International Research and Education in Engineering

UH Students visiting Great Wall

IREE Participants '08

• Christiana Chang is an MS Student at the University of Houston. She has studied the damping characteristics of carbon fiber reinforced materials in her recent research work, and under the IREE grant she extended her research to the heating of concrete using carbon fiber composite sheets.
  • See Christiana's presentation on self-heating concrete (PDF, 1.3 MB)

• Oliver Rivera is a senior undergraduate at the University of Houston. During the IREE experience, Oliver characterized the stress-temperature-deformation relationship of various types of Shape Memory Polymers.
  • See Oliver's presentation on Shape Memory Polymers (PDF, 1.0 MB)

• Kevin Weaver is a senior undergraduate at the University of Houston. Kevin used piezoelectric sensors and actuators to monitor the structural health of the glass fiber reinforced polymer in a wind turbine blade. The acoustic emission method was used for this study.
  • See Kevin's presentation on Damage Detection in GFRP Blade (PDF, 1.0 MB)

• Michael Fernandez is a senior undergraduate student at the University of Houston. During IREE, he used fiber optic sensors for structural health monitoring of a wind turbine blade.
  • See Michael's presentation on Application of FBG Sensing to Wind Turbine Blades (PDF, 1.0 MB)

Cultural Exchange Stories

We visited these institutions during IREE 2008.	Shenzhen Polytechnic	HIT-Shenzhen Grad School
Wuhan Univ. of Sci and Tech	Hunan University	ICVE in Dalian
DUT's Micro System Technology Lab	Univ. of Sci. and Tech. Beijing

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