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\"JianrenPrimary Investigator – Radiation Shielding Material<\/strong>s
\nCenter for Radiation Engineering and Science for Space Exploration
\nCenter for Applied Radiation Research
\nCRESSE – CARR
\nInterim Head and Professor,
\n<\/em>Department of Mechanical Engineering
\nRoy G. Perry College of Engineering – Prairie View A&M University
\nPrairie View A&M University
\n<\/strong>Telephone: (936) 261-9960
\nEmail:jizhou@pvamu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION<\/a> – APPOINTMENTS<\/a> – PUBLICATIONS<\/a>–SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES <\/a>AWARDS, HONORS and SERVICE<\/a> – THESIS ADVISOR, POSTGRADUATE SCHOLAR SPONSOR and MENTOR
\n<\/a>RECENT ITEMS<\/a> –PRINTABLE VITA<\/a><\/div>\n
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<\/a>PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION<\/h1>\n

Iowa State University, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., 1991.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>APPOINTMENTS<\/h1>\n

2007-Present Interim Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX.<\/span><\/p>\n

2004-Present Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX.<\/span><\/p>\n

1997-2004 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX.<\/span><\/p>\n

1991-1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>PUBLICATIONS<\/h1>\n

(Over 70 refereed papers in international\/national journals, conferences and symposiums)<\/p>\n

* indicates student coauthors)<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. J. Zhou, S. Aghara, R. Wilkins, J. Moore*<\/strong>, and Y. Zhong, \u201cSpace radiation shielding effectiveness and radiation effects on properties of polyimide bonded martian regolith\u201d, 17th International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering (and in World Journal of Engineering), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 26\u2013August 1, 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. L. Carson, P. Traisawatwong*<\/strong>, J. Zhou, and G. Regisford, \u201cIndication of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes Dispersion States\u201d, 17th International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering (and in World Journal of Engineering), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 26 – August 1, 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. P. Traisawatwong*<\/strong>, J. Zhou, C. Laura, and G. Regisford, \u201cAFM Characterization of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) and Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Deposited by Ink-Jet Printing\u201d, 17th International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering (and in World Journal of Engineering), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 26 – August 1, 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. S. Martinez-Vilarino*<\/strong>, Y. M. Strzhemechny, C. A. Quarles, J. Zhou, and D. Hui, \u201cFree volume studies in polymer layered silicate nanocomposites subjected to thermal cycling\u201d, 15th International Conference on Composites\/Nano Engineering (ICCE15), Haikou, China, July 15 \u2013 21, 2007.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. J. Zhou, T. Song*, S. Vilarino*, and R. Wilkins, \u201cCharacterizations of carbon nanotubes upon radiation exposures\u201d, Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Technical Conference, Dallas, TX, November6 \u2013 9, 2006.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. S. Vilarino*, S. Naya, R. Artiaga, J. Zhou, and D. Hui, \u201cStatistical tools applied on the design of nanocomposite permeability experiments\u201d, Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Technical Conference, Dallas, TX, November 6 \u2013 9, 2006.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. S. Vilarino*, S.Naya, R. Artiaga, J. Zhou and D. Hui, \u201cStatistical tools applied on the design of experiments of nanoclay-epoxy composites\u201d, 14th International Conference on Composites\/Nano Engineering (ICCE14), Boulder, Colorado, July2 \u2013 7 2006.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. J. Zhou, J. Moore*, V. Calvin*, R. Wilkins, S. Vilarino*, Y. Zhong, B. Gersey, and S. Thibeault, \u201cEffects of extreme radiation environment on composite materials\u201d, Materials Research Society (MRS), 2006 Spring Meeting, Symposium II: Materials in Extreme Environments, San Francisco, CA, April 17 \u2013 21, 2006.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. J. Zhou and Y. Zhong, \u201cEffects of hygrothermal cycling on properties of glass vinylester composite\u201d, Journal of Reinforced Plastics & Composites, pp. 483\u2013490, Vol. 23, No. 5, 2004.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. S. Aghara, R. Wilkins, J. Zhou, \u201cComputational analysis of Martian regolith in Martian space environment\u201d, The Space Nuclear Conference, San Diego, CA, June 5 \u2013 9, 2005.<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. R. Wilkins, H. Huff, G. Badhwar, J. Moore*, and J. Zhou, \u201cObservation of changes in the single event upset rate in 4MB SRAM due to intervening materials in a neutron environment\u201d, 6th European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS 2001), September 10\u201314, 2001, Grenoble, France.<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Y. Zhong and J. Zhou, \u201cStudy of thermal and hygrothermal behaviors of glass fiber\/vinyl ester composites\u201d, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, Vol.18(17), 1999, pp. 1619-1629.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/a>SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES<\/h1>\n
      \n
    1. NASA Educator Astronaut Minimum Qualifications Review Panel, June 2003.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Served in a NASA Review Panel, May 2000.<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Chairman, Curriculum Committee of College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, 1994 \u2013 2008.<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Editorial Advisory Board of Transactions of FAMENA, 2\/2004-present.<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. Session Chairman of 7th, 10th, 11th, 14th, 15th and 17th Annual International Conference on Composites\/Nanoengineering, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 &2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      <\/a>AWARDS\/HONORS\/SERVICE<\/h1>\n
        \n
      1. Excellence in Research, College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, December, 2001.<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. Excellence in Service, College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, December, 2001.<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. Referee to review over 20 research journal papers for 5 journals.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        <\/a>THESIS ADVISOR, POSTGRADUATE-SCHOLAR SPONSOR and MENTOR for UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS<\/h1>\n
          \n
        1. Advisor of over 25 graduate students.<\/span><\/li>\n
        2. Advisor of 4 Post Doctoral Scholars.<\/span><\/li>\n
        3. Mentor of 28 undergraduate research assistants.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Primary Investigator – Radiation Shielding Materials Center for Radiation Engineering and Science for Space Exploration Center for Applied Radiation Research CRESSE – CARR Interim Head and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Roy G. Perry College of Engineering – Prairie View A&M University Prairie View A&M University Telephone: (936) 261-9960 Email:jizhou@pvamu.edu PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION – APPOINTMENTS – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"side-navigation.php","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":59,"date":"2013-08-13T14:51:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T14:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2019-12-15T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T21:20:19","slug":"premkumar-saganti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/cresse\/cresse-researchers\/premkumar-saganti\/","title":{"rendered":"Premkumar Saganti Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"

          \"Premkumar Primary Investigator – Environmental Modeling<\/h1>\n

          Center for Radiation Engineering and Science for Space Exploration <\/strong>Center for Applied Radiation Research<\/strong> Principal Investigator – NASA Martian Radiation Environment Experiments <\/strong>Principal Investigator – Radiation Inter-university Science and Engineering
          \nCRESSE – CARR – MARIE – RaISE<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Associate\u00a0Professor, Department of Physics <\/em><\/strong>Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts\u00a0and\u00a0Sciences <\/strong>Prairie View A&M University<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Telephone: (936) 261-3134<\/p>\n

          Email:\u00a0pbsaganti@pvamu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

          \n
          EDUCATION<\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0PROFESSIONAL\u00a0BACKGROUND<\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH<\/a><\/div>\n
          AWARDS and SIGNIFICANT RECOGNITION<\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0RESEARCH GRANTS and CONTRACTS<\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0OUTREACH<\/a><\/div>\n
          ORGANIZER AND CHAIRPERSON<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0–\u00a0 BOOKS and NASA PUBLICATIONS<\/a><\/div>\n
          SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS and CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS<\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0 OTHER PUBLICATIONS<\/a><\/div>\n
          GRADUATE RESEARCH THESES ADVISOR<\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0 NATIONAL LABORATORIES EXPERIENCES<\/a><\/div>\n
          RECENT ITEMS<\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0 PRINTABLE VITA<\/a><\/p>\n
          \n<\/div>\n

          <\/a>EDUCATION\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/h1>\n
          B. Sc.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
          [Physics & Mathematics<\/em><\/strong>] Andhra Christian College, India\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1982<\/span><\/div>\n
          M. Sc.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [Nuclear Physics<\/em><\/strong>] Andhra University, Waltair, India \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1986 <\/span><\/div>\n
          M. S.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>[Electro Optics<\/em><\/strong>] University of Houston-Clear Lake, Texas\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1991<\/span><\/div>\n
          \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Prof. AG Houston – UHCL,Dr. Pitts – NASA – JSC, and Prof RJ Babaian – UTMDACC)<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
          Ph. D.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>[Physics<\/em><\/strong>] Andhra University, Waltair, India\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01994<\/span><\/div>\n
          \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>(Prof. RD Ratnaraju – AU and Prof. KT Hecht, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)<\/em><\/div>\n

          <\/a>PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND<\/h1>\n

          Associate Professor, Department of Physics, and NASA Research Faculty, NASA Center for Applied Radiation Research, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX (2003 \u2013 Present)<\/p>\n

          Sr. Research Scientist, Space Radiation Health Project, and Image Science and Analysis Group, NASA Johnson Space Center, Lockheed Martin Space Operations, Houston, TX (1994-2003)<\/p>\n

          Adjunct Professor in Computer Science, Adjunct Professor in Computer Engineering, and Specialist in Image Processing – Robotics Research, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX (1994 \u2013 Present)<\/p>\n

          Research Associate and Teaching Fellow, NASA Research Institute for Computing and Information Systems, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX (1989-1994)<\/p>\n

          <\/a>BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH<\/h1>\n

          Dr. Saganti is currently a NASA Research Faculty with the NASA Center for Applied Radiation Research and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX.\u00a0He currently serves as PI on two NASA Grants – MARIE (Martian Radiation Environment Experiment), RaISE (Radiation Inter university Science and Engineering), and as a PI on NASA Co-op Agreement – QMSFRG (Quantum Multiple Scattering and Fragmentation). Dr. Saganti has been working with the GCR radiation environment modeling at Mars and of the near earth orbit including the GCR modulation studies under the mentorship of Dr. Cucinotta.\u00a0Contributions in the expansion of the GCR environment and HZETRN model calculated predictions of dose rate at Mars showed a significant correlation of within 5% with the MARIE measured data. Model calculated GCR environment and transport calculations were presented at several national and international conferences world-wide.\u00a0Some of the visualization of radiation environment work appeared in several NASA publications and NASA websites as well as National Geographic<\/strong>, DISCOVER<\/strong>, and SCIENCE<\/strong> journals.<\/p>\n

          For more than 15 years, Dr. Saganti contributed to the NASA\u2019s Exploration Vision through Image Science Analysis Group at NASA-JSC supporting more than 30 Space Shuttle missions including Hubble Space Telescope repair missions, MIR and ISS.\u00a0Most recently he also served on the Space Shuttle Columbia accident as part of the image analysis investigation team on a special assignment for developing image analysis techniques required for the NASA investigation.<\/p>\n

          Dr. Saganti also received 15 years \u2018State of Texas Service Award\u2019 recognition in 2006 from President Wright of the Prairie View A&M University for serving the University of Houston and the Texas A&M University Systems.<\/p>\n

          \u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n

          <\/a>RELEVANT\u00a0AWARDS\u00a0and\u00a0SIGNIFICANT RECOGNITION<\/h1>\n