News
Spring 2010
- PFTL PhD student Jeremiah Mpagazehe was awarded the Carnegie
Mellon mechanical engineering department's "Best TA" award for the Fall 2009
& Spring 2010 semesters
- PFTL welcomes a new PhD student Gagan Srivastava to the lab
with a focus on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), multiphase CFD, and with
extensive consulting experience involving some use of ANSYS FEM.
- Nine PFTL undergraduate researchers will graduate on May 15.
- Prof. C. Fred Higgs III has been selected to receive the 2010 ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award, which is for an individual under the age of 40 "who made a notable contribution to the field of tribology in research or development as evidenced by important tribology publications."
- Sean Coleman , a PFTL undergraduate researcher, was a finalist in the “Meeting of the Minds” which is a school-wide research fair for Carnegie Mellon undergraduates. He won for his work entitled “Analysis and Modeling of Granular Particle Flows – A GPU-Based Approach“, which is a parallel approach to digital particle tracking velocimetry.
- Ryan Comes, a PFTL undergraduate alumnus, the first students to publish a first author journal article based on his PFTL undergraduate research, has won the NDSEG Fellowship.
- Martin Marinack Jr., a PFTL PhD student, was awarded the NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship.
- Prof. C. Fred Higgs III was named The Clarence H. Adamson Career Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering.
Fall 2009
- Prof. C. Fred Higgs III and his wife Terese welcome their 1st child Taylor into the world.
Spring 2009
- Jeremiah Mpagazehe, a PFTL PhD student, was awarded the NASA GSRP Fellowship with the NASA Glenn Research Center.
- The PFTL welcomes a new member of the family, Dr. Hojjat Nasr, who is a new postdoctoral research associate. He received his PhD from Clarkson University under Dr. Ahmadi
Fall 2008
- Former PFTL PhD student, Emmanuel Wornyoh, starts his new faculty position at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in the mechanical engineering department.
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Former PFTL PhD student, Elon Terrell, starts his new faculty position at Columbia University in the mechanical engineering department
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