News & Photos
- 2017-June: Congratulations to Gayathri Shivkumar for being selected as invited participant at 2017 Women in Aerospace Symposium. Here is Gayathri presenting her research at the symposium.
- 2017-May: Kudos to Gayathri Shivkumar for receiving 2017 Outstanding Student Paper Award at IEEE ICOPS for her paper "Modeling of Capacitively Coupled Discharge with Non-sinusoidal Input Waveform".
- 2016-Aug: Congratulations to Siva for defending his PhD dissertation "Particle Modeling of Non-Equilibrium Field Emission Drive RF Microplasmas" and starting as Applications Engineer at COMSOL.
- 2016-June: Congratulations to Marat for defending his PhD dissertation "Upscaling Ab Initio Chemistry Models to Non-Equilibrium Flow Simulations" and starting as a rocket scientist at Blue Origin.
- 2016-Apr: Kudos to Drew Strongrich for receiving 2016 Dr. Thomas Jennings student award at International Society of Lyophilization/Freeze-Drying conference in Chicago. Read more...
- 2016-March: Gayathri Shivkumar and Siva Tholeti's research on plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of carbon nanopetals in collaboration with Purdue ME Prof Tim Fisher's group is featured on the cover of March 21 2016 issue of Journal of Applied Physics. Read more...
- 2016-Feb: LyoHUB demo facility opens to users. The facility provides state-of-the-art lyophilization laboratory equipment for applications in bio/pharmaceutical R&D, materials science and vacuum technology
- 2015-Apr: Kudos to Israel Sebastiao for winning Dr. Thomas Jenkins student award at 2015 International Society of Lyophilization/Freeze-Drying (ISLFD) conference in Chicago. Israel and our collaborator Dr. Tom Robinson, MD, of Aerosol Therapeutics are pictured below with their poster "Atmospheric spray freeze-drying, a new approach to drying solutions: Modeling and Measurements". Israel at 2015 ISLFD
- 2015-Feb: Congratulations to Andrew Weaver for defending his PhD dissertation ""Assessment of High-Fidelity Collision Models for the DSMC Method".
- 2014-Nov: Congratulation to Arnab Ganguly for defending his PhD dissertation. Arnab is now R&D Manager at IMA Life.
- 2014-Sep: Congratulations to Tony Cofer on being awarded 2014 Purdue Forever Fellowship and successful completion of his PhD preliminary examination.
- 2014-Jan: Congratulations to Dr. Venkatt Ayyaswamy on his new position as Assistant Professor at University of California, Merced.
- 2013-Oct: Our group is part of team selected by NSF Scalable Nanomanufacturing program to develop roll-to-roll manufacturing of carbon nanopetal material. Read more...
- 2013-Sep: Our proposal "Film-Evaporation MEMS Tunable Array for Picosat Propulsion and Thermal Control" selected by NASA SmallSat Partnership program. NASA Press release.
- 2013-Apr: Kudos to Arnab Ganguly for receiving Best Poster award at 2013 Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting of International Society of Lyophilization/Freeze-Drying in Chicago.
- 2013-March: Congratulations to Devon Parkos who was selected for a 2013 NSF GRFP fellowship. Devon will study hypersonic chemosynthesis via asteroid ejecta reentry in Earth's early atmosphere. More...
- 2012-Aug: Arnab Ganguly receives 2012 Baxter Young Investigator Award.
- 2012-June: Congratulations to Venkat who has defended his PhD dissertation and won AAE 2012 PhD Dissertation Award.
- 2012-Apr: Marat Kulakhmetov has been selected for 2012 Sandia Excellence in Science and Engineering Research Fellowship.
- 2012-Apr: Kudos to Arnab Ganguly who got a poster award at OIGP Spring Reception in the Interdisciplinary section.
- 2012-Apr: Tony Cofer has been featured in 5 Students Who...
- 2011-Dec: Congratulations to Sruti Chigullapalli who defended and deposited her PhD dissertation. She joins Intel R&D in Chandler, AZ.
- 2011-Nov: Kudos to Sruti Chigullapalli for winning Second Prize in poster competition at ASME IMECE 2011 Micro & Nano Technology Society-Wide Forum for poster "Modeling of Microstructures Actuation by the Knudsen Thermal Force".
- 2011-June: Kudos to Sruti Chigullapalli and collaborators Ben Pax, Gazi Yildirm, Dr. Sanjay Mathur for 2nd place award for poster "ESBGKSolver in MEMOSA-FVM" at 2011 NNSA PRISM Center TST review.
- 2011-May: Alina Alexeenko is to speak at World Lyophilization Summit, a forum organized by leading drug developers to be held in Cambridge, MA on May 24-25, 2011. She will present on DSMC modeling of bio/pharmaceutical freeze-drying.
- 2011-Jan: Alina Alexeenko receives NSF CAREER Award. More...
- 2010-Dec: Arnab Ganguly is a recipient of a Student Participation Grant from the 2011 NSF-CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, January 4-7, 2011 where he will give a presentation about his research on freeze-drying.
- 2010-Dec: Sruti will teach a short course on Python GUI Development on 12/20/2010 in ARMS 3115. Bring your laptops and follow the installation instructions.
