Speaker: Asheesh Ravikumar Lanba, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Composites Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)
About the speaker: Dr. Lanba teaches materials science and mechanics-based courses at the University of the Southern Maine, and conducts research in advanced materials, laser ablation tomography (LATscan) and image analysis. He is also leading the USM effort to absorb the Composites Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), a non-profit analytical laboratory that offers expertise for manufacturing, process development and optimization for different kinds of materials. He is also involved with USM’s K-16 CubeSat research and development program, and they are having a CubeSat design competition this semester for middle- and high-school students called UCDC 2021.
He obtained his PhD in Engineering Science and Mechanics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2015. In graduate school, he also taught Engineering Statics, Dynamics, Strength of Materials and Experimental Stress Analysis, and mentored undergraduate researchers. Over the past three years he has worked as the Chief Operating Officer at L4iS, a startup that commercializes laser-based innovations.
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About the seminar: Dr. Lanba is the principal investigator of the Lasers and Materials Engineering (LAME) research group at USM. The group conducts a wide variety of research in advanced materials applications, laser ablation tomography (LATscan) applications and image analysis. More specifically, the group conducts research with shape memory alloy (SMA) applications, bio-inspired composites, LATscan imaging of plants, insects and mammalian tissue, and LATscan image analysis for feature segmentation/classification. The group has also developed medical devices in collaboration with MaineHealth. In this talk, Dr. Lanba will discuss the work his group has been conducting over the past five years at USM.
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