News 2010

Prof. Behzad Bavarian has received a $150,000 grant from the Army for his proposal on High Performance Computing Research covering nanostructures, hydrogen economy, and smart building structures, May 04, 2010.

Senior Design Project Showcase

• ORAL PRESENTATIONS
  First Place Award
  CNC Tool Cart
  Team: Fawaz Alsugair, Rigo Casas, Tuan Dinh, Kevin Jamir, and Stewart Stachowiak
  Second Place Award
  CSUN Recreation Center
  Team #2: Jason Bacon, Khatchik Barsikhian, Ara Gregorian, Sebouh Ohanessian, Shant Printzian, and Mark Spiridon
  Third Place Award
  Grape Seed Oil Extractor
  Team: Braulio Diaz, Edgar Giron, Jr., Nathan Kroener, Derrick Olsen, and Jesus Rives
• DEMONSTRATIONS
  First Place Award
  Formula SAE Vehicle
  Team: Eric Acuna, Meshari Alenezi, Samuel Anderson, Jorge Arteaga, Brian Benton, Henry Cespedes, Gustavo Da Silva Ramos, Morris De La Roca, Guillaume Etienne, Marcus Gottschalk, Eduardo Hernandez, Jae Hong, Paula Kamel, Voltaire Lebron, Scott Linton, Robert McAfee, Brian Moore, Barry Orr, Dimtry Tsyvulevsky, and David Weisbach
  Second Place Award
  Innovative Design & Development of NorMAN Jr., an Intelligent Ground Vehicle
  Team: Raul Alvarez, Travis Baluyot, Adrian Candelario, Pei-Chun Chen, Craig Euler, Joseph Horvath, Mike Huerta, Rome Kenmepol, Garrett Leonard, Sevag Matavosian,Ara Mekhtarian, Cameron Mills, Hector Perez, Joseph Portillo, David Prince, Jeffrey Schroeder, Mario Servin, Michael Stefun, Po-Jeg Wang, and Daniel Weissberger

Prof. Amine Ghanem was one of the recipients of the National Teaching Award, from the Associated Schools of Construction, Region 7, April 2010

ASME Human Powered Vehicle Competition, CSUN,

April 23-24, 2010

Second Place - Design Category
Third Place - Speed Endurance Event

Team: Jonathan Incorvaia, Ararat Arakelian, Jesse Cordero, Riocard Delos Santos, Reynaldo Evangelista, Ricardo Garcia, Jonathanmarc Abanico, Lior Inberg, John Lake, Mitesh Mistry, Sepideh Norouzi, Raymond Palomino, Maurycy Sarosiek, Michael Studer, David Walker, Behnam Ansari, Boozarjomehr Behzadian, Bruce Rivera, Daniel Sarfati, and Bryan Zubiate

Faculty Advisor: Prof. Bob Ryan

Dale Conner, "Development of Amorphous Alloy Surface Coatings as Replacement for Chromate", Electro Chemical Finishing, $15,000, April 2010.

Hamid Johari and Bob Ryan, "Design Clinic: Investigation of Propellant Material Properties", Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, $44,686, April 2010.

IEEE Region 6 Southern Area Student Paper Contest, CSUN

April 17th, 2010

SECOND PLACE WINNERS

Title- Covert Operation Using a Completely Autonomous UAV Helicopter

Authors: Michael O. Yeretzian, Aditya Singh, Long Nguyen, Ellison M. Yasukochi,

Faculty Advisor: Prof. Ashley Geng

Branch Counselor: Prof. Sharlene Katz

ASCE National Steel Bridge Competition

Las Vegas, April 2010

Third Place Overall
Third Place in Economy
First Place in Lightness and Aesthetics
The Team: Captains:Julianna Colwell and Sara Villegas.
The Build Team: Jerry Perser, Nick Mineo, Thomas Tan, and Scott Watterson
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Gadomski

CSUN is a partner with Glendale Community College (PI: Dr. Kristin Bruno of GCC) in a $750,000 project that was just awarded by the Department of Energy on April 8, 2010 for Workforce Training for the Electric Utility Sector in Emerging Smart Grid Technologies. Co-PI: Prof. Bruno Osorno

CSUN's undergraduate engineering programs are the fastest growing in the nation in the past 3 years (96% growth)- ASEE March 2010

WESTEC National Manufacturing Challenge

SECOND PLACE WINNERS
GRAPESEED OIL PRESS

Team Members: Braulio Diaz, Edgar Grion, Nathan Kroener, Derrick Olsen and Jesus Rives

Faculty Advisors: Profs. Dale Conner and Tarek Shraibati

WESTEC National Manufacturing Challenge

Los Angeles, March 23-24, 2010

FIRST PLACE WINNERS
CNC TOOL CART

Team Members: Fawaz Alsugair, Rigoberto Casas, Tuan Dinh, Kevin Jamir and Stewart Stachowiak

Faculty Advisors: Profs. Dale Conner and Tarek Shraibati

Sembiam Rengarajan, "General purpose analysis of micro strip reflectarrays consisting of multi-layer substrates and superstrates", 2010-11 CECS Research Fellowship.

Engineers Council Awards: 2010

• John Guarerra Engineering Educator of the Year : Prof. Hamid Johari
• Distinguished Engineering Educator Awards: Profs. Bruno Osorno and George Wang
• Outstanding Engineering Merit Achievement Awards: Profs. Amine Ghanem, Dale Conner, and Xiyi Hang
• Distinguished Engineering Achievement: Ramon Abueg, AGM of Glendale Water and Power, and Co-PI on Smart Grid project with Prof. Osorno
• Distinguished Project Award: Satellite Chiller Plant and Sub-Tropical Rain Forest Project at CSUN - Team lead by Tom Brown from PPM

Roger Di Julio, "NESSR Performance-Based Design of Buildings with Dampers", Lehigh University, $57,825, February 2010.

Behzad Bavarian, High Altitude Lensing Experiment (HALO) Research Apprenticeship Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, $3,120, February 2010.

ASC National Design Competition, Reno

February 11-13, 2010

First Place Winners
Construction Management

Team Members: Francisco Arceo, Sammy Jouglet, Tommy Criner, Matthew Reeves, Mike Sosa, Ryan Husband, Michael Elliott

Faculty Advisor: Prof. Amine Ghanem

Building Partnerships and Pathways to Address Engineering Grand Challenges Workshop

When: February 8-10, 2010
Where: University of Texas, El Paso

• Invited Poster Presentations by CECS faculty on: Energy Research, Sustainability and the Smart Grid Research in Assistive and Rehabilitative Technology
• Faculty Grants to attend and present at workshop:
  Profs. Hamid Johari, Bruno Osorno, Shoeleh Di Julio, C. T. Lin, and Ramesh