Conference Chair :: 8^th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS) -- 2014 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), August 17-20, BuFFalo, NY, USA (2014)

Program Chair :: 7^th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS) -- 2013 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), August 7-13, Portland, OR, USA (2013)

Organizer :: Contact Mechanics | SES 50th Annual Technical Meeting and ASME-AMD Annual Summer Meeting (July 28 - 31, 2013) Brown University School of Engineering, Providence, RI USA

Organizer :: Multibody Dynamics 2013 | ECCOMAS Thematic Conferences (1 - 4 July 2013) Zagreb Croatia

Organizer: ''Mechatronics and Robotics'' in ECCOMAS Thematic Conference - Multibody Dynamics 2013, July 1 - 4, Zagreb, Croatia (2013)

Organizer :: ''Surface Mechanics'' in 7^th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS) -- 2013 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), August 7-13, Portland, OR, USA (2013)

Topics:

:: Polymer microfibers - a smoothed particle hydrodynamics approach (SPH)

This study focuses on studying the feasibility of using SPH modeling to predict the interaction between a single polymer microfiber and a glass surface.

Schematic representation of fiber-glass interaction

Microfiber ``global'' deformation

Microfiber ``local'' deformation

:: Prototype sensing unit collecting data in front of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (US Geological Survey / UCSC collaboration)

Goal: Develop a flexible network of sensing units acting as near real-time dust alert fence around KMA and investigate the correlation between the relative dust concentrations, wind velocity, rain and soil moisture

UCSC/USGS collaboration -- prototype sensing unit in front of Mauna Kea, collecting data

:: Distributed Sampling Using Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Scientific Missions

Goal: Develop a flexible, decentralized network of small and inexpensive, battery powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), which could be used for a variety of scientific missions where measurements from a distributed network of nodes could significantly improve the assessment (e.g. chemical or dust clouds, mapping particulates, chemical content and physical boundaries of a dispersed volcanic plume or vog).

Affordable ($500 - $1000) | Uses commercially available components | Low cost sensors | Shorter communication range

:: Assistive Living Robot: A Remotely Controlled Robot for Older Persons Living Alone

Goal: develop an affordable (<$500) assistive living robot, which could be controlled over the Internet by family members to help assess the wellbeing of an older relative living alone

:: Near surface phenomena (Contact Mechanics | Tribology)

:: Biomedical (Stent implants)

:: Dynamics | Vibrations

Associate Editor :: Journal of Tribology -- The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Editorial Board :: Journal of Multibody Dynamics -- Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

Editorial Board :: Journal of Mechanical-Sciences -- Copernicus GmbH (Copernicus Publications)