Member News
Awards: Lambert Fellow and Discovery in ME award
/Beiwen received his Lambert Teaching Fellow and Prof. Zhang won Discovery in Mechanical Engineering Award, Congrats!
Prof. Zhang's new book is available for order
/High-Speed 3D Imaging with Digital Fringe Projection Techniques (Optical Sciences and Applications of Light)
The book is available for order on Amazon: Link and CRC: Link
This book covers the basic principle of digital fringe projection techniques and how to develop digital fringe projection systems for 3D shape measurements. It mainly serves as an introductory reference book but shows perspective on the future of technology advancements.
New NSF Grant: Related News
/Together with Profs. Cappelleri and Ramani, Prof. Zhang won a $1M NSF grant (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1637961&HistoricalAwards=false).
Other related news: Phys.org; Nanotechnology; Nanowerk
Beiwen Won Lambert Fellowship
/Beiwen won School of Mechanical Engineering Lambert Graduate Teaching Fellowship, whose mission is to train future academic professors, Congrats!
Beiwen Won SPIE Scholarship
/Congratulations to Beiwen winning the highly competitive SPIE Educational Scholarship!
Prof. Zhang becomes OSA Senior member
/Prof. Zhang was promoted to OSA Senior member, cheers!
Beiwen passed his prelim, Congrats!
/Beiwen is the first Ph.D. student at Purdue who passed the prelim exam, a milestone to his Ph.D. study.
"High dynamic range real-time 3D shape measurement" was featured on the cover of Optics Express, and also highlighted by OSA as the Image of the Week (April 12, 2016)
/Our recent paper, "High dynamic range real-time 3D shape measurement," was featured on the cover of Optics Express, and also highlighted by OSA as the Image of the Week (April 12, 2016)!
You can view the video cover feature here: https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/issue.cfm?volume=24&issue=7.
Yatong and Huitaek Passed Qualifying exams
/Congratulations to Yatong and Huitaek for passing ME area exams! They are now Ph.D. candidates.
ROBIO Best Conference paper award
/Our collaborative paper entitled "Learning optimal measurement and control of assembly robot for large-scale heavy-weight parts" won IEEE ROBIO Best Conference paper award!
Welcome four new PhD students
/Four new graduate students Yatong An, Jaesang Hyun, Chufan Jiang, and Huitaek Yun joined our team in August 2015. Jaesang and Chufan and direct-PhD students and Huitaek and Yatong and PhD students. Welcome everyone!
Lab website was migrated to new design
/We completely redesigned our lab website and changed our lab name to xyztlab meaning we are conducting research in 3D (X, Y, Z) and time (t) space. We hope you like our new design and come to visit us often.
Relocation: ISU-Purdue
/Relocation: Iowa State University -> Purdue University
Our group has moved to School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN