LDCN has acquired a Polytec MSA-100-3D Micro System Analyzer, the second such system to be installed in a US university. This laser Doppler vibrometer-based system enables 3D vibration analysis of mechanical microsystems, providing picometer resolution for motion in both the in-plane and out-of-plane directions with a frequency bandwidth of up to 25MHz.

Professor Reza Moheimani has been appointed to the James Von Ehr Distinguished Chair in Science and Technology at UT Dallas. This prestigious position was previously held by Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2000).

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The Laboratory for Dynamics and Control of Nanosystems has moved to join The University of Texas at Dallas. UT Dallas is a highly innovative institution located in the heart of North Texas, USA, and is undergoing rapid growth as part of its vision to achieve Tier One national research university status.

LDCN will be operating as a part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering within the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, and joins a strong group of world-class researchers. This move will provide LDCN with exciting new research opportunities within the field of nanotechnology, supported by a new research laboratory featuring state-of-the art equipment.

Dr. Yuen Yong has been announced as a winner of two prestigious awards from the University of Newcastle, the Pro Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research Performance, and the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence. These awards recognise Dr. Yong’s outstanding research contributions, and she is now a candidate for the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Researcher of the Year.

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Congratulations to Mohammad, Steven and Michael, who were judged to be prize recipients in the 2014 Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment Postgraduate Research Poster Prize competition. They were among 49 students who showcased their research via the presentation of a poster, with the judges selecting their work to be among the winning entries.

Mohammad Maroufi: High-Stroke SOI-MEMS Nanopositioner: Control Design for Non-Raster Scan AFM

Steven Moore: MEMS Simultaneous Actuation and Sensing Technique

Michael Ruppert: Novel Reciprocal Self-Sensing Techniques for Tapping-Mode Atomic Force Microscopy

Professor Reza Moheimani has been invited to present a plenary lecture at the 2014 Australian Conference on Control. The conference will be held at the campus of the Australian National University, Canberra, on 17-18 November.

Congratulations to Professor Reza Moheimani, who has been awarded the IFAC Nichols Medal for 2014. The Nichols Medal is a highly prestigious award, awarded triennially by the IFAC council to recognize outstanding contributions of an individual to design methods, software tools and instrumentation, or to significant projects resulting in major applications and advancement of control education.
Professor Moheimani has been selected as the 2014 receipient “for fundamental contributions in systems science and control theory of direct relevance to engineering practice in high precision mechatronic systems”, and will be presented with the medal at the 19th IFAC World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2014.

Professor Moheimani has been invited to present a plenary lecture at AIM 2014, the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics. The conference will be held in Besançon, France, July 8-11.

August 2013

Congratulations to Ali Mohammadi, who is the winner from Electrical Engineering in the faculty’s 2013 Postgraduate Research Prize. Ali’s research, titled “A Feedback Controlled MEMS Nanopositioner for On-Chip High-Speed AFM”, was presented at a Research Showcase held on 21 October.