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Faculty

Shad Roundy
Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office: 1153 MEK
E-mail: shad.roundy@utah.edu
Phone: (801) 581-4304

Graduate Students

Josh Augenstein
MS student mechanical engineering
E-mail: josh.augenstein@utah.edu
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Research:
Self-charging pyroelectric power cell.
Arash Kazemi
Ph.D. student mechanical engineering
E-mail: arash.kazemi@utah.edu
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Research:
Finite element analysis for semiconducting flexoelectric transducers
Orpita Saha
Ph.D. student electrical engineering
E-mail: u1199876@utah.edu
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Research:
Wireeless power transfer for biomedical implants, magnetoelectric transducers
John Sanchez
Ph.D. student mechanical engineering
E-mail: john.a.sanchez@utah.edu
Research:
Wireless soil sensing
Smart agriculture

Undergraduate Students

Yifei Sun
B.S. student computer science
E-mail: yifei.sun@utah.edu
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Research:
Inertial sensors for healthcare applications

Alumni

Issak Allaire-MacDonaldMS 2022
Thesis title: “Increasing Power Outupt of a Shoe-Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvester within a User Burden-First Design Perspective”
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FL Smidth
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Jacob AmanMS 2019
Thesis title: “Maximizing Cogging Torque in a Radial-Flux Motor: Toward a Novel Cogging-Torque Actuator”
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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Erik AndersenPhD 2022
Thesis title: “Wireless Power Transfer to mm-Scale Biomedical Implants”
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Arizona State University
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Hamid BasaeriPhD 2019
Thesis title: “Design, Analysis and Fabrication of Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Power Transducer for Biomedical Implants”
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Vesper MEMS
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Curtis CasadosBS 2020BotShop
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David ChristensenPhD 2017
Thesis title: “Acoustic Power Transfer Systems for Implantable Medical Devices: Modeling Technique and Analysis”
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Dixie State University
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Julia DomineseyMS 2022
Thesis title: “Exploration of an Electrochemical Sensor for Continuous Monitoring of Estradiol in Appication to Fertility Tracking”
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UC San Diego
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Mark EilertsenMS 2016
Thesis title: "Unpowered Drywall Lifting Device: Characterization of Load Reduction while Lifting Drywall in the Construction Environment"
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Northrup Grumman
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John HeitMS 2014
Thesis title: “A Framework to Estimate Power Output as a Function of Input Vibration Parameters for Vibration Energy Harvesting”
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Los Alamos National Labs
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Fariha KhanPhD 2022
Thesis title: "Pyroelectrochamical Cell - A Direct Thermal to Electrochemical Energy Conversion Device "
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Intel
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Abdul Halim MiahPost Doctoral Researcher 2016 - 2019Intel
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Josh McClearyBS/MS 2015Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Turner PalomboMS 2020
Thesis title: “Development of an Inertial Measuement-Based Assessment of Disease Severity in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” [download thesis (PDF)]
Sandia National Labs
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Greg PlaizierMS 2017
Thesis title: "Design and Modeling of a Resonant Inductively Coupled Wireless Power Transfer System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"
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Northrup Gumman
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Robert RantzPhD 2019
Thesis title: "Design, Analysis, and Optimization of Wrist Worn Energy Harvesters"
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Apple
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Tyrel RuppMS 2018
Thesis title: "A Comparison of Magnetoelectric Transducer
Designs for Use as Wireless Magnetic Power
Receivers in Biomedical Implant
Applications"
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Space Dynamics Laboratory
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Binh Duc TruongPhD 2021
Thesis title: "Wireless Power Transfer for Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices"
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University of Utah
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William WeatherholtzMS 2017Dow Chemical
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Shane WilliamsBS 2019Cricut
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Tiancheng XuePhD 2018
Thesis title: "Energy Harvesting from Human Motion Using Eccentric Rotor-Based Generators with Piezoelectric Transducers"
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Apple
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