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Texas A&M University College of Engineering

Team

Faculty


Dimitris C. Lagoudas
  • Department Head, Aerospace Engineering
  • University Distinguished Professor
  • Regents Professor
  • Robert C. “Bud” Hagner Chair of Engineering
  • Professor, Aerospace Engineering
  • Joint faculty appointment: Materials Science & Engineering
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Postdoctoral


Rawad Yazbeck
  • Department of Aerospace Engineering
  • Research: Modeling and analysis of tunable, adaptive wave propagation in periodic nonlinear structures for advanced deployable space structures
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Graduate Students


Jaybelle Pranada
  • Materials Science & Engineering Ph.D. Program
  • Research: Coupled electro-chemo-mechanical-thermal model for organic-based electrodes for structural batteries
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Haoyi Tian
  • Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Program
  • Research: Modeling of SMA aerospace structures, data-driven constitutive modeling of SMAs
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Cesar Metlich
  • Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Program
  • Research: Damage mechanisms in lithium ion batteries and carbon fiber structural batteries, multiphysics modeling of advanced energy storage devices
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Landon Riley
  • Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Program
  • Research: Design and modeling of additively manufactured porous structures for use in structural battery electrolytes
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Jakob Cook
  • Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Program
  • Research: Design and analysis of high temperature SMA structures
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James Sattler
  • Aerospace Engineering M.S. Program
  • Research: Modeling and optimization of adaptive structures designed to survive supersonic flow fields and affect the near field shock structure of corresponding shockwaves; design of HTSMA torque tube actuation system for structural morphing
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Garrett Stevenson
  • Aerospace Engineering M.S. Program
  • Research: Space applications of deployable and adaptable structures with emphasis on passive thermal management systems based on SMA radiators
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Undergraduate Students


Kathryn Schuenemann
  • Department of Aerospace Engineering
  • Research: Deployable aerospace structures, experimentally analyzing the super-elastic behaviors of a sinusoidal SMA tower
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Clara Helvey
  • Department of Aerospace Engineering
  • Research: Deployable aerospace structures, experimentally analyzing the super-elastic behaviors of a sinusoidal SMA tower
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Lucas Raymond
  • Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Alumni


Postdoctoral:

Adrien Cassagne
Tianyang Zhou
Manish Vasoya
Jobin Joy
Anargyros Karakalas
Behrouz Haghgouyan
Sameer Jape
Alexandros Solomou
Edwin Peraza Hernandez
Majid Tabesh
Theocharis Baxevanis
Parikshith Kumar
Kaushik Das
Yves Chemisky
Gary Seidel
George Chatzigeorgiou
Hongxing Zheng
Peter Popov
Yordanos Bisrat
Pavlin Entchev
Michael Newman
Kayleen Helms
Li-Jian Rong
Glenn Viktor Webb
Carlos Yapura
Margarita Evard
Alexander Bekker
Zhonghe Bo
Declan Hughes
Shouze Xu
Zhonghai Ding
Abhijit Bhattacharyya
James G. Boyd

Doctoral:

Rawad Yazbeck
Andreas Lianos
Adrien Cassagne
Dimitris Loufakis
Tianyang Zhou
Ralston Fernandes
Robert Saunders
Jobin Kolliyil Joy
Paraskevi Flouda
Behrouz Haghgouyan
Mahdi Mohajeri
Lei Xu
Francis Phillips
Edwin A. Peraza Hernandez
Sameer Jape
Rob Wheeler
Hieu Truong
Majid Tabesh
Babatunde Agboola
Frank Gardea
Brian Lester

Krishnendu Haldar
Brent Volk
Darren Hartl
Amnaya Awasthi
Piyush Thakre
Parikshith Krishna Kumar
Olivier Walter Bertacchini
Bong Taek Oh
Luciano Machado
Gary Seidel
Bjoern Kiefer
Peter Popov
Hyoung Yoll Jun
Pavlin B. Entchev
P. K. Imbrie
David Miller
Abu Bakar Siddiq Qidwai
Glenn Viktor Webb
Gongming Xu
Zhonghe Bo
Ahmed M. Saleh
ChienMing Huang

Master’s:

Tom Ralph
Alejandro Ian Martinez
Hrishikesh Padalia
Basak Abut
Greg Wilson
Daniel Martin
Ralston Fernandes
John Rohmer
Robert Saunders
Stephen Cornell
Austin Cox
Antonino Parrinello
Stephen Oehler
Chris Calhoun
Frank Gardea
Francis Phillips
Justin Schick
Brent Volk
Ryan Sager
Erin Bishop
Daniel Ayewah
Parikshith Kumar
Pravin Peddiraju
Luke Penrod
Jae Sang Lee
Bryan Nelson
Eric Vandygriff
Raghavendran Mani
Mughees Khan
Justin Strelec
John J. Mayes
Olivier Goddard
Mohammad Ahsan Khan
Kristi Shryock
Mayur Govind Kulkarni
Juan C. Jimenez-Victory
Luke Garner
Kai Wang
Robertus Triharjanto
Matthew D. McNeese
Brett J. deBlonk
Xinzheng Ma
Muhammad A. Qidwai
Stephen D. Howard
David A. Miller
Jamie Pfaeffle
Rajagopal Seshadri Pachella
Andres C. Gavazzi

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