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2024
- Mar. 23-24, 2024: Smart Morphing Wing places First at the 2024 AIAA regional student research conference and competition, hosted by Santa Clara University. The competition included 13 teams from different universities such as University of Southern California (USC), and San Jose State University (SJSU). The team will get $500 cash prize along with first place certificates. The AIAA will fully support a team representative to present our research at the AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, in Orlando, FL, January 2025, which is “the largest event for aerospace research, development, and technology in the world”. The team's paper will also be published in the Proceedings of this event, and we will compete at the international level. The paper is entitled "Design of a non-flapping seagull-inspired composite morphing drone".
- Mar. 13, 2024: Smart Prosthetics present their new designs at the Los Angeles Valley College's Pi Day.
- Mar. 1, 2024: Dr. Bishay presents hiseducational project at the CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning, organized by CSU San Bernardino, along with his amazing collaborators from CSUN's Biology department, Dr. Mariano Loza-Coll and Professor Allea Cauilan. The presentation, entitled "Teaching to Learn: Do as I do, not as I say", presents a new educational intervention intended to enhance the study skills of STEM students.
- Feb. 12, 2024: Dr. Bishay joins the editorial team of Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC) by SAGE Publications, Inc. as an Associate Editor.
Journal Description: The Journal of Vibration and Control is a peer-reviewed journal of analytical, computational and experimental studies of vibration phenomena and their control. The scope encompasses all linear and nonlinear vibration phenomena and covers topics such as: vibration and control of structures and machinery, signal analysis, aeroelasticity, neural networks, structural control and acoustics, noise and noise control, waves in solids and fluids and shock waves. The Journal of Vibration and Control is published in association with the Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM).
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- Jan. 30, 2024: Dr. Bishay's recently published paper is featured on the front page of Prosthesis journal.
- Jan. 19, 2024: Dr. Bishay joins President Beck, Dean Toutanji, Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost, and Assemblywoman Luz Rivas to visit the construction of the new Autodesk Technology Engagement Center (ATEC) building at CSUN.
- Jan. 11-13, 2024: Dr. Bishay and 10 members from Smart Prosthetics attend the 36th Annual CSU Biotechnology Conference (Santa Clara, CA). Their poster entitled "Foot Controller and Haptic Feedback Systems for Below-the-Elbow Prosthetic Arms" won the "Crowd Favorite Poster Award" (Only 4 posters received this award out of 242 posters presented from Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering).
2023
- Dec. 2, 2023: Gerbert Funes Alfaro, Anthony Bonilla, and Matthew Hoffman represent CSUN's Smart Prosthetics at the LAUSD STEM and Robotics workshop series to inspire K-12 students to become future scientists and engineers. The outreach activity happened at Chatsworth High School.
- Nov. 28, 2023: Ian Sherrill, Dr. Bishay's undergraduate researcher and member of Smart Prosthetics, recieves the SoCalGas STEM-NET Student Research Fellowship award ($ 2,500) for Spring 2024. His project is entitled "Bio-inspired Multiscale Design Optimization of 3D-Printed Structures via Generative Design and Experimentally-Optimized Print Settings". Congratualtions Ian!
- Nov. 20, 2023: Dr. Bishay and sixteen members from the fifth, sixth, and seventh cohorts of Smart Prosthetics senior design project publish a new paper in Prosthesis journal, entitled: Controlling a Below-the-Elbow Prosthetic Arm Using the Infinity Foot Controller.
- Nov. 17, 2023: Dr. Bishay's new graduate student, Estefany Ortega, receives a $700 fund from CSUN's "Thesis/Project/Dissertation Support Program" to support her thesis research.
- Nov. 11, 2023: Gerbert Funes Alfaro, Dr. Bishay's undergraduate researcher and member of Smart Prosthetics, recieves one of two CSUN-M3X Fellowship award ($ 8,000) for 2024. Congratualtions Gerbert!
- Oct. 29, 2023: Dr. Bishay and the seventh cohort of Smart Morphing Wing senior design project publish a new paper in Applied Sciences journal, entitled: 3D-Printed Bio-Inspired Mechanisms for Bird-like Morphing Drones.
- Aug. 25, 2023: The CSUN 2023 President's Fall Welcome Address features the research being done in the Smart Prosthetics senior design project.
- Aug. 2-3, 2023: Dr. Bishay attends the "Autodesk Fusion Academy - Summer Summit" in Denver Colorado.
- June 21-23, 2023: Dr. Bishay attends the Faculty Learning Community (FLC) June Institute in CSU San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus, with 35 STEM faculty from all CSU campuses, as part of the ISSUES-X grant, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Bishay is teaming up with two other faculty from CSUN's Biology Department, Dr. Mariano Loza-Coll and Prof. Allea Cauilan, in an interdisciplinary educational project, called "Learning to Learn".
- May 22-24, 2023: Mr. Brent Knight, a Structural Dynamics expert from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), makes his second visit to CSUN as part of the ongoing Mass Mitigation Project with CSUN Mechanical Engineering faculty (PIs: N. Schaal, P. Bishay, C. Schaal, and J. Booth).
- May 17, 2023: Dr. Bishay successfully completes the CMMI Game Changer Academies (CGCA) program. This program was founded by the U.S. National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (NSF-CMMI). The program aims to improve group dynamics during panel discussions, increase awareness of bias and identity, and enhance understanding of high-risk, high-reward ideas. The 2022-23 cohort included researchers from academia, industry, and national laboratories at all career stages. Dr. Bishay is now a CGCA panel fellow.
- May 12, 2023: Smart Morphing Wing SDP team wins the Project Display Competition at CSUN's 2023 Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS). The team also presented their research and design to industry professionals in a 15-min oral presentation.
- May 12, 2023: Smart Prosthetics SDP team presents their research and design to industry professionals at CSUN's 2023 Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS): 15-min oral presentation and project display.
- May 11, 2023: CrossComm releases an inspirational video on LinkedIn focusing on one of two studies in the NSF-funded project that features CSUN-CrossComm collaboration:CSUN-CrossComm Collaboration: LinkedIn Video 1.
- April 29, 2023: With the support of CSUN’s University Patent and Copyright Committee, Dr. Bishay and his former student, Jack Wilgus, are named inventors in a provisional patent application titled "Foot Controller for Prosthetic Arms, Their Methods of Production and Use".
- April 21, 2023: Dr. Bishay's current undergraduate researcher, Brian Sanchez, presents a 10-min oral presentation at CSUN's 27th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). His presentation, entitled "Experimental and Computational Analyses of a Cantilever Beam Subjected to Large Deformations", wins second place (Award certificates and $100) in Session 10 (Undegradute, Preliminary Stage) of the symposium, that included 8 presentations from CSUN's CECS, AMC, HHD, and SBS colleges.
- April 21, 2023: Dr. Bishay's current graduate student, Utsav Swami, presents a 10-min oral presentation at CSUN's 27th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). His presentation, entitled "Experimental and Computational Analyses of Metallic and Composite Periodic Beams", wins first place (Award certificates and $200) in Session 8 (Gradute, Completed Stage) of the symposium, that included 6 presentations from CSUN's CECS and HHD colleges.
- April 21, 2023: Dr. Bishay's current graduate students, Nelson Richardson, Annamaria Viazzo, and Erik Serrano present 10-min oral presentations at CSUN's 27th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium).
- April 21, 2023: Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project presents 10-min and 3-min oral presentations and a poster at CSUN's 27th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). SMW's 10-minute oral presentation, presented by Evette Minassian, Matthew Brody, and Scott Massey, entitled "MataGull, a bio-inspired lightweight non-flapping bird-like morphing drone.", wins first place (Award certificates and $200) in Session 8 (Undergradute, Completed Stage) of the symposium, that included 8 presentations from CSUN's CECS, HHD, and SBS colleges.
- April 21, 2023: Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project presents 10-min and 3-min oral presentations and a poster at CSUN's 27th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). SP's 10-minute oral presentation, presented by Matthew Gosparini, Estefano Sanchez, and Tiffany Haghighi, and entitled "Infinity-2: A lightweight below-the-elbow prosthetic arm with enhanced grip functionality, haptic feedback system, and a foot controller", wins second place (Award certificates and $100) in Session 8 (Undergradute, Completed Stage) of the symposium, that included 8 presentations from CSUN's CECS, HHD, and SBS colleges.
- April 20, 2023: Dr. Bishay's graduate student, Nelson Richardson, successfully defends his Master thesis, entitled Effect of Delamination Size and Location on the Frequency Response of a Laminated Composite Cantilever Beam.
- March 31, 2023: CrossComm marketing team visits CSUN to give an interview with the PIs of the NSF-M3X grant CSUN received (Jacob Hinkel-Lipsker, Stefanie Drew, Peter Bishay, and Thomas Chan) and take videos of the work being done through the CrossComm-CSUN collaboration.
- March 25-26, 2023: Smart Morphing Wing SDP team presents its research and design at the AIAA regional student conference and competition hosted by UC Davis, and receives an honorable mention from the conference committee. The team's 11-page technical paper is entitled "MataGull: A lightweight bio-inspired non-flapping bird-like morphing drone".
- March 20, 2023: Dr. Bishay's new graduate student, Erik Serrano, receives a $800 fund from CSUN's "Thesis/Project/Dissertation Support Program" to support his thesis research.
- March 13, 2023: Oxnard Community College students visit CSUN and Smart Morphing Wing and Smart Prosthetics senior design projects in the HAAS lab.
2022
- December 12-14, 2022: Mr. Brent Knight, a Structural Dynamics expert from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), visits CSUN as part of the ongoing Mass Mitigation Project with CSUN Mechanical Engineering faculty (PIs: N. Schaal, P. Bishay, C. Schaal, and J. Booth).
- December 6, 2022: Dr. Bishay's graduate student, Andrew Heness, is recognized as one of the CSU-LSAMP PROUD scholars (Program for Recognition of Undergraduate Distinction).
- December 6, 2022: Dr. Bishay and his former graduate student, James Martinez, publish a new paper in Heliyon journal, entitled: Reliability analysis of smart laminated composite plates under static loads using artificial neural networks.
- November 4, 2022: Two of Dr. Bishay's graduate students receive funds from CSUN's "Thesis/Project/Dissertation Support Program": Annamaria Viazzo ($1,200), and Utsav Swami ($1,000).
- September 6, 2022: Dr. Bishay's multidisciplinary collaboration with Drs. Jacob Hinkel-Lipsker (Kinesiology, PI), Stefanie Drew (Psychology, CoPI), and Thomas Chan (Psychology, CoPI) led to a new NSF grant award from the Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus (M3X) program, which is under NSF’s Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) division. This is a ~$800K three-year grant (2022-2025). The proposal is entitled "RUI: Improving motor learning and rehabilitation via experimental bidirectional dynamic human-virtual reality interaction systems". This is the link to the NSF announcement page.
- September 1, 2022: Dr. Bishay's collaboration with Drs. Natalie Schaal (PI), Christoph Schaal (CoPI) and Jamie Booth led to a new grant award from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA-MSFC). This is a ~$140K one-year grant (2022-2023). The proposal is entitled "Mass-mitigation through experimental characterization of frequency-dependent strength of metallic structures".
- September 2, 2022: Dr. Bishay gives an invited talk at the Mechanical Engineering seminar series, University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). Title of the presentation: "Connecting research, teaching and capstone design projects through the mechanics and applications of shape memory alloy wire actuators".
- July 18, 2022: Dr. Bishay and the fifth cohort of Smart Morphing Wing senior design project publish a new paper in Aerospace journal, entitled: Design and Analysis of MataMorph-3: A Fully Morphing UAV with Camber-Morphing Wings and Tail Stabilizers.
- June 22, 2022: Dr. Bishay and Drs. Schaal and Booth secure a new Campus Quality Fee (CQF) grant (~$14K) to support the Multi-Scale Mechanical Characterization Laboratory (MMCL) with a lab assistant in 2022-23 academic year.
- May 24, 2022: Dr. Bishay is recognized at the 2022 Honored Faculty Reception for receiving the prestigeous CSUN's 2021 Highly Influential and Sustained Innovation Award!
- May 6, 2022: Dr. Bishay and his former graduate student, Andrew Theodore, publish a new paper in Composite Structures journal, entitled: Experimental analysis of fiber-reinforced laminated composite plates with embedded SMA wire actuators.
- May 5, 2022: Smart Prosthetics SDP team presents their research and design to industry professionals at CSUN's 2022 Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS): 15-min oral presentation and project display.
- May 5, 2022: Smart Morphing Wing SDP team presents their research and design to industry professionals at CSUN's 2022 Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS): 15-min oral presentation and project display.
- April 29, 2022: Dr. Bishay receives the "2022 Summer Grant Program Award", Research and Sponsored Programs (RSP), CSUN ($3,000). Project title: "Understanding the human’s ability to use a novel foot control system for manipulating prosthetic arms".
- April 29, 2022: Jack Wilgus represents CSUN's College of Engineering & Computer Science and Smart Prosthetics SDP at the 2022 virtual CSU-statewide student research competition, hosted by San Francisco State University (SFSU).
- April 25, 2022: Dr. Bishay receives the "Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award", Research and Graduate Studies, CSUN ($5,000). Project title: "Experimental and Computational Analysis of Periodic Sandwich Composite Beams".
- April 1-3, 2022: Smart Morphing Wing SDP team presents its research and design at the AIAA regional student conference and competition hosted by UC Merced. The team's 11-page technical paper is entitled "SCAMORSA-1: a camber-morphing wind turbine blade with sliding composite skin".
- April 1, 2022: Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project presents 10-min and 3-min oral presentations and a poster at CSUN's 26th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). SP's 10-minute oral presentation, presented by Jack Wilgus, Taylor Ittner, and Andy Lima, and entitled "3D Printed Below-the-Elbow Prosthetic Arm with Foot Control, Wrist Actuation, and Haptic Feedback Systems", wins first place (Award certificates and $200) at the "Engineering System Design and Energy" session of the symposium.
- April 1, 2022: Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project presents 10-min and 3-min oral presentations and a poster at CSUN's 26th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). SMW's poster, entitled "Design of a Camber Morphing Wind Turbine Blade for Load Alleviation and Improved Aerodynamic Efficiency", wins first place (Award certificates and $200) at a College of Engineering and Computer Science session of the symposium.
- Mar. 7, 2022: Three of Dr. Bishay's graduate students receive funds from CSUN's "Thesis/Project/Dissertation Support Program": Andrew Heness ($1,200), Antonio Buendia ($1,200) and Nelson Richardson ($1,000).
- Feb. 26, 2022: Dr. Bishay receives the 2022 "Distinguished Engineering Educator Achievement Award" from The Engineer's Council at the 67th Annual National Engineers Week Honors & Awards Banquet for his excellent contributions to introducing innovative educational approaches, exceptional mentorship of undergraduate and graduate students, and outstanding research in the solid mechanics field.
- Feb. 22, 2022: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper in Computer Applications in Engineering Education journal, entitled: Teaching design of composite structures through Composite Analysis and Design Apps (CADA) and Design Challenges.
2021
- Nov. 19, 2021: Andrew Heness presents his summer research with Dr. Bishay at CSUN's 2021 CSU-LSAMP Student Research Symposium. His presentation and poster were entitled "Development of a multi-morphing seamless composite wing skin." The CSU-LSAMP program is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and California State University (CSU) institutions.
- Oct. 29, 2021: Dr. Bishay presents one of his new teaching approaches at CSUN's 2021 Engagement Conference. His presentation was entitled "Enhancing engineering students’ understanding using “The geek’s live scripts” ."
- Sept. 14-15, 2021: Dr. Bishay presents his work with the second cohort of Smart Prosthetics at the 2021 ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS). Their paper, entitled: Design of a lightweight shape memory alloy stroke-amplification and locking system in a transradial prosthetic arm, appears in the conference proceedings.
- Sept. 13, 2021: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper with his former Master student Christian Aguilar in Aerospace journal, entitled: Parametric Study of a Composite Skin for a Twist-Morphing Wing.
- Sept. 10, 2021: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper with his former Master student Arshak Amirbekyan in Structures journal, entitled: Design of periodic laminated composite beams in free vibration.
- Aug. 27, 2021: Dr. Bishay receives the 2021 Outstanding New Researcher Award from CSUN's College of Engineering & Computer Science.
- July 28, 2021: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper with his former Master student Julian Rodriguez in Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC), entitled: Analysis of periodic laminated fiber-reinforced composite beams in free vibration.
- July 19, 2021: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper with his collaborator Dr. Pelin Berik in actuators journal, entitled: Parameter identification of the nonlinear piezoelectric shear d15 coefficient of a smart composite actuator.
- July 16, 2021: - Dr. Bishay's graduate student, Andrew Theodore, successfully defends his Master thesis, entitled Analysis and Design of a Morphing Composite Plate with Embedded SMA Wire Actuators.
- May 28, 2021: - Dr. Bishay earns his tenureship at CSUN. With an early promotion in 2020, he becomes a tenured Associate Professor effective August 25, 2021.
- May 27, 2021: - Dr. Bishay and his new graduate student, Andrew Heness, receive a California State University Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (CSU-LSAMP) summer award, supported by National Science Foundation (NSF). Their project is entitled "Development of a multi-morphing composite wing skin". Andrew will be one of five CSU-LSAMP summer research fellows, and Dr. Bishay will be a CSU-LSMAP summer research advisor. Andrew will start his graduate studies in fall 2021.
- May 26, 2021: Dr. Bishay is recognized at CSUN's End of the Year Pinning Celebration for earning credential in effective college instruction from the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE). Dr. Bishay becomes an ACUE-credentialed instructor.
- May 20, 2021: Dr. Bishay's graduate student, James Martinez, is recognized at the College of Engineering & Computer Science (CECS) virtual commencement ceremony for winning one of two CECS Distinguished Thesis awards. Congratulations James!
- May 18, 2021: Dr. Bishay's graduate student, James Martinez, receives one of four 2021 CSUN's Distinguished Thesis awards. Congratulations James!
- May 17, 2021: The DOD equipment proposal by Dr. Schaal, Dr. Bishay and Dr. Booth got awarded a $549,259 to establish the Multi-Scale Mechanical Characterization Laboratory (MMCL) at CSUN. The new lab will include two Universal Testing Machines (UTMs), a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV), a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and an optical microscope (OM). MMCL will greatly extend current research capabilities and allow for new cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research avenues. MMCL will allow for greater utilization of existing laboratories (e.g. Keck Composites Laboratory and Haas Manufacturing Laboratory), which feature state-of-the-art equipment. All research projects will involve students at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and will focus on characterization of materials for the development of new capabilities in mission critical structures. MMCL will also enable introducing a series of new high-impact, experiential instructional activities that incorporate the requested equipment into the Mechanical Engineering curriculum.
- May 13, 2021: Dr. Bishay is selected receives the prestigeous CSUN's 2021 Highly Influential and Sustained Innovation Award!
- May 9, 2021: Dr. Bishay presents his research on Smart Prosthetics projects (2017 - Present) at the Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America (AESA) Virtual Seminar.
- May 7, 2021: Smart Morphing Wing and Smart Prosthetics present their research and designs at the 2021 College of Engineering and Computer Science's virtual Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).
- April 30, 2021: James Kok represents CSUN's College of Engineering & Computer Science and Smart Morphing Wing at the 2021 virtual CSU-statewide student research competition, hosted by Cal Poly Pomona.
- April 30, 2021: Dr. Bishay's graduate student, James Martinez, successfully defends his Master thesis, entitled Reliability Analysis of Smart Composite Structures using Artificial Neural Networks.
- April 26, 2021: CSUN Today features the work done by Smart Morphing Wing in a new article, entitled From Avian-Inspired UAVs to Pandemic Health Care, Students Showcase Research at Virtual CSUNposium .
- April 22, 2021: Dr. Bishay's graduate student, Arshak Amirbekyan, successfully defends his Master thesis, entitled Analysis and Design of Periodic Composite Beams with Piezoelectric Elements.
- April 16, 2021: Dr. Bishay's graduate student, Christian Aguilar, successfully defends his Master thesis, entitled Development of a Seamless Composite Skin for a Twist-Morphing Wing.
- April 9, 2021: Smart Morphing Wing and Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Projects present 10-min and 3-min oral presentations and posters at CSUN's 25th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). SMW's 10-minute oral presentation, entitled "Matamorph-3: An unmanned aerial vehicle with camber-morphing wings and tail stabilizers", presented by James Kok and Luis Ferrusquilla, gets second place (Award certificates and $100) at the College of Engineering and Computer Science session of the symposium.
- April 3-4, 2021: Smart Morphing Wing SDP team presents its research and design at the virtual AIAA regional student conference and competition hosted by CSU Long Beach. The team's 11-page technical paper, entitled "Design and Analysis of MataMorph-3: An Experimental Fully Morphing UAV with Camber-Morphing Wings and Tail Stabilizers," wins second place (Award certificates and $300) in the competition after CalTech, and followed by USC in the 3rd place.
- January 13, 2021: Adam Schlup represents Smart Morphing Wing's fourth cohort (2019-2020) at the 2021 AIAA SciTech Forum, and presents "MataMorph-2" UAV in an oral presentation.
- January 4, 2021: Smart Morphing Wing's AIAA winning paper appears in 2021 AIAA SciTech Forum conference proceedings. The paper is entitled: MataMorph 2: A new experimental UAV with twist-morphing wings and camber-morphing tail stabilizers.
2020
- December 31, 2020: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper with his current Master student James Martinez in Composites Part C: Open Access, entitled: On the stochastic first-ply failure analysis of laminated composite plates under in-plane tensile loading.
- Oct. 5, 2020: Dr. Bishay presents his research on Smart Morphing Wing projects (2016 - Present) at Texas Tech University, Lubbock (TTU) Virtual Seminar Series.
- Sept. 29, 2020: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper with students from the first cohort of "Smart Prosthetics" senior design project in Engineering Research Express journal, entitled: Development of a biomimetic transradial prosthetic arm with shape memory alloy muscle wires.
- Aug 19, 2020: Dr. Bishay gets an early promotion to the rank of Associate Professor.
- June 30, 2020: Dr. Bishay's CQF proposal to update COMSOL Multiphysics software in the Mechanical Engineering CAD lab has been approved ($8,763).
- June 11, 2020: Dr. Bishay publishes a new engineering education paper in Computer Applications in Engineering Education journal, entitled: Teaching the finite element method fundamentals to undergraduate students through truss builder and truss analyzer computational tools and student-generated assignments mini-projects.
- May 11, 2020: Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project team wins the first place (award certificates and $500) at the AIAA regional student research competition. The competition included 13 teams from University of Southern California (USC), Arizona State University (ASU), University of Washington (UW), Portland State University (PSU), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and University of Alaska, Fairbanks. After CSUN, a team from UW got 2nd place and a team from USC got third place. AIAA Announces 2020 Regional Student Conference Winners. The team's 11-page technical paper is entitled "A new experimental UAV with twist-morphing wings and camber-morphing tail stabilizers. A team representative will present the paper at the AIAA 2021 SciTech Forum in Nashville, TN, 11-15 January 2021, and the paper will also be published as part of the SciTech proceedings.
- May 1, 2020: Smart Morphing Wing and Smart Prosthetics senior design projects give 15-min Zoom presentations at the College of Engineering and Computer Science Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).
- April 24, 2020: Dr. Bishay's graduate student, Julian Rodriquez, successfully defends his Master thesis, entitled Computational and Experimental Analysis of Periodic Laminated Fiber-Reinforced Composite Beams.
- March 27, 2020: Dr. Bishay's graduate students present their research at SUN's 24th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Julian Rodriguez: Computational and Experimental Analysis of Periodic Laminated Fiber-Reinforced Composite Beams, Arshak Amirbekyan:Analysis of Composite Plates with Periodic Piezoelectric Patches, Christian Aguilar: Development of a Seamless Composite Skin for a Twist Morphing Wing, and James Martinez: Reliability analysis of smart composite plates using computational intelligence methods. Arshak Amirbekyan gets first place at the College of Engineering and Computer Science graduate session.
- March 27, 2020: Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project presents an oral presentation and a poster at CSUN's 24th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). The team's 10-minute presentation, entitled "MataMorph 2: A new experimental UAV with twist-morphing wing and camber-morphing tail stabilizer", presented by Tommy MacLennan and Adam Schlup, gets the first place (Award certificates and $200) at the College of Engineering and Computer Science session of the symposium.
- March 27, 2020: Bianca Talebian from Dr. Bishay's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project gets the first place (Award certificate and $200) in the 3-minute oral presentation competition at CSUN's 24th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Her presentation was entitled "Can we fly an airplane with wings that change their shape inflight?."
- March 27, 2020: Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project presents a poster as well as 10-min and 3-min oral presentations at CSUN's 24th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). The team's 10-minute presentation, entitled "A new transradial prosthetic arm design with tactile feedback and adaptive gripping capabilities.", was presented by Christina Seeholzer and Samuel Ayala, whereas the 3-min presentation, entitled "Hall & Oates mechanical computer in prosthetic hand design," was presented by Shakeel Madhav.
- March 25, 2020: Three of Dr. Bishay's graduate students receive funds from CSUN's "Thesis/Project/Dissertation Support Program" : Andrew Theodore ($1,000), Christian Aguilar ($800) and Arshak Amirbekyan ($700).
2019
- July 27-28, 2019: Dr. Bishay presents his engineering education research work at the Fourth Canadian International Conference on Advances in Education, Teaching and Technology 2019 (EduTeach 2019), University of Toronto, Canada. He received the "Best Presenter" award at the "Ongoing projects, Trends, Issues & Challenges" session of the conference for his presentation entitled "Deep Learning Through Guided Student Assignment Creation Mini-Projects".
- May 25, 2019: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper with his former Master student Nicholas Fabry in Acta Mechanica Sinica, entitled: Perturbation finite element solution for chemo-elastic boundary value problems under chemical equilibrium.
- April 30, 2019: Dr. Bishay receives the "Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award", Research and Graduate Studies, CSUN ($5,000). Project title: "Development of a seamless composite skin for a twist-morphing wing".
- April 26, 2019: Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project wins the Mechanical Engineering Oral Presentation competition ($500) at CSUN's Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).
- April 26, 2019: Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project competes at CSUN's Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS): Oral Presentation competition, and Project Display competition.
- April 23, 2019: Smart Prosthetics team wins the third place ($5,000) at the finals of CSUN's Bull Ring Competition.
- April 6-7, 2019: Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project team presents its research and design at the AIAA regional student conference and competition at CSU San Luis Obispo. The team's 11-page technical paper, entitled "Matamorph 1: A new experimental UAV with span-morphing wing and camber-morphing tail," wins the second place (Award certificates and $300) in the competition after USC, followed by University of Washington in the 3rd place.
- April 5-6, 2019: Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project presents a poster at the 9th annual Rocky Mountain American Society of Biomechanics (RMASB) regional meeting (Estes Park, CO), entitled "Transradial prosthetic arm actuated by mechanically advantaged shape memory alloy wires".
- April 5, 2019: Dr. Bishay's graduate student Julian Rodriguez presents his work at CSUN's 23rd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). The 10-minute presentation is entitled "Experimental and Computational Analysis of Periodic Laminated Fiber-Reinforced Composite Beams".
- April 5, 2019: Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project presents an oral presentation and a poster at CSUN's 23rd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). The team's 10-minute presentation, entitled "Development of a New Lightweight Low-Cost Prosthetic Hand", wins the first place (Award certificates and $200).
- April 5, 2019: Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project presents an oral presentation and a poster at CSUN's 23rd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). The team's 10-minute presentation, entitled "Matamorph 1: A New Experimental UAV with Span-Morphing Wing and Camber-Morphing Tail", wins the first place (Award certificates and $200) at the College of Engineering and Computer Science session of the symposium
- April 5, 2019: Michela Pacifici from Dr. Bishay's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project wins the first place (Award certificate and $200) in the 3-minute oral presentation competition at CSUN's 23rd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Her presentation was entitled "Wind Tunnel Testing of Two New Morphing Wing Designs."
- April 4, 2019: Smart Prosthetics team qualifies to the finals of CSUN's Bull Ring Competition (five winning teams out of 20 teams).
- March 20, 2019: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper with seven of his former Smart Morphing Wing undergraduate researchers in Smart Materials and Structures, entitled: Development of an SMA-based camber morphing UAV tail core design.
- February 7, 2019: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper with four of his former Smart Morphing Wing undergraduate researchers in Designs (MDPI), entitled: Development of a New Span-Morphing Wing Core Design.
2018
- November 10, 2018: Smart Prosthetics research related to power-consumption wins the first place at the poster session of the 2018 California Renewable Energy and Storage Technology (CREST) conference at CSUN. The poster title is "Efficient power systems in shape-memory alloy (SMA) actuated prostheses".- October 5, 2018: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper in Construction and Building Materials (CBM), entitled: Effective properties of cement-based porous piezoelectric ceramic composites.
- August 6-10, 2018: Dr. Bishay's research on the analysis of cement-based piezoelectric smart composites is presented at the 9th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM), Rome, Italy. Conference proceedings paper entitled: Numerical analyses of cement-based piezoelectric smart composites.
- July 31, 2018: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper in Smart Materials and Structures (SMS), entitled: Analysis of quantum-dot systems under thermal loads based on gradient elasticity.
- July 15-21, 2018: Dr. Bishay's research on quantum dot nano-structures is presented at the 26th International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering (ICCE), Paris, France. Conference proceedings paper entitled: Size effect in quantum-dot nanostructures under thermal loads.
- July 11, 2018: Dr. Bishay receives the "Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award", Research and Graduate Studies, CSUN ($5,000). Project title: "Experimental and Computational Analysis of Periodic Fiber-reinforced Laminated Composite Beams and Plates"
- May 31, 2018: Dr. Bishay publishes a new engineering education paper in International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, entitled: Introducing Undergraduate Research in Numerical Analysis of Engineering Systems Course.
- May 30, 2018: First meeting for the 2018-19 "Smart Morphing Wing" senior design project team.
- May 29, 2018: First meeting for the 2018-19 "Smart Prosthetics" senior design project team.
- May 21, 2018: Dr. Bishay receives the "TUC Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant Award" (formally known as J.J. Beck Grant Award), Faculty Development, CSUN ($3,000). Project title: "Improving students' design skills through composite structures design challenges"
- May 19, 2018: Muzaffaruddin Syed (Dr. Bishay's former graduate student) is recognized at the College of Engineering & Computer Science (CECS) Honors Convocation for winning CSUN's 2018 Outstanding Thesis/Project Competition Award (Dr. Bishay receives the certificate on his behalf)
- May 19, 2018: Dr. Bishay and his former graduate student, Ardalan Sofi, publish a new paper in Materials Today Communications, entitled: Sensitivity analysis of a smart soft composite robotic finger design using geometrically nonlinear laminated composite finite beam elements.
- May 14, 2018: The Master thesis of Dr. Bishay's former student Muzaffaruddin Syed, entitled "Computational Analysis and Design of Smart Periodic Beams", receives CSUN's 2018 Outstanding Thesis/Project Competition Award ($1,500, One of two recipients).
- May 4-5, 2018: Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project presents a poster at the 14th annual Northwest American Society of Biomechanics (NWASB) regional symposium (Bellingham, WA), entitled "Development of new shape memory alloy-based biomimetic prosthetic hand".
- May 3, 2018: Dr. Bishay and his former graduate student, Muzaffaruddin Syed, publish a new paper in Journal of Vibration and Control, entitled: Analysis and Design of Periodic Beams for Vibration Attenuation.
- April 30, 2018: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper in CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, entitled: Neural Network-Based Second Order Reliability Method (NNBSORM) for Laminated Composite Plates in Free Vibration.
- April 27, 2018: Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project wins the Mechanical Engineering Oral Presentation competition ($500), the Mechanical Engineering Project Display competition ($500) and the College of Engineering and Computer Science Grand Prize ($1000) at CSUN's Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).
CSUN Shine Today article about 2018's SDPS and Smart Prosthetics victories.
- April 27, 2018: Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project competes at CSUN's Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS): Oral Presentation competition, and Project Display competition.
- April 13-14, 2018: Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project presents a poster at the 8th annual Rocky Mountain American Society of Biomechanics (RMASB) regional meeting (Estes Park, CO), entitled "Biomimetic Prosthetic Hand Actuated by Artificial Muscles".
- April 6-8, 2018: The two teams of Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project present their research and designs at the AIAA regional student conference and competition at UC Merced. The team's 11-page technical paper, entitled "Design and Manufacturing of an SMA-based Seamless Camber Morphing UAV Tail Section", wins the 2nd place (Award certificates and $300) in the competition after USC, followed by University of Washington in the 3rd place.
- April 6, 2018: Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project presents an oral presentation and a poster at CSUN's 22nd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). The team's 10-minute presentation, entitled "Development of a New, Innovative, Smart Prosthetic Hand", wins the first place (Award certificates and $200) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science session of the symposium
- April 6, 2018: The two teams of Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project present their research and designs at CSUN's 22nd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium).
- April 6, 2018: Brian Richter (Smart Prosthetics) and Shawn Recinos (Smart Morphing Wing) win the first place [tie] (Award certificates and $200) at CSUN's 22nd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium) 3-minute presentation. Brian's talk was entitled "Twisted and Coiled Polymers", and Shawn's talk was entitled "Design Optimization of an Airfoil Structure Through Cross-Platform Finite Element Analysis"
- March 9, 2018: Dr. Bishay presents the ideas of his Smart Morphing Wing and Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Projects at the "Great Ideas" workshop at Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI).
- February 24, 2018: Dr. Bishay receives the "Future Technology Leader Award" from The Engineer's Council at the 63rd Annual National Engineers Week Honors & Awards Banquet for his outstanding leadership of new research-based senior design projects, and excellent contribution to the fields of computational mechanics and composite materials.
- February 1, 2018: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, entitled: Analysis of functionally graded quantum-dot systems with graded lattice mismatch strain.
2017
- November 18, 2017: Nicholas Fabry (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) presents his current research work in a poster at the 2017 California Renewable Energy and Storage Technology (CREST) conference at California State University, Northridge (CSUN).- November 17, 2017: Muzaffaruddin Syed (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) defends his Master thesis: "Computational Analysis and Design of Smart Periodic Beams". Congratulations Muzaffar!
- November 12, 2017: Dr. Bishay and his former graduate student, Ardalan Sofi, publish a new paper in Composite Structures, entitled: Explicit tangent stiffness matrix for the geometrically nonlinear analysis of laminated composite frame structures.
- November 3, 2017: Nicholas Fabry (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) defends his Master thesis: "Computational Simulation of Chemoelastic Solids". Congratulations Nick!
- October 17, 2017: Dr. Bishay and his former graduate student Bhavin Sampat publish a peer-reviewed conference paper in Key Engineering Materials, entitled: Effect of Lattice Mismatch Strain Grading on the Electromechanical Behavior of Functionally Graded Quantum Dots.
- August 16, 2017: Dr. Bishay and his former graduate student Ardalan Sofi present their research on modeling composite structures undergoing large deformations at the 3rd Advances in Functional Materials (AFM) conference (UCLA, CA August 14-17, 2017): afm2017.functionalmaterials.org/.
- August 5, 2017: Dr. Bishay presents his research on modeling functionally graded quantum-dots (FGQDs) at the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials (ICAFM) (Los Angeles, CA August 4-6, 2017): www.icafm.org.
- June 23, 2017: Bhavin Sampat (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) defends his Master thesis: "Study of Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Effects in Quantum Dots with Graded Lattice Mismatch Strain".
- June 5, 2017: First meeting for the new 2017-18 "Smart Prosthetics" senior design project team.
- June 1, 2017: First meeting for the 2017-18 "Smart Morphing Wing" senior design project team.
- May 13, 2017: Ardalan Sofi (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) is recognized at the College of Engineering & Computer Science (CECS) Honors Convocation for his Outstanding Academic Achievement (Best Graduate Student in the ME Department with a GPA of 3.89 and a Master thesis).
- April 14, 2017: Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project competes at CSUN's Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS): Oral Presentation competition, and Project Display competition.
- April 13, 2017: Ardalan Sofi (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) defends his Master thesis: "Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Laminated Composite Space Frame Structures Using the Finite Element Method with a Newly Derived Explicit Tangent Stiffness Matrix". Ardalan got a paid research internship for Summer 2017 at TANMS research center, UCLA (8 weeks), and will start his PhD studies at the Mechanical Engineering Department, UC, Davis in Fall 2017 and work there as a teaching assistant. Congratulations Ardalan!
- April 12, 2017: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper in Composite Structures, entitled: Evaluation of effective material properties in magneto-electro-elastic composite materials.
- April 7, 2017: Ardalan Sofi (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) present his research work at CSUN's 21st annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium).
- April 7, 2017: Muzaffaruddin Syed (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) present his research work at CSUN's 21st annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium).
- April 7, 2017: Five teams from Dr. Bishay's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project present their research and designs at CSUN's 21st annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). The "Morphing Winglets" team presentation, entitled "Integrated Morphing Winglet Design with Shape Memory Alloy Driven Actuation", wins the first place (Award certificates and $200) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science session of the symposium, whereas the "Twist Morphing" team presentation, entitled "Development of a twist morphing wing design using an SMA based smart soft composite", wins the second place (Award certificates and $100).
- March 17-19, 2017: Five teams from Dr. Bishay's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project present their research and designs at the AIAA regional student conference at San Jose State University (SJSU). The "Span Morphing" team's paper entitled “Design and Manufacturing of a New Span Morphing Wing” wins the 3rd place (Award certificates and $125) in the competition after USC and University of Arizona.
- February 25, 2017: Dr. Bishay receives the "Outstanding Engineering Achievement Merit Award" from The Engineer's Council at the 62nd Annual National Engineers Week Honors & Awards Banquet for his outstanding contribution to the fields of computational mechanics and composite materials, as well as performance in instructional activities including leadership in Mechanical Engineering senior design projects.
- January 30, 2017: MathWorks publishes a new article about Dr. Bishay's "teaching with Matlab" approach, entitled: Practical Course Projects to Introduce Undergraduate Engineering Students to Interface Design and Academic Research.
- January 11, 2017: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper in Acta Mechanica, entitled: On the characterization of porosity-related parameters in micro-dilatation theory.
2016
- November 12, 2016: Muzaffaruddin Syed (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) presents his current research work in a poster at the 2016 California Renewable Energy and Storage Technology (CREST) conference at California State University, Northridge (CSUN).- November 10, 2016: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper in Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, entitled: Analysis of Elastic Media with Voids Using a Mixed-Collocation Finite-Element Method.
- August 29, 2016: Dr. Bishay publishes a new engineering education conference paper in the ASEE's 123rd Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, June 26-29, 2016, titled: Using Career Pathways to assimilate high school students into the Engineering profession.
- August 12, 2016: Ardalan Sofi (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) receives a scholarship from Edison International ($5,000 applied to tuition and fees). Ardalan will be Edison Scholar for California State University graduate students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
- June 23, 2016: Dr. Bishay's CQF proposal to support the Mechanical Engineering CAD lab with COMSOL Multiphysics software has been approved ($37,980)
- June, 14 2016: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper in the International Journal of Solids and Structures (IJSS), entitled: Static and Dynamic Behavior of Porous Elastic Materials Based on Micro-Dilatation Theory: A Numerical Study Using the MLPG Method.
- June 7, 2016: Ardalan Sofi (Dr. Bishay's current graduate student) receives "Sally Casanova Scholarship Award" (California Pre-Doctoral Program) for the 2016-17 academic year ($3000 to support Pre-Doctoral Program activities). Ardalan will be "Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar" as one of 73 highly qualified CSU students who were chosen from a total of 235 applicants.
- May 24, 2016: First meeting for the new 2016-17 "Smart Morphing Wing" senior design project team.
- April 15, 2016: "SEARCH" team participates in 2016 CSUN's Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS): Oral Presentation and Project Display. SEARCH Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS) Presentation.
- April 12, 2016: Dr. Bishay gives a talk at CSUN's Brown Bag research seminar series, entitled: “FEApps”: A course project that combines coding and App designing with engineering fundamentals.
- April 1-3, 2016: 8 students from "SEARCH" senior design project presented the project at the AIAA regional student conference at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. SEARCH AIAA Regional Student Conference Presentation. SEARCH AIAA Regional Student Conference Paper.
- March 2, 2016: Dr. Bishay publishes a new paper in Computer Applications in Engineering Education journal, entitled: “FEApps”: Boosting students’ enthusiasm for coding and App designing, with a deeper learning experience in engineering fundamentals.
2015
- November 5, 2015: Dr. Bishay receives the Probationary Faculty Support Program award: three units of reassigned time (reduced teaching load) in order to work on research during Spring 2016 semester.- August 24, 2015: Dr. Bishay starts leading a new senior design project at the ME department focused on Space Exploration.
- August 19, 2015: Dr. Bishay officially joins the Mechanical Engineering Department at CSUN.
