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Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Connecticut
191 Auditorium Road, U-3139
Storrs, CT 06269-3139
Email: kathryn.gosselin@gmail.com
Website: www.kathryngosselin.com
Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, expected spring 2015
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Concentration: Energy and Thermal Sciences
Dissertation title: Novel Optical Diagnostic Techniques for the Study of Turbulent Combustion
and Extinction.
Research interests: three dimensional imaging, laser diagnostics, turbulent combustion, flame
extinction.
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, May 2009
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Minor: Mathematics
Senior Design Project: Development of a three-dimensional narrow depth-of-field optical imaging
system
Experience
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Assistant, August 2009 present
Teaching Fellow, January 2013 May 2013
Teaching Assistant, August 2009 December 2009
Undergraduate Research Assistant, January 2008 August 2009
Pratt & Whitney, Middletown, CT
Test Engineering Intern, Systems Engineering Validation, summer 2007, summer 2008
Problem Resolution Intern, System Design and Component Integration, summer 2006
Research Projects
Graduate Research
4. High-speed chemiluminescence time series measurements in a turbulent jet flame, with
M.W. Renfro, May 2014 present.
3. Computational and experimental studies in a stabilized negative edge flame, with M.W. Renfro,
January 2012 present.
2. Ignition studies of premixed hydrocarbon and vitiated gas mixtures at atmospheric and low
pressure, with B.M. Cetegen and M.W. Renfro, March 2011 March 2014.
1. Three-dimensional imaging of combustion applications using a narrow depth-of-field optical
imaging system enhanced with maximum entropy deconvolution, with M.W. Renfro, May 2009
November 2011.
Undergraduate Research
2. Senior Design Project: Design and construction of a narrow depth-of-field optical imaging
system, with M.W. Renfro, August 2008 May 2009
1. Comparison of measured and simulated OH and HCHO distributions through a local extinction,
with M.W. Renfro and W.F. Carnell, Jr., January 2008 May 2009
Professional Development
CEFRC Combustion Summer School, Princeton University, June 2012, June 2013.
o One-week intensive on advanced combustion topics, including computational
combustion and laser diagnostics.
Course Instruction
Foundations of Engineering Mechanical Engineering Section (ENGR 1166), Spring 2013.
Technical Memberships