UCLA Active Materials Laboratory

Prof. Greg Carman, Ph.D.

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

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Scott Michael Strutner

Research Interests

• Fiber optic strain sensors
• Fiber Bragg gratings
• Magneto-optical coupling
• Magnetorefractance
• Composite structural health monitoring
• R&D and Entrepreneurship

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Present
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 2012
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), 2011

Experience

2011 - Present
• Optics sensors, Active Materials Laboratory, UCLA - Graduate Student Researcher
Summer 2014
• RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA - Summer Associate
Summer 2010
• Foams and Complex Systems, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Summer Researcher
Summer 2009
• Paper Technology, Technical University, (TU) Darmstadt, Germany - Research Assistant
Summer 2008
• Ames Robotics Academy, NASA, Moffet Field, CA - Summer Intern

Honors & Awards

• Local winner, flown to DC for National Competition NSF's Perfect Pitch Competition 2014
• "Best in Science" Tech Forum 2014

Conference Publications

• S. M. Strutner, F. Pena, A. Piazza, A. R. Parker, W. L. Richards, and G. P. Carman, “Recovering strain readings from chirping fiber Bragg gratings in composite overwrapped pressure vessels,” in Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies 2014, 2014, vol. 9059, no. 408, p. 90590F.
• F. Pena, S. M. Strutner, W. L. Richards, A. Piazza, and A. R. Parker, “Evaluation of Embedded FBGs in Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels for Strain Based Structural Health Monitoring,” in SPIE: Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies VIII, 2014, vol. 9059, p. 90590G.

Conference Presentations

• MMM/Intermag in San Diego 2016
• SPIE: Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies VIII, 2014 - Recovering strain readings from chirping fiber Bragg gratings in composite overwrapped pressure vessels

Conference Posters

• MMM/Intermag in San Diego 2016
• TANMS Annual Review at UCLA 2015 - Characterizing Sensitivity of Refractive Index to Magnetic Field
• IMRC in Cancun Mexico 2014 - Characterizing Index of Refraction Changes From The Magnetorefractive Effect in LSMO
• Tech Forum of UCLA 2014 - Novel Glass for Distributed Magnetic Sensing
• Tech Forum of UCLA 2013 - Novel Glass for Distributed Magnetic Sensing

Professional Societies

• Tau Beta Pi (past Mentorship chair)
• ASME (past UCSB President)
• SAMPE
• SPIE
• IEEE

Undergraduate Mentorship

• Summer 2015 - Sabina Ula & David Baum - Measuring Changes in Magnetic Field Using Index of Refraction
• TANMS's - Summer 2014 - Adam Garcia - Characterizing Thin Film Effects on a Reflectivity Study
• TANMS's URP - Summer 2013 - Adam Garcia - Characterizing Magnetorefractive Glass
• TANMS's YSP - Summer 2013 - Pranathi Rao - Fabrication and Characterization of Magneto-Refractive Glass
• Eng 87 - Fall 2012 - Adam Garcia, Anthony Anderson, Edgar Mendoza, Erick Ballesteros, & Sabina Ula - Fabricating and Characterizing Magnetorefractive Glass
• SPUR - Summer 2012 - Edmundo Godinez - Innovative Data Interpretation Processes from Fiber Optic Strain Sensors on Pressure Vessels
• YSSRP - Summer 2012 - Abdul Gieballal & Marco Aguilar - Magnetooptics: The Magnetorefractive Effect

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