Professor Junlan Wang from University of Washington give a report in the meeting room in July 23. The name of the report is “Mechanical Characterization of Nanoporous Thin Films using Optics and Short Pulse Lasers”. The report is chaired by professor Lian Jie who is the chairman of optical engineering department.
In this report, Prof. Wang discussed several optics and short-pulse-laser based techniques for characterizing the mechanical and interfacial properties of nanoporous thin films such as a laser-induced surface acoustic wave technique for mechanical property and laser-induced thin film spallation for interface adhesion. Beyongd that, Professor Wang introduced growth technology of Porous nanometer film material and its application in aerospace field.
Through this report, students improve the porous nanometer film material understanding, deepened to the optical precision representation technology in the field of dynamics application understanding and laid a good foundation for the future research.
Biosketch: Junlan Wang received her B.S. (1994) and M.S. (1997) degrees in Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, and Ph.D. (2002) in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After spending one year as a PostDoc at Brown University, she joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside in 2003 where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2008. Prof. Wang and her research group moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle in December 2008. Prof. Wang is a recipient of the US NSF CAREER Award, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Beer and Johnston Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award, the Bourns College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, and the Society of Experimental Mechanics
(SEM) Hetenyi Award, etc. Prof. Wang is active in several professional societies such as American Society of Mechanical Engineers （ASME), SEM and ASEE including chairing the ASME Experimental Mechanics technical committee and Multifunctional Materials technical committee, and secretary for the SEM research committee. She is currently the Program Chair on the ASME Materials Division Executive Committee and will be the Conference Chair for 2015 ASME Mechanics and Materials summer conference (happens every four years).