David L. Hu assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology and Adjunct Professor of Physics The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Download 246.34 Kb.
|
- Navigate this page:
- I. EARNED DEGREES
- II. EMPLOYMENT
- III. TEACHING
- M.S. Thesis Students Supervised 1
- Undergraduate Special Problems and Research Students Supervised
- Graduate Courses Viscous flow, ME 6602 Spring 2013
- Graduate fluid mechanics, ME 6601 Fall 2011
| DAVID L. HU
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology and Adjunct Professor of Physics The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Dr. David Hu is an experimental fluid dynamicist with expertise in surface-tension and friction phenomena in the natural world. He seeks to be the world's leading researcher in the biomechanics of animal locomotion. The study of flying, swimming and running dates back hundreds of years, and has since shown to be an enduring and rich subject, linking areas as diverse as mechanical engineering, mathematics and neuroscience. Dr. Hu's work in this area has the potential to impact robotics research. Before robots can interact with humans, aid in minimally-invasive surgery, perform interplanetary exploration or lead search-and-rescue operations, we will need a fundamental physical understanding of how related but much simpler tasks are accomplished in their biological counterparts. Dr. Hu has focused on applying engineering techniques to outstanding biological questions regarding the interaction between organisms and their environments. Dr. Hu’s work in these areas has generated broad interest across the fields of engineering, biology and robotics, resulting in over 20 publications, including several in high-impact interdisciplinary journals such as Nature (2003, 2005) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2009, 2011, 2012) as well as popular journals such as Physics Today (2010) and American Scientist (2010). Over the years, Dr. Hu's research has also played a role in educating the public in science and engineering. He has been an invited guest on numerous television and radio shows to discuss his research, including Good Morning America (2010), National Public Radio (2009-2010), The Weather Channel (2011), and Discovery Channel (2011). His ant research was featured on the cover of the Washington Post in 2011. His work has also been featured in The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Popular Science and Discover magazine. Most recently, his laboratory appeared on 3D TV as part of a nature documentary by 3DigitalVision, ``Fire ants: the invincible army.'' I. EARNED DEGREES
II. EMPLOYMENT
III. TEACHINGA. Individual Student GuidancePhD Students Supervised1.Name: Mlot, Nathaniel Began Advising: Fall 2008 Project: Rheology of Ants Status: Passed Qualifying exams in 2011, scheduled PhD proposal in 2012 Publications: Mlot, Tovey & Hu PNAS 2011; Mlot, Tovey & Hu 2012 Comm. Integr. Biology Presentations: APS 2009; APS 2010; Fibers 2011; SICB 2013
Began Advising: Spring 2009 Project: Locomotion of Snakes Status: Passed Qualifying Exams in 2010; Passed PhD proposal in 2011; Completed all classes Publications: Marvi et al. (2011) ASME DSSC Proceedings; Marvi & Hu (2012 Proc. Roy. Soc Interface); Marvi & Hu (2013) Proc. Roy Soc Interface. Presentations: APS 2010, DSSC 2011; SICB 2012; APS March 2012; Materials Research Society (MRS) 2012; APS 2012; SICB 2013 3.Name: Dickerson, Andrew Began Advising: Spring 2009 Project: Active water-repellency Status: Re-taking qualifying exams 2012 Publications: Dickerson, Mills & Hu (2012) Proc Roy Soc Interface; Dickerson et al, PNAS (2012) Presentations: APS 2010; APS 2011; SICB 2012 4.Name: Amador, Guillerimo Began Advising: Fall 2010 Project: Mechanics of seed dispersal Status: Taking 2nd qualifying exams 2013 Publications: Amador et al (2013) Proc. Roy. Soc: Interface Presentations: APS 2011; APS 2012 5.Name: Yang, Patricia Began Advising: Fall 2012 Project: Fog-harvesting plants Status: Taking classes Publications: NA Presentations: NA M.S. Thesis Students Supervised1Name: Hobbs, William2 Began Advising: Fall 2008 Graduated: Winter 2009 Thesis: Piezoelectric energy harvesting: vortex induced vibrations in plants, soap films and arrays of cylinders Publications/presentations: Hobbs & Hu Fluid Struct. Interaction 2011; APS 2009 Position after graduation: Southern Company, Research Engineer Name: Mulcahey, Thomas Began Advising: Fall 2008 Graduated: Winter 2009 Thesis: Autonomous cricket biosensors for acoustic localization Publications/presentations: SICB 2010 Position after graduation: Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering PhD program Undergraduate Special Problems and Research Students SupervisedUndergraduates in my lab are mentored by myself and one of my graduate students. Students generally stay on for 1-3 semesters and during that time many undergraduates are coauthors on papers. Many have also won competitive university funding awards such as
After graduation, students often go on to graduate school in science or engineering. In the table below, “Year” denotes the year student joined the lab.
High School students
B. Courses TaughtMy recent efforts towards curriculum development are given below. Graduate CoursesViscous flow, ME 6602 Spring 2013I replaced this lecture-based course with a series of modules to be completed in a problem-based learning environment. I took advantage of the classrooms in the Whitaker building to allow the students to work in groups on their modules. Graduate fluid mechanics, ME 6601 Fall 2011I completely restructured this pre-existing course around a mathematical treatment of fluid mechanics with an emphasis on the use of scaling, Einstein notation, and physical intuition. Undergraduate CoursesResearch Project Laboratory, BIO 4590 Spring 2010 I completely restructured this pre-existing course around a new theme on mechanics of ant aggregations, created a semester’s worth of new lectures and built new laboratory equipment for the course for the study of ant locomotion. Particular attention was paid to teaching biologists to perform quantitative mechanical measurements.
I taught this course with an emphasis on biomechanics and flows in nature. I introduced a new 2-week module on scaling and dimensional analysis and its use in nature. Thermal Fluids Engineering, ME3720: Fall 2010 Directory: People People -> Math 4630/5630 Homework 4 Solutions Problem Solving ip People -> Handling Indivisibilities People -> San José State University Social Science/Psychology Psych 175, Management Psychology, Section 1, Spring 2014 People -> YiChang Shih People -> Marios S. Pattichis image and video Processing and Communication Lab (ivpcl) People -> Peoples Voice Café History People -> Sa michelson, 2011: Impact of Sea-Spray on the Atmospheric Surface Layer. Bound. Layer Meteor., 140 ( 3 ), 361-381, doi: 10. 1007/s10546-011-9617-1, issn: Jun-14, ids: 807TW, sep 2011 Bao, jw, cw fairall, sa michelson People -> Curriculum vitae sara a. Michelson People -> Curriculum document state board of education howard n. Lee, C People -> A hurricane track density function and empirical orthogonal function approach to predicting seasonal hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin Elinor Keith April 17, 2007 Abstract Download 246.34 Kb. Share with your friends:
|