Jessica Sanders Duke University
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Education

             Duke University, Durham, NC
             Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering, expected December 2010
             Master of Science in Civil Engineering, December 2007

   
             University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
             Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, May 2005
             General Summa Cum Laude
             Summe Cum Laude in Mechanical Engineering


Employment

             Summer, 2009 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
                                       Student intern, Methods Development Group

             Summer 2006 -  Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM
                                        Student Intern, Department of Computational Physics

             May 2003 - August 2005  -  Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM
                                        Student Intern, Department of Solid Mechanics

             August 2002 - May 2003  -  Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM
                                        Student Intern, Department of Mass Spectroscopy


Honors

            Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Fellowship for study in Germany, fall 2009
            National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, 2006 to present
            New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers, Outstanding Senior Award, 2005
            Sigma Xi, UNM Chapter, Superior Undergraduate Award, May 2005


Professional Affiliations

            Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society
            Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society
            SEM, Society for Experimental Mechanics


Journal Publications
Jessica Sanders, John Dolbow, Peter Mucha, Tod Laursen, “A new method for simulating rigid body motion in incompressible two phase flow.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, accepted, in revision.

Jessica Sanders, Tod Laursen, John Dolbow, “On methods for stabilizing constraints over enriched interfaces in elasticity” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 78 (2008) 1009-1036.

Jessica Sanders, Kenneth Gwinn, Tariq Khraishi, “The debris impact response of the space shuttle wing.”  International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Multiscale Mechanics, 1 (2009) 30-41.


Invited Lectures


 “Ocean energy harvesting: A numerical method to predict the dynamic interaction of devices and surface waves.” Rice University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, April, 2010.