Han Hu’s visit to the Advanced Manufacturing Center (picture with Dr. Rick Barker and Bruce Thomas) and Aerospace Center (picture with Vince Gemmiti) at the University of Arkansas – Pulaski Technological College (UA-PTC).
Han Hu with PI Jennifer Fowler at the 2025 Arkansas NSF EPSCoR DART Annual Meeting in Little Rock.
Hari Pandey and his committee members after his Ph.D. defense.
NED3 lab members facilitating ESA.
Han Hu at the 2024 ITherm ITherm Conference.
Hari Pandey presenting his paper on two-phase immersion cooling at ITherm 2024 in Denver, CO.
Stephen Pierson at the Cardinal & White Celebration.
NED3 Group Picture – Spring 2024.
Hari Pandey and Dylan Wallen, collaborator from U Cincinnati ran acoustic sensing tests of flow condensation at NASA Glenn Research Center.
DatadDroid at 24th Arkansas Governor’s Cup Award Luncheon.
Spring 2024 Class of MEEG 2403-002 Thermodynamics with Han Hu.
Battlebot demo by Robotics Interdisciplinary Organization of Teams (RIOT) during the UofA campus visit of George Jr. High School and Lakeside Jr. High School.
UofA Campus visit of Chris Rogers, Project Manager, John Eustace, Project Engineer, and Yinan Li, Systems Engineer from ZIN Technologies – Powered by Voyager Space.
Jackson Marsh at the 2024 Arkansas STEM Posters at the Capitol event in Little Rock, AR.
Han Hu at the 2023 GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) Conference in Fayetteville, AR.
Han Hu at the 2023 IEEE-USA Innovation, Workforce, and Research Conference (IWRC). (From left to right) Jerri Jenise James from UAPB, Weston Waldo from UT Austin, Han Hu, and Bridgett Williams Pinkins from UAPB.
Stephen Pierson gives the final presentation during the UofA STEAM Training in Entrepreneurial Practices (STEP) I-Corps Closing Workshop at Brewer Family Entrepreneurship Hub.
NED3 Students at 2023 ASME Summer Heat Transfer and Energy Sustainability Conferences in Washington DC. First photo (from left to right): Hari Pandey, Ethan Weems, Christy Dunlap, Jackson Marsh, and Amanda Williams.
First photo (from left to right): Hari Pandey, Ethan Weems, Corbin Russ, and Anthony Tello at the 2023 Arkansas Space Grant Symposium in Morrilton, AR. Second photo: Amanda Williams at the symposium.
News:
10/4 – NASA RID
10/4/2024: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving a NASA EPSCoR RID grant on experimental and machine learning studies of boiling heat transfer!
10/4
10/4/2024: Congratulations to Braden Stevens, Christy Dunlap, and Hari Pandey on receiving the Reginald R. ‘Barney’ & Jameson A. Baxter Graduate Fellowship!
10/2
10/2/2024: Congratulations on NED3 on receiving an Honors College Faculty Equipment and Technology Grant to acquire a high-frequency acoustic emission sensing system!
9/9/2024
9/9/2024: Congratulations to Chinmaya Joshi and Clancy Milam on receiving the second place poster award at the ASEE 2024 Midwest Section Conference!
9/5/2024
9/5/2024: Congratulations to Jackson Burnett, Trevor Harris, Abigail Henson, and Jackson Minnick on receiving an Honors College Research Team Grant!
7/22/2024
7/22/2024: Congratulations to Hari Pandey on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation!
7/9/2024
7/9/2024: Congratulations to Chinmaya Joshi and Daniel Curl on receiving their Honors College Research Grants to investigate “Development of Titanium Encapsulated Pyrolytic Graphite Radiator Fins for Advanced Spacecraft Cooling” and “Utilizing Multi-Physics Modeling to Investigate the Effect of Cooling Channels in Megawatt-Class Electric Motors,” respectively.
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6/24/2024: NED3 facilitated a session for the Engineering Summer Academy (ESA) Structure and Function in collaboration with the Robotics Interdisciplinary Organization of Teams (RIOT). This ESA session centered on building a mechanical structure using 3D-printed parts and running destructive tests using battlebots.
6/11/2024
6/11/2024: Congratulations to Christy Dunlap on receiving an ASGC STEM award! This award will support her study on developing a self-contained data acquisition module that supports remote control and reliable data transfer. Congratulations to and on their ASGC WFD awards!
6/6
6/6/2024: Congratulations to NED3 on being awarded an ACCESS-CI Explore Project “Probing Bubble Dynamics with Integrated Large-Scale Vision Models and Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations” (MCH240045)!
5/31
5/31/2024: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving a NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research (R3) award to develop and demonstrate a real-time, non-invasive partial discharge detection method using acoustic sensing and sequence modeling. See a news article on this award by Arkansas Business.
5/11
5/11/2024: Congratulations to Stephen Pierson, Jackson Marsh, Ethan Weems, Isaiah Kroll, Corbin Russ, and Nathaniel House on their graduation! Stephen Pierson, B.S. (summa cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering, May 2024, Senior of Significance, Razorback Classics, Honors Thesis: CAM and Design for Manufacturing: Developing a Project-Based Learning Course. Stephen will pursue his Ph.D. study at the University of Arkansas with a Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship! Jackson Marsh, B.S. (summa cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering, May 2024, First-Ranked Senior Scholar, Honors Thesis: Flow Characterization with Acoustic Emission Sensing. Jackson will join Epic as a Technical Solutions Engineer! Ethan Weems, B.S. (magna cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering, May 2024, Honors Thesis: Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Air-Cooled Heat Sinks; Ethan will join Henderson Engineers! Isaiah Kroll, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, May 2024. Isaiah will join Caterpillar! Corbin Russ, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, May 2024. Corbin will pursue his MSME study at the University of Arkansas! Nathaniel House, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, May 2024. Nathaniel has joined MCC!
4/19
4/17/2024: Congratulations to DataDroid on winning third place in the 24th Arkansas Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition High Growth/Tech Division – Undergraduate Track! DataDroid is led by CEO Nathaniel House, CTO Stephen Pierson, COO Dylan Yound, and CFO Joe Boehler lead DataDroid and is supported by talented engineering students Larry Marshall Jr., Christy Dunlap and advisors Justin Urso, Director of McMillion Innovation Studio and Han Hu.
3/29
3/29/2024: Congratulations on Joshua Mora Sanchez on receiving a prestigious 2024 Goldwater Scholarship!
3/8
3/8/2024: Congratulations to Stephen Pierson on being recognized as a 2024 Senior of Significance!
3/1
3/1/2024: Congratulations to AcoustiFlux (EL: Najee Stubbs & Christy Dunlap, TL: Han Hu, IM: Catherine Corley) on receiving the Spirit of I-Corp award and Catherine Corley on receiving the Star Mentor Award at the NSF National I-Corps Southwest Winter Cohort 2024. See more details at UARK News.
2/14
2/14/2024: Jackson Marsh presented his work on “Advanced Acoustic Sensing for Thermal Fault Detection in Electronics Cooling” to legislators at the Arkansas STEM Posters @ the Capitol. Jackson is one of the seven representatives of the University of Arkansas Fayetteville at the event.
11/2
11/2/2023: Congratulations to NED3 for receiving a NASA I-Corps National Course award! Najee Stubbs and Christy Dunlap are the Co-EL of our NASA I-Corps pilot team. Catherine Corley from the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC) will serve as the I-Corps mentor.
10/11
10/11/2023: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving an Honors College Faculty Equipment & Technology Grant to support the procurement of a laser for our in-house developed SLS facility!
9/28: Pandey
9/28/2023: Congratulations to on receiving the Larry and Gwen Stephens Graduate Scholarship and the Reginald R. ‘Barney’ & Jameson A. Baxter Graduate Fellowship!