Sep 22, 2022 - Fall 2022: Fremont Cannon, Justin Neubauer Dissertation Defense, AMSM2022 Awards
In December 2022, UNLV won a football game against UNR. AMSL students celebrated this winning and made a 3D printed model "Fremont Cannon" painted in red. Justin Neubauer successfully defended his PhD dissertation, entitled "MECHANOELECTRICAL BEHAVIOR IN POLYVINYL CHLORIDE (PVC) BASED SOFT POLYMER GEL SMART SENSORS FOR SOFT ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS." He is currently with Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) LLC as Senior Engineer. In October 2022, two AMSL PhD students, Liya Napoleon and John Faccinto gave presentations at AMSM2022 (Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics) at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, and they won the 2nd and 3rd prize in the category of Best Student Paper Presentation Award in Sensor Technology.