Dr. Yi (Elisa) Wu

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 253

Phone:

(814) 898 6559

Email:

yxw22@psu.edu

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Biography

Dr. Yi Wu is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. She received her B.S. in Mech-electrical Engineering in 1995 from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. She earned both her M.E. and Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia in 2002 and 2004 respectively. Dr. Wu was a research and teaching assistant at the University of Virginia prior to her employment at Penn State Behrend.

Dr. Wu is a member of the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs ASAIO , the American Society of Engineering Education ASEE , the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME , and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE . She received the First Scholarship from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, 1991-1995 and the Progress Award from China Aerospace Corporation in 1997. She received the ASAIO Ù03 Biomedical Engineering Student Fellowship Award in 2003.

Teaching

Courses for Spring 2012

System Dynamics
Materials Lab

Courses taught

Statics
Instrumentation, Measurements and Statics
System Dynamics
Materials Lab
Vibration Mechanical Systems
M E 491 – Bioengineering in Mechanical Engineering

Research

Research projects completed

Wu, Y. [Principal investigator], Simulator of ventricular function in different physiological states, Penn State Early Career Faculty Research Incentive Grant, $2,500, January-November 2006.

Research projects awarded but not yet started

Wu, Y. [Principal investigator and subcontractor], New magnetically suspended LEV-VAD, National Institutes of Health, University of Virginia-Artificial Heart Center, approximately $75,000 each year for four years, May 2005-April 2010.

Patents

Wood, H. G., Allaire, P. E., McDaniel, J.C., Song, X., Jiang, W., Untaroiu, A., Day, S., Wu, Y., Liu, Y., Throckmorton, A. L., Patel, S., Adams, J. M., Tao, G., Lin, Z., Hu, T., Olsen, D. B., and Kipp, R., “Axial flow magnetically suspended ventricular assist system and related method thereof,” U. S. Provision Patent Application Serial No. 60/506,023, filed on September 25, 2003.

Publications

Articles published in refereed journals

Throckmorton, A. L., Carr, J. P., Tahir, S. A., Tate, R., Downs, E. A., Bhavsar, S. S., Wu, Y., Grizzard, J. D., and Moskowitz, W. B., “Mechanical cavopulmonary assistance of a patient-specific Fontan physiology: numerical simulations, lumped parameter modeling, and suction experiments,” Artificial Organs, vol. 35, no. 11, pp. 1036-47, November 2011.

Wu, Y., “Adaptive physiological speed/flow control of rotary blood pumps in permanent implantation using intrinsic pump parameters,” ASAIO Journal, vol. 55, pp. 335-339, 2009.

Wu, Y., and Lim, S., “Effects of muscle pump on rotary blood pumps in dynamic exercise: A computer simulation study,” Cardiovascular Engineering, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 149-158, September 2008.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Tao, G., and Olsen, D. B., "Modeling, estimation, and control of human circulatory systems with a left ventricular assist device," IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 754-767, July 2007.

Liu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Wu, Y., Wood, H. G., and Olsen, D. B., “Construction of an artificial heart pump performance test system,” Cardiovascular Engineering, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 151-158, December 2006.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Wood, H. G., Liu, Y., Adams, J. M., and Olsen, D. B., “A bridge from short term LVAD to long term LVAD – Experimental verification of a physiological controller,” Artificial Organs, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 927-932, 2004.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Tao, G., Wood, H. G., Olsen, D. B., and Tribble, C., “An advanced physiological controller design for an LVAD to prevent left ventricular collapse,” Artificial Organs, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 926-930, 2003.

Articles published in refereed proceedings

Loker, D. R., Wu, Y., Voss, M. A., Roth, J. T., and Strom, S. A., “Wireless nerve positional control of prosthetic device,” Proceedings, ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2011-63891.pdf, 6 pp., Denver, CO, November 2011.

Wu, Y., and Onipede, O., “Work in progress — Evolution of a system dynamic course at Penn State Behrend,” Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), S3F-1 - S3F-2, Arlington, VA, October 2010.

Schneider, N., and Wu, Y., “Graphic user interface for a human circulation model,” Proceedings, ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC2009), SBC2009- 206521, 2 pp., Lake Tahoe, CA, June 2009.

Wu, Y., “Physiological control of rotary left ventricular assist device,” Proceedings of the 26th Chinese Control Conference, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China, pp. 469-474, July 2007.

Jackson, E.C., Wu, Y., Parente M.A., “Product and process integration: The case of prosthetic legs,” Proceedings of International Conference on Comprehensive Product Realization 2007 (ICCPR 2007), 4 pp., June 2007.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Tao, G., and Olsen, D. B., “Study of pressure estimation for a human circulatory system with a LVAD,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 713-718, June 2006.

Sonnenmeier, J., and Wu, Y., “Teaching courses for an engineering student abroad in Iraq,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo, IMECE2005-79710, Orlando, FL, November 2005.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Tao, G., Olsen, D.B., “Modeling, estimation, and control of cardiovascular systems with a left ventricular assist device,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, OR, pp 3841-3846, June 2005.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Tao, G., Liu, Y., “In vitro test of an adaptive flow controller for a continuous flow left ventricular assist device,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, MA, pp. 1647-1648, June 2004.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., and Tao, G., “An adaptive speed/flow controller for a continuous flow left ventricular assist device,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Denver, CO, pp. 1171-1176, June 2003.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Adams, J. M., and Wood, H. G., “Controller design of left ventricle assist device,” American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (BED), New Orleans, LA, vol. 54, pp. 353-354, November 2002.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., and Tao, G., “An adaptive controller for left ventricle assist device,” Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Houston, TX, vol. 2, pp. 1565-1566, October 2002.

Papers refereed by abstract

Proceedings

Cecchetti, J., Wu, Y., and Schneider, N., “Graphic user interface for a numerical model of human circulation system with RBP,” ASAIO Journal, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 169, Dallas, TX, May 2009.

Wu, Y., “Adaptive physiological speed/flow control of RBPs in permanent implantation using intrinsic pump parameters,” ASAIO Journal, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 169, Dallas, TX, May 2009.

Wu, Y., “Adaptive physiological speed/flow control of rotary LVADS for various activity levels in permanent implantation,” ASAIO Journal, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 42A, San Francisco, CA, June 2008.

Wu, Y., “Effects of muscle pump on LVADs – A simulation study,” ASAIO J, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 11A, Chicago, IL, June 2007.

Wu, Y., Allaire PE, Tao G., Olsen D.B., “Study of adaptive estimation for aortic pressure,” ASAIO J, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 46A, Chicago, IL, June 2006.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Tao, G., Lim, D. S., Wood, H. G., Adams, J. M., and Olsen, D. B., “Design and test of a physiologic controller for a magnetically levitated LVAD,” ASAIO J, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 169, Washington, DC, June 2004.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Tao, G., Liu Y., Adams, J. M., Wood, H. G., and Olsen, D. B., “An anti-suction physiological controller for a long term LVAD,” ASAIO J, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 178, 2003.

Wu, Y., Allaire, P. E., Adams, J. M., Wood, H. G., and Olsen D. B., “Physiological control of a ventricle assist device,” Annals of the Biomedical Engineering, vol. 29, suppl. 1, pp. S-2:1.2.6, 2001.

Service

Organizing conferences, service on conference committees

International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED)

Program organizer, conference on Control and Applications, 2006-present.

Reviewer for refereed journals or presses

IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Control and Intelligent Systems Journal

Artificial Organs

ASAIO Journal

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo, 2005.

American Society of Engineering Educators Conference, 2007.

IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, 2006-2007.

Contributions to the University's programs to enhance equal opportunity and cultural diversity

Minority College Experience/Women in Science and Engineering (MCE/WISE)

Co-chair and organizer, 2008.

Math Options

Presenter, 2007.

Women in Engineering

Co-chair, 2006.
Presenter, 2006.

Service to student organizations

American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)

Presented at ASME meeting, October 17, 2005.

Society of Women in Engineering (SWE)

Participated in “Engineering Ideas in Action” retention event organized by the Society of Women in Engineering and School of Engineering and Engineering Technology and Engineering, November 4, 2004.

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