NEWS

  • Congratulations to Tyler Wilson and Garrett Hairston for graduating with their MS degrees, they both defended their MS theses this May. Garrett started in the BiSSL group as an undergraduate researcher back in Fall 2019 and Tyler began his MS with BiSSL in Fall 2020. Garrett’s thesis is titled: “Using Bio-Inspired Techniques to Design for…

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  • A huge congratulations to Ph.D. student Abheek Chatterjee for being awarded the 2022 Graduate Student Teaching Award from the Mechanical Engineering Department. Based on several nominations, the department will present Abheek with the award at the spring Faculty and Staff award celebration.

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  • BiSSL MS student Tyler Wilson and Ph.D. student Abheek Chatterjee have had two papers accepted to ASME’s 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2022). The papers will be presented in St. Louis, Missouri in August. Tyler and Abheek collaborated on the paper “Exploring the Effects of Partnership and…

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  • A collaborative paper with Dr. Julie Linsey at Georgia Institute of Technology, led by BiSSL Ph.D. student Samuel Blair and co-written with MS student Garrett Hairston, has been accepted to the 2022 ASEE Conference & Exposition. The paper, titled “Modularity Analysis of Makerspaces to Determine Potential Hubs and Critical Tools in the Makerspace,” was accepted…

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  • The BiSSL group is very proud of our own Ph.D. student Abheek Chatterjee, who was one of a select few graduate students chosen to present their doctoral research at the SERC Annual Sponsor Research Review’s Doctoral Student Forum. His presentation is titled “Ecology-Inspired Design of Resilient and Affordable System of Systems.”

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  • We’re excited to be presenting research done in collaboration with Dr. Richard Malak and BiSSL (Abheek Chatterjee) at the annual SERC sponsor research review. The presentation covers the work we’ve done on our grant “Ecology-Inspired Techniques for Resilient Design of System of Systems (SoS).”

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  • Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Abheek Chatterjee, Ph.D. student Samuel Blair, and MS student Garrett Hairston for being awarded J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Fellowships for Fall 2021 in recognition of the great research they’ve been doing as graduate students!

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  • Big congratulations to BiSSL Ph.D. student Abheek Chatterjee for his paper “Ecology‐inspired resilient and affordable system of systems using degree of system order” – which investigates applying ecological resilience measures to the design of Systems of Systems (SoS) and has now been published! Abstract: This research tests the value of using an ecology-inspired architectural metric, called the metric Degree…

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  • Three BiSSL students had conference papers presented at the 2021 International Design Engineering Technical Conference! Ph.D. candidate Abheek Chatterjee and MS student Tyler Wilson presented their paper on modifying bio-inspired system design methodologies for supply chains, enabling the impact of storage to be considered when applying resilience characteristics from nature. Their paper was presented on…

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  • Congratulations to Tejas Adsul and Andrew Foster who both successfully defended their MS theses and will be graduating this summer! Tejas Adsul’s MS thesis is titled “Ant-Inspired Innovation Research Strategies” and based on work with Dr. Cynthia Hipwell from Mechanical Engineering and Dr. Robert Puckett from Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Andrew Foster is graduating with…

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