Effective July 1, 2022, Dr. Liu has been awarded tenure by the Board of Trustees of Temple University and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering. Huge thanks to all the group members for your contributions and to all the colleagues and friends for your support.

Xiaolei successfully defends his dissertation titled “Cicada-Inspired Sound Generator with Dual Resonators” on May 3, 2022. Thanks to all the committee members (Dr. Kurosh Darvish, Dr. Albert Kim, and Dr. Yimin Daniel Zhang). Congratulations to Dr. Song and we wish him all the best as he works as a mechanical engineer for Seagate in Minnesota.

Along with Dr. Guoliang Huang and Dr. Yousof Azizi, Dr. Liu co-chairs Track 1: Acoustics, Vibration, and Phononics at the upcoming IMECE 2022 conference, which will be held in-person from Oct 30 to Nov 3, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio. The deadline is March 22 for submitting full-paper abstracts , and June 29 for presentation-only abstracts. For details and abstract submissions, please go to the conference website.

Dr. Liu co-authors a paper titled “A numerical study of hybrid tuned mass damper and tuned liquid damper system on structure motion control” in Ocean Engineering. The corresponding author of this paper is Dr. Bang-Fuh Chen, a visiting scholar from National Sun Yat-sen University.

In collaboration with Dr. Jie Yin at NC State, Xiaolei and Dr. Liu publish a paper titled “Geometric mechanics of reconfigurable kirigami acoustic metasheet” in Extreme Mechanics Letters. Congrats to Xiaolei and Yanbin.

Dr. Liu receives a 2021 Bridge Research Program Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) for his project “Aerogel-based Acoustic Metamaterials for Broadband Sound Absorption” in the amount of $55,000.

Our paper on an optical directional microphone inspired by the internal coupling of lizards is published by JASA Express Letters (DOI: 10.1121/10.0005667). Titled “a bio-inspired optical directional microphone with cavity-coupled diaphragms”, this work seeks to address the fundamental size limitation in directional hearing devices.

Here are Dr. Qian Dong and Dr. Liu at commencement for Spring, 2021 on May 7, 2021. Qian will be working as an Acoustic Engineer for Goertek USA in San Jose, CA. Congratulations and best wishes to Qian.

Qian successfully defends his dissertation titled “Acoustic-structural interaction and its applications in sensor development and metamatreials” on April 29, 2021 after five years of doctoral study at Temple. Thanks to all the committee members (Dr. Ling Liu, Dr. Albert Kim, and Dr. Yimin Daniel Zhang). Congratulations to our first doctoral student graduate, Dr. Dong.

Ph.D student Xiaolei Song and Dr. Liu publishes a paper on Journal of Vibration and Acoustics about the free vibration of bistable clamped-clamped beams. In this paper, we present our study including analytical modeling and experimental method on bistable clamped–clamped beams, aiming to understand the detailed snap-through process and the ensuing vibration. It will appear on the June, 2021 issue of the journal.