Students and Young Members Events

MECC 2023 has organized several special events for students and young members. Please contact [email protected] and [email protected] if you have questions about these events.

Hotel Room Sharing:

To facilitate room sharing among students, we have created the following Google spreadsheet. If you are interested in sharing room with others, please provide your information on the spreadsheet and directly contact others who you find suitable according to your stay duration. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MJbqjx5rArw58kqIQK3QYR6s4KfTV-2x3DNmfju2r7c/edit#gid=0

DSCD Rising Stars Invited Talks:

The ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Division (DSCD) Rising Stars invited talks are designed to help kick-start the careers of postdocs and senior Ph.D. students nearing graduation. The selected individuals will give 15-minute-long presentations (with 5-minute Q&A) during special DSCD Rising Stars invited sessions to discuss their recent and most high impact research. More details will be added soon If you have questions about this event, please contact Dr. Satadru Dey ([email protected]).

DSCD Careers After PhD: Possibilities and DEI Perspective:

This event will have two parts: Total 90 minutes (45 minutes for each part) Part 1 will discuss various possibilities and career opportunities in academia, industry, and national labs. This session will be a 45-minute session where three panel members will share their experiences, followed by answering specific questions from the audience. Part 2 will start right after Part 1 ends. This will also be a 45-minute session. The same three panelists will now focus on specific challenges faced by URM communities in engineering careers. They will first share their experiences, followed by answering specific questions from the audience. Invited panelists for this session include:
  • Academia: Prof Juan Ren, Associate Professor, Iowa State University
  • Industry: Dr. Sara Mohon, Electrified Powertrain Engineer, Corporate Advanced Engineering, BorgWarner
  • National Lab: Dr. Draguna Vrabie, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
More details will be added soon.If you have questions about this event, please contact Dr. Satadru Dey ([email protected]).

DSCD and AACC Student Travel Awards

Students who contribute to in-person events and who show financial need are eligible for travel awards for MECC 2023. Awards will be used to waive the cost of conference registration. Students who are:
  1. Presenting as first author at the conference (paper, talk, or poster)
  2. Sharing a conference hotel room with another student travel grant applicant
  3. Attending a large proportion of sessions and events
  4. Joining the DSCD mailing list and attend a DSCD Technical Committee meeting, and
  5. Demonstrating efforts to apply to other travel awards will be given priority
If they are not already members, students will be given the option to join the DSCD mailing list when they apply.
  • Travel Grant Applications (Deadline: 07/10/2023):Winners may be reimbursed for conference registration and additional costs (i.e. conference hotel) depending on availability of funds. Winners will be required to provide receipts at a later date. Applications require a letter from the advisor. Please use the linked template to apply.
If you have questions about this event, please contact Dr. Hossein Rastgoftar ([email protected]).

Student Best Paper Competition:

MECC 2023 is proud to host a student paper competition. Finalists will present their papers at a dedicated Best Student Paper competition session. The presentation will be 13 minutes long with 5 additional minutes reserved for Q&A. All MECC attendees are invited to attend the best paper competition session.

Following finalists have been selected to participate in the Best Student Paper competition session:

Student Nominee Paper Title
Huang, Rui (University of California, Davis) A Non-Dimensional Input Excitation Optimization Approach for Battery Health Parameter Estimation
Sreenivasan, Gayatri (Rutgers University) Knee Stiffness in Assistive Device Control at Quiet Stance: A Preliminary Study
Zhang, Zixiao (University of Michigan) Cerebral Blood Flow Monitoring with Piezoeletric Film, Photoplethysmogram and an LSTM Neural Network
Barawkar, Shraddha (University of Cincinnati) An Energy Efficient Jumping Drone - a Simple Projectile Motion Approach
Xu, Jiamin (The University of Texas at Austin) Experimentally Validated Nonlinear Delayed Differential Approach to Model Borehole Propagation for Directional Drilling


If you have questions about this event, please contact Dr. Hossein Rastgoftar ([email protected])