People
Principal Investigator
Donald Docimo, Ph.D.
Donald Docimo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University. He received a B.S. degree from the College of New Jersey in 2012, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 2015 and 2017, respectively. From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on model reduction, optimal control, and design optimization of energy systems.
Email: donald.docimo@ttu.edu
Graduate Students
Preston Abadie
Preston received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from Texas Tech University in 2020. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Controls and Dynamics. His research focuses on the improvement of lithium-ion battery pack lifespan through active balancing techniques and he is currently working on identifying the effects of cell-to-cell variations through modeling and analysis.
Tania Rifat Jahan
Tania received her B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering(Aerospace) from Military Institute of Science and Technology(MIST) affiliated to Bangladesh University Of Professionals (BUP), Dhaka, Bangladesh in March, 2019. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on energy and power systems.
Jihoon Moon
Jihoon received a B.S. in Mechanical System Design Engineering from Seoul National University of Science and Technology (Korea) in 2020. His research focuses on energy storage system modeling and optimization.
Asmaou Sougri-Nooma Ouedraogo
Asmaou received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Prairie View University in 2020. She is a PhD candidate in the Mechanical Department at Texas Tech University. She is interested in energy systems, energy storage and powers systems.
Undergraduate Students
Mosopeoluwa Alofe
August 2021-present
Gian Cardiello
January 2021-present