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James Hanna
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia St. (0312)
Reno, NV 89557-0312
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Tega Oguns (01/22 - )
Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering
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Chris Redman (05/25 - )
Undergraduate researcher

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Shea Simon (01/25 - )
Undergraduate researcher

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Travis Broughton (01/24 - )
Undergraduate researcher

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Gavin Fisher (02/23 - )
Undergraduate researcher


SOME ALUMNI
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Eduardo Vitral (09/20 - 07/23)
Postdoc
next: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
website
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Abhinav Dehadrai (07/20 - 07/23)
Postdoc
next: Assistant Professor, Artificial Intelligence, Amrita University, Bengaluru
website
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Tian Yu (07/15 - 01/20)
Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, Bifurcations, multi-stability, and localization in thin structures
website
next: postdoc at Princeton CEE
now: Assistant Professor, Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, SUSTech Research Scientist, KLA
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Harmeet Singh (08/14 - 12/18)
Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, Discontinuities, balance laws, and material momentum
website
next: postdoc at EPFL Mathematics
now: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar
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Damián Gimeno Neira (08/22 - 03/25, also 03/22 - 04/22 as visiting undergraduate intern from Engineering Physics at Usach)
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Interaction between crumples in thin sheets
next: Ph.D. scholarship at U Sussex QIST
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Gregory Turri (09/19 - 12/21)
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Shape effects in the water impact of panels
next: Engineer, NevadaNano
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Harrison Wood (08/17 - 05/19, also 12/16-08/17 as B.S. in ESM)
M.S., Engineering Mechanics, Bending and warpage of elastic plates
next: Manufacturing Engineer, Moog Inc.
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Brato Chakrabarti (08/13 - 05/15)
M.S., Engineering Mechanics, Catenaries in viscous fluid
website
next: Ph.D. fellowship at UCSD MAE
now: Reader, ICTS-TIFR Bengaluru
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Madison Shipp (06/22 - 05/25)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering
next: Overhead transmission line design, POWER Engineers
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Sam Riddle (02/18 - 02/19)
Undergraduate, Engineering Science and Mechanics
next: summer at NIST Polymeric Materials Group
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Nick Corbin (01/16 - 01/2018)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics
next: ESM Rocketry
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Doug Hartley (05/17 - 01/18)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics
next: Ph.D. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
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Rick Warner (01/14 - 06/16)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics, B.A., Physics
next: Design Engineer, Scaled Composites
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Wes Royston (08/14 - 05/15)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics
next: Nuclear Power School, Submarine Officer, U.S. Navy