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Runner-up Best Student Paper Award, 36th Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB), IDETC 2024
Cosner, J. A., & Tai, W. C. (2024, August). An Experimental Investigation of P-Bifurcation, Energy Harvesting and Vibration Suppression Using a Nonlinear Inerter Device. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Vol. 88452, p. V011T11A005). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Runner-up Best Student Paper Award, SMASIS 2023
Cosner, J. A., & Tai, W. C. (2023, September). Energy Transfer in a Quarter-Car Model With Inertially Nonlinear Inerter-Based Pendulum Vibration Absorber. In Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (Vol. 87523, p. V001T07A002). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Runner-up Best Student Paper Award, 33rd Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB), IDETC 2021
Gupta, A., & Tai, W. C. (2021, August). Vibration Suppression of a Harmonically Forced Oscillator via a Parametrically Excited Centrifugal Pendulum. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Vol. 85475, p.V010T10A016). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.