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Adam Wood, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Engineering

About Adam Wood

Dr. Adam Wood is a proud Pittsburgh native and began teaching at Saint Vincent College in the Fall of 2020. He is extremely passionate about teaching and thoroughly enjoys working with students on research projects. One of his greatest interests is helping students prepare for interviews, internships, and future careers. In his spare time, Dr. Wood likes to stay active. He loves fishing, golfing, tennis, soccer, kayaking, and hiking.

Education

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Courses

Statics

Materials Engineering

Materials Engineering Lab

Dynamics

Mechanics of Materials

Design and Fabrication with Modern Materials

Engineering Graphics and Design

Research Interests

Sustainable Water Purification

Microfabrication and Microsystems

Plant Biology

Selected Publications

Wood, A. R., Garg, R., Justus, K., Cohen-Karni, T., Russell, A. J., LeDuc, P. R., Toward sustainable desalination using food waste: capacitive desalination with bread-derived electrodes, RSC Advances (2021) 11, 9628-9637

Sonmez, U.M., Wood, A. R., Justus, K., Jiang, W. Syed-Picard, F., LeDuc, P. R., Kalinski, P., Davidson, L. A., Chemotactic responses of Jurkat Cells in microfluidic flow-free gradient chambers, Micromachines (2020) 11, 384

Justus, K., Hellebrekers, T., Lewis, D.D., Wood, A. R., Ingram, C., Majidi, C., LeDuc, P. R., Tan, C., A biosensing soft robot: Autonomous parsing of chemical signals through integrated organic and inorganic interfaces, Science Robotics (2019) 4, eaax0765

Wood, A. R., Garg, R., Justus, K., Cohen-Karni, T., LeDuc, P. R., Russell, A. J., Intact mangrove root electrodes for desalination, RSC Advances (2019) 9, 4735-4743

Tan, Y., Wood, A. R., Jia, Q., Zhou, W., Luo, J., Yang, F., Chen, J., Chen, J., Sun, J., Seong, J., Tajik, T., Singh, R., Wang, N., Soft matrices downregulate FAK activity to promote growth of tumor-repopulating cells, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (2017) 483, 456-462