Laboratory for Micro/Nano Integration

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Students

Jairo Chimento

Jairo Chimento obtained his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering form University of South Florida and also from Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia. He is currently working towards a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from USF. Jairo has been working on his research area during the last two years. He is working on 3-D Printing of molds for thermoformed sockets in prosthetics using different post-treatment methods, and his thesis title is "Performance of Rapid Tooling Molds for Thermoformed Sockets".

E-mail: jchimento@mail.usf.edu

Gary Hendrick

Gary Hendrick is currently in the graduate program in Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida, where he was awarded a Bachelor's degree in the Summer of 2008. His research is in self-assembly processes with a focus on the development and validation of design tools. He is a founding member of the USF chapter of Engineers Without Borders which focuses on water access issues in the Dominican Republic. Information on EWB-USF can be found at their website http://ctr.usf.edu/ewb

E-mail: gary.hendrick@gmail.com

Ajay Rajgadkar

Ajay Rajgadkar is pursuing his Masters in Mechanical Engineering at University of South Florida, Tampa. He received my BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, India in 2007. His current research is on characterization of thin dielectric layers deposited by Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) for MEMS applications and process development for Electrowetting force measurement and analysis.

Email: arajgadk@mail.usf.edu

Pradeep Mishra

Pradeep Mishra is pursuing his Masters in Mechanical Engineering at University of South Florida, Tampa. He received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India in 2006.His current research area includes Electrowetting and Thermal management of electronic devices. He is working towards his MS thesis focusing on the degradation of Electrowetting phenomena by direct measurements of Electrowetting Force (EWF) and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS).

E-mail: pmishra@mail.usf.edu

James Tuckerman

James is working on the research and development of self assembly processes and their usefulness in making Thermo-Electric coolers (TEC’s).  Successful macro scale TEC’s have been made using solder based self assembly techniques by use of capillary forces. Future research include comparing this to assembly techniques involving self assembled mono layers and determining the best method to be used in assembling TEC.

Email: jtuckerm@mail.usf.edu

Brian Bertram

Brian is pursuing his Bachelors Degree in both Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics at The University of South Florida. He is currently working as a undergraduate research assistant.

Email: bbertram@mail.usf.edu

Mike Nellis       

Michael Nellis graduated with a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Florida. He worked with Dr. Crane on the self-assembly process and comparing micro self-assembly to macro self- assembly.

Jeff Murray      

Jeff Murray completed the 5-year BS/MS program in Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida. His researched was focused on developing new methods of self-assembly.

Vivek Ramadoss

Vivek Ramadoss obtained his Bachelors degree form India and his Masters degree in the department of Mechanical Engineering at University of South Florida. His research was on self assembly/integration of MEMS.