Albert P. Pisano (Advisor)

David A. Horsley

Former BSAC Co-Director
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Ph.D. 1998

David A. Horsley is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis, Vice Chair for Graduate Studies at the University of California, Davis, and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.


Professor Horsley’s research interests include micro-fabricated sensors and actuators with applications in optical MEMS, communication, displays, and physical and biological sensors.


Prior to joining the faculty at UC Davis, Professor Horsley held research...

Liwei Lin

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Ph.D. 1993

Liwei Lin is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the James Marshall Wells Academic Chair, and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.

Professor Lin's research interests include design, modeling, and fabrication of micro/nano structures, sensors, actuators, and mechanical issues in micro/nano systems which includes heat transfer, solid/fluid mechanics, and dynamics.

Professor Lin is the recipient of the 1998 NSF CAREER Award for research in MEMS Packaging and the 1999 ASME Journal of Heat...

Albert P. Pisano

Former BSAC Co-Director
Mechanical Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

Albert P. Pisano is the Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering and holds the Walter J. Zable Chair in Engineering. He is an active researcher who serves on the faculty of the departments of mechanical and aerospace engineering and electrical and computer engineering.

Prior to September 2013, Pisano served on the UC Berkeley faculty. The FANUC Endowed Chair of Mechanical Systems, he held faculty appointments in mechanical engineering and in electrical engineering and computer sciences. Pisano served as senior co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center...

BSAC Researchers Advised by Albert P. Pisano

BSAC's Best: Fall 2009 Winners Announced

September 18, 2009

BSAC would like to thank the 150 researchers who presented their work in poster or plenary sessions at the Fall 2009 BSAC Research Review on September 16-18.

60 attending industrial members from 39 member organizations voted for the best presentations and posters, resulting in Best Paper and Best Poster awards (certificate and cash).

Zhiyong Fan
Best Paper...

BSAC's Best: Spring 2010 Winners Announced

March 12, 2010

BSAC would like to thank the 150 researchers who presented their work in poster or plenary sessions at the Spring 2010 BSAC Research Review on March 10-12.

65 attending industrial members from 37 member organizations voted for the best presentations and posters, resulting in Best Paper and Best Poster awards (certificate and cash).

Yingqi Jiang
Best Paper...

BSAC's Best: Fall 2011 Winners Announced

September 23, 2011

BSAC would like to thank the 170 researchers who presented their work in poster or plenary sessions at the Fall 2011 BSAC Research Review on September 21-23.

70 attending industrial members from 32 member organizations voted for the best presentations and posters, resulting in Best Paper and Best Poster awards (certificate and cash).

Frank Myers
Best Paper...

BSAC's Best: Fall 2012 Winners Announced

September 28, 2012
Lingqi Wu
Best Paper Lingqi Wu | Advisor: Prof. Clark T.-C. Nguyen Hollow Stems for Higher Micromechanical Disk Resonator Quality Factor [BPN540]

Jim Cheng...

Silicon Carbide Bipolar Junction Transistors for High Temperature Sensing Applications

Nuo Zhang
Albert P. Pisano
Tsu-Jae King Liu
Liwei Lin
2014

An integrated sensing module capable of operating at high temperatures would be beneficial to a number of industrial applications, such as automotive industries, aerospace systems, industrial turbines and deep-well drilling telemetric systems. Consider industrial turbines as an example. It is important to monitor a variety of physical parameters within the hot sections of the turbines in order to increase turbine efficiency, reliability and to reduce pollution. In addition, real-time monitoring can help to detect and predict the failures of critical components in a timely fashion to...

A High-Resolution Resonant MEMS Strain Gauge

Mark Wolfson
Albert P. Pisano
Roger T. Howe
Oliver M. O'Reiily
2000

An investigation into the development of a high-resolution micro-strain gauge is discussed here. The design presented is a resonant sensor in the form of a double-ended tuning fork (DETF) that employs MEMS technology to achieve maximum sensitivity at...