Current Grad Students:

* Brendan Vidmar, PhD; co-advisor Brian Feeny, ME; nonlinear interactions in multi-order torsional vibration absorbers

* Scott Strachan, dual PhD in ME and ECE; co-advisor, Prem Chahal, ECE; frequency converters based on nonlinear resonances in MEMS/NEMS

* Pavel Polunin, MS; noisy nonlinear dynamics in MEMS/NEMS

* Abhisek Jain, MS; co-advisor Brian Feeny, ME; experimental measurements of torsional vibration absorbers

Current Undergrad Students:

* Bara Aldasouqi, support for the vibration absorber group & experimental vibration testing

* Cody Little, support for the vibration absorber group & experimental vibration testing

Recent Grad Student Alumni:

* Nick Miller, dual PhD in ME and Physics; co-advisor, Mark Dykman, Physics; now a postdoc in Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon U.

* Thomas Theisen, MS, 2011 (thesis), joint with B. Feeny, now at Johnson Controls

* Ryan Monroe, PhD, 2011, now at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

* Hein van Beek, 2010, visiting student from TU-Eindhoven (TU/e), advisor: H. Nijmeijer, now a PhD student at TU/e

* Brendan Vidmar, MS, 2009 (thesis), joint with B. Feeny, now a PhD student in our lab

* Jeffrey Rhoads, PhD, 2007, now an Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

* Nicholas Miller, MS, 2007 (thesis), now a PhD student in our lab

* Mark Orlowski, MS, 2007 (thesis), joint with A. Haddow, now at the Southwest Research Institute

* Brian Olson, PhD, 2006, now at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Recent Undergrad Student Alumni:

* J. T. Whitman, BSME, 2012, now employed at Whirlpool Corp.

* Brian Rockwell, BSME, 2011, now a graduate student at Stanford

* Ashley Kulczycki, BSME, 2011, now a graduate student at Notre Dame

* Jelena Paripovic, BSME, 2011, now a graduate student at Purdue

* Thomas Theisen, BSME 2009, completed an MSME at MSU, now at Johnson Controls

* Bryan Wagonknect, BSME, 2008, completed an MS from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, now at QinetiQ North America

Current Funded Projects:

* Collaborative Research: MEMS Frequency Converters Based on Nonlinear Resonances, NSF; PIs: S. W. Shaw, P. Chahal, and K. L. Turner (UCSB), Aug. 2012-Aug. 2015

* Studying electron transport in nanowires using fluctuations of nano-mechanical vibrations, ARO; PIs: M. I. Dykman and S. W. Shaw, July 2012-July 2015,

*  Development of CAE Tools for Pendulum Absorber Design, Ford Motor Co.; PIs: S. W. Shaw and B. F. Feeny, Jan.-Dec., 2012

* GOALI: Vibration Absorbers for Multi-Frequency Excitation, NSF; PIs: S. W. Shaw, B. F. Feeny (MSU), and B. Geist, (Chrysler Group LLC), June 2011-June 2014

* DEFYS: Dynamics Enabled NEMS Oscillators, subcontract from Caltech, DARPA prime; MSU PIs: M. I. Dykman and S. W. Shaw; Caltech PI: M. Roukes; July 2010-Dec. 2012 (includes a one year no cost extension)

* Collaborative Research: Noisy Nonlinear Microscale Oscillators for Novel Applications, NSF;  PIs: S. W. Shaw, M. I. Dykman (MSU), and H. B. Chan (Hong Kong U. of Sci. & Tech.), July 2009-June 2013 (including a one year no cost extension)