Monthly Archives April 2021

Our lab members Prapoojith Arcot, Perla Latorre-Suarez, and Vanessa D’Esposito presented their research at the AIAA 2021 Regional Student Conference. We are also delighted to announce that Vanessa won Second Place in the Undergraduate Category!

Prapoojith presented his work “Development of a Stress Corrosion Cracking Test Approach for Multi-Mode Measurements”.​

Vanessa presented her work “Comparison of 3D Confocal Raman and High Energy X-ray Diffraction for the Measurement of Molten Sand Infiltration in Turbine Blade Coatings”.

Perla presented her work “3D Printed Stress Sensors for Non-Destructive Evaluation of Space Structures​​”, which was done with the help of her LM3D team mates Rohan Madathil, Nya Segura-Watson, Felix Morales and Vanessa D’Esposito.

Our lab members Perla Latorre-Suarez and Vanessa D’Esposito presented posters of their research at the UCF Student Scholar Symposium. Perla presented her work “Developing a 3D Printing Method to Print Stress Sensing Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring”, which was done with the help of her LM3D team mates Rohan Madathil, Nya Segura-Watson, Felix Morales and Vanessa D’Esposito. Vanessa presented her work “Effects of CMAS Infiltration on Thermal Barrier Coatings Analyzed by Confocal Raman”, which was done with the help of her graduate mentor, Zachary Stein.

We are also delighted to announce that Dr. Raghavan and two of our lab members won big in this symposium! Dr. Raghavan won the Champion of Undergraduate Research Faculty Award. Zachary won the Undergraduate Research Award. And Perla is recognized as an Undergraduate Presentation Winner.

A full list of winners can be seen here.

We would like to congratulate graduate student, Zachary Stein, for receiving the Department of Defense’s National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Fellowship. This is a program that is designed to increase the number of United States citizens trained in science and engineering disciplines. This program encourages baccalaureate students to enter graduate school and ultimately gain doctorates for future research and development. This fellowship is given to individuals who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering. Zachary also received honorable mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP), which is a fellowship given to STEM students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees.

Zac will be continuing his doctoral research on high temperature coatings, working with mentors at DLR in Germany and Argonne National Laboratory in the US.

Dr. Seetha Raghavan participated in the Engineering Gals Graduate School Advice Seminar on March 17th. This was a seminar dedicated to helping engineering students, who aspire to attend graduate school or are currently in graduate school, with questions and experiences that can help motivate these students to excel in school. The panelists shared their experiences in joining graduate school and the difficulties that they had to overcome. Engineering Gals is an online community for women engineers whose mission is to share resources and opportunities to inspire the next generation of engineers.

Check out the seminar here!