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Samuel
Kinde Kassegne, PhD
Group Leader
Research Areas:
MEMS/BioMEMS,
Integrated Micro- and nano-fabrication Computational Micro/nanotechnology
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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 [cell]
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2005-Current
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Amandeep
Singh
MEMS
accelerometer for hand motion detections
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Phoebe
Shin
Innovative
Packaging of 3D Microarray and Microfluidics Devices
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Bao
Nguyen
Bubble
Isolation Mechanism for High-Current Density DC MHD Micropumps
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Sai
Chand
Back-flow
minimization in 3D CD microfluidics
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Berhanu
Kebede Wondimu
MEMS
Accelerometer
Formerly
at Bahir Dar University.
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Namratha
Tata
Characterization
and Functionalization of High-Efficiency 3D Electrode Arrays
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Michael Frank
Biosensors
for food-borne pathogens.
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Steven
Wong
The
Packaging, Design, and Experimental Evaluation of a Pathogen Detection
System
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Nithesh
Paramesh
Modeling
Multi-physics for Micro fuel cells
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Vaibhav
Patel
Electroosmosis
and Thermal Effects in Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Micropumps using
3D MHD Equations
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Nitin
Edmund Hardwood
Valving
for 3D CD microfluidics
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Bhuvnesh Arya
Theoretical investigation of DNA hybridization mecnanisms
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Saravana
Pitchaikani
Design
and fabrication of High Sensitivity PMN-PT Biosensor
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Neeraj Yadav
Theoretical investigation of DNA hybridization mechanisms
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Vinot Vijayaraghavan
New Designs for Electrical Connections in 3D C-MEMS based Microarrays
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Current
Group Members: Bao Nguyen, Berhanu Wondimu, Neeraj, Bhuvnesh, Nithesh,
Mike, Amandeep, Sai Chand. Not in picture are: Phoebe, Nitin, and Saravana.
Alumni
from SDSU MEMS Lab: Alex Teeter (3D manipulation of submicron &
nano particles), Sahil Patel (Cell Lysing Chip), Vaibhav Patel (3D MHD
Equations), Lei Zhou (RF MEMS Switch for Reconfigurable Antennas), Zaid
Karim (Novel MEMS Accelerometer).
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Pre
- 2005 (Alumni in the Computer Science & Software Engineering Group)
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Fikreyohannes
Lemma
Graduate Student
CS Department, AAU
Currently
at School of Commerce, Addis Ababa University
Thesis: Design of Architecture
and Implementation Issues for a Terrestrial & VSAT based National
Telemedicine Network.
Publications:
1.
"Design of Architecture and Implementation Issues for a Terrestrial
LAN & VSAT-based National Telemedicine Network in Ethiopia.
Biomedical Informatics Conference in San Francisco, CA - Sep
04.
2.
Survey of Current Efforts and Potentials in Application of Telemedicine
in Ethiopia, ETC Conference, September 20, 2004.
3.
Novel Architecture Design and Implementation of Telemedicine in
Ethiopia.
ETC Conference, September 20, 2004. |
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Shiferraw
Abebe
Graduate Student
CS Department, AAU
Currently at Grad School of Telecom
of the Eth. Telecom Corp/ Unity University.
Thesis:
"Unicode-based
wireless java application for SMS (Short Messaging Service) in
a multi-language/script Environment using J2ME".
Publication:
Ethiopic
Keyboard Mapping and Predictive Text Inputting Algorithm in a
Wireless Environmnet, ETC Conference, Sep 2004.
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Tewodros
Seyum
Graduate Student
SISA - School of Information Systems for Af., AAU
Currently a software engineer with Microsoft, Seattle, Washington. |
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Jeff
Milton
Simulation Sciences
Project: FEA
Modeling of Stiffness Reduction in Beams with RBS Moment Connections
using COSMOS & SolidWorks.
Final
Project for FEA class at UCSD.
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Dawit
Alemayehu
M.S. Thesis
Currently at U Cincinnati - in PhD program.
Thesis: Modeling RBS moment connections
and panel zone behavior through MPC & Mixed element based approach.
Publications:
- "A
new efficient multiple-node constraint approach for FE analysis
of radius-cut RBS moment frames in highly seismic areas",
Proceedings of ICCMSE-2003),
January 9-10, 2003,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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"Multi-Point Constraint
and Mixed element based approach for RBS and panel zone
modeling", EACE Journal, September 2004.
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Dereje
Seyoum
MS in CE
Thesis:
Dynamic analysis of shell structures of
varying thickness and rise. (co-advised with Dr. Shiferraw Taye,
Assoc. Professor of CE @AAU).
Currently an engineer at Addis Ababa firm.
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Young
M. Li
Currently at USC. .
Project:
Formulation of closed-form stiffness coefficients
for new classes of elements using Mathematica.
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