Congratulations to Daniel Krsikapa for successfully passing his PhD Comp B Exam! He did a beautiful job!
Dylan Eisen Receives 2022 Dean’s Teaching Assistant Award
Congratulations to Dylan Eisen for receiving the 2022 Dean’s Teaching Assistant Award! Dylan put in outstanding work as a teaching assistant for MECH 310 and MECH 323 this past year. Keep up the great work Dylan!
New SMSD Server Installed
Our new server was successfully installed, and is up and running! Codenamed Lucky Cat, the server is sporting a total of 96 computer processing unit (CPU) cores, 192 CPU threads, 2 terabytes of random-access memory (RAM), 4 graphics processing units (GPU), and over 25 terabytes of storage.
Congratulations to Noah Ray and Kevin Chai for all their work on successfully installing the new server!
Luke Crispo Completes PhD Comp B Exam
Congratulations to Luke Crispo for successfully completing his PhD Comp B exam! The examiners noted that the decision was so easy!
Mengqian Sun Publication in Composites Part B
Cathy recently had her paper published to Composites Part B! Her paper is titled “Surface and honeycomb core damage in adhesively bonded aluminum sandwhich panels subjected to low-velocity impact”. Congratulations Cathy!
Link to paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359836821008738?via%3Dihub
Rosalie Morin Completes MASC Thesis Exam
Congratulations to Rosalie Morin for successfully completing her MASc thesis exam! Her research was very well received!
Matt Schmitt Publication in PIAM
Matt recently had his paper published to Progress in Additive Manufacturing! His paper is titled “Schmitt-Kim Additive Manufacturing Evaluation Tree: A Guide for New Users”. Congratulations Matt!
Link to paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40964-021-00235-w
Stephen Roper Publication in SMO
Stephen recent had his paper published to Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization! His paper is titled “Integrated topology and packaging optimization using coupled
material and component pseudo-densities”. Congratulations, Stephen!
Link to paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00158-021-02992-2
Stephen Roper Defends Thesis
Congratulations to Dr. Stephen Roper for successfully defending his thesis! Stephen’s paper was titled “Integrated Topology and Packaging Optimization Using the Component-Existence Model”.
Stephen has been an invaluable source of knowledge and experience for many in SMSD, and we are all wishing him the best in the future!
Rubens Publication to Composite Structures
Congratulations to Rubens Bohrer for his recent publication to Composite Structures! His paper is titled “Concurrent topology and stacking sequence optimization of composite laminate plates using lamination parameters” and introduces a methodology for simultaneous optimization of both topology and composite stacking sequence. Incredible work, Rubens!
Link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2021.114556