- The DLP continues to play an important role in promoting the grate the distance students into the normal on-campus group department, as it provides important industrial connections of graduate students through web based videoconferencing. and helps to develop key future industrial leaders. Distance In this way, both groups hear, see and participate in real time. learning by Click to Meet permits the department to conduct This mutual participation benefits both groups. On-campus Masters degree classes concurrently on-campus and at mul- students gain perspective on the real world working environ- tiple industrial sites with complete two-way video and audio ment through the experience of DLP students, and DLP stu- interaction among all locations. Students can participate in dents benefit by engaging with their on-campus peers and class from a variety of locations, including at home, and even being reminded of the benefits of pursuing higher education. at a hotel when traveling. Students can access videos on-line and replay past classes if it is necessary to miss an occasional All students, including the on-campus ones, benefit from the lecture.

2008-2009 Annual Report 31 The DLP committee during the past academic year consisted In total, the DLP offered 11 different courses during the past of: academic year. A total of 52 individual DLP course enrollments were taken during this period. Four M.S. DLP degrees were DAN COLE (chair) awarded. These enrollments permitted talented engineers to remain on the job while earning an advanced technical degree. ANDREW ABRAHAMSON Most of those receiving M.S. degrees completed their studies in about three years or less. In addition, several other on-cam- SARAH COWEN (until April 2009) pus students who graduated used the DLP to take just a few WILLIAM HAUSER courses, to help solve the problem of such things as summer internships in industry, but to still pick up a BU course.

Distance Learning Courses Offered

Course Number Course Title Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Summer 2009 ME 502 Intellectual Assets x ME 507 Process Model and Control x ME 510 Production Systems Analysis x ME 525 Technology Ventures x ME/MS 534 Materials Technology for Microelectronics x ME 560 Precision Machine Design and Instrumentation x ME/EC 579 Microelectronic Device Manufacturing x ME 580 Manufacturing Strategy x ME 583 Product Management x ME 765 Production System Design x ME 770 Micro-Machined Transducers x

32 www.bu.edu/me/ RESEARCH

Research Funding

External Research Funding Administered by the ME Department

RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING GRANT PERIOD TOTAL FUNDING AGENCY Andersson IDBR: Simultaneous tracking of multiple particles in NSF 9.1.07-8.31.09 $273,166 confocal microscopy

Andersson IDBR: Simultaneous tracking of multiple particles in NSF 9.1.07-2.28.11 $20,000 confocal microscopy

Baillieul Behavioral Dynamics in the Cooperative Control of DOD/ 5.1.07-11.30.12 $7,400,000 Mixed Human/Robotic Teams, MURI Topic 16, FY 2007 ONR BAA 06-028 AFOSR Baillieul Sensors & sensor networks in Adverse and Stochastic NSF 9.1.03-8.31.09 $2,500,000 Environments Basu FRG: Functionally Graded High-Al Mullite Barrier NSF 8.15.03-7.31.08 $640,000 Coatings Murray

Sarin Basu REU Supplement: FRG: Functionally Graded High-Al NSF 2.1.04-7.31.08 $12,000 Mullite Environmental Barrier Coatings

Belta A formal approach to control of hybrid systems NSF 9.15.08-8.31.11 $300,000

Belta Specification Languages & distributed Control DOD/ 1.1.09-12.31.12 $225,000 Schemes for Teams of Unmanned vehicles Army Belta Formal Verification and Synthesis of control & AFOSR 1.1.09-12.31.12 $300,000 Communications strategies for teams of unmanned vehicles Belta Scalable Algorithms for Safety Vericication & Reach- NSF 7.1.05-8.31.08 $207,957 ability Analysis of Hybrid systems

Belta REU supplement for career: Hierarchical abstractions NSF 5.1.09-7.31.09 $24,000 for planning and control of robotic swarms

Belta CAREER: Hierarchical abstractions for planning and NSF 7.1.05-1.31.10 $400,000 control of robotic swarms

Bifano Ultraflat Tip Tilt Piston MEMS Deformable Mirror NASA 12.3.06-12.3.08 $102,793

2008-2009 Annual Report 33 RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING GRANT PERIOD TOTAL FUNDING AGENCY Carey Autonomous Sensors And Array Processing: The ONR 3.1.05-2.28.10 $528,395 Autonomous Wide Aperture Cluster For Surveillance (AWACS) Carey Sound Speed And Attenuation In Multiphase Media ONR 1.1.04-3.31.11 $1,068,901

Roy

Carey ONR Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Proposal for ONR/ERA 1.1.07-12.31.08 $227,322 Investigation of Complex Range-dependent Shallow Water Sound Transmission Carey Sound Speed And Attenuation In Muddy Sediments ONR/ERA 2.22.07-11.30.09 $164,074

Porter Carey Speed And Attenuation In Multiphase Media ONR/ERA 1.1.04-3.31.11 $826,681

Carey Sound Speed And Attenuation In Muddy Sediments ONR/ERA 1.1.04-3.31.11 $1,068,901

Cleveland The Structural Basis of Kidney Stone Fragility NIH-DDK sub 9.1.08-8.31.09 $444,127 with Indiana Univ. Cleveland CDI: Full fidelity numerical simulation of ultrasonic- NSF sub with 10.1.08-9.30.12 $488,500 wave propagation in the human body Caltech Roy Dupont Image-guided Intracardiac Beating Heart Surgery - NIH Children’s 7.1.08-5.31.09 $1,146,016 Competitive Renewal Hospital prime

Dupont Sterable Mems Inst. for precise intracardiac surgery NHLBI 8.1.07-4.30.12 $4,971,935

Ekinci NIST “IPA Agreement” NIST 9.1.08-08.31.09 $110,160

US Commerce Dept. Ekinci High-Frequency Nanofluidics of Bio-NEMS: Theory NSF 6.15.08-5.31.11 $240,000 and Experiments Yakhot Ekinci Lincoln Labs Scholar Program, Graduate student sup- Lincoln Labs 7.1.08-4.30.09 $15,299 port for Carl Hart

Ekinci CAREER: Photonic Integration of Nanoelectrome- NSF 3.1.2007-2.28.10 $400,000 chanical Systems

Gevelber Real-Time Control for Engineering Electrospun NSF 9.1.08-8.31.11 $224,100 Nanofiber Diameter Distributions for Advanced Ap- plications Gevelber SBIR/STTR Phase II: Advanced Control of Electron Cyber Materials 4.15.06-4.30.09 $171,941 Beam Deposition for High Precision Optical Coatings LLC/NSF STTR program

34 www.bu.edu/me/ RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING GRANT PERIOD TOTAL FUNDING AGENCY Gopalan Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes: Unraveling The Rela- NETL 9.1.08-9.30.11 $450,001 tionship Between Structure, Surface Chemistry And Pal Oxygen Reduction

Basu

Ludwig Gopalan Advanced Cathode Materials for Solid Oxide Electro- San Diego State 3.1.05-7.31.08 $75,000 lyzers Univ. Founda- tions Gopalan MIEC membranes for Hydrogen Generation & Sepa- Other Corp. 3.1.06-2.28.09 $136,785 ration Pal Holt Laser Nucleation And Collapse Stability For Advanced US Army SMDC 2.18.2008-6.28.09 $945,000 Cavitation Power Technology (ACPT): Year 1

Howe Sound sources of phonation UCLA Medical 12.1.2007-11.30.09 $168,000 School - NIH/ NIDCD Howe The self noise from ventilated supercavities ONR/ERA 12.12.05-5.30.09 $210,000

Lin Conjugated polymer solvent affinity and ion-solvent Educational 1.1.08-12.31.09 $365,099 channel design Inst.

McDaniel Estimating damping effectiveness in complex struc- ONR 2.7.08-4.30.11 $351,216 tures

McDaniel Steering and mixing waves in structures with aniso- ONR 12.1.04-12.31.08 $261,712 tropic layers

Morgan Collaborative Research: Micro- and Nano-scale Char- NSF-CMMI 9.1.08-8.31.11 $67,940 acterization and Modeling of Bone Tissue

Morgan 3-D Visualization and Prediction of Spine Fractures NIH-NIAMS 4.8.08-4.30.13 $1,607,356

Barbone Morgan Inducing Skeletal Repair by Mechanical Stimulation NIAMS 9.26.05-8.31.10 $1,156,200

Morgan Prevention of Femoral head deformity Medical 1.1.07-12.31.08 $11,374

Murray CAREER: Integrated research and education in nano- NSF 5.1.05-4.30.10 $400,000 and microscale photoacoustic and photothermal microscopy Nagem Low Drag Underwater Acoustic Source KaZaK 12.7.06-7.6.08 $123,555

Composites/ONR Nagem Mine Sweeping Pressure Detonator KaZaK Compos- 7.20.07-2.2.09 $21,000 ites/ONR

Pal Solid Oxide Membrane Electrolyzer for the produc- Educational 9.1.08-8.31.09 $40,000 tion of pure hydrogen and syn-gas from a source of Inst. waste and steam

2008-2009 Annual Report 35 RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING GRANT PERIOD TOTAL FUNDING AGENCY Pal Hybrid Processing Of Planar Intermediate Tempera- BTU Interna- 9.1.05-8.31.08 $517,267 ture Solids Oxide Fuel Cells tional Gopalan

Basu Roy R&D Mitigation of Cavitation Damage: Task 1-3 DoE 10.5.06-9.30.09 $1,023,387

Holt

Cleveland Roy Detection and Identification of Buried Targets Using ONR/ERA 1.1.06-8.31.09 $213,331 Time Reversal Acoustics: Student Support Holt Roy Detection and Identification of Buried Targets Using ONR/ERA 1.1.08-12.31.08 $50,000 Time Reversal Acoustics: Student Support

Sarin Novel Ceramic Scintillators for PET DOE 8.15.08-8.14.10 $100,000

sub with RMD/ Alem Sarin Optical Ceramic Hafnates: New Fast PET Scintillators NIGMS 9.1.05-8.31.09 $160,000

Sarin A New Ceramic Scintillator for Neutron Detection DOE 7.11.05-7.10.08 $123,759

Sarin Fast, Dense, Low Cost Scintallators for Nuclear Phys- DOE 8.7.06-08.06.09 $140,000 ics

Sarin Superior Medical Scintillator by Vapor Deposition (II) NIBIB 5.1.06-4.30.09 $436,409

Vakili New Strategies for Efficient Monte Carlo Simulation NSF 7.15.06-8.31.09 $256,243

Wang Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Modified F-15 NASA 7.17.08-7.16.09 $30,000

Wroblewski STTR Phase II: Plasma Spray Experiments in Support NSF sub with 8.1.07-7.31.09 $180,123 of Development of Sensor and Advanced Control for Cyber Materials Plasma Spray Zhang K Clare Boothe Luce Professorship The Henry Luce 1.1.06-12.31.10 $427,377 Foundation

Zhang K Micro and nano-Mechanics of Thin Film and Thin DARPA/ 4.25.07-4.24.09 $149,905 Film Coatings MTO Zhang K Multiscale approach to Understanding the Mechani- NSF 6.1.07-5.31.09 $75,000 cal and Biochemical Behavior of Tissue Engineering Zhang X Blood Vessels

Wong Zhang K Multiscale approach to Understanding the Mechani- NSF 6.1.07-5.31.09 $6,950 cal and Biochemical Behavior of Tissue Engineering Blood Vessels (REU)

36 www.bu.edu/me/ RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING GRANT PERIOD TOTAL FUNDING AGENCY Zhang X Development of a Novel Optomechanical Uncooled NSF 7.1.08-6.30.11 $259,699 Metamaterial-Enhanced Active Terahertz Detection Imager Zhang X Collaborative Research: Elastic and Viscoelastic NSF 9.1.08-8.31.11 $297,969 Characterization and Modeling of Polymer Based Structures for Biological Applications Zhang X Design, Fabrication and Characterization of an HT Schlumberger 6.1.08-6.30.10 $20,000 microTCD Zhang X CAREER: Creating Nanostructured Gratings on Micro- NSF 3.1.03-08.31.09 $400,000 structures for Residual Strain/Stress Measurement in NEMS/MEMS and Traction Force Measurement in Cells Zhang X CAREER: Creating Nanostructured Gratings on Micro- NSF 2.13.04-8.31.09 $48,000 structures for Residual Strain/Stress Measurement in NEMS/MEMS and Traction Force Measurement in Cells Zhang X NER: A Digital Bio/Nanoelectronics Interface for NSF 9.15.06-11.30.08 $100,000 Single Cell Study Zhang X NER: A Digital Bio/Nanoelectronics Interface for NSF 8.9.07-11.30.08 $6,000 Single Cell Study (REU Supplement) Zhang X Mechanical Behavior of Amorphous Plasma-En- NSF 6.1.07-5.31.10 $150,000 hanced Chemical Vapor Deposited Silicon Oxide Films for MEMS Applications Zhang X Uncooled Cantilever Microbolometer Focal Plane AFSOR 4.1.06-9.30.09 $298,902 Arrays with mK Temperature Resolution: Engineering Mechanics for the Next Generation Zhang X Development of MEMS Column Using SOI Wafers Schlumberger 6.1.08-6.30.09 $20,000 Zhang X Development of MEMS Column Using SOI Wafers Schlumberger 7.23.07-09.30.08 $24,571 Total External Research Funding: $36,138,840

2008-2009 Annual Report 37 Funding Administered Outside Mechanical Engineering Department for Which an ME Professor Serves as Principal Investigator of the Grant or Subcontract

RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY FUNDING TO DATE

Barbone Analysis and computational solution of an inverse elasticity US-Israel BSF $480,000 problem arising from medical imaging Bifano Collaborative research: Center of Biopotonic sensors and DOD/Army $19,999 systems Bifano High subcontract from BMC NSF $93,432

Cleveland Role of shock generation and stone mechanics in SWL NIH-DDK $129,590 Dupont Development of a Surgical Instrument for Minimally Invasive Wallace H. Coulter $100,000 Beating Heart Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Closure Translational Partner- ship Klapperich Agilent University relations grant: sample technology for MRNA Isolation $40,000 MRNA Isolation Klapperich Compact Optical Biothreat Analyzer ARL $50,000 Klapperich Downhole Li-ion Batteries based on Network Ionic liquids for AEC $750,000 powering Micro & Nanosensors Klapperich Microchip to detect influenza infection ad Type in Nasopha- NIH-NIBIB $1,409,026 ryngeal swabs Klapperich Microfluidic system for monitoring sepsis at the point of care CIMIT $140,000

Klapperich NRSA: Eng. A Basement membrane to prolong chick hair cell NIH/NIBIB $60,848 viability in vitro Klapperich Integrated Microfluidic platform for detection and diagnosis CIMIT $138,975 of avian influenza Klapperich Microfluidic cell Lysis and Nucleic acid Isolation for Point of Wallace H. Coulter $50,000 care detection of C. Difficile Foundation Klapperich Portable low Power Nucleic Acid extraction Module (PATH) NIH $280,003

Klapperich Agilent University relations grant for good sample prepara- Agilent Technologies $80,000 tion module Roy The utilization of the Analogic ultrasound imaging Engine and NSF $1,023,387 the Terason system 2000 in API Cleveland Roy Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging and Coral Imaging CenSSIS Ind. $112,519 Cleveland Roy An ERC for sub-Surface sensing and Imaging systems:R1 NSF (N.E.) $742,702 acoustics thrust Cleveland Sharon Process Automation for plant based pharmaceuticals FHCMB/Darpa $2,952,000 Sharon BU-Frunhofer alliance for medical devices, Instrum. & diag- Fraunhofer $2,500,000 nostics

Zhang X Metamaterial Enhanced terahertz Imager DOD/Army $100,378

Zhang X Materials MEMS components for Spectroscopic detection DOD/Army $150,004 and Identification using Terahertz radiation

38 www.bu.edu/me/ RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY FUNDING TO DATE

Zhang X Material & Mechanics of MEMS for Terahertz Technology AFOSR $520,000

Total Funding Administered Outside ME: $11,456,057

Funding Administered Outside Mechanical Engineering Department for Which an ME Professor Serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the Grant or Subcontract

RECIPIENT TITLE OF AWARD FUNDING AGENCY FUNDING TO DATE

Baillieul Communication complexity Hong Kong govern- $480,000 ment

Barbone Feasibility of in vivo determination of absolute elastic tissue NIH-NCI $490,350 properties in 3D

Barbone Biomechanical Imaging NSF $60,000

Caramanis Multidisciplinary Approach to the integration of high perfor- NSF $2,670,000 mance computing in science foundation

Cleveland Ultrasonic Image Guidance for HIFU cancer treatment NIH/Tufts $46,930

Grace Win: Women in Networks Building Community and Gaining NSF $742,702 Voice Klapperich Compact Optical Biothreat Analyzer ARL $50,000 Klapperich Downhole Li-ion Batteries based on Network Ionic liquids for AEC $750,000 powering Micro & Nanosensors

Klapperich NRSA: Eng. A Basement membrane to prolong chick hair cell NIH/NIBIB $60,848 viability in vitro

Morgan Molecular Mechanisms of Skeletal Repair NIH $5,529,749

Vakili Final Stage Optimization Methods for Protein NIH $437,852 Docking:Exploiting translational and rotaional Funnels

Zhang X Role of Neuregulin/erbB Signaling NIH $2,012,500

Total: $13,330,931

2008-2009 Annual Report 39 Faculty Publications BOOKS

S. ATTAWAY, MATLAB, A Practical Intro- J. BETHUNE, Engineering Design and Graph- duction To Programming And Problem ics with SolidWorks, pp.532+x, Columbus, Solving, pp.452+x, Burlington, MA, Else- Ohio, Prentice Hall, Pearson Education Inc, vier Inc, 2009. 2009.

J. BETHUNE, Engineering Design and M.S. HOWE, Acoustics of Fluid Structure Graphics with AutoCAD 2009, pp.737+x, Interactions, pp.560+x. Cambridge Mono- Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Pearson graphs on Mechanics, Cambridge University Education Inc, 2009. Press, 2008.

J. BETHUNE, Engineering Design and R.J. NAGEM and G. Sandri, Annotated Graphics with Autodesk Inventor 2009, translation of The Theory of the Top, Vol. I, pp.704+x, Upper Saddle River, New Jer- pp.279+x, by Felix Klein and Arnold Sommer- sey, Pearson Education Inc, 2009. feld, Boston MA, Birkhauser Verlag, 2008.

BOOK CHAPTERS

P. BARBONE and Assad A. Oberai, “A review of the mathematical and compu- J.E. Lingeman, D. Beiko, R.O. CLEVELAND, M.T. Gettman, K. U. Kohrmann, E. tational foundations of biomechanical imaging,” in Computational Methods in Liatsikos, B.R. Matlaga, J.A. McAteer, M. Monga, G. Tailly, A. Timoney, “Stone Biomechanics, edited by Suvranu De, Springer, 2008. Technology: Shock Wave and Intracorporeal Lithotripsy” in Stone Disease 2nd International Consultation on Stone Disease, J.D. Denstedt and S. Khoury Eds., L. Dal Negro, R. Li, J. Warga, S. Yerci, S.N. BASU, S. Hamel, and G. Galli, “Light pp. 85-135, Editions 21, Paris, France, 2008. Emission from Silicon-Rich Nitride Nanostructures,” in Silicon Nanophotonics: Basic principles, Present Status and Perspectives, edited by L. Khriachtchev, A. Bhattacharyya andC.M. KLAPPERICH, “On-Chip Cell Lysis”, in Encyclopedia Pan Stanford Publishing, 2008. of Micro- and Nano-Fluidics, Dongqing Li, editor, 2226 p., Springer, 2008.

B. Yordanov and C. BELTA, “Parameter synthesis for piecewise affine systems E.F. MORGAN and M.L. Bouxsein, “Biomechanics of Bone and Age-Related from temporal logic specifications,” inLecture Notes in Computer Science, eds. Fractures,” in Principles of Bone Biology, 3rd edition, J.P. Bilezikian, L.G. Raisz, M. Egerstedt and B. Mishra, vol. 4981, pp. 542-555, Springer, 2008. J. Martin, editors, p. 26-40, Boston, Elsevier Academic Press, 2008.

M. Kloetzer and C. BELTA, “Dealing with non-determinism in symbolic con- E.F. MORGAN, G.L. Barnes, T.A. Einhorn, “The Bone Organ System: Form trol,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, eds. M. Egerstedt and B. Mishra, vol. and Function,” inOsteoporosis , 3rd edition, R. Marcus, D. Feldman, D. 4981, pp. 287-300, Springer, 2008. Nelson, C.J. Rosen, editors, p. 3-25, Boston, Elsevier Academic Press, 2008. C. BELTA, “Robot Motion Planning,” Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, ed. Benjamin Wah, vol. 4, pp. 2439-2446, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, 2009. T.W. MURRAY, R.A. ROY, and R.G. HOLT, “Laser-Ultrasonic Cavita- tion,” in the McGraw Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, Mc- Graw Hill, New York, 190-193, 2008.

40 www.bu.edu/me/ MONOGRAPH L. Dal Negro, R. Li, J. Warga, S.N. BASU, “Sensitized Erbium Emission from Erbium-Doped Silicon-Rich Nitride/Silicon Superlattice Struc- tures,” Applied Physics Letters, 92 [18] 181105, 2008. D. Perrin, N. Vasilyev, P. Novotny, J. Stoll, R. Howe, P. DUPONT, I. Salgo, P. del Nido, “Image Guided Surgical Interventions,” in Current L. Sirleto, M.A. Ferrara, I. Rendina, J. Warga, R. Li, L. Dal Negro, and Problems in Surgery, Wells S, editor, Mosby, Inc., 2008. S.N. BASU, “Enhanced Stimulated Raman Scattering in Silion Nano- crystals Embedded in Silicon-Rich Nitride/Silicon Superlattice Struc- JOURNAL ARTICLES tures,” Applied Physics Letters, 93, 251104, 2008. S.N. BASU, G. Ye, R. Khare, B. McCandless, M. GEVELBER, and D. WROBLEWSKI, “Dependence of Substrate Remelt and Stress Evolu- S.B. ANDERSSON, “Discretization of a continuous curve,”IEEE Trans- tion on Surface Roughness Length Scales in Plasma Sprayed Thermal actions on Robotics, vol. 24, no 4, pp. 456-461, 2008. Barrier Coatings,” International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, 27 [2], pp. 479-484, 2009. S.B. ANDERSSON, “Localization of a fluorescent source without numerical fitting,”Optics Express, vol. 16, no. 23, pp.18714-18724, 2008. T. Kulkarni, H.Z. Wang, S.N. BASU and V.K. SARIN, “Phase Transfor- mations in Mullite Based Nanocomposites,” International Journal of W.S. Wong and J. BAILLIEUL, “Control Communication Complexity of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, 27 [2], pp. 465-471, 2009. Nonlinear Systems,’’ Communications in Information and Systems, Special Issue on the Legacy of Roger W. Brockett, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. T. Kulkarni, H.Z. Wang, S.N. BASU and V.K. SARIN, “Compositionally 103-140, 2009. graded mullite based CVD coatings,”J. Materials Research, 24 [2], pp. 470-474, 2009. J. BAILLIEUL, “CDC/CCC 2009---A Shanghai Journey,’’ IEEE Control Sys- tems Magazine, Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp. 119-130, June, 2009. J. Warga, R. Li, S.N. BASU, and L. Dal Negro, “Erbium-Doped Silicon Nanocrystals in Silicon/Silicon Nitride Superlattice Structures: Light F.A. Cruz and L.A. BARBA, “Characterization of the accuracy of the Emission and Energy Transfer”, Physica E – 41 [6], pp. 1040-1043, fast multipole method in particle simulations,” Int. J. Num. Meth. En- 2009. grg., doi:10.1002/nme.2611, 2009. M. Imielinski and C. BELTA, “Exploiting the pathway structure of me- C.E. Torres and L.A. BARBA, “Fast radial basis function interpola- tabolism to reveal high-order epistasis,” BMC Systems Biology, 2:40, tion with Gaussians by localization and iteration,” J. Comput. Phys., 2008. 228,14, pp. 4976-4999, 2009. M. Kloetzer and C. BELTA, “A fully automated framework for control U. Albocher, A.A. Oberai, P.E. BARBONE, I. Harari, “Adjoint-weight- of linear systems from temporal logic specifications,” IEEE Transac- ed equation for inverse problems of incompressible plane-stress tions on Automatic Control, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 287-297, 2008. elasticity,” Computer Methods Applied Mechanics and Engineering, doi:10.1016/j.cma.2009.02.034, 2009. G. Batt, C. BELTA, and R. Weiss, “Temporal logic analysis of gene networks under parameter uncertainty,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic M.S. Richards, P.E. BARBONE, and A.A. Oberai, “Quantitative three Control, vol.53, no. 1, pp. 215-229, 2008. dimensional elasticity imaging from quasi-static deformation: a phan- tom study” Phys. Med. Biol., 54, pp. 757-779, 2009. A. Diouf, G. Reimann, and T. BIFANO, “Fabrication of implant- able microshunt using a novel channel sealing technique,” Jour- A.A. Oberai, N.H. G.S. Goenezen, P.E. BARBONE, T.J. Hall, A.M. Som- nal of Micro-Nanolithography Mems and Moems, vol. 7, no. 3, mer, J. Jiang, “Linear and Nonlinear elasticity imaging of soft tissue DOI:10.1117/1.2955935, 2008. in-vivo: Demonstration of feasibility,” Phys. Med. Biol., 54 pp. 1191– 1207, 2009. O.M. Anli, M.C. CARAMANIS, I.C. Paschalidis “Tractable Supply Chain Production Planning Modeling Non-Linear Lead Time and A.A. Oberai, G.R. Feijoo, P.E. BARBONE, “Lanczos iterated time-rever- Quality of Service Constraints,” Journal of Manufacturing Systems, sal,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Express Letters, 125 (2), February 2009. doi:10.1016/j.jmsy.2008.05.001,, 2008.

N.H. Gokhale, A.A. Oberai, P.E. BARBONE, “Solution of the non-linear W.M. CAREY, A.D. PIERCE, R.E. Evans, and J.D. Holmes, “On the ex- elasticity imaging inverse problem: the compressible case,” Inverse ponent in the power law for the attenuation at low frequencies in Problems, 24(4), August 2008. sandy sediments,” J. Acoust. Soc, Am., Vol. 124, Issue 5, pp. EL271- EL277, November 2008. S.N. BASU, T. Kulkarni, H.Z. WANG and V.K. SARIN, “Functionally Graded Chemical Vapor Deposited Mullite Environmental Barrier B.U. Karbeyaz, E.L. Miller and R.O. CLEVELAND, “Shape Based Ultra- Coatings for Si-Based Ceramics”,The Journal of the European Ceramic sound Tomography for Detection of HIFU Lesions,”J. Acoust. Soc. Am, Society, 28, pp. 437-445, 2008. 123: 2994-2956, 2008.

J. Warga, R. Li, S.N. BASU, and L. Dal Negro, “Electroluminescence R.O. CLEVELAND, P.V. Chitnis, S.R. McClure, “Reply to Shock Wave from Silicon-Rich Nitride/Silicon superlattice structures,” Applied Therapy: What Really Matters,”Ultrasound Med. Biol. 34:1869-1870, Physics Letters, 93 [15], 151116, 2008. 2008.

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K.L. EKINCI, D.M. Karabacak and V. YAKHOT, “Universality in Oscil- A. Sauer-Budge, P. Mirer, A. Chatterjee,C.M. KLAPPERICH, D. lating Flows,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 264501, 2008. Chargin, and A. SHARON, “Low cost and Manufacturable Complete MicroTAS for Detecting Bacteria” Lab on a Chip 2009,doi:10.1039/ K.L. EKINCI, “All You Need is Feedback,” Nature Nanotechnology 3, B904854E. 319, 2008. A. Bhattacharyya, and C.M. KLAPPERICH, ”Microfluidics -Based Ex- K.J. Yoon, S. GOPALAN, and U.B. PAL, “Analysis of Electrochemical traction of Viral RNA for Disposable Molecular Diagnostics, “ Sensors Performance of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Using Polarization Modelling and Actuators B: Chemical, 129, pp. 693–698, 2008. and Impedance Spectroscopy,” J. Electrochemical Society, vol. 156 (3), p. B311-B317, 2009. N.J. Spencer, D. Cotanche, and C.M. KLAPPERICH, “Peptide and col- lagen based hydrogel substrates for in vitro culture of chick cochle- W. Huang, S. GOPALAN, U.B. PAL, and S.N. BASU, “Evaluation of ae,” Biomaterials, Volume 29 (8), pp. 1028-1042, 2008. Electrophoretically Deposited CuMn1.8O4 Spinel Coatings on Crofer 22 APU for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Interconnects,” Journal of the Electro- C.M. KLAPPERICH, C.L. Noack, J.D. Kaufman, L. Zhu, Bonnaillie, chemical Society, 155 [11] B1161, 2008. and R.P. Wool, “A novel biocompatible adhesive incorporating plant- derived monomers,” Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A, K.J. Yoon, S. GOPALAN, and U.B. PAL, “Effect of Anode Active Layer DOI:10.1002/jbm.a.32250, 2008. on Performance of Single Step Co-fired Solid Oxide Fuel Cells at High Fuel Utilizations,” J. Electrochemical Society, vol. 155 (6), p. B610, J.D. Kaufman, and C.M. KLAPPERICH, “Surface detection errors 2008. cause overestimation of the modulus in nanoindentation on soft materials,” Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, S.M. GRACE, E. Quaranta, B. Shinn-Cunningham and H.F. Voigt, “Sim- DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2008.08.004, 2008. ulation of the binaural environmental transfer function for gerbils using a boundary element method,” Acta Acustica United with Acustica, S. Gillers, C.D. Atkinson, A.C. Bartoo, M. Mahalanabis, M.O. Boylan, 94:310-320, 2008. J.H. Schwartz, C.M. KLAPPERICH, and S.K. Singh, “Microscale sample preparation for PCR of C. difficile infected stool,” Journal of Microbio- R. Georgescu, D. Khismatullin, R.G. HOLT, J.L. Castagner, O. A’amar, logical Methods, doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2009.05.020, 2009. I.J. Bigio, “Design of a system to measure light scattering from individual cells excited by an acoustic wave,” Optics Express, 16 (6), p. M. Mahalanabis, H. Al-Muayad, M. D. Kulinski, D. Altman and C.M. 3496, 2008. KLAPPERICH, “Cell lysis and DNA extraction of Gram-positive and Gram-negative Bacteria from Whole Blood in a Disposable Microflu- C.H. Farny, R.G. HOLT, and R.A. ROY, “Temporal and spatial detec- idic Chip”, Lab on a Chip, doi: 10.1039/B905065P, 2009. tion of HIFU-induced inertial and hot-vapor cavitation with a diagnostic ultrasound system,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, T.T. Lau, X. LIN, Y. Sidney, and K. Van Vleit, “Atomistic examination of 35(4):603-15, Apr 2009. the unit processes and vacancy-dislocation interaction in dislocation climb,” Scripta Materialia, 60 (6), pp. 399-402, March 2009. M.S. HOWE, A. Winslow and M. Iida, “Rapid calculation of the compression wave generated by a train entering a tunnel with a vented T.L. Poole, G.V. Frisk, J.F. LYNCH, and A.D. PIERCE, “Geoacoustic in- hood. Part 2: Short hoods,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, Volume version by mode amplitude perturbation,” J. Acoust. Soc, Am., Vol. 311, pp. 254 - 268, 2008. 123, Issue 2, pp. 667—678, February 2008.

M.S. HOWE, “Sound produced by a vortex ring interacting with an M.S. Caldwell, J.G. MCDANIEL, and K.M. Warkentin, “Frequency aperture of variable radius,” International Journal of Aeroacoustics, information in the vibration-cued escape hatching of red-eyed tree- Volume 7, pp.123 - 122, 2008. frogs,” The Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol. 212, Pt. 4, pp. 566- 575, February 2009. M.S. HOWE, M. Iida and T. Miyachi, “Sound produced by forced flow through a baffled aperture, with application to compression wave P.L. Leong and E.F. MORGAN, “Correlations between indentation generation in a tunnel,” Journal of Fluids and Structures, published modulus and mineral density in bone-fracture calluses,” Integrative online: doi:10.1016/j.fluidstructs.2008.06.002, 2008. and Comparative Biology Advance Access, Integr. Comp. Biol. 2009 49: 59-68; doi:10.1093/icb/icp024, May 2009. A. Manela and M.S. HOWE, “On the stability and sound of an un- forced flag,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, published online: A.V. Cuomo, M. Virk, F. Petrigliano, E.F. MORGAN, and J.R. Lieber- doi:10.1016/j.jsv.2008.10.009, 2008. man, “Mesenchymal stem cell concentration and bone repair: potential pitfalls from bench to bedside,”J Bone Joint Surg Am., 91(5):1073- M.S. HOWE, “Rayleigh Lecture 2007: Flow-surface interaction noise,” 83, May 2009. Journal of Sound and Vibration, Volume 314, 113 - 146, 2008. M.V. Bais, N. Wigner, M. Young, R. Toholka, D.T. Graves, E.F. MOR- A.W. Foley, M.S. HOWE and T. A. Brungart, “Sound generated by a GAN, L.C. Gerstenfeld, and T.A. Einhorn, “BMP2 is essential for post jet-excited spherical cavity,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, Volume natal osteogenesis but not for recruitment of osteogenic stem cells,” 315, 88 - 99, 2008. Bone. 2009 Aug;45(2):254-66, Epub 3 May 2009.

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T. Gaur, J.J. Wixted, S. Hussain, S. O’Connel, E.F. MORGAN, D. Ayers, S. Bramhavar, B. Pouet, and T.W. MURRAY, “Superheterodyne detec- B.S. Komm, P.V. Bodine, G.S. Stein, and J.B. Lian, “Secreted frizzled tion of laser generated acoustic waves,”Applied Physics Letters, Vol. related protein 1 is a target to improve fracture healing,” Journal of 94, p. 114102, 2009. Cellular Physiology, 220(1): 174-181, 2009. R.J. NAGEM, G. Sandri, D. Uminsky, and C.E. Wayne, ”Generalized D.J. Hunter, L.C. Gerstenfeld, G. Bishop, Z.D. Mason, T.A. Einhorn, R.A. Helmholtz–Kirchhoff Model for Two-Dimensional Distributed Vortex Maciewicz, P. Newham, and E.F. MORGAN, “Bone marrow lesions Motion,’’ SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, Volume 8, Is- from osteoarthritic knees are characterized by sclerotic bone that is sue 1, pp. 160-179, 2009. less well mineralized,” Arthritis Research,11(1): R11, 2009. U.B. PAL, “A Lower Carbon Foot Print Process for Production of Met- K.T. Salisbury Palomares, R.E. Gleason, Z.D. Mason, D.M. Cullinane, als from their Oxide Sources,” J. of Metals, 60(2), p. 36, 2008. T.A. Einhorn, L.C. Gerstenfeld, and E.F. MORGAN, “Mechanical stimulation alters tissue differentiation and molecular expression during M. Suput,, R. Delucas, S. Pati, G. Ye, U.B. PAL, A.C. Powell IV, “Solid bone healing,” Journal of Orthopaedic Research, February 2009. Oxide Membrane Technology for Environmentally Sound Production of Titanium,” Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy, vol. 117, L.N.M. Hayward, and E.F. MORGAN, “Assessment of a mechano-reg- (2), p 118, 2008. ulation theory of skeletal tissue differentiation in an in vivo model of mechanically induced cartilage formation,” Biomechanics and Mod- K.J. Yoon, P.A. Zink, S. GOPALAN, U.B. PAL, and L.R. Pederson, “De- eling in Mechanobiology, doi:10.1007/s10237-009-0148-3, January fect Chemistry and Electrical Properties of (La0.8Ca0.2)0.95FeO3 ”, J. 2009. Electrochemical Society, vol. 156 (7), p. B795, 2009.

L.C. Gerstenfeld, D.J. Sacks, M. Pelis, Z.D. Mason, D.T. Graves, M. Bar- A.D. PIERCE and W.M. CAREY, “Low-frequency attenuation of rero, M. Ominsky, P.J. Kostenuik, E.F. MORGAN, and T.A. Einhorn, acoustic waves in sandy/silty marine sediments,” J. Acoust. Soc, “Comparison of bisphosphonate alendronate versus the RANKL in- Am., Vol. 124, No. 5, pp. EL308-EL312, November 2008. hibitor denosumab on murine fracture healing,” Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 24(2). 196-208, 2009. A.D. PIERCE, “Derivation of Maxwell’s equations via the covariance requirements of the special theory of relativity, starting with New- E.F. MORGAN, K.B. Chien, Z.D. Mason, A.J. Pfeiffer, G.L. Barnes, T.A. ton’s laws,” ArXiv, paper arXiv:0807.2557v1 [physics.class-ph], post- Einhorn, and L.C. Gerstenfeld, “Computed tomography assessment of ed online http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2557v1,July 2008. fracture healing: relationships among callus structure, composition, and mechanical function,” Bone, 44(2), 335-344, 2008. P.S. Wilson, and R.A. ROY, “An audible demonstration of the sound speed in bubbly liquids,” American Institute of Physics 76(10), 975- E.F. MORGAN, Z.D. Mason, G. Bishop, A.D. Davis, L.C. Gerstenfeld, 981, 2008. T.A. Einhorn, “Combined effects of recombinant human BMP-7 (rh- BMP-7) and parathyroid hormone (1-34) in metaphyseal bone heal- P.S. Wilson, A.H. Reed, W.T. Wood, and R.A. ROY, “The low frequency ing,” Bone, 43(6):1031-8, 2008. sound speed in fluid-like gas-bearing sediments,” J. Acoust Soc. Am. 123(4), pp. EL99-EL104, 2008. P.L. Leong and E.F. MORGAN, “Measurement of fracture callus material properties via nanoindentation,” Acta Biomaterialia, 4(5):1569- C.C. Coussios, and R.A. ROY, “Applications of Acoustics and Cavita- 1575, 2008. tion to Non-invasive Therapy and Drug Delivery,” Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 40, 395-420, 2008. J.D. Kaufman, G.E. Miller, E.F. MORGAN, and C.M. KLAPPERICH, “Time-dependent mechanical characterization of poly(2-hydroxy- H.Z. Wang, T. Kulkarni, V.K. SARIN and S.N. BASU, “Ordered and ethyl methacrylate) hydrogels using nanoindentation and confined twinned multidomain structure in highly Al-rich mullite,” Journal of compression,” Journal of Materials Research, 23(5):1472-1481, 2008. Materials Research, 22(11), 3210-3217, 2008.

K.A. Jacobsen, Z.S. Alaql, J. Fitch, Z.D. Mason, R.M. Cole, S.R. Gilbert, S.G. Topping and V.K. SARIN, “CVD Lu2O3:Eu coatings for advanced T.L. Clemens, E.F. MORGAN, T.A. Einhorn, and L.C. Gerstenfeld, scintillators,” International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard “Bone formation during distraction osteogenesis is dependent on Materials, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2008. both VEGFR1 and VEGFR2 signaling,” Journal of Bone and Mineral Re- search, 23(5); 596-609, 2008. Y. Shen, I.C. Paschalidis, P. VAKILI, and S. Vajda, “Protein Docking by the Underestimation of Free Energy Funnels in the Space of En- E.F. MORGAN, R.E. Gleason, P.L. Leong, L.N. Hayward, and K.T. Salis- counter Complexes,” PLoS Computational Biology, 4(10): e1000191. bury Palomares, “Mechanotransduction and fracture repair,” Journal doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000191, October 2008. of Bone and Joint Surgery, 90(2):S25-90, 2008. H. Aguesse, H.O. WANG and K. Tanaka, “Information Control in a G.R. Houtchens, M.D. Foster, T.A. Desai, E.F. MORGAN, and J.Y. Unified Framework of Consensus Seeking,” International Journal of Wong, “Combined effects of microtopography and cyclic strain on Information and Systems Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 199-209, 2009. vascular smooth muscle cell orientation,” Journal of Biomechanics, 41(4): 762-9, 2008.

2008-2009 Annual Report 43 K. Tanaka, H. Ohtake, and H.O. WANG, “Guaranteed Cost Control Z. Cao and X. ZHANG, “Nanoindentation Stress-Strain Curves of Plas- of Polynomial Fuzzy Systems via a Sum of Squares Approach,” IEEE ma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposited Silicon Oxide Thin Films,” Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B, Vol. 39, No. 2, Thin Solid Films, 516 (8) pp. 1941-1951, 2008. pp. 561-567, April 2009. Y. Qiu, R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “Real-Time Monitoring Primary Car- N. Hara, K. Tanaka, H. Ohtake, and H.O. WANG, “Development of a diomyocyte Adhesion Based on Electrochemical Impedance Spec- Flying Robot with Pantograph-based Variable Wing Mechanism,” IEEE troscopy and Electrical Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing,” Analytical Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 79-87, February 2009. Chemistry, 80 (4), pp. 990-996, 2008.

K. Tanaka, K. Yamauchi, H. Ohtake, and H.O. WANG, “Sensor Reduc- H. Tao, N.I. Landy, C.M. Bingham, X. ZHANG, R.D. Averitt, and W.J. tion for Backing-UP Control of a Vehicle with Triple Trailers,” IEEE Padilla, “A Metamaterial Absorber for the Terahertz Regime: Design, Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 497-509, Fabrication and Characterization,” Optics Express, 16 (10), pp. 7181- February 2009. 7188, 2008.

V. YAKHOT, “Dissipation Scale Fluctuations and Mixing Transition in S. Huang, H. Tao, I-K Lin, and X. ZHANG, “Development of Double- Turbulent Flows,” J. Fluid.Mech., 606, 325-337, 2008. Cantilever Infrared Detectors: Fabrication, Curvature Control and Demonstration of Thermal Detection,” Sensors and Actuators A: C. Colosqui, H. Chen, X. Shan, I Staroselsky and V. YAKHOT, “Propa- Physical, 145-146, 231-240, 2008. gating High Frequancy Shear Waves in Simple Fluids,” Phys. Fluids., 21, 013105, 2009. Y. Liu, I-K Lin, and X. ZHANG, “Mechanical Properties of Sputtered Silicon Oxynitride Films by Nanoindentation,” Materials Science and I-K Lin, Y. ZHANG, and X. ZHANG, “The Deformation of Microcan- Engineering A, 489 (1-2), pp. 294-301, 2008. tilever-Based Infrared Detectors during Thermal Cycling,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 18 (7), 075012, 2008. X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Optical Moire as a Visualization Tool for Liv- ing Vascular Cell Contraction Force Mapping,”Applied Physics Letters, Y. Zhao and X. ZHANG, “Profile Control in Silicon Nanostructures 93 (16), 164106, 2008. Using Fluorine-Enhanced Oxide Passivation,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 7 (1), pp. 40-47, 2008. C.M. Bingham, H. Tao, X. Liu, R.D. Averitt,X. ZHANG, and W.J. Padilla, “Planar Wallpaper Group Metamaterial for Novel Terahertz Applica- tions,” Optics Express, 16 (23), pp. 18565-18575, 2008.

X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “An Optical Moire Technique for Cell Trac- tion Force Mapping,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineer- ing, 18 (12), 125006, 2008.

H. Tao, A.C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, C.M. Bingham, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Averitt, “Terahertz Metamaterials on Free-standing Highly- flexible Polyimide Substrates,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 41 (23), 232004, 2008.

H. Tao, C.M. Bingham, A.C. Strikwerda, D. Pilon, D. Shrekenhamer, N.I. Landy, K. Fan, X. ZHANG, W.J. Padilla, and R.D. Averitt, “Highly- flexible Wide Angle of Incidence Terahertz Metamaterial Absorber: Design, Fabrication and Characterization,”Physical Review B, 78 (24), 241103, 2008.

A. Strikwerda, K. Fan, H. Tao, D. Pilon, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Averitt, “Comparison of Birefringent Metamaterials and Meanderline Struc- ture as Quarter-Wave Plates at Terahertz Frequencies,” Optics -Ex press, 17 (1), 136-149, 2008.

I-K Lin, Y-M Liao, Y. Liu, K-S Ou, K-S Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Viscoelastic Mechanical Behavior of Soft Microcantilevers-based Force Sensors,” Applied Physics Letters, 93 (25), 251907, 2008.

Y. Wang, X. Zheng, N. Riddick, M. Bryden, W. Baur, X. ZHANG, and H. Surks, “ROCK Isoform Regulation of Myosin Phosphatase and - Con tractility in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells,” Circulation Research, 104 (4), 531-540, 2009.

Y. Qiu, R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “Impedance-Based Monitoring of Ongoing Cardiomyocyte Death Induced by Tumor Necrosis Factor Al- An April Fool’s Joke was played on Professor Attaway pha,” Biophysical Journal, 96 (5), 1985-1991, 2009.

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Rivas, P.E. BARBONE, and A.A. Oberai, “A stabilized B-splines FEM formulation for the solution of an inverse elasticity problem aris- J. Castillo and T.G. BIFANO, “Adaptive optics calibration for a wide- ing in medical imaging,” Proceedings of IMECE ASME International field microscope,” MEMS Adaptive Optics II. SPIE, San Jose, CA, USA, Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2008-66700, pp. 68880E-68887, 2008. 31 October – 6 November, Boston, MA, 2008. T.G. BIFANO, P. Bierden and S.A. Cornelissen, “MEMS deformable P.E. BARBONE, C.E. Rivas, I. Harari, U. Albocher, A.A. Oberai, and mirrors for space and defense applications,”Micro (MEMS) and Nan- S. Goenzen, “Adjoint-weighted variational formulation for the otechnologies for Space, Defense, and Security II. SPIE, Orlando, FL, direct solution of plane stress inverse elasticity problems,” Jour- USA, pp. 695914-695917, 2008. nal of Physics: Conference Series, 135, 012012 doi:10.1088/1742- 6596/135/1/012012, 2008. T.G. BIFANO, J. Stewart and A. Diouf, “Precise open-loop control of MEMS deformable mirror shape,” MEMS Adaptive Optics II. SPIE, San C. Rivas, P.E. BARBONE, and A.A. Oberai, “Divergence of finite Jose, CA, USA, pp. 68880P-68885, 2008. element formulations for inverse problems treated as optimization problems,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 135, 012088 R.O. CLEVELAND, “The Advantage of a Broad Focal Zone in SWL,” doi:10.1088/1742-6596/135/1/012088, 2008. Proceedings of the Second International Urolithiasis Research Sympo- sium. A.P. Evan, J.E. Lingeman, J.A. McAteer, and J.C. Williams, eds., pp. 219-225, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2008.

2008-2009 Annual Report 45 A.G. Stern and D.C. COLE, “Design of a back-illuminated, crystallo- A.W. Foley, M.S. HOWE and T.A. Brungart, “Sound generated by gas- graphically etched, silicon-on-sapphire avalanche photodiode with jet impingement on the interface of a supercavity,” Proceedings of monolithically integrated microlens, for dual-mode passive & active IMECE2008, 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Con- imaging arrays,” Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society gress and Exposition, Boston MA, 2-6 November 2008. for Optical Engineering, v 7153, p 71530Z, p. 13, 2008. P. Du, X. LIN, and X. ZHANG, “Development of Conductive Polymer A.G. Stern, and D.C. COLE, “High quantum efficiency, back-illuminat- Micro Cantilever for Conductivity Measurement,” Proceeding of ed, crystallographically etched, silicon-on-sapphire avalanche photo- ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, diode with very wide dynamic range, for manufacturable high reso- IMECE2008-67986, Boston, MA, 31 October – 6 November 2008. lution imaging arrays,” Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 7249, p 72490R, p. 12, 2009. T.W. MURRAY, O. Balogun, C. Prada, D. Clorennec, and D. Royer, “Theory and applications of laser gene-rated zero- group velocity M. Mahvash, and P. DUPONT, “Bilateral Teleoperation of Flex- lamb mode resonance,” AIP Conf. Proc., Vol 975, p. 255, 2008. ible Surgical Robots,” Workshop Proc, New Vistas and Challenges in Telerobotics.IEEE 2008 International Conference on Robotics & Auto- S. Bramhavar, B. Pouet, and T.W. MURRAY, “Superheterodyne detec- mation, pp. 58-64, 2008. tion of high frequency acoustic waves,” 1st International Symposium on Laser Ultrasonics: Science, Technology and Applications, On-line M. Mahvash and P. DUPONT, “Fast Needle Insertion to Minimize proceedings at NDT.net, 2008. Tissue Deformation and Damage,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2009. T.W. MURRAY, S. Bramhavar, and B. Pouet, “Theory and Applications of frequency domain laser ultra-sonics,” 1st International Symposium P. DUPONT, J. Lock, and E. Butler, “Torsional Kinematic Model for on Laser Ultrasonics: Science, Technology and Applications, On-line Concentric Tube Robots,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics proceedings at NDT.net, 2008. and Automation, 2009. P.A. Zink, K.J. Yoon, U.B. PAL, and S. GOPALAN, “Electrical Perfor- M. GEVELBER, D. WROBLEWSKI, M. VanHout, O. Ghosh, D. Wil- mance of Calcium-doped Lanthanum Ferrite for Use in Single Step loughby, and S.N. BASU, “Sensor and Control Design Issues for Co-Fired Solid Oxide Fuel Cells” Materials Research Society Sympo- Implementation of Real-Time Deposition Rate Control for Plasma sium Proceedings of the Fall 2008 Meeting, Vol. 1126, S11-02, 2008. Spray,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, pp. 10, IMECE2008-68958, Boston, 31 Oct – 6 Nov, 2008. S. Pati, M. Suput, R. Delucas, and U.B PAL, “Solid Oxide Membrane Process for Calcium Production Directly from Its Oxide,” EPD Con- D. WROBLEWSKI, O. Ghosh, A. Lum, D. Willoughby, M. VanHout, K. gress, S.M. Howard, ed., TMS, Warrendale, PA, pp.121-26, 2008. Hogstrom, S.N. BASU, and M. GEVELBER, “Modeling and Paramet- ric Analysis of Plasma Spray Particle State Distribution for Deposition S. Pati, R. DeLucas, A. Powell and U.B. PAL, “Magnesiothermic Re- Rate Control,” IMECE2008-68752, ASME International Mechanical duction of Titanium Oxide Using the Solid Oxide Membrane Process,” Engineering Congress, Boston, 31 Oct – 6 Nov 2008. Magnesium Technology 2008, pp. 33-38, 2008.

X. Yan, and M. GEVELBER, “Analysis of Electrospinning Nanofibers: A.D. PIERCE and W.M. CAREY, “Card-house theory of mud sedi- Diameter Distribution, Process Dyanmics, and Control,” ASME Inter- ments containing kaolinite and its acoustical implications,” 156th national Mechanical Engineering Congress, IMECE2008-68299, pp. 8, Mtg. Acoust. Soc. of Am., Proc. of Mtgs. on Acoustics, Vol. 5, 4aUW11, Boston, 31 Oct – 6 Nov 2008. 2008.

W. Huang, S. GOPALAN, U.B. PAL, and S.N. BASU, “Evaluation of A.D. PIERCE and W.M. CAREY, “Shear wave speed increases with Electrophoretically Deposited CuMn1.8O4 Spinel Coatings On Metal- depth to the one-sixth power in sandy-silty marine sediments,” 155th lic Interconnects for SOFC Applications,” ECS Transactions, 13 [26], Mtg. Acoust. Soc. of Am., Proc. of Mtgs. on Acoustics, Vol. 4, 4aUWc4, pp. 405-411, 2008. 2008.

W. Huang, S. GOPALAN, U.B. PAL, and S.N. BASU, “Transport A.D. PIERCE, “Causality and mathematical models in vibration and Through Electrophoretically Deposited CuMn1.8O4 Spinel Coatings acoustics, a realistic perspective,”Proceedings of Meetings on Acous- on Crofer Interconnects”, Proceedings of 2008 MRS Fall Meeting, tics, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 065001-065001-17, 2009. 2008. A.D. PIERCE and W.M. CAREY, “Proof that plane wave attenuation K.J. Yoon, S. GOPALAN, and U.B. PAL, “Effect of Anode Active Layer at low frequencies is proportional to square of frequency,” Proceed- on Performance of Single Step Co-fired Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOF- ings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 005001-005001-7, Cs),” ECS Transactions, Vol. 13 (26) 249, 2008. 2008.

K.J. Yoon, S. GOPALAN, and U.B. PAL, “Electrochemical Performance J.M. Collis, A.D. PIERCE and W.M. CAREY, “Shear waves and the of Single Step Co-Fired Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) Analyzed Us- discrepancy between perceived and ideal frequency power laws for ing Polarization Modeling and Impedance Spectroscopy,” Materials sediment attenuation,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 2, Research Society Symposium Proceedings of the Fall 2008 Meeting, Issue 1, pp. 005002-005002-12, 2008. Vol. 1126, S10-02, 2008. A.D. PIERCE and E. Kotsaros, “Simplified theory of wind turbine S.M. GRACE, D.L. Sondak, D.J. Dorney, and M. Cannamela, “Hybrid noise,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. prediction of fan tonal noise,” AIAA, Paper No. 2008-2992, 2008. 040001-040001-11, 2009.

46 www.bu.edu/me/ A.D. PIERCE and W.M. CAREY, “The physical mechanism (viscosity R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “A Cardiomyocyte-based Biosensor for the related) of low frequency acoustic wave attenuation in sandy/silty Study on Hypertrophy Induced by Tumor Necrosis Factor Alfa,” Pro- sediments,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. ceeding of the 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Sys- 005001-005001-12, 2009. tems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, pp. 1802-1804, San Diego, CA, 12-16 October 2008. A. Draudt, P. Lai, R.A. ROY, T.W. MURRAY, and R.O. CLEVELAND, “Detection of HIFU lesions in excised tissue using Acousto-Optic Im- I-K Lin, Y-M Liao, K-S Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Viscoelastic Character- aging,” Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Therapeu- ization of Soft Micropillars for Cellular Mechanics Study,” Proceed- tic Ultrasound, Vol.1113, pp. 270-274, doi:10.1063/1.3131429, 2009. ing of the 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, pp. 278-280, San Diego, CA, USA, 12-16 P. Lai, R.A. ROY, and T.W. MURRAY, “Sensing the optical properties of October 2008. diffusive media by acousto-optic pressure contrast imaging,”Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2009, A.A. Oraevsky and L.V. X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “A Novel Versatile Biomechano-sensor for Wang eds., Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 7177, doi: 10.1117/12.808531, Real Time Vascular Cell Contractility Mapping,” Proceeding of the 2009. 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, pp. 510-512, San Diego, CA, 12-16 October 2008. G. Zhao, and P. VAKILI, “Monotonicity and Stratification,” Proceed- ings of the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 313-319, Dec X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Diffraction Moire: Decoupling Distortions 2008. in Periodic Polymeric Post Arrays,” Proceeding of the 12th Interna- tional Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sci- T. Borogovac, and P. VAKILI, “Control Variate Technique: A Construc- ences, pp. 991-993, San Diego, CA, 12-16 October 2008. tive Approach,” Proceedings of the 2008 Winter Simulation Confer- ence, pp. 320-327, Dec 2008. H. Tao, N.I. Landy, K. Fan, A. Strikwerda, W.J. Padilla, R.D. Averitt, and X. ZHANG, “Flexible Terahertz Metamaterials: Towards a Terahertz J. Yao, H.O. WANG, Z.-H. Guan and W. Xu, “Stability and passivity of Metamaterial Invisible Cloak,” Proceeding of 2008 International Elec- complex spatio-temporal switching networks with coupling delays,” tron Devices Meeting, pp. 11.6.1-11.6.4, San Francisco, CA, USA, 15- Proceedings of the 17th World Congress, the International Federation 17 December 2008. of Automatic Control, pp. 6638-6641, Seoul, Korea, July 6-11, 2008. B.C. Kaanta, H. Chen, G. Lambertus, W.H. Steinecker, O. Zhdaneev, K. Tanaka, H. Ohtake and H.O. WANG, “A Sum of Squares Approach and X. ZHANG, “High Sensitivity Micro-Thermal Conductivity Detec- to Guaranteed Cost Control of Polynomial Discrete Fuzzy Systems,” tor for Gas Chromatography,” Proceeding of the 22nd IEEE Interna- 17th IFAC World Congress, pp. 6861–6868, Seoul, Korea, July 2008. tional Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical ,Systems Sorrento, pp. 264-267, Italy, 25-29 January 2009. H. Ohtake, K. Tanaka and H.O. WANG, “Fuzzy Model-based Servo Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems,” 17th IFAC World Congress, H. Tao, N.I. Landy, K. Fan, A. Strikwerda, W.J. Padilla, R.D. Averitt, and pp. 6850–6854, Seoul, Korea, July 2008. X. ZHANG, “Terahertz Metamaterials with Simultaneously Negative Electric and Magnetic Resonance Responses based on Bimaterial H. Ohtake, K. Tanaka and H.O. WANG, “Fuzzy Model-based Servo Pop up Structures,” Proceeding of the 22nd IEEE International Con- Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems,” 17th IFAC World Congress, ference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, pp. 108-111, Sorrento, pp. 6850–6854, Seoul, Korea, July 2008. Italy, 25-29 January 2009.

D. WROBLEWSKI, O. Ghosh, A. Lum, D. Willoughby, M. VanHout, K. X. ZHANG, “Creating Micro/Nano Fabricated Structures for Cellular Hogstrom, S.N. BASU, and M. GEVELBER, “Modeling and Paramet- Mechanical Force Measurements in Living Cells,” NSF Design, Service ric Analysis of Plasma Spray Particle State Distribution for Deposition and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, Knoxville, Rate Control,” ASME IMECE, Boston, November 2008. TN, 7-10 January 2008.

O. Cote, D. WROBLEWSKI, and J. Hacker, “Refractive Turbulence, X. ZHANG, “A Digital Bio/Nanoelectronics Interface for Single Cell Transient Propagation Disturbances, and Space Situational- Aware Study,” NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees and Re- ness (SSA),” Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technolo- search Conference, Knoxville, TN, 7-10 January 2008. gies Conference, Maui, September 2008. X. ZHANG, “Mechanical Behavior of Amorphous Plasma-Enhanced H. Tao, A. Strikwerda, C. Bingham, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Chemical Vapor Deposited Silicon Oxide Films for MEMS Applica- Averitt, “Dynamical Control of Terahertz Metamaterial Resonance Re- tions,” NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees and Re- sponse Using Bimaterial Cantilevers,” Proceeding of Progress In Elec- search Conference, Knoxville, TN, 7-10 January 2008. tromagnetics Research Symposium, pp. 870-873, Cambridge, MA, 2-6 July 2008. X. ZHANG, “Thermo- and Electromechanics of Multilayer Thin-Film Microstructures for MEMS Applications,” Mechanics of Materials & Y. Qiu, R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “Impedance-Sensing Assay for Real- Devices and Structural Mechanics, AFOSR Contractors’ Meeting, Ar- time Monitoring Ongoing Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis,” Proceeding of lington, VA, 18-20 August 2008. the 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chem- istry and Life Sciences, pp. 970-972, San Diego, CA, 12-16 October 2008.

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S. ANDERSSON, “A non-raster approach to scanning force micros- C. BELTA, “Insights into the functional organization and robustness of copy”, Society of Engineering Science, 14 October 2008. genome scale metabolism,” University of Maryland, Baltimore Coun- ty, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 5 December 2008. S. ANDERSSON, “Studying single molecules through tracking,” Ro- botics, Control and Mechatronics Colloquium, University of Washing- T. BIFANO, “MEMS Adaptive Optics,” SPIE San Jose, CA, 2008. ton, 17 October 2008. M. CARAMANIS, “The European Community Electricity Regulation J. BAILLIEUL, “Modeling and Control of Physical Networks,” IFAC and Green Initiative,” Invited Lecture to the US Energy Bar Associa- 2008, Workshop on Complex Embedded and Networked Control Sys- tion, Troutman Sanders LLP, Washington DC, 27 October 2008. tems, Seoul Korea, July 2008. M. CARAMANIS, “The Liberalization of Greek Energy Markets: Load J. BAILLIEUL, “The Psychology of Human-Robot Interaction,” Plenary Management and the Electrification of the Transportation Sector,” Lecture given at the SICE Annual Conference, Tokyo Japan, August Ministry of Exterior International Conference, Athens, Greece, 8 July 2008. 2008.

J. BAILLIEUL, “Communication by Means of Controlled Dynamical M. CARAMANIS, “Commercialization of Renewable Electricity Gen- System Motions,” Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, Worcester eration Technologies: Lifting Adoption Barriers,” European Union, US Polytechnic Institute, October 2008. Roundtable, New Orleans, LA, 14 November 2008.

J. BAILLIEUL, “Communication Through Action---Theme and Varia- W.M. CAREY and A.D. Pierce, “Acoustical characteristics of muddy tions,” Fall Southeastern Meeting of the American Mathematical So- sediments,” 156th Meeting of The Acoust. Soc. of Am., 13 November ciety, Huntsville, AL, October 2008. 2008.

L. BARBA, Mechanical Engineering, Belytschko-Liu group, North- W.M. CAREY, “On the exponential power law for low frequency at- western University, August 2008. tenuation in shallow water with sandy sediments,” 156th Meeting of The Acoustical Society of America, 11 November 2008. L. BARBA, Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Purdue University, Au- gust 2008. W.M. CAREY, Jason D. Holmes and J.F. Lynch, “The applicability of a small autonomous vehicle towed array to ocean acoustics measure- L. BARBA, “Global field interpolation for particle methods”, Applied ments and signal processing,” Invited Paper 5aUWh5, 155th Meeting Mathematics Colloquium, Illinois Institute of Technology, August of The Acoustical Society of America, 4 July 2008. 2008. E.P. Sullivan, W.M. CAREY, J.D. Holmes and J.F. Lynch, “Passive Syn- L. BARBA, “Meshfree methods and vortex methods”, 4th Latin Amer- thetic Apertures as an Experimental Tool,” Invited Paper-5aUWi2, ican SCAT Workshop, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 155th Meeting of The Acoustical Society of America, July 4, 2008. University of Chile, Santiago, September 2008. ROBIN O. CLEVELAND, Lecturer on Medical Acoustics at the Physical L. BARBA, “Meshfree methods and vortex methods”, Instituto Acoustics Summer School, Santa Fe, NM, 2008. Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados IMDEA, Madrid, Spain February 2009. D.C. COLE, “Intellectual assets background essential for leading edge energy companies,” NRG, 8 December 2008. P. BARBONE, “Some math and mechanics of biomechanical imaging: current status and open questions,” Banff International Research P. DUPONT, “Steerable Needles as Surgical Robots,” MICCAI 2008 Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS), Workshop Workshop, Needle Steering: Recent Results and Future Opportuni- on Inverse Problems: Recent Progress and New Challenges, Banff, ties, New York, NY, 2008. Canada, November 17-20, 2008. K.L. EKINCI, “Radiofrequency Scanning Tunneling Microscopy,” Con- P. BARBONE and Jeffrey C. Bamber, “Ultrasound Elastography: Quan- densed Matter Seminar, UC Berkeley, CA, November 3, 2008. titative Approaches, Invited Short Course,” 2008 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Beijing, China, November 2-5, 2008, K.L. EKINCI, “Radiofrequency Scanning Tunneling Microscopy,” Inter- national Conference on Nanoscience + Technology, Keystone, CO, 5 P. BARBONE, “Computational formulations for inverse problems July 2008. with interior data,” Dept. of Instrumentation, Beihang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, 5 November 2008. M.A. GEVELBER, “Alternative Control Strategies and Requirements for Improving Thermal Spray Performance,” the Symposium on Im- P. BARBONE, “Inverse elasticity problems in biomedical imaging,” proving Reliability and Consistency in Thermal Spray, Montreal Que- Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 22 Septem- bec, 2-3 Dec 2008. ber 2008. S. GOPALAN, “Polarization Measurements on Single Step Cofired S. BASU, “Functionally Graded Environmental Barrier Coatings,” Anode-Supported SOFCs,” ETH Zurich. Carnegie Mellon University, 19 September 2008.

48 www.bu.edu/me/ R.G. HOLT, “Fighting bubbles with bubbles: A sparse, foam-anchored T.W. MURRAY, S. Bramhavar, and B. Pouet, “Theory and Applications bubble layer for wall damage mitigation,” the NCPA Colloquium, Uni- of frequency domain laser ultrasonics,” 1st International Symposium versity of Mississipi, Oxford, MS, October 2008. on Laser Ultrasonics: Science, Technology and Applications, Montre- al, Canada, July 2008. M.S. HOWE, “Sound generated by vortex ring impingement on a heated wall,” Department of Mathematics, University of Keele, Eng- T.W. MURRAY, “Laser based acoustic techniques for sensing and im- land, 10 July 2008. aging: Photoacoustic microscopy and acousto-optic imaging,” Univer- sity of Colorado at Boulder, February 2008. C. KLAPPERICH, “Towards the Application of Molecular Diagnostics in Global Health,” Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Biomedical T.W. MURRAY, “Mechanical Characterization of coatings using- fre Engineering Seminar Series, 3 December 2008. quency domain photoacoustic microscopy,” International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego, CA, April 2008. C. KLAPPERICH, “Towards the Application of Molecular Diagnostics in U. PAL, “Fuel Cells: State of the Art and Challenges for Clean and Ef- Global Health,” Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Biomedi- ficient Power Generation,” IMAPS Boston, MA, December 2008. cal Engineering Seminar Series, 5 November 2008. U. PAL, “Clean Energy Electrochemical Technologies Research at Bos- C. KLAPPERICH, “Microfluidic Sample Preparation for Molecular De- ton University,” New England University Workshop in Solid State Ion- tection of Infectious Disease,” American Vacuum Society, 55th Annual ics, Boston, MA, November 2008. Meeting, Boston, MA, 23 October 2008. U. PAL, “Clean Energy Research at Boston University,” Hydrogen Co- C. KLAPPERICH, “Towards the Application of Molecular Diagnostics in alition, Boston, MA, August 2008. Global Health,” Georgia Institute of Technology, Bioengineering Pro- gram Seminar Series, 9 September 2008. U. PAL, “Causality and mathematical models in vibration and acoustics: A realistic perspective,” the ASA meeting in Miami, November C. KLAPPERICH, “Microfluidic Sample Preparation for Molecular De- 2008. tection of Infectious Disease,” MEDI 2008, Hartford, CT, 10 Septem- ber 2008. A. PIERCE, “The physical mechanism (viscosity related) of low-frequency acoustic wave attenuation in sandy/silty sediments,” the ASA X. LIN, “Computing viscosity of supercooled liquids,” Department of meeting in Miami, November 2008. Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, December 2008. R.A. ROY, “Shedding light on sound: multi-mode biomedical imaging J.G. MCDANIEL, “Powering and empowering acoustic defenses of the using acousto-optic sensing and B-mode ultrasound,” Department of future,” the Chief of Naval Operation’s Strategic Studies Group at the Physics Seminar, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, November 2008. Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing & Imaging Systems (Gordon-CenSSIS), Northeastern University, 12 December 2008. R.A. ROY, “Bubbles, cavitation, and therapeutic ultrasound,” Depart- ment of Biomedical Engineering Coloquium, Columbia University, J.G. MCDANIEL, “Implicitly causal expansions in the frequency do- New York, NY, October 2008. main,” 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, FL, 13 November 2008. C.-C. Coussios, M. Arora, J.R.T. Collin, M. Gyongy, C. Arvanitis, E. Cox, E. Kornaropoulos, S. Nandlall, P. Kennedy and R.A. ROY, “Harnessing E.F. MORGAN, Department Seminar, “Measurement of the Local Me- inertial cavitation for improved cancer treatment by high-intensity chanical Environment of Skeletal Tissues,” Bioengineering, University focussed ultrasound (HIFU),” the 18th International Symposium on of Utah, February 2009. Therapeutic Ultrasound, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2008. E.F. MORGAN, Department Seminar, “Inducing Skeletal Repair by J.R. Collin, I. Webb, R.A. ROY and C.C. Coussios, “Towards a standard- Mechanical Stimulation,” Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, ized approach for quantifying inertial cavitation activity,” J. Acoust. November 2008. Soc. Am. 123(5), 3004, 2008. E.F. MORGAN, Department Seminar, “Inducing Skeletal Repair by R.A. ROY, Z.J. Waters, B.R. Dzikowicz, and R.G. Holt, “The detection Mechanical Stimulation,” Bioengineering, University of Maryland, and characterization of buried targets by iterative, single-channel October 2008. time reversal,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123(5), 3185, 2008. E.F. MORGAN, Invited Lecture, “The Influence of the Mechanical En- Z.J. Waters, B.R. Dzikowicz, R.G. Holt, and R.A. ROY, “Laboratory in- vironment on Skeletal Repair,” Orthopaedic Trauma Association Basic vestigations of the detection and characterization of buried targets Science Fracture Forum, Denver, CO, October 2008. by iterative, single-channel time reversal,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123(5), E.F. MORGAN, “Mechanical Regulation of Skeletal Healing,” Sympo- 3599, 2008. sium on “Biomaterials: properties, variation and evolution,” Annual B.R. Dzikowicz. Z.J. Waters, R.G. Holt, and R.A. ROY, “Detection of a Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Bos- resonant target buried in sediment using iterative time reversal: mid- ton, January 2009. frequency pond experiments,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123(5), 3755, 2008. T.W. MURRAY, S. Bramhavar, A. Sampathkumar and B. Pouet, “Theo- ry and applications of frequency domain photoacoustic microscopy,” V.K. SARIN, “Engineered Materials Development via CVD” “ IIT Mum- Acoustics ‘08, 155th ASA Meeting, Paris, France, July 2008. bai, Mumbai, India, February 2008.

2008-2009 Annual Report 49 V.K. SARIN, “Development of Transparent Ceramics for Scintallators” Matrix (ECM) Mechanics,” Department of Medicine, Boston Univer- ALEM/RMD, Watertown, MA, August 2008. sity, November 2008.

V. YAKHOT, “High- Frequency Oscillating Flows: Applications to X. ZHANG, “Small-Scale Materials and Engineering Mechanics for Nanoresonators,” Princeton University, November 2008. Next-Generation Micro/Nanosystems,” the DARPA/MTO Workshop on Materials and Technologies for 21st Century MEMS and NEMS, V. YAKHOT, “High- Frequency Oscillating Flows: Applications to Miami, FL, USA, January 8, 2008. Nanoresonators,” Brown University, Colloquim, October 2008. R.D. Averitt and X. ZHANG, “Terahertz Metamaterial Devices,” Army Y. ZHANG, “Linked Mechanical and Biological Study of Extracellular Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA, November 2008.

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F.A. Cruz and L.A. BARBA, “Characterization of the FMM approxima- C. Rivas, P. BARBONE, A. Oberai, “A stabilized B-splines FEM formulation in particle simulations,” 8th World Congress on Computational tion for the solution of an inverse elasticity problem arising in medical Mechanics / ECCOMAS 2008, Venice, 30 June–7 July 2008. imaging,” 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Boston, MA, 31 Oct –6 November 2008. L.A. BARBA and L.F. Rossi, “Accurate solution of global field interpola- tions for particle simulations,” 8th World Congress on Computational O. Babaniyi, C.E. Rivas, P.E. BARBONE, and A.A. Oberai, “Comparing Mechanics / ECCOMAS 2008, Venice, 30 June–7 July 2008. slice-by-slice 2-D tissue stiffness reconstructions to full 3-D tissue stiffness reconstructions,” Gordon-CenSSIS Research & Industrial Col- S. Goenezen, A.A. Oberai, and P.E. BARBONE, “Nonlinear elasticity laboration Conference, Boston University, Boston, November2008. imaging for incompressible solids,” 2008 International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Austin, E. BAROUCH and S. Knodle, “A new calibration method for latent TX, 27–30 October 2008. image fidelity,” SPIE Taiwan, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7140, 714012 (2008); doi:10.1117/12.804271, 4 November 2008. R. Leiderman, G.P. Berry, J.C. Bamber, Y. Zhang, A.A. Oberai, C.E. Ri- vas, O. Babaniyi and P.E. BARBONE, “Multiscale mechanical modeling S.N. BASU, W. Huang, S. GOPALAN, and U.B. PAL, “Transport Through of fluid/solid mixtures: Applications to soft tissue mechanics,” 2008 Electrophoretically Deposited CuMn1.8O4 Spinel Coatings on Crofer International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imag- Interconnects,” the MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 1-5 December ing of Tissue Elasticity, Austin, TX, 27–30 October 2008. 2008.

R.A. Crescenti, J.C. Bamber, A.A. Oberai, P.E. BARBONE, J.P Richter, L. DalNegro, R. Li, J. Warga, and S.N. BASU, “Silicon nanocrystals in N.L Bush, and S. Webb, “Advances and difficulties in the use of ultra- silicon nitride structures: Towards efficient light emission under opti- sound elastography and inverse algorithms for gel dosimetry,” 2008 cal and electrical pumping,” the 5th IEEE International Conference on International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imag- Group IV Photonic, Sorrento, Italy, 17-19 September 2008. ing of Tissue Elasticity, Austin, TX, 27–30 October 2008. W.M. CAREY and A.D. PIERCE, “Acoustical characteristics of muddy G.P. Berry, J.C. Bamber, and P.E. BARBONE, “Simulated indentation sediments (A),” J. Acoust. Soc, Am., Vol. 24, Issue 4, Pt. 1, p. 2561, of poroelastic tissue affected by lymphoedema,” 2008 International October 2008. Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Austin, TX, 27–30 October 2008. W.M. CAREY, A.D. PIERCE and T.M. PORTER, “Card-house theory of mud sediments containing kaolinite and its acoustical implications Z.D. Mason, P.E. BARBONE, and E.F. MORGAN, “Experimental mea- (A),” J. Acoust. Soc, Am., Vol. 124, Issue 4, pt. 2, p. 2561, October surement of 3-D deformation and failure patterns in the vertebra us- 2008. ing digital volume correlation,” 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition, Boston, MA, 31 Oct – 6 Nov P.V. Chitnis, N.J. Manzi, R.O. CLEVELAND, R.A. ROY, and R.G. HOLT, 2008. “Introduction of a compliant gas-layer serves to mitigate damage to solid surfaces from the collapse of cavitation bubble clouds,” J. A.A. Oberai, G.R. Feijoo, and P.E. BARBONE, “Efficient Time Reversal Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123 (5), p. 3561, 2008. by Lanczos Iterations,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123, p. 3596, 2008. C. Ormonde, P. Chitnis, R.O. CLEVELAND, R.G. HOLT, and R.A. ROY, “A P.E. BARBONE, R. Leiderman, J.C. Bamber, G.P. Berry, A.A. Oberai, and vertical acoustic waveguide for two-phase mercury-helium flow void Y. Zhang, “Measuring physiological properties of lymphoedemous fraction determination,” IMECE2008, abstract No. 66791, pg. 196, tissues by ultrasound: theoretical foundations,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2008. Vol.123, Issue 5, p. 3226, 2008. C.E. Ormond, P.V. Chitnis, R.O. CLEVELAND, R.G. HOLT and R.A. ROY, D. D’Orsogna, P. Lamarre, E. Bellotti, P.E. BARBONE, F. Smith, C. Fulk, “An acoustic resonator for determining the gas volume fraction in P. LoVecchio, M. Reine, S. Tobin and J. Markunas, “Toward the De- mercury-helium two-phase flows,” the 2008 NSF Site Visit of the velopment of Low Stress Ohmic Contacts to HgCdTe: A Novel Stress Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, Boston, MA, No- Characterization Technique,” 2008 U.S. Workshop on the PHYSICS vember 2008. and CHEMESTRY of I I-VI MATERIALS, Las Vegas, NV, 11-13 November 2008.

50 www.bu.edu/me/ R.O. CLEVELAND, H. Luo, and J.C. Williams, “Elastic waves in human R.S. McGowan and M.S. HOWE, “Implications of the fluctuating drag kidney stones: Shear dominates spall in shock wave lithotripsy,” J. force voice source,” Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123 (5), p. 3368, 2008. Paris, France, July 2008.

A. Sampathkumar, K.L. EKINCI, T.W. MURRAY, “Nanobeam Displace- R. S. McGowan and M.S. HOWE, “Influence of the ventricular folds ment Mapping Using Full-field Interferometry” 1st International Sym- on the voice source.” Symposium on Vocal Fold Physiology and Bio- posium on Laser Ultrasonics: Science, Technology and Applications, medicine, Tampere, Finland, August 2008. Montreal, Canada, July 2008. M-C. Kim, Q. Cao, and C.M. KLAPPERICH, “A Thermoplastic Continu- X. Yan, and M. GEVELBER, “Investigation of Electrospinning Param- ous-Flow Microfludic Device for Polymerase Chain Reaction: Model eters that Determine Fiber Diameter Distribution,” The Fiber Society and Experiments,” 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering 2008 Technical Conference, Boucherville Canada, 1-3 October 2008. Congress & Exposition, Boston, MA, 31 Oct – 6 Nov 2008.

S. GOPALAN, “One-Step Co-Firing of Anode-Supported SOFCs,” The C.M. Rebholz, P.M. Mitchell, H.A. Zaniboni, T.J. Winn, C.A. Odell, European Fuel Cell Forum, Lucerne, Switzerland, 1 July 2008. C.M. KLAPPERICH, and J.A. Feldman, “The Impact of Rapid Influ- enza Testing on Adult and Pediatric Patient Management,” Annals S. GRACE, D.L. Sondak, and D.J. Dorney, “Simulation of turbofan inter- of Emergency Medicine, 52(4), p. S73 Supplement 1, October 2008. action noise,” ASME IMECE, Boston, MA 2008. Q. Cao, M. Mahalanabis, M. Kim, C.M. KLAPPERICH, “Simplified B.R. Dzikowicz, Z.J. Waters, R.G. HOLT, and R.A. Roy, “Detection of micro-fluidic devices for the detection of influenza Type A”, CIMIT a resonant target buried in sediment using iterative time reversal: Innovation Congress, Boston, MA, October 2008. mid-frequency pond experiments,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123 (5), p. 3755, 2008. J.Y. Zhang, J. Do, S. Lee, W.R. Premasiri, L. Zieger, and C.M. KLAP- PERICH, “In-situ Fabrication of Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering Z.J. Waters, B.R. Dzikowicz, R.G. HOLT, and R.A. ROY, “Laboratory in- Substrate in Microfluidic Chip for Ultrasensitive Infectious Disease vestigations of the detection and characterization of buried targets Detection,” CIMIT Innovation Congress, Boston, MA, October 2008. by iterative, single-channel time reversal,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123 (5), P. 3599, 2008. N. Spencer, C.M. KLAPPERICH, and D. Cotanche, “Understanding the regulation of cell fate in the avian cochlea by the extracellular ma- Z.J. Waters, B.R. Dzikowicz, R.G. HOLT, and R.A. ROY, “Isolation of trix,” CIMIT Innovation Congress, Boston, MA, October 2008. backscattering resonances of a thin spherical shell using iterative time reversal,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123 (5), p. 3340, 2008. X. LIN, “Soliton Theory Revisited, American Chemical Society,” Phila- delphia, August 2008. N.J. Manzi, P.V. Chitnis, R.G. HOLT, R.O. CLEVELAND, and R.A. ROY, “Introduction of a gas bubble layer to mitigate cavitation erosion X. LIN, “Conductive Polymer Actuation via Solitonic Deformations,” damage to solid surfaces,” IMECE2008, abstract No. 67289, p. 196, American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, August 2008. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2008. X. LIN, “Predicting Viscosity of Supercooled Liquids,” American Z.J. Waters, B.R. Dzikowicz, R.G. HOLT, and R.A. ROY, “Experimental Chemical Society, Philadelphia, August 2008. and numerical investgations of single-channel acoustic time reversal for buried object detection,” IMECE2008, abstract No. 67475, p. 58, P. Du, X. LIN, and X. ZHANG, “Conductive Polymer based Actuators,” American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2008. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposi- tion, Boston, MA, 31 October – 6 November 2008. C.H. Farny, R.G. HOLT, and R.A. ROY, “Spatially-sensitive ex vivo cavitation detection with an array detector,” the 2008 meeting of the X. LIN, “Computing transition pathway in bulk activated processes International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound, Minneapolis, MN, and viscosity of supercooled liquids,” Materials Research Society, September 2008. December 2008.

Z.J. Waters, B.R. Dzikowicz, R.G. HOLT and R.A. ROY, “Resonance P. Du, X. LIN, and X. ZHANG, “Development of Conductive Polymer isolation in the presence of noise and clutter by single-channel time Single Layer Cantilever For Conductivity Measurement,” Polymer- reversal,” the 2008 Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference Based Smart Materials--Process, Properties, and Application, Mate- of the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, Boston, rials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 1-5 December 2008. MA, November 2008. X. LIN, “Alternatives to Copper Phthalocyanine as Organic Conduc- A.W. Foley, M.S. HOWE and T.A. Brungart, “Sound generated by gas- tors,” Materials Research Society, December 2008. jet impingement on the interface of a supercavity,” Proceedings of IMECE2008, 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Con- Elizabeth A. Magliula and J.G. MCDANIEL, “Achieving flexural direc- gress and Exposition, Boston MA, 2-6 November 2008. tivity in orthotropic plates,” Presentation IMECE2008-68864, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Bos- M.S. HOWE and A. Manela, “The Forced Motion of a Flag,” 61st An- ton, MA, 5 November 2008. nual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dy- namics, San Antonio, Texas, 23-25 November 2008. E.F. MORGAN, A.H. Baker, Z.D Mason, and A.I. Hussein, “Quantita- tive, three-dimensional visualization of vertebral fractures,” World Congress on Osteoporosis, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008.

2008-2009 Annual Report 51 K.T. Salisbury Palomares, R.E. Gleason, D. Bellin, G.J. Miller, and E.F. al, Canada, July 2008. MORGAN, “Correlations between local strains and tissue phenotypes in an experimental model of skeletal healing,” Gordon Research Con- T.M. PORTER, “Development of phase-shift nanoemulsions to en- ference on Musculoskeletal Biology and Bioengineering, Andover, hance HIFU efficiency,” the 155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society, NH, 2008. Paris France, 1 July 2008.

G.J. Miller and E.F. MORGAN, “Use of nanoindentation to determine T.M. PORTER, “HIFU-controlled delivery of DOX from lysolipid con- viscoelastic and biphasic material properties of hydrogels and articu- taining thermosensitive liposomes,” the annual meeting of- theIn lar cartilage,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress ternational Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound, Minneapolis MN, 11 and Exhibition, Boston, MA, 2008. September 2008.

A.I. Hussein, Z.D. Mason, and E.F. MORGAN, “Predictions of vertebral T.M. PORTER, “Enhancement of rt-PA activity with 2-MHz transcra- strength from quantitative measures of the intra-vertebral heteroge- nial Doppler ultrasound,” the 2008 American Society of Mechanical neity in density,” ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Marco Engineers, International Mechanical Engineering Congress in Boston, Island, FL, 2008. MA, 31 October – 6 November 2008.

P.L. Leong and E.F. MORGAN, “Correlation between nanoindentation T.M. PORTER, “Ultrasound-induced thermal lesion formation with modulus and mineral density in fracture callus tissues,” ASME Sum- phase shift emulsion,” the annual meeting of the International So- mer Bioengineering Conference, Marco Island, FL, 2008. ciety for Therapeutic Ultrasound, Minneapolis MN, 12 September 2008. L.N.M. Hayward and E.F. MORGAN, “Mechano-regulation of stem cell differentiation during bending stimulation of a healing bone defect,” T.M. PORTER, “The potential application of phase shift emulsion in ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Marco Island, FL, 2008. high intensity focused ultrasound therapy,” the 2008 ASME Interna- tional Mechanical Engineering Congress in Boston, MA, 31 October P.L. Leong and E.F. MORGAN, “Regional variations in fracture callus – 6 November 2008. material properties measured via nanoindentation,” Paper #1009, 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Fran- P. Lai, R.A. ROY and T.W. MURRAY, “Photorefractive crystal based cisco, CA, 2008. acousto optic imaging system in the near infrared oprical wave- length,” IMECE2008, abstract No. 66204, pg. 79, American Society of K.T. Salisbury Palomares, T.A. Einhorn, L.C. Gerstenfeld, and E.F. MOR- Mechanical Engineers, 2008. GAN, “Transcriptional profiling of mechanically induced cartilaginous tissues in vivo,” Paper #611, 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic A. Draudt, P. Lai, R.A. ROY, T.W. MURRAY and R.O. CLEVELAND, Research Society, San Francisco, CA, 2008. “Characterizing the dynamic properties of HIFU lesions,” the 2008 Re- search and Industrial Collaboration Conference of the Center for Sub- K.T. Salisbury Palomares, G.E. Miller, and E.F. MORGAN, “Experimen- surface Sensing and Imaging Systems, Boston, MA, November 2008. tal measurement of strains in callus tissues: correlations with mechanically induced tissue phenotypes during skeletal repair,” Paper P. Lai, R.A. ROY, and T.W. MURRAY, “Pressure Contrast Imaging: A #1008, 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, new approach to the acousto-optic detection of optical scattering- in San Francisco, CA, 2008. homogeneities at depth in diffuse media,” the 2008 Research and In- dustrial Collaboration Conference of the Center for Subsurface Sens- L.C. Gerstenfeld, D. Sacks, M. Pelis, Z.D. Mason, E.F. MORGAN, and ing and Imaging Systems, Boston, MA, November 2008. T.A. Einhorn, “Comparison of alendronate versus denosumab (a monoclonal anti-RANKL antibody) on murine fracture healing,” Paper R.A. ROY, P. Lai, and T.W. MURRAY, “Multi-mode tissue imaging us- #890, 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San ing acousto-optic sensing and B-mode ultrasound,” the 2008 meeting Francisco, CA, 2008. of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound, Minneapolis, MN, September 2008. E.F. MORGAN, Z.D. Mason, G. Bishop, A.D. Davis, L.C. Gerstenfeld, and T.A. Einhorn, “Combined effects of BMP-7 and PTH in metaphy- R.A. ROY, T. Wu, C.H. Farny, T.W. MURRAY and R.G. HOLT, “Controlled seal bone healing,” Paper #399, 54th Annual Meeting of the Ortho- cavitation nucleation with laser-illuminated nano-particles,” the 2008 paedic Research Society, San Francisco, CA, 2008. meeting of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound, Minneapolis, MN, September 2008. G.L. Barnes, S. Kakar, S. Vora, N. Record, N.A. Wigner, E.F. MORGAN, L.C. Gerstenfeld, and T.A. Einhorn, “Enhanced chondrogenic matura- R.A. ROY, Z.J. Waters, B.R. Dzikowicz, and R.G. HOLT, “The detection tion in PTH treated fractures,” Paper #167, 54th Annual Meeting of and characterization of buried resonant targets by iterative, single- the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Francisco, CA, 2008. channel time reversal,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123 (5), p. 3185, 2008.

L. Alsofi, J. Xu, Z.D. Mason, E.F. MORGAN, Y. Deguchi, M. Yamauchi, A. Draudt, P. Lai, P, R.A. ROY, T.W. MURRAY and R.O. CLEVELAND, and P.C. Trackman, “Trabecular bone phenotype in lysyl oxidase iso- “Detection of HIFU lesions in excised tissue using Acousto-Optic Im- form knockout mice,” 37th Annual Meeting of the American Associa- aging,” the 2008 meeting of the International Society for Therapeutic tion for Dental Research, 2008. Ultrasound, Minneapolis, MN, September 2008.

S. Bramhavar, B. Pouet, and T.W. MURRAY, “Superheterodyne detec- I. Webb, M. Arora, S. Payne, R.A. ROY, and C.C. Coussios, “Experimen- tion of high frequency acoustic waves,” 1st International Symposium tal investigation of the effect of heating rate on pre-existing gas nuclei on Laser Ultrasonics: Science, Technology and Applications, Montre- in a viscoelastic medium,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123(5), 3560, 2008.

52 www.bu.edu/me/ R.A. ROY, C.E. Ormonde, P.V. Chitnis, R.O. CLEVELAND and R.G. HOLT, CA, 12-16 October 2008. “An acoustic resonator for determining the void fraction of bubbly mercury flows,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123(5), p. 3559, 2008. X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Mapping Smooth Muscle Cell Contractile State Regulated by Contractile Proteins using a Novel BioMEMS Moi- P. VAKILI, “Path-dependent Option Price and Sensitivity Estimation ré Mapping Sensor,” AVS 55th International Symposium & Exhibition, through Structured Database Monte-Carlo Simulation,” the Financial Boston, MA, USA, 19-24 October 2008. Management Association 2008 Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, 8-11 October 2008. Y. Qiu, R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “Electrical Assay for Real-time Monitor- ing Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis,” AVS 55th International Symposium & P. VAKILI, “Monotonicity and Stratification,” the 2008 Winter Simula- Exhibition, Boston, MA, 19-24 October 2008. tion Conference, Miami, FL, 7-11 December 2008. H. Tao, K. Fan, C.M. Bingham, W.J. Padilla, R.D. Averitt, andX. ZHANG, P. VAKILI, “Control Variate Technique: A Constructive Approach,” Mi- “Design and Fabrication of Flexible Electrically Resonant Terahetz ami, FL, 7-11 December 2008. Metamaterials,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Con- gress and Exposition, Boston, MA, 31 October – 6 November 2008. O. Cote, D. WROBLEWSKI, and J. Hacker, J., “Refractive Turbulence, Transient Electronic Disconnectivity, and Propagation Situational X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Contrast Enhancement of Cell Traction Awareness (PSA),” 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Force Probing by Capping the Tips with Gold Particles,” ASME Interna- January 2009. tional Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Boston, MA, 31 October – 6 November 2008. H. Tao, A.C. Strikwerda, C.M. Bingham, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Averitt, “Dynamical Control of Terahertz Metamaterial Reso- I-K Lin, Y-M Liao, Y. Liu, K-S Ou, K-S Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Elastic nance Response Using Bimaterial Cantilevers,” the Progress In Elec- and Viscoelastic Characterization and Modeling of Polymer based tromagnetics Research Symposium, Cambridge, MA, 2-6 July 2008. Structures for Biogical Applications,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Boston, MA, 31 October – 6 I-K Lin, H. Lu, and X. ZHANG, “Viscoelastic Characterization and Mod- November 2008. eling of Soft Micropillars as Force Transducer,” Gordon Research Con- ference on Thin Film & Small Scale Mechanical Behavior, Waterville, X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Mapping and Decoupling Distortions in ME, 27 July – 1 August 2008. Polymeric Periodic Substrates for Biological Applications,” ASME In- ternational Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Boston, X. ZHANG, “Thermo- and Electromechanics of Multilayer Thin-Film MA, 31 October – 6 November 2008. Microstructures for MEMS Applications,” Mechanics of Materials & Devices and Structural Mechanics, AFOSR Annual Grantees’/Contrac- Y. Qiu, R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “A Cardiomyocyte-based Biosensor for tors’ Meeting, Arlington, VA, USA, 18-20 August 2008. the Study on Hypertrophy Induced by Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposi- W.J. Padilla, H. Chen, N. Landy, C.M. Binghama, H. Tao, X. ZHANG, tion, Boston, MA, 31 October – 6 November 2008. J. Zided, A.C. Gossardd, A.J. Taylor, and R.D. Averitt, “Metamaterials for the terahertz gap,” the 33rd International Conference on Infrared, H. Tao, K. Fan, A.C. Strikwerda, W.J. Padilla, R.D. Averitt , and X. Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, Pasadena, CA, 15-19 September ZHANG, “Filling Terahertz Gap: Development of MEMS-based Active 2008. Metamaterial Structures and Devices at Terahertz Frequencies,” Mi- croelectromechanical Systems--Materials and Devices II, Materials Y. Qiu, R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “Impedance-Sensing Assay for Real- Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 1-5 December 2008. time Monitoring Ongoing Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis,” the 12th Inter- national Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life X. Zheng, and X. ZHANG, “Interface Enhancement and Analysis of Mi- Sciences, San Diego, CA, 12-16 October 2008. cro Biomechano Sensor using Gold Particles,” Mechanics of Biological and Biomedical Materials, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Y. Qiu, R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “A Cardiomyocyte-based Biosensor Boston, MA, 1-5 December 2008. for the Study on Hypertrophy Induced by Tumor Necrosis Factor Alfa,” the 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for H. Tao, N.I. Landy, K. Fan, A.C. Strikwerda, W.J. Padilla, R.D. Averitt, Chemistry and Life Sciences, San Diego, CA, 12-16 October 2008. and X. ZHANG, “Flexible Terahertz Metamaterials: Towards a Tera- hertz Metamaterial Invisible Cloak,” 2008 International Electron De- I-K Lin, Y-M Liao, K-S Chen, and X. ZHANG, “Viscoelastic Character- vices Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 15-17 December 2008. ization of Soft Micropillars for Cellular Mechanics Study,” the 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and B.C. Kaanta, H.Chen, G. Lambertus, W.H. Steinecker, O. Zhdaneev, X. Life Sciences, San Diego, CA, 12-16 October 2008. ZHANG, “High Sensitivity Micro-Thermal Conductivity Detector for Gas Chromatography,” the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mi- X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “A Novel Versatile Biomechano-sensor for cro Electro Mechanical Systems, Sorrento, Italy, 25-29 January 2009. Real Time Vascular Cell Contractility Mapping,” the 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, H. Tao, N.I. Landy, K. Fan, A.C. Strikwerda, W.J. Padilla, R.D. Averitt, San Diego, CA, 12-16 October 2008. and X. ZHANG, “Terahertz Metamaterials with Simultaneously Nega- tive Electric and Magnetic Resonance Responses based on Bimaterial X. Zheng and X. ZHANG, “Diffraction Moiré: Decoupling Distortions Pop up Structures,” the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Micro in Periodic Polymeric Post Arrays,” the 12th International Conference Electro Mechanical Systems, Sorrento, Italy, 25-29 January 2009. on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, San Diego,

2008-2009 Annual Report 53 H. Tao, C.M. Bingham, A.C. Strikwerda, D. Pilon, D. Shrekenhamer, N.I. X. ZHANG, “Elastic and Viscoelastic Characterization and Modeling Landy, K. Fan, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Averitt, “Flexible Wide of Polymer based Structures for Biological Applications,” NSF Design, Angle Terahertz Resonant Absorber Based on Perfectly Impedance Service and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, Ho- Matched Metamaterials,” the 29th Conference on Lasers and Electro nolulu, HI, USA, 22-25 June 2009. Optics, Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 5 June 2009. Y. Qiu, R. Liao, and X. ZHANG, “Preventing Cardiomyocytes from TNF- A.C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, H. Tao, D. Pilon, X. ZHANG, and R.D. Averitt, Alpha-Induced Cell Death based on Real-Time Monitoring Cell Adhe- “Comparison of Birefringent Metamaterials and Meanderline Struc- sion through Impedance Sensors,” the 15th International Conference ture as Quarter-Wave Plates at Terahertz Frequencies,” the 29th Con- on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Denver, CO, ference on Lasers and Electro Optics, Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 5 USA, 21-25 June 2009. June 2009. Y. Zou, and Y. ZHANG, “Experimental and Theoretical Study of Bovine H. Tao, A.C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, C.M. Bingham, W.J. Padilla, X. ZHANG, Aorta and Its Elastin,” ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, and R.D. Averitt, “Flexible Terahertz Metamaterials on Polyimide Sub- Marco Island, FL, 2008. strates,” the 29th Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics, Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 5 June 2009. M.-J. Chow, Y. Zou, H. He, F. McGowan, D. McElhinney, D and Y. ZHANG, “Effect of Pulmonary Artery Banding on the Mechanical Be- X. ZHANG, “Creating Micro/Nano Fabricated Structures for Cellular havior of Arteries,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Con- Mechanical Force Measurements in Living Cells,” NSF Design, Service gress and Exposition, Boston, MA, 2008. and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA, 22-25 June 2009. I.-K. Lin, K. Fan, S. Huang, A. Gonzalez, Y. ZHANG, and X. ZHANG, “Characterization of Gradient Residual Stress in Bimaterial Micro- X. ZHANG, “A Digital Bio/Nanoelectronics Interface for Single Cell cantilever Structures for MEMS Applications,” ASME International Study,” NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees and Re- Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Boston, MA, 2008. search Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA, 22-25 June 2009. D. Weiand and Y. ZHANG, “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Fric- X. ZHANG, “Mechanical Behavior of Amorphous Plasma-Enhanced tion and the Effect of Surface Coating,” ASME International Mechani- Chemical Vapor Deposited Silicon Oxide Films for MEMS Applica- cal Engineering Congress and Exposition, Boston, MA, 2008. tions,” NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees and- Re search Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA, 22-25 June 2009. Y. Zou, and Y. ZHANG, “Experimental and Theoretical Study of Bovine Aorta and Its Elastin,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Boston, MA, 2008.

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S. GOPALAN, U.B. PAL, S.N. BASU and W. Huang, “Protective Oxide A. SHARON, “Isolation of Messenger RNA from Mammalian Cells,” Coatings for SOFC Interconnec-tions”, United States Patent Applica- provisional filed December 2008. tion #20090035561. A. SHARON, “Isolation of Total RNA from Mammalian Cells,” provi- B. Vattiat, D. WROBLEWSKI, and M. GEVELBER, “Plasma State and sional filed December 2008. Flux Sensor,” serial no. 12008787, joint Boston University/Cyber Ma- terials application, January 2008. A. SHARON, “Low Cost Disposable Medical Forceps to Enable,” provisional filed March 2009. S. GOPALAN and U.B. PAL, “Hydrogen Separation Using Oxygen-Ion- Electron Mixed Conducting Mem-branes,” US Patent No. 7,393,384, A. SHARON, “Hollow Central Channel for Various Functionalities,” 1 July 2008. provisional filed March 2009.

D. Seccombe, G.A. Orbeck, Jr., S. GOPALAN, and U.B. PAL, “1. Pro- A. SHARON, “Reservoir-Buffered Mixers and Remote-Valve Switching cess for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Manu-facture,” US Patent No. 7,485,385, for Microfluidics,” provisional filed March 2009. 3 February 2009.

R. Dean, R.G. HOLT and R.A. ROY, “System and method for creating liquid droplet impact forced collapse of laser nanoparticle nucleated cavities for controlled nuclear reactions,” US Patent No. US 7,445,319 B2, 4 November 2008.

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Advanced Materials Process Control Lab Biomedical Ultrasonics Lab MICHAEL GEVELBER ROBIN CLEVELAND, R.GLYNN HOLT, TYRONE PORTER, RON ROY The primary re- This laboratory is equipped for search focus of the wet and dry experiments sup- Advanced Materi- porting a broad spectrum of als Process Control ultrasound research, including Laboratory is to ap- nonlinear acoustics, bubble-reply a systems-based lated physical and biomedical approach to improv- acoustics, therapeutic ultra- ing material pro- sound, acoustic cavitation, and cessing capabilities. transduction. There are two Research projects involve an integrated effort of physical modeling, fully instrumented ultrasonic scan tanks with computer-controlled sensor development, system design, and control development. positioners. One is for research into high-intensity-focused ultrasound for surgery and the other contains a peizo-electric array with Current projects include work on plasma deposition for protective 170 elements capable of generating intense shock waves for research coatings, crystal growth for electronic applications, and chemical in lithotripsy. The lab has a scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) that vapor deposition. An experi-mental CVD system has been devel- can employ ultrasound pulses with frequencies up to 150 MHz for im- oped for implementing real-time control. A microbalance is used to aging samples. The lab is well stocked with general-purpose test and measure growth rates in situ, and parallel DSP boards are used for measurement equipment such as function generators, multimeters, data analysis and control. Related research includes development of power amplifiers, preamps, analog and digital oscilloscopes. The lab analysis methods for identifying fundamen-tal process constraints, as is equipped with a full-size fume hood, a water purification system, well as development of advanced sensors and observers to infer the and various instruments for fluid and biomaterial control, processing, process state. and measurement.

Biomedical Microdevices and Microenvironments BioRobotics Lab CATHERINE KLAPPERICH PIERRE DUPONT The Biomedical Mi- The BioRobotics Research crodevices and Mi- Group (BRG) solves theoretical croenvironments and practical problems in mini- laboratory is fo- mally invasive surgery. They cused on materials specialize in medical robot and research activities instrument design, develop- in the broad areas ment of imaging techniques of tissue engineer- for surgical guidance, modeling and biomedical ing tool-tissue interaction; and device design. The laboratory is equipped for polymer and hydrogel teleoperation / automation synthesis, microfluidic device rapid prototyping, fabrica-tion of tissue of instrument motion. They engineering scaffold materials, molecular analysis, and tissue culture. utilize analytical tools from It houses a dynamic mechanical analyzer for time and temperature robotics, dynamics and con- sensitive testing of gel and polymer macroscale mechanical proper- trol together with innovative design techniques to create success- ties. ful solutions. The team members come from diverse backgrounds with degrees in mechanical / biomedical / electrical engineering and This facility is a fully functional laboratory for integrated mechani- medicine. Their specialties range from biomedical robotics, clinical cal, chemical, and biological testing of biomaterials. The laboratory is practice and imaging to product design and many areas in between. adjacent to the shared bio-micro/nanofabrication center. This cleanroom contains a mask aligner, AFM, DekTak Profilometer, e-beam evaporator, and a spin coater. The lab also maintains a Hysitron Tribo- Control in Nanoscale Systems scope Nanoindentation Instrument located in the Low Vibration Area SEAN ANDERSSON of the Photonics Center. Laboratory projects include experi-ments Andersson’s research group uses this facility to develop and apply and modeling of the contact problem for nanoscale probes on soft new techniques for the study of dynamics in nanoscale systems. We hydrated biomateri-als, cell-biomaterial interactions in tissue - engi use advanced systems and control methods to design and analyze neering materials, and diagnostic microfluidic device design. algorithms which offer extremely high spatial and temporal resolution. Our target systems lie primarily in the realm of single molecules and molecular systems. The lab includes an optical microscope, a nanopositioning stage, a homebuilt confocal microscope, and laser excitation sources.

2008-2009 Annual Report 55 Fabrication Lab as magnesium, titanium, calcium, and tantalum, novel materials pro- JOE ESTANO cessing for hydrogen storage, membrane technology for hydrogen The Fabrication Laborato- production and separation, hybrid one-step processing of solid oxide ry helps support the over- fuel cells, and materials for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel all research mission of the cells. department by fabricating instrumentation and components for research use. High Temperature Oxidation Lab Currently, the major ma- SOUMENDRA BASU chinery in the laboratory The research focus is to investigate high-temperature oxidation be- consists of 3 Sharp end havior of materials by exposing metal and ceramic samples to cor- mills with CNC control sys- rosive atmospheres containing oxygen and sulfur at elevated tem- tems, two Sharp lathes, a peratures up to 1,600˚C. The laboratory is equipped with a CAHN band saw, some older drill presses, a table saw, a grinder and sander, (thermogravi-metric) balance and a Mettler microbalance for weight and miscellaneous hand tools. The laboratory occupies 1305 sq. ft. in gain measurements, as well as an apparatus for oxidation in O–18 two adjacent rooms: ENG B02 and ENG B07 of 110 Cummington St. atmospheres, in order to determine oxidation mechanisms. Its operation is under the supervision of the department’s laboratory supervisor and laboratory engineer. Hybrid and Networked Systems (HyNeSs) Lab CALIN BELTA Green Manufacturing Lab SRIKANTH GOPALAN Belta’s research group is interested in phenomena that occur when Research in Green Manufacturing Laboratory focuses on environ- continuous dynamics, described by systems of differential equations, mentally benign power generation technologies such as solid oxide are combined with discrete dynamics, modelled as automata or fuel cells (SOFCs). They explore the material science and electro- state transition graphs. Such systems are called hybrid, and examples chemistry of SOFCs using tools such as impedance spectroscopy, gal- range from man-made systems such as mobile robots, to naturally vanostats and potentiostats. Studies in this lab include measurement occurring systems such as biochemical networks, where the continu- of the rates of charge transfer reactions that occur at the interfaces ous dynamics of metabolic processes is regulated by the logic of gene of solid state electrochemical devices, exploration of new materials expression. Its approach to the analysis and control of such systems and processes and modeling of the transport phenomena that occur combine concepts and tools from computer science and control in such devices. In this lab, they also conduct research on ceramic gas theory. Its current application areas are networked mobile robotics, separation membranes for the separation of industrially important swarming, gene networks, and genome scale metabolic analysis. gases such as oxygen and hydrogen.

Ongoing projects conducted in close collaboration with industrial partners include the development of electrode and electrolyte ma- Intelligent Mechatronics terials for lower operating temperature SOFCs and the development JOHN BAILLIEUL of mixed ionic and electronic conducting materials for separation of hydrogen. The laboratory is equipped with a Perkin Elmer 263 A The mission of the Labora- Potentiostat/Galvanostat used for characterization of electrochemi- tory for Intelligent Mecha- cal systems such as fuel cells, ceramic gas separation membranes, tronic Systems (LIMS), for- batteries and sensors, a Horiba 910 particle size analyzer capable of merly called the BU Robotics obtaining particle size distributions of powders in the range of 0.01 Lab, is to understand the de- microns to 1 mm using light scattering technique, a Solartron 1255 sign and integration of novel Frequency Response Analyzer (FRA) used for AC impedance spectros- sensing and actuation tech- copy, high temperature furnaces that can operate up to 1700˚C, and nologies for a wide variety a Spex 8000 mill capable of producing sub-micron particles for use of control applications. The in solid state electrodes by high-energy ball milling in a very short Lab is particularly interested period of time. in active materials exploiting electrostrictive and magne- High Temperature Materials Processing Lab tostrictive effects, as well as UDAY PAL the rapidly growing variety of High Temperature Materials Processing Laboratory is completely silicon-based microelectro- equipped for studying most high-temperature chemical and elec- mechanical (MEMs) devices. trochemical processes involving metals and ceramics. It includes Incorporating these into - ac several high-temperature furnaces, residual gas analyzers, CO/CO2 tuator and sensor arrays, the analyzers, potentiostats, impedance analyzers, state-of-the-art ther- Lab studies mechatronic systems in which global dynamical effects mogravimetric Cahn Balance, high precision power supplies capable are achieved through the aggregation of distributed parallel local ac- of operating under constant current/voltage mode, viscometers, tions. Control of pattern formation in multiagent systems in which state-of-the-art data acquisition systems, powder processing facility, band limited communication channels mediate real-time data-flow and fuel cell test stations. between sensor and actuator arrays is central to the research. Appli- cations of interest include fluid structure interactions, robotic system The laboratory currently supports the following research programs: interactions with fluids and elastic solids, microelectromechanisms, green electrochemical synthesis of high-energy content metals such rotating shafts, and turbine dynamics.

56 www.bu.edu/me/ Laser Acoustics Lab Microscopy Lab TODD MURRAY, RON ROY SOUMENDRA BASU The laser acoustics lab supports Microscopy Laboratory is dedicated to the preparation of electron research in the nondestructive transparent specimens for observation in the Transmission Electron characterization of conventional Microscope (TEM). The specimens have to be reduced to a thick- and biological materials. Current ness on the order of 100Å in order to study atomic arrangements by research projects include the high resolution TEM. Equipment available for this purpose, includes development of acousto-optic a GATAN dimpler and ion-mill, as well as precision grinding and pol- imaging systems for the detec- ishing apparatus. The laboratory is also equipped with a darkroom, tion of abnormalities deep with- capable of processing TEM negatives and prints. in biological tissues, the study of light and sound interaction with nanoparticles with potential -ap Multiscale Tissue Biomechanics Lab plications in tissue imaging and KATHERINE ZHANG therapy, and the development In the Multiscale Tissue Biomechanics Lab, K. Zhang’s research group of full-field techniques for the integrates the knowledge in biology, nonlinear solid mechanics, and characterization of arrays of nanostructures. The lab houses a variety finite element modeling, especially of complex materials and consti- of ultrasonic imaging and optical equipment. tutive behavior. Through the research, the lab provides insights on understanding the relationship between microscopic biological pro- Lab for Microsystems Technology cesses and changes in macroscopic tissue mechanics due to diseases, XIN ZHANG and helps the development of diagnostic, therapeutic, and pharma- Laboratory for Microsystems Technology (LMST) is dedicated to ceutical techniques. The interdisciplinary research in the design, fabrication, characteriza- Multi-Scale Tissue Biome- tion, packaging, and operation of Microelectromechanical Systems chanics Laboratory was (MEMS) and Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS). They perform established in 2006 and research on MEMS and NEMS. Specifically, they are interested in ap- includes a fully equipped plying materials science, micro/nanomechanics, and micro/nano- wet lab and computation- manufacturing technologies to solve various engineering problems al facilities for character- that are motivated by practical applications in MEMS/NEMS and ization and modeling of emerging nanobiotechnologies. LMST is a Class 1000 cleanroom that the mechanical behavior provides resources for the design, fabrication, characterization, and of soft biological tissues testing of MEMS/NEMS devices. LMST is also a general biochemistry and composites at multi- laboratory that has a strong collaboration with the Boston University scale. School of Medicine.

Nanoscale Engineering Lab Materials Theory KAMIL EKINCI XI LIN The Nanoscale Engineering Laboratory is used to fabricate nanome- Materials Theory Group seeks ter scale semiconductor mechanical devices using electron beam to understand the property lithography, plasma, and wet etching techniques. After fabrication, of materials via modeling and various state-of-the-art characterization techniques are employed to simulation. The Group makes study the physical processes dominant in these nanomechanical de- functional materials devices vices. Among the fundamental phenomena studied are dissipation, following theoretical predic- fluctuations, and surface effects at the nanometer length scales. The tions in the Materials Theory practical aspects of this research involve the design and fabrication Laboratory. of ultra-high-speed nanomechanical sensors and development of surface nano-engineering techniques for improved device characteristics.

Medical Acoustics Lab Orthopaedic and Developmental Biomechanics Lab TYRONE PORTER ELISE MORGAN The Medical Acoustics Laboratory aims at studying the interaction Morgan’s research group uses experimental and computational between ultrasound, tissue, and biomaterials and developing new ul- methods to explore the relationships between structure and me- trasound technologies for medical applications. Research thrusts in chanical function of biological tissues at multiple length scales in the the Medical Acoustics Lab include the development of temperature- Orthopaedic and Developmental Biomechanics Lab. Current research and pressure-sensitive drug carriers, the formulation and character- projects include quantification of physiological loading conditions, ization of monodisperse ultrasound contrast agents, and designing 3-D visualization and prediction of spine fractures, and the effects of systems to monitor and control bubble-enhanced ultrasound thermal mechanical stimulation on joint and articular cartilage development. ablation of solid tumors. The laboratory houses a biaxial (axial-torsional) servohydraulic materials testing system with a variety of extensometers and load cells, a miniature torsional testing system, two micro-computed tomography systems, a multi-channel signal conditional and amplification system,

2008-2009 Annual Report 57 an X-ray cabinet, and various cutting tools including a sledge micro- including silicon nitride and titanium carbide, are available. Dies and tome and low-speed wafering saw. Additional space is dedicated to presses for powder compaction and component development have cell and tissue culture. Computational facilities include PC worksta- been established. Consolidation and sintering capabilities include tions equipped with software for image processing, finite element vacuum, over pressure, and hot pressing up to 25,000 KgF and tem- analysis, and general computing. peratures in excess of 2,400˚C. These capabilities make the powder processing laboratory uniquely equipped for developing high temperature monolithic and composite materials. Photo-acoustics and Photo-thermal Microscopy Lab TODD MURRAY The laboratory is also equipped with a Bruker D8 Focus diffractome- Research in the Photo-acoustics and Photo-thermal Microscopy lab ter with independent theta and two theta axis with copper radiation. focuses on the development of laser-based techniques for the char- This unit extends the laboratory’s capability to perform single crystal acterization and nondestructive evaluation of small scale structures back reflection Laue studies for crystal orientation. The standard- de including thin films and coatings, membranes, MEMS and nanoscale tector is the scintillation counter, with high dynamic range and low devices. The laboratory includes pulsed and high, frequency ampli- internal background. In addition, several Debye Scherrer powder tude modulated laser sources, optical interferometers, and a variety cameras are also available. This unit is equipped with all necessary of high speed electronic and signal processing components. components for qualitative or quantitative phase analysis, crystallite size determination, and structure determination and refinement.

Physical Acoustics Lab Precision Engineering R.GLYNN HOLT TOM BIFANO The interaction of sound The Precision Engineering Research Laboratory is home to an active with with fluids, especially program in Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS) research. In those with free surfaces, is MEMS, the tools that emerged from the semiconductor manufactur- at the heart of the work in ing revolution are employed to design and build electronic, mechani- the Physical Acoustics Lab. cal, and optical devices whose dimensions are measured in nano- The coupling of sound to meters and micrometers. Like their microelectronic counterparts, interfacial motion leads to MEMS devices can be made extremely small and in great numbers a variety of interesting phe- economically. The research program at PERL focuses on Optical nomena involving free sur- MEMS systems—electromechanical devices to improve the perfor- faces, bubbles and drops. mance of imaging and communication systems. One of the more suc- Many of these phenomena cessful outcomes of this research has been the design, fabrication, have surprising practical applications. A few of our projects are de- and testing of a new class of micromirror array that can be used to scribed below. improve the resolution of microscopes, telescopes, and biomedical instruments. In one externally funded project, we are investigating the collective collapse of cavitation clusters in high-static-pressure liquids. We uti- Two specific types of these devices, developed at the University— lize high-power pulsed laser beam arrays to control cluster nucleation MEMS deformable mirrors and MEMS spatial light modulators—have and investigate the onset of collective bubble effects in high-pressure been incorporated into test-beds worldwide to exploit this new tech- spherical resonators. Understanding the physics of collective clus- nology. The work on optical MEMS includes design, manufacturing, ter collapse will lead to applications involving high-temperature and and testing of these devices. PERL is housed in the Photonics Center, high-pressure reactions. where world-class facilities for modeling, producing, and measuring optical MEMS devices are available. In another project, in collaboration with a biomedical device company, we are using ultrasonic acoustic levitation as a technique for Shock Wave Lab investigating the rheology of blood clots. The uniqueness of this non- ROBIN CLEVELAND contact method allows the determination of the intrinsic strength The Shock Wave Laboratory houses a number of shock wave sources of clots as a function of a variety of control factors, in turn allowing for research into lithotripsy (breaking of kidney stones) and shock medical device designers to more effectively break up clots. In two wave therapy (the treatment of musculoskeletal pain). There are two other projects we are investigating the unique properties of acousti- electrohydraulic (spark based source) lithotripters: one is a research cally-driven nonlinear parametric instability waves known as Faraday device which allows control over various aspects of the shock wave waves. These waves spontaneously form patterns, and efficiently and the second is a clinical device complete with fluoroscopic imag- focus vibrational energy at a free surface. Our efforts are directed ing. The lab is also home to two shock wave therapy (SWT) devices at investigating pattern freezing as an alternative to traditional time- for research into the use of shock waves to treat soft-tissue injury. consuming approaches, and towards understanding Faraday waves in Acoustical and optical cavitation detection systems are used to sense periodic structures. bubble activity generated by shock waves. There is a high-pressure chamber with acoustically transparent windows that is equipped Powder Metallurgy & X-ray Lab with acoustic and optical ports to allow for the study of shock wave VINOD SARIN interaction with stones under pressure.

The powder processing laboratory is equipped to batch, process, and The laboratory also houses the Drop Physics Module, an acoustic densify a wide variety of materials. Particle size reduction and uni- levitation apparatus that flew on the Space Shuttle in the Space-lab form mixing are essential in any powder preparation. In addition to a module during the missions STS-50 (First United States Micro-gravity 500cc capacity attritor mill for processing small powder batches, an Laboratory, USML-1) and STS-73 (USML-2). The apparatus enabled extensive selection of ball mill sizes and a variety of milling media,

58 www.bu.edu/me/ the study of drop dynamics and surface rheology in micro-gravity. Facilities include a This apparatus is currently being refurbished and will be used for large-water-filled, studies of the dynamic rheology of foams. ultrasound scan tank (with preci- Undergraduate Machining Lab sion positioners, BOB SJOSTROM supporting com- puters and acous- This lab is used to prototype manufacturing projects, and provides tic-electronic in- fundamental engineering research support. The lab emphasizes strumentation) for modern processing machinery and manufacturing aids such as com- general-purpose puter-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM). ultrasound research and two This lab is used for demonstration and projects in several manufac- diagnostic ultra- turing courses for carrying out milling, cutting, and drilling of differ- sound scanners for ent materials. This state-of-the-art shop is equipped with a HAAS VF2 biomedical imag- Vertical Machining Center, 2 Sharp 1224 Vertical Machining Centers, ing research. The an OKUMA LB 15 CNC 12 Station Turret Lathe, a FANUC TAPE CUT SNS work features W0 Wire EDM, a HARDINGE HLV-H Toolroom Lathe, a Sharp SG618 an acoustic resonator designed for detecting free gas bubbles in flow- Surface Grinder, 2 BRIDGEPORT vertical mills, a LEBLOND 16” engine ing mercury and a laser cavitation system for generating reproducible lathe, 3 BRIDGEPORT Series I-CNC vertical mills w/Anilam Controls, a bubble cloud collapse near boundaries under well-controlled aque- GROB vertical band saw, a CLAUSING-COLCHESTER 15” engine lathe, ous conditions. Cloud collapse diagnostics include high-speed pho- a KEARNEY TRECKER horizontal mill, and a RUEMELIN sand blaster. tography, acoustic emission measurements, and boundary surface The lab also has 2 computer stations using Virtual Gibbs Cad Cam, vibrations measured using a laser Doppler vibrometer. Delcam’s ArtCam, and Solid Works software.

Underwater Sound and Ultrasound Lab Vibrations Lab WILLIAM CAREY, ROBIN CLEVELAND, R.GLYNN HOLT, RAYMOND NA- J.GREGORY McDANIEL GEM, RON ROY The laboratory offers a full suite of sensors, instrumentation, and The focus of this laboratory is the propagation of sound in natural software necessary to research the vibrations of complex structures bodies of water. Facilities include a wet lab testing facility as well as and technologies that reduce vibration and noise. One area of cur- various instrumentation for sound generation, detection, and propa- rent interest is the spatial mapping of energy removal by damping gation experiments. The lab also contains 2 workstations for com- treatments in order to better design damping treatments for computational modeling. In addition to lab and computational efforts, plex structures. Another area is the mitigation of automotive brake at-sea research projects are under way through collaborations with squeal. other regional facilities.

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Center for BioDynamics (CBD) industrial partners to turn emerging concepts in photonics technology into commercial products. The Center is staffed and equipped to The Center for Biodynam- help industry partners reduce the technical and financial risk involved ics (CBD) is a multidisci- in developing new ideas, refining them in laboratory, building work- plinary, interdepartmental ing prototypes, and starting up companies. To date the Center has center, which strives to forged joint ventures with a dozen companies to develop new prod- advance training and re- ucts in data storage, environmental monitoring, optoelectronics, and search between dynamical biotechnology. systems, biology, and engineering. The CBD trains undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in leading techniques from these disciplines. The CBD emphasizes the integration of - re search and education, as well as the vertical integration of students Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) and mentors at all levels within Boston University. Training is often done through involvement in cross-disciplinary collaborations and The Bernard M. Gordon Center co-mentored projects. for Subsurface Sensing and Imag- ing Systems is a multi-university Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation National Science Foundation En- gineering Research Center (NSF- The Fraunhofer USA Cen- ERC) founded in 2000. Its mission ter for Manufacturing In- is to develop new technologies novation (FHCMI) provides to detect hidden objects—and to product development as- use those technologies to meet sistance and manufactur- realworld subsurface challenges ing solutions to local and international industry. We work with our in areas as diverse as noninvasive breast cancer detection and un- clients to develop new technologies, improve current manufacturing derground pollution assessment. The center’s multidisciplinary ap- operations and, based on our global view, benchmark against the proach combines expertise in wave physics (photonics, ultrasonics, world’s best practices. Our unique ability to access a global research electromagnetics), multisensor fusion, image processing, and 3D base and our own vast experience give our clients an unparalleled CAT-scan-like reconstruction and visualization. The Gordon Center advantage. operates with the speed and agility more typical of a results-driven private company than of an academic institution, consistent with the Fraunhofer has been bridging the gap between academic research needs of its industrial and government partners. With its commit- and industrial needs for more than 50 years. It is Europe’s largest ment to leveraging technology transfer to spur economic develop- R&D organization spanning over fifty locations across Europe, Asia ment, the Gordon Center is intended to be a national model for the and North America; and includes an annual client base of more than fusion of academic research and private-sector collaboration. three thousand corporations.

The model is very simple: Fraunhofer Institutes work with industry Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) and universities to scale up cutting edge research into real working technologies on an industrial time table. Our engineering leads to the development of advanced machinery and processes for a variety The Center for Infor- of applications. These range from submicron precision assembly for mation and Systems the photonics, biotech and semiconductor industries, to high volume Engineering pro- manufacture of consumer products. vides a home across departments for faculty and students interested in information and systems engineering methodologies and their relevance to applica- Photonics Center tion domains encompassing the analysis, design, and management of To help industry bridge the complex systems. Information and systems engineering research at gap between basic research Boston University is strong and accomplished but also spread across and practical application, departments, colleges and schools within the University. In 2002, the Boston University launched Trustees approved the new CISE in order to foster greater interactions the Photonics Center in 1994 among researchers speaking the same technical language across di- with $29 million in seed funding from the federal government. The verse application domains. Currently, there are 30 affiliated faculty center is now forging true business partnerships in which companies from the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, draw on the University’s exceptional expertise and resources in engi- Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics and Statistics, neering, science, medicine, and management to build actual product Mechanical Engineering, Operations Management and the Division prototypes and spawn a growing stream of new companies. of Systems Engineering. Current focal application domains include: Automation, robotics and control; Communications and networking; The Photonics Center is a bold new model for university-industry col- Computational Biology; Information Sciences; Production, Service laboration. It has been established to work directly with investors and Systems, and Supply Chains.

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Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology ing to focus on applications in understanding subcellular processes, biomolecular function and human physiology. Nanoscience and nanotechnology re- The new Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology is estab- search and develop- lished to advance academic and technological research and development are leading a ment in nanoscience and nanobiotechnology. The Center serves as a revolution in basic materials science and engineering. New advance- hub for nanoscience researchers from the Charles River and Medical ments with designed functionality are poised to enable a huge range Campuses and build activities that develop interdisciplinary research of applications in everything from developing fundamental building and training. The Center will connect scientists from disparate disci- block in the electronics, photonics, and materials sectors, to sensors, plines with each other in seminars, meetings, joint visitor programs biomimetic and biocompatible platforms throughout the biomedical and seeded projects to enhance the development of interdisciplinary and health sector. nanoscale research. The Center will lead large, interdisciplinary proposal development and run funded programs for both research and The strength of Boston University’s efforts in interdisciplinary nano- training, as well as support individual researchers in their efforts by science and nanotechnology form an axis that begins in basic ma- linking them with resources throughout the University and beyond. terials science, surface science, physics, chemistry, and engineering, The Center will also build linkages between the research and tech- extending into molecular and cellular biology, biophysics, and the nological commercialization resources at BU including the Photonics technologies of microfluidics, MEMS, and onto manufacturing. Our Center, the Technology Commercialization Institute, and Fraunhofer strengths are in developing and using nanotechnology advances in and with external partners and industrial affiliates. materials and platforms with our capabilities in biomedical engineer-

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DATE SPEAKER TITLE 9.5.08 Elise Morgan Form, Function, Failure and Fate: Mechanics and Biology Department of Mechanical Engineering of Skeletal Tissues Boston University 9.19.08 Anup Shirgaonkar Fluid Dynamics of Gymnotiform Propulsion in Aquatic Mechanical Engineering Animals M.I.T 10.3.08 John Saylor Transport and Statistics at the Air/Water Interface Department of Mechanical Engineering Clemson University 10.10.08 Jeff Moore The Myosin Lever Arm and Cardiomyopathy Department of Physiology & Biophysics Boston University 10.16.08 Mohammed Afsar Computational Acoustics Past, Present and Future Cambridge University

10.17.08 Newell R. Washburn Design Principles for Cytokine-Regulating Biomaterials Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University 10.24.08 Stefan Zauscher Fabrication and Characterization of Patterned, Stimulus- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Responsive Polymer Brushes: From Particle Capture to Sciences Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Glucose Sensing Materials Systems Duke University 10.31.08 Kevin Williams Sand Sediment Acoustics and Incorporation of Sand Department of Ocean Acoustics Applied Physics Laboratory Interfaces into Target Scattering University of Washington 11.7.08 Gianni Campion Synthesizing Haptic Textures – Geometry, Control and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Psychophysics McGill University, Canada 11.24.08 Chris Rogers Using Robotics to Teach Engineering to Second Graders Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Controls to College Students Center for Engineering Education Outreach Tufts University 12.5.08 Seung-Wuk Lee Making Viruses Work For Us Department of Bioengineering University of California, Berkeley 12.12.08 Anne Staples Turbulence and Human Physiology: Two Challenging Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Multiscale Problems Virginia Tech 1.9.09 Sergey A. Karabasov CABARET in the ocean gyres: a novel high-resolution Engineering Department computational method for fluid mechanics Cambridge University, UK

62 www.bu.edu/me/ DATE SPEAKER TITLE 1.16.09 Jonathan Malen Energy Transport and Conversion in Organic-Inorganic Department of Mechanical Engineering Hybrid Materials University of California, Berkeley 1.23.09 Leopold Grinberg Large-Scale Simulation of the Human Arterial Tree Division of Applied Mathematics Brown University 2.6.09 Matthias F. Schneider The Microfluidics of Blood Clotting and Thermodynamics Biological Physics Group of Thin Shells University of Augsburg, Germany 2.10.09 Harold Park Surface Effects on the Mechanical Behavior and Proper- Department of Mechanical Engineering ties of Nanomaterials University of Colorado, Boulder 2.13.09 Kristen L. Billiar Mechanical modulation of cell function and tissue re- Biomedical Engineering Tissue Mechanics and Mechanobiol modeling ogy Laboratory Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2.20.09 Aaron Schmidt Optical Techniques for Exploring Nanoscale Transport M.I.T. 2.27.09 Jie Song Nanostructured Synthetic Bone Substitutes Orthopedics and Cell Biology University of Massachusetts Medical School 3.6.09 Allison Okamura Haptics in Medical Robotics: Surgery, Simulation, and Department of Mechanical Engineering Rehabilitation Johns Hopkins University 3.20.09 Margaret Bailey Quantifying Energy Usage within Complex, Energy Inten- Department of Mechanical Engineering sive Systems in order to Optimize Performance Rochester Institute of Technology 3.27.09 Wilkins Aquino Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and Basis En- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering richment in the Generalized Finite Element Method Cornell University 4.3.09 John P. McHugh Internal Waves Behaving Badly Department of Mechanical Engineering University of New Hampshire 4.17.09 Stephen Wiggins Design Principles for Mixers Motivated by Ergodic Theory Department of Mathematics University of Bristol, UK 5.1.09 Ali Khademhosseini Microengineered Hydrogels for Stem Cell Bioengineering MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Tissue Regeneration Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School

2008-2009 Annual Report 63 Merril L. Ebner Fund

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Since 2003, The Merrill L. Ebner Fund has been used to support a One of the first major activities at the undergraduate level of the number of activities, all centered around the key aim to -encour Endowed Fund was the establish-ment of an annual Undergraduate age educational activities in engineering involving creative design Design Portfolio Contest. This design competition is open to all soph- and commercialization. Roger and Sandra Dorf of Austin, Texas, es- omores and juniors in the College of Engineering. The intention is to tablished the financial basis of this initial fund, to which others have encourage all engi-neering students to begin to develop their design continued to contribute. Prof. Merrill Ebner designed the main activi- portfolios early in their college career. The contest was started in the ties and uses of the Fund, which will be discussed below. Since the spring of 2005, and has been held annually since then. Judging pro- Spring of 2008, when Prof. Ebner passed away, the Merrill Ebner Fund cedures were estab-lished in 2005 and revised in the past year to Committee has continued to organize and direct this work. state that every year a Portfolio Review Jury is to be designated consisting minimally of the Chair (or Co-chair) of the Ebner Fund Com- The committee for the present academic year included: mittee, a member of the design faculty, a senior engineering student, STORMY ATTAWAY Co-Chair an engineering alumna or alumnus and the Mechanical Engineering DAN COLE Co-Chair Department Chairman or his or her designee. This year the jury consisted of: RONALD A. ROY STORMY ATTAWAY Co-Chair of the Ebner Fund Committee J. GREGORY MCDANIEL DAN COLE Design Faculty DONALD WROBLEWSKI PAT CRAWFORD Senior Engineering Studen (last year’s winner) XIN ZHANG GUY THOMPSON Engineering Alumnus SCOTT MUIRHEAD MORT ISAACSON Chair Designee DEBBIE DUNKLEE In order to encourage student participation in the contest, a Portfolio During the academic year 2008-2009 the Ebner Fund was moved Workshop has also been held every year. At this workshop students from the Department of Manufacturing Engineering to the new com- and alumni exhibit their portfolios; the intention is to provide lower bined Department of Mechanical Engineering. Within the Fund are division engineering students with an idea of what reasonably com- two distinct sub-funds. The “Endowed Fund” receives contributions plete portfolios look like. This year the workshop was held in con- from which the accumulated inter-est is available for use. Contribu- junction with the Department Open House in December. tions to the “Current Use Fund” are available for use immediately upon receipt. The Merrill Ebner Fund Committee provides oversight The jury decides on the three contest winners. Cash awards of $1000 for both Funds. for first prize, $500 for second prize, and $250 for third prize are awarded at the Department’s end-of-year social. This year’s winners Activities of the Fund, which impact both the undergraduate and were: graduate programs, are in some cases fully financed by the Fund. In other cases the Fund leverages its alumni and corporate contribu- First: JOSEPH SHIFRIN tions by providing start-up funds for a project. The Fund continues to Second: ANDREW LEGENDRE be primarily used to encourage creative design and commercializa- Third: SAMUEL MINKOFF tion within Mechanical Engineering, with emphasis on manufacturing opera-tions. Some progress is being made in getting undergraduates to begin their design portfolios early, but there is still substantial room for further growth in the number and quality of portfolios submitted. It is the intention next year to highlight the portfolio contest during freshman F U N D S T A T U S courses and seminars.

The Endowed Fund has received $1959 and the Current Use Fund has received $1,738 this fiscal year. As of July 1, 2009, total cumula- tive cash contributions to the Endowed Fund have been $127,658. As of that date the available funds in the Endowed Fund (interest on the principal) are $9704 and in the Current Use Fund are $11,539. Contributions from friends, alumni, staff, faculty and corporations interested in the Department and its design activity continue to arrive with ongoing outreach by faculty, staff, and the College’s Develop- ment Office.

64 www.bu.edu/me/ GRADUATE THESIS AWARD WITH THE GREATEST D E S I G N F E L L O W S H I P COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL

The second annual “Graduate Thesis with the Greatest Commercial Also at the graduate level, a company-designated, “Design Fellow- Potential,” award competition was held this year. Any M.S. or Ph.D. ship,” has been established through the Current Use Fund. The struc- thesis produced by a student in the Department of Mechanical Engi- ture of this Design Fellowship has been set up as a 16-month experi- neering was eligible to be considered for this award. The total award ence leading to a Master’s degree. Design intensity is provided in for winning this juried competition is $3,000, paid from the Ebner the program by four elements: (1) graduate course work with special Endowed Fund. The award is split evenly between the author(s) of emphasis on the M.S. program option in Sensors and Instruments, (2) the winning thesis and the faculty advisor for the thesis, to be used in paid design assignments for 20-30 hours per week at the sponsoring support of the faculty advisor’s laboratory. company, (3) participation with a faculty design mentor providing an opportunity for the student to enhance the design and computation The nomination process that was established was that each thesis to component in a senior or graduate course (referred to here as a “de- be considered by the jury would be nominated by the Faculty Advi- sign practicum”), and (4) an M.S. thesis with a design thrust. sor for that thesis. In this process, the faculty advisor writes a single- page letter of nomination for the thesis, indicating what the com- Tuition costs are shared between the College of Engineering and the mercial potential of the thesis is judged to be, and submit that letter, sponsoring company and a book stipend is provided. All fellowship together with a returnable copy of the thesis, to the jury or its sur- payments to Boston University on behalf of the sponsoring compa- rogate. Every year, the Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering De- ny are paid through the fund as the sponsor of the fellowship pro- partment would convene a jury of at least four appropriate individu- gram. Since 2005, The Raytheon Company has been the primary sup- als. Typically, the jury would consist of a faculty member, a member porter of Design Fellows. of the industrial advisory committee, an alumna or alumnus, and one person selected by the Chair. The jury may, in its evaluation, decide Two Raytheon Fellows finished their M.S. degree and graduated in not to make an award in a given year if no appropriate nomination May 2009. They are: Mariusz Jachtorowicz and David Tolmie. Mari- has been made. This award would be announced at an appropriate usz chose to do his research activity with Prof. Uday Pal on physical end-of-the-semester social occasion. processes related to fuel cells. Much of the work involved experimental tests and analysis of the results. David chose to work with The Jury for the 2009 Award consisted of three faculty members and Prof. Dan Cole on simulation of physical processes involving investi- two from industry: gating and controlling subharmonic resonances for Rydberg atomic ROBERT LUND, ME (Chair) systems. TED DE WINTER, ME In the Fall of 2008, two new Raytheon Fellows began their M.S. stud- ANDRE SHARON, ME ies in Mechanical Engineering. They are: Michelle Boudreau and Jo- PAUL KARGER, Twin Focus Capital Partners LLC (MFG alumnus) seph Wasniewski. Besides the normal set of courses they need to MIKE MULHERN, Tri Pyramid (ME alumnus) take, they have also chosen their MS research areas, which are the following. Michelle has begun work with Prof. Theodore Fritz in the The winning thesis, which was nominated by Prof. Xin Zhang, was CAS Astronomy department on aerospace applications, specifically written by Benjamin Hansen. The M.S. thesis was entitled “The on the BU satellite project. Joseph has begun work with Professor Growth and Characterization of Copper (II) Oxide Nanowires with Calin Belta on control and communication of autonomous robot net- Single Nanowire Electrical, Gas Sensing, and Photoconduction Mea- works. surements.” Thus, the Merrill L. Ebner Fund continues to increase the design and commercialization emphasis in activities of interest to mechanical and manufacturing engineering. It is expected that its influence will continue to evolve and grow in future years under the new merged department of Mechanical Engineering.

The winners of the Design Portfolio Contest: Samuel Minkoff (l.), Andrew LeGendre (m.), and Joseph Shifrin (r.)

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