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Society of Experimental Mechanics awards Prof. Fu-Pen Chiang the WM Murray Lecture Award

Fu-pen Chiang's research emphasis is on the development of optical and other experimental mechanics techniques and their applications to stress analysis (including NDE), fracture and fatigue of engineering and biological materials and structures. He has written over 400 journal and conference articles published in 58 archival journals and numerous conference proceedings. He has given invited lectures at 23 institutions in 17 countries and was a visiting faculty of Cambridge University (Cavendish Laboratory), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne), National Taiwan University, Tsinghua University (Beijing and Taiwan), among others. His research has been supported by NSF, ONR, AFOSR, ARO,, NIH, DOT and industrial concerns. He received Theocaris Award (2015), Frocht Award (2008) and Lazan Award (1993) from the Society of Experimental Mechanics and the Life Time Achievement Medal (2012) from the International Conference of Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences. In 2016 he received the Life Time Achievement Award from the European Society of Experimental Mechanics at the 17th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics held in Rhodes, Greece. He served as Editor of Int. J. Optics of Lasers in Engineering, Associate Editor of J. of Experimental Mechanics and ASME J. of Engineering Materials and Technology. He also served as Guest Editor for four special issues of J. Optical Engineering and has organized many international and national conferences.

The ASME Student Club was at the Power Racing Competition held at the 2017 World Makerfaire in NY.

Start with $500 and a Power Wheel. (Or any electric kids’ ride on vehicle.) Get some new batteries. A new motor. Heck, some nice new tires. Tie LEDs to the hood. Sprinkle it with glitter. Maybe a feather for class. Haul it to one of our many races.

Makerfaire   Makerfaire

 

Department welcomes new Undergraduate Program Coordinator

The Department of Mechanical Engineering welcomes Amanda Flanagan as the Undergraduate Program Coordinator.

Amanda has a master's degree in Business Administration (MBA '11) and a Bachelor of Science in Advertising (BS '09) from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. While completing her graduate degree, she began a career in education with the Career Services department. Since returning to Long Island in 2011, Amanda worked as a Career Advisor for students pursuing a vocational education in the healthcare industry. 

Amanda comes to Stony Brook with strong administrative and interpersonal skills. She has already become an active member of the Stony Brook University community by attending workshops and volunteering in Academic Advising. Amanda strives to create a positive experience for the students and faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Prof. Anurag Purwar receives prestigious award at the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference

Anurag Purwar receives the award Anurag Purwar, a professor in the  Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and his PhD student Shrinath Deshpande were honored with A. T. Yang Memorial Award in Theoretical Kinematics in recognition of their prize-winning paper “A Task-driven Approach to Optimal Synthesis of Planar Four-bar Linkages for Extended Burmester Problem” at the  American Society of Mechanical Engineers 41st Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, held August 6 through 9 in Cleveland, OH as part of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences.

The award carries an inscribed plaque and an honorarium sponsored by the A. T. Yang Memorial founded in recognition of late Prof. A. T. Yang's seminal contributions to the field of theoretical kinematics.

  

Ms. Dominique Barone Receives Permanent Appointment

Dominique BaroneThe Department of Mechanical Engineering would like to congratulate Dominique Barone, Assistant to Chair, for receiving permanent appointment in her position as Senior Staff Assistant.

Dominique joined the University community in 2001 as an undergraduate transfer student studying sociology.  Following graduation, she began working for Clinical Practice Management Plan at Stony Brook Hospital, and soon after began pursuing a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management through the School of Professional Development.  After receiving her graduate degree, she worked for several years in private industry as a recruiter, and then returned to Stony Brook where she worked first as the Assistant to the Assistant Vice President for Campus Residences for five years before joining Mechanical Engineering for a promotional opportunity in November 2014.

Dominique is an active member of the campus community and has served on various committees and volunteer assignments, notably, as a Judicial Board Member for University Community Standards, an ADV101 Instructor and Transfer Orientation Advisor for Academic & Transfer Advising Services, a LEAD/GOLD Mentor for the Department of Residential Programs, a member of the Student Employee of the Year Awards Selection Committee with the Career Center, as well as a Homecoming Banner Judge for Athletics.  She is also the recipient of her former Division’s   Outstanding Service Award  in Spring 2014.

Dominique is excited for the opportunity to continue her work as an administrator in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and remain an active community member at Stony Brook University.

 

Prof. Jon Longtin and Prof. Benjamin Lawler are awarded with the Student's Choice Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Department of Mechanical Engineering's 2017 Graduation Ceremony

Ben Lawler receives award     Jon Longtin receives award

 

 

Mechanical Engineering partners with the WISE program, which receives a Grant to Continue Supporting STEM Education

TechPREP — a STEM program for middle school students on Long Island — has received a $20,000 grant from the Long Island Community Foundation. TechPREP is a collaborative effort that includes Stony Brook University’s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program, Department of Technology and Society, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Research Technologies and Innovation, along with local school districts. The grant will provide funding and facilitators for a one-week summer STEM program, which will serve as many as 100 students from high-need school districts.

As part of the TechPREP program, Prof. Anurag Purwar will offer a Robotics Workshop to the middle school girls from the disadvantaged school districts in Long Island.  He says, “the TechPREP program generously funded by the LICF seeks to address the gender imbalance in engineering, and the Women in Engineering Day  will introduce students to the art, practice and excitement of doing engineering design and ultimately help them make better career choices.”

http://www.stonybrook.edu/happenings/oncampus/techprep-grant-2016/

  

Prof. Carlos Colosqui (PI) wins a three-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the interaction of colloidal micro/nanoparticles with lipid bilayer membranes forming the outer wall of biological cells and 2D biomaterials

Prof. Carlos Colosqui (PI) wins a three-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the interaction of colloidal micro/nanoparticles with lipid bilayer membranes forming the outer wall of biological cells and 2D biomaterials. The project is a NSF collaborative effort with Prof. Howard Stone at Princeton University and Yuan-nan Young at NJIT and is co-funded by the NSF Divisions of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) and Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET). The total award amount ($505,000) is split between the three academic institutions involved, with $150,000 awarded to Stony Brook University.
link: https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1614892

  

Prof. Anurag Purwar served as General Conference Co-Chair for IDETC 2016

Prof. Anurag Purwar from our department recently served as the General Conference Co-Chair for the 2016 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC/CIE) held in Charlotte, NC and attended by more than 1400 people. This flagship meeting for the ASME Design Engineering Division and the Computers and Information in Engineering Division consisted of the 11 conferences on topics ranging from Advanced Vehicle Technologies, Design Automation, Design Education, Mechanisms and Robotics, Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Control, Vibrations, Biomedical Devices, Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference, and Micro- and Nanosystems. 

Drawing largely from the 970 draft papers submitted, the conference featured 772 archival paper presentations and 74 technical presentations across a wide range of session topics, complemented by plenary and keynote lectures, lively panel discussions, industry sessions, and informational tutorials and workshops addressing a rich spectrum of cutting-edge topics related to design, analysis, computation, and academic/professional success.

Prior to serving as the chair of the ASME IDETC/CIE, he served as the conference chair of the 2015 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference and as the Program Chair of the 2014 Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR). He is an elected member of the prestigious ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee.  https://www.asme.org/events/idetccie/about/organizing-committee

  

Prof. Anurag Purwar (PI) and Jeff Ge (Co-PI) win a three-year $440,735 prestigious NSF award for conducting their research on A Computational Framework for Data-Driven Mechanism Design Innovation

Recent trends in democratization of manufacturing capability such do-it-yourself hobby shops, 3D printing technology, as well as low-cost sensors, actuators, and microcontrollers, call for a corresponding democratization of design tools that can help engineers and tinkerers alike to innovate and invent motion generating devices. Motion generation is a fundamental aspect of machines, at the heart of which are kinematic mechanisms that make it possible for motions to be transmitted or transformed. A kinematic mechanism is a collection of moving pieces linked together through kinematic joints such as hinge joints and sliders. Mechanism design innovation involves the selection of an appropriate mechanism type (i.e., the number of moving pieces and joints as well as the pattern of their interconnections) and the determination of key dimensions in the mechanism needed to generate the desired motions. Once a mechanism type is selected, the appropriate dimensions can often be determined by solving a system of polynomial equations. The task of type selection, however, is not so amenable to mathematical treatment, and requires a level of intuition that may take many years to develop and is difficult to pass on. This award supports the development of a set of web-based, data-driven design tools that unify the type and dimensional synthesis for mechanism design innovation. The planned MOOC (massive open online course) will help bring these tools to the masses and help promote interest in science and engineering including high school students and those from under-represented groups. The research team will bring together the diverse fields of reverse engineering, computational shape analysis, and design kinematics to develop a data-driven paradigm for kinematic synthesis of mechanical motion generation devices. The goal is to advance the science of mechanism design and lead to practical and efficient design tools capable of solving highly complex motion generation problems faced by machine designers. Central to this research is the creation of a new computational framework for simultaneous type and dimensional synthesis of various mechanisms.

http://www.stonybrook.edu/happenings/facultystaff/mechanical-engineering-professors-purwar-and-ge-win-nsf-award/

http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1563413

  

General Motors Research & Development Donates Bosch Palletized Conveyor System to Stony Brook's Department of Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor, Qing (Cindy) Chang received donated Bosch Palletized Conveyor System from GM, valued at approximately $50K.  The system includes a closed loop Bosch TS plus conveyor, VFD controller, and set of proximity switches and cords.

The automatic conveyor system can be used for control sequence analysis and control optimization.  "This will be very useful for research and education in digital manufacturing, cyber-physical manufacturing, and can be combined with robotic system, which aligns very well with the current trends in advanced manufacturing." - Professor Chang

Bosch Palletized Conveyor System

  

Stony Brook’s Got the Power: How One University Earned Four Major Energy Research Awards in Less Than a Year

William Worek, Jon Longtin, Sotirios Mamalis and Ya Wang of the Department of Mechanical Engineering stand together for energy technology research with Provost Dennis Assanis (center)

 It took only six months for Stony Brook University to hit an energy research grand slam, earning major federal funding on four projects poised to revolutionize the world’s energy technology.

“These four projects, which together earned nearly $5.7 million in funding, showcase Stony Brook’s dedication to researching and developing technologies that will have a major impact on how we generate and consume energy globally,” said Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, President of Stony Brook University

http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/happenings/research/arpae-grand-slam/?=marquee4

  

Faculty Ya Wang at Stony Brook Receives $2 Million DOE Grant to Create a New Super Energy-Saving Air Conditioning Vent

A Stony Brook University research team has been awarded $2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) to develop an active air conditioning vent capable of modulating airflow distribution, velocity, and temperature designed for commercial or residential unions.  The goal of the project is to create a vent that results in up to 30 percent energy savings through directed localization of existing building heating/cooling output.

Ya Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor and Wei Deng, PhD student
Department of Mechanical Engineering  wanglab1

Mechanical Engineering Student Roger Carson's Story is featured in Stony Brook University Happenings

Mechanical Engineering major, Roger Carson '15 is highlighted in the below article, "Building a Better Future for Engineers of Color"

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Mechanical Engineering Faculty Receives Prestigious CAREER Award from NSF

Assistant Professor Qing Chang has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award titled "CAREER Collaborative Modeling for Distributed Sensing and Real-Time Intelligent Control to Improve Battery Manufacturing Productivity and Efficiency" ($400,001) in 2014.
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http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/news/research/01292014Chang.php

Prof. Anurag Purwar gives a TEDx talk on Machine Design Innovation through Technology and Education

The democratization of the programmable electronics and manufacturing capabilities calls for a democratization of design capabilities, which is needed for invention and innovation of machines. This talk focuses on challenges, opportunities, and possible solutions for bridging this gap by uniting the teaching of scientific and engineering principles with the new tools of technology while fostering invention, innovation, and creativity.

 

Mechanical Engineering Solar Boat Team Won 1st Place in ASME SolarSplash

solar boat team

Our Solar Boat team has brought home a trophy for winning the first place in SolarSplash Competition co-sponsored by IEEE Power Electronics Society and ASME Solar Energy Division. Shown is a photo of our graduating senior Mr. Ankit Tyagi, the team captain, with the trophy and the plaque. The team has been co-advised by David Hwang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, as well as David Westfield, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. David Westfield traveled with the team to the competition. Mechanical Engineering Department sent the first team to participate in SolarSplash competition in 1998. Last year, the team ranked the 5th overall and this year they took home the trophy!

  

William Worek Receives 2013 ASME Church Medal

STONY BROOK, NY, January 24, 2014- Stony Brook’s William Worek, PhD, received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ (ASME) Edwin F. Church Medal, a high honor of achievement that recognizes eminent service in increasing the value, importance and appeal of mechanical engineering education. Worek was honored for the development of new courses in combined heat and mass transfer and the establishment of a master of energy engineering program that gives students the tools to design, execute and manage new energy projects. Worek is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering andan Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University. He is a recognized expert in heat and mass transfer, fluid flow and thermodynamics, as applied to energy efficient, renewable and sustainable energy systems.
 
  

Mechanical Engineering Faculty and Students attend Naval Academy Conference

NASEC-2013

Three  College of Engineering and Applied Sciences students and Sotirios Mamalis, a professor in the  Department of Mechanical Engineering, were honored to be invited to the Fourth Annual  Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference (NASEC), held from November 3-6, 2013, in Annapolis, Maryland. Joseph Venezia (senior, Mechanical Engineering), Sebastian Gomez (senior, Mechanical Engineering) and Morgan DiCarlo (sophomore, Civil Engineering) came together with undergraduate students from a wide variety of institutions of higher education to participate in discussions about STEM and the challenges our nation faces in solving critical issues. Venezia and Gomez worked on a research collaborative at the conference and proposed Alternative Energy solutions, while DiCarlo’s project focused on water quality and safety. The students also met and networked with the influential keynote speakers: Arati Prabhakar, Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; The Honorable G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; and The Honorable Kathryn D. Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space and the Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting NOAA Administrator.

  

Mechanics of Composites Conference to be held at Stony Brook University, June 8-12, 2014

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University will host the 1st International Conference on Mechanics of Composites June 8-12, 2014. Please visit the website for more information about the conference:

MechComp2014

https://sites.google.com/site/mechcomp2014/

  

Stony Brook professor develops lift for seniors

Published: March 28, 2013 6:44 PM
By JOE RYAN   joe.ryan@newsday.com

Stony Brook University professor Anurag Purwar with his

Photo credit: Daniel Brennan | Stony Brook University professor Anurag Purwar with his Mobility Assistant device, used by Michael Geronimo, 90. (March 27, 2013)

The idea for the product came to Anurag Purwar when his friend, a retired physician, complained of struggling to do what so many younger people take for granted: sitting and standing.

So Purwar, a  Stony Brook University mechanical engineering associate professor, designed a device resembling a walker that's equipped with an electric motor to lift seniors from chairs, then ease them back down. Now he is working with Biodex Medical Systems Inc. of  Shirley to develop it into a full-blown product.

"There are so many people who need help standing and sitting as they grow older," Purwar said.

The collaboration between the professor and Biodex is part of a growing push on  Long Island to commercialize technology from Stony Brook and other research facilities. Officials hope the brainpower of local laboratories will spawn a culture of high-tech start-ups to boost the region's struggling economy.

Purwar and Biodex have $80,000 to develop the invention, primarily from The Research Foundation for SUNY. They plan to target nursing homes, hoping to sell about 500 of the products annually for around $5,000 apiece. They plan to pitch the device as a way to help  nurses and other employees avoid back injuries while helping patients out of chairs.

The challenge, industry experts say, will be making the device lighter, cheaper and more versatile than existing products.

"Back injuries are a huge issue, and there are already products out there," said Robert Heppenheimer, chief executive of the  Nesconset Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, who isn't associated with the product. "But if this one is cheaper and easier for nursing homes to use, there could be a market."

The bigger potential, however, could be selling the product for seniors to use in their homes, Heppenheimer said.

Purwar designed the device, called the Mobility Assistant, with help from a student, Thomas Galeotafiore. It's powered by a 12-volt battery, weighs about 30 pounds and is equipped with wheels to function also as a regular walker -- a feature Purwar says sets it apart from other products.

Ed Behan, a Biodex vice president, met Purwar last year at a workshop at Stony Brook for aspiring entrepreneurs. The company, founded in the 1950s as  Atomic Products Corp. to develop equipment for researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory, manufactures a variety of medical devices. Behan hopes to have Purwar's invention on the market within 18 months.

"More and more people want to maintain their independence and mobility," he said. "And this fits that need perfectly."
Gov. Cuomo's announcement of the device

  

US Rep. Timothy Bishop remarks about Assistant Professor Lei Zuo's research to Congress on November 27, 2012

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r112:E27NO2-0055:/
http://capitolwords.org/date/2012/11/27/E1816_congratulating-professor-lei-zuo/

  

Assistant Professor Thomas Cubaud has been awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER award

titled "CAREER Microflow of highly viscous fluids: mixing and dissolution processes" ($401,653) from the Fluid Dynamic Program of the CBET division of the NSF in 2012. He has also received the 2012 Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics.  The Award is sponsored by the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the APS, and is given annually to a young author of a paper that has been published in Physics of Fluids, during the calendar year preceding the presentation.Following is a link to the award announcement:
  
 

Stony Brook Team Wins National Award For Technology that Harvests Energy from Railroad Train Vibrations

STONY BROOK, NY, November 15, 2012 – Stony Brook University engineers have won a national award for an innovative energy harvester that has the potential to save millions of dollars in energy costs for railroads while 
reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The team’s work, “Mechanical Motion  Rectifier (MMR) based Railroad Energy Harvester,” was awarded “Best Application of Energy Harvesting” at the Energy Harvesting and Storage USA 
2012 conference, held in Washington, DC on November 7-8, 2012.The Stony Brook team, led by Professor Lei Zuo and two graduate students  Teng Lin and John Wang from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and 
Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center, developed a new type of  energy harvester that converts the irregular, oscillatory motion of  train-induced rail track vibrations into regular, unidirectional motion, 
in the same way that an electric voltage rectifier converts AC voltage  into DC. Professor Zuo estimates that the invention could save more than $10  million in trackside power supply costs for railroads in New York State 
alone, along with a reduction of 3000 tons per year of CO2 and a half  million dollars of electricity savings.

 

 

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