News
2010
Bassam presented his paper in Hilton Head 10 conference, June 2010
Dr. Agah promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, June 2010.
Bassam won the first place for oral presentations at 2010 VT GSA research symposium, March 2010.
Mehdi Named as "Graduate Man of the Year" by the University, March 2010.
Mehdi presented his paper in ASME NEMB 2010 Conference, February 2010.
2009
Liam successfully defended his Master's thesis, December 2009.
Shree successfully defended his Master's thesis, November 2009.
Bassam presented his paper in IEEE Sensors 2009 Conference, November 2009.
Bassam, Mehdi and Shree presented their papers in IEEE EMBC 2009 Conference, October 2009.
Dr. Agah received an NSF grant ($452,789), September 2009.
Mehdi received NSF fellowship to attend ASME NEMB 2010 conference in Houston TX, September 2009.
Dr. Agah in collaboration with other faculties at Virginia Tech
received an
NSF grant (EFRI BSBA: Complex microsystem networks inspired by internal insect physiology
PI: Jake Soha from ESM. Others involved: Ross, Shane
(SKP); Stremler, Mark (SKP); Staples, Anne (co-PI); De Vita,
Raffaella (co-PI); Puri, Ishwar (SKP); Vlachos, Pavlos (SKP);
Jon Harrison (co-PI); Davalos, Rafael (co-PI); Agah, Masoud
(SKP)
Dr. Agah received an NSF grant ($349,039), August 2009.
Dr. Agah promoted to IEEE senior member grade, July 2009.
Amin, Bassam and Phillip presented their papers in Transducers’09, June 2009.
Amin successfully defended his Master's thesis, May 2009.
Dr. Agah named the "College of Engineering Outstanding New Assistant Professor", April 2009.
Amin
received
the third place in
Paul E. Torgersen Graduate Student Research
Excellence Award,
Mehdi presented his paper in ASME IMECE Conference 08, November 2008
Professor Kensall D. Wise visited VT MEMS LAB, October 2008
Bassam presented his papers in IEEE Sensor Conference 08, October 2008
Mehdi and Phillip presented their papers in µTAS’08 conference, October 2008
Mehdi was awarded travel grant from Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, October 2008
Syed Ali
successfully
defended his Master's thesis, October 2008
Danial Moodie and Louis Cirillo joined the VT MEMS, September 2008
Richard Wilson
joined the VT MEMS, September 2008
Bassam, Amin and Mehdi presented their papers in Hilton Head 08, June 2008
Bassam and Amin were awarded travel grant from Transducers Research Foundation, June 2008
Bhanu Peddi joined the VT MEMS, May 2008
Mehdi received best poster award (first place) in annual VT GSA research symposium, March 2008
VT MEMS Research on MicroGC featured in Several News Websites
Dr. Agah received the
NSF CAREER Award, January 2008
Adedamola Omotosho joined the VT MEMS,
January 2008
2007
Dr. Agah in collaboration with several other faculty members
received a
grant from ICTAS, PI: Dr. Rafael Davalos, December 2007
Kevin Gantz defended his Master's thesis, December 2007
Shree Narayanan and Phillip Zellner joined VT MEMS, December
2007
Dr. Agah's son "Sepehr
Mohammad" was born on December 1st 2007
Dr. Agah presented two papers in µTAS’07, October 2007.
Liam Reneghan
joined VT MEMS, September 2007
Dr. Agah presented a paper in EMBC’07, August 2007
Kevin Gantz presented his paper in Transducers’07, June 2007
Mehdi Nikkhah
received a poster award in annual VT GSA research symposium, March 2007
Dr. Agah in
collaboration with several other faculty members received an
NSF grant,
PI: Dr. Amy Bell, January 2007
2006
Amin Zareian and Mehdi Nikkhah joined VT MEMS, September 2006
Syed Ali joined VT MEMS, July 2006
Dr. Agah
in
collaboration with Dr. Heflin and Dr. Taylor
received an
NSF grant, May 2006
Dr. Agah
in
collaboration with Dr. Heflin and Dr. Taylor
received an
NSF SGER grant, May 2006
Kevin Gantz and
Bassam Alfeeli joined VT MEMS, February 2006
2005
VT MEMS was established in September 2005