Meet the Team
PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR
Asheesh Lanba
I am an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern Maine, where I teach materials science and mechanics-based courses. I am also the director of the Composites Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), housed at USM, which serves areas’ materials characterization and applied research needs.
Email: asheesh.lanba@maine.edu
Major: Engineering Science and Mechanics PhD, Penn State ‘15
Mechanical Engineering, B. Eng, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) ‘09
UNDERGRADUATE INVESTIGATORS
Daniel St Peter
His research involves the hardware side of LATscan. He built and assembled the system at USM, and now takes care of all the image capturing and initial 3D assembly that the lab does. He is currently working on creating a unified software control system for the setup.
Email: daniel.m.st@maine.edu
Major: Mechanical Engineering ‘20
Bradley Rushford
His research involves CAD and simulation for engineering applications. In his first year, he created a research platform based on mechanics of materials, by investigating 3D printed jacket structures for offshore wind turbines. This year, he is looking at the design and prototyping of a shape memory alloy clip for a surgical device.
Email: bradley.rushford@maine.edu
Major: Mechanical Engineering ‘21
Berkeley Elias
His research mainly involves the image analysis side of LATscan. He is investigating different machine learning algorithms to enable automated image segmentation and classification, so that LATscan researchers can easily quantify anatomical features of interest.
Email: berkeley.elias@maine.edu
Major: Mechanical Engineering ‘20
Killian Hadsell
Killian’s work involves organizing and overseeing a project where students produce and maintain mock ventricle assist devices (XVADs) that are going to be used to assess rural versus urban bias in advanced medical device therapy in Maine.
Email: killian.hadsell@maine.edu
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Nolan Winston
Nolan’s working on the XVAD project, conducting the device assembly, programming and testing. He will also be involved with the fulfilment of the devices to urban and rural users. He is also on the university’s Lacrosse team.
Email: nolan.winston@maine.edu
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Daniel Fransiscus
Daniel is an intern at CERL, and is currently working on manufacturing heliocoidal stacked composites inspired from the Mantis Shrimp dactyl club. Once produced, we will be testing these against dynamic impact.
Email: daniel.fransiscus@maine.edu
Major: Mechanical Engineering