Watch this space for more news from the Cocker Group! (last updated
9/30/07)
October, 2008 Lakshmi submitted her journal article, "Effect of
Emission Control Technologies on Marine Auxiliary Engines", to
Environmental Science & Technology
June, 2008 Lakshmi was awarded the 2008-2009 Ester
Hays Graduate Fellowship
June, 2008 Lakshmi advanced to Candidacy after a two
hour long Qualifying Exam
September, 2007. Ph.D.
student Qi Li successfully completed her Ph.D. proposal defense.
August, 2007. Ph.D. student
Quentin Malloy successfully completed his Ph.D. proposal defense.
July, 2007. Ph.D. student
Bethany Warren successfully completed her Ph.D. proposal defense.
July, 2007. Welcome to the
group new PhD student Shunsuke Nakao.
June, 2007. Undergraduate student
May, 2007. Ph.D. student
Bethany Warren wins AMWA West Coast Chapter Student Paper Competition.
May, 2007. Undergraduate
student
May, 2007. Ph.D. student Abhilash Nigam accepts offer from Johnson-Matthey
May 2007. Ph.D. student Harshit Agrawal successfully
completed his Ph.D. proposal defense.
December, 2006. Welcome to
the group PhD student Varalakshmi Jayaram
July, 2006. Chamber group
receives 1.5 million dollar gift from W.M. Keck Foundation for purchase of new
instrumentation
May, 2006. Chen Song successfully defended Ph.D. thesis
April, 2006. Chen Song
offered position at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
March, 2006. David Cocker promoted to Associate Professor with
tenure.
March 16, 2006. Welcome
little miss Caroline Marie Cocker
January, 2006. Aniket
Sawant successfully completed his Ph.D.
Decemeber, 2005. Welcome to
the group PhD students Qi Li, Harshit Agarwal, Kent Johnson
September, 2005. Ph.D.
student Aniket Sawant has been offered an excellent career position with
Johnson-Matthey.
August, 2005. Ph.D. student
Aniket Sawant along with David Cocker and Dr. J. Wayne Miller joined research
teams from University of Missouri Rolla, Arnold Engineering Development Center
(Air Force), California Air Resources Board, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, South Coast Air Quality Management District, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, Aerodyne Research
Incorporated, and University of Central Florida in cooperation with Oakland
Airport and Southwest Airlines in testing emissions from four 737 jet
airliners. (pictures)
August, 2005. Ph.D. student
Abhilash Nigam successfully completed his Ph.D.
proposal defense.
July, 2005. Ph.D. student
Bethany Warren has been awarded a Star Graduate Fellowship from the
Environmental Protection Agency. This
highly selective fellowship will fund her research through June, 2008.
July 2005. Ph.D. student Abhilash Nigam joined Bill Welch and John Pisano in testing
emissions from an ocean-going Maersk container
ship. Abhilash
will analyze emissions for elemental and organic carbon, ions including
sulfate, metals, carbonyls, gas-phase mobile source air toxics and polyaromatic hydrocarbons for the engine operating on a
high sulfur fuel (bunker fuel) and a low sulfur marine distillate fuel both
pre- and post- SCR and DOC aftertreatment devices. (pictures)
June, 2005. Ph.D. student Abhilash Nigam has been awarded the Esther Hayes Graduate
Fellowship for 2005-2006 for his research on the characterization of diesel
sources.
June, 2005. Recent graduate
Temitope Ogunyoku (B.S.
Chemical Engineering) has received the Jim Guthrie Undergraduate Research award
for her research project entitled “An Examination of Artifacts in Measurements
of Elemental and Organic Carbon When Sampling Diesel Exhaust.” She will attend the Ph.D. program in
Environmental Engineering at UC Davis.
February, 2005. David
Cocker awarded early development CAREER award from the National Science
Foundation.
January, 2005. Dr. Sandip
Shah (former Ph.D. student) has begun his position at the Ford Motor Company
Research Laboratories.