Environmental Engineering By Nn Basak

[Gaynelle Brigges]

Bertanhas 20 years of experience in environmental engineering, leading projects in the fields of watershed management, climate change, resource management, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. In his 10 years in the academy, he taught environmental chemistry, wastewater treatment, and design, he wrote over 20 articles that were published in national and international peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Bertan has 10 years of experience in the adaptation of European Union legislation in Trkiye. He has managed pioneering and multidisciplinary projects by working closely with public institutions, municipalities, ministries, industry, universities, and non-governmental organizations. His technical, academic, and managerial skills are helping him to bring together consultants from different disciplines and find innovative approaches.

Munmun Basak is from Naogaon, Bangladesh, and graduated from the University of Dhaka in 2016 with a degree in applied chemistry and chemical engineering. Since then, she has worked at the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), a government-owned research organization. She is now in her first year of graduate school pursuing a Ph.D. in forest biomaterials and will be working with Dr. Lokendra Pal. We recently had the chance to catch up with Munmun and ask her about some of her experiences here at NC State.

MB: My research aim is to find an effective solution for industrial application ensuring environmental sustainability. I found the perfect blend of chemistry, environmental science and engineering in the graduate program of forest biomaterials.

The energy, environment and sustainability theme encompasses research in energy conversion and storage, air quality and systems engineering, water quality systems engineering, power systems and smart grids, environmental fluids engineering, and green technology.

The Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering celebrates the contributions of its 17 women faculty (29%), who are making significant strides in a vast array of research areas, like additive manufacturing, engineering education, design, smart materials, robotics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, combustion, controls, medical devices and biomechanics.

Amrita Basak is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Her multidisciplinary research group focuses on developing process-structure-property linkages for metallic, polymeric and ceramic materials using additive manufacturing (AM). The team implements computational modeling, custom experiments and machine learning to advance AM.

Melissa Brindise is an assistant professor. Her research focuses on experimental fluid mechanics and particle image velocimetry (PIV) combined with methods development for clinically imaged neurovascular and cardiovascular flow analysis. Her current research interests include fluid dynamics associated with cerebral aneurysms, heart disease, single ventricle defects, traumatic brain injury and transition to turbulence in unsteady flows.

Margaret Byron directs the Environmental and Biological Fluid Dynamics Laboratory as an assistant professor. She works at the interface of biology, physics and both mechanical and environmental engineering. She and her students study the fluid dynamics of intermediate-Reynolds number phenomena in two main areas: the transport of large nonspherical particles in turbulence and the propulsion, navigation, and control strategies used by millimeter-to-centimeter scale aquatic invertebrates. Her broad research interests include turbulence, particle-laden flows, environmental fluid dynamics, and the biomechanics of swimming.

Jing Du is an associate professor of mechanical engineering. She received the courtesy appointment as affiliate associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2021. Her current research focuses on mechanics and materials, biomechanics and biomaterials.

Katie Fitzsimons directs the Human-Centered Robotics Lab as an assistant professor. Her work focuses on problems at the intersection of biology, robotics and control, with applications to physical human-robot interaction, haptics, interface design and robotic learning from demonstration. She and her students perform experimental work on the physical interactions between robots and humans and develop novel algorithmic methods to shape the interactions between people and autonomous systems.

Mary Frecker is the department head of mechanical engineering, a professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, the Leighton Riess Chair in Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Biodevices at the Penn State. She has previously served as associate department head for the graduate programs in mechanical and nuclear Engineering and as the director of the Learning Factory. As co-director of the Engineering Design Optimization Group (E-DOG) lab, Frecker conducts research in the area of optimal design of adaptive structures, targeted at applications ranging from aerospace systems to medical devices.

Andrea Gregg is the director of online pedagogy and associate research professor. She facilitates faculty development to maximize teaching and learning efficacy throughout the ME curriculum, with a primary focus on online learning. She is also responsible for leading quality instructional design for residential and online offerings; facilitating an activity community of practice for ME faculty dedicated to continuous quality improvement in pedagogy; and leading and evaluating emerging educational technology innovations such as digital badges, adaptive learning and learning analytics.

Siu Ling Leung is an assistant teaching professor and the director of undergraduate laboratories. She is developing a new engineering laboratory curriculum in the department to empower student's cognition skills and equip students to solve real-world challenges. Her research interests focus on creating new learning tools to enhance student engagement.

Anne Martin is the Martin W. Trethewey Early Career Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include understanding the causes of and developing interventions for impaired human locomotion by applying nonlinear, robot control theory to human gait. To accomplish this, she develops theoretical modeling and control techniques, simulates and analyzes different walking strategies, and performs human subject experiments, some of which involve exoskeletons or wearable sensors.

Jacqueline O'Connor is a professor of mechanical engineering and associate department head for faculty. Her research laboratory, the Reacting Flow Dynamics Lab, focuses on issues of unsteady combustion and fluid mechanic phenomena in power and propulsion technologies. She teaches courses in thermodynamics, IC engines, gas turbines and combustion.

Zoubeida Ounaies is a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems (LiMC2). She leads the Electroactive Materials Characterization Laboratory, an experimental research facility dedicated to advancing the application of smart materials. With her students, Ounaies focuses on the discovery and development of responsive polymer-based materials with unique combinations of mechanical, electrical, magnetic and coupled properties for applications in energy storage, conversion and harvesting.

Karen Thole is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering. She has secured more than $35 million in funding, written 280 peer-reviewed publications and been awarded six patents. In the Steady Thermal Aero Research Turbine (START) Laboratory, she focuses on convective heat transfer to develop new cooling designs for harsh, high temperature environments to increase the energy of efficiency needed in power-producing energy systems, such as gas turbines. In March 2021, she testified in front of Congress to detail research and development pathways for sustainable aviation.

"My ME family is who I draw my daily inspiration from, especially my women colleagues," Thole said. "I am privileged to work with these talented leaders who are making important technical contributions and making our department an inclusive organization."

Qian Wang is a professor of mechanical engineering. She received her PhD from Princeton University and BS from Peking University in China. Her expertise lies in dynamics and control, with applications in mechanical systems, biological systems, building systems, computer systems and flight control systems. She is currently working on modeling and control of laser-based additive manufacturing.

Our People Spotlight series gives you an inside look at our technical experts around the world. This week, we are highlighting an electrical engineer in our data center team from our Buildings + Places business in the United Kingdom and providing an insight into their inspiration and work.

Anirban Basak joined AECOM over a decade ago in 2012. He is an Uptime Accredited Tier Designer for our data center team in London and is focused on data centers and mission critical projects in the sector. He is responsible for designing resilient systems such as electrical systems, life safety and ancillary services and EPMS monitoring topology, and optimizing energy efficiency in data center design. This includes designating benchmarks and overseeing the installation and commissioning of projects through construction phases.

A career in engineering always felt to be on the cards for me, since I come from a family of engineers. However, most of my family has worked in civil and mechanical engineering, so my decision to focus on electrical engineering was going against the mould. From a young age, I have enjoyed problem-solving and taking apart and rebuilding things like circuit boards to understand how they work.

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