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<p style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Name: Mengqian Zhang</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Title: Advanced Modeling of the Thermodynamic Response of Shape Memory Alloys</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspection Time: Nov. 19th, 2021</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Location: Engineering Building 2, E214</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Committee Members:</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Theocharis Baxevanis</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Pradeep Sharma</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Kalyana Babu Nakshatrala</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Yi-chao Chen</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Shailendra Joshi</span></p>
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