Mr. Upendra Phatak (MS MAE) and Mr. Jakkrit Kunthong (PhD ECE) won the first and the second best poster presentation award, respectively, in the recently held OSU Research Week events. They are advisees of Professor Bukkapatnam and members of the Sensor Networks and Complex Systems Monitoring (COMMSENS) Lab of IEM School. Mr. Phatak works with Professors Komanduri and Bukkapatnam on studying the effects of various chemical elements in a widely used semiconductor manufacturing process called Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) through the use of wireless sensor signals. Mr. Kunthong (co-advised by Drs. Bunting and Bukkapatnam) is part of Dr. Bukkapatnam’s NSF project team that works on designing high-throughput wireless sensor networks for various monitoring applications.

   New project on Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Based Modeling of Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process approved by NSF (2007)

   Dr.Satish Bukkapatnam's expert commentary appears in mass media--“Impact of RFID sensors on homeland security (a 5 minute Investigation segment)” KFOR (NBC) Channel, Oklahoma City, Feb 28, 2006

   Three COMMSENS students- Prahalad Rao, Jayjeet Govardhan and Sharethram Hariharan complete their masters thesis under Dr.Bukkapatnam in 2006 (click here)

   List of updated COMMSENS Publications in 2006 (click here)

   Current COMMSENS projects and their description (click here)

   Oklahoma Department of Transportation (OK-DoT) approves a project on RFID sensor applications for integrity monitoring 

   Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initiates a project on RFID technology assessment

   General Motors (GM) initiates a project on non-linear system dynamic system modeling of manufacturing systems

   Recent student presentations in AIAA/ASME conference. (more)

   New seminar course on RFID and RF sensing Applications (syllabus, course)

   CELDI (an NSF/IUCRC) approves a new grant to enhance the lab content in RFID and RFID sensing systems (updated report) (details)

   A new lab set up at the Advanced Technology and Research Center (ATRC) of the Oklahoma State University to advance sensor-based research for quality and integrity monitoring modern manufacturing machines, processes, and other complex systems through wired and wireless sensor networks (COMMSENS)

   The National Science foundation grants a $750K project to develop a new wireless sensing approach to monitor integrity in large complex systems for interest to Manufacturing and Service Enterprises (e.g., underground gas pipelines). This project is led by 4 investigators, one each from Penn State, Oklahoma State, MIT and Berkeley. (presentation)