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Undergraduate Research Projects

(+ External sponsors; # Research Honors; ^Minority; $Matriculated to graduate school)
Undergraduate Researcher Summary: Total number (101), Number of 1st authored papers (9), Number of co-authored papers (7)

Current Undergraduates

  • Emma Baker – "Operation of Tribology and Surface Metrology Instrumentation"
  • Chris Renovato – "R&D of Binder Jet 3D printer Test Instrument"
  • Nicholas Wolf – "R&D of Binder Jet 3D printer Test Instrument and Fluid Technology"
  • Kaysie Tam – " Microfluidics in Particle Flow & Tribology"
  • James Phillips – "Oil & Gas Drilling Tribology"
  • Sage Mcadams – "Configuring Particle Flow & Tribology Research Infrastructure"

Undergraduate Alumni

At CMU (2004- 2016):

  1. Natalie Kuang – "Experiments with a COR (impact and drop) tester", Member of the granular sub-group in Summer 2015.
  2. Joel Accorsi – "Advancing slurry and granular tribology computation", Member of the Slurry/Granular sub-group in Fall 2015 – Present.
  3. Justin Kelly – "An impact study of content and analytics on PFTL Research", Member of the PFTL M-Team in Fall 2015 – Present.
  4. Alaaddin Ismail– "Slurry Tribology", Member of the Slurry sub-group in Fall 2015 – Present.
  5. #Alec Mervis – "Powder Tribology." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2015 – Present.
  6. #Zachary Fisher– "Powder characterization in Additive Manufacturing." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2015 – Present.
  7. Andrew Bouma (interned from Calvin College)– "Experiments with a COR tester and Powder Rheometry." Member of the powder/granular sub-group in Summer 2015.
  8. #Eric Meyers– "Powder characterization in Additive Manufacturing ." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2014 – Spring 2015. (Won Alcoa award for Best Research in AM)
  9. #Jeffrey Cole – "Tribology of rock drilling." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015. (Won Best Overall Research award in the CMU College of Engineering)
  10. Peter Chiappa – "Solid Modeling of a Nuclear Reactor Pump Seal", Member of the Slurry/WEC sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
  11. Annie Chen (BME/MechE) – "Algae microfluidics experiments and modeling", Member of the Slurry sub-group in Fall 2014 – Spring 2015.
  12. Megan Tienjaroonkul – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
  13. Nia Christian – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
  14. David Chou – "Algae Biofuel Chemistry Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
  15. Shannon Horgan – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
  16. # David Keyser – "Tribology of thin solid lubricants." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
  17. Korey Haug – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
  18. #,^ Gloriana Redondo – "Evaluation of P-STAC", Member of the Slurry sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
  19. Allen Miller – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
  20. Ian Rosado – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
  21. Shuyi Zhang – "Algae Biofuel Chemistry Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
  22. Daniel Cushman – "Algae Biofuel Generator Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – present.
  23. Conor Fitzgerald – "Algae Biofuel Generator Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
  24. Laura Fleury – "Algae Biofuel Generator Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
  25. Ben Avery – "Algae Biofuel Generator Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
  26. Anchal Bhargava – "Algae Biofuel Generator Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
  27. Daniel Cardenas#– "Tribology of thin solid lubricants." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
  28. Hannah Shepard (MSE/BME)–"Materials characterization of powder/solid lubricated sliding contacts." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
  29. Pamela Hu# (EPP/ME)– "The impact of friction on the U.S. economy." Member of the slurry sub-group in Spring 2012 – Fall 2012.
  30. Yixing Shi (BME/ME)#– "Modeling of artificial hip joint tribology." Member of the slurry sub-group in Spring 2012 – Fall 2012.
  31. Brian Duff# (ECE)– "Parallelization of the slurry Eulerian-Lagrangian solver on supercomputers." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2012 - present.
  32. Nicholas Ricciardi#– "Tribology of thin solid lubricants." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
  33. Phanindraja (Indu) Ancha# – "Utilizing CFD software and in-house CFD code to model the multiphase problems." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
  34. Andre Sutanto#,^– "Experimental characterization of slurries." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
  35. Miranda McCoy#– "Characterization of Electrical Sliding Contacts." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
  36. Aditya Bhandaru# (ECE)– "Parallelization of cellular automata code on supercomputers." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
  37. Gautham Nagaraju# (ECE)– "Parallelization of cellular automata code on supercomputers." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
  38. Benjamin Cosio^– "Design of COR tester." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2012 - present.
  39. Kyle Irish+,$ – "Experiments in Granular & Slurry Tribology." Member of the slurry/granular sub-group in Summer 2012.
  40. Mikio David^– "Development of Powder Lubricated Electrical Sliding Contacts." Member of the powder sub-group in Spring 2012 – present.
  41. Cecily Sunday#,$– "Characterization of Electrical Sliding Contacts." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2011 – Spring 2012. (CMU Meeting of Mind Undergraduate Research Symposium, finalist)
  42. Alex Chou (ChemE)#,$– "Experimental characterization of filter cake phenomena." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2011 - Spring 2012.
  43. Jonathan Fijal (ChemE)–"Chemical characterization of powder/solid lubricated sliding contacts." Member of the powder sub-group for Fall 2011 – Spring 2012.
  44. Nelson Jenkins^,+ (Morehouse College)–"Numerical predictions of the hydrodynamic pressure in CMP and air bearing slider systems." Member of the slurry-integrated circuit (IC) sub-group in Summer 2011.
  45. Sean Lubner#,$,^– "Modeling of soft-EHL tribosystems.", Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
  46. Jacob Beatty#,$– "Utilizing Fluent to model the momentum kill problem." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011. (CMU Meeting of Mind Undergraduate Research Symposium, finalist)
  47. David Daniel Stonestrom#,$– "Tribology of thin solid lubricants." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
  48. Patrick S. Dougherty#,$,+– "Analysis of powder lubrication." Member of the powder sub-group for Spring 2009 - Spring 2011.
  49. Joan Onyejekwe+,^– "Increasing the Computational Efficiency of the Particle Augmented Mixed Lubrication." Member of slurry sub-groups in Summer 2009.
  50. Alejandro Francisco Queiruga+,$– "Parallel computing in particle tribology." Member of slurry/granular sub-groups in Fall 2008 - Spring 2011.
  51. Shrey Aggarwal#– "Utilizing MFIX to model the momentum kill problem." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
  52. Santia N. Valerio^ – "Literature search on OpenFOAM applications." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
  53. Kory Francis McDonald^– "Design of force instrumentation for a Granular Lubricated Journal Bearing." Member of the granular sub-groups in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
  54. Brandon VanTassel#– "Utilizing Fluent to model filter cake experiments for oil drilling." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
  55. Reyes Flete^ – "Powder lubricated tribometer testing." Member of the powder sub-group in the Summer 2010.
  56. Kayla Aloyo^– "Development of a wheel abrasion tester for NASA research." Member of the slurry sub-group in Spring 2010 – Spring 2012.
  57. Richard Musgrave – "Experimental measurements in granular flow." Member of the granular sub-group in Spring 2010 – Spring 2012.
  58. Steven Christopher Das# (ECE)– "Automated fractal code and integration of CAD software." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2009.
  59. Yung-King Leo Ma#,$– "Measurements on a filtration rig for oil drilling fluid tests." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
  60. Thomas J. Lambert#,$ – "Learning CFD using OpenFOAM software." Member of the slurry sub-group in sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
  61. Terrence Long (CS)– "Mobile computing in mechanical engineering." Member of the slurry-IC and A-Team sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
  62. Stephanie C. Paticopoulos (MSE)– "Microstructure characterization of thin films." Member of the slurry-materials sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
  63. Sean Coleman# (ECE)– "Parallel processing using CUDA & Nvidia GPUs." Member of slurry – IC sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
  64. Ryan Leonard Yates# – "Properties of compacted powder lubrication." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
  65. Daniel Lin#,$ (ECE)– "Integration of CMP modeling into Cadence and Mobile computing in mechanical engineering." Member of the slurry-IC and A-Team sub-groups in Summer 2009 - Spring 2010.
  66. Daniel Alan Liptz#–"Tribology of thin solid lubricants." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
  67. Christopher E. Rizzo# (ChemE)– "Explicit FEM simulations of grain drops." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
  68. Francisco Santiago^,$– "Design modification and tests with the granular lubricated journal bearing." Member of the granular sub-group in Summer 2009.
  69. Kristoffer Mauclaire– "Modification of a filtration rig for oil drilling fluid tests." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Summer 2009.
  70. Nicola Kisson^,$,+ (FAMU/FSU)– "Investigating the Mechanical Properties of Constituent Particle Matrix using Nanoindentation." Member of the materials sub-group in Summer 2009.
  71. Jessica Vanterpool^,+ (FAMU/FSU)– "Renovation and setup of a Bridgeman Crystal Growth Furnace." Member of the materials sub-group in Summer 2009.
  72. Brian Gaudio# – "Design of force instrumentation for a Granular Lubricated Journal Bearing." Member of the granular sub-groups in Spring 2009 - Spring 2010.
  73. Travis Iwanaga# (ECE) – "Liaison between Physics-based CMP modeling and CAD of ICs." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2008 - Spring 2009.
  74. Geo A Thukalil#,$– "Experimental studies in nanoscale slurry tribosystems." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2008 - Spring 2010.
  75. Takahiro Matsuura#,$– "Granular Lubrication: Modeling and Experiments." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2008 - Spring 2009.
  76. Jonathan Kyle+,^,$– "Analysis of powder lubrication & Labview Development." Member of the slurry/powder sub-group in Spring 2006 - Fall 2008.
  77. Randyka Pudjoprawoto#,$– "Dry and Wet Powder Lubrication." Member of the slurry/powder sub-group in Summer 2008 - Fall 2008.
  78. Young Eun Choi$– "DPTV and Granular Coefficient of Restitution Testing." Member of the granular sub-group in Summer 2007 - Summer 2008.
  79. Ryan Comes#,$(ECE)– "Liaison between Physics-based CMP modeling and CAD of ICs." Member of the slurry sub-group for Fall 2007- Spring 2008. (CMU Meeting of Mind Undergraduate Research Symposium, finalist)
  80. Martin Marinack Jr. #,$ – "Granular Lubrication: Novel Modeling and Experimentation." Member of the granular sub-group for Fall 2007- Spring 2008.
  81. Sarah Neyer#,+,$– "Development of Solid Lubrication for MEMS Devices." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2006 - Spring 2008.
  82. Karim Shaban+,$ (CS)– "Interactive Web-based Numerical Tools for Enhancing Collaborative Research with the PFTL." Member of PFTL in Fall 2005 - Summer 2008.
  83. John Bistline+,$– "Development of a Data-Acquisition Platform for an Extreme-tribometer." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2005 - Spring 2008.
  84. Sarah Biltz+– "Optimization of a High-speed Granular Flow Lubrication Video and –Material Issues in CMP." Member of the granular and slurry materials sub-groups in Fall 2005 - Fall 2007.
  85. Kellsey Brown^,+ (Cal Univ. of PA) – "Exploration of CMP modeling inside a CAD/SPICE Framework", Member of slurry sub-group, in Summer 2007.
  86. Brie Witherspoon^,+ (FAMU/FSU) – "Materials and mechanical characterization of thin films", Member of the slurry sub-group, in Summer 2007.
  87. Alyssa Haney#,$,^ – "Research on Powder Lubrication and Artificial Hip Joints tribology tests." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2006 - Summer 2007.
  88. Michael Kuo#–  "Development of CMP Test Procedure and Wafer/Pad Position code in MM." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2006 - Spring 2007.
  89. Brian Chin#,$– "Development of a Granular Coefficient of Restitution Test Rig." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2006 - Spring 2007.
  90. Justin Feig$,#– "Research on Electromagnetic Solid Lubrication." Member of the powder sub-group in 2006 – Fall 2006.
  91. Bradley Camburn$,#– "Simulation of granular bearing using EDEM." Member of the granular sub-group in Summer 2006.
  92. Jason Waddell+– "Weight optimization in a granular journal bearing."Member of the granular sub-group in Summer 2006.
  93. Storm Walden+,^– "Enhancement of the Pellet TribometerDAQ."Member of the powder sub-group in Summer 2006.
  94. Brad Brown+– "Development of 3D Granular Dynamics Simulations." Member of the granular sub-group in Spring 2006.
  95. Jeremiah Mpagazehe#,^,$–"Research on Electromagnetic Solid Lubrication." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2005 - Spring 2006.
  96. Nadav Cohen (The Technion)– "Development of a Granular Dynamics Computational Simulation tool." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2005.
  97. Mark Trapp– "Design and development of high-speed, powder-lubricated pellet-on disk tribometer for measuring friction and wear at multiple sliding interfaces." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2004 - Spring 2005.
  98. Julian Dunn+– "Development of digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) tool for tracking the granular particles in an annular shear cell." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2004 - Spring 2005.
  99. Yoojin Kwak+ (CS)– "Development of the original PFTL website and platform-independent webMathematica front-end interface for computational models." Member of PFTL in Fall 2004 - Spring 2005.
  100. Jeff Thoene+ – "Upgrade of an optical profilometer." Member of slurry sub-group in Fall 2004.
  101. Jonathan Garcia#,^ – "Nanofabrication of magnetic head wafers." Member of slurry sub-group in Spring 2004 - Fall 2005.

Master's Students Alumni

  1. Joseph Bonivel (co-advised with B. Ozdoganlar)–"Considering Microstructure Behavior in the Tribological Performance of Abrasive Manufacturing Processes for Microelectronic Devices". Graduated May 2008.
  2. Sunny M Jhurani– "Modeling Particle-dynamics of wear debris in Hip Joints". Graduated May 2009.
  3. Kanate Thana-Anekcharoen–"Drilling fluid induced filter cake in oil drilling", Graduated in May 2011.
  4. Isaac Marx– "Flight of the granular lubricated journal bearing", Graduated May 2013.
  5. John Ni, Experiments and Modeling of Filter Cake Formation and Expression. Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2012
  6. Varoon Shankar–"An Experimentally-validated Modeling Framework to Predict Skin Friction during Cleansing", Graduated December 2012.
  7.  Sanjay Adhikari –"Evaluation of the Particle Dynamics in in-house Particle-Surface Tribology Analysis Code (P-STAC)", Graduated, Dec. 2014.
  8. Weiyu Zhang– "Incorporating Thermal treatments into the in-house Particle-Surface Tribology Analysis Code (P-STAC)", Expected graduation, Dec. 2015.
  9. Joshua Umo, "Granular tribology: grain impact testing", Expected graduation, May 2016.
  10. Shashank Sharma–"Advancing the Virtual Fabrication for DFM Research", Expected graduation, Dec. 2015.
  11. Akash Mehta – "Modeling of grain-fluid flows by incorporating our fast discrete particle solve into the commercial CFD tool Fluent", Expected graduation, May 2017.
  12. Wentai Zhang– "Additive manufacturing spreading experiments", Member of the Powder sub-group in Fall 2015 - present.
  13. + Mohamad Talib– "Using a Nanoindenter to Integrate Actual Surface Topography into Tribology Models". Graduated Summer 2005.
  14. + Courtney Heller– "Development of A Granular Lubricated Journal Bearing". Graduated December 2005.
  15. + Christopher Racusen– "Development of Granular Flow Data Acquisition and Visualization Techniques". Graduated December 2005.
  16. + David Engel– "Development of CMP simulation asperity tracking algorithm", Graduated August 2006.
  17. Thomas Diaz–"Contamination Modeling of in a Head/Disk Interface: Modeling and Simulations". Graduated December 2007.
  18. +Gloria Kim (ChemE)-- "Development of Self-assembled Solid Lubricant: Experiments and Characterization". Graduated December 2008.
  19. +Michael Salame– "The tribology of ultra-deep oil extraction". Graduated May 2009.
  20. +Randyka Pudjoprawoto–"In situ self-replenishing powder lubrication", Graduated in Summer 2009.
  21. +Carlton Reeves–"Drilling fluid induced filter cake in oil drilling", Graduated December 2009.
  22. +Ashik Mohideen– "Space particle abrasion experimental setup", Expected Graduated in December 2010.
  23. +Boyuan Li – "CMP experimentation and modeling", Graduated in December 2010.
  24. +Andrew Tremblay – "Development of a faster PAML modeling approach", Graduated in December, 2010.
  25. +Geo A Thukalil – "Modeling of artificial hip joints", Graduated in December, 2010.
  26. Tristan Greiner, Photobioreactor Design and Implementation for Cultivating Microalgae to Produce Biofuels. Carnegie Mellon University, Graduated Aug. 2014
  27. Shannon Horgan – "Contacting seals transfer film lubrication experiments", Member of the Powder sub-group in Fall 2015.
  28. Natalie Kuang – "Experiments with a COR (impact and drop) tester", Graduated December 2016.

Ph.D. Alumni

(all advisees below graduated from Carnegie Mellon)

  1. Elon Terrell– Thesis title: "Application of a Particle Augmented Mixed Lubrication Model to Chemical Mechanical Polishing: Modeling and Experimentation". Graduated August 2007. (Teaching Professor at Baylor University)
  2. Venkata Jasti– "Development of a Granular Shear Cell: Lattice-based Modeling and Experiments". Graduated September 2008. (Currently: Manager - Submarine Cable Group at Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc.)
  3. Emmanuel Wornyoh– "Development of an Oil-free, Powder Lubrication Mechanism for Extreme-Environments: Modeling and Experimentation". Graduated January 2009. (Currently: Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee)
  4. #Jeremiah Mpagazehe– "A Physics-based, Eulerian-Lagrangian Computational Modeling Framework to Predict Particle Flow and Tribological Phenomena". Graduated May 2013. (Deceased: was Project Scientist, CMU Mechanical Engineering Dept. and Chief Technical Officer, InnovAlgae, LLC, a CMU start-up, Pittsburgh).
  5. Martin Marinack, Jr.– "Sheared Granular Material: Single and Multi-Particle Experiments and Physics-Based Cellular Automata Modeling". Graduated May 2013. (Currently: Senior Engineer, Alcoa Technical Center, Alcoa, PA.)
  6. Randyka Pudjoprawoto–"In situ self-replenishing powder lubrication Graduated May 2014. (Currently: Senior Engineer, Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ.)
  7. Jonatan Sierra–"CMP-aware Design for Manufacturing", Graduated May, 2015. (Sloan PhD Fellowship)
  8. Gagan Srivastava–"Extending the Particle Augmented Mixed Lubrication Model", Graduated in May, 2015. (Dowd Fellowship)
  9. Patrick S. Dougherty– "Special Application of Solid Lubrication to Textured Surfaces", Graduated in May 2016. (Awarded the NSF Fellowship as undergraduate researcher in Higgs Lab)
  10. Kristin Warren (co-advised with P. LeDuc)– "An Experimentally-Validated Computational Framework to Predict Algae Biomass Filtration & Health", Graduated in May, 2016. (California Science and Technology Policy Fellow)

Current PhD students:

  1. Prathamesh Desai – "Additive manufacturing and P-STAC modeling of particle systems".
  2. Jordan Wagner–"Advanced Issues in Bio-Tribology of Soft Materials".
  3. Joshua Wagner–"Advanced Issues in Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing and Powder Tribology".
  4. Nia Christian – "Biotechnology issues in cancerous knee implants".
  5. Lynnora Grant – "Material Science issues in Additive Manufacturing".

Post-doctoral Associates

Coming soon.