Stony Brook University Mechanical Engineering

The Mechanical Engineering Students achieved remarkable success at the 2023 IGC Research Showcase by winning the First Place and Honorable Mention Awards for their outstanding presentation of a research project in poster form. This full-day event included faculty presentations, a competition featuring ninety undergraduate student poster presentations, and concluded with a celebratory reception to commemorate the Showcase.  Team SAS, consisting of Sooho Lee, Sambridha Bhattarai, Artham Bordoloi, and advised by Prof. Corenelius Bradter, achieved First Place in their research project titled "WildEye: Expeditionary Hexapod." Their research aims to establish a connection between humans and wildlife while simultaneously preserving the natural habitat and environment. WildEye offers a host of advantages, including an internal camera for object detection, gyro-sensors, and modular external camera mounts, providing a stable and reliable platform for capturing wildlife footage.   Joonhyeong Kim and advisor Professor Y. Eugene Pak received the Honorable Mention Award for their research titled "Nano Mechanical Modeling of Virus Assembly Process." This research focuses on the mechanical properties of a viral capsid, utilizing the established icosahedral structure study by Casper & Lug, with the aim of gaining insights into potential upcoming epidemics. Please join me in congratulating the Award winners!

Pureun Jeong, ME undergraduate student, was awarded with the Best Poster Award for her poster titled “Indoor Navigation System Designed for a Safety of Construction Site” at the Dec 2022 Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME) Annual Meeting 2022, held in Jeju, South Korea, Nov 9-12, 2023. ​Please join me in congratulating Pureun!

Jonathan Boyack, Ph.D. student in the Mechanical Engineering Department, was awarded the Best Paper Award for his presentation titled "A Real-Time Log Data Analytics-based Electric Vehicle Path Optimization" at Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME) Annual Meeting 2022, held in Jeju, South Korea, Nov 9-12, 2023.  Please join me in congratulating Jonathan!

    Dr. Joon Sik Lee will give a talk about Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Energy Transport and Application to the Development of a Thermoelectric Material Based on Silicon-Doped Graphene.  Dr. Lee is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University. He is also teaching MEC graduate courses at SUNY Korea. His research interests are Micro/Nanoscale heat transfer, renewable energy, and radiative heat transfer.   

We would like to share some good news for our graduate, Henry Nguyen, who just passed the qualifying exam for his Ph.D. program at Northwestern University. His advisor, Prof. Bazant, is one of the last giants in solid mechanics (https://scholar.google.co.kr/citations?hl=ko&user=tJ4t4Q8AAAAJ). Hope Henry can carry his torch and become a very successful academician. Please Join us in congratulating on his new journey!    

The team MEIC (Jonathan Boyakck, Ph.D. student and Ricardo Ortiz and Jee Won Lee, M. S. students) won "2022 Global Product-Service Localization Research Award Competition (2022년 글로벌 제품서비스 현지화 연구회 성과발표회)" and awarded by Incheon Technopark director with a prize of 200k KRW on November 31, 2022. In this competition, MEIC team presented technical and marketing strategies for local companies, which is to serve the local community. Please join us in congratulation Jonathan, Ricardok and Jee Won!

Suyoen Lee, Mechanical Engineering M.S. Student, was awarded the "Young Researcher Award" at an International Conference on Materials Reliability (ICMR) in Japan, November 2022.  In this conference, various topics of development, characterization, mechanical analysis, theoretical and experimental reliability analysis, technologies for reliability assessment, and prognostics and health management for various materials, systems and products were presented and discussed.  Please join us in congratulaton Suyeon!  

ASMaS-2023 is organized to create a high-quality academic exchange forum between domestic and foreign scientists on new and advanced research achievements in the fields of science, engineering, and technology. Prof. Seungbok Choi, a leading Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, will present in the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Smart Materials and Structures (ASMaS-2023) as a Co-Chair of the conference. Also, three other professors of ME department, Prof. Y. Eugene Pak, Prof. Changwoon Han, and Prof. Jongseong Brad Choi are a member of International Scientific Committees in the conference. The conference will be held in Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam from June 28 to June 30, 2023.  

Speaker: Dr. Jaewan Kim Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 17:00-18:00 PM in KST Venue: Academic Builing A211 We are pleased to announce that the In-Person Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series will be held online on November 16th, 2022. Dr. Jaewan Kim will give a talk about 2022 Nobel Physics Prize and the Quantum Information Technology. Abstract  Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger are receiving 2022 Nobel Prize in physics "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science." In quantum mechanics, physical quantity is not decided until it is measured. Einstein raised questions on this aspect of quantum measurement. He thought physical quantity should be a reality which means that physical quantity should be independent of measurement process. In 1935, Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) published a paper claiming quantum theory does not seem to be complete and presented two particles with correlated physical property demonstrating "spooky action at a distance" which is now called in various names; EPR-pair, entangled pair, Bell pair, Bell state and so on. In 1964, John Bell proposed a mathematical inequality which must be satisfied by the measurement on EPR-pairs if there is "local reality" as Einstein and his colleagues suggested. In 1970's, Clauser designed experiments to test Bell's inequality and found that it is violated by Bell pairs. In 1982, Aspect improved the experiment to avoid loopholes in Clauser's experiment and demonstrated Bell's inequality is indeed violated. Since 1990's up until now, Zeilin ger improved the test of Bell's inequality and pioneered many fundamental experiments to test quantum theory including the first quantum teleportation. Einstein's incessant question on quantum theory played an important role in opening the era of quantum information science and technology.      

Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering Department, Mark Anthony Rotor's work was awarded as the best presentation in 2022 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Power Engineering (IEEE).  The conference was held by Tsinghua University and IEEE Power and Energy Society from September 28 to 30. Mark gave a talk about Shape Optimization of a Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbine (HATT) Blade using Neural Networks for Response Surface Methodology.      Please join us in congratulating Mark!  

Speaker: Dr. Guilherme A. Lima da Silva Date & Time: Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 18:00-19:00 PM in KST We are pleased to announce that the online Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series will be held online on October 26th, 2022. Dr. Lima da Silva will give a talk about The Icing Engineering Process. Abstract This lecture shows the icing engineering process with atmospheric conditions, aircraft performance, ice protection systems, and thermal simulation. It offers the integration between aircraft performance simulation and icing simulation studies. The increased drag and decreased lift caused by ice affect the aircraft's performance. On the other hand, icing engineering needs the angle of attack versus calibrated airspeed curve to calculate the impingement and its limits. In addition, the icing needs the Altitude versus Calibrated Airspeed curve to find the most critical glaze icing condition. Regular icing courses rarely show this connection between flight mechanics and icing engineering. However, this interaction between different disciplines significantly affects the design and simulation of ice protection systems. Also, this course presents a brief introduction to icing atmospheric concepts and the icing simulation parameters. In the end, the lecture presents a thermal simulation implemented by the author and its main characteristics. The lecture does not focus on the current or future simulation tools but shows the icing engineering as a whole subject integrated into the airframe.   Please find the details below:  

    Prof. Gun Woong Bahng, a leading Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, will give a talk in Water Conference 2022 regarding "Biological effects of radical-free under-water plasma activated water". The Water Conference 2022 boasts several new features. First is the new venue: Bad Soden, Germany located near Frankfurt. The new location is easily accessible, will encourage more participation, and is in accord with the high-level, international nature of the conference. The conference will be held from Oct 13 to Oct 16.     

    ME Alumni Ms. Sooyon Chang has admitted to the M.S. Program in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Sooyon Chang entered SUNY Korea majoring in Mechanical Engineering in Spring 2018 as an undergraduate student. She has graduated from Mechanical Engineering Department at SUNY Korea in Fall 2021 as a valedictorian. Ranked 21 in the 2022 QS World Universities Rankings, Cornell University has one of the best programs in Engineering, which Ms. Sooyon Chang plans to pursue. Please join us in congratulating Sooyon Chang on the successful beginning of her M.S. program!    

  It has been said that "success is where preparation and opportunity meet". Namju was a senior year Mechanical Engineering undergraduate when she got an internship in the camera model department of Samsung Electro-Mechanics. Excelling in her works in the actuator group, Namju received a team award for her presentation on the  Aligned Camera Module. After her internship and graduation from SUNY Korea Mechanical Engineering Department in 2020 Fall, she is now employed in Samsung Electro-Mechanics. Namju's intelligence and hard work, combined with excellent academic preparation at SUNY Korea and the opportunity of doing an internship at Samsung have resulted in a great start to her career. We wish her the best. 

MEC graduate student Mr. Anh Nguyen has received the prestigious Walter P. Murphy Fellowship from the Northwestern University in the US to pursue his Ph.D. degree. Mr. Nguyen entered SUNY-Korea’s Mechanical Engineering program in 2016 as a recipient of a Shared Prosperity Scholarship. He received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2020, graduating Summa Cum Laude. He continued his Master’s degree at SUNY Korea MEC department under the guidance of  Prof. Y. Eugene Pak.  Ranked 29 in the 2021 QS World Universities Rankings, Northwestern has one of the best programs in Computational Solid Mechanics, which Mr. Nguyen plans to pursue. The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern is ranked among the top six worldwide in mechanical engineering by the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and top five nationwide in the most recent ratings by the National Research Council (in 2010). Mr. Nguyen will start his Ph.D. program in Fall 2021.