Samuel Kinde Kassegne, Ph.D, P.E.

MEMS Research Group Department of Mechanical Engineering  College of Engineering San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182 E-mail: samk |at| digitaladdis |dot| com Tel: (760)-402-7162

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Selected Journal Publications

1. Zhou, L., Sharma, S., and Kassegne, S., "Reconfigurable Microstrip Rectangular Loop Antennas Using RF MEMS Switches", Accepted for Publication in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, August 2007.

2. Nguyen, B. and Kassegne, S.K., "High-Current Density DC Magenetohydrodynamics (MHD) Micropump with Bubble Isolation and Release System", Submitted to Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, October 2007.

3. Patel, V. and Kassegne, S.K., "Electroosmosis and Thermal Effects in Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Micropumps using 3D MHD Equations", March, 2007, Journal of Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Elsevier Science B.V. (download)

4. Nguyen, B. and Kassegne, S.K., “"DNA Microarrays"”, Invited Review Article, Accepted in October 2006, Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.

5. Wong, S. and Kassegne, S.K., “"Protein Microarrays"”, Invited Review Article, Accepted in October 2006, Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.

6. Kassegne, S., “"Development of a closed-form 3-D RBS beam finite element and associated case studies"”, In-Press, 2006, Journal of Engineering Structures, Elsevier. (download).

7. Lemma, F, Denko, M.K. and Kassegne, S.K, "Hierarchical Model Based LAN Architecture & VSAT-based WAN for a National Telemedicine Network in a Developing Country: Case of Ethiopia", Accepted for publication, August 2006, International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics. (download).

8. Kassegne, S.K., Reese, H., Hodko, D., Yang, JM., Sarkar, K., Smolko, S., Swanson, P., Raymond, D., Heller, M.J., and Madou, M.J., "Numerical Modeling of Transport and Accumulation of DNA on Electronically Active Biochips," Journal of Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 94 (2003) 81–98, Elsevier Science B.V. (download).

9. Ying, H., Yang, JM., Hopkins, P., Kassegne, S.K., Marcus, T., Foster, A., and Howard, H., "Separation of Simulants of Biological Warfare Agents from Blood by a Miniaturized Dielectrophoresis Device," Journal of Biomedical Microdevices (BMMD), Vol. 5, 217-225, July 2003. (Link).

10. Kassegne, S.K., Reese, H., Swanson, P., Sarkar, K, and Madou, M.J., "A Micro Electro-Optical DNA Array Sensor," Full Paper Published in the Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, March 17-21, 2002. (download).

11. Kassegne, S.K., Zoval, J., Maher, B., Whitten, R., and Madou, M.J., "Design Issues in SOI-Based High-Sensitivity Piezoresistive Cantilever Devices," Full Paper Published in the Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, March 17-21, 2002. (download).

12. Kassegne, S.K. and Reddy, J.N., "Local Behavior of Discretely Stiffened Composite Plates and Cylindrical Shells," Composite Structures 41, pp. 13-26, 1998. (download).

13. Chun, K.S. and Kassegne, S.K., "Low-velocity Impact Dynamic Behavior of Laminated Composite Nonprismatic Folded Plate Structures”, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Volume 131, Issue 7, Pp. 768-688, July 2005.

14. Chun, K.S., Kassegne, S.K., “A new efficient 8-node serendipity element with explicit and assumed strains formulations”, International Journal of Computational Mechanics, Issue 6(4), September 2005.

15. Kassegne, S.K.., "Proposed Considerations for Revision of EBCS-8:1995 for Conservative Seismic Zoning and Stringent Requirements for Torsionally Irregular Buildings”, Published by EACE’s Zede Research Journal, 2006. (download).

16. Kassegne, S.K. and Reddy, J.N., "A Layerwise Shell Stiffener and Stand-Alone Curved Beam Element", Asn. Journal of Structural Engineering, Volume 2, Nos. 1 and 2, pp 1-14, 1997. (download).

17. Kassegne, S.K., Buriek, L., and Miller, A., "Second Order Analysis of Building and Industrial Structures," Structural Engineer, London, UK. February 2001.

18. Kassegne, S.K., Wasti, T., "Analysis of Box Girders by the Nodal Section Method," METU Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences, Vol. 22, No 1, pp. 33-59, 1989. (download).

Selected Conference Proceedings

1. Wang, C., Taherabadi, L., Jia, G., Kassegne, S., Zoval, J., and Madou, M., “Carbon-MEMS Architecture for 3D Microbatteries”, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, April 2004. (download).

2. Kassegne, S.K. and Sarkar, K., "Challenges in Computational Modeling of Gel Permeation Layers in BioMEMS Devices," Proceedings of the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM CSE03), February 10-13, 2003, San Diego, CA.

3. Kassegne, S.K., Reese, H., Swanson, P., Sarkar, K, and Madou, M.J., "A Micro Electro-Optical DNA Array Sensor," Full Paper Published in the Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, March 17-21, 2002.

4. Kassegne, S.K., Zoval, J., Maher, B., Whitten, R., and Madou, M.J., "Design Issues in SOI-Based High-Sensitivity Piezoresistive Cantilever Devices," Full Paper Published in the Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, March 17-21, 2002.

5. Sarkar, K, Kassegne, S.K., and Madou, M.J., "Characterization of Porous Membrane Elements in Microfluidics Devices," 14^th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 23-28, 2002.

6. Kassegne, S.K. and Quarshie, S., "Architecturing Multiphysics FEA/BEA Simulation Software: A Case of Micro Devices Simulation," Proceedings of the Sixth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Dearborn, Michigan, August 2001. (download - abstract).

7. Kassegne, S.K. and Quarshie, S."Object-Oriented Interactive Optimization Tool for Analysis and Design of Plates and Shells," Proceedings of Fifth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Denver, Colorado, August 1999.

8. Kassegne, S., Lessons from Virtual Supervision of Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Students – Case of Addis Ababa Ababa University, 36^th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 28 – 31, 2006, San Diego, CA. (download).

9. Lemma, F, Denko, M.K. and Kassegne, S.K, "Hierarchical Model Based LAN Architecture & VSAT-based WAN for a National Telemedicine Network in a Developing Country", Proceedings of WCIT 2006, held in conjunction with WCC 2006, August 2006, Santiago, Chile.

10. Kassegne, S.K., "Issues in Seismic Zoning and Proposed Reconsiderations in Seismic Building Codes in Ethiopia," Proceedings of the Joint EACE-AAU International Conference on Computational Mechanics, Structures and Earthquake Engineering (ICCMSE-2003), January 9-10, 2003, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

11. Hailu, D., Zekaria, A., Kassegne, S.K., "A New Efficient Multiple-Node Constraint Approach for FEA Analysis of Radius-Cut RBS Moment Frames in Highly Seismic Areas," Proceedings of the Joint EACE-AAU International Conference on Computational Mechanics, Structures and Earthquake Engineering (ICCMSE-2003), January 9-10, 2003, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

12. Kassegne, S.K., "Second Order Effects in Building Structures with Partial and Multiple Diaphragms," Proceedings of the 12th Engineering Mechanics Conference, La Jolla, California, May 17-20, 1998.

13. Kassegne, S.K. and Donnadieu, A., "Seismic Analysis of Buildings using the RAM Structural System," Presented at the Mexican Society of Seismic Engineering Meet in Mexico City, Mexico, April 22, 1998.

14. Kassegne, S.K. and Somanath, N., "Analysis of Plates and Shells with Cut-outs Using Layerwise Theory," 34th Conference of Structures, Dynamics and Materials (SDM), La Jolla, California, 1993.

15. Kassegne, S.K. and Reddy, J.N., "Analysis of Discretely Stiffened Laminated Cylindrical Shells," Proceedings of MEET'N'93, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 1993.

Thesis @ SDSU

1. Alex Teeter - Analytical framework for competing physics in nano-dielectrophoresis applications in the life sciences and molecular manipulations. March 2006. (download).

2. Sahil Patel - A novel cell lysing system for pathogen detection and removal applications – July 2006.

3. Lei Zhou - RF MEMS DC Contact Switches for Reconfigurable Antennas - December 2006. (download).

4. Zaid Kamal Karim – Tunable Multi-Axes MEMS Accelerometers: Design and Microfabrication – December 2006.

5. Vaibhav Patel - Electroosmosis and Thermal Effects in Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Micropumps using 3D MHD Equations. March 2007. (download).

6. Steven Wong - The Packaging, Design, and Experimental Evaluation of a MEMS Electrophoretic System. May 2007.

Thesis @ AAU

1. Fikreyohannes Lemma - Design of Architecture and Implementation Issues for a Terrestrial & VSAT based National Telemedicine Network, August 2004. (download).

2. Shiferaw Abebe Mamo - Unicode-based wireless java application for SMS (Short Messaging Service) in a multi-language/script Environment using J2ME., October 2004.

3. Dawit Alemayehu Hailu - Modeling RBS moment connections and panel zone behavior through MPC & Mixed element based approach, February 2004. (download).

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