Ph.D. Committees Chaired; M.S. Committees Chaired:

Completed Ph.D. Degrees:

Chao-Lung Ting, Ph.D., Winter 1994. Dissertation entitled “Boundary Conditions in the Vicinity of the Contact Line at a Vertically Oscillating Plate: An Experimental Investigation.”

Huanjay Lin, Ph.D. MEAM Department, Winter 1997. Dissertation entitled “The Vortical Structure of Capillary-Gravity Waves: An Experimental Investigation.”

Lei Jiang, Ph.D. Co-Chair with W.W. Schultz, MEAM. Winter 1997. Dissertation entitled “Nonlinear Gravity-Capillary Water Waves.”

Gary Lapham, Ph.D. Co-Chair with David Dowling, MEAM. 1998. Dissertation entitled “Wave-Surfactant Interaction.”

Ziyuan Liu, Ph.D. Co-Chair with W.W. Schultz, ME. Winter 2001. Dissertation entitled “Film Flow within an Axially Rotating Horizontal Cylinder and Contact Lines on an Oscillating Plate.”

Haiping He, Ph.D. Co-Chair with A. Troesch. Fall 2002. GSRA Support began 1998.

Wendy Sanders, Ph.D. Co-Chair with S.L. Ceccio, D.R. Dowling.  GSRA support began 2001. Fall 2003.

Xiaoqiang Bian, Ph.D. Co-Chair with W.W. Schultz, GSRA Support began Fall 2001. Fall 2003.

Jinhyun Cho, Ph.D. Co-Chair with S.L. Ceccio. GSRA support began 2001. Winter 2004.

Keary Lay, Ph.D. Candidate. GSRA Support began Jan, 1996. Currently supported through GSI. Fall 2005.

Completed MS and MSE Degrees:

Mayank Agarwal, MSE. Graduated Winter, 2002. Co-Chair with W.W. Schultz. GSRA Support began Fall 2000.

Vikas Gaur, MS, Graduated 2002. Co-Chair with A. Atreya, ME.

Active Ph.D. students:

Eric S. Winkel, Ph.D. Candidate, ME (Co-Chair with SL Ceccio). Support began 2003. Expected Summer 2006.

Brian Elbing, Ph.D. student (Co-Chair with SL Ceccio). Support began 2005. Expected Fall 2007.

Sivakumar Natarajan, Ph.D. student (Co-Chair with DG Karr). Support began 2005. Expected Winter 2008.

ZhiGang Tian, Ph.D. student, Support began Fall 2005. Expected Winter 2008.

Students supported for some part of an incomplete Ph.D.:

Mary Irene Wise, Ph.D. Student (Passed Parts 1 and 2 of Preliminary Exams), expected date of graduation was 1995. Project entitled “Cross-shore Length Scales of Longshore Bars and Associated Forcing,” SUSPENDED EDUCATION.

Jianhui He, Ph.D. Student (Passed Part 1 of Preliminary Exams), expected 1997. Project entitled “Experiments on Breaking Waves and Incipient Vorticity Generation,” SPECIAL LEAVE.

Post-Doctoral Research Associates

Xiaochun Shen, supported with ONR funds, 2004-2006.

Ghanem Oweis, supported with DARPA funds, 2004-2005.

Kyungjin Lee, supported DARPA funds, 2006-.

Keary Lay, supported with ONR funds, 2006-.

Undergraduate and Special Projects Directed:

Two French Naval students from Ecole Navale classified as Visiting Scholars were directed for twelve week projects on blast panels using granular materials. Fall 2005.

Two French Naval students from Ecole Navale classified as Visiting Scholars were directed for eight week projects on bubble ingestion and propulsion. Winter 2004.

Two French Naval students from Ecole Navale classified as Visiting Scholars were directed for eight week projects on Morrison’s Equation (with Armin Troesch). Winter 2003.

Two French Naval students from Ecole Navale classified as Visiting Scholars were directed for six week projects on Piezoceramic propulsion. Winter 2002.

Pål Hylland, Student at Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Visiting Scholar NAME/UM, conducting research under my auspice, Sep 97-Mar 98. Report issued.

Visiting NASA SHARP student, Terreka Peterson, summer 2002.