People

Our engineer is a verb. We are the LSVR Team. Our info and highlights from our story are below.

Director

Ryan L. Harne, James F. Will Career Development Associate Professor

B.S./M.S./Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech (2008/2009/2012)

ryanharne@psu.edu

CV. Google Scholar.

Ph.D. Students

Chris Bentley

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young Univ. – Idaho. (2018)

csb5532@psu.edu

Charles El Helou

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2019)

cme5574@psu.edu

Lance Hyatt

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young Univ. (2018)

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young Univ. (2020)

lancehyatt@psu.edu

Haley Tholen

B.S. Engineering Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (2021)

hmt5321@psu.edu

Undergraduate Research Students

Cameron Back

cpb5624@psu.edu

Ben Burlovic

bub223@psu.edu

Aidan Cliber

jac7233@psu.edu

Laura Edwards

lme84@psu.edu

Addison George

amg7138@psu.edu

Jamila Noguera-Devers

jan5592@psu.edu

Postdoc Alumni

Dr. Maya Pishvar

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Oklahoma (2019)

Postdoc, Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2019-2021)

Now: Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge

Graduate Student Alumni

Mahnoor Ajaz

B.S. Electrical Engineering, National Univ. of Sciences and Tech. (Islamabad) (2017)

M.S. Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2021)

Now: Researcher at GE

Dr. Wen Cai

B.S. Flight Vehicle Design and Eng., Northwestern Polytechnical Univ. (2012)

M.S. Solid Mechanics, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ. (2015)

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2021)

Now: Postdoc at Univ. of Michigan

Dr. Shichao Cui

B.S. Vehicle Engineering, Jilin Univ. (2016)

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2020)

Now: Product Designer at Apple Inc.

Quanqi Dai

B.S./M.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2016/2017)

Now: Reliability Engineer at Apple Inc.

Ben Goodpaster

B.S./M.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2017/2018)

Now: Researcher at the Los Angeles Air Force Base

Zach Nick

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, West Texas A&M Univ. (2016)

M.S. Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2020)

Nick Sears

B.S./M.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2017/2018)

Now: Researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory, Carderock

Vivek Srinivas

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (2018)

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2020)

Now: Ph.D. student at The Ohio State Univ.

Dr. Sih-Ling Yeh

B.S. Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean Univ. (2012)

M.S. Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan Univ. (2015)

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2021)

Ningxiner Zhao

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong Univ. (2018)

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2020)

Now: Ph.D. student at The Ohio State Univ.

Undergraduate Researcher Alumni

Justin Bishop

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2017)

Adam DeNise

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2019)

Katie Frost

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2020)

Carter Grimes

B.S. Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2019)

Abdullahi Inshaar

B.S. Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2019)

John Kosnik

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2019)

Nolan LaMarche

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2020)

Anna Lebron

B.S. Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2021)

Mark Luke

B.S. Nuclear Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2018)

Danielle Lynd

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2017)

Andrew Maloney

B.S. Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2019)

Inhyuk Park

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2017)

Sansriti Saxena

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2017)

Hamil Shah

B.S. Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2019)

Yu Song

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2017)

Daniel Urbanek

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2017)

Peter Vuyk

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (2018)

High School Researcher Alumni

Joseph Crump

Metro High School intern (2017)

Adam Groene

St. Charles High School intern (2018)

Beth Littman

Metro High School intern (2020)

Xander Rickard

Metro High School intern (2019)

Kate Swigert

Metro High School intern (2016)

Elijah Wold

Metro High School intern (2017)

Photos

February 22, 2023. Charles El Helou successfully defends his PhD dissertation, “Information Processing in Soft, Conductive Mechanical Materials”.

September 11, 2021. The LSVR heads to Stone Valley for a hike, picnic lunch, and kayaking. Perfect weather to be out and about!

April 30, 2021. The LSVR has had a wild Fall 2020 to Spring 2021 semester, balancing a major expansion of the lab across universities with the broad challenges of pandemic, while pursuing even greater research breakthroughs and ways to maintain team spirit! The LSVR gathered to celebrate the achievements of our Team Members throughout the academic year, including 3 graduations, to welcome a new Team Member (Haley Tholen), and to look forward to what the future months have to bring!

January 9, 2020. The LSVR hosts the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Bagel-Donut-Coffee Day on the Scott Lab Bridge. The LSVR Team shares about their research in origami, flexible electronics, and controlling sound while everyone enjoys food and drinks complements of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Association (MEGA).

Sih-Ling shares about her metamaterial research.

Charles (middle) and Zach (right) share about their developments with flexible electronic metamaterials.

The LSVR Team. From left to right, Vivek Srinivas, Sih-Ling Yeh, Maya Pishvar, Wen Cai (front), Charles El Helou (back), Shichao Cui (front), Zach Nick (back), Prof. Ryan Harne, Ningxiner Zhao.

October 23, 2019. Sih-Ling Yeh successfully completes her PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations!

Sih-Ling Yeh after her successful PhD candidacy exam!

October 21, 2019. Wen Cai successfully completes her PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations!

Wen Cai after her successful PhD candidacy exam!

September 19, 2019. Wen Cai, Sih-Ling Yeh, Ningxiner Zhao, and Zach Nick present their research during the NSF IUCRC Smart Vehicle Concepts Center autumn meeting research poster session. Great presentations!

Wen (left) and Sih-Ling (right) pause briefly during the presentations.

Zach (right) discusses his research with an SVC industry sponsor.

September 5, 2019. The LSVR starts off a new academic year together!

Front from left: Dr. Harne, Zach, Maya, Shichao, Sih-Ling, Anna. Back from left: Vivek, Charles, Katie, Ningxiner, Wen. The LSVR!

May 23, 2019. Xander Rickard successfully defends his honors thesis for his Metro School research internship. Congratulations!

Congrats Xander (at right) for a successful research defense!

April 11, 2019. Ben Goodpaster (LSVR MS 2018) receives the inaugular 2019 Hirschvogel Excellence Award for the best MS thesis in the MAE Department in 2018. Congratulations Ben for this significant achievement and for setting the bar so high!

Ben Goodpaster (near middle) with all of the 2019 Alumni and Student awardees in the MAE Department awards ceremony.

April 4, 2019. Adam DeNise successfully defends his undergraduate Honors Research Program thesis. Well done!

Adam (left) and Dr. Harne (right) after the thesis defense. Congrats!

April 3, 2019. Charles El-Helou successfully defends his undergraduate Honors Research Program thesis. Superb!

Charles (left) and Dr. Harne (right) after the successful thesis defense.

April 2, 2019. Abdullahi Inshaar successfully defends his undergraduate Honors Research Program thesis. Excellent job!

Dr. Harne (left) and Abdullahi (right) after the successful defense. Congrats!

March 28, 2019. Ningxiner Zhao, Charles El-Helou, Anpeksh Ambreesh Saksena, Zach Nick, and Vivek Srinivas give research poster presentation at the NSF IUCRC meeting of the Smart Vehicle Concepts Center. Great presentations!

Charles presents the poster to an SVC meeting attendee.

Zach sharing about design and fabrication of magnetoactive metamaterials.

Anpeksh discussing parametric array sound focusing with an SVC meeting attendee.

Ningxiner shares about exploiting partially activated acoustic arrays for sound focusing.

Vivek discusses recent findings on hemispherical acoustic arrays inspired by origami.

March 4, 2019. Sih-Ling Yeh and Wen Cai present their research at the 2019 SPIE Smart Structures & Non-destructive Evaluation Conference in Denver, Colorado. Great presentations!

Sih-Ling presents about her work on tunable vibration attenuation with mechanical metamaterials.

Wen presents about her research on practical optimization of vibration energy harvesters for robust DC power delivery.

February 20, 2019. Adam DeNise, Charles El-Helou, and Abdullahi Inshaar present their research at the competitive 2019 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Congrats! Additional photos at the MAE tweet.

Adam DeNise (left) and Dr. Harne during the research poster presentations. Adam is investigating digital image correlation techniques to study multistable structures.

Charles El-Helou (back) presents his research to visitors of the symposium. Charles’ research searches for new opportunities with magnetoelastic interactions in metamaterials.

Abdullahi Inshaar (right) and Dr. Harne (left) at the presentation. Abdullahi studies reconfigurable origami-inspired antennas for wireless communications applications.

November 19, 2018. Peter Vuyk successfully defends his undergraduate Honors Research Thesis. Congrats Peter!

Dr. Harne (left) and Peter Vuyk (right) after the successful defense.

October 28, 2018. A mid-semester time to talk research and enjoy the sudden onset of the winter season, skipping fall.

(L to R). Front: Maha Yazbeck, Sih-Ling Yeh, Shichao Cui, Wen Cai, Ningxiner Zhao. Back: Dr. Harne, Chengzhe Zou, Anpeksh Ambreesh Saksena, Zach Nick, Charles El-Helou, Adam DeNise.

September 5, 2018. Shichao Cui successfully defends her PhD candidacy proposal. Congratulations!

Dr. Harne and Shichao Cui after the successful PhD candidacy proposal defense.

August 20, 2018. The Autumn semester begins. The LSVR gets it started.

(L to R): Front: Abdullahi Inshaar, Peter Vuyk, Shichao Cui, Sih-Ling Yeh, Wen Cai, Ningxiner Zhao. Back: Chengzhe Zou, Anpeksh Saksena, Charles El-Helou, Adam DeNise, Zach Nick, Maha Yazbeck, Dr. Harne.

July 17, 2018. The LSVR goes to the Columbus Zoo. Just because.

This photo was taken not even 15 minutes after the one above: Everyone is questioning how we selected one of the few hot, sunny Columbus days to go to the zoo.

Most of us are checking out a napping grizzly bear.

Charles gives a high-five to an orangutan.

June 25, 2018. The LSVR undertakes a summer Research Show & Tell Breakfast mini-conference. Each Team Member researching during the summer presents about his or her work while the remainder of the Team take on bagels, fruit, coffee, and the like.

Top row (L to R): Katie Frost, Andrew Maloney, Sih-Ling Yeh. Middle row (L to R): Dr. Harne, Shichao Cui, Wen Cai. Bottom row (L to R): Abdullahi Inshaar, Chengzhe Zou, Charles El-Helou.

May 15, 2018. Xander Rickard shares his research on flat-foldable origami structures for acoustic wave guiding for the evaluators of his high school internship program. Great job Xander for a successful presentation!

Xander shares his research about unwrapping the globe!

Dr. Harne (left) and Xander (right) after the successful presentation.

April 29, 2018. The LSVR Team together.

Front row, left to right: Charles El-Helou, Wen Cai, Sih-Ling Yeh, Shichao Cui, Ben Goodpaster. Back row, left to right: John Kosnik, Adam DeNise, Nick Sears, Chengzhe Zou, Abdullahi Inshaar, Dr. Harne.

April 25, 2018. Nick Sears defends his Master’s degree thesis. Congratulations on a successful defense!

Dr. Harne (at left) and Nick Sears (at right) after Nick’s successful MS thesis defense. The black 3D printed materials in hand are central to Nick’s ground-breaking research.

April 20, 2018. Peter Vuyk receives the 2018 Outstanding Leadership and Research Award from the OSU Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Congratulations Peter!

Peter Vuyk (3rd from left in front row) along with the other esteemed student and alumni awardees at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Awards Ceremony.

April 10, 2018. Ben Goodpaster defends his Master’s degree thesis. Congratulations on a successful defense!

Dr. Harne (left) and Ben Goodpaster (right) after the successful defense.

April 3, 2018. Peter Vuyk presents his research poster at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum at OSU. Peter is investigating computational and experimental methods of illuminating and programming the impact mitigation properties of elastomeric material systems.

Peter Vuyk (left) and Dr. Harne (right) at the Denman Research Forum.

March 1, 2018. Shichao Cui, Sih-Ling Yeh, and Chengzhe Zou present their research posters as a part of the NSF I/UCRC Smart Vehicle Concepts Center spring meeting.

Shichao Cui, Sih-Ling Yeh, and Chengzhe Zou present their research to members of the SVC.

February 8, 2018. Shichao Cui is awarded the 2017 Beverley Swain Staley Leadership Graduate Scholarship, as selected by the Women of Transportation Society! Congratulations!

Shichao Cui receives the award from the Women of Transportation Society administrators.

February 5, 2018. Chengzhe Zou defends his Ph.D. candidacy proposal. Congratulations!

Dr. Harne and Chengzhe after the successful candidacy proposal defense.

December 13, 2017. Shichao Cui, Nick Sears, and Quanqi Dai present their research at Ford Motor Company as part of the Center for Automotive Research Industry Consortium Project Review Meeting.

Quanqi Dai describes his research on vibration energy harvesting to a program review attendee.

Nick Sears, Shichao Cui, Quanqi Dai, and Dr. Harne at Ford Motor Company along with the Center for Automotive Research.

December 10, 2017. LSVR gets together for a semester-ending meal and celebration of our graduate Quanqi Dai.

The LSVR Team from L to R: Front: Ben Goodpaster, Wen Cai, Shichao Cui, Inhyuk Park, Sih-Ling Yeh. Back: Dr. Harne, Nick Sears, Chengzhe Zou, Mark Luke, Namhyeon Cho, Charles El-Helou, Adam DeNise, Peter Vuyk, Quanqi Dai.

Quanqi Dai and Dr. Harne and an LSVR mug.

November 13, 2017. Quanqi Dai defends his Master’s degree thesis. Congratulations on a successful defense!

Dr. Harne and Quanqi Dai after the successful defense.

September 14, 2017. Inhyuk Park presents his research poster at the Fall Undergraduate Research Forum at OSU. Inhyuk is investigating magnetically coupled nonlinear energy harvesters for impulsive vibration applications.

Dr. Harne and Inhyuk at the poster presentation event.

August 7, 2017. Chengzhe Zou, Shichao Cui, Quanqi Dai, and Dr. Harne present and contribute to the 2017 ASME IDETC conference.

From left to right: Chengzhe Zou, Shichao Cui, Quanqi Dai, Dr. Harne.

Shichao Cui presents about her research.

Chengzhe Zou presents about his research.

May 18, 2017. Joseph Crump successfully defends his internship research at the PAST Foundation. Congrats!

Joseph Crump (at left) presents before the evaluators.

May 2, 2017. Shichao Cui presents her research poster on the subject of double porosity metamaterials as a part of the NSF I/UCRC Smart Vehicle Concepts Center spring meeting.

Shichao Cui (at right) presents her research to members of the SVC.

April 30, 2017. LSVR Team Gathering. Opportunity for relaxing time together over good food, and convenient chance for a group photo.

Left to Right. Front: Yu Song, Shichao Cui, Danielle Lynd, Peter Vuyk, Inhyuk Park. Back: Dr. Harne, Ben Goodpaster, Quanqi Dai, Justin Bishop, Nick Sears, Chengzhe Zou.

March 29, 2017. Justin Bishop, Ben Goodpaster, Danielle Lynd, Sansriti Saxena, Nick Sears, and Yu Song contribute to the 2017 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Congrats for the great presentations of your Undergraduate Honors Research efforts!

From left to right: Dr. Harne and Justin Bishop

From left to right: Ben Goodpaster and Dr. Harne.

From left to right: Dr. Harne and Danielle Lynd.

From left to right: Dr. Harne and Sansriti Saxena.

From left to right: Nick Sears and Dr. Harne.

From left to right: Yu Song and Dr. Harne.

December 13, 2016. The LSVR Team: not really working (or, waiting for the food delivery to arrive).

August 31, 2016. Quanqi Dai and Dr. Harne present the LSVR research on vibration energy harvesting before H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.

March 30, 2016. Quanqi Dai contributes to the 2016 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum and receives Fourth Prize for his poster presentation.