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Samuel
Kinde Kassegne, PhD,PE
Group Leader
Research Areas:
MEMS, Integrated
Micro- and nano-fabrication Computational Science
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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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Current
Graduate Students
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Mohammad
Majzoub
Experimental
investigation and microfabrication of polymer solar (photovoltaic)
cells.
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Mihir Parikh
New Geometrical
Concepts for All Polymer Solar Cells (AllPoly3DPV)
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Namratha
Tata
Characterization
and Functionalization of High-Efficiency 3D Electrode Arrays
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Krishna
Desai
Optical and
Chemical Characterization of All Polymer Solar Cells (AllPoly3DPV)
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Vinot Vijayaraghavan
New Designs
for Electrical Connections in 3D C-MEMS based Microarrays
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Gunay Ozturk
Organic Solar
Cells using Conductive Polymers
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Nithesh
Paramesh
Modeling
Multi-physics for Micro fuel cells
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Chintan
Patel
Organic Solar
Cells using Conductive Polymers
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Nitin
Edmund Hardwood
Valving
for 3D CD microfluidics
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Neha Chowdhry
Bio-nanoelectronics
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Bhuvnesh Arya
Theoretical investigation of DNA hybridization mechanisms
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Anurag
Kaushik
Theoretical
Models for ALlPoly3DPV
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Neeraj Yadav
Theoretical investigation of DNA hybridization mechanisms with
Mismatch Models
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Beejal
Mehta
Bionanoelectronics
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Nasim
Vahidi
Bionanoelectronics
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Abhishek Khatri
Organic Solar
Cells using Conductive Polymers
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Mohammad
Rayatparvar
Bionanoelectronics
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Anson
Hsu
Bio-nanoelectronics
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Guest
Scholars
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Pablo
Martín Ramos - ETSIT,
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Headed
to Columbia University, NY, NY for PhD.
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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).
Recent Alumni
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Phoebe
Shin
Innovative
Packaging of 3D Microarray and Microfluidics Devices
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Vaibhav
Patel
Electroosmosis
and Thermal Effects in Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Micropumps using
3D MHD Equations
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Berhanu
Kebede Wondimu
MEMS
Accelerometer
Formerly
at Bahir Dar University.
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Saravana
Pitchaikani
Design
and fabrication of High Sensitivity PMN-PT Biosensor
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Michael Frank
Biosensors
for food-borne pathogens.
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Bao
Nguyen
Bubble
Isolation Mechanism for High-Current Density DC MHD Micropumps
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Amandeep
Singh
MEMS
accelerometer for hand motion detections
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Steven
Wong
The
Packaging, Design, and Experimental Evaluation of a Pathogen Detection
System
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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.
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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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