Robert White’s Post

Jim Vlahakis and I are searching for a #postdoc (postdoctoral associate) to work with us for the next 6 to 9 months in Tufts University Department of Mechanical Engineering on #MEMS acoustic sensors and #nanofabrication. This is in person at Tufts University in Medford, MA. Candidate must have a PhD in a relevant field and hands on laboratory expertise, micro/nano fab experience and an interest in acoustic sensing. Please see this posting! Would love to hear from energetic candidates! https://lnkd.in/eYjSExBi

Tufts University Department of Mechanical Engineering is actively searching for a tenure stream faculty member in Robotics. Tufts University is a wonderful place to work with talented students and faculty! If you are excited to join us we would love to hear from you! Check out the job posting: https://lnkd.in/eRwsx6qp

Tufts University's sonic anemometer flew to 122,000 feet on a Columbia Scientific Ballooning Facility balloon over New Mexico on August 18. This it the third flight of the Tufts sonic - each year it keeps getting better! This year updated with greatly improved electronics, new ultrasound sensors, better signal processing, and a substantially improved sensor head design. We were taking 3D wind data at 4.4 samples per second throughout the 5 hour flight (2 hours at float) using linear chirps in the 37 to 51 kHz band sampled at 5 MS/s. We also flew a GEM infrasound sensor from Jake Anderson at Boise State University and are very interested to compare infrasound pressures to particle velocities measured by the anemometer at infrasound frequencies. Many thanks to Don Banfield and Christopher D. Yoder and NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration for their support, and great job to students Tim C., Benjamin Fisher, Zarina Kosherbayeva, and Rishabh Chaudhary for all the work put in pulling this together! We are looking forward to getting the data back and starting to crunch crunch crunch on it.

Kiely Quinn from Tufts University School of Engineering did a piece on our cryogenic MEMS sensor array work. Happy to be working with Luisa Chiesa, Peter Moore, Makoto Takayasu, Tanner Research and pleased to have research support from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) . https://lnkd.in/euGES6wZ

Work on acoustic MEMS quench detection in cryogenic superconducting cables with Makoto Takayasu at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Luisa Chiesa, Peter Moore, Zijia Zhao and others at Tufts University Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Michael Emerling, Amish Desai and others at Tanner Research published by IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. https://lnkd.in/e2a2u3b2

Always very impressed with Tufts University libraries ! Thank you Dorothy Meaney , David Fristrom , and all the Tisch library staff! I've got some reading to do!!

Our group at Tufts University has received new funding to do exciting work with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration – Two projects were funded recently: In “Sonic Anemometry on Stratospheric Balloons” Tufts University Department of Mechanical Engineering will design, manufacture, and test 3 revisions of a three axis #sonicanemometer for operation on #stratosphere-ic balloon at altitudes up to 130,000 feet. In “Ultrasonic Measurement of Helium Abundance” Tufts University School of Engineering will work with our collaborators Don Banfield, Ian Neeson and Andi Petculescu to demonstrate laboratory operation of an ultrasonic Helium abundance measurement in conditions relevant to the outer atmosphere of Saturn. #mechanicalengineering #research #acoustics

Enjoyed the trip to Acoustical Society of America Fall Meeting last week in Nashville - great job to Tufts University Department of Mechanical Engineering PHD student Tim C. presenting our work on the stratospheric sonic anemometer. Also happy to have Tufts University School of Engineering PHD student Rishabh Chaudhary join us and attend the event. #students #research #acoustics #mechanicalengineering