News Archive
2026
- May 5, 2026: Jacob Rigby's paper, "Tradeoffs in Lighting when applying Digital Image Correlation to Vibration-based Fatigue Testing," is available at Strain.
- May 4, 2026: Our co-author paper, "Integrity of Welding of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Haynes 282 Alloy under Creep Conditions for Concentrated Solar Power Systems" is available at JOM, with Raushan and Dr. Berke as co-authors.
- April 22, 2026: Raushan Singh defends his dissertation entitled "High-Throughput Characterization of Creep in Additively Manufactured 316L Stainless Steel." Congratulations Dr. Singh!
- March 30, 2026: Prasenjit Dewanjee defends his dissertation entitled "Developing and Improving Digital Image Correlation Techniques for Challenging Environments." Congratulations Dr. Dewanjee!
- February 25, 2026: Mehedi is elected as the Graduate Student Senator for the 2026-27 academic year. Congratulations!
- February 25, 2026: Our lab had a great showing at the MAE Departmental Awards! Congratulations to:
- Lyss Butler as Outstanding Pre-Professional Student of the Year
- Sam Mulhall as Undergraduate Researcher of the Year
- Mehedi Hasan Mahfuz as MS Researcher of the Year
- Lyss Butler as Outstanding Pre-Professional Student of the Year
2025
- December 8, 2025: Elijah Olsen, Lucas Olsen, and Hunter Williams are accepted into USU's Engineering Undergraduate Research Scholars Program. Congratulations!
- November 24, 2025: Mehedi Hasan Mahfuz defends his MS thesis "Development of a Novel Method for Simultaneously Testing Multiple Specimens to Evaluate Tension-Tension Fatigue Life." Congratulations Mehedi!
- November 6, 2025: Dr. Berke joins the Executive Board of the International DIC Society (iDICs.org)
- October 6-10, 2025: The lab presents 5 talks and 3 posters at the ASTM International Conference on Additive Manufacturing in Las Vegas, NV.
- September 19, 2025: Our co-author paper, "Additive Manufacturing of Negative Thermal Expansion Metamaterials using Steels" is available at Advanced Materials Technologies, with Mehedi and Dr. Berke as co-authors
- August 28, 2025: Dr. Berke joins the advisory board of Strain.
- August 6, 2025: Brandon's paper, "In-Situ Crack Detection and Monitoring in a High-Frequency Resonance-Dwell Fatigue Test using Digital Image Correlation" is available at the International Journal of Fatigue.
- July 14, 2025: Dr. Berke joins the editorial board of the Journal of Strain Analysis in Engineering Design.
- May 28, 2025: Dr. Berke gives an invited talk at the University of Edinburgh.
- April 26, 2025: Brandon's paper, "Accelerated Fatigue Measurements using a Vibration Assembly which Loads Two Specimens Simultaneously" is available at the Journal of Applied Mechanics.
- April 25, 2025: Addi Thresher, Sadie Alldredge, and Sam Mulhall are accepted into USU's Engineering Undergraduate Research Scholars Program. Congratulations!
- April 1, 2025: Dr. Berke is selected for USU's inaugural cohort of Honors Faculty Fellows.
- March 27, 2025: Dr. Berke gives another invited talk at the University of Sheffield.
2024
- December 20, 2024: Brayden Monson was 1 of 4 undergraduate researchers profiled in the Utah State Magazine to celebrate 50 years of Undergraduate Research at USU. He was also featured in the cover photo. Great job Brayden!
- December 12, 2024: Luke Berrigan and Sarah Ellis are accepted into USU's Engineering Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (formerly EURP). Congratulations!
- November 18-21, 2024: The lab presents 6 talks and 4 posters at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Portland, OR.
- November 12, 2024: Dr. Berke gives an invited talk at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
- October 22, 2024: Dr. Berke gives an invited talk at the University of Sheffield.
- September 3, 2024: Jeff Wagner is awarded a grant from USU's Graduate Research and Creative Opportunities (GRCO) program. Congratulations Jeff!
- August 20, 2024: Dr. Berke is awarded $450,000 from the AFOSR STEM program.
- June 3-6, 2024: The lab presents 13 talks at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Mechanics in Vancouver, WA. Raushan and Senorita both serve as SEM Student Ambassadors.
- April 30, 2024: Jacob Rigby defends his MS thesis titled "Tradeoffs in Lighting for DIC Strain Measurements in Vibration-based Fatigue Testing." Congratulations Jacob!
- April 27, 2024: Brandon's paper "Sensor Synchronized DIC: A Robust Approach to Linear and Nonlinear Modal Analysis with Low Frame Rate Cameras" is available at the Journal of Sound and Vibration.
- April 12, 2024: Canon Breckenridge is accepted into USU's Engineering Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (formerly EURP). Congratulations!
- April 11, 2024: Prasenjit Dewanjee wins best poster by a PhD student in MAE at the USU College of Engineering spring poster competition. Congratulations Prasenjit!
- April 9-10, 2024: The lab presents 3 talks and for posters at USU's annual Student Research Symposium.
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- March 27, 2024: Dr. Berke is recognized again as the University-wide Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year. He is the first recipient ever to win the award twice.
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- Feb 29, 2024: Our co-author paper "LGBTQ + engineering students’ recommendations for sustaining and supporting diversity in STEM" is available at the Journal of LGBT Youth, with Dr. Berke as a co-author.
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- Feb 25, 2024: Our co-author paper "The Identity-Related Experiences of LGBTQ+ Students in Engineering Spaces" is available at the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, with Dr. Berke and Lindsey Rowley as co-authors.
- Feb 23, 2024: Dr. Berke is recognized as the Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year for the whole College of Engineering.
- Feb 21, 2024: Dr. Berke is recognized as the MAE Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year.
2023
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2022
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- April 8, 2022: Dr. Berke is awarded tenure with promotion to Associate Professor. Thank you very much to the students and supporters who helped this to happen.
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2021
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- June 22, 2021: Dr. Nadia Kouraytem (USU) is awarded $800,000 from the US Department of Energy, with Dr. Berke as a Co-PI.
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2020
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- Nov 16-19, 2020: The lab presents a combined nineteen (19) posters/talks at the ASME Virtual Conference.
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2019
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- Nov 10-13, 14-17, 2019: The lab presents a combined 15 posters/talks at the annual ASME conference in Salt Lake City, followed by 3 posters at the annual meeting of oSTEM in Detroit, MI. And we thought SEM was busy!
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2018
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- Nov 13, 2018: Prof. Berke is elected Chair of ASME's committee on Experimental Mechanics.
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Samantha Burton not pictured
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- Feb 23, 2018: Prof. Berke is recognized as the MAE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year for the third consecutive year.
2017
- Dec 19, 2017: Dr. Berke gives a keynote talk at the 2nd International Symposium on Image-based Metrology (ISIMet).
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- Nov 10, 2017: Dr. Berke gives a seminar at Lehigh University.
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- Feb 24, 2017: Prof. Berke is recognized as the MAE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year for the second consecutive year.
- Jan 9, 2017: Experimental Solid Mechanics is now permanently listed as MAE 5040 and will be offered every Fall.
2016
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- Nov 15, 2016: Prof. Berke is elected Vice Chair of ASME's committee on Experimental Mechanics.
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- Feb 19, 2016: Prof. Berke is recognized as the MAE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year.
- Feb 19, 2016: Prof. Berke gives a seminar at Oak Ridge National Lab at Oak Ridge, TN.
2015
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- Nov 12, 2015: Prof. Berke gives a seminar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD.
- Nov 5, 2015: Prof. Berke gives a seminar at the Army Research Lab in Aberdeen, MD.
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- August 2015: Prof. Berke gives two seminars at Idaho National Lab
- Apr 1, 2015: Prof. Berke gives a seminar at the University of Utah
- Feb 9, 2015: Prof. Berke awarded RGS PhD Assistantship for Fall 2015
- Jan 1, 2015: Prof. Ryan Berke joins MAE faculty at USU