Graduate Assistants 2009

Mr. Hafiz Salih

Feng Wang

Bio: Feng is a Ph. D. student in Chemical and Materials Engineering Department in University of Cincinnati. He got his Bachelor in Materials Engineering from China and his research concentrates in nano-materials for bioapplication, which includes drug delivery, imaging and targeting. He has been assisting teaching renewable energy such as hydrogen fuel cells and solar cells for 2 years.

Mr. Yi Song

Mr. Ming Chai

Ming Chai is a PhD student in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in University of Cincinnati. Ming's dissertation is on emission and mechanisms of combustion of biodiesel. Ming's research instrests include renewable energy, air pollution control, and air resource management. Ming received his master of engineering in environmental science and engineering in Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He earned his bachelor of science in chemistry also in Tsinghua University.

  Zhuo Yao

Zhuo Yao is currently a PhD degree in transportation engineering at University of Cincinnati under advisor Dr. Heng Wei. His primary research including sustainable transportation infrastructure design and operation, transportation, land use in relation to air quality. He has master’s degree from Beijing University of Technology in Urban design and Bachelor’s degree from Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Architecture.

Chelsea Sabo

I am a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati where I focus on intelligent control in Aerospace Engineering.  I completed my undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a B.S. in Engineering Mechanics with an Astronautics option.  I will complete my Master’s in the area of path planning using fuzzy logic this summer (2009) and will be continuing on to get my Ph.D. on intelligent control of tensegrity structures for space applications.  I have also had proposals about my research accepted for presentation and spoken at the 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Orlando and the 34th AIAA Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium.

I have served as a graduate assistant during my two years at UC, where my main focus is research, but I have also worked as a teaching assistant for several courses.  As a researcher I developed a two-dimensional fire-growth simulation and developed control algorithms for path planning of a wildland fire-fighting aircraft using fuzzy logic.  As a teaching assistant, I developed the final project for the Fundamental Control course which included an experiment in the “Intelligent Aerospace Systems” lab and created and graded assignments related to final project.  I also supported the final projects for the Intelligent Systems course and prepared and taught lectures.  My previous job before this has been as a camp counselor for Camp Badger at the University of Wisconsin.  This was an engineering camp for students going into the 8th grade, and I worked for two summers as both a day and night counselor and also gave demonstrations at the wind tunnel.

Because my studies have led me to the field of intelligent control, I have applied and been accepted as an Associate Member of the AIAA “Intelligent Systems Technical Committee.”  Within the ISTC, I serve in the sub-committee for enhancing outreach programs to K-12.  In the area of outreach, I am initiating a “Science Night” for local high school students to learn about intelligent systems and am hoping to eventually make this material available to other AIAA groups nationwide.  This will hopefully help to increase knowledge and interest in the field of intelligent systems. In addition to this, I have volunteered to do outreach in various ways.  Through AIAA, I have been a judge at the Wisconsin Science Olympiad, given a presentation on women in aerospace at a Girl Scouts badge day, lead a presentation and activity on the egg drop for a 4-H night, and spoken to incoming freshman about engineering and AIAA.