heat & mass transfer, nanofiltration, 2D membranes, dialysis, nuclear fusion, MIT ARC, MITEI, hydrocarbon separation/purification

Supervise lab sessions of over 70 students.

MIE443: Mechatronics Systems: Design and IntegrationThe course aims to raise practical design awareness, provide pertinent project engineering methodology, and generate a know-how core in integration of complex automation. This course has mainly practical content, and is integral and useful in the training and education of those students who plan to be employed in areas related to intelligent automation, as well as to the breadth of knowledge of all others. Although emphasis will be on robotic-based automation (mechatronics), the learning will be useful in all domains of system integration.This course will introduce students to the basics of integration, methodology of design, tools, and team project work. The course will be monitored based on projects from a selected list of topics. The lectures will be in format of tutorials as preparation and discussions on project related issues. A main goal is to bring the methods, means and spirit of the industrial design world to the class room. Emphasis will be on understanding the elements of integration, methodology and approaches, and will involve numerous case studies. Specifically the course will provide a practical step-by-step approach to integration: specifications, conceptual design, analysis, modeling, synthesis, simulation and bread-boarding, prototyping, integration, verification, installation and testing. Issues of project management, market, and economics will be addressed as well. Limited Enrolment.

· Developed a vision system to autonomously track the height and shape of an evaporating droplet · Conducted several evaporation studies of water and ethanol with different boundary conditions · Calculated the surface thermal capacity and a thermodynamically consistent saturation vapor pressure expression of ethanol · Provided guidance to other students with their projects

· Managed two scientific peer-reviews that selected the best science to be funded by the Space Physical Sciences Program · Conceptualized a Student Parabolic Flight Campaign where undergraduate students can help a Canadian researcher conduct a physical science experiment in microgravity · Assisted in coordinating two Space Physical Sciences microgravity flight campaigns with Canadian scientists and the National Research Council's Flight Research Laboratory in Ottawa using the Falcon20 (F20) aircraft. Duties included logistics, safety checks, and facilitating communication between the flight crew and scientists · Developed a freefall drop tower that was used to demonstrate to the public the effects of gravity on physical systems. It was highly popular at the 2005 International Space University Summer Session and at the CSA Space Educators' Workshops · Performed shear stress and buckling analysis on an experimental mounting rack for the F20