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ARG Alumni Newsletter
1. Greetings
Greetings to all ARG members past and present. This Summer newsletter is a bit late but better late than never. As reported in the last newsletter, our server has transitioned and the new server can be found http://mrroboto.mechse.illinois.edu. This should have most of the lab updates in the What's New section. We've been busy, and as you'll see later, we've been out of the office a lot. However, it's all good stuff. We've been productive (as usual) but also have attended to personal developments; 2 weddings in the lab. The new semester has kicked off and is in full swing. We hope you'll have a chance to drop us a line or even come by Chambana if you're nearby.
Summer '10
as part of an undergraduate research scholars program. We're still a healthy group size with several projects running. Additionally, there won't be many people leaving this year so we'll continue to be quite healthy. However, we will be looking to add more folks for the Spring semester and next Fall. If any of you out there know of excellent "ARG-worthy" people interested in attending graduate school next year, feel free to point them our way.
3. Transitions
Dr. Sandipan Mishra finished his post doc with us in the ARG and moved on to take up an assistant professor position at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering department. You can visit him at mane.rpi.edu once he's got his departmental website set up. Sandi did a great job with the e-jet team within NanoCEMMS and really helped moved the e-jet process from a research tool to a commercially viable process. Rich Otten finished his M.S. degree in the ARG working on superheat control for Air Conditioning and Refrigeration systems. Rich was involved in the ACRC here at Illinois and developed some good 2 degree of freedom controllers for superheat regulation in the face of capacity demand changes. Additionally, Rich came up with a novel hardware-in-the-loop emulation system to

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