READYREFERENCE |AWARDS&HONORS 2010 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO: “Stress Prediction through Nonlinear Ultrasonics in Waveguides” Francesco Lanza di Scalea, professor Robert Phillips, graduate student 2011 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: “Non- Destructive Testing of Thermally Exposed Nickel- base Superalloys via Electrical Reistivity Testing and Neutron Scattering Experiments” Rosario L. Gerhardt, professor Rickly L. Whelchel, student 2011 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: “Remote Detection of Damage in FRP-retrofitted Concrete Structures Using Acoustic-laser Vibrometry” Oral Buyukozturk, professor Justin Chen, student 2011 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: “Wireless Ultrasonic Sensor Network Systems for Online Monitoring” Lalita Udpa, professor Gerges Dibs, student 2011 THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: “A Novel Ultrasonic Vibration Nondestructive Evaluation Technique” Joseph L. Rose, professor Cody J. Borigo, student 2011 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: “X-Ray Tomographic and Ultrasonic Velocity and Attenuation Measurements of Wooden Blocks Exposed to Controlled Decay” Henrique Reis, professor Megan McGovern, student 2012 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: “Load-enhanced Methods for Lamb Wave in situ NDE of Complex Components” Jennifer E. Michaels, professor Xin Chen, student 2012 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: “Dielectrometry Sensors for NDE of Glass-fiber Polymer- matrix Composites” Nicola Bowler, professor Robert Sheldon, student 2012 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: “Nondestructive In-place Condition Assessment of Concrete Rail Ties using Air- coupled Ultrasonic” John S. Popovics, professor Suyun Ham, student 2012 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: “Analysis and Development of a Focused Spark Source for Air-coupled Ultrasonic NDT” Jinying Zhu, professor Michael Haberman, professor Yi-Te Tsai, student 2012 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: “In Vivo Nanosensors for Defect Identification using Flexible, Optically Transparent, Deformation Responsive Wrinkled Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Meshes” Daneesh Simien, professor Sai Gunturu, student 2013 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: “High Sensitivity Probe for Magnetic Non-destructive Evaluation” David Jiles, professor Ikenna C. Nlebedim, professor Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar, student 2013 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: “Study of a Bio-inspired Membrane for NDE of Composite Structures” Simon Laflamme, professor Hussam Saleem, student 2013 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: “Structural Health Monitoring using THz Metamaterial Sensors” Premjeet Chahal, professor Kyoung Park, student 2013 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: “Condition Assessment of Bridge Post-tensioning Using NDE Methods” Stefan Hurlebaus, professor Joshua White, student 2014 DREXEL UNIVERSITY: “Aerial Vehicle for Infrastructure Evaluation” Ivan Bartoli, professor Antonios Kontsos, professor Andrew Ellenberg, student 2014 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: “A Self-adhesive Capacitive Sensor for Nuclear Power Plant Cable Monitoring” Nicola Bowler, professor Weixing Sun, student 2014 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: “Microwave Tomography using Metamaterial-inspired Reflect Array” Prem Chahal, professor Amin Tayebi, student 2014 MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: “Evaluation of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites using Frequency Selective Surfaces” Kristen Donnel, professor Edward Kinzel, professor Dustin Pieper, student 2014 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: “Quantitative Evaluation of Rejuvenators using Acoustic Emission towards Effective Pavement Maintenance/ Preservation” Henrique Reis, professor Nicholas Anthony Farace, student 2015 MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: “Active Microwave Thermography for Nondestructive Evaluation of FRP-rehabilitated Concrete Structures” Kristen M. Donnell, professor Lesley H. Sneed, professor Ali Foudazi, student 2015 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: “Nanoscale Nondestructive Metrology of Nanoelectronics using Picosecond Ultrasonic Near-field Optical Microscopy” Oluwaseyi Balogun, professor Xiang Chen, student 2015 NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: “High-density Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing Networks for NDE of Composite Materials” Kara Peters, professor William Stewart, student 2015 NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: “Large-area Electrical Resistance Tomography Base Sensing Skin for Reinforced Concrete Structure” Mohammad Pour-Ghaz, professor Reza Rashetnia, student 2015 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: “Merging Guided Ultrasonic Waves and Electromechanical Impedance: A Novel NDT Paradigm” Piervincenzo Rizzo, professor Amir Nasrollahi, student 2016 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: “Nondestructive Evaluation/ Characterization of High Temperature Hydrogen Attack in Carbon Steels” Henrique Reis, professor John Conway, graduate student 2016 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: “Robot-delivered Laser Ultrasonics System for Inspection of Stress Corrosion Cracking in Harsh Environments” Cliff Lissenden, professor Sungho Choi, professor Mostafa Hasanian, graduate student 2016 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: “Study of a Smart Concrete for Enhanced NDT of Large-scale Structures” Simon Laflamme, professor Kejin Wang, professor Irvin Pinto, graduate student 22 M A T E R I A L S E V A L U A T I O N • R E A D Y R E F E R E N C E 2 0 2 2 -2 0 2 3 2302 ReadyReference Pages.indd 22 1/30/23 7:45 AM
AWARDS&HONORS |READYREFERENCE 2016 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: “Hybrid Acousto-optic Health Monitoring of Structural Composites” Mahmoodul Haq, professor Oleksii Karpenko, graduate student 2016 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: “Wavefield Modeling and Propagation of Ultrasound for Additive Manufacturing Materials” Timothy Bigelow, professor Leonard Bond, professor Hossein Taheri, graduate student 2017 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: “Vertical Impedance Scanner for Nondestructive Concrete Bridge Deck Assessment without Direct Rebar Attachment” Brian Mazzeo, professor Jeffrey Barton, graduate student 2017 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: “A Hybrid Electromagnetic Imaging System (HEMIS) for Rapid Inspection of Composites” Lalita Udpa, professor Saptarshi Mukherjee, graduate student 2017 MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: “Millimeter Wave Evaluation of Surface-Breaking Cracks in the Presence of Significant Surface Corrosion” Reza Zoughi, professor John Gallion, graduate student 2017 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: “Ground Penetrating Radar as a Quality Assurance Tool in Hot-Mix Asphalt Road Construction” Dallas Little, professor Stephen Sebesta, professor Bryan Wilson, graduate student 2017 VIRGINIA TECH: “Seismic NDT for High-Frequency, in SITU Diagnosis of Civil Structures” Pablo Tarazaga, professor Rodrigo Sarlo, graduate student 2018 DREXEL UNIVERSITY: “Identification of Water Pipe Material Based on Stress Wave Propagation” Kurt Sjoblom, professor Ivan Bartoli, professor Peyman Aminpour, graduate student 2018 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: “Development of a Comparison Model between Second Harmonic Generation and Nonlinear Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy to Improve Material Characterization” Laurence Jacobs, professor Katherine Marie Scott, graduate student 2018 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: “Surface Sensing-Based Technique for Nondestructive Evaluation and Prediction in Additive Manufacturing” An Chen, professor Simon Laflamme, professor Jin Yan, graduate student 2018 PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY: “Early-Detection of ASR Deterioration in Laboratory Concrete Specimens Using Full-Waveform Ultrasonic Monitoring” Thomas Schumacher, professor Jason Ideker, professor Ali Hafiz, graduate student 2018 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: “MEWR – A Bio-Inspired Probabilistic Framework for Structural Health Monitoring for Complex Structures” Salvatore Salamone, professor Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou, graduate student 2019 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN: “Identification of Internal Damage Mechanisms in Metallic Glasses via In-Situ Acoustic Emission” Robert Maass, professor Amlan Das, graduate student 2019 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: “Linear and Nonlinear Resonance Ultrasonic Spectroscopy for Real-Time Process Control of Additively Manufactured Parts” Parisa Shokouhi and Jacques Riviere, professors Prabhakaran Manogharan, graduate student 2019 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: “Critical Porosity Defect Analysis Using Various Modes of Ultrasonic Immersion Testing” Tsuchin (Philip) Chu, professor Connor Chase Seavers, graduate student 2019 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: “Nonlinear Solitary Waves for the Detection of Corrosion at any Temperature” Piervincenzo Rizzo, professor Hoda Jalali, graduate student 2019 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: “A Hybrid Non-Destructive Evaluation Probe for Characterization of Oxidized Nuclear Fuel Cladding Alloys” Nicola Bowler, professor Trishelle Copeland-Johnson, graduate student 2020 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: “Bayesian and Data Fusion Approaches to Improve Real- Time Capabilities of In-Situ NDE via a Thermal Imaging Case Study on a Hybrid Machine” Hantang Qin and Zhan Zhang, professors Xiao Zhang, graduate student 2020 NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY: “Evaluation of Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF) Cracks on Railheads Using Nonlinear Ultrasound in Phase-Space Domain” Ehsan Dehghan-Niri, professor Sina Zamen, graduate student 2020 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE: “Ultrasonic Characteristic of Residual Stress in Additively Manufactured Components” Tsuchin (Philip) Chu, professor Merrill Dennison, graduate student 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: “Early Prediction of Fatigue Failure and Remaining Useful Life Estimation in CFRP Materials based on Acoustic Emission Waveform Information Entropy” Mohammad Modarres, professor Seyed Foad Karimian, graduate student 2020 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: “An Integrated NDT System to Characterize Rocks” Piervincenzo Rizzo and Andrew Bunger, professors Yuhui Zeng, graduate student 2021 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: “Computed Tomography-Based Structural Modeling for NDE of Additively Manufactured Lattices” Christopher Saldana, professor Elliott W. Jost, graduate student 2021 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: “Corrugated Sensing Skin for Continuous Monitoring of Welds” Simon Laflamme and David J. Eisenmann, professors Han Liu, graduate student 2021 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: “Design of Metamaterial Lens for Enhancing Far Field Microwave Imaging Resolution” Lalita Udpa, professor Srijan Datta, graduate student 2021 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: “Application of Guided Waves for Controlled Electromagnetic Targeted Heating of Continuous Bond Line” Mahmoodul Haq, professor Rajendra Prasath Palanisamy, graduate student R E A D Y R E F E R E N C E 2 0 2 2 -2 0 2 3 • M A T E R I A L S E V A L U A T I O N 23 2302 ReadyReference Pages.indd 23 1/30/23 7:45 AM
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