Departmental Graduate Research Forum and Open House

Find out about the wide range of research taking place in Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at The Ohio State University.

The Department will be hosting a Graduate Research Forum and Open House today. The event will include a poster session featuring the cutting edge research being performed by our graduate students with their advisors, open labs to go in and see up close what's going on in our department, vehicles from the Center for Automotive Research and displays from the Aerospace Research Center, and more. The event is open to all who wish to attend, but we will have special opportunities for prospective students as well as company representatives and donors who are interested in attending.

Event Contact

Nick Breckenridge

Best Poster Presentation Winners

• Molly Bennett (Advised by Shaurya Prakash)
• Scott Monfort (Advised by Ajit Chaudhari)
• Derek Riddle (Advised by Marcello Canova)

List of Presenters

Presenter:	Faculty advisor:	Poster Title:
Michael Adams	Joseph Heremans	Thermoelectric Semiconductors: Fabrication and Measurements
David Arcilesi	Xiaodong Sun	Scaling and Design Analyses of a High-temperature Test Facility for Experimental Investigation of the Initial Stages of a VHTR Air-ingress Accident
Rachel Baker	Rob Siston	Chair Rise in Patients with Advanced Knee Osteoarthritis: It’s Not the Force in the Muscle That’s Important, but How You Use It
Michael Benatar	Ahmet Kahraman	Load Distribution of Spline Joints
Molly Bennett	Shaurya Prakash	In Vitro Bacterial Inhibition by Electrical Stimulation
Caitlin Boone	Shaurya Prakash	Effects of Transient Signals on Gating in Nanofluidic Channels
Philip Brown	Bharat Bhushan	Bioinspired Nanostructures for Oil–Water Separation
Luke Cardinale	Shawn Midlam-Mohler	Model Based AFR Control for Hot Engine Startability
Vinay Chauhan	Marat Khafizov	Measurement of thermal conductivity for heat management of electronic and energy generation devices
Liang Chen	Randall Mathison	Infrared Thermography Technique for Measuring Heat Transfer To A Film Cooled Object
Minghui Chen	Xiaodong Sun	Design, Fabrication, Performance Testing, and Modeling of High-Temperature Heat Exchangers for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Venkata Siva Chillara	Marcelo Dapino	Morphing Panels for Aerodynamic Performance
Jordan Cluts	Mo Samimy	Physics and Control of Twin Supersonic Jets
Chris Cosher	Mike Dunn	Response of Gas Turbine Engines to Volcanic Ash Environments
Sajith Dharmasena	Hanna Cho	Constructive Utilization of Intentional Internal Resonance to Achieve Multi-Harmonic Atomic Force Microscopy
Matthew Frankhouser	Jim Gregory	Nanosecond Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuator Flow Control of Compressible Dynamic Stall
Danny Freudiger	Marcello Canova	Thermal characterization in Lithium ion batteries for safety and improved performance
Ata Ghasemi-Esfahani	Mo Samimy	Flow Separation Control over a Rotorcraft Airfoil using Nanosecond Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators
Jim Giuliani	Jen-Ping Chen	Compressor Fan Response To Boundary Layer Ingesting (BLI) Inlet Distortions
Matthew Handford	Manoj Srinivasan	Optimal human walking with an optimal robotic foot
Adam Hehr	Marcelo Dapino	Metal Matrix Composites, Parts, and Components Made with Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing
Kyle Hipp	Jeffrey Bons	Fundamental Mechanisms of Active Flow Control Applied to Stalled Airfoils
Yong Hu	Ahmet Kahraman	Planetary Gear Sets Load Distribution Modeling
Michael Hudoba	Carlos Castro	Entropically Controlled Nanomechanical Sensing with DNA Origami
Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran	Hai-Jun Su	Robot and Mechanism Design using Compliant Members
Bowen Liang	Soheil Soghrati	An Advanced Finite Element Method for the Mesh-Independent Treatment of Problems with Complex Morphologies
Ryan Lundgreen	Jeffrey Bons	Investigating Deposition Mechanisms in Turbomachinery
Qiuping Lv	Xiaodong Sun	Design, Testing, and Modeling of Direct Reactor Auxiliary Cooling System for FHRs
James Mack	Shawn Midlam-Mohler	GPF: Model Based Diagnostics
Alexander Marras	Carlos Castro	Rapid Actuation of DNA Origami Mechanisms
Samuel Martin	Bharat Bhushan	Analysis of Shark-Inspired Microstructures for Drag Reduction and Anti-fouling
Matthew McCrink	Jim Gregory	Unmanned Aerial System Modeling and Flight Test
Scott Monfort	Ajit Chaudhari	Longitudinal Evaluation of Postural Stability in Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Taxane-Based Chemotherapy
Sadia Nasrin	Noriko Katsube	Comparison of lifetime of dental restoration with different material under fatigue
Joseph Plattenburg	Rajendra Singh	Active and Passive Methods for Control of Plate Vibration and Radiated Sound
Arati Prakash	Joseph P. Heremans	Spin Caloritronics
Brian Rahman	Giorgio Rizzoni	Parker Hannifin - Transair: Modeling, Optimization, and Health Monitoring
Kaushik Rangharajan	Shaurya Prakash	Electrokinetic Transport of Multicomponent, Multivalent Ionic Solutions across Nanocapillaries
Revathi Rengarajan	Rajendra Singh	Modeling of Interfacial Body Forces in a Vehicle and Supporting Experiments
Derek Riddle	Marcello Canova	Waste Heat Recovery for Fuel Economy Improvement in Automotive Engines
Logan Riley	Datta Gaitonde	Computational Fluid Dynamics Study of Unstart Transients in a Scramjet Flowpath
Zachary Riley	Jack McNamara	Mutual Interaction of Thermo-Mechanical Surface Compliance with Boundary Layer Transition
Santhosh Tamilarasan	Levent Guvenc	Automated Driving Research
Li Tang	Giorgio Rizzoni	Energy Management Strategy for HEVs Including Battery Life Optimization
Yuzhou Wang	Marat Khafizov	Fission gas behavior and thermal transport in nuclear fuel
Sarah Watzman	Joseph Heremans	Solid State Heat Conversion: Thermoelectrics and Spin Caloritronics
M.J. Yatsko	Shawn Midlam-Mohler	Designing a Performance Hybrid Electric Vehicle: Ohio State EcoCAR 3
Xiangrui Zeng	Junmin Wang	Improving the energy efficiency of hybrid electric vehicles using long-term-prediction-based stochastic optimal control
Guoguang Zhang	Junmin Wang	Fault-tolerant control design for vehicle lateral stability of an electric ground vehicle
Jiyu Zhang	Giorgio Rizzoni	Functional safety of electrified vehicles through model based fault diagnosis

Open Lab Information

***Participating labs and centers will be open from 1-3 pm unless otherwise stated ***

• Center for Automotive Research (2:30-3:30 pm)
• Center for Nuclear Materials and Fuel Cycle Research (3:30-4 pm)
• Laboratory of Sound and Vibration Research (4-5 pm)
• Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- and Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (2:30 -5:00 pm)
• Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab
• Nuclear Analysis and Radiation Sensor Laboratory (NARS)
• Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (2:30-3:30 pm)
• Simulation Innovation and Modeling Center
• Smart Materials and Structures Lab
• Thermal Hydraulics Lab (3:30-4 pm)
• Thermal Materials Lab
• Thermal Properties of Materials for Extreme Environments (3:30-4 pm)
• Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing Lab