Maryam Darbeheshti

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado Denver at University of Colorado

Although jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields are projected to grow at twice the rate of other professions, too many students, especially women and minoritized students, choose not to study or drop out of STEM fields, in part because they do not identify with STEM. With Communication Theory of Identity as a sensitizing f...

In this paper, we seek to understand how the pandemic and remote learning have affected student perceptions of connectedness with their university, their campus, and their peers and classmates, so that we can more nearly meet their academic needs. By qualitatively analyzing interviews with engineering students about their experiences and perception...

Numerical simulations are performed using a semi-analytic method to study the interactions of two neutrally buoyant, stochastically rough spheres that are subjected to repulsive and attractive static forces in planar Couette and Poiseuille Stokes flow. Both particle roughness and static force introduce irreversibility into these systems resulting i...

Accurate, in situ measurement of airborne particles is critical in understanding the global atmosphere. An airborne instrument is designed to sample and measure the aerodynamic diameter of particles in the size range of 1-30 mum. Knowledge of the aerodynamic size of a particle includes the impact of unknown variables such as shape, size and density...

A single-particle soot photometer (SP2) was flown on a NASA WB-57F high-altitude research aircraft in November 2004 from Houston, Texas. The SP2 uses laser-induced incandescence to detect individual black carbon (BC) particles in an air sample in the mass range of ~3–300 fg (~0.15–0.7 μm volume equivalent diameter). Scattered light is used to size...