Mayur Bhakta
Mayur, an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering, will pursue a career in medicine upon earning his BSME at UCLA. He work on projects that are jointly sponsored by the Orthopaedic Surgery Division, the Pediatric Cardiology Department of UCLA's School of Medicine, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He was an honors high school student in Elko, NV.
Shan Wong
Shan is an undergraduate student in Aerospace Engineering. Since joining our group in spring, she has assisted in the manufacturing of composites and designing test fixtures. Aside from school, she swims competitively and will compete in a triathlon.
Hugo Pardo
Hugo is a graduate student in civil engineering at the University of Texas, El Paso. He joined our group in the summer of 1998 for research in determining notch stresses and probability of crack initiation on aluminum panels, using finite element methods (FEM) and second order probabilistic methods (SORM).
His research group at UTEP
Pierre-Olivier Gabris
Visiting student from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. He was in the NDE Laborarory from 1997-98. He worked on charaterization of damaged composite materials with Madhu for his thesis. He has since returned to Switzerland.
Tamin Zeidan-Kansou
Visiting student from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (originally from Lebenon). He was in the NDE Laborarory from 1997-98. For his thesis, he worked on charaterization of corroded aluminums and acoustic emissions from corrosion pits with Dr. Nam and Dawei. He has also since returned to Switzerland.
