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
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BS, 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
