Hassen OUAKAD
Research Assistant at SUNY Binghamton University (NY, USA) and engineer graduated from Tunisia Polytechnic School (Tunisia)
PUBLICATIONS - CONFERENCES
. Journal papers:
Mohammad I Younis, Hassen M Ouakad, Fadi M Alsaleem, Weili Cui, Ronald Miles " Nonlinear Dynamics of MEMS Arches Under Harmonic Electrostatic Actuation, " Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol 19(3), pp. 647-656, 2010.
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Hassen M Ouakad, Mohammad I Younis, “Nonlinear Dynamics of Carbon Nanotube Resonators,” ASME journal of computational and nonlinear dynamics, Vol 5(1), pp. 011009(1-13), 2010.
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Hassen M Ouakad, Mohammad I Younis, “The Dynamic Behavior of MEMS Arch Resonators Actuated Electrically,” International journal of nonlinear mechanics, Vol. 45, pp. 704–713, 2010.
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Hassen M Ouakad, Mohammad I Younis “Modeling and Simulations of Collapse Instabilities of Microbeams due to Capillary Forces”, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2009, Article ID 871902, 16 pages doi:10.1155/2009/871902, 2009.
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Fadi M Alsaleem, Mohammad I Younis, Hassen M Ouakad, "On the Nonlinear Resonances and Dynamic Pull-in of Electrostatically Actuated Resonators" J. Micromech. Microeng. Vol. 19(4), pp. 045013(1-14), 2009.
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Ali H Nayfeh, Hassen M Ouakad, Fehmi Najar, Slim Choura, Eihab Abdel-Rahman, “Nonlinear Dynamics of a Resonant Gas Sensor,” Nonlinear dynamics, Vol. 59(4), pp. 607-618, 2009.
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. Conferences and workshops:
- Hassen M. Ouakad and M. I. Younis, “Forced Vibrations of Slacked Carbon Nanotube Resonators,” In Proc. Of The ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
(IMECE2010), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November, 2010, accepted.
- Hassen M. Ouakad and M. I. Younis, “Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes of Slacked Carbon Nanotube NEMS Resonators,” In Proc. Of The ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC2010), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August, 2010, accepted.
- Hassen M. Ouakad, F. Al Saleem, Mohammad I. Younis, Tim Levo, and James Pitarresi, “Response of an Electrostatically Actuated Microbeam to Drop-Table Test,” IEEE Thermal, Mechanical & Multiphysics Simulation and Experiments in Micro/Nano-Electronics and Microsystems Conference, Eurosim 2010, Bordeaux, France, April, 26-, 2010, accepted.
- Mohammad Younis, Hassen Ouakad, "The Static and Dynamic Behavior of MEMS Arches Under Electrostatic Actuation", Proceeding of the IEEE, 6th International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (ISMA09), Sharjah, UAE, March 24-26, 2009
- Hassen Ouakad, Mohammad Younis, “Modeling and simulations of collapse instabilities of microbeams due to capillary forces”, accepted for publication and presentation at the ASME IMECE2008, Boston, MA, November 2008.
- Fadi M. Alsaleem, Mohammad I. Younis, Hassen M. Ouakad, “Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Nonlinear Dynamics of an electrostatically-actuated device”, accepted for publication and presentation at the ASME IMECE2008, Boston, MA, November 2008.
- Hassen Ouakad, Mohammad Younis, “Nonlinear Dynamics of Electrically-Actuated Carbon Nanotube Resonator”, accepted for publication and presentation at the ASME IMECE2008, Boston, MA, November 2008.
- Hassen Ouakad, Ali. H. Nayfeh, Slim Choura, Eihab. M. Abdel-Rahman, Fehmi Najar, Bashar Hamad, “Feedback control and nonlinear dynamics of microbeams resonator”, accepted for publication and presentation at the ASME IMECE2008, Boston, MA, November 2008.
- Hassen M. Ouakad, Haidar N. Arafat, Momahhad I. Younis, “The response of a cantilever microbeam with a plate attached to its tip to mechanical shock” accepted for publication and presentation at the ICCSSS IASS-IACM 2008, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2008.
- Hassen Ouakad, Mohammad Younis, “Modelling and simulation of a cantilever-paddle beam under the effect of capillary, shock, and electrostatic forces”, accepted for publication and presentation at the ASME IDETC2008, New-York City, NY, August 2008.
- Hassen M Ouakad, Ali H Nayfeh, Fehmi Najar, Slim Choura, Eihab Abdel-Rahman, “Dynamics of a resonant gas sensor,” accepted for publication and presentation at the ASME IMECE2008, Lake Buena Vista, FL, November 2009.
- Participation in the US-Tunisia Workshop : "Research and Educational Advances in Design and Fabrication of Microelectromechanical Systems", December 14-16, 2006 at Hammamet Tunisia.
- Participation in "The third International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, ICAMEM 2006", December 17-19, 2006 at Hammamet, Tunisia.
EDUCATION
•From January 2008 until now -->
Research Assistant (PhD Student) at Binghamton University - State University of New-York (Binghamton University WebPage)
I'm pursuing my PhD in the Mechanical Engineering Dapartment ( Please click here to consult The BU Mechanical Engineering Department Web Page) at Binghamton University for several reasons:
- I'm expanding my knowledge in the area of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, MEMS, specially in the field of microfabrication because I have acquired some fundamental background of this area during the BS and MS programs at Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia and I would like to expand it more;
- Binghamton University with its comprehensive facilities (Innovative Technologies Complex) and competent faculty members in the field of microtechnology would be an ideal place for me to pursue graduate studies and will offer me the chance to cope with the latest research developments in this field;
- I'm expanding further my knowledge in microtechnology and build a stronger research basis with the assistance of experts in this field. For this, I'm under the supervision of an imminent professor in this field, Pr. Mohammad I Younis (Binghamton University, USA) Pr. Mohammad Younis Webpage.
- I and Pr. Younis are doing some staff on the reliability of microstructure and try to model some instabilities that may cause failure of some microdevices under the effect of electrostatic, capillary and shock forces. We are also tacling the problem of Arch beam under the effect of electrostatic force. Some modeling of carbon nanotube "CNT" resonator are also been done by exploring the possibility to built nano mass sensor based on CNT.
- I obtained on March 18th, 2008 a certificate of appreciation in the Graduate Student Research Day that had been held on Binghamton University. (See photo on GSRD photos.)
•Academic year 2006/2007 :
Master of Science in Computational Mechanics (CMGP Web Site), at Tunisia Polytechnic School (TPS Presentation)
- Main courses: finite element method I and II, structural mechanics, fluid mechanics, continuum mechanics, control of structures, vibrations, perturbation techniques.
- Admitted in the first session (September 2006 --> April 2007) with distinction (Top student with the first price);
- Master thesis Dissertation (second session: January 2007 --> December 2007):
Objectives:
* Perform the control strategy of an electrostatically-actuated clamped-clamped microbeam in order to better its filtering features and render it behaves like a Van Der Pol and/or Rayleigh Oscillator;
* Study the nonlinear dynamics of a cantilever microbeam coupled to a microplate at its free end;
--> For more detailts (Abstact, defense date ,...) just consult the second section of this Curriculum Vitea.
•Academic years 2004/2007 :
3 years of engineering studies in Tunisia Polytechnic School, Field of Mechanics, (major of the promotion 2004-2007).
- Main courses: finite element method, design theory, petroleum industry, robotics and mechanics, plates and shells, soil mechanics, aerodynamics, energy of buildings, theory of structures I and II, mechanic of materials, geophysics, signal processing, thermodynamics, accounting, electronics, continuum mechanics, fundamental sciences, economics, management, computer science ( C, Unix)…
- Price of the major of the promotion 2004-2007 of Tunisia Polytechnic School.
- Download The integral program studies in TPS (French version)
- Download The brochure of the Tunisia Polytechnic School (French version)
•Academic years 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 :
Tunis Preparatory Engineering Institute (IPEIT Web Site) , specialty Mathematics and Physics, ranked 13 out of 1200 in the Tunisian National Exam for the Entrance to Engineering Schools.
- Main courses: mathematics, physics, chemistry, general mechanics, engineering drawing, automatic control systems.
- Price of the second rank at the second year of Tunis Preparatory Engineering Institute.
•Academic year 2001/2002:
Farhat Hached High School, Bizerta, Baccalaureate of Mathematics (grade: very good)
TRAININGS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
• January - December 2007
Second year, Master of Science in Computational Mechanics: The Master Thesis Project at the Laboratory of Systems and Applied Mechanics (LASMAP, Tunisia Polytechnic School)
* Subject : "Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Microbeam Based Systems"
* Keywords: Microbeam, Resonator, Van Der Pol Oscillator, Rayleigh Oscillator, Method of Multiple Scales, Finite Difference Method, Galerkin Methods, Feedback, Microplate…
* Supervisors:
- Pr. Ali NAYFEH (Virginia Tech, USA, Main Advisor) Pr. Nayfeh Webpage
- Pr. Slim CHOURA (Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia)
- Pr. Eihab ABDEL-RAHMAN (University of Waterloo, Canada)
* Defense day: January 4th, 2008;
* Result: Exceptional, with grade 18/20.
• January - June 2007
Graduation Project at the LASMAP, TPS
* Subject : "Feedback Control and Nonlinear Dynamics of Microbeam Resonators"
* Keywords: Microbeam, Resonator, RF Filters, One-Degree-of-Freedom-Oscillator, Van Der Pol Oscillator, Rayleigh Oscillator, Multiple Scales Technique, Feedback...
* Supervisors:
- Pr. Ali NAYFEH (Virginia Tech, USA);
- Pr. Slim CHOURA (Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia);
- Pr. Eihab ABDEL-RAHMAN (University of Waterloo, Canada).
* Result: Exceptional, 19/20;
* Abstract published in the EPT Magazine (Internal School Magazine): see here
* I get the first price as the best Graduation Project.
• December 2006:
Study trip to France.
Task: Visit of technopark of Sophia Antipolis at Nice, France, and other industries in Marseille.
• July-August 2006:
Engeneering Internship in a purification station of Chotrana II, Tunisia, Grouping DYTRAS-SOROUBAT
Task: Development of a computer aided code for the design of steel bars in a foundation and modeling a Pond of stocking with SAP2000 done in a purification station site.
Software used: SAP2000+MATLAB.
• March-April 2005:
Worker Internship in STIR (the Tunisian Company of the Industries of Refining, Bizerta)
Tasks:
- Work on production units;
- Optimization of the work of the maintenance workshops (boilermaking, mechanics, instrumentation and electric) ;
- Stain miscellaneous in the maintenance workshops: electric arc welding.
REALIZED PROJECTS
•Mini-projects CAO and infography : 3D simulation of a 3 articulations arm of robot code written in C, utilization of the Xanimate library.
•Mini-project in the modeling of industrial processes: Simulation of the liquid-gaz binary diagram of ethanol – hexane and conception of a user interface under MatLab.
•Implementation of different methods of optimization and matrix inversion under MatLab.
•Bibliographic research and presentation on the embedded systems : techniques and applications, under the direction of ST Microelectronics.
•Mini project transport and logistics: Development of a circulation plan for the city of Bizerte.
•Mini project Robotics: Simulation and PID control for a four link manipulator Robot.
•Mini project structures: Control of a Digital Micromirror Device
SKILLS
LANGUAGES
• Arab (mother tongue): read, written and spoken.
• French: read, written and spoken.
• English: read, written and spoken ( TOFEL obtained on 05/12/07 with a score of 547)
COMPUTER SKILLS
• Development and programming languages: C, Turbo Pascal.
• Softwares :
- Scientific: Matlab/Simulink, Maple, AutoCAD, Protel, DIANA (finite element method software), Sap2000, Catia.
- Others: Flash, Adobe Photoshop …
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows (95, 98, XP), MS DOS.
VARIOUS
- Driving license;
- Sports: Tennis Table, Swimming, Football, Volleyball …
- Leisure: cinema, music;
- Redactor in the Tunisia Polytechnic School magazine EPTmag EPTMag Web page (Internal magazine at TPS);
- Member of the energetic club of l'Ecole Nationale des Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT Web page);
- Captain of the team of school football (Farhat Hached High School, Bizerta);
- Member of the clubs environment and speleology of the Faculty of Science of Bizerta (FSB Web Page);
- Member of the comity of organization of the 14th Mediterranean games Tunis 2001.
- Participation in the open days at Tunisia Polytechnic School, "EPT-Enterprises" in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
KEY WORDS
Engineer, CV, Polytechnicien, Ecole Polytechnique, Tunisie, Tunisia Polytechnic School, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Structure, polyvalent, polyvalence, Mécanique, Stage, station, épuration, raffinage, pétrole, Petrolium Engineering, informatique, développement,MEMS, Microbeam, Resonator, RF Filters, One-Degree-of-Freedom-Oscillator, Van Der Pol Oscillator, Rayleigh Oscillator, Multiple Scales Technique and Method, Shooting Technique, Floquet Theory, Cantilever-Paddle (Plate) System, MEMS NEMS, Gas Sensor, Nonlinear Dynamics, Shock and Stiction Related Problems, Carbon Nanotube, slack, MEMS Arches, curved beams, ICAMEM, ASME Member, Hassen, Ouakad ....
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