2020 Past PhD Comprehensive Exams

Mhoammad Ansari, Wednesday, February 12, 2020; Room EC4 - 1104; 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Title: Directed Energy Deposition of Metastable B Titanimum Alloy (Ti-5553)

Supervisor: Ehsan Toyserkani


Muhammad Shehryar Khan, Wednesday, April 1, 2020; Room E5-3052; 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Title: Fundamentals of Laser Beam Welding of Coated Ultra-High Strength Press- Hardened Steels with a Focus on Improving Automotive Safety and Efficiency

Supervisor: Norman Zhou


Sepideh Ghaderian, Friday, April 3, 2020; Room E3 - 4117; 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Title: Temperature Compensated MEMS - Fabry-Perot Sensing

Supervisor: Patricia Nieva


Chanuphon Trakarnchaiyo, Monday, April 6, 2020; Room E5-3052; 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Title: Design and Implementation of Magnetic Levitation Based Modular Omindirectional Conveyor System

Supervisor: Behrad Khamesee


Hatameh Asgarimoghaddam, Tuesday, April 7, 2020; Room E5 - 3052; 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Title: Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition of Gas Diffusion Barriers in Perovskite Solar Cell Application

Supervisor: Kevin Musselman


Ali Ghatei Kalashami, Tuesday, April 7, 2020; Room E5 - 3052; 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Title: Resistance Spot Welding of Zinc-Coated Advanced high Strength Steels: From Fundamentals to Application for  Sheet Metal Assembilies

Supervisor: Norman Zhou


Apratim Chakraborty, Wednesday, April 8, 2020; Room EC 4 - 1104; 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Title: Investigation of Cracking in SLM-Based High-y'Ni-Based Superalloys

Supervisors: Etienne Martin / Mustafa Yavuz


Huseyin Demircioglu, Wednesday, April 8, 2020; Room E5 - 3052; 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Title: Hessian Estimation Based Adaptive and Cooperative Source Seeking

Supervisor: Baris Fidan


Yifu Li, Wednesday, May 6, 2020; Room E5 - 3052; 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Title: Coaxial Electrospun Polypyrrole Based Nanofibrous Membrane Separators for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Supervisor: Zhongchao Tan


Farinaz Jeyranpourkhameneh, Thursday, May 7, 2020; Room EC4 - 1104; 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Title: Fracture Characterization of DP1180 under Proportional and Non-Proportional Loading

Supervisor: Cliff Butcher


Stanislav Musikhin, Monday, May 25, 2020; Room MC - 2009; 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Title: Microwave Plasma Synthesis of Graphene and Its Laser-Optical in Situ Characterization

Supervisor: Kyle Daun