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New AME Faculty Member Tubaldi Receives BIO5 Team Scholars Program Grant

Headshot of Eleonora TubaldiSince joining the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in January, assistant professor Eleonora Tubaldi has been quick to make an impact, as illustrated by her already receiving funding for her BIO5 Team Scholars Program project.

In patients with dialysis, the ability to be connected to the dialysis machine relies on the presence of a functional vascular access. However, vascular access points used to draw and return a patient's blood often wear out. The study, titled "MRI-to-CFD Pipeline for Hemodynamic Profiling of Murine Arteriovenous Fistula," is designed to develop an open-source software application that provides analysis of MRI data. Doctors can use the data to determine the best way to make the vascular access points last longer, thus reducing patient morbidity and mortality.

Tubaldi will be working alongside BIO5 researchers Dr. Prabir Roy-Chaudhury and Dr. Diego Celdrán Bonafonte.

Ethan Burnett Chosen as NSF Fellowship Program Awardee

Aerospace and mechanical engineering graduate student Ethan Ryan Burnett was selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

The NSF GRFP was created to recognize and support outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees.

Fellows are awarded a three-year annual stipend of $34,000, a $12,000 cost-of-education allowance for tuition and fees, opportunities for international research and professional development, and the freedom to conduct their own research.

AME Faculty, Graduate Students Shine Through Honors and Recognition

Victor Nguyen, Arman Dabiri, Shuyang Zhang, Jorge Martinez Dominguez and Brason Holt.

AME faculty and graduate students continue to bring prestigious fellowships, awards, honors and recognition to the department. 

Victor Nguyen (aerospace engineering doctoral program - adviser: Olesya Zhupanska) was awarded the NASA Jenkins Fellowship in January 2017. The fellowship, funded by the NASA Glenn Research Center, was awarded for Nguyen’s work in high-voltage insulation materials and structures for electric propulsion. The award also provided him the opportunity to gain research experience on-site at NASA Glenn.

Arman Dabiri (mechanical engineering doctoral program - adviser: Eric Butcher) won the Publons 2017 Peer Review Award in Mathematics, which honors outstanding efforts in peer review across the world's mathematics journals. In addition, Dabiri...

AIAA Selects Aerospace, Chemical Engineering Double Major for 20 Twenties Group

Namrah Habib stands next to NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson while guests mingle in the background at the 2018 Aviation Week Annual Laureates Awards.Namrah Habib, a senior who majors in both aerospace engineering and chemical engineering, has been recognized as one of the American Institute Aeronautics and Astronautics "20 Twenties," a group of 20 students from across three continents who are recognized for their outstanding scholarship, research or design projects, and civic contributions.

She and the other awardees were honored during Aviation Week’s 61st Annual Laureates Awards in Washington, D.C., on March 1.

Habib is currently an image processing intern on the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, and in addition to earning the AIAA honor, has been awarded numerous prestigious awards, such as the...

Learning Research Experience Student Benefits from UA Program, AME Mentor

Gabriel Vasquez studies mechatronics engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana in Honduras, but this summer he spent 10 weeks in Tucson as part of the University of Arizona Summer Program "A Learning Research Experience" under the guidance of accomplished mentors such as AME Professor Peiwen "Perry" Li.

"When I first arrived at the UA, I met with Dr. Li and we had a two-hour chat," Vasquez said. "I told him about my background and interests, and he placed me on a research project involving 3-D-printed tubes for enhanced heat exchangers. 3-D printing is familiar to me, and now I can find new applications for it. I'm also interested in energy transfer, so this project fulfilled many of my interests."

Vasquez explored innovative designs for internal flow heat exchangers, specifically ones that are 3-D printed, lowering the cost and waste associated with the manufacturing process.

University of Arizona College of Engineering