Academic


December '02 - : Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

May '98: MBA and MEngg (Mechanical), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

December '95: M. Sc. in Industrial & Production Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Bangladesh.

January '94: B. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Bangladesh.
  


Experiences


July 08 – present: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

 

Jan '03-June 08: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

Aug '98 - Dec '02 : Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

 

Publications


33. Samayoa, M. J., Haque, M. A. and Cohen, P. H “Focused Ion Beam Irradiation Effects on Nanoscale Freestanding Thin Films”, Journal of Micromechanics & Microengineering, Vol. 18, (7 pages), 2008

32. Samuel, B. A., Rajagopalan, R. Foley, H. C. and Haque, M. A., “Temperature Effects on Electrical Transport in Semiconducting Nanoporous Carbon Nanowires”, Nanotechnology, Vol. 19 (27), 275702 (6 pp), 2008.

31. Hosokawa, H., Desai, A. V.  & Haque, M. A., “Plane Stress Fracture Toughness of Freestanding Nanoscale Thin Films", Thin Solid Films, Vol. 516 (18), pp. 6444-6447, 2008.

30. Manoharan, M. P., Desai, A.V., Neely, G. & Haque, M. A, “Synthesis and Elastic Characterization of Zinc Oxide Nanowires.” Journal of Nanomaterials, vol. 2008, Article ID 849745, 7 pages, 2008.

29. Samuel, B. A. & Haque, M. A., “Visualization of Crack Blunting using Secondary Fluorescence in Soft Polymers” Polymer Testing, Vol. 27 (4), pp. 404-411, 2008.

28. Hosokawa, H., Desai, A. V.  & Haque, M. A., “Fracture Toughness Characterization of Electronic Materials and Interfaces” International Journal of Materials and Structural Integrity, Vol. 2, No. 1-2, pp. 2-10, 2008.

27. Desai, A. V. & Haque, M. A., Influence of Electro-Mechanical Boundary Conditions on Elasticity of Zinc Oxide Nanowires, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 91, No. 18, pp. 183106,  2007 (also published in the November 12, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology).

26. Culp, J., Haque, M. A. & El-Gindy, M., "Driver Alertness Monitoring Techniques: A Literature Review," in International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems (accepted), 2007.

25. Samuel, B. A., Demirel, M. C. & Haque, M. A., High Resolution Deformation and Damage Detection Using Fluorescent Dyes, Journal of Micromechanics & Microengineering, Vol. 17, 2324-2327, 2007.

24. Samuel, B. A., Haque, M. A. Yi, B., Rajagopalan, R. & Foley, H. C. “Mechanical testing of pyrolyzed poly-furfuryl alcohol nanofibers”, Nanotechnology 18, 115704, 2007.

23. Desai, A. V. & Haque, M. A., "Sliding of Zinc Oxide Nanowires on Silicon Substrate" Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 90, 33102, 2007 (also published in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Volume 15, Issue 4, 2007)

22. Desai, A. V. & Haque, M. A., "Mechanical Properties of ZnO Nanowires”,  Sensors and Actuators A, Vol. 134, pp. 169–176, 2007.

21. Desai, A. V.  & Haque, M. A., "Test-bed for Mechanical Characterization of Nanowires", Journal of Nanoengineering & Nanosystems, Vol. 42, pp. 57-65, 2006.

20. Samuel, B. A., Desai, A. V. and Haque, M. A. "Design and Modeling of a MEMS Pico-Newton Loading/Sensing Device", Sensors and Actuators A, Vol. 127, pp. 155-162, 2006.

19. Samuel, B. A. and Haque, M. A. "Room Temperature Relaxation of Freestanding Nanocrystalline Gold Films", Journal of Micromechanics & Microengineering, Vol. 16, pp. 929-934, 2006.

18. Desai, A. V. & Haque, M. A., "Vigilance Monitoring for Operator Safety: A Case Study on Highway Driving" Journal of Safety Research, Vol. 37, pp. 139-147, 2006.

17. Desai, A. V. & Haque, M. A., "Interfacial Mechanics of Polymer-Carbon Nanotube Composites: A Review" Thin-Walled Structures (Invited), Vol. 43, pp. 1787-1803, 2005.

16. Samuel, B. A., Desai, A. V. and Haque, M. A. "Microscale application of column theory for high resolution force and displacement sensing" Applied Physics Letters, Vol 87, 021904, 2005 (also published in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2005 and Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2005).

15. Haque, M. A. & Saif, M. T. A., "Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Nanoscale Freestanding Aluminum Films", Thin Solid Films, Vol. 484 No. 1-2,  pp. 364-368, 2005.

14. Haque, M. A. & Saif, M. T. A. " In Situ Tensile Testing of Nanoscale Freestanding Thin Films inside a Transmission Electron Microscope " Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 1769 - 1777 (Special Issue on In-situ TEM), 2005.

13. Desai, A. V., & Haque, M. A., "A Novel MEMS Nano-Tribometer for Dynamic Testing In-Situ in SEM and TEM", Tribology Letters, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 13-19, 2005.

12. Desai, A. V., & Haque, M. A., "Direction Sensitive MEMS Shear Stress Sensor with High Spatial and Temporal Resolution" Journal of Micromechanics & Microengineering, Vol. 14, pp. 1718-1725, 2004.

11. Haque, M. A. & Saif, M. T. A., "Deformation Mechanisms in Free-standing Nano-scale Thin Films: A Quantitative In-situ TEM Study", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 101, No. 17, pp. 6335-6340, 2004.

10. Haque, M. A. & Saif, M. T. A., "Strain Gradient Effect in Nanoscale Thin Films", Acta Materialia, Vol. 51, No. 11, pp. 3053 - 3061, 2003.

9. Haque, M. A. & Saif, M. T. A., "A Review on Micro and Nano-Mechanical Testing with MEMS", Experimental Mechanics (Invited Paper), 43 (3), pp. 1-8, 2003.

8. Haque, M. A. & Saif, M. T. A., "Mechanical Behavior of 30-50 nm Thick Aluminum Films under Uniaxial Tension",Scripta Materialia, Vol 47, No. 12, pp. 863-867, 2002.

7. Saif, M. T. A., S. Zhang, M. A. Haque, and J. Hsia, "Effect of Native Al2O3 on the Elastic Modulus of Thin Al Films", Acta Materialia, Vol. 50 No. 11, pp. 2779-2786, 2002.

6. Haque, A &  Saif, M. T. A., "A Novel Technique for Tensile Testing of Submicron Scale Freestanding Specimens in SEM and TEM", Experimental Mechanics, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 123-130, 2002.

5. Haque, A &  Saif, M. T. A., "Application of MEMS Force Sensors for In-situ Mechanical Characterization of Nano-scale Thin Films in SEM & TEM", Sensors and Actuators, A, Vol. 97-98, pp. 239-245, 2002.

4. Ingolfsson, A.; Haque, A; Umnikov, A, "Accounting for Time Varying Queuing Effects in Workforce Scheduling",  European Journal of Operations Research, Vol 139, No. 3, pp. 585-597, 2002

3. Haque, A &  Saif, M. T. A., "Microscale Materials Testing Using MEMS Actuators", Journal of MicroElectroMechanical Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 146-152, 2001

2. Ahmed, S, and Haque, A., "Multifacility Retail Locationing Using P-Choice Models", Submitted to Applied Mathematical Modeling, 2001.

1. Sarker, R. and Haque, A.: "Optimization of Maintenance and Spare Provisioning Policy", Applied Mathematical Modeling, 24, pp. 751-760, 2000.
 
 

Refereed Conference Papers


Desai, A. V and Haque, M. A., "Mechanical Properties Of Zinc Oxide Nanowires", submitted to Proceedings of ASME-IMECE, Chicago, IL, USA, 2006

Samuel B. A., Yi, B., Rajagopalan R., Foley H. C. and Haque M. A. "Mechanical Characterization of Polymer Nanowires using MEMS", submitted to the ASME-IMECE, Chicago, IL USA, 2006.

A.V. Desai, and M.A. Haque, Freestanding Carbon Nanotube Specimen Fabrication, IEEE-Nano Conference, 2005, Nagoya, Japan.

B.A. Samuel, A.V. Desai, and M.A. Haque "A Novel MEMS Device for High Resolution Force and Displacement Measurement", Proceedings of the IEEE MEMS, February 2005, Miami, FL USA 

A. V. Desai, M. A. Haque and W. J. Scheuchenzuber, Single Cell Opto-electro-mechanical Probing: A Feasibility Study, Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Paper # IMECE-59431, November 13-19, 2004, Anaheim, California USA

A.V.Desai and M.A.Haque, Design and Fabrication of a Novel MEMS Device for High Resolution Force and Displacement Measurement, Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Paper # IMECE-59432, November 13-19, 2004, Anaheim, California USA

B.A. Samuel, A.V. Desai, and M.A. Haque, A Novel MEMS Device for High Resolution Force and Displacement Measurement, MEMS 2005

Haque, A. & Saif, M. T. A., “Strain gradient effect on nanoscale thin Aluminum films ”, Paper # IMECE2002-32380, New Orleans, 2002.

Haque, A. & Saif, M. T. A., “Length-scale dependence of elasticity in nanocrystalline materials for MEMS applications ”, Paper # IMECE2002-33297, New Orleans, 2002.

Saif, M. T. A., Zhang, S.,  Haque, A., and Hsia, J.,  “Elastic Response of Aluminum at Submicrometer Scale ”, Paper # IMECE2002-39331, New Orleans, 2002.

Saif, M. T. A., & Haque, A., “Novel instrumentation for studying plasticity at nano scale”, Plasticity 2002 (invited talk), Aruba, January, 2002.

Haque, A., and Saif, M. T. A., “In-situ Mechanical Characterization of a 100 Nanometer Thick Freestanding Aluminum Film in TEM Using MEMS Force Sensors”, Transducers 2001/Eurosensors XV, Vol. 2, pp. 1374-1377, 2001.

Haque, A. & Saif, M. T. A., “A Novel MEMS-based Technique for In-situ Characterization of Freestanding Nanometer Scale Thin Films inside SEM and TEM”, Proceedings of the IMECE-MEMS, New York, 2001, winner of the Agilent best paper award in the MEMS division.

Haque, A. & Saif, M. T. A., “In-situ Mechanical Characterization of a Freestanding 100 Nanometer Thick Aluminum Film in SEM Using MEMS Sensors” MRS Symposium Proceedings, Boston, 2001.

Haque, A &  Saif, M. T. A., "Investigation of Micro-scale Materials Behavior with MEMS",  IMECE (The Winter Annual Meeting of ASME), MEMS division, Nashville, 1999.

Haque, A & Saif, M. T. A, "Bending Response of a 100 Nanometer Thick Free Standing Aluminum Cantilever Beam", in MRS Symposium Proceedings, Boston, 1999.

Sarker, R.; Haque, A. and Nath, B.: "Integration of Maintenance and Spare Parts Inventory Policies: A Simulation Approach", Published in the Proceedings of Third International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Victoria University of Technology, Nov. 97, Melbourne, Australia.
  

Awards


NSF CAREER Award, 2006

Honda Initiation Grant 2005

Agilent best student paper award: in the MEMS division ( International  Mechanical  Engineering Congress and  Exposition, NY 2001)

Graduate research assistantship in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, UIUC, 1998-2002

Jan ‘96 - May '98: CIDA Scholarship.

Dr. Rashid Gold Medal, BUET, Bangladesh.

Patents


Apparatus and method for testing of micrometer to nanometer scale freestanding thin films, Application #: 10/241,748, 09/11/2002.

A Novel MEMS Nano-Tribometer for Dynamic Testing In-Situ in SEM and TEM, (contact Penn State IPO for further information).

A Novel Technique for High Resolution Force and Displacement Measurement, (contact Penn State IPO for further information).

Vigilance Monitoring Technique For Highway Driving (contact Penn State IPO for further information).

 

Professional Associations


American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Materials Research Society