ESM Doctoral Students Alper Erturk and Alejandro Pacheco Awarded 2008 Liviu Librescu Scholarships
The Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics is pleased to announce that ESM doctoral students Alper Erturk and Alejandro Pacheco are recipients of the 2008 Liviu Librescu Scholarships. more...
ESM Ph.D. student Alper Erturk and ESM Affiliate Professor Daniel J. Inman publish topmost downloaded journal article
The article, A Distributed Parameter Electromechanical Model for Cantilevered Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters, by ESM doctoral student Alper Erturk and ESM Affiliate G.R. Goodson Professor Daniel J. Inman, which was published more...
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