Director: Dr. Lisa Weiland
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Multiscale Mechanisms of Active Materials
Applications of Primary Interest: Morphing Structures and Sustainability
contact: lweiland@engr.pitt.edu
Engineers for a Sustainabile World at Pitt
Student Organization
Mission: Enable Society and Technology to work together toward Sustainable Solutions to the Climate Crisis.
Fei Gao, PhD Student
Research Area: Computational modeling and experimental validation of Ionic Polymer sensor properties
Research Application: High Performance Ionic Polymer Sensors
Rich Beblo, PhD Student
Research Area: Experimental Characterization of the Multiaxial properties of Shape Memory Polymers
Research Application: Morphing Aircraft
Target Graduation Date: December 2009
Eric Freeman, MS Student
Research Area: Computational Modeling of Nano-scale Transient Response
Research Application: Development of bio-inspired, highly selective membranes
Mark Delaney, MS Student
Research Area: Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Bicarbonate Transport
Research Application: Carbon Dioxide Capture from Flue Gas
Korey Gross, MS Student
Research Area: Experimental Characterization of Mutable Materials with Electric Feild Stimulus
Research Application: Morphing Aircraft
Target Graduation Spring 2008 (Thesis in Process!)
