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New Faculty Fall 2009
The Mechanical Engineering Department would like to welcome our newest faculty members:
1) Dr. Nancy Pleshko
Dr. Pleshko received her PhD in Biophysical Chemistry from Rutgers University followed by two years of an NIH Training grant in Biomechanics at Hospital for Special Surgery. Dr. Pleshko was the Director of the Musculoskeletal Imaging and Spectroscopy Laboratory at the Hospital for Special Surgery, an affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical School in New York City, for 15 years. Her NIH-funded program focused primarily on cartilage and bone pathology and therapeutics. She also held appointments at Weill Cornell Medical School, and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at City College in Manhattan. Most recently, Dr. Pleshko was a Managing Scientist at Exponent Inc. in Philadelphia.
Dr. Pleshko’s research focuses on assessment of tissues at the molecular, cellular, and structural level through application of state-of-the-art vibrational spectroscopy, including mid- and near-infrared spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging, in concert with complementary techniques. She has developed substantial expertise over the past 20 years in basic and translational research in connective tissue pathophysiology and orthopedics, including osteoporosis and other bone pathologies, osteoarthritis and cartilage repair, and vascular tissue remodeling. Applications include establishing correlations between molecular tissue properties and mechanical and other functional properties, and assessment of therapeutic interventions. This includes evaluation of the effects of biological interventions, such as anti-resorptive agents for bone, as well as characterization of biomaterials for development of engineered tissues. She has further experience in assessment of growth and modification of engineered tissues.
2) Dr. Bin Wang
Dr. Wang received his PhD in BioMedical Engineering from Temple University in 2007 while he was a PhD Research Assistant from 2004 - 2007. His area of interest was in Vascular Biology. Dr Wang received a post-doctoral fellowship from the Medical College of Georgia where his research in vascular biology continued at the Vascular Biology Center in Augusta, Georgia. Research interest: Targeted Drug Delivery, Biofluid Mechanics, Radiation Oncology, Tissue Engineering, Microfluidics, Microvascular Blood Flow, Tissue Oxygenation.
3) Dr. Svetlana Neretina
Dr. Neretina received her Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada) in 2007 under the supervision of Peter Mascher. Her work in- volved the preparation and characterization of semiconductor thin films, nanoparti- cles, and nanowires using exotic growth pathways. After receiving a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Science & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC PDF) she joined the plasmonics group at the Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Dr. Mostafa A. El-Sayed, the recent recipient of the National Medal of Science. Her current research is directed towards the nanofabrication and characterization of coupled semiconductor-plasmonic structures.
May 2009 Graduation
Student Awards
Congratulations from the Mechanical Engineering faculty and staff to the following students:
Luis A. Burgos was awarded the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers - ASHRAE award.
Vincent A. Pesce was awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers - ASME award
Devin W. Pellicone was awarded the Society of Automotive Engineers - SAE award
Summer Program
Women's Engineering Explorations (WE2) - Dr. Shriram Pillapakkam a Mechanical Engineering faculty will replace Dr. Adrienne Cooper as director of the WE2 summer program for high school girls.
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Seminars
June 13, 2009 - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Dean's Seminar Room
Investigation of Low Temperature Creep Deformation
Behavior of A Metastable Titanium Alloy
Dr. Candace M. Hudson
TLC Engineering
Huston, Texas
Candace Hudson Presentation
April 24, 2009 12:40 – 1:30 pm
Room 126
Engineering Novel Vascular-Based Therapeutics and Diagnostics
Dr. Doug Goetz
Professor and Chair
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Ohio University
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Previous Seminars - 2009
March 26, 2009 - 10:00 AM
Dean's Seminar Room
Mechanics and Inflammation in Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Pathologies
Dr.Karen Melissa Hallow, Research Associate
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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March 6, 2009 - 12:15 PM
Gladfelter Lecture Hall - Room L24
CdTe-Au Core-Shell Nanowires:
From Fabrication to Electronic Relaxation
Dr. Svetlana Neretina, Research Associate
Laser Dynamics Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
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February 20, 2009 - 12:15 PM
Dean's Seminar Room
Tunable Nanostructured Optical Elements
Dr. Chih-Hao Chang, Research Associate
Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre
Singapore–MIT
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February 13, 2009 12:15 PM
Dean’s Seminar Room
Transport Phenomena in Fuel Cells, Turbomachinery and Generators
Dr. Ahmad Sleiti,
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering & Computer Science
University Of Central Florida
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