People

Graduate Students

Mazharul Islam Lincon

Mazharul completed his MSc degree in Mechanical Design and System Engineering from Andong National University, South Korea in 2021 and his BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh in 2014. He worked 4 years as a Mechanical Design Engineer in a home appliances manufacturing company in Bangladesh. During his years of undergraduate and graduate study, he researched on characterization of interfacial behavior of adhesively bonded materials and composite materials. Mazharul joined the group of Dr. Chalivendra at UMass Dartmouth and started his research work from June 2021 as a PhD student. His research mainly focuses on damage monitoring of composite materials under dynamic loading conditions. Mazharul has expertise to work with UTM, FESEM, AFM machines, FDM, and SLA-type 3D printers. He has also expertise in 3D modeling (SolidWorks) and finite element analysis (Ansys).

 

Mohammed Shonar

I am an undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering and researching Material Mechanics. I was trained in manufacturing and experimenting with both innovative composites and 3D printed structures. My hobbies include flying RC plane/drone and I am a sports enthusiast.

 

 

 

Davidson Joseph

My name is Davidson Joseph, I am a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student. My research is about Dynamic Fracture Characterization of Multi-functional Hybrid Composites. I like to watch and play sports, I’m also a part of the SOLIDWORKS club that’s on campus and I enjoy playing video games.

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Sousa

My name is Richard Sousa, and I am an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering program. My current research involves damage sensing in conductive glass fiber composites. My other interests include CNC machining technology, music, and watching ice hockey.

 

 

Alumni:

(a) Doctoral Students: Jin-Ya Liu (2017); Sen Yang (2019); Md. Fazlay Rabbi (2021).

(b) Masters Students (22 students): John Crowley (2008); Alyre Maclure (2009); Sandeep Abotula (2009); Nandula Wanasekera (2010); Steven Bender (2010, BS-MS); Sashank Padamati (December 2010); Venkat Vadlamani (2011); Leming Sun (2011); Shane Cardoso (2012, BS-MS); Michael Pinto (2013, BS-MS); Samuel Benoit (2015); Matthew Bach (2015); Kirill Shkolnik (2015); Sen Yang (2016); Md. Rabbi Fazlay (2017); Karoly Fodor (2017, BS-MS); Nicholas Bach (Pending thesis defense, BS-MS); Jared Correia (2022); Jacob O’Donnelle (2020, BS-MS), Austin Taylor (2021), Nilufar Yesmin (2021, MS in Physics), Christopher Meninno (2021, BS-MS).

(c) Undergraduate Research Assistants (51 students): Sondy Jean; Peter Balkus; Zainab Odufuye; Amy Lopes; Shane Cardoso; Andrew Fredrickson; Nicholas Jones; Ryan Pivonka*; Corey Mooney*; Miguel Tejada (BCC); Diarny Fernandes; Jason Vaccoro; Christian Kyambe (BCC); Clovis Alves*; Elson Depina (BCC)*; Kevin Zeppenfeld; Arnab Bhattacharjee (IIT, Bhuvaneswar); Shouryadipta Ghosh*(IIT, Bhuvaneswar); Benjiman Thayer; Mike Foshey*; Karoly Fodor*; Nicholas Bach*; Essien Benjamin*; Joshua Horton; Mercy A Hope-Sowah; Sadeq Taha; Joshua Stuckey*; Jared J Correia; Kelly Merlo*; Jacob O’Donnelle*; Riley Sherman*; Christopher Meninno*; Josi Zulu; Samuel Almeida; Isaac Saron; Austin Taylor; Morgan Baker (BCC); Taylor C Lyford; Matthew Pires*; Dominic Parrella; Mohammed Shonar*, Joshua Letizia*, Austin Sa, Logan CabralPelletier; Christian Abad, Anthony Encarnacion, Matthew Gardiner, Andrew Sheedy, Ryan Masoud, Richard Sousa*, Davidson Joseph, Jeannine Eichenlaub (Butler County Community College in Pennsylvania); Zachary Safford (Nashua Community College, New Hampshire), Joseph Wennemer.

*Co-author of peer-reviewed journal article.