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2019
On July 26th, Drew Murray gave an invited presentation in Shanghai, China at Shanghai University. The title of the talk was "Designs with Many Moving Parts - The Links Between Things." He was hosted in Nanjing by Feng Feng (Jeff) Xi and Yingzhong Tian.
On May 5, Justin Ehren graduated from UD with his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering. He joined the UD Renewable and Clean Energy master's program. This is a video of a mechanism for extending an orientable solar array away from a 3U cubesat. The video was made by Ben Millard and Dillon Balk to assist Justin in presenting the modeling work he did for his honors thesis on this topic.
On May 1st, Yucheng Li was awarded a Graduate Student Summer Fellowship. These awards are from the Graduate School at the University of Dayton and provide a stipend for the summer!
On April 24th, eleven DIMLab members presented their research at the Stander Symposium:
Austin Mills - Assessment of Tensegrity-Based Aircraft Wings Capable of Morphing
Yucheng Li - Spatial Chains for Matching 3-Dimensional Curves
Andy Bazler & Bennett Snyder - Design of a Trike for Paraplegic Use with FES
Ben Millard & Dillon Balk - Design Modeling of Various CubeSat Solar Arrays Configurations
Justin Ehren - Energy Analysis and Orbit Simulation of Actuated CubeSat Solar Arrays
Matt Deters & Zack Jordan - Linkages In Mechanical Presses That Produce Substantial Dwell
Alex Seither & Ian Melnyk - Tracking the Center of Mass of a Human Using a Statically Equivalent Serial Chain
2018
On April 18th, seven DIMLab members presented their research at the Stander Symposium:
Eric McGill - Design of a Self-Orienting Solar Array for Small Low-Earth Orbit Satellites
Luke Schepers - Validating the Location and Tracking of a Human’s Center of Mass Using a Statically Equivalent Serial Chain
Tanner Rolfe - Development and Actuation of a Shape-changing Rigid-body Human Foot Prototype
Hardik Viradiya - Dynamic Analysis of Alternative Mechanical Press Linkages
Kevin Brand - Experimental Validation and Reliability Testing for Center of Mass Body Tracking
Saleh Almestiri - Displacement Analysis and Rigid Body Guidance in Spherical Linkages Using SU(2) and Homotopy Continuation
Haithem Murgham - Steady-State Modeling of Condensing Units with an Economizer Loop
Yucheng Li - Spatial Morphometric Analysis Using Shape-Changing Rigid-Body Chains
Their posters can be found here.
On March 27th, Drew Murray gave an invited presentation at Saint Louis University in the Parks College of Engineering, Avaition & Technology. The title of the talk was "The Links Between Things - Designs with Many Moving Parts." He was hosted by Riyadh Hindi.
In February, Dave Myszka was awarded an Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship.
On January 15th, Drew Murray gave an invited presentation in Nanjing, China at Southeast University. He then gave the presentation at Changzhou University in Changzhou, China on January 17th. The title of the talk was "Designing With Many (& Sometimes Too Many) Links: Shape-Changing Mechanisms in Dies and Morphometry, Infinity Chains, and Statically Equivalent Serial Chains." He was hosted in Nanjing by Bingjue Li and in Changzhou by Huiping Shen.
2017
In November, Myszka and Murray's research using the Ohio Supercomputer Center was featured in their 2016-2017 Research Report.
In August, Dave Myszka joined the Structures Technology Branch of the Air Force Research Labs as a Visiting Researcher.
In May, the students submitted project videos for the class MEE 490: Kinematics of Robots and Mechanisms. Some of the videos may be found here. Tanner Rolfe and Joseph Heck made excellent videos featured here. Tanner's project focused on developing a mechanical jellyfish. His video is set to Debussy's "La Cathedrale Engloutie" as performed by Francois-Joel Thiollier.
Joseph's project, featuring the song "underwOrld" by zerO One, presented a mechanical design for a cardiod tracer proposed in sketch form by Artobolevskii.
On April 10th, Tanner Rolfe, Haithem Murgham, and Sean Conway presented research at the Sigma Xi Annual Spring Talk and Poster Competition. Tanner earned 1st in the undergraduate competition and Haithem earned 2nd in the graduate competition.
In April, Kevin Brand received the Graduate Student Summer Fellowship for his proposal on Statically Equivalent Serial Chains. The award comes will a full stipend for summer 2017.
On April 5th, Eight DIMLab members presented their research at the Stander Symposium
Sean Duffin - The RASSO : A Robotic Assistant for Surgical LaparoScopic Operations
Sean Conway - Analysis of Joint Leakage in Variable Geometry Die
Tanner Rolfe - Design and Prototyping of a Shape-changing Rigid-body Human Foot in Gait
Luke Kozal - Design of an Opposed-piston, Opposed-stroke Diesel Engine for Utility Aircraft
James Vogel - Assessing Shape Repeatability in Variable Geometry, Polymer Extrusion Dies
Saleh Almestiri - Spherical Linkages Analysis and Synthesis by Special Unitary Matrices for Solution via Numerical Algebraic Geometry
Ed Brinkerhoff - Energy Analysis of a Two Degree of Freedom Robotic System
Haithem Murgham - Simulation of an Automatic Commercial Ice Make
On April 4th, Drew Murray participated in the Humanizing Technology panel session associated with the installation of UD's new president Eric Spina.
In March, Joe Raffoul and Luke Schepers become members of the S.U.R.E. program providing a stipend to stay on campus for the summer and participate in DIMLab research.
On March 3rd, Drew Murray was invited to give the talk "Designing With Many (& Sometimes Too Many) Links: Shape-Changing Mechanisms in Dies and Morphometry, Infinity Chains, and Statically Equivalent Serial Chains" at the Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier associated with the Universite Montpellier in France.
In January, Emerson continued their funding of the "Simulation of Refrigeration Equipment" project. This followed on the patent application for an ice machine simulation generated during the previous year's research effort.
2016
Dave Myszka received the 2016 School of Engineering Vision Award for Innovation, which recognizes faculty and staff whom have made significant contributions to the education of our students through innovative teaching strategies.
Tanner Rolfe won the American Association for Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Coalition third annual student essay competition. Tanner’s essay, “Living Water: A Catholic Social Teaching Perspective on PFOA and Human Rights” was recognized at the July 25, 2016 Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Dave Myszka was invited to give a lecture series on refrigeration compressor design and analysis for Emerson engineers at the University of Dayton China Institute.
Drew Murray gave one of the keynote addresses at the Software and Applications of Numerical Algebraic Geometry Workshop at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. His talk was "Applications of Bertini in Kinematics, Robotics and Machine Design."
Bingjue Li won the Outstanding Research Award at the Graduate Student Showcase held on April 20 in the Meyer Room at River Campus.
2015
In the spirit of the holiday season, we offer this greeting card, featuring the variable geometry extrusion die project funded by National Science Foundation.
As part of the "90 Second Lectures" series, Drew Murray was featured in Why Are We Addicted to Gasoline?
Drew Murray was invited to present "Complexity for Simplicity: The Elegance of Variable Geometry Mechanisms" at the 6th annual Spotlight on Technology, Arts, Research, and Scholarship Symposium (STARS).
Kevin Giaier won the Outstanding Research Award at the inaugural Graduate Student Showcase held on April 15 in the Meyer Room at River Campus.
2014
The DIMLab's shape-changing rigid-body mechanisms research was recognized by Mechanical Design 101. The article can be accessed directly here.
Drew Murray was recognized for being elected to the grade of ASME Fellow at the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences in Buffalo, August 17-20, 2014.
Past student Seb Cotton is making news for his Outrunner robot project. Be sure to watch the video!
Kevin Giaier won the Best Presentation Award in the Structures/Solid Mechanics division at the 9th Dayton Engineering Sciences Symposium. The ASME Dayton Section presented him with the award at the AIAA/ASME Honors & Awards Banquet on May 21st, 2014.
2013
DIMLab M.S. student Josh Nieman was the star in a video that won the Siemens Urban Ideas Contest. His friends John Bernard and Nick Holliday made the video.
2012
Dave Myszka and Drew Murray received funding from the National Science Foundation to support the three-year project “Variable-Geometry Dies for Polymer Extrusion.” Visit the Variable Geometry Extrusion Die site.
The University of Dayton started a “90 Second Lectures” series. As part of the series, Drew Murray presented "Can You Lift the Empire State Building with the Weight of a Notebook?"
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