From June – December 2016, six graduate students defended their dissertations. We congratulate these scholars on this great accomplishment and wish them well in their future endeavors!

  • Amin Aramoon – “A Multiscale Computational Framework to Predict Deformation and Failure in Polymer Matrix Composites”
  • Akanksha Bhargava – “Thermal Signatures of Skin Lesions Using Computational Thermal Modeling and Medical Infrared Imaging”
  • Jonathan Bohren – “Intent-Prediction-Based Traded Control for Telerobotic Assembly Over High-Latency Telemetry”
  • Simon Lockyer-Bratton – “Experimental Measurements of Thermal Barrier Coating Interfacial Fracture Toughness as a Function of Mode-Mix”
  • Jasmin Sadique – “Turbulent Flows Over Macro—Scale Roughness Elements – From Biofouling Barnacles to Urban Canopies”
  • Cao Zhang – “Experimental Investigation of Compliant Wall Surface Deformation in a Turbulent Channel Flow using Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry and Mach-Zehnder Interferometry”