Engineering and Computing Annual Report 2015

Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Department Overview

The Bachelors of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering program has been reviewed and reaccredited by the ABET until September 30, 2021. The awarded undergraduate B.S. degrees increased 28% and reached to 102. The department awarded 27 graduate degrees while more than 100 journal and conference papers were published.

Faculty Highlights

The department had a successful ABET visit and re-accredited until September 30, 2021

Dr. Pezhman Mardanpour was hired. Dr. Mardanpour received his PhD in 2013 from the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. He worked at the UCLA for his PostDoc from 2013 to 2016.

The 8th international meeting SMEC 2015, which is a biannual event organized by CeSMEC, was held during March 8 to 15th, 2015. The meeting brought 150 participants from many countries. Ninety lectures on many materials science topics were given. The meetings have resulted in formation of several new international research collaborations.

Dr. Lin was nominated to serve as the Research Subcommittee Chair for TC 4.10 Indoor Environmental Modeling of ASHRAE.

PhD programs were modified to graduate students more quickly.

The department’s all certificate, undergraduate and graduate programs were modified to be SACS compliant.

Student Highlights

Mechanical and Materials Engineering graduated 102 BS, 4PhDME, 3PhDMSE, 14 MSME and 6 MSMSE students.

Mr. Sami Awad Azrak, Mr. James Caraballo and Mr. Yonatan Rotenberg received the 2nd place Odebrecht Award competition in 2014 with Sprayable Solar Panel as Sustainable Low Cost and Disaster Relief Energy Source.

FIU’s SAE Formula One team competed in Michigan this past year for the second time. They were able to actually pass all inspections and compete in all events first time. Also our aerospace club did extremely well in competition this past year.

FIU’s Aerospace Engineering Club and their advisor Dr. Brian Reding placed 6th out of 40 universities in the SAE Aero Design Competition.

FIU’s SAE club with their advisers Dr. Andres Tremante and Brian Reding participated to the Formula SAE Competition on May 12-17 for the second year in a row and first time ever finished all the Static & Dynamic events. The same team also participated the Shell Eco Marathon April 10-12.

Mr. Soheil Reddy received ASME – “Best Overall Impact Simulation Award” at 2014

Innovative Design Simulation Challenge student competition and he is a finalist in the ASME

2015 Innovative Design Simulation Challenge student competition slated for August 2, 2015.

Mr. Long Phan, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Lin’s group, was awarded the 2015 Grant-In-Aid scholarship from ASHARE.

Dr. Majid Beidaghi, who received PhD from Dr. Wang’s group in 2012,   will join to Mechanical Engineering Department of Auburn University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting August 16, 2015.

Our MS. Student Mr. Soheil Reddy and a new applicant Mr. Pranjal Nautiyal received presidential fellowship. Mr. Kamran Moradi, Mr. Abas Abdoli, Mr. Chandan Pulletikurthi, Mr. Yongzhou Sun, Mr. Hadi Fekrmandi, Mr. Robel Kiflemariam, Mr. Yin Song, Mr. Sadegh Behdad, Mr. Vishal Musaramthota, Mr. Siavash Rastkar and Mr. Chunhui Chen, received Dissertation Year Fellowships. Mr. Sadegh Behdad, Mr. Vishal Musaramthota, Mr. Chunhui Chen, Mr. Yong Hao and Ms. Richa Agrawal, received Dissertation Evidence Acquisition Fellowships.

Mr. Sohail Reddy who was the highest ranked ME MS student won the best MS student award of the College at the Order of the Engineer meeting in Summer 2015.

Community Engagement

Student organizations of the Mechanical Engineering Students involved with the Engineers on Wheels program. The Engineers on Wheels visited approximately one South Florida high school per week. They organized rides with a special purpose bike built by mechanical engineering students. The bike generated power for a blender and LED lights. The blender was used to make smoothies. Students introduced robotics, buoyancy, structural design and aerodynamics to high school students.

Collaborative efforts were discussed with the American Welding Society (AWS).

Research and Funding

Some of the received awards by the faculty are the following (Please see the full list below)

Dr. Arvind Agarwal and Dr. Benjamin Boesl won a grant to receive $581,000 award to start in Sept 2015 from DOD HBCU/MSI Research and Education Program – Army Research Office.

Dr. Dwayne McDaniel, Dr. Benjamin Boesl and Dr. Shakrat Khizorev received a $360,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research.

Dr. Zhe Cheng has received an award from the DOE University Coal Research (UCR) for minority institute for $249,000.

Dr. Seckin Gokaltun and Dr. George Dulikravich received $250,000 from DOE/NETL.

Dr. Veena Misra, Dr. Shekhar Bhansali and Dr. Bilal El-Zahab received $85,610 from NSF.

Dr. Chengxian Lin and Dr. Dexin Wang and received $500,000 (FIU share $50,000) from DOE.

Dr. Chengxian Lin received $65,968 from FESC for course development.

Dr. Sabri Tosunoglu and Dr.Ibrahim Tansel received $50,815 from TYB LLC.

Fall Term Enrollment

Fall term enrollment followed the trend and increased 9 percent. The number of headcounts increased 60 percent in last 4 years.

Degrees Awarded

Mechanical and Materials Engineering graduated 103 BS, 4PhDME, 3PhDMSE, 14 MSME and 6 MSMSE students. Compare to last year the number of the graduated undergraduate students increased 28 percent.

Awarded Grants

Year    Submitted by  Role (other PIs or Co-PIs), title, agency, grant amount, fund share, start_date – end_date, status, new amount

1-         2014    Benjamin Boesl           PI (Arvind Agarwal), “Tantalum Carbide Reinforced with Graphene Nanoplatelets”, AFOSR, $327000.00, $150000.00, 2012/06/01 – 2015/05/30, Awarded, $106000.00.

2-        2014    Benjamin Boesl           Co-PI (Arvind Agarwal), “Ultrahigh Temperature Refractory Ceramic Composites with Nano-reinforcement: Consolidation, Mechanical Properties and Oxidation Behavior”, Clarkson Aerospace, $374000.00, $185000.00, 2013/09/30 – 2019/12/31, Awarded, $74000.00.

3-        2014    Benjamin Boesl           Co-PI (Dwayne McDaniel, Sakhrat Khizroev), “Development of a Novel Health Monitoring System for Adhesively Bonded Composite Joints Using Electro-Magnetic Nanoparticles”, ONR, $360000.00, $120000.00, 2015/03/01 – 2017/02/28, Awarded, $180000.00.

4-        2014    Sabri Tosunoglu          PI (Ibrahim Tansel, Co-PI), “Remote Ophthalmology Robotic Device Prototype”, TYB LLC, $50815.00, $50815.00, 02/01/2015 – 01/31/2016, Awarded, $50815.00.

5-        2014    Sabri Tosunoglu          Co-PI (Ibrahim Tansel, PI), “Florida International University (FIU) – AFRL/RW Collaboration”, U.S. Air Force, $75000.00, $25000.00, 12/01/2014 – 02/28/2016, Awarded, $75000.00.

6-        2014    Sabri Tosunoglu          PI, “Design and Simulation of an Automated Back Scrubber Device”, Diaz Donikian, $5522.00, $5522.00, 05/01/2015 – 04/31/2016, Awarded, $5522.00.

7-        2014    Cesar Levy      PI, “Investigation of Multi-functional Ferroelectric Nanorod/Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composites and Shape Memory Alloy Treatment for Active Structural Vibration Control”, ARO, $548857.00, $548857.00, May 11, 2011 – May 10, 2015, Awarded, $0.00.

8-        2014    Yiding Cao     Co-PI (Dr. Yong Tao (PI, UNT), and 4 other collaborating Universities including FIU.), “RCN-SEES: Predictive Modeling Network for Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystems (SHBE),”, NSF, $652846.00, $0.00, 9/1/2013 – 8/31/2018, Awarded, $0.00.

9-        2014    Zhe Cheng      PI, “Environmental Friendly Processing of Low Cost Flexible Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide Solar Cells”, NASA-Florida Space Research Consortium, $25000.00, $25000.00, Aug 2014 – Dec 2015, Awarded, $0.00.

10-      2014    Zhe Cheng      PI (Professor Sung Jin Kim of University of Miami (PI)), “Advanced Integrated Solar Hydrogen Cell via Novel Nano Materials”, UM-FIU Nano-CREF, $50000.00, $25000.00, 08/2014 – 07/2015, Awarded, $0.00.

11-      2014    Yu Zhong        PI, “The Integrated Materials and Process Design for Novel Perovskites “, Petroleum Research Fund , $110000.00, $110000.00, 08/01/2014 – 07/31/2016, Awarded, $110000.00.

12-      2014    Bilal El-Zahab Co-PI (Veena Misra and Shekhar Bhansali), “ASSIST Nanosystems ERC”, National Science Foundation, $363614.00, $85610.00, 09/01/2014 – 08/31/2015, Awarded, $85610.00.

13-      2014    George Dulikravich     PI, “Multi-Objective, Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization of Multi-Floor Microelectronics Cooling”, DARPA via GaTech, $195000.00, $195000.00, 11-21-2013 – 11-20-2014, Awarded, $83000.00.

14-      2014    George Dulikravich     Co-PI (Gokaltun, S. (FIU/ARC)), “Development of Reduced Order Model for Reacting Gas-Solid Flow using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition”, DOE/NETL, $25000.00, $144000.00, 9-1-2014 – 8-31-2017, Awarded, $0.00.

15-      2014    George Dulikravich     PI, “Direct and Inverse Design Optimization of Magnetic Alloys with Minimized Use of Rare Earth Elements”, AFOSR NM, $1124968.00, $674958.00, 9-1-2012 – 8-31-2017, Awarded, $243000.00.

16-      2014    Jiuhua Chen    PI (Wendy Mao), “Influence of Pressure on Physical Property of Ammonia Borane Derivatives”, DOE, $735000.00, $240000.00, 8/1/2010 – 7/31/2015, Awarded, $0.00.

17-      2014    Jiuhua Chen    PI, “High efficiency flexible battery based on graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid”, DoD, $135740.00, $135740.00, 1/1/2012 – 12/31/2014, Awarded, $0.00.

18-      2014    Chunlei Wang Co-PI, “Nanostructured Electrochemical Materials”, NSF, $0.00, $0.00, Awarded, $0.00.

19-      2014    Chunlei Wang PI, “Design of a Miniaturized Self-Charging Power Sources for Medical Devices”, UM-FIU, $0.00, $0.00, Awarded, $0.00.

20-      2014    Chunlei Wang Co-PI, “NERC for Advanced Self-powered Systems for Integrated Sensor Technologies (ASSIST)”, NSF, $0.00, $0.00, Awarded, $0.00.

21-       2014    Chengxian Lin            PI, “Solar Energy Technologies: Fundamentals and Applications in Buildings “, FESC, $0.00, $65968.00, 08/15/2014 – 01/31/2016, Awarded, $0.00.

22-      2014    Chengxian Lin            Co-PI (Dexin Wang), “Simultaneous Waste Heat and Water Recovery from Power Plant Flue Gases for Advanced Energy Systems”, DOE, $500000.00, $50000.00, 10/01/2014 – 09/31/2016, Awarded, $0.00.

2014 Continuing Grants:

Year    Submitted by  Role (other PIs or Co-PIs), title, agency, grant amount, fund share, start_date – end_date, status, new amount

1-         2014    Arving Agarwal          PI, “Graphene Nanoplatelet Reinforced TaC”, AFOSR, $327000.00, $327000.00, 6/1/12 – 5/31/15, Continuing, $107000.00.

2-        2014    Arving Agarwal          PI (Ben Boesl), “Ultrahigh Temp Ceramic Materials with Nano Reinforcement”, AFRL and Clarkson Aerospace, $375000.00, $250000.00, Aug 2013 – Aug 2018, Continuing, $69000.00.

2014 Pending Grants:

Year    Submitted by  Role (other PIs or Co-PIs), title, agency, grant amount, fund share, start_date – end_date, status, new amount

1-         2014    Benjamin Boesl           PI (Arvind Agarwal), “DURIP: Acquisition of In situ Nanoindenter for Studying Deformation and Damage Mechanics in Nanocomposites and Small Scale Features”, ONR, $161920.00, $161920.00, Pending, $0.00.

2-        2014    Benjamin Boesl           Co-PI (Arvind Agarwal), “3D Graphene Foam Reinforced Flexible Composites”, AFOSR, $588000.00, $250000.00, Pending, $0.00.

3-        2014    Benjamin Boesl           Co-PI (Arvind Agarwal, Chunlei Wang, Hassan Mahfus, Ram Datar), “NNCI: South Florida Nanotechnology Network”, NSF, $4654666.00, $90000.00, Pending, $0.00.

4-        2014    Benjamin Boesl           PI, “Advanced Materials Response and Design through an Understanding of Manufacturing Science”, ARL, $970618.00, $970618.00, Pending, $0.00.

5-        2014    Benjamin Boesl           PI (Chunlei Wang), “SNM: High Throughput Low Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Porous Silicon”, NSF, $1463963.00, $500000.00, Pending, $0.00.

6-        2014    Ali Ebadian     Co-PI (C.X. Lin), “US -China Clean Energy Research Center “, DOE, $10000000.00, $54000.00, Pending, $0.00.

7-        2014    Ali Ebadian     Co-PI (C.X. Lin and Nezih Pala), “Heat Transfer in Hybrid PV/T Systems with Hydrophobic Non-Newtonian Fluids”, NSF, $357394.00, $12500.00, Pending, $0.00.

8-        2014    Yiding Cao     Co-PI (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), four other national labs and a number of Universities including FIU. ), “Clean Energy Research Consortium (CERC)”, DOE, $12500000.00, $1000000.00, 9/1/2015 – 8/30/2020, Pending, $0.00.

9-        2014    Yiding Cao     Co-PI (Frank A. Mignano), “NEW EIGHT-STROKE HEAT ENGINE CONCEPT AND ITS VIABILITY TO THE RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY”, DOE Arpa-E, $150000.00, $50000.00, 9/1/2015 – 8/30/2017, Pending, $0.00.

10-      2014    Yiding Cao     Co-PI (Cheng-Xian Lin), “Solar Energy Systems for Integration in Buildings”, NSF, $301001.00, $0.00, 01/01/2015 – 12/31/2017, Pending, $0.00.

11-      2014    Zhe Cheng      Co-PI (Yu Zhong (PI)), “DMREF: The Integrated Materials and Processes Design for Novel Proton Conducting Oxides”, NSF, $729093.00, $0.00, Pending, $0.00.

12-      2014    Zhe Cheng      PI, “Economic Fabrication of Nano-sized High Temperature and Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramic Solid Solution Materials”, NSF, $298395.00, $298395.00, Pending, $0.00.

13-      2014    Zhe Cheng      PI (Arvind Agarwal (co-PI)), “Novel High Temperature Carbide and Boride Ceramics for Direct Power Extraction Electrode Applications”, DOE, $249970.00, $0.00, Pending, $0.00.

14-      2014    Yu Zhong        PI (Srikanth Gopalan, Zhe Cheng), “DMREF: Collaborative Research: The Integrated Materials and Processes Design for Novel Proton Conducting Oxides”, NSF, $729092.00, $500000.00, 2015 – 2018, Pending, $0.00.

15-      2014    Yu Zhong        PI, “The Next Generation of Ti-Al Alloys for Advanced Aircraft Turbines”, NASA, $50000.00, $50000.00, 2015 – 2016, Pending, $0.00.

16-      2014    Yu Zhong        Co-PI (Kinzy Jone, Mike Newton), “Additive Manufacturing Development of Efficiently Cooled Heat Exchangers”, ONR, $25000.00, $5000.00, 2015 – 2016, Pending, $0.00.

17-      2014    Bilal El-Zahab PI, “Acoustic Micro-Patterning of Electrically Conductive Elastomeric Composites.”, National Science Foundation, $200000.00, $200000.00, 09/01/2015, Pending, $0.00.

18-      2014    Bilal El-Zahab Co-PI (Jiuhua Chen), “PREM: Florida International University – Cornell University Partnership in Research and Education in Energy Related Materials”, National Science Foundation, $4000000.00, $0.00, Pending, $0.00.

19-      2014    Bilal El-Zahab PI, “Innovation in Green Engineering: Competition and Workshop”, VentureWell, $21650.00, $21650.00, Pending, $0.00.

20-      2014    Kinzy Jones     PI, “Development of Ceramic based Direct Additive Manufacturing for Novel 3-D Packaging Components “, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SCR) , $200000.00, $200000.00, Sept. 2015 – 2017, Pending, $0.00.

21-      2014    Chunlei Wang Co-PI, “NNCI: South Florida Nanotechnology Network”, NSF, $0.00, $0.00, Pending, $0.00.

22-      2014    Chunlei Wang PI, “SNM: High Throughput Low Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Porous Silicon”, NSF, $0.00, $0.00, Pending, $0.00.

23-      2014    Chunlei Wang Co-PI, “PREM: Florida International University – Cornell University Partnership in Research and Education in Energy Related Materials”, NSF, $0.00, $0.00, Pending, $0.00.

24-      2014    Chunlei Wang PI, “3D On-Chip Hybrid Micropower”, NSF, $0.00, $0.00, Pending, $0.00.

25-      2014    Chunlei Wang PI, “Engineering Research Center for Nitride-Enabled Extreme Integrated Systems (NEXIS)”, NSF, $0.00, $0.00, Pending, $0.00.

26-      2014    Chengxian Lin            PI, “CyberSEES: Type 2: Collaborative Research: Multi-scale Thermal Monitoring, Prediction, and Management for Sus-tainable Data Centers”, NSF, $350000.00, $350000.00, Pending, $0.00.

27-      2014    Chengxian Lin            Co-PI (Shaolei Ren), “CPS: Breakthrough: Energy Management in Mixed-Use Buildings: Coordinating Datacenter and Office”, NSF, $499928.00, $250000.00, Pending, $0.00.

28-      2014    Chengxian Lin            Co-PI (Dexin Wang), “AOI2: Flue Gas Water Vapor Latent Heat Recovery for Pressurized Oxy-Combustion”, DOE, $2000000.00, $90000.00, Pending, $0.00.

Publications

Books:

1-         Books  2014    Arving Agarwal                     K. Balani, Arvind Agarwal, V. Verma, and R. Narayan. “Biosurfaces: From the perspective of Materials Scientist and Engineer”, Wiley, March 2015.

Book Chapters:

1-         Book Chapters            2014    Arving Agarwal                     Debrupa Lahiri and Arvind Agarwal. “Boron Nitride Nanotubes as Fillers/Reinforcement for Polymer, Ceramic and Metal Matrix Composites”.Application and Functionalization of Nanotubes and Nanosheets. CRC Press, 2015.495-524.

2-        Book Chapters            2014    Bilal El-Zahab            El-Zahab, B. and A. Chamaani. “Soft-Templating of Nanoparticles”.Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology. Second Edition. Springer Reference.

3-         Book Chapters            2014    Kinzy Jones                Yoseph Bar Cohen, W. Kinzy Jones and Robert Cormia. “Characterization methods for Low Temperature Materials”.Low Temperature Materials and Mechanisms. CRC Press, April 2015.31.

4-        Book Chapters            2014    Chunlei Wang            Chunlei Wang, Kuo-Sheng Ma, Yanchen Wang, Lucas Prater. “MEMS Technology Applications on Oligonucleotides Synthesis and Microarray Fabrication”.Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology 2nd edition. Springer, 2015.

5-        Book Chapters            2014    Chunlei Wang            Chunlei Wang, Richa Agrawal. “Laser beam Machining”.Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology 2nd edition. Springer, 2015.

6-        Book Chapters            2014    Chunlei Wang            Richa Agrawal and Chunlei Wang. “C-MEMS based on-chip microsupercapacitors”.Carbon: The next silicon?. Momentum Press , 2015.

7-        Book Chapters            2014    Chunlei Wang            R. Agrawal, C. Chen, Y. Hao, Y. Song, and C. Wang. “Graphene for Supercapacitors”.Graphene-Based Energy Devices. Wiley-VCH, march 2015.171-213.

8-        Book Chapters            2014    Chunlei Wang            Chunlei Wang, Marc Madou. “lithography”.Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology 2nd edition. Springer, 2015.

9-        Book Chapters            2014    Chunlei Wang            Chunlei Wang, Wei Chen. “Nanoimprintering”.Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology 2nd edition. Springer, 2105.

10-      Book Chapters            2014    George Dulikravich                Dulikravich, G.S. and Colaco, M.J.. “Hybrid Optimization Algorithms and Hybrid Response Surfaces”.Advances in Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control in Engineering and Sciences . Springer Verlag, Computational Methods in Applied Sciences Series, Vol. 36, Chaper 2, 2015.18-47.

Conference Proceedings

1-         Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Erick Camacho, Marco Robaina, Alessandro Tasca, Pedro Cuberos, Ibrahim Tansel, Sabri Tosunoglu. “Collision Avoidance Protocol for Package Delivering Quadcopters”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

2-        Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Alexis Garo, Lucia Melara, Robert Scott, Melissa Morris, Sabri Tosunoglu. “Natural Gait Inducing Transtibial Prosthetic”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

3-        Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Melissa Morris, Sabri Tosunoglu. “Robotic Ocular Surgery”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

4-        Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Jonathan Hipps, Alejandro Osorio, Gianfranco Pisani, Sebastian Rojas, Melissa Morris, Sabri Tosunoglu. “Laser Eye Surgery Robot”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

5-        Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Danilo Delgado, Michael Fisher, Lucia Melara, Melissa Morris, Sabri Tosunoglu. “SWAT Bot and its Future Use as a Strategic Response Robot”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

6-        Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Jovany Iglesias, Scott Jagolinzer, Sabri Tosunoglu. “SAMP: Surgical Assistant Manipulator Platform”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

7-        Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Daniel Martinez, Daniella Motro, Santiago Nino, Sabri Tosunoglu. “Wireless and Autonomous Guide Platform to Assist the Visually Impaired Through Unfamiliar Spaces”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

8-        Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Ryan Sheffield, Dwayne McDaniel, Sabri Tosunoglu. “Development of a Prototype Miniature Motorized Inspection Tool for Hanford DOE Site Tank Bottoms”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

9-        Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Daniella Motro, Sabri Tosunoglu. “Development of Vision Systems for Search and Rescue Robotics”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

10-       Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Jonathan Garcia, Ali Alsuwaylih, Sabri Tosunoglu. “Security Patrolling Autonomous Robot”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

11-       Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Scott Jagolinzer, Sabri Tosunoglu. “Trackless Multi-Dimensional Ride Vehicle”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

12-       Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Nikko Miniello, Jashua Gonzalez, Carlos Sosa, Sabri Tosunoglu. “URSA Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

13-       Conference Proceedings         2014    Sabri Tosunoglu                     Rafael Gonzalez, Joel Hernandez, Alex Muller-Poitevien, Michael Montan, Melissa Morris, Sabri Tosunoglu. “Terramartian Mining Robot”, The 28th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FCRAR 2015, Melbourne, Florida, May 14-15, 2015.

14-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Cesar Levy                 Ma. Q., Levy, C., Perl, M.. “Crack Non-circularity and Finite Erosion Effects on the 3D SIFs of a Bauschinger Modified Pressurized Thick-Walled Cylinder”, PVP2015, Boston, MA, July, 2015.

15-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Cesar Levy                 Ma, Q., Levy, C., Perl, M.. “The Combined Effect of a Finite Axial Erosion with Bauschinger Modified Autofrettage on the 3D SIFs of Pressurized Cylinders”, PVP2014, Anaheim, CA, July, 2014.

16-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Yu Zhong                   S. Darvish, A. Karbasi, S. K. Saxena and Y. Zhong. “Weight Loss Mechanism of (La0.8Sr0.2)0.98MnO3±δ During Thermal Cycles”, 39th Int’l Conf & Expo on Advanced Ceramics & Composites (ICACC 2015).

17-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Yu Zhong                   S. Darvish, S. K. Saxena and Y. Zhong. “Quantitative Analysis of (La0.8Sr0.2)0.98MnO3±δ Electronic Conductivity Using Calphad Approach”, 39th Int’l Conf & Expo on Advanced Ceramics & Composites (ICACC 2015).

18-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Zhe Cheng                 Armin VahidMohammadi. “Study on Sintering and Stability Issues of BaZr0.1Ce0.7Y0.1Yb0.1O3 Electrolyte for SOFCs”, 39th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC 2015), Daytona Beach, Jan 2015.

19-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Zhe Cheng                 Paniz Foroughi, Zhe Cheng. “From Micron-sized Particles to Nanoparticles and Nanobelts: Structural Non-uniformity in the Synthesis of Boron Carbide by Carbothermal Reduction Reaction”, 39th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC 2015), Daytona Beach, FL, Jan 2015.

20-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Bilal El-Zahab            Safa, M., A. Chamaani and B. El-Zahab. “Polymeric Ionic Liquid Electrolytes: Effect of Inorganic Fillers”, Proceedings the ECS Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2015.

21-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Bilal El-Zahab            Moradi, K. and B. El-Zahab. “Blood Lipid Profiling Using a Lab-On-Chip Device Powered by Acoustic Sounds Waves”, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago, IL, 2014.

22-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Bilal El-Zahab            Moradi, K. and B. El-Zahab. “Silicon Based Lab-On-Chip Device for Acoustic Focusing Applications”, ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, Chicago, IL, 2014.

23-       Conference Proceedings         2014    Jiuhua Chen               Jiuhua Chen, Martha Pamato, Toru Inoue, Sho Kakizawa, Bin Yang, Chunli Ma, Yangting Lin, Tomoo Katsura, Takaaki Kawazoe, Zhenxian Liu. “Effect of pressure on water solubility in aluminous magnesium silicate perovskite”, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 15-19, 2014.

24-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Jiuhua Chen               Hui Bian, Zhu Mao, Jung-Fu Lin, Jing Yang, Jin Liu, Heather Watson, Jiuhua Chen, Vitali Prakapenka, Yuming Xiao, Paul Chow. “(Fe, Al)-bearing post-perovskite in the Earth’s lower mantle”, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 15-19, 2014.

25-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chunlei Wang            Richa Agrawal, Majid Beidaghi, Wei Chen, Chunlei Wang. “Carbon microelectromechanical systems (C-MEMS) based microsupercapacitors”, SPIE 9493, Energy Harvesting and Storage: Materials, Devices, and Applications VI, Baltimore, April 21 2015.

26-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chunlei Wang            Richa Agrawal, Yong Hao, Yin Song, Chunhui Chen, Chunlei Wang. “Hybridization of lithium-ion batteries and electrochemical capacitors: fabrication and challenges”, SPIE 9493, Energy Harvesting and Storage: Materials, Devices, and Applications VI, Baltimore, April 21 2015.

27-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chunlei Wang            Yin Song, Richa Agrawal, Chunlei Wang. “Micro enzymatic biofuel cells: from theoretical to experimental aspect”, SPIE 9493, Energy Harvesting and Storage: Materials, Devices, and Applications VI, Baltimore, April 21 2015.

28-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chunlei Wang            Yin Song, Richa Agrawal, Chunlei Wang. “C-MEMS for bio-sensing applications”, SPIE 9493, Energy Harvesting and Storage: Materials, Devices, and Applications VI, Baltimore, April 21 2015.

29-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chunlei Wang            D.S. Gardner, C.W. Holzwarth, Y. Liu, S.B. Clendenning, W. Jin, B.K. Moon, C.L. Pint, Z. Chen, E. Hannah, R. Chen, C.P. Wang, C. Chen, E. Makila, and J.L. Gustafson,. “Integrated On-Chip Energy Storage Using Porous-Silicon Electrochemical Capacitors”, 014 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco, Dec 15-17 2014.

30-       Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Pasqualette, M.A, Colaco, M.J., Dulikravich, G.S., Orlande, H.R.B.. “Inverse Determination of Spatially Varying Diffusion Coefficient in Two-Dimensional Objects “, 7th International Conference Inverse Problems: Modeling & Simulation, Oludeniz, Turkey, May 26-31, 2014.

31-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Abdoli, A., Vasquez, G., Dulikravich, G.S., Rastkar, S.. “Thermo-Fluid-Stress Analysis in Microchannels Cooling of Electronics With Hot Spots “, ThermaComp2014 – Third International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems , Lake Bled, Slovenia, June 2-4, 2014.

32-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Abdoli, A., Bajaj, C., Dulikravich, G.S., Stowe, D.F., Jahania, M.S. . “Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Cooling Protocols for Human Heart Destined for Transplantation “, ThermaComp2014 – Third International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems , Lake Bled, Slovenia, June 2-4, 2014.

33-       Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Estumano, D. C., Orlande, H.R.B., Colaco, M.J., Dulikravich, G.S., Ritto, T.G., Riera Diaz, J.J.. “Bayesian Estimation of Parameters in Hodgkin-Huxley’s Model of Biomedical Electric Signals “, Uncertainties2014 – 2nd International Symposium on Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling, Rouen, France, July 7-11, 2014.

34-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Reddy, S., Sobieczky, H., Abdoli, A., Dulikravich, G.S.. “Winglets: Multiobjective Optimization of Aerodynamic Shapes”, 11th World Congress of Computational Mechanics WCCM XI, Barcelona, Spain, July 20-25, 2014.

35-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Jha, R., Dulikravich, G.S., Fan, M., Schwartz, J., Koch, C., Egorov, I.N., Poloni, C.. “A Combined Computational-Experimental Approach to Design of High-Intensity Permanent Magnetic Alloys “, CONEM2014- National Congress of Mechanical Engineering, Uberlandia, Brazil, August 10-15, 2014.

36-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Abdoli, A., Jimenez, G., Dulikravich, G.S.. “Electronics Cooling Design Optimization “, CONEM2014- National Congress of Mechanical Engineering , Uberlandia, Brazil, August 10-15, 2014.

37-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Pacheco, C.C., Orlande, H.R.B., Colaco, M.J., Dulikravich, G.S.. “Identification of Unsteady Location and Intensity a Heat Flux Using Kalman Filter and Improved Lumped Analysis in 3D Heat Conduction “, 5th International Conference on Computational Methods – ICCM, Cambridge, UK, July 28-30, 2014.

38-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Estumano, D.C., Hamilton, F.C., Colaco, M.J., Leiroz, A.J.K., Orlande, H.R.B., Carvalho, R.N., Dulikravich, G.S.. “Bayesian Estimate of Mass Fraction of Burned Fuel in Internal Combustion Engines using Pressure Measurements “, EngOpt2014, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 8-11, 2014.

39-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Pacheco, C.C., Orlande, H.R.B., Colaco, M.J., Fonseca, H.M., Dulikravich, G.S.. “Identification of a Position and Time Dependent Heat Flux Using the Kalman Filter and Improved Lumped Analysis in Heat Conduction “, EngOpt2014, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 8-11, 2014.

40-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Nagesetti, A., Estumano, D., Orlande, H.R.B., Colaco, M.J., Dulikravich, G.S., McGoron, A.. “The Effect of Surface Functionalization and Temperature on Nanoparticle Penetration into Tumor Spheroids “, BMES2014, San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 22-25, 2014.

41-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Abdoli, A., Bajaj, C., Dulikravich, G.S., Stowe, D.F., Jahania, M.S.. “Simulation of Cooling Preservation Systems for Human Hearts Destined for Transplantation “, BMES2014, San Antonio, texas, Oct. 22-25, 2014.

42-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Pacheco, C.C., Orlande, H.R.B., Colaco, M.J., da Fonseca, R.M., Dulikravich, G.S.. “Estimation of a Position and a Time Dependent High Magnitude Heat Flux Using the Kalman Filter “, 15th Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering-ENCIT2014, Belem, Parana, Brazil, Nov. 10-13, 2014.

43-      Conference Proceedings         2014    George Dulikravich                Reddy, S., Abdoli, A., Dulikravich, G.S., Sobieczky, H.. “Multi-Winglets: Multiobjective Optimization of Aerodynamic Shapes “, 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Kissimmee, Florida, Jan. 5-8, 2015.

44-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chengxian Lin                       E. Belleil, L. Phan, C.X. Lin, M. Schaefer, J. Wagner. “Natural Ventilation of a Solar House in Hot and Humid Climate-A Study Using Building Energy Simulation Method”, ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada, 2014.

45-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chengxian Lin                       P. Shinde, C.X. Lin. ” An Uncertainty Analysis in Louver Fin Brazed Aluminum Microchannel Heat Exchanger”, ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada, 2014.

46-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chengxian Lin                       R. Kiflemariam, C.X. Lin, F. Zevallos. “Numerical Simulation and Parametric Analysis of Multistage Wind Pump for Enhanced Air-Cooling”, ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada, 2014.

47-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chengxian Lin                       F. Zevallos, C.X. Lin, R. Kiflemariam. “A Computational Model for Performance Prediction of a Hybrid PV/T Module”, ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada, 2014.

48-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chengxian Lin                       J. Wagner, J. Hesselbach, M. Schaefer, L. Phan, C.X. Lin, A. Schluter, M. Rosano. “Localized Climatization of Perishable Products-Solutions for Increasing Energy Efficiency”, ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada, 2014.

49-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chengxian Lin                       R. Moosavi, H. Saffari, R. Kiflemariam, C.X. Lin. “Fully Developed and Hydraulic Characteristics of Bubbly Flows in Helical Coils”, 11th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2014.

50-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chengxian Lin                       S. Soleimani, E. Ghasemi, C.X. Lin. “Steady State Simulation of Gaseous Combustor Using Local Extinction Eddy Dissipation Concept”, 11th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2014.

51-       Conference Proceedings         2014    Chengxian Lin                       E. Ghasemi, S. Soleimani, C.X. Lin. “Secondary Reactions of Turbulent Reacting Flows over a Film-Cooled Surface Using OpenFOAM”, 11th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2014.

52-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chengxian Lin                       R. Kiflemariam, C.X. Lin, R. Moosavi. “Parametric Study and Optimization of Thermoelectric Generators for Self-cooling of Devices”, 11th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2014.

53-      Conference Proceedings         2014    Chengxian Lin                       R. Moosavi, S.A.G. Nasab, R. Kiflemariam, C.X. Lin. “The Effect of Step Length and Inclined Angle of Backward Facing Step on Heat Transfer Characteristics”, 11th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2014.

Journal Articles

1-         Journal Articles           2014    Igor Tsukanov            Tomislav Kosta, Igor Tsukanov. “3D Natural Vibration Analysis with Meshfree Solution Structure Method”, Vibration and Acoustics, July 2014.

2-        Journal Articles           2014    Igor Tsukanov            Tomislav Kosta, Igor Tsukanov. “Meshfree Modeling of Dynamic Response of Mechanical Structures”, Meccanica, July 2014.

3-        Journal Articles           2014    Cesar Levy                 Lin, W., Kong, X., Levy, C.. “Preparation of Polyaniline Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes Nanocomposites films/discs and Characterization of their Electrical, Mechanical and Damping Properties”, Sensors and Transducers, April, 2015.

4-        Journal Articles           2014    Cesar Levy                 Ma, Q., Levy, C., Perl, M.. “The Bauschinger Effect’s Influence on the SIFs of a Semi-Elliptical Crack Emanating from an Erosion at the Bore of a Fully Autofrettaged Pressurized Cylinder”, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Nov. 2014.

5-        Journal Articles           2014    Ali Ebadian                Kamran Moradi, M. Ali Ebadian , Cheng-Xian Lin. “A review of PVT technologies: Effects of control parameters “, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfeer, 2014.

6-        Journal Articles           2014    Ali Ebadian                Sohail R. Reddy, Mohammed A. Ebadian and Cheng-Xian Lin. “A REVIEW OF PV-T SYSTEMS: THERMAL MANAGEMENT AND EFFICIENCY WITH SINGLE PHASE COOLING”, International og Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2015.

7-        Journal Articles           2014    Yiding Cao                Hu Lian, Chen Deqi, Gao Shiqiu, Yiding Cao, Wang Qinghua. “Thermodynamic and Heat Transfer Analyses of a S-CO2 Brayton Cycle as the Heat Transport System of a Nuclear Reactor”, Journal of Heat Transfer Research, Nov., 2014.

8-        Journal Articles           2014    Yiding Cao                Yiding Cao. “SEPARATE-TYPE HEAT PIPE SOLAR RECEIVERS FOR CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER”, Frontiers in Heat Pipes, March, 2015.

9-        Journal Articles           2014    Yiding Cao                Feng Wang, Yiding Cao and Jing Zhou. “Thermodynamic analysis of high-temperature helium heated fuel reforming for hydrogen production”, International Journal of Energy Research, 5 DEC 2014 DOI: 10.1002/er.3263.

10-      Journal Articles           2014    Zhe Cheng                 Armin VahidMohammadi, Zhe Cheng. “Fundamentals of Synthesis, Sintering Issues, and Chemical Stability of BaZr0.1Ce0.7Y0.1Yb0.1O3 Proton Conducting Electrolyte for SOFCs”, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, August, 2015.

11-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     A. Nieto, R. Dua, C. Zheng, S. Ramaswamy, B. Boesl, and Arvind Agarwal. “Three Dimensional Graphene Foam/Polymer Hybrid as a High Strength Biocompatible Scaffold”, Advanced Functional Materials, May 2015.

12-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     P. Nautiyal, J. Jain and Arvind Agarwal. “A Comparative Study of Indentation Induced Creep in Pure Mg and AZ 61”, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 2015.

13-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     K. S. Suresh, D. Lahiri, Arvind Agarwal and S. Suwas. “Microstructure Dependent Elastic Modulus Variation in NiTi Shape Memory Alloy”, J. Alloy Compound, 2015.

14-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     A. Nieto, B. Boesl, and Arvind Agarwal. “Multi-scale Intrinsic Deformation Behavior of Free-standing 3D Graphene Foam”, Carbon, 2015.

15-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     D. Lahiri, J. Karpf, C. Zhang, A. Keshri, L. Kecskes, G.S. Dulikravich, and Arvind Agarwal. “Scratch Induced Deformation Behavior of Hafnium Based Metallic Glass at Multiple Load Scales”, J. Non Crystalline Solids, 2015.

16-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     F. Carneiro, B. PT Kruithof, K. Balani, Arvind Agarwal, V. Gaussin and L. Kos. “Relationships Between Melanocytes, Mechanical Properties and Extracellular Matrix Composition in the Mouse Heart Valves”, J. of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants, 2015.

17-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     M. Lordeus, A. Estrada, D. Stewart, R. Dua, C. Zhang, Arvind Agarwal and S. Ramaswamy. “Graphene Nanoplatelet-Reinforced Silicone for the Valvular Prosthesis Application”, J. of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants, 2015.

18-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     K. K. Jha, N. Suksawang, D. Lahiri and Arvind Agarwal. “A Novel Method for Interpretation of Nanoindentation Load-Displacement Data and Hardness of Cementitious Materials”, Materials and Structures, 2014.

19-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     D. Lahiri, F. Hec, M. Thiesse, A. Durygin, C. Zhang and Arvind Agarwal. “Nanotribological Behavior of Graphene Nanoplatelet Reinforced Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene Composites”, Tribology International, 2014.

20-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     S. Das, D. Lahiri, Arvind Agarwal and W. Choi, . “Measurement of Interfacial Bonding Between Graphene and Dielectric Substrate”, Nanotechnology, 2014.

21-      Journal Articles           2014    Arving Agarwal                     K. K. Jha, N. Suksawang and Arvind Agarwal. “A New Insight into Work of Indentation Approach Used in the Evaluation of Material’s Hardness from Nanoindentation Measurement with Pyramidal Indenter”, Comp. Mater. Sci., 2014.

22-      Journal Articles           2014    Bilal El-Zahab            Hamdan, S., J. C. Dumke, B. El-Zahab, S. Das, D. Boldor, G. A. Baker, and I. Warner. “Strategies for Controlled Synthesis of Nanoparticles derived from a Group of Uniform Materials Based on Organic Salts”, Journal of Colloid & Interface Science, 2015.

23-      Journal Articles           2014    Bilal El-Zahab            Wright, A. R., M. Li, S. Ravula, M. Cadigan, B. El-Zahab, S. Das, G. A. Baker, and I. M. Warner. “Soft- and hard-templated organic salt nanoparticles with the Midas touch: gold-shelled nanoGUMBOS”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2014.

24-      Journal Articles           2014    Bilal El-Zahab            Sarkar, A., K. Kanakamedala, M. D. Rajathadripura, N. N. Jagadish, P. K. S. Magut, S. de Rooy, S. Das, B. El-Zahab, I. M. Warner, and T. Daniels-Race. “Electro-Optical Characterization of nanoGUMBOS”, Electronic Materials Letters, 2014.

25-      Journal Articles           2014    Bilal El-Zahab            Regmi, B. P., N. C. Speller, M. J. Anderson, J. O. Brutus, Y. Merid, S. Das, B. El-Zahab, D. J. Hayes, K. K. Murray, and I. M. Warner. “Molecular weight sensing properties of ionic liquidpolymer composite films: theory and experiment”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2014.

26-      Journal Articles           2014    Bilal El-Zahab            Dumke, J. C., A. Qureshi, S. Hamdan, K. Rupnik, B. El-Zahab, D. J. Hayes, and I. M. Warner. “In vitro activity studies of hyperthermal near-infrared nanoGUMBOS in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells.”, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2014.

27-      Journal Articles           2014    Kinzy Jones                C. Lavernia, D. Iacobelli, J. Villa, K. Jones, J. Gonzalez, W. K. Jones Sr. “Trunnion- Head Stress in THA: Are Big Heads Trouble”, Journal of Arthroplasty, 2015.

28-      Journal Articles           2014    Kinzy Jones                Saddiqui, M., Jones, W.K. “Vacuum Brazing of Alumina to Titanium for Implantable Feedthroughs Using Pure Gold as the Braze Metal”, International Journal of Materials Science and Technology, June 2014.

29-      Journal Articles           2014    Chunlei Wang            Yin Song, Chunhui Chen, Chunlei Wang. “Graphene/enzyme-encrusted three-dimensional carbon micropillar arrays for mediatorless micro-biofuel cells”, Nanoscale, 2015.

30-      Journal Articles           2014    Chunlei Wang            Jun Wu, Chunhui Chen, Yong Hao, Chunlei Wang. “Enhanced electrochemical performance of nanosheet ZnO/reduced graphene oxide composites as anode for lithium-ion batteries”, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2015.

31-      Journal Articles           2014    Chunlei Wang            Varun penmatsa, Hiroshi Kawarada, Yin Song and Chunlei Wang. “Comparison of Different Oxidation Techniques for the Biofunctionalization of Pyrolyzed Carbon”, Material Science Research India, 2014.

32-      Journal Articles           2014    Chunlei Wang            Yin Song, Varun Penmatsa, jung Hoon Yang, and Chunlei Wang. “Surface Engineered Pyrolyzed Carbon Electrode Arrays for Bio-Sensing”, ECS Transactions, 2014.

33-      Journal Articles           2014    Chunlei Wang            Chunhui Chen, Richard Agrawal, Tae Kwon Kim, Xifei Li, Wei Chen, Yan Yu, Majid Beidaghi, Varun Penmatsa and Chunlei Wang. “Nanostructured Electrodes via Electrostatic Spray Deposition for Energy Storage System, ECS Trans. 61(27) (2014) 155-163”, ECS Transactions, 2014.

34-      Journal Articles           2014    Chunlei Wang            Lijun Fu, Kepeng Song, Xifei Li, Peter A. van Aken, Chunlei Wang, Joachim Maier and Yan Yu. “Direct Evidence of Conversion Mechanism in NiSnO3 Anode for Lithium Ion Battery Application”, RSC Advances, 2014.

35-      Journal Articles           2014    Chunlei Wang            Yin Song, Varun Penmatsa and Chunlei Wang. “Modeling and Simulation of Enzymatic Biofuel Cells with Three-Dimensional Microelectrodes”, Energies, 2014.

36-      Journal Articles           2014    Chunlei Wang            Yin Song, Richa Agrawal, Yong Hao, Chunhui Chen, and Chunlei Wang. “C-MEMS Based Microsupercapacitors and Microsensors”, ECS Transactions, 2014.

37-      Journal Articles           2014    George Dulikravich                Abdoli, A. and Dulikravich, G.S.. “Multi-Objective Design Optimization of Multi-Floor Branching Micro Heat Exchangers “, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 136, October 2014.

38-      Journal Articles           2014    George Dulikravich                Abdoli, A., Bajaj, C., Dulikravich, G.S., Stowe, D.F., Jahania, M.S. . “Human Heart Conjugate Cooling Simulation: Unsteady Thermo-Fluid-Stress Analysis “, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 30, 2014, pp. 1372-1386. , 2014.

39-      Journal Articles           2014    George Dulikravich                Abdoli, A., Jimenez, G., Dulikravich, G.S.. “Thermo-Fluid Analysis of Micro Pin-Fin Array Cooling Configurations for High Heat Fluxes With a Hot Spot “, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 90, pp. 290-297., April 2015.

40-      Journal Articles           2014    George Dulikravich                Abdoli, A., Vasquez, G., Dulikravich, G.S., Rastkar, S.. “Thermo-Fluid-Stress-Deformation Analysis of Two-Layer Microchannels for Cooling Chips With Hot Spots “, ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 137, No. 1, 2015.

41-      Journal Articles           2014    George Dulikravich                Costa, J.M., Orlande, H.R.B., Campos Velho, H.F., de Pinho, S.T.R., Cotta, R.M., Dulikravich, G.S., da Cunha Neto, S.H.. “Estimation of Tumor Size Evolution Using Particle Filters “, Journal of Computational Biology, Vol. 22, No. 7, pp. 1-17. , May 2015.

42-      Journal Articles           2014    George Dulikravich                Gavrilovic, N.N., Rasuo, B.P., Parezanovic, V.B., Dulikravich, G.S.. “Commercial Aircraft Performance Improvement Using Winglets”, FME Transactions, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 1-8., 2015.

43-      Journal Articles           2014    George Dulikravich                Gokaltun, S. and Dulikravich, G.S.. “Lattice Boltzmann Method for Rarefied Channel Flows with Heat Transfer “, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 78, pp. 796-804., 2014.

44-      Journal Articles           2014    George Dulikravich                Jha, R., Dulikravich, G.S., Pettersson, F., Saxen, H., Chakraborti, N. . “Evolutionary Design of Nickel Based Superalloys Using Data-driven Genetic Algorithms and Related Strategies “, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 2015.

45-      Journal Articles           2014    George Dulikravich                Lahiri, D., Karp, J., Keshri, A., Zhang, C., Kecskes, L., Dulikravich, G.S., Agarwal, A.. “Scratch Induced Deformation Behavior of Hafnium Based Bulk Metallic Glass at Multiple Load Scale “, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Vol. 410, pp. 118-126., 2015.

46-      Journal Articles           2014    Jiuhua Chen               Zhu Mao, Jung-Fu Lin, Jing Yang, Hui Bian, Jin Liu, Heather C. Watson, Shu Huang, Jiuhua Chen, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Yuming Xiao, Paul Chow. “(Fe, Al)-Bearing Post-Perovskite in the Earth’s Lower Mantle”, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014.

47-      Journal Articles           2014    Jiuhua Chen               Renfeng Li, Liangliang Li, Tony Yu, Luhong Wang, Jiaxuan Chen, Yanbin Wang, Zhonghou Cai, Jiuhua Chen, Mark L. Rivers, and Haozhe Liu. “Study of liquid gallium as a function of pressure and temperature using synchrotron x-ray microtomography and x-ray diffraction”, Applied Physics Letters, 2014.

48-      Journal Articles           2014    Jiuhua Chen               Sun Y, Chen J, Drozd V, Najiba S, Bollinger C. “Behavior of decomposed ammonia borane at high pressure”, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2014.

49-      Journal Articles           2014    Jiuhua Chen               Chen Jiuhua, Drozd Vadym, Sun Yongzhou, Najiba Shah. “Ammonia borane at high pressures”, Chin. Sci. Bull., 2014.

50-      Journal Articles           2014    Jiuhua Chen               Yongzhou Sun, Jiuhua Chen, Vadym Drozd, Andriy Durigin, Shah Najiba, Xiaoyang Liu. “Phase boundary of pressure-induced I4mm to Cmc21 transition in ammonia borane at elevated temperature determined using Raman spectroscopy”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2014.

51-      Journal Articles           2014    Jiuhua Chen               Jiuhua Chen, Tony Yu, Shu Huang, Jennifer Girard, Xiaoyang Liu. “Compressibility of liquid FeS measured using x-ray radiograph imaging”, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2014.

52-      Journal Articles           2014    Benjamin Boesl                      D Craciun, G Socol, G Dorcioman, D Simeone, D Gosset, S Behdad, B Boesl, V Craciun. “Ar ions irradiation effects in ZrN thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition”, Applied Surface Science, 2014/10/18.

53-      Journal Articles           2014    Benjamin Boesl                      Andy Nieto, Benjamin Boesl, Arvind Agarwal. “Multi-scale intrinsic deformation mechanisms of 3D graphene foam”, Carbon, 2015/4/30.

54-      Journal Articles           2014    Benjamin Boesl                      Andy Nieto, Rupak Dua, Cheng Zhang, Benjamin Boesl, Sharan Ramaswamy, and Arvind Agarwal. “Three Dimensional Graphene Foam – Polymer Hybrid as a High Strength Biocompatible Scaffold”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2015/05/01.

55-      Journal Articles           2014    Benjamin Boesl                      Chris Rudolf, Benjamin Boesl, Arvind Agarwal. “In-Situ Mechanical Testing Techniques for Real-time Materials Deformation Characterization”, JOM, 2015/08/20.

56-      Journal Articles           2014    Benjamin Boesl                      Chris Rudolf, Benjamin Boesl, Arvind Agarwal. “In Situ Indentation Behavior of Bulk Graphene Nanopletelets with Respect to Orientation”, Carbon, 2015/05/20.

57-      Journal Articles           2014    Benjamin Boesl                      Benjamin Boesl, Gerald Bourne. “Analysis of Thin Films Exhibiting Large Plastic Deformation During Nanoindentation: A Modified Winkler Approach”, JMR, 05/20/2015.

58-      Journal Articles           2014    Chengxian Lin                       A. Bao, D. Wang, C.X. Lin. “Nanoporous Membrane Tube Condensing Heat Transfer Enhancement Study”, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 2015.

59-      Journal Articles           2014    Chengxian Lin                       R. Kiflemariam, C.X. Lin. “Numerical Simulation of Integrated Liquid Cooling and Thermoelectric Generation for Self-Cooling of Electronic Devices”, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2015.

60-      Journal Articles           2014    Chengxian Lin                       R. Kiflemariam, C.X. Lin. “Numerical Simulation and Parametric Study of Heat-Driven Self-Cooling of Electronic Devices”, Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 2015.

61-      Journal Articles           2014    Chengxian Lin                       H. Saffari, R. Moosavi, N. M. Nouri, C.X. Lin. “Prediction of Hydrodynamic Entrance Length for Single and Two-Phase Flow in Helical Coils”, Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification, 2014.

62-      Journal Articles           2014    Chengxian Lin                       J. Wagner, M. Schafer, A. Schluter, L. Harsch, J. Hesselbach, C.X. Lin. “Reducing Energy Demand in Production Environment Requiring Refrigeration – A Localized Climatisation Approach”, HVAC&R Research, 2014.

63-      Journal Articles           2014    Chengxian Lin                       N. Kocyigit, H. Bulgurcu, C.X. Lin. “Fault Diagnosis of a Vapor Compression Refrigeration System with Hermetic Reciprocating Compressor Based on p-h Diagram”, Int. J. Refrigeration, 2014.

Monographs

1-         Monographs    2014    Arving Agarwal                     Rogerio S. Lima, Arvind Agarwal, Margaret M. Hyland, Yuk-Chiu Lau, Georg Mauer, Andre McDonald, and Filofteia-Laura . “Thermal Spray 2013: Proceedings of the International Thermal Spray Conference “, ASM International, 2014.

2-        Monographs    2014    Chunlei Wang            Chunlei Wang and Yin Song. “Designing high-performance micro-enzymatic biofuel cells”, SPIE , 2015.

Technical Reports

1-         Technical Reports       2014    Cesar Levy, C.. “Yearly Report for ARO grant”, Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department, CEC, FIU, Aug., 2014.

2-        Technical Reports       2014    Ali Ebadian                M.A. Ebadian and C.X. Lin . “Renewable Energy “, Mechanical and Materials Department, FALL 2014.

3-         Technical Reports       2014    George Dulikravich                Dulikravich, G.S., Schwartz, J., Koch, C.C.. “Annual report to AFOSR NM for grant 800 002 123”, MME dept., College of Eng. & Comput., FIU, August 31, 2014.