The Combustion Diagnostics and
Environmental Measurements Laboratory
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Research Staff
Graduate Students
Gregg received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University in 1999. Following his graduation he worked as a research associate at the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM). He is pursuing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in the Combustion Diagnostics and Environmental Measurements Laboratory. His research work involves particle and environmental diagnostics using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS). Gregg is focused on measurements of ambient particulate matter using LIBS and improved understanding of the aerosol / plasma interaction. Email Address: glithgow@ucsd.edu Web Page: http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~glithgow
Francesco received his M.S. in Materials Engineering from the University of Modena (Italy) in 1999, and an M. Eng. in Computational Fluid Dynamics from the University of Exeter, UK. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in the Combustion Diagnostics and Environmental Measurements Laboratory. Francesco is working on LIBS measurement of hydrocarbons and analysis of laser plasma physics. Email Address: feriolif@wam.umd.edu
Ali earned his M.S. in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland, under the direction of Prof. Jim Quintiere, in 2002. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in the Combustion Diagnostics and Environmental Measurements Laboratory, working on analysis of flame spread assisted by buoyancy in upwardly propagating solid fuel fires. Email Address: arangwala@ucsd.edu Web Page: http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~arangwal
Zuhair earned his M.S. degree from the University of Alabama, Huntsville in 2000, after which he went to work with United Technologies Research Center, modeling aircraft gas turbine combustion using CFD approaches. Along the way, he earned an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002 (he will be running the group very soon). Zuhair has recently joined the Combustion Diagnostics and Environmental Measurements Laboratory, and will likely work on a problem involving flame instabilities, jointly advised with Prof. Forman Williams. Email Address: zmibrahim@ucsd.edu Web: http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~zmibrahi/
Kyle started working in the Combustion Diagnostics and Environmental Measurements Laboratory in October 2002. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky in the Spring of 2002. He is currently pursuing his M.S., studying LIBS for wear debris particle detection in the exhaust of a gas turbine. Email Address: kratzsch@eng.umd.edu
Eddy is in the B.S./ M.S. program at UMCP, and started working in the lab in August 2002. He is working on visualization of mixing in high-speed flows using Rayleigh scattering. Email Address: edchen@wam.umd.edu
Ariel earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2003. He joined the lab at UCSD the following fall, and is started on his M.S. research, investigating species profiles in catalytic combustion systems using tunable diode lasers. Email Address: aschuger@ucsd.edu
After earning his B.S. degree from the Colorado School of Mines in 2001, Marco started working at Solar Turbines in San Diego. A man who loves a challenge, he is simultaneously pursuing an M.S. degree at UCSD. His research is centered on tunable diode laser diagnostics applied to energy systems. Email Address: meleon@ucsd.edu |
Undergraduate Students
David started working in the lab in the summer of 2004. He is currently designing a novel aerosol classifier and spectrometer designed to work with LIBS. Email Address: dmhoffma@ucsd.edu
Geoff started working in the lab in the summer of 2004. He is working on translating data acquisition algorithms into Labview™ to allow real-time analysis. Email Address: grapopor@ucsd.edu Web Address: http://iacs5.ucsd.edu/~grapopor/
Scott earned both a B.S. and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at UMCP, and worked in the CDEM lab from his freshman year (2000) onward.. His M.S. thesis was on the topic of microscale combustion diagnostics using in situ FTIR. Previously, Scott worked on the phenomena of fire whirls, which are buoyantly-driven swirl flows found in natural fires. He is currently employed by NASA Wallops Island, in Maryland. Email Address: heatwole@terpalum.umd.edu
Chris completed his Ph.D. in the fall of 2003. He developed a dynamic shape sensing system based on fiber Bragg gratings, capable of real-time analysis of structural motion and modal characteristics. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1996 at the University of Maryland under the direction of Prof. Jim Sirkis. He is currently employed by Systems Planning and Analysis of Greenbelt, MD. Email Address: cbaldwin@spa.com
Eric started working on his M.S. research in the Combustion Diagnostics and Environmental Measurements Laboratory while he was still a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, in the summer of 2002. He took M.S. classes concurrent with his final year at the Academy, graduated with a M.S. in the fall of 2004. His work was on the dynamics of nanoparticles in dilution tunnels commonly used for engine measurements. He is currently serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy. Email Address: kommerem@chosin.navy.mil
Travis was a BS/MS student in the Combustion Diagnostics and Environmental Measurements Laboratory. He worked on the application of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy to determine PDFs of mixing in supersonic flows, using He / air mixtures. He earned his M.S. in the spring of 2004, and is currently working with ExxonMobil in the Washington, D.C. area.. Email Address: tempelt1103@yahoo.com
Jay earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 2000. He earned his M.S. in 2003. His research work applied Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) measurements to quantify toxic metal capture in molten salt oxidation units used for hazardous material disposal.
Steven was an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering major who graduated in the spring of 2004. Starting in lab during the summer of 2002, he has designed a flexible combustion-driven flow reactor, and built a particle sampling system for the reactor. Steven is currently pursuing an M.S. in vehicle dynamics at UMCP. Email Address: sohara@wam.umd.edu
Shankar earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 2000. He earned his M.S. in 2003. His research work involved quantification of thermal destruction of chlorinated hydrocarbons such as chlorobenzene and 1,1,1-trichloroethane in a lab-scale molten salt oxidation reactor used for hazardous material disposal. He is now working for Advanced Micro Devices in Austin, TX. Email Address: psivah@yahoo.com
With an M.S. in science, Liz is the lead teacher in the Fredrick County high school district for gifted programs in science. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, she spent 10 weeks during the summer of 2002 working with the students in the laboratory on research, and working on ways to transfer some of the work that we are doing in the laboratory into classrooms, such as AP Environmental Science. We look forward to continued work with Liz.
Martin received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UMCP, and his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Buckley advised Martin's research w ork, which was completed at College Park, and co-chaired Martin's committee with Prof. Servino Koh of UMBC. Martin's dissertation covered high-speed measurements of strain using a distributed network of fiber Bragg grating sensors. He currently works for Northrup Grumman in Maryland.
Warren is an experienced programmer working primarily on projects sponsored by NSWC Indian Head, including models and databases surrounding dispersion and reaction of industrial chemicals. Warren joined the lab in the summer of 2002 after experience with Intel and other companies, and a mission year spent in Moscow. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1998. He continues to work with Prof. Greg Jackson at UMCP. Email Address: wbchoi@eng.umd.edu
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