B.S. in Electrical Engineering (2020) – Texas A&M University
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (2022) – Texas A&M University
Jessica Jeneve Zamarripa is a graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. She graduated as an NAE Grand Challenge Scholar with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics from Texas A&M University in May 2020. Her contributions to the M²AESTRO lab focuses on the development of an algorithm to represent network topology frameworks using Spatial Interpretation for the Development of Reconfigurable Structures (SPIDRS) into an electrical circuit. The project objective is:
- Design a tool to navigate RLC circuit optimization for electro-mechanical systems.
- Apply a topology optimization approach towards the determination of optimized circuit networks.
- Fabricate and test a liquid metal based flexible circuit informed by this design approach.
Applications impacted by this work include: Flexible electronic for wearable device, Man-machine interfacing, RF Shielding, Antennas and Electric Mechanical Sensors
During undergrad, her research focus was on the use of a shape-memory actuator utilized to improve the actuation frequency using liquid metal.
Experience:
- Student Summer Intern – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (June 2022 – August 2022)
- Student Summer Intern – Air Force Research Laboratory (May 2021 – August 2021)
- Student Summer Intern – Air Force Research Laboratory (June 2020 – August 2020)
Fellowships:
- The Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 2022 AFOSR DoD NDSEG Fellow
- The National GEM Consortium, GEM Fellow
Publications:
- Darren Hartl, Jacob Mingear, Brent Bielefeldt, John Rohmer, Jessica Zamarripa, and Alaa Elwany, “Towards High-Frequency Shape Memory Alloy Actuators Incorporating Liquid Metal Energy Circuit”, Shape Memory and Superelasticity Advances in Science and Technology, December. 2017.
- Darren Hartl, Jacob Mingear, Brent Bielefeldt, John Rohmer, Jessica Zamarripa, and Alaa Elwany,
Towards High-Frequency Shape Memory Alloy Actuators Incorporating Liquid Metal Energy
Circuit, ASNE 2018 SMART Materials Conference, September 2018. - Jacob Mingear, Brady K Allen, Jessica J Zamarripa, Darren J Hartl,”Internal Liquid Metal Channels to Enable High Power Additively Manufactured SMA Actuators.” SMST2022. ASM International, 2022.