News/Awards

2022

  • Prof. Erturk gives a plenary talk at the Argentine Congress of Computational Mechanics (MECOM) in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
  • SSDSL contributes to PowerMEMS 2022 (Salt Lake City, UT) with a technical presentation.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 183rd ASA Meeting (Nashville, TN) with three technical presentations.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a virtual keynote talk for the 12th International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration.
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited virtual talk for ICAST 2022 (International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies) held in Suzhou, China.
  • SSDSL contributes to IEEE IUS 2022 (International Ultrasonics Symposium) with a technical presentation.
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited lecture (virtual) for the seminar series on the Mechanics and Physics of Advanced Materials and Structures (organized by Tianjin University, China).
  • SSDSL is awarded a new contract increment from Sandia National Laboratories for research on multi-stage mechanical wand and dynamic pressure identification (total award: $184,326).
  • SSDSL contributes to the European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (Lyon, France) with a technical presentation.
  • Prof. Erturk and collaborators received the Philip E. Doak Award of the Journal of Sound and Vibration for the paper titled “A General Theory for Bandgap Estimation in Locally Resonant Metastructures”.
  • SSDSL hosts high school teacher and students as a part of NSF project outreach activities in collaboration with CEISMC through the GIFT program.
  • Prof. Erturk is named the Carl Ring Family Chair (endowed chair) and awarded the next level of endowment following his Woodruff Professorship.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2022 U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Austin, TX) with four technical presentation, and organizes sessions of skull-brain dynamics and on metamaterials.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2022 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference (Long Beach, CA) with four technical papers.
  • Prof. Erturk is reappointed to give a series of lectures on Smart Structures and Devices for the Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica as an invited adjunct professor.
  • Chris joins the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology as a tenure-track assistant professor.
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited Nano@Tech seminar for the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology.
  • SSDSL is awarded a new contract from Sandia National Laboratories for research on focused ultrasonic testing of materials ($300,000).

2021

  • SSDSL is awarded a new contract from Sandia National Laboratories for research on multi-stage mechanical wand and dynamic pressure identification ($150,000).
  • Prof. Erturk gives a plenary talk (virtual) for PowerMEMS 2021.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 181st ASA Meeting (Seattle, WA) with three technical presentations.
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited talk (virtual) for the Institute of Applied Mechanics of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität.
  • SSDSL contributes to 2021 ASME IMECE (International Design Engineering Technical Conferences – virtual) with two technical presentations.
  • Our research on leveraging vibrations and waves in the human skull-brain system is featured in the GT President’s 2021 report.
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited talk in the “innovations in energy” session of the virtual French American Innovation Days (FAID).
  • SSDSL contributes to IEEE IUS 2021 (International Ultrasonics Symposium – virtual conference) with four technical presentations.
  • Prof. Erturk is named Invited Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) to lecture on smart/meta-structures for graduate students.
  • SSDSL contributes to 2021 ASME IDETC (International Design Engineering Technical Conferences) with a technical presentation.
  • New release on multifunctional trout-like piezoelectric robotic fish and energy harvester: Royal Society of Chemistry – Chemistry World, GT Research, GT IRIM, GT IEN.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a virtual keynote talk for the 3rd International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications (Xi’an, China).
  • Eetu’s talk on transcranial radiation of guided waves is featured in the 180th ASA Meeting’s online press room.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 180th ASA Meeting “Acoustics in Focus” with two technical presentations (virtually).
  • Herit accepts an offer to join Aerojet Rocketdyne. Congrats!
  • Mohid successfully presents his MS thesis on “Multifunctional Piezoelectric Metastructures for Vibration Attenuation and Energy Harvesting.” Congrats!
  • Herit successfully presents his MS thesis on “Bandgap Formation and Tuning in Stimuli-responsive Hydrogel-based Periodic Structures.” Congrats!
  • News release of the skull-brain dynamics project updates: Woodruff School, Georgia Tech Research Horizons, Georgia Tech News, AAAS Eurekalert, Newswise, Science Magazine, News-Medical, Bioengineer, Health News Digest.
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited seminar for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2021 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE (digital forum) with three technical papers.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a virtual keynote talk for the 2021 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems Conference (digital forum).
  • SSDSL is awarded a new contract from Sandia National Laboratories for continued research on data and power transfer through metallic barriers using a mechanical wand (total award: $141,000).
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited seminar for the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
  • Prof. Erturk is reappointed to give a series of lectures on Smart Structures and Devices for the Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica as an invited adjunct professor.
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited webinar for DINAME 2021 (Pirenópolis, Brazil) instead of the scheduled keynote (regular biennial conference is postponed to 2023).

2020

  • SSDSL is awarded a new LDRD contract from Sandia National Laboratories for research on data and power transfer through metallic barriers using a piezoelectric wand (total award: $150,000).
  • Prof. Erturk gives a Physics Seminar for the Center for Nonlinear Science at Georgia Tech.
  • Yiwei successfully defends her PhD dissertation on “Dynamics and Topology of Nonlinear and Aperiodic Metastructures.” Congrats!
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited virtual talk for the Energy Harvesting Workshop organized by the Lublin University of Technology in Poland.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2020 SES Virtual Technical Meeting with a technical presentation.
  • SSDSL contributes to 2020 ASME SMASIS (virtual conference) with three technical presentations.
  • SSDSL contributes to SEM Virtual International Congress with a technical presentation.
  • SSDSL contributes to IEEE IUS 2020 (virtual conference) with two technical presentations.
  • SSDSL contributes to 2020 ASME QNDE (virtual conference) with a technical presentation.
  • Prof. Erturk accepts to give a keynote talk in Pirenopolos, Brazil, for DINAME 2021 (19th International Symposium on Dynamic Problems of Mechanics) of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering.
  • Prof. Erturk’s keynote talk in Xi’an, China, at the 3rd International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications is postponed to 2021.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a seminar for the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Biolocomotion organized by Aix-Marseille Université and Universität Rostock.
  • Prof. Erturk’s election to SPIE Fellow rank is recognized in the SPIE Smart Structures/NDE digital forum that replaced the physical conference due to COVID-19.
  • Chris becomes a recipient of the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award for his 2019 dissertation on “Dynamics of Mechanical and Electromechanical Locally Resonant Metastructures.” Congrats!
  • Prof. Erturk is reappointed to give a series of lectures on Smart Structures and Devices for the Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica as an invited adjunct professor.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2020 SEM IMAC (Houston, TX) with five technical presentations.
  • SSDSL is awarded a contract from Sandia National Laboratories to study data and power transfer through metallic barriers (total award: $224,000).
  • Prof. Erturk is elected a Fellow of SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics) for his “achievements in nonlinear energy harvesting, bio-inspired piezoelectric actuation, and metamaterials”.

2019

  • SSDSL contributes to the 2019 ASA Fall Meeting (San Diego, CA) with a technical presentation.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2019 SES Annual Technical Meeting (St. Louis, MO) with one keynote and two technical presentations.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a plenary lecture at the International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators (IWPMA) in Lyon.
  • Prof. Erturk lectures on nonlinear energy harvesting and metamaterials for the ENHANCE Workshop in Lyon.
  • SSDSL is awarded an industrial grant on non-destructive testing (ultrasonic inspection) of additive manufactured aerospace components (total award: $107,000).
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2019 ASME SMASIS Conference (Louisville, KY) with two technical presentations.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2019 ASME IDETC Mechanical Vibration and Noise Conference (Anaheim, CA) with a technical presentation.
  • Prof. Erturk gives an Institute Lecture at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur.
  • SSDSL is awarded a new grant on “Coupling skull-brain vibroacoustics and ultrasound toward enhanced imaging, diagnosis, and therapy” (total award to GT: $2,000,000) as a follow-on to the previous one-year grant of $500,000 (yielding $2.5m in total).
  • Prof. Erturk is selected to receive the 2020 James W. Dally Young Investigator Award of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) for “significant contributions in education and a demonstrated research excellence in the field of experimental mechanics.” The award will be presented at the SEM Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (June 7-11, 2020) in Orlando, Florida.
  • David accepts an offer to join the Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory (Weapon Systems Group) as a Senior Professional Staff Member.
  • Chris accepts to stay as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in our lab.
  • Chris successfully defends her PhD dissertation on “Dynamics of Mechanical and Electromechanical Locally Resonant Metastructures.” Congrats!
  • Adriane is awarded an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateship to join the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)-Eglin (Munitions Directorate).
  • Adriane successfully defends her PhD dissertation on “Size-Dependent Dynamics of Flexoelectric and Flexoelectric-Piezoelectric Structures.” Congrats!
  • SSDSL contributes to Phononics 2019 (Tuscon, AZ) with 3 technical presentations. Yiwei wins the 3rd place award in student presentation competition. Congrats!
  • SSDSL contributes to the AmeriMech Symposium: Non-reciprocal and Topological Wave Phenomena in Solids and Fluids (Colombia, MO) with a technical presentation.
  • SSDSL contributes to the Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics (Ann Arbor, MI) with a technical presentation.
  • Prof. Erturk is named the Woodruff Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech (5-year endowment, 2019-2024).
  • SSDSL contributes to the 5th International Interdisciplinary Chaos Symposium: Chaos and Complex Systems (Antalya, Turkey) with a technical presentation.
  • Prof. Erturk is promoted to the rank of Full Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Prof. Erturk is reappointed to give a series of lectures on Smart Structures and Devices for the Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica as an invited adjunct professor.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2019 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference (Denver, CO) with five technical papers.

2018

  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited lecture at the 2018 PowerMEMS School (Daytona Beach, FL).
  • Bharat accepts an offer to join Tesla, Inc. as of January. Congrats and best of luck!
  • Bharat successfully presents his MS thesis on “Methods of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Human Body Motions.” Congrats!
  • SSDSL and collaborators are awarded an NSF LEAP-HI grant on “Investigation of coupled skull-brain vibroacoustics and ultrasound toward enhanced therapy and diagnosis” (ME news link).
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2018 ASME IDETC Mechanical Vibration and Noise Conference (Quebec City, Canada) with three technical presentations.
  • Prof. Erturk visits Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) and gives two seminars for the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments at XJTU.
  • Prof. Erturk is elected to the grade of Senior Member of SPIE.
  • Yiwei becomes the 2nd place winner in the Student Paper Competition of the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound for her IDETC 2018 conference paper. Congrats!
  • Prof. Erturk gives a keynote lecture for the Energy Harvesting Workshop – China.
  • Prof. Erturk lectures at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Milan Polytechnic (Politecnico di Milano) in Italy.
  • Adriane successfully presents her PhD proposal on “Size-Dependent Dynamics of Flexoelectric and Flexoelectric-Piezoelectric Structures.” Congrats!
  • Chris successfully presents his PhD proposal on “Dynamics of Mechanical and Electromechanical Locally Resonant Metastructures.” Congrats!
  • SSDSL alumna (PhD 2017) Dr. Serife Tol accepts an offer to join the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Congrats and best of luck!
  • Prof. Erturk gives a seminar for the College of Engineering at FAMU-FSU (Florida A&M University – Florida State University).
  • Prof. Erturk gives a seminar for the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabanci University.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2018 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference (Denver, CO) with five technical papers.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a series of lectures on Smart Structures and Devices for the Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica as an invited adjunct professor.
  • Ellen becomes a recipient of the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award for her 2017 dissertation on “Harvesting Energy from Acoustic Pressure Fluctuations within Hydraulic Systems via Excitation of Piezoelectric Stacks.” Congrats!
  • SSDSL alumna (PhD 2017) Dr. Ellen Skow joins Apple Inc. as a noise & vibration engineer. Congrats and best of luck!

2017

  • News release of piezoelectric tiles project (Bharat’s project) for NASA Kennedy Space Center: Georgia Tech News, GTRI news.
  • David becomes an inaugural recipient of the GWW End of PhD Studies Fellowship. Congrats!
  • David successfully presents his PhD proposal on “Resonant Nonlinear Elastodynamics of Piezoelectric Macro-Fiber Composites with Interdigitated Electrodes.” Congrats!
  • Drs. Erturk and Sabra are awarded an NSF grant (2017-2020) titled “Dynamics of Contactless Ultrasonic Power Transfer for Wireless Devices” (total award to GT: $348,119).
  • Drs. Alexeev and Erturk are awarded an NSF grant (2017-2020) titled “Understanding 3D Hydrodynamics of Active Electroelastic Materials in Complex Multimodal Motion” (total award to GT: $450,028).
  • SSDSL article on locally resonant bandgap estimation in piezoelectric metastructures becomes a featured article in Smart Materials and Structures.
  • David becomes the 1st place winner in the Student Paper Competition of the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound for his IDETC 2017 conference paper. Congrats!
  • Prof. Erturk is appointed a Woodruff Faculty Fellow for the five year period of 2017-2022.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a talk in the Energy Transport and Control in Nonlinear Systems minisymposium of the 2017 SIAM Dynamical Systems conference (Snowbird, UT).
  • Prof. Erturk gives a keynote lecture in the 2nd Workshop on Probabilistic Prognosis and Health Management of Energy Systems (PPHMES 2017) at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX).
  • Ellen successfully defends her PhD dissertation on “Harvesting Energy from Acoustic Pressure Fluctuations within Hydraulic Systems via Excitation of Piezoelectric Stacks.” Congrats!
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited talk at the 2017 Joint IEEE ISAF-IWATMD-PFM Conference (Atlanta, GA).
  • Serife successfully defends her PhD dissertation on “Structure-borne Elastic Wave Energy Harvesting Enhanced by Metamaterial Concepts.” Congrats!
  • Prof. Erturk is elected a Fellow of the ASME (News link).
  • Prof. Erturk is named the 2017 ASME C.D. Mote Jr. Early Career Award recipient by the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound for his scholarly contributions to vibration and acoustics research (to be awarded in IDETC 2017).
  • SSDSL article becomes the recipient of the 2017 ASME Energy Harvesting Best Paper Award (announced in the EHTC Spring 2017 meeting – to be awarded in ASME SMASIS 2017).
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2017 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference (Portland, OR) with seven technical papers.
  • Prof. Erturk and Chris give two invited seminars for the Dynamics theme of the Georgia Tech Mathematics and Applications Portal in the School of Mathematics.
  • Prof. Erturk becomes a recipient of the Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award from the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (for teaching effectiveness score of at least 4.90/5.00 with a class response rate of 85% and above).

2016

  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited lecture at the 2016 PowerMEMS School (Paris, France).
  • SSDSL contributes to IEEE Sensors 2016 conference (Orlando, FL) with a technical paper.
  • SSDSL contributes to ICAST 2016 (Lake George, NY) with a technical paper.
  • Serife becomes the symposium-level winner in the 2016 ASME SMASIS Best Student Paper Competition. Congrats!
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2016 ASME SMASIS Conference (Stowe, VT) with four technical papers.
  • Chinese edition of Prof. Erturk’s book on Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting is published by the National Defense Industry Press of China, authorized by Wiley.
  • Chris becomes the 2nd place winner in the Student Paper Competition of the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound for his IDETC 2016 conference paper. Congrats!
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2016 ASME IDETC Mechanical Vibration and Noise Conference (Charlotte, NC) with two technical papers.
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited talk in the Materials Workshop for the Georgia Tech Mathematics and Applications Portal in the School of Mathematics.
  • SSDSL alumnus (PhD 2015) Dr. Stephen Leadenham accepts an offer to join the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Defense Technologies Engineering Division. Congrats and best of luck!
  • Serife successfully presents her PhD proposal on “Structure-borne Elastic Wave Energy Harvesting Enhanced by Metamaterial Concepts.” Congrats!
  • SSDSL alumna (PhD 2015) Dr. Shima Shahab accepts a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics Department at Virginia Tech. Congrats and best of luck!
  • Prof. Erturk gives a Mechanical Engineering Seminar at the University of Nevada, Reno.
  • Prof. Erturk receives the 2016 TASSA Young Scholar Award (junior faculty level) and gives an invited talk at the 2016 Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association Conference (Chicago, IL).
  • SSDSL article is listed in the “Highlights of 2015” collection of Smart Materials and Structures.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2016 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference (Las Vegas, NV) with seven technical papers.
  • Prof. Erturk is awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor in the Woodruff School.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a talk for the Denning Technology and Management program at Georgia Tech.
  • Prof. Erturk and Chris attend the Gordon Research Conference on Multifunctional Materials and Structures (Ventura, CA) and present two posters.

2015

  • Shima and Stephen officially receive their PhD degrees (picture from PhD hooding ceremony line up). Congrats!
  • SSDSL paper becomes one of the most cited SMS articles published in 2013.
  • Prof. Erturk receives the ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award and the ASME Best Paper Award in Energy Harvesting at the ASME SMASIS Conference.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2015 ASME SMASIS Conference (Colorado Springs, CO) with three technical papers.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a plenary talk at the 10th Annual Energy Harvesting Workshop (Blacksburg, VA).
  • Stephen successfully defends his PhD dissertation on “Advanced Concepts in Nonlinear Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting: Intentionally Designed, Inherently Present, and Circuit Nonlinearities.” Congrats!
  • Shima successfully defends her PhD dissertation on “Vibration Energy Harvesting, Biomimetic Actuation, and Contactless Acoustic Energy Transfer in a Quiescent Fluid Domain.” Congrats!
  • Shima and Stephen become the 2nd and 3rd place winners in the Student Paper Competition of the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound for their respective IDETC 2015 conference papers. Congrats!
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2015 ASME IDETC Mechanical Vibration and Noise Conference (Boston, MA) with two technical papers.
  • SSDSL article on primary and secondary resonances in M-shaped nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvester becomes a featured article in Smart Materials and Structures.
  • SDSSL is awarded an AFOSR grant (2015-2018) titled “Integrated Multi-field Resonant Metamaterials for Extreme, Low Frequency Damping” in collaboration with the Vibration and Wave Propagation Lab (in AE, led by Dr. Ruzzene) and the Laboratory of Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures (in ETH Zurich, led by Drs. Ermanni and Bergamini) (total award: $848,740; total award to GT: $563,365).
  • SSDSL is awarded an NSF grant (2015-2018) titled “Generating Electricity from Deformation: Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Flexoelectricity from Atoms to Devices” (total award to GT: $377,829). This is a collaborative project with the University of Houston (total award to UH: $154,355).
  • SSDSL article (written in collaboration with the University of Houston team) becomes the inaugural recipient of the ASME Energy Harvesting Best Paper Award (announced in the EHTC Spring 2015 meeting – to be awarded in ASME SMASIS 2015).
  • Prof. Erturk is named the 2015 ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award recipient in Adaptive Structures and Material Systems (announced at the 2015 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference – to be awarded in SMASIS 2015) – ME news link, COE news link, ASME news link.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2015 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference (San Diego, CA) with six technical papers.
  • Shima becomes one of the 6 finalists (out of ~60 submissions) for the ASME/SPIE Best Student Paper Award and receives honorable mention for her presentation. Congrats!
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2015 TMS MEMA Congress on Energy and Infrastructure Systems (Doha, Qatar) with a technical presentation.

2014

  • SSDSL proposal wins Georgia Tech IEN (Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology) Seed Grant for Serife’s research.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2014 ASME IMECE (Montreal, Canada) with a technical paper.
  • Ellen successfully presents her PhD proposal on “Harvesting Energy from Acoustic Pressure Fluctuations within Hydraulic Systems via Excitation of Piezoelectric Stacks.” Congrats!
  • Shima successfully presents her PhD proposal on “Vibration Energy Harvesting, Biomimetic Actuation, and Contactless Acoustic Energy Transfer in a Quiescent Fluid Domain.” Congrats!
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2014 ASME DSC Conference (San Antonio, TX) with a technical paper.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seminar at NYU-Poly (Brooklyn, NY).
  • Shima attends GE Global Research Center’s Annual Networking Event in Niskayuna, NY, as an invited participant.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2014 ASME SMASIS Conference (Newport, RI) with two technical papers.
  • Stephen successfully presents his PhD proposal on “Advanced Concepts in Nonlinear Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting: Intentionally Designed, Inherently Present, and Circuit Nonlinearities.” Congrats!
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2014 ASME IDETC Mechanical Vibration and Noise Conference (Buffalo, NY) with a technical paper.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a talk in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a guest lecture at IMTEK (Department of Microsystems Engineering) at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
  • SSDSL contributes to NV 2014 (5th Conference on Nonlinear Vibrations, Localization, and Energy Transfer, Istanbul, Turkey) with a presentation.
  • SSDSL contributes to USNCTAM 2014 (East Lansing, MI) with two presentations.
  • SSDSL article is listed in the “Highlights of 2013” collection of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a CAV (Center for Acoustics and Vibration) Seminar at Penn State.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2014 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference (San Diego, CA) with seven technical papers.
  • Two SSDSL articles are listed in the “Highlights of 2013” collection of Smart Materials and Structures.
  • Drs. Erturk and Cunefare, and Veraphotonics are awarded an NSF STTR Phase I grant titled “Self-Powered Wireless Leak Detection Sensor for Pipeline Monitoring” (total award: $207,172).
  • Sihong receives a Sigma Xi Georgia Tech Chapter Best M.S. Thesis Award for her 2013 thesis on “Energy Harvesting from Random Vibration of Piezoelectric Cantilevers and Stacks.” Congrats!

2013

  • SSDSL contributes to the 2013 Fall meeting of the ASA (San Francisco, CA) with two presentations.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a seminar at the City College of New York.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2013 ASME SMASIS Conference (Snowbird, UT) with three technical papers.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2013 ASME IDETC Mechanical Vibration and Noise Conference (Portland, OR) with three technical papers.
  • SSDSL is awarded an NSF grant (2013-2016) titled “Metamaterial-Enhanced Electroelastoacoustic Wave Energy Harvesting for Sensor Systems” (total award: $296,535).
  • Prof. Erturk receives a prestigious NSF CAREER Award (2013-2018) in Dynamical Systems for his proposal titled “Electroelastic Dynamics of Flexible Piezoelectric Composites for Enhanced Biomimetic Locomotion and Energy Harvesting” (total award: $400,000). Here is the ME news link.
  • Sihong successfully presents her MS thesis on “Energy Harvesting from Random Vibration of Piezoelectric Cantilevers and Stacks.” Congrats!
  • SSDSL paper (written in collaboration with the Vibration and Wave Propagation Lab in AE & Nonlinear Mechanics Lab in ME) becomes a featured article in Smart Materials and Structures.
  • Algan successfully presents his MS thesis on “Flexible Piezoelectric Composites and Concepts for Bio-Inspired Dynamic Bending-Twisting Actuation.” Congrats!
  • SSDSL and Veraphotonics are awarded a Navy SBIR Phase I grant (N131-011) for their joint proposal titled “Energy Harvesting, Wireless Structural Health Monitoring System for Helicopter Rotors” (total award: $80,000).
  • Prof. Erturk gives a short course on Methods of Energy Harvesting for Low-Power Sensors at the 2013 SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conferences in Baltimore, MD.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2013 AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference (Boston, MA) with three technical papers.
  • SSDSL paper becomes a featured article in Smart Materials and Structures.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2013 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference (San Diego, CA) with three technical papers.
  • Prof. Erturk gives a short course on Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Dynamical Systems at the 2nd IIMEC Winter School on Computational Materials Science in College Station, TX.

2012

  • Lejun successfully presents his MS thesis on “Fish-like Locomotion Using Flexible Piezoelectric Composites for Untethered Aquatic Robotics.” Congrats!
  • Prof. Erturk gives a seminar at the Polytechnic School of New York University.
  • SSDSL contributes to ICAST 2012 (Nanjing, China) with a technical paper.
  • Sihong receives the conference-level Best Student Paper Award (out of 7 symposia) in the 2012 ASME SMASIS Conference and is honored in the conference banquet at Georgia Aquarium.
  • Algan, Ellen, Lejun, Martin, and Sihong present their first research papers in the 2012 ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) held in Stone Mountain, GA.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2012 ASME SMASIS Conference (Stone Mountain, GA) with six technical papers.
  • SSDSL contributes to the 2012 ASME IDETC Mechanical Vibration and Noise Conference (Chicago, IL) with a technical paper.
  • Prof. Erturk gives an invited talk at the 2012 Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association (TASSA) Conference (College Park, MD).
  • Prof. Erturk gives a short course on Methods of Energy Harvesting for Low-Power Sensors at the 2012 SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conferences in Baltimore, MD.