Former and Current PhD students

1. Sejoong Oh, PhD, (graduated August 1999): Dynamic Stability of Interacting Spur Gears.
Co-chair with Prof. James R. Barber., currently employed as Senior Contact Engineer at General Motors Corporation.

2. Pete Halliday, PhD, (graduated Winter 2000). Vibration and Acoustics of Complex Structures.
Chair. Currently at Ford Motor company.

3. Anand Parthasartahi, PhD, (graduated, Winter 2000), Numerical Modeling and Electro-Acoustic Stimulus Response for Cochlear Mechanics.
Co-chair with Dr. Fred Nuttall (Director of the Hearing Research Institute, Oregon State Health Sciences University, Professor Emeritus at Kresge Hearing Research Institute, at the U of M). Currently at Bose Corporation.

4. Yuan Lin, PhD (Graduated July, 2000), Large Scale Computation and Optimization for Ultrasound Acoustic Transducers.
Chair. Currently at SDRC - COSMOS Corp. Los Angeles.

5. John Dodson, PhD, (Graduated Winter 2001) Efficient Finite Element Methods/Reduced-Order Modeling for Structural Acoustics with Applications to Transduction.
Chair. Currently at Ford Motor Company.

6. Jeffery Bischoff, PhD, (Graduated Summer 2001) Constitutive Modeling and Testing of Soft Tissue.
Co-chair with Prof. Ellen Arruda. Currently at Zimmer Orthopedics, Warsaw, IN.

7. Karen Lee Fegelman, PhD, (Graduated Fall 2002). Modeling Analysis and Experimental Verification of a Multi-Mode Vibro-Impacting System.
Chair. Currently at P&G, Cincinnati, OH.

8. Sripriya Ramomoorthy, PhD, (Graduated Summer 2004). Passive and Active Structural Acoustic Filtering in Cochlear Mechanics: Analysis and Applications.
Chair. Currently at Bose Corporation.

9. R. D. White, (Graduated Summer 2005) Biomimetic Trapped-Fluid Microsystems for Acoustic Sensing.
Chair. Currently Assistant Professor, Tufts University.

10. Niranjan Deo, candidate, (graduated Summer 2006), Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of the Mammalian Cochlea.
Currently, McKinsey Consultants.

11. Lei Cheng candidate, (Graduated Summer 2007) Theoretical modeling and analysis of electroacoustic transducers. Chair. Currently at Bose Corporation.

12. R. Littrell, pre-candidate, (2010 expected). Microfabrication of electroacoustic transducers. Chair.

13. Joe Olberding, Biomedical Engineering candidate (expected 2009). Growth and remodeling in biological tissue.
Co-chair with Ellen Arruda and Krishna Garikipati

14. Devin O’Connor, Mechanical Engineering pre-candidate Biomechanics of Growth and Soft Tissue. Co-chair with Ellen Arruda and Krishna Garikipati

15. Julien Meaud, Mechanical Engineering pre-candidate. Cochlear Mechanics. Chair

16. Yizeng Li, Mechanical Engineering pre-candidate. Cochlear Mechanics. Chair.