Edwin L. Aguirre
Two researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering â Asst. Profs. Yan Gu and Marianna Maiaru â were recognized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Air Force, respectively, with faculty early career development grants totaling $1,015,000. The funding will help advance research on robot walking and the process modeling of composite materials.
Gu received a five-year NSF CAREER grant, worth nearly $565,000, for research that would develop new methods in modeling, analyzing and controlling the movement of legged robots to keep them stable and upright while walking on nonstationary surfaces.
The CAREER grant is the NSFâs most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who demonstrate strong potential to lead research breakthroughs in their organizations.
04/06/2021
LOWELL, Mass. â UMass Lowell researcher Archana Kamal has won two early career development awards totaling more than $1 million from the U.S. Air Force and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her research in the emerging field of quantum information processing (QIP) with open quantum systems.
QIP is based on the principles of quantum mechanics, which mathematically describe the behavior and interaction of matter and light on the atomic and subatomic scale.
While todayâs digital computers encode data in the form of binary digits, or âbits,â which are a series of zeros and ones, quantum computers convert information into quantum bits, or âqubits.â A qubit, which is the basic unit of quantum information, represents a two-state, or two-level, quantum system, such as the up and down spin of an electron or the horizontal and vertical polarization of a photon.
Turbulence model could help design aircraft capable of handling extreme scenarios
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Engineers make it possible to simulate complete ‘dance’ of colliding vortices at reduced computational time
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. In 2018, passengers onboard a flight to Australia experienced a terrifying 10-second nosedive when a vortex trailing their plane crossed into the wake of another flight. The collision of these vortices, the airline suspected, created violent turbulence that led to a free fall.