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Keynote Sessions
IDETC/CIE
Engineering at Purdue University (2013). Since May 2014, he is the
inaugural Associate Dean for Global Engineering Programs, leading
College strategic initiatives for global education, research, and
engagement in Latin America, sub-saharan Africa, Middle East and North
Africa, and East Asia.
MNS KEYNOTE
Tuesday, August 8
11:00am–12:00pm
Room 13
Christian A. Zorman
Case Western Reserve University
“Integration of Process-Incompatible Materials for Microfabricated
Polymer-Based Neural Interfaces”
Abstract: The desire to utilize microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
technology in applications where silicon is not well-suited has necessitated
the development of materials not commonly used in IC processing. This
talk presents an overview of several collaborative research projects to
develop MEMS-based devices for long-term neural interfacing. These
projects include: (1) development of a microfabricated cortical probe from
a chemoresponsive, mechanically-dynamic, nanocomposite polymer, and
(2) development of a polymer-based thin film transfer technology for
mechanically-flexible diamond-on-polymer microelectrodes. Both projects
involved the use of materials that offered interesting opportunities and/or
challenges with respect to their mechanical properties. A central, unifying
theme among these projects is the fabrication of key structural device
components using newly developed materials and/or the fabrication of
devices using materials that are incompatible with respect to the way they
are commonly processed.
Biography: Christian A. Zorman received a B.S. cum laude in physics and
a B.A. cum laude in economics from the Ohio State University in 1988,
followed by M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Case Western Reserve
University in 1991 and 1994, respectively. He joined the MEMS program at
CWRU in 1994 as a Research Associate, was promoted to Senior Research
Associate in 1997 and Researcher in 2000. From 2000 to 2002, he held an
appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science. He joined the EECS faculty at CWRU
in 2002 as an Associate Professor and currently holds an appointment as
Professor with secondary appointments in the Departments of Biomedical
Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Zorman is
also a Research Associate at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical
Center where he serves as Co-Director of Research and Scientific Affairs
for the Advanced Platform Technology Center of Excellence. He currently
serves as Faculty Director of the Microfabrication Laboratory at CWRU.
Prof. Zorman has authored over 250 peer-reviewed technical publications, formerly, at the University of L’Aquila, where he was the Head of the
is a Senior Member of IEEE and chairman of the MEMS Technical Group in
the American Vacuum Society. In 2009, Professor Zorman received the
28 John S. Diekhoff Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, CWRU’s
highest honor in this area. His research centers on the development of
novel, enabling materials and the requisite processing techniques for
micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems with an emphasis on
applications in challenging environments.
MSNDC KEYNOTE – LYAPUNOV AWARD
LECTURE
Tuesday, August 8
2:00pm–5:40pm
Room 26 A
*2nd half of this session includes the special session on Autonomous and
Connected Vehicles (see page 40)
Giuseppe Rega
Sapienza University of Rome
“From Understanding Nonlinear Phenomena to Exploiting Global
Dynamics for Engineering Safety”
Abstract” Understanding nonlinear dynamics phenomena in solid/structural
mechanics has required about forty years of intense theoretical and
applied research efforts, which can be tentatively framed within some
main stages of development. The first three of them encompass nonlinear
oscillations addressed through analytical methods, bifurcations and
complex dynamics investigated via geometrical and computational
techniques, experimental testing of the nonlinear response of small-scale
models aimed at cross-validating theoretical and numerical outcomes. The
first part of the talk overviews some relevant representative achievements,
by referring to the suspended cable as to a continuous/reduced-order
archetypal model, or an experimental system, exhibiting a satisfactory
variety of issues and phenomena typical of the nonlinear dynamics of
smooth flexible systems with initial curvature.
The fourth stage of current development is characterized by a marked
hybridization of nonlinear dynamics with other theoretical and application
areas, which include control, consideration of also micro/nano, intelligent,
or coupled systems, and multiphysics problems. The second part of the talk
dwells on the role that nonlinear dynamics is expected to play in the near
future to meaningfully affect the analysis, control and safe design of real
engineering systems. Focus will be in particular on how to properly exploit
concepts and tools of global dynamics for evaluating robustness and safety
of the response in presence of unavoidable imperfections, as well as for
controlling and possibly improving the system/structure load carrying
capacity, independent of its specific mechanical and dynamical features, of
its possible multi-dimensional character, and of the spatial scale of the
relevant application.
Biography: Giuseppe Rega has been a Professor of Solid and Structural
Mechanics at the Sapienza University of Rome from 1995 to 2016 and,
Department of Structure, Water and Soil Engineering. He taught to students
in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, and Architecture, where he
established an innovative Master degree on Structures. At Sapienza, he
was Chairman of the Ph.D. Program in Structural Engineering, and Director
of the Doctoral School in Civil Engineering and Architecture. Former