Motoki Ujihara, Graduate Student , resume

 Fukuoka, Japan

Research Interests

  • Shape Memory Alloys
  • Biomedical Devices
  • MEMS
  • Analog Devices
 

Education

  • ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (major field: MEMS) , University of California, Los Angeles CA, in progress
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering (major field: MEMS) , University of California, Los Angeles CA, 2006
  • B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles CA, 2003
  • B.A., Liberal Arts, St.Mary's College of California, Moraga CA, 2000
   
 

Experience
 
  • Winter 2006 – Present, Research Engineer at PowerMEMS Technologies Inc , Cupertino CA
  • Fall 2005, Research Assistant at UCLA, Los Angeles CA
    • Research on thermo-mechanical energy harvesting device
  • Summer 2005, Research Engineer at Medtronic Minimed, Northridge CA
  • Spring 2004 – Spring 2005, Research Assistant at UCLA, Los Angeles CA
    • Fabrication of NiTi thin film dome actuator
    • Fatigue Testing of NiTi thin film
    • NiTi thin film fabrication for heart valve application
    • Nitride masking for stainless steel micro-teeth fabrication
  • Winter 2004, Teaching Assistant at UCLA (MAE166C: Design of Composite Structures) , Los Angeles CA
  • Fall 2003, Teaching Assistant at UCLA (MAE192: Ordinary Differential Equations) , Los Angeles CA
  • Summer 2002 – Summer 2003, Lab Assistant at UCLA, Los Angeles CA
    • Fabrication of Magnetostrictive Composite
    • ANSYS Code for modeling solenoids
    • Matlab Code for Beam Damping
  • Summer 1999, Computer Technician for Physics Lab at St. Mary’s College, Moraga CA
  • Summer 1997, Tutoring Math and Physics, Fukuoka Japan
   
   
  Honors & Awards

 
  • Phi Sigma Theta
  • National Collegiate Awards
  • Golden Key International Honour Society
  • Cum laude (UCLA)
  • Cum Laude (St.Mary's College)
  • ESAP UCLA
   
  Patents
 
  • “Energy Harvesting by Means of Thermo-Mechanical Device Utilizing Bistable Ferromagnets”, US Provisional Patents, Investors: Motoki Ujihara, Dong-Gun Lee, and Gregory P. Carman
   
  Conferences & Symposia Publications

 

  • Stepan L.S., Gans E., Mohanchandra K.P., Levi D.S., M. Ujihara, Carman, G.P., “Biocorrosion Investigation of Two Shape Memory Nickel Based Alloys: Ni-Mn-Ga and Thin Film NiTi,” Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 2006 (submitted)

  • Chatterjee S., Ujihara M, Lee D. G., Chen J., Lei S., Carman G.P. “Spray Etching 2 mm
    Features in StainlessSteel,” Acta Metallurgica et Materialia

  • "NiTi fatigue test for biomedical application", SPIE San Diego, CA, USA March 2004 (presentation)