Graduated August 2020 On Creases and Curved Links: Design Approaches for Predicting and Customizing Behaviors in Origami-Based and Developable Mechanisms
Graduated December 2021 Characterizing Behaviors and Functions of Joints for Design of Origami-Based Mechanical Systems
Samuel Smith
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2021 Development of an Origami Inspired Composite Deployable Structure Utilizing Compliant Joints as Surrogate Folds
David Andrews
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2020 Incorporating Stability in Deployable Origami-Based Engineering Applications
Lance Hyatt
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated June 2020 Designing Developable Mechanisms on Conical and Cylindrical Developable Surfaces
Jacob R. Greenwood
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2019 Enabling Compact Devices Through Origami and Developable Mechanisms
Kendall Seymour
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2019 Joint Analysis of and Applications for Devices with Expanding Motions
Mary Wilson
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2019 Techniques for Using Internal Strain-Energy Storage and Release in Origami-Based Mechanical Systems
Jared Bruton
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2019 Packing Sheet Materials into Cylinders and Prisms Using Origami-Based Approaches
Alex Avila
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2018 Origami-Based Design of Fold States and Stability
Janette Fernelius Herron
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated June 2018 Augmented Design Capabilities for Origami Tessellations
Trent Zimmerman
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2018 A Definition and Demonstration of Developable Mechanisms
Bryce DeFigueiredo
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2017 Developing New Classes of Origami-Based Mechanisms: Conceal-and-Reveal Motion and Folding Printed Circuit Boards
Erica Crampton
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2017 Considering Manufacturing in the Design of Thick Panel Origami Mechanisms
Kyler Tolman
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated June 2017 Developing Hybrid Thickness-Accommodation Techniques for new Origami-Inspired Engineered Systems
Jason Allen
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2017 Selecting Surrogate Folds for Use in Origami-Based Mechanisms and Products
Jason Dearden
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2016 Design and Analysis of Two Compliant Mechanism Designs for Use in Minimally Invasive Surgical Instruments
Bryce Edmondson
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2016 Development of a Thickness Accommodation Technique for Origami-Inspired Design
Clayton Grames
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2015 Design and Manufacture of Meso-Scale, Robotic Surgical Instruments
Jessica Morgan
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2015 Design Process for Origami-Adapted Design with Aerospace Mechanisms Case Studies
Michael Morgan
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2015 Using the Offset Panel Technique to Develop Innovative Origami-Based Applications
Kevin Francis
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2015 Origami-Based Design for Engineering Applications
Thomas Evans
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2015 Deployable and Foldable Arrays of Spatial Mechanisms
Brandon Hanna
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2014 Modeling and Testing of Bistable Waterbomb Base Configurations
Eric Wilcox
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2014 Design Considerations in the Development and Actuation of Origami-Based Mechanisms
Isaac Delimont
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2014 Compliant Joints Suitable for Use as Surrogate Folds
Landen Bowen
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2013 A Study of Action Origami as Systems of Spherical Mechanisms
Robert Fowler
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2012 Investigation of Compliant Space Mechanisms with Applications to the Design of a Large-Displacement Monolithic Compliant Rotational Hinge
Justin Black
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated June 2012 Evaluation and Development of Actuators for Lamina Emergent Mechanisms with Emphasis on Flat Solenoids
Holly Greenberg
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated June 2012 The Application of Origami to the Design of Lamina Emergent Emergent Mechanisms (LEMs) with Extensions to Collapsible, Compliant, and Flat-Folding Mechanisms
Walter Fazio
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated June 2012 Mechanical Properties and MEMS Applications of Carbon-Infiltrated Carbon Nanotube Forests
Eric Dodgen
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2011 Spinal Implant with Customized and Nonlinear Stiffness
Samuel Wilding
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2011 Expanding Lamina Emergent Mechanisms (LEM) Capabilities: Spherical LEMs, LEM Joints, and LEM Applications
Brian Olsen
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2010 A Design Framework that Employs a Classification Scheme and Library for Compliant Mechanism Design
Eric Stratton
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2010 Design and Analysis of a Compliant Mechanism Spinal Implant
Nathan Albrechtsen
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2010 Identifying Potential Applications for Lamina Emergent Mechanisms and Evaluating Their Suitability for Credit-Card-Sized Product
Paul Gollnick
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2010 Design Principles and Preliminary Actuation Approaches for Novel Multiple-Layer Lamina Emergent Mechanisms
Devin Ferrell
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2009 Development of Criteria for Lamina Emergent Mechanism Flexures with Specific Application to Metals
David G. Smith
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2009 Off-axis Stiffness and Piezoresistive Sensing in Large-displacement Linear-motion Microelectromechanical Systems
Gerrit T. Larsen
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2009 Piezoresistive Models for Polysilicon with Bending and Torsional Loads
Brian Cherry
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2008 Characterizing the Three-dimensional Behavior of Bistable Micromechanisms
Joseph O. Jacobsen
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2008 Fundamental Components for Lamina Emergent Mechanisms
Brian Winder
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2008 Achieving Complex Motion with Fundamental Components for Lamina Emergent Mechanisms
Cameron Andersen
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2007 Principles, Functions and Concepts for Compliant Mechanically Reactive Armor Elements
Mike Diehl
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2007 Design and Fabrication of Out-of-Plane Silicon Microneedles with Integrated Hydrophobic Microchannels
Steven Landon
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2007 Development of Deployable Wings for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Compliant Mechanisms
Allen Mackay
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduate August 2007 Large-Displacement Linear-Motion Compliant Mechanisms
Gary Johns
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2007 The Piezoresistive Effect in Microflexures
Rob Chase
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2006 Large 3-D Deflection and Force Analysis of Lateral Torsional Buckled Beams
Aaron Robison
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2006 Modeling and Validation of Tension-Element Based Mechanisms for Golf Ball-Club Impact
Jason Wiersdorf
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2005 Preliminary Design Approach for Prosthetic Ankle Joints Using Compliant Mechanisms
Jeffrey Anderson
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2005 Piezoresistive Sensing of Bistable Micro Mechanism State
Neal Hubbard
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2005 Dual-stage Thermally Actuated Surface-micromachined Nanopositioners
Jesse Cannon
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2004 Compliant Mechanisms to Perform Bearing and Spring Functions in High Precision Applications
Daniel Wilcox
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2004 Fully Compliant Tensural Bistable Mechanisms (FTBM) with On-chip Thermal Actuation
Gregory Bishop
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2004 A Comprehensive Model for Technology Push Product Development
Danielle Johnson
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2004 Selecting Appropriate Design Concepts for Manufacture in Developing Countries
Ryan Weight
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2004 High-Torque Capacity Compliant Centrifugal Clutches
Ben Cannon
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2003 Design and Analysis of End-Effector Systems for Scribing on Silicon
John Kennedy
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2003 Compliant, In-plane Ratchet and Pawl Micromechanisms for Safety Applications
Timothy Allred
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2003 Compliant Mechanisms Suspensions
Scott Brooks
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2003 Design of Compliant Mechanisms for Grasping with Application to Mechanical Disc Brakes
Alexandre Guerinot
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2003 Compliant Mechanisms Subjected to Compressive Loads
Brandon Woolley
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2003 An Approach to Concept Development for Mechanisms Possessing High Coefficients of Restitution
Daniel Carroll
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2002 Metamorphic Process for Compliant Ortho-planar Mechanism Design
Michael Baker
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2002 On-Chip Actuation of Compliant Bistable Micro-Mechanisms
Myles Christensen
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2002 Analysis of Pivot-Arm Continuously Variable Transmissions
Nathan Masters
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2001 A Self-Retracting Fully Compliant Bistable Micromechanism
Brent Weight
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2001 Development and Design of Constant-Force Mechanisms
Cameron Boyle
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2001 A Closed-Form Dynamic Model of the Compliant Constant-Force Mechanism Using the Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model
Troy Gomm
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2001 Development of In-Plane Compliant Bistable Microrelays
Christopher Mattson
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2001 Principles for the Design and Development of Modular Consumer-Products
Aaron Herring
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 2001 High Production Manufacturing Considerations for Metallic Compliant Mechanisms with Long Thin Beams
Deanne Clements
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 2000 Implementing Compliant Mechanisms in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
Clint Mortensen
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 2000 Behavior Models for Compliant Continuously Variable Transmissions
Nathan Crane
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 1999 Compliant Centrifugal Clutches Design Analysis and Testing
John J. Parise
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 1999 Ortho-Planar Mechanisms
Rebecca Cragun
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 1999 Thermal Microactuators for Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
Michael Berglund
M.S./M.B.A. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 1998 A Methodology for the Evaluation and Selection of Acceptable Design Concept Alternatives for Compliant Mechanisms
Brian D. Jensen
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated August 1998 Identification of Macro- and Micro-Compliant Mechanism Configurations Resulting in Bistable Behavior
Andrew J. Nielson
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 1998 Demonstration of the Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model for Macro and Micro Compliant Pantographs
Pat Opdahl
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 1996 Modeling and Analysis of Compliant Bi-stable Mechanisms Using the Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model
Brian Edwards
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated December 1996 Functionally Binary Pinned-Pinned Segments
James Derderian
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Graduated April 1996 The Pseudo-Rigid-Body-Model Concept and its Application to Micro Compliant Mechanisms