Following is a sampling of some of the recent publications and presentations by School of Engineering faculty and students.
On Shun Pak and Paul Abbyad and collaborators: "Sorting by Interfacial Tension (SIFT): Label-Free Enzyme Sorting Using Droplet Microfluidics," in Analytica Chimica Acta.
Emre Araci and students Daniel Freitas, Amy Sun, and Huong Chau: "Tunable soft lithography molds enable rapid-prototyping of multi-height channels for microfluidic large-scale integration," in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.
Maryam Mobed-Miremadi and Prashanth Asuri, co-authored with SCU bioengineering alumni Jared Hara, Jordan Tottori, Megan Anders, Smritee Dadhwal: "Trehalose effectiveness as a cryoprotectant in 2D and 3D cell cultures of human embryonic kidney cells,” Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology.
Prashanth Asuri and Paul Abbyad: "Droplet microfluidic platform for the rapid determination of single-cell lactate release,” Analytical Chemistry, co-authored by Amy Mongersun, Ian Smeenk, Guillem Pratx, Prashanth Asuri and Paul Abbyad.
Prashanth Asuri and Josergio Zaragoza ’13, M.S. ’16: “Experimental Investigation of Mechanical Properties of Nanoparticle-Reinforced Hydrogels.” International Conference on Rheology and Modeling of Materials, Hungary.
Mark Aschheim with Taylor and Francis: Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings for Seismic Performance: Practical Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches, by Mark Aschheim, Enrique Hernández-Montes, and Dimitrios Vamvatsikos.
Edwin Maurer: Maurer, E. P., Ficklin, D. L., and Wang, W.: Technical Note: The impact of spatial scale in bias correction of climate model output for hydrologic impact studies, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 685-696, doi:10.5194/hess-20-685-2016, 2016.
Mark Aschheim and Dimitrios Vamvatsikos (National Technical University of Athens): "Performance-based seismic design via Yield Frequency Spectra," Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics.
Edwin Maurer: Maurer, E. P., Ficklin, D. L., and Wang, W. (2016). "Technical Note: The impact of spatial scale in bias correction of climate model output for hydrologic impact studies," Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 685-696, doi:10.5194/hess-20-685-2016.
Edwin Maurer: Pierce, D., D. Cayan; E. Maurer; J. Abatzoglou, K. Hegewisch (2015). "Improved bias correction techniques for hydrological simulations of climate change," J. Hydrometeorology 16, 2421–2442.
Mark Aschheim: Hernández-Montes, E., Aschheim, M., and Gil-Martín, L.M. (2015). “Energy Components in Nonlinear Dynamic Response of SDOF Systems,” Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics.
Mark Aschheim: Vamvatsikos, D., Kazantzi,, A.K., Aschheim, M.A. (2015). “Performance-Based Seismic Design: Avant-garde and code-compatible approaches,” ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering.
Hisham Said: “Modeling and Likelihood Prediction of Prefabrication Feasibility for Electrical Construction Firms,” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
Hisham Said: "Prefabrication Best Practices and Improvement of Construction Engineering and Management," ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
Sukhmander Singh and John Finnemore: "Restoring Inner Peace in a Science Dominated Society," The International Journal of Spirituality in Society.
Taru Kanchan MS '18, Minqiang Jiang Ph.D. '06, and Nam Ling: "Non-MPM Mode Coding for Intra Prediction in Video Coding," (Ubi-Media 2019).
Behnam Dezfouli and Ph.D. student Jaykumar Sheth: “Enhancing the Energy-Efficiency and Timeliness of IoT Communication in WiFi Networks."
Yuhong Liu, Behnam Dezfouli, Ph.D. student Ramzi Nofal, and undergraduates Nam Tran and Carlos Garcia: “A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis of TLS Handshake and Record Layer on IoT Platforms,” (MSWiM’19).
Nam Ling , with Yuhong Liu and researchers from Lanzhou University and Fuzhou University: "A Linear Model for YUV 4:2:0 Chroma Intra Prediction," (ISCAS 2019).
Nam Ling, together with Feng Chen et al.: "Buffer-Drive Rate Control and Packet Distribution for Real-Time Videos in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks."
Nirdosh Bhatnagar: Mathematical Principles of Internet. Volume 1: Engineering Fundamentals (pp. 1076), and Volume 2: Mathematical Concepts (pp. 728).
Taru Kanchan, Minqiang Jiang, and Nam Ling with Jianhua Zheng (Hisilicon) and Philipp Zhang (retired): "Non-MPM Mode Coding for Intra Prediction in Video Coding," More.
Nam Ling and Yuhong Liu together with former visiting scholars from Lanzhou University and Fuzhou University: "A Linear Model for YUV 4:2:0 Chroma Intra Prediction."
Nam Ling, with researchers from Tianjin University, Inception Institute of AI , and the Chinese Academy of Sciences: "HSCS: Hierarchical Sparsity Based Co-saliency Detection for RGBD Images," Find it here
Madhusudan Kalluri, Minqiang Jiang, and Nam Ling, together with Jianhua Zheng and Philipp Zhang: "Adaptive RD Optimal Sparse Coding With Quantization for Image Compression," Find it here.
Kurt Schab and collaborators at the Czech Technical University in Prague: "The Radiation Efficiency Cost of Resonance Tuning."
Ramesh Abhari and Ph.D. Student Nivedita Parthasarathy: "Characterization of Biological Tissues Using a Suspended Microstrip Ring Resonator" and "A Compact 2 by 2 Printed Yagi-Uda Antenna Array with Enhanced Isolation and Gain."
R. Schweickert, J. Moore, M. Lahren, W. Kortemeier, C. Kitts, and T. Adamek:"The Tahoe-Sierra frontal fault zone, Emerald Bay area, Lake Tahoe, California: History, displacements, and rates." Geosphe
R. Cooper, D. Rajabhandharaks, R. McDonald, M. Neumann, and C. Kitts: “Initial Study of Multirobot Adaptive Navigation for Exploring Environmental Vector Fields.”
Ramesh Abhari and PhD student Ali Khoshniat: "Mitigation and Identification of the Cause of Radiated Emissions in an 8 Gbps High-Speed System," (EMCSS).
Researchers from the Robotic Systems Laboratory, R. McDonald, C. Kitts, and M. Neumann: "Experimental Implementation and Verification of Scalar Field Ridge, Trench, and Saddle Point Maneuvers Using Multirobot Adaptive Navigation."
Ramesh Abhari with Saumya Lal (MS '15) and Kavya Subramanya (MS '15): "Miniaturized EBG-Backed Textile Microstrip Patch Antenna for Bluetooth Wearable Sensor Applications," IEEE International Symposium on Antenna and Propagation (AP-S).
Ramesh Abhari with Ph.D. student Benjamin Horwath: "A 60 GHz 2x2 Planar Phased Array with SIW Modified Butler Matrix Feed," IEEE International Symposium on Antenna and Propagation (AP-S).
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi: "Adaptive Filtering Using Complex Data and Quaternions," Procedia Computer Science.
Sarah Kate Wilson: Y.M. Aval, S.K. Wilson and M. Stojanovic, "On the Achievable Rate of a Class of Acoustic Channels and Practical Power Allocation Strategies for OFDM Systems," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.
Sally Wood: “Iterative Reconstruction From Limited Angle, Limited View Projections for Cryo-Electron Tomography,” 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA.
Gaetano Restivo: "A Fiber Optic Strain Gage Sensor for Measuring Preload in Thick Composite Bolted Joints." You can find the abstract here.
Drazen Fabris, Robert Kleinhenz, and Maria Pantoja had a paper: "Adding Probabilistic Certainty to Improve Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks,” (CARLA2019).
Michael Taylor: "A cellular automaton for modeling non-trivial biomembrane ruptures." The paper was co-authored by former mechanical engineering student Abhay Gupta '17. Find it here.
On Shun Pak, Kyle Pietrzyk MS '18, Herve Nganguia and collaborators: "Flow around a squirmer in a shear-thinning fluid."
On Shun Pak and collaborators: “Characteristics of undulatory locomotion in granular media,” Physics of Fluids.
Jose Acain and Kamak Ebadi (M.S. students), with Thomas Adamek, Mike Rasay and Christopher Kitts--Best Student Paper Award: "A Multi-Robot Testbed for Adaptive Sampling Experimentation via Radio Frequency Fields," 2015 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, Boston, MA
Mohammad Ayoubi with graduate students, Mark Johnson and Chokri Sendi: Sendi, C. and Ayoubi, M.A., "Robust-Optimal Fuzzy-Model-Based Control of Flexible Spacecraft With Actuator Amplitude and Rate Constraints,” and Johnson, M. and Ayoubi, M.A., "Shared Fuzzy Control of Multiple Quadrotor UAVs With Time-Dependent Delay and Bounded Control-Input Constraint," 2015 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Columbus, OH.
Matthew Chin and Michael Neumann (graduate students), with advisor Christopher Kitts--Best Student Paper Award: "Object Manipulation Through Explicit Force Control Using Cooperative Mobile Multi-Robot Systems," International Conference on Intelligent Automation and Robotics.
Christopher Kitts and Mike Rasay: “A University-Based Distributed Satellite Mission Control Network for Operating Professional Space Missions,” Acta Astronautica.
Hohyun Lee, J. Soares (14 BSME, 16 MSME), B. Ohara (13 BMSE, 15 MSME), and H. Lee, “Thermoelectric Energy Harvester from Body Waste Heat with Physical Limitation,” and B. Ohara (13 BMSE, 15 MSME), and H. Lee, “Exergetic Optimization of Solar Thermoelectric Generators for Combined Power and Heat,” International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE).
Prashanth Asuri (bioengineering) and Hohyun Lee (mechanical engineering) "Experimental investigation of mechanical and thermal properties of silica nanoparticle-reinforced poly(acrylamide) nanocomposite hydrogels,” PLOS One.
Laura Doyle's and Tonya Nilsson's: “Flipping the classroom—do student learning gains and perceptions vary based on gender?”
Claudia Chen ’15 (and co-authors): “Influences of mass loading and rapid dilution of secondary organic aerosol on particle volatility,” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. PDF here.