Happy New Year to all and especially the members of the MARS lab. I look forward to your continued successes and contributions to the mission of the lab in both the educational and research fronts.
We would like to welcome a number of new members to the lab who will work on new research topics or participate in existing research.
Congratulations for joining the lab and wishes for continued success!
Ankit successfully defended his MS presentation on the customization of a multi-modality additive manufacturing system on December 12, 2014. Congratulations and wishes for continued success!
Salman was awarded a scholarship in December 2014 from the Dr. Shamin Sughra Malik Scholarship fund in recognition of his current progress and succes in engineering. The scholarship is admninistered by the College of Engineering. Congratulations!
Salman presented a poster on his doctoral research work titled A Study of Finite Element Structural Analysis of Allograft for Endothelial Keratoplasty at the 2014 IEEE Medical Device Symposium held at The University of Texas at Dallas, TX, Nov 7, 2014 . Congratulations and wishes for continued success!
The lab welcomes a new senior design group who will be researching the design and development of a mechanical hand-end effector for irregular object manipulation for Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 semesters. Welcome and looking forward to your accomplishments!
The lab welcomes Mohammed Aliakbar who will be mentored by Salman Khan during the summer of 2014 under the I-Engage Mentoring program of the UTA Graduate School. Mohammed will be learning how to use CAE tools (ANSYS) to research opthalmic grafted devices. Mohammed welcome and looking forward to your accomplishments.
Mohammed, Salman and Dr. Shiakolas participated at the luncheon honoring the I-Engage participants in August 2014. Salman and Mohammed are shown wiht Dr. Jackson and I-Engage completion certificates. Congratulations and wishes for continued success!
The senior project students working on inkjet head development and integration successfully presented and defended their project on August 7, 2014. Congratulations and wishes for continued success!
The lab welcomes Shahid Faizee and Vishal Sarode, both ME MS students, who will be researching 3D printing technologies. Welcome and looking forward to your accomplishments.
The ME second semester senior group sponsored by the MARS lab was invited to participate and present their design project research in the ASAIO Second Annual Student Design Competition to be held on June 19th during the ASAIO 60th Annual Conference, June 18 – 21, 2014 in Washington, DC (https://www.asaio.com/annual-conference/student-design-competition-2/). The title of the submitted project is Multi-Polymeric 3D Print Head for Use in Bioprosthetic Research. Here is the link to the conference program – scroll down to page 9 second column (https://www.asaio.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Final-Program-MMD-2014.prog_.pdf). The team members are Toby Anderson, Russell Collins, Andrew Dierdorf, Ryan Moody, Jacob Oberg (team leader) under the direction of Dr. Shiakolas.
Note that 48 national-international teams were invited to submit their proposals for the competition back in early spring and 8 submissions were selected as winners.
Congratulations on being one of the winners and the invitation (along with partial financial support) to participate and present your project in this national – international competition!