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Daniela Faas
is a graduate student in Mechanical
Engineering and Human Computer
Interaction (HCI) at Iowa State
University and a research assistant for Dr. Judy Vance in the Virtual Reality Applications Center. Her Ph.D. research focuses on Virtual Reality
applications combining intuitive shape deformation with mesh-free analysis
tools.
Daniela
holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical
Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in International
Relations from Bucknell University.
She also received her Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from
Bucknell. For her Master’s work, she focused on developing methods to
reconstruct image data from embryonic chicken hearts and to create 3D
models from the data. The left ventricle was of primary interest and a
finite element model was developed to study the effect of
pressure-underloading and pressure-overloading in the left ventricle.
Research
interests include virtual
reality applications, finite element analysis, design optimization, and
biomedical engineering.
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