Name  Sudipta Chatterjee , resume

Birth date/place

 10/1/1975   Los Angeles CA

Research Interests

  • Research interests focus on developing applications and understanding nature of problems in the following fields:  Solid Mechanics, Material Science, Biomechanics, Biomaterials and Aerospace Engineering
 

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California: Los Angeles UCLA, Los Angeles, CA December 2006
Emphasis: Solid Mechanics

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California: Los Angeles UCLA, Los Angeles, CA December 2003
Emphasis: Solid Mechanics

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA March 2000
Emphasis: Biomechanics & Solid Mechanics

B.S., Material Science Engineering, University of California: Berkeley, Berkeley, CA August 1998

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California: Berkeley, Berkeley, CA August 1998
   
 

Experience
 
  • Lecturer: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department, at UCLA Los Angeles, CA
              Programming with Numerical Methods & Applications October 2006 to Present
  • Graduate Research Assistant: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department, at UCLA Los Angeles, CA, Active Material Laboratory.  Duties involveddesigning a high friction interface with an adaptive superelastic NiTi coating and stainless steel with micromachined features. Requires knowledge of shape memory alloys, metallurgy, corrosion, MEMS, solid mechanics and tribology
    Sept 2002 to Present
  • Mechanical Engineer: Northrop Grumman Corporation at El Segundo, CA.  2nd Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV). Work involved embedding fiber optics in a composite liquid fuel tank and overseeing the production and of composites with embedded fiber optic sensors for high temperature and cryogenic applications.  Coupon preparation includes lay-up, quality inspection, trouble shooting, failure analysis, building a reference reflector and fusion splicing fiber optics to a data acquisition system. Performed analysis on data obtained from fiber optic system.
    August 2001 to April 2002.
  • Graduate Research Assistant: Department of Surgery at the Rehabilitation Center UCLA Los Angeles, CA, UCLA Duties involved  trouble shooting, designing & machining parts, preparing bone samples and performing repairs on an experimental setup designed to test the viscoelastic properties of osteons in torsion.
    January 2001to July 2001
  • Mechanical Engineer: Mission Research Corporation at Laguna Hills, CA.  Developed a new method for calculating nonlinear structural transfer functions that is capable of solving for the transient structural load when the structural response at any site is known from test data, and vice versa.  These transfer functions were successfully used in the development of the Missile Defense Shield.  Analyzed and modified a MATLAB simulation model used in flight vehicles.  Developed an analytical method for calculating stresses inside damped, nonlinear dispersive medium due to mechanical and laser induced loading.
    September 1998 to August 2000
  • NASA Co-op Student: Design Division at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. Duties involveddrafting and design of parts for a B-757 flight simulator and a modified B-757 research plane.
    January 1997 to June 1997.
  • NASA Co-op Student: Materials Division at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. Duties involved refining a plasticity-induced crack closure model developed for the aging aircraft program, and compared the model with experimental results.
    May 1996 to August 1996
  • NASA Co-op Student: Guidance and Controls Branch, Flight Control Division at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. Duties involved modeling a device with magnetic coils designed to control six degrees of motion of a suspended cylindrical iron shaft.  The device was a prototype for suspension of model aircraft in wind tunnel tests.
    September 1995 to December 1995.
  • Stanford UniversityStanford, CA Performed research for Dr. R. Lane Smith.  Designed a pressure vessel with a transparent window to observe how pressure effects collagen production in chondrocytes (cartilage cells) marked with green fluorescent protein.
    January 1999 to June 1999
  • University of California: Berkeley Berkeley, CA. Performed reaserch for Dr. Homayoon Kazerooni. Constructed carbon fiber composite parts used in robotics research.
    May 1995 to August 1995        
  • University of California: Berkeley Berkeley, CA. Berkeley Space Sciences Group. Researched the feasibility of a manned mission to Mars.  Researched possible technologies used in environmental control systems.
    August 1994 to July 1994
  • Teaching Assistant Experience:
             Differential Equations and Boundary Conditions
             Partial Differential Equations
             Analysis of Flight Structures
             Aerodynamics
   
  Reviewed Articles

 
  • Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
  • Adaptive Materials Systems
   
  Other Documents
 
  • Galen D. Powers, Dr. Qin Xu, Jane Smith, Thomas Guidarelli, Dr. Greg P. Carman "High Power Inchworm Actuator System (Phase II of Inchworm -HMR (Hybrid MEMs Ratchet) System Project)" Air Force Research Laboratory
  • W. Lawrence Neeley, Scott Krueger, Sudipta Chatterjee, R. Lane Smith Ph.D, Juergen Stampfl, Ph.D. "Research Proposal: Miniaturized Hydrostatic Pressure Loading Interface for Cells in Monolayer Culture"
  Journal Publications
 

  • 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

  • Submitted to Applied Physics Letters
                       Chatterjee S., Carman G.P., “Novel High Friction Interface with Pseudo-elastic NiTi”
   
  Contracts and Grants (Awarded)
 
  • DURIP/CSA, 250k, “Instrumentation for T Instrumentation for Thin Film Active Materials - Multi-Target Sputtering System and DMA – Equipment Grant” Jul 05 – Jul 06