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Hossein Ebrahimi has been selected to receive the Frank Hubbard Engineering Endowed Scholarship

June 23, 2020
Congratulations to Hossein Ebrahimi for being selected to receive the Frank Hubbard Engineering Endowed Scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year. The Frank Hubbard Engineering Endowed Scholarship awards $1,000 over the two semesters. Qualifications for the scholarship are full-time status as a graduate or undergraduate student in engineering, and a minimum 3.0 G.P.A. Extracurricular activities and…

Congratulations to Jeremy Stephen for defending his Master thesis

May 22, 2020
Congratulations to Jeremy Stephen for defending his thesis titled ‘Contact Mechanics of Fish Scale Inspired Exoskeletal Components on a Nonlinear Elastic Substrate’ . In this work Jeremy investigated the the response of a substrate with stiff scales protruding from its surface, which is comprised of a soft elastomeric material with properties typical of those in…

COSMOS Director, Ranajay Ghosh, wins 2019 NSF CAREER Award

February 28, 2020
COSMOS Director Ranajay Ghosh wins 2019 NSF CAREER Award from the Mechanics of Materials and Structures program in the Division of Engineering. UCF TODAY reported — UCF leads the state and ranks third in the nation for the number of National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipients this year. UCF has 11 confirmed awards as of…

Dr. Ranajay Ghosh presents at the AIAA SciTech 2020 in Orlando

January 6, 2020
Dr. Ranajay Ghosh presents paper titled “Tailorable Stiffness Lightweight Soft Robotic Materials with Architectured Exoskeleton” at the AIAA SciTech 2020 Forum in Orlando. This conference is started at Jan 6th 2020 and will end at Jan 10th 2020. The presented paper is now available online at this Link.

Congratulations to Hossein Ebrahimi for Defending His Candidacy

December 22, 2019
Congratulations to Hossein Ebrahimi for defending his candidacy. Hossein joined to COSMOS Lab at Fall 2016 as the first PhD student of the COSMOS Lab. He is currently a PhD student at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He does research in Solid Mechanics, Bioinspired Metamaterial and Computational…

Congratulations to Hessein Ali for Defending His Candidacy

December 5, 2019
Congratulations to Hessein Ali for defending his candidacy. Hessein joined to COSMOS Lab at Spring 2017. He is currently a PhD student at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He does research on biological structures for the design of synthetic materials focusing on biomimetic scales. Some of his…

2019 Turbomachinery Conference and Exposition

February 25, 2019
Phoenix, Arizona 25th February 2019 Peter Warren was first author on a publication to the 2019 Turbomachinery Conference and Exposition in Phoenix, Arizona. The paper is being considered for journal publication and was nominated for Best Paper. Peter got to work closely two engineers from Siemens on this work (Jason Williams and Paul Zombo), and…

Modeling Thermally Grown Oxides in Thermal Barrier Coatings using Koch Fractal

February 20, 2019
Phoenix, Arizona 20th February 2019   Peter Warren was first author on a paper that was accepted for presentation at the 2019 Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition in Phoenix, Arizona. The work was titled “Modeling Thermally Grown Oxides in Thermal Barrier Coatings using Koch Fractal.” This work was a new and innovative method of modeling…