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Dr. Shahrzad Towfighian

Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Binghamton University
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Towfighian earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Iran), and Ryerson University (Canada), respectively. She received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 2011. Her PhD project was focused on extending the operation range of micro-electrostatic actuators using a closed loop voltage control system. Achieving quasi-static stable displacement up to 90% of the capacitor gap as a result of her research, can enhance the performance of theses actuators in many applications such as programmable optical filters for real time monitoring of gas species.

Research Interest

MEMS, Mechanical Vibration, Linear and Nonlinear dynamics, Energy Harvesting, Micromirrors for optical applications

Publications

  • Seleim A, Towfighian S, Delande E, Abdel-Rahman E, Heppler G. Dynamics of a close-loop controlled MEMS resonator. Nonlinear Dynamics. 2012 Jul 1;69(1):615-33.

  • Towfighian S, Heppler GR, Abdel-Rahman EM. Analysis of a chaotic electrostatic micro-oscillator. Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics. 2011 Jan 1;6(1):011001.

  • Towfighian S, Seleim A, Abdel-Rahman EM, Heppler GR. A large-stroke electrostatic micro-actuator. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 2011 Jun 21;21(7):075023.

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