Seetha Raghavan

Title
Professor and Associate Dean
Email
Department
Aerospace Engineering Department
College
College of Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Materials for Extreme Environments, in-situ Synchrotron and Neutron Diffraction, Optical sensors, Structural materials and nanocomposites.
Seetha Raghavan

Dr. Seetha Raghavan is Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies of the College of Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach campus. She received her doctoral degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University in 2008 and her masters degree in Aeronautics and Space Technologies at SUPAERO, France. Prior to this, she completed her Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Dr. Raghavan came to Embry-Riddle after serving as a faculty member for 14 years at the University of Central Florida (UCF) most recently as Director of the Aerospace Engineering Graduate Program in their Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. She was instrumental in leading the development of the PhD program in Aerospace Engineering to its successful launch in 2019 following final approval by the State, in the process spearheading the addition of multiple new graduate courses and a new 5-year course offering plan. Her leadership of the program led to a growth in enrollment to 60 doctoral students with 20 AE doctoral degrees awarded by the end of her tenure in 2023. 

Dr Raghavan’s research has a focus on investigating the mechanics of high temperature coatings for extreme environments in propulsion, hypersonic flight, space exploration and energy applications as well as developing multifunctional sensing materials for wear and impact resistance, structural integrity and damage detection. Over the last 20 years, her research has contributed to knowledge for future aerospace materials and structures, while initiating international collaboration and bringing fundamental research to industry. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA, Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), DARPA and industry as lead investigator. The outcomes of her work have been published in journals such as Nature Communications and Acta Materialia. Her international focus in research has connected more than 20 US scientists from various Aerospace fields with partners abroad and provided over 30 US students international research experiences. She has developed key innovative technologies in areas of functional high temperature coatings for optical diagnostics for major aerospace engine industry partner adoption and has patents filed and awarded. 

Dr Raghavan has taught 6 different courses during her time at UCF at the graduate and undergraduate level and developed 3 new graduate courses Aeroelasticity, Non-Destructive inspection in Aerospace Structures and Engineering Design of Aerospace Vehicles. Her consistent efforts have been recognized with the UCF College of Engineering Teaching Incentive Program award for sustained high levels of teaching effectiveness twice, in 2013 and in 2019. She has been honored with a university wide Reach for the Stars award for collective accomplishments in Research, Teaching, Mentoring and Service. Students in her laboratory have won over 20 prestigious fellowships including NSF and NDSEG Fellowships, Fulbright awards, Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship, Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology policy Fellowship and more. She was honored nationally with the Women in Aerospace Educator Award in 2019. She is active in service to the Aerospace, Mechanics and Materials community as a member of AIAA since 1996 and Women in Aerospace. 


  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University-Main Campus
  • M. - Master in Aeronautics and Space Technologies, Ecole Nationale Superieure de LAeronautique et de lEspace
  • B. - Bachelor in Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University

Book Chapter:

Gregory Freihofer, *Seetha Raghavan, 2016 “Characterization and Performance of Stress and Damage Sensing Smart Coatings”, In “Industrial Applications for Intelligent Polymers and Coatings”, Majid Hosseini, ASH Maklouf (Eds), Volume 1, Springer, Germany.

Refereed journal papers:

Zachary Stein, Ravisankar Naraparaju, Uwe Schulz, Laurene Tetard, *Seetha Raghavan,“Residual stress effects of CMAS infiltration in high temperature jet engine ceramic coatings captured non-destructively with confocal Raman-based 3D rendering” Journal of European Ceramic Society, Volume 43, Issue 4, April 2023, Pages 1579-1589

Matthew Northam, Quentin Fouliard, Lin Rossmann, Jun-Sang Park, Peter Kenesei, Jonathan Almer, Vaishak Viswanathan, Bryan Harder, *Seetha Raghavan, “ Thermally grown oxide stress in PS-PVD and EB-PVD thermal barrier coatings observed at various lifetimes via synchrotron X-ray diffraction” ASME. J. Eng. Mater. Technol., January 2023; 145(1): 011004. 

Peter Warren, Nandhini Raju, Hossein Ebrahimi, Milos Krsmanovic, Seetha Raghavan, Jayanta Kapat, Ranajay Ghosh, “Effect of Sintering Temperature on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Molded Martian and Lunar Regolith” Ceramics International, 2022, ISSN 0272-8842.

Johnathan Hernandez, Quentin Fouliard, Khanh Vo, *Seetha Raghavan, "Detection of corrosion under insulation on aerospace structures via pulsed eddy current thermography", Aerospace Science and Technology, Volume 121, 2022, 107317, ISSN 1270-9638.

Agathe Demay, Johnathan Hernandez, Perla Latorre, Remelisa Esteves, *Seetha Raghavan. “Functional Coatings for Damage Detection in Aerospace Structures”, Technology & Innovation, Volume 22, Number 1, June 2021, pp. 95-103(9)

Chance Barrett, Zachary Stein, Johnathan Hernandez, Ravisankar Naraparaju, Uwe Schulz, Laurene Tetard, *Seetha Raghavan, “Detrimental effects of sand ingression in jet engine ceramic coatings captured with Raman-based 3D rendering”, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 41(2), 1664-1671, 2021.(Winner 3rd Place Witec awards)

Zachary Stein, Peter Kenesei, Jun-Sang Park, Jonathan Almer, Ravisankar Naraparaju, Uwe Schulz, and *Seetha Raghavan, "High-energy X-ray phase analysis of CMAS-infiltrated 7YSZ thermal barrier coatings: Effect of time and temperature", Journal of Materials Research, 35(17), 2300-2310, 2020.

Quentin Fouliard, Ranajay Ghosh, *Seetha Raghavan, “Quantifying thermal barrier coating delamination through luminescence modeling”, Surface and Coatings Technology, 126153, 2020.

Lin Rossmann, Brooke Sarley, Johnathan Hernandez, Peter Kenesei, Alain Köster Janine Wischek, Jonathan Almer, Vincent Maurel, Marion Bartsch, and *Seetha Raghavan, “Method for conducting in situ high temperature digital image correlation with simultaneous synchrotron measurements under thermomechanical conditions” Review of Scientific Instruments, 91, 033705 (2020)

Quentin Fouliard, Johnathan Hernandez, Bauke Heeg, Ranajay Ghosh, *Seetha Raghavan,“Phosphor Thermometry Instrumentation for Synchronized Acquisition of Luminescence Lifetime Decay and Intensity on Thermal Barrier Coatings” Measurement Science and Technology, 31(5), 054007, 2020.

Lin Rossmann, Matthew Northam, Brooke Sarley, Liudmila Chernovac, Vaishak Viswanathan, Bryan Harder, *Seetha Raghavan “Investigation of TGO stress in thermally cycled plasma-spray physical vapor deposition and electron-beam physical vapor deposition thermal barrier coatings via photoluminescence spectroscopy” Surface Coatings & Technology, 125047, 2019.

Remelisa Esteves, Johnathan Hernandez, #Khanh Vo, #Ryan Hoover, Gregory Freihofer and *Seetha Raghavan, “Measurements for stress sensing of composites using tailored piezospectroscopic coatings” AIP Advances, 9(5), 055201, 2019.

Fouliard, Q., Haldar, S., Ghosh, R., and *Raghavan, S.” Modeling luminescence behavior for phosphor thermometry applied to doped thermal barrier coating configurations.” Applied Optics, 58(13), D68-D75, 2019.

Albert Manero II, Kevin Knipe, Janine Wischek, Carla Meid, John Okasinski, Jonathan Almer, Anette M. Karlsson, *Marion Bartsch, and *Seetha Raghavan, “Capturing the Competing Influence of Thermal and Mechanical Loads on the Strain of Turbine Blade Coatings via High Energy X-Rays,” Coatings, 320, Vol. 8, issue 9, 2018

Alex Selimov, Sanjida Akter Jahan, Eric Barker, Peter Dackus, Declan Carolan, Ambrose Taylor, and *Seetha Raghavan, “Silane functionalization effects on dispersion of alumina nanoparticles in hybrid carbon fiber composites,” Appl. Opt. 57, 6671-6678 (2018)

Albert Manero II , Alex Selimov, Quentin Fouliard, Kevin Knipe, Janine Wischek, Carla Meid, Anette M. Karlsson, Marion Bartsch, *Seetha Raghavan, “Piezospectroscopic evaluation and damage identification for thermal barrier coatings subjected to simulated engine environments” Surface & Coatings Technology, 323, 30-38, 2016

Imad Hanhan, Alex Selimov, Declan Carolan, Ambrose Taylor, *Seetha Raghavan, “Quantifying Alumina Nanoparticle Dispersion in Hybrid Carbon Fiber Composites Using Photoluminescent Spectroscopy”, Applied Spectroscopy, January 1, 2016.

Gregory Freihofer, Axel Schülzgen, *Seetha Raghavan, “Damage Mapping of Composites with a Degrading Elastic Modulus”, NDT & E International, Vol. 75, 65-71, October 2015.

Albert Manero II, Jason Gibson, Gregory Freihofer, Jihua Gou, *Seetha Raghavan, “Evaluating the effect of nano-particle additives in Kevlar® 29 impact resistant composites”, Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 116, 8, 41–49, September 2015. 

Albert C. Manero II, Stephen Sofronsky, Kevin Knipe, John Okasinski, Jonathan Almer, Janine Wischek, Carla Meid, Anette Karlsson, *Seetha Raghavan, Marion Bartsch*, “Monitoring local strain in a thermal barrier coating system under thermal mechanical gas turbine operating conditions“, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 1-12, 2015.

Gregory Freihofer, Joshua Dustin, Hong Tat, Axel Schülzgen and *Seetha Raghavan “Piezospectroscopic nanocoatings for stress-sensing of structures” AIP Advances, 5, 037139 (2015).

K. Knipe, A. Manero, S. Sofronsky C. Meid, J. Wischek, J. Okasinski, J. Almer, A. Karlsson, M. Bartsch, and *Seetha Raghavan, “Synchrotron XRD measurements mapping internal strains of Thermal Barrier Coatings during thermal gradient mechanical fatigue loading” Journal of Eng. for Gas Turbines and Power, 137(8), 082506, 2015.

K. Knipe, A. Manero, S. Sofronsky C. Meid, J. Wischek, J. Okasinski, J. Almer, A. Karlsson, M. Bartsch, and *Seetha Raghavan, “Inside the engine Environment- Synchrotrons reveal secrets of High temperature ceramic coatings” American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 94, No. 1, January 2015 (Cover Story)

Imad Hanhan, Erik Durnberg, Gregory Freihofer, Paul Akin, *Seetha Raghavan, “Portable Piezospectroscopy System: Non-contact in-situ stress sensing through high resolution photo-luminescent mapping”, Journal of Instrumentation, 9, P11005, 2014.

Gregory Freihofer, Axel Schülzgen, *Seetha Raghavan, “Multi-scale mechanics to determine nanocomposite elastic properties with piezospectroscopy”, Acta Materialia 81 (2014) 211–218.

K. Knipe, A. Manero, S. F. Siddiqui, C. Meid, J. Wischek, J. Okasinski, J. Almer, A. Karlsson, M. Bartsch, and *Seetha Raghavan, “Strain Response of Thermal Barrier Coatings Captured under Extreme Engine Environments through Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction”, Nature Communications, 5:4559 doi: 10.1038/ncomms5559 (2014)

Gregory Freihofer, Daniela Fugon-Dessources, Emrecan Ergin, Amy Van Newkirk, Ankur Gupta, Sudipta Seal, Axel Schülzgen, *Seetha Raghavan, “Piezospectroscopic measurements capturing the evolution of plasma-spray coating stresses with substrate loads”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2014, 6 (3), pp 1366–1369.

Jason Gibson, James McKee, Gregory Freihofer, Seetha Raghavan and Jihua Gou*, “Enhancement in ballistic performance of composite hard armor through carbon nanotubes”, International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, Vol. 4 Issue 4. pp 212-228, 2014.

Sanna F. Siddiqui, Kevin Knipe, Albert Manero, Carla Meid, Janine Wischek, John Okasinski, Jonathan Almer, Anette Karlsson, Marion Bartsch, and *Seetha Raghavan, “Synchrotron X-Ray Measurement Techniques for Thermal Barrier Coated Cylindrical Samples under Thermal Gradients”, Review of Scientific Instruments, 84, 083904, 2013.

Gregory Freihofer, *Seetha Raghavan, David Gosztola, “Investigation of temperature dependent multi-walled nanotube G and D doublet using pseudo-Voigt functions”, Applied Spectroscopy, 67, pp. 321-328, 2013.

R. Diaz, M. Jansz, #M. Mossaddad, *S. Raghavan, J. Okasinski, J. Almer, H. Palaez- Perez and P. Imbrie, “Role of mechanical loads in inducing in-cycle tensile stress in the thermally grown oxide”, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 100, 111906, 2012. 

Gregory Freihofer, Fei Liang, Bharathi Mohan, Jihua Gou, *Seetha Raghavan, “Ex-situ Raman spectroscopy to optimize the manufacturing process for a structural MWNT nanocomposite” International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, Vol. 3, pp 309-320, 2012. 

Amanda Stevenson, Ashley Jones, and *Seetha Raghavan, “Stress-Sensing Nanomaterial Calibrated with Photostimulated Luminescence Emission”, Nano Letters, 11 (8), pp 3274– 3278, 2011. 

Amanda Stevenson, Ashley Jones, *Seetha Raghavan “Characterization of Particle Dispersion and Volume Fraction in Alumina-Filled Epoxy Nanocomposites Using Photo-Stimulated Luminescence Spectroscopy” Polymer Journal, 43 (11), pp. 923-929, 2011. (Selected as feature article)

Yibo Gao, Fei Liang, Gregory Freihofer, Benxin Wu, +Bharathi Mohan, *Seetha Raghavan, Jihua Gou, Shuyou Li, Brian Albee, Sandra Whaley Bishnoi, “Laser Sintering of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Ceramic Composites“International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, Vol.2, pp 219-229, 2011. 

*Seetha Raghavan and Peter Imbrie, “High resolution stress mapping of polycrystalline alumina compression using synchrotron radiation ” Journal of Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, Vol 18, Issue 3, 497-505, 2011. 

Gregory Freihofer, Laura Poliah, Kalippe Walker, Andre Medina and *Seetha Raghavan, “Optical Stress Probe: In situ stress mapping with Raman and Photo-stimulated Luminescence Spectroscopy” Journal of Instrumentation, Vol 5, P12003, 2010. 

*S. Raghavan & P.K. Imbrie, “Ex-situ stress measurements in polycrystalline ceramics using photo-stimulated luminescence spectroscopy and high energy x-rays” Journal of the American Ceramic Society,Vol. 92, 1567-1573, June 2009. 

*Seetha Raghavan, P.K. Imbrie & William A. Crossley, “Spectral analysis of R lines and vibronic sidebands in the emission spectrum of ruby using genetic algorithms”, Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 62, 759-765, July 2008. 

Patents:

Perla Latorre Suarez, Quentin Fouliard, Seetha Raghavan, “Optical Properties of Lunar and Planetary Regolith Engineered to Create Sensors”, 2022-039-01, filed Feb 2022 

Quentin Fouliard, Ranajay Ghosh, and Seetha Raghavan. "Method for forming a temperature sensing layer within a thermal barrier coating." U.S. Patent Application 17/649,929, filed May 19, 2022.

Quentin Fouliard, Ranajay Ghosh, Seetha Raghavan. “System and Method to Reveal Temperature Gradients Across Thermal Barrier Coatings Using Phosphor Thermometry”, U.S. Patent Application 17/034,156, filed September 28, 2020.

Quentin Fouliard, Ranajay Ghosh, Seetha Raghavan. “Phosphor Thermometry System for Synchronized Luminescence Life-time Decay Measurements”, U.S. Patent Application 17/034,098, filed September 28, 2020.

Ravisankar Naraparaju, Uwe Schulz, Seetha Raghavan, #Estefania Bohorquez, “Non-destructive cmas-infiltration characterization of thermal barrier coatings,”US Patent Pub. No. US20190293567A1. Granted 09/26/2019.

Quentin Fouliard, Ranajay Ghosh, and Seetha Raghavan. "Rare-earth doped thermal barrier coating bond coat for thermally grown oxide luminescence sensing." U.S. Patent 11,346,006, Granted May 31, 2022.

S.Y. Lim, B.S. Wong, Raghavan S “An Apparatus for Ultrasonic Inspection of Flawed Materials” Patent assignee: Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd, Granted 02/28/2006. (Patent Application Number 200107295-8, Publication Number: 118100) 

Refereed publications in conference proceedings: 

Latorre-Suarez P., Gucwa K., Swaby O., Bansberg L., Fouliard Q., and Raghavan S., "Investigating the Durability of Aluminum Oxide Coatings for Lunar Dust Mitigation” 73rd International Space Congress, September 2022.

Quentin Fouliard, Ranajay Ghosh, and Seetha Raghavan. "Thermal Barrier Coating Delamination Monitoring Through Thermally Grown Oxide Spectral Characterization." In AIAA Scitech 2022 Forum, p. 0163. 2022.

Prapoojith Arcot and *Seetha Raghavan, “Development of a Stress Corrosion Cracking Test Approach for Multi-Mode Measurements” AIAA 2021 Regional Student Conference, April 2021

Vanessa D’Esposito and *Seetha Raghavan, “Comparison of 3D Confocal Raman and High Energy X-ray Diffraction for the Measurement of Molten Sand Infiltration in Turbine Blade Coatings” AIAA 2021 Regional Student Conference, April 2021 (Second Place Winner, Undergraduate Category).

Perla Latorre-Suraez, Rohan Madathil, Nya Segura-Watson, Felix Morales, Vanessa D’Esposito, and *Seetha Raghavan, “3D Printed Stress Sensors for Non-Destructive Evaluation of Space Structures” AIAA 2021 Regional Student Conference, April 2021.

Quentin Fouliard, Johnathan Hernandez, Hossein Ebrahimi, Khanh Vo, Frank Accornero, Mary McCay, Jun-Sang Park, Jonathan Almer, Ranajay Ghosh, *Seetha Raghavan ”Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction To Quantify In-Situ Strain On Rare-Earth Doped Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Thermal Barrier Coatings”, ASME Turbo Expo 2021: Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. 

Hessein Ali, Zachary Stein, Quentin Fouliard, Hossein Ebrahimi, Peter Warren, *Seetha Raghavan, Ranajay Ghosh, ”Computational Model of Mechano-Electrochemical Effect of Aluminum Alloys Corrosion”, Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. 

Quentin P. Fouliard, Ranajay Ghosh, and *Seetha Raghavan, "Delamination of Electron-Beam Physical-Vapor Deposition Thermal Barrier Coatings using Luminescent Layers" AIAA Scitech Forum. January 12, 2021.

Johnathan Hernandez, Quentin P. Fouliard, Khanh Vo, and *Seetha Raghavan. "Characterization of corrosive defects through pulsed eddy current thermography for aircraft panels" AIAA Scitech Forum. January 12, 2021.

Matthew Northam, Lin Rossmann, Brooke Sarley, Maxwell Smith, Peter Kenesei, Jun-Sang Park, Jonathan Almer, Bryan Harder, Vaishak Viswanathan, *Seetha Raghavan,”Comparison of thermally cycled PS-PVD and EB-PVD thermal barrier coatings’ depth-resolved monoclinic phase evolution via synchrotron X-ray diffraction,” AIAA Scitech Forum, Orlando, FL, January 6-10, 2020.

Zachary Stein, Ravisankar Naraparaju, Uwe Schulz, Peter Kenesei, Jun-Sang Park, Jonathan Almer, *Seetha Raghavan, “Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction Study of Phase Transformation in CMAS Ingressed EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coatings,” AIAA Scitech Forum, Orlando, FL, January 6-10, 2020.

Johnathan Hernandez, Khanh Vo, *Seetha Raghavan,”Simulation and Experimentation of Pulsed Eddy Current Thermography for Corrosion Detection Under Insulation,” AIAA Scitech Forum, Orlando, FL, January 6-10, 2020.

Quentin Fouliard, Ranajay Ghosh, *Seetha Raghavan, “Doped 8% Yttria Stabilized Zirconia for Temperature Measurements on Thermal Barrier Coatings using Phosphor Thermometry,” AIAA Scitech Forum, Orlando, FL, January 6-10, 2020.

P. Warren, S. Haldar, *S. Raghavan, R. Ghosh, “Modeling Thermally Grown Oxides in Thermal Barrier Coatings using Koch Fractal”, ASME Turbo Expo, Phoenix, Arizona 2019.

M. Northam, L. Rossmann, B. Sarley, B. Harder, J. Park, P. Kenesei, J. Almer, V. Viswanathan and *S. Raghavan, “Comparison of Electron-Beam Physical Vapor Deposition and Plasma-Spray Physical Vapor Deposition Thermal Barrier Coating Properties Using Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction” ASME Turbo Expo, Phoenix, Arizona 2019.

S. Haldar, P. Warren, Q. Fouliard, D. Moreno, M. McCay, J. Park, P. Kenesei, J. Almer, R. Ghosh, *S. Raghavan, “Synchrotron XRD Measurements of Thermal Barrier Coating Configurations With Rare Earth Elements for Phosphor Thermometry”, ASME Turbo Expo, Phoenix, Arizona 2019.

L. Rossmann, M. Northam, V. Viswanathan, B. Harder, *S. Raghavan, “Investigation of Thermally Grown Oxide Stress in Plasma-spray Physical Vapor Deposition and Electron-beam Physical Vapor Deposition Thermal Barrier Coatings via Photoluminescence Spectroscopy,” 46th International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films ICMCTF, San Diego, 2019

Remelisa Esteves, Ryan Hoover, Khanh Vo, Sanjida Jahan, Sandip Haldar and *Seetha Raghavan, “Application of Stress Sensing Coatings on Metal Substrates with a Sub-Surface Notch” AIAA SciTech Forum, 7-11 January 2019, San Diego, California 

Quentin Fouliard, Sanjida Jahan, Lin Rossmann, Peter Warren, Ranajay Ghosh, *Seetha Raghavan, “Configurations for temperature sensing of thermal barrier coatings”, 1st International conference of Phosphor Thermometry, Glasgow, UK, July 2018

Remelisa Esteves, Ryan Hoover, Khanh Vo, and *Seetha Raghavan, “Piezospectroscopic coatings: Effects of alumina nanoparticle volume fraction on stress-sensing:, SAMPE conference, Long Beach, California May 2018

Debraliz Isaac Aragones, Lin Rossmann, Estefania Bohorquez, Brooke Sarley, Owen Pryor, *Seetha Raghavan, “US-Germany Collaboration in Materials for Extreme Environments: Developing an International Research Pathway Towards Creating Global Engineers for the Future,” ASEE-SE Educating the Engineer of the Future, 4-6 March 2018, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach, Florida.

Estefania Bohorquez, Brooke Sarley, Johnathan Hernandez, Ryan Hoover, Ravisankar Naraparaju, Uwe Schulz, *Seetha Raghavan Investigation of the Effects of CMAS-infiltration in EB-PVD 7% Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia via Raman Spectroscopy,” SciTech 59th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 8-12 January 2018, Kissimmee, FL.

Rossmann L., Sarley B., Köster A., Kenesei P., Wischek J., Almer J., Maurel V., Bartsch M., *Raghavan S., “Method for conducting in situ high temperature digital image correlation with simultaneous synchrotron measurements under thermo-mechanical load”, 59th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum, 8-12 January 2018, Kissimmee, FL.

Sanjida Akter Jahan, Mohamed Abdelgader, Eric Barker, Johnathan Hernandez, Ryan Hoover, Declan Carolan, Ambrose Taylor, *Seetha Raghavan “Characterizing Functionalization of Hybrid Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (HCFRP) Composite Using Photoluminescence Spectroscopy“ 59th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum, 8-12 January 2018, Kissimmee, FL.

Alex Selimov, Ryan Hoover, Quentin Fouliard, Albert Manero II, Peter Dackus, Declan Carolan, Ambrose Taylor, *Seetha Raghavan, “Characterization of Hybrid Carbon Fiber Composites using Photoluminescence Spectroscopy,” 58th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 9-13 January 2017, Grapevine, Texas

Brooke Sarley, Albert C. Manero, Jose Cotelo, Janine Wischek, John Okasnski, Peter Kenesei, Johnathan Almer, Marion Bartsch, *Seetha Raghavan., “Real-time phase evolution of Selective Laser Melted (SLM) Inconel 718 with temperature through synchrotron X-rays,” 58th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum, 9-13 January 2017, Grapevine, Texas.

Albert Manero II, Stephen Sofronsky, Katia Artzt, Stefan Hackemann, Janine Wischek, John Okasinksi, Peter Kenesei, Jonathan Almer, Marion Bartsch, *Seetha Raghavan, “Interpreting High Temperature Deformation Behavior of a Ceramic Matrix Composite via High Energy X-rays and Numerical Simulation” SciTech 57th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 4-8 January 2016, San Diego, CA.

Imad Hanhan, Alex P. Selimov, Declan Carolan, Ambrose Taylor, and *Seetha Raghavan. "Characterizing Mechanical Properties of Hybrid Alumina Carbon Fiber Composites with Piezospectroscopy", 57th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum, (AIAA 2016-1413) http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2016-1413

Albert C. Manero, Kevin Knipe,  Carla Meid, Janine Wischek, Claudine Lacdao, Matthew Smith, John Okasinski, Jonathan Almer, Marion Bartsch, Anette Karlsson, *Seetha Raghavan, “Comparison of Thermal Barrier Coating Stresses via High Energy X-Rays and Piezospectroscopy,” SciTech 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 5-9 January 2015, Kissimmee, FL.

Gregory Freihofer, *Seetha Raghavan, “Damage Mapping of Composites with Piezospectroscopic Coatings,” SciTech 56th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 5-9 January 2015, Kissimmee, FL.

Erik Durnberg, Kevin Knipe, Gregory Freihofer, Imad Hanhan, Renfei Feng, *Seetha Raghavan, “Particle Size Effect on Load Transfer in Single Particle Composite Samples via X-Ray Diffraction,” SciTech 56th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 5-9 January 2015, Kissimmee, FL.

G. Freihofer, and *S. Raghavan. “Material State Measurements with Nanocomposite Piezospectroscopic Coatings”. SAMPE: The Composites and Advanced Materials Expo, 14-16 October, 2014, Orlando FL. Student paper competition 2nd Place Award.

G.Freihofer, A. Bullock, F. Vaughn, H. Tat, J. Dustin, A. Schülzgen, *S. Raghavan, “Stress and Damage Sensing of Composite Coupons with Piezospectroscopic Coatings” Proceeding of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 2014 conference, 2-5 June 2014, Seattle, Washington. 

E. Durnberg, I. Hanhan, G. Freihofer, D. Lui, J. Gou, *S. Raghavan, “Experimental Piezospectroscopic Measurements to Study Load Transfer in a Single Alumina Particle Embedded Within an Epoxy Matrix”, Proceeding of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 2014 conference, 2-5 June 2014, Seattle, Washington.

A. Jones, J.J. Rosas, *S. Raghavan, “Variable Strain Rate In Situ Piezospectroscopic Studies of Alumina Nanocomposites”, Proceeding of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 2014 conference, 2-5 June 2014, Seattle, Washington.

Gregory Freihofer, Ankur Gupta, Amy Van Newkirk, Sudipta Seal, and *Seetha Raghavan “Optical Stress Sensing Alumina Nanocomposite Coatings for Aerospace Structures” AIAA SciTech
55th AIAA/ASMe/ASCE/AHS/SC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 13-17 January 2014, National Harbor, Maryland.

Erik Durnberg, Ashley Jones, Joseangel Rosas, George Sunny, and *Seetha Raghavan, “Monitoring Strain Rate Effects on Nanocomposites using Piezospectroscopy” AIAA SciTech
55th AIAA/ASMe/ASCE/AHS/SC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 13-17 January 2014, National Harbor, Maryland.

Kevin Knipe, Albert Manero, Sanna F. Siddiqui, Stephen Sofronsky, Pascal Fouquet, Carla Meid, Janine Wischek, Marion Bartsch, John Okasinski, Jonathan Almer, Anette Karlsson and *Seetha Raghavan “Synchrotron XRD Measurements of Thermal Barrier Coatings Subjected to Loads Representing Operational Conditions of Rotating Gas Turbine Blades” AIAA SciTech 52nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting 
13-17 January 2014, National Harbor, Maryland.

Gregory Freihofer, Daniela Fugon, Ashley Jones, Emrecan Ergin, Axel Schülzgen and *Seetha Raghavan, “Prediction of Piezospectroscopic properties with nanoparticle load transfer theories”, Proceeding of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 2013 conference, 6-9 May 2013, Long Beach, California.

Ashley Jones Greg Freihofer, Daniela Fugon, Marc Lowen, and *Seetha Raghavan “Low Strain Rate in situ piezospectroscopic studies of Alumina Nanocomposites” Proceeding of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 2013 conference, 6-9 May 2013, Long Beach, California.

K. Knipe, David Siljee, Albert Manero, John Okasinski, Jonathan Almer, *S. Raghavan, Sendil Rangaswamy “Simulations Mapping Stress Evolution in High Temperature Ceramic Coatings under Thermal-Mechanical Conditions”, AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Boston, MA, 2013.

Ashley S. Jones, Gregory Freihofer, Emrecan Ergin, #Kevin Lautenslager, #Will Gysi, Axel Schülzgen, *Seetha Raghavan and Hong Tat, “Embedded alumina nanoparticles as diagnostic coatings for structures” Proceeding of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 2012 conference, 21-24 May 2012, Baltimore, MD. (Best paper award 3rd place)

Gregory Freihofer, Spencer Frank, Emrecan Ergin, Ashley Jones, Amanda Stevenson, Axel Schülzgen and *Seetha Raghavan and Hong Tat, “Measurement of load transfer within alumina nanoparticle epoxy composites using piezospectroscopy” Proceedings of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering conference, 21-24 May 2012, Baltimore, MD. 

Field T., Jones A., Jansz M., *Raghavan S., Okasinski J., Almer J. “Synchrotron X-rays Monitoring Nano-Aluminum Grain Growth of a Metal Matrix Composite under Thermo-mechanical Conditions”, Proceedings of the 53rdAIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, 23-26th April 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

Freihofer, G., Wirth, Brian and *Raghavan S. “Ex-Situ Raman Spectroscopy of Manufacturing Process for a MWNT Nanocomposite”, Proceedings of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 2011 conference, 23-26 May 2011, Long Beach, California. 

Mohan, B., Freihofer, G. and *Raghavan S. “An In situ Raman Stress Measurement Method for Tensile Testing of Carbon Nanofiber/Nanotube Composites” Proceeding of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 2011 conference, 23-26 May 2011, Long Beach, California. 

Amanda L. Stevenson, Ashley Jones and *Seetha Raghavan, “Real-time monitoring of an adhesive lap shear test using piezospectroscopy” Proceedings of the 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, 4-7th April 2011, Denver, Colorado. 

Bharathi Mohan, Gregory Freihofer and *Seetha Raghavan, “Measuring Tensile Stresses in CNF/Polymer composites using Raman Spectroscopy” Proceedings of the 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, 4-7th April 2011, Denver, Colorado. 

Rene Diaz, Mitra Mossaddad, Anil Bozan, *Seetha Raghavan, Jonathan Almer, John Okasinski, Hugo Palaez-Perez and Peter Imbrie,, “In-Situ Strain Measurements of EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coatings using Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction under Thermo-Mechanical Loading” Proceedings of the 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, 7 January 2011, Orlando, Florida. 

Amanda L. Wright & *S. Raghavan “Effects of Stress on Alumina Nanocomposites Using Piezospectroscopy”, Proceedings of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 2010 conference, 17-20 May 2010, Seattle, Washington. 

Gregory Freihofer, Adonay Jimenez and *Seetha Raghavan “Optical Spectra of Carbon Nanotubes for Stress Measurements of Aerospace Structures” Proceedings of the 51st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, 12-15th April 2010, Orlando, Florida. 

Amanda Wright, Christopher Gonzalez, Ashley Jones, *Seetha Raghavan “Piezospectroscopic measurements on Alumina Epoxy Composites” Proceedings of the 51st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, 12-15th April 2010, Orlando, Florida. 

Sendil Rangaswamy, *Seetha Raghavan, Mohammad Z. Ahmad, Thomas Clarke, Chris Ellis, Sergio Tafur, Ravi Palaniappan, “High Performance Computing Benchmark Tool for Parallel Processing of Large Models” AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2010, 20 - 22 April 2010, Atlanta, Georgia. 

*S. Raghavan & P.K. Imbrie, “The Development of Photo-stimulated Luminescence Spectroscopy for 3D Stress Measurements in the Thermally Grown Oxide Layer of Thermal Barrier Coatings”, Proceedings of the Materials Science and Technology 2007 conference, September 16-20 2007, Detroit, Michigan. 

*S. Raghavan & P.K. Imbrie “A 3D Stress Measurement Model for Chromium-doped Alumina using the Photo-stimulated Luminescence Spectroscopy Technique”, Proceedings of the 44th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, October 21-24 2007, College Station, Texas. 

P.K. Imbrie & S. Raghavan, “ Work in Progress- A Remote e-laboratory for Student Investigation, Manipulation and Learning”, Proceedings of the 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education conference, Oct 19-22 2005, Indianapolis. 

G. Freihofer, B. Mohan & *S.Raghavan, “In-situ techniques in optical spectroscopy for the analysis of carbon nanotubes”, Nanotech 2010, Chapter 1: Nanoscale Materials Characterization; pp 99-102, Anaheim, CA. 

Dr Raghavan has 7 years of work experience in the aerospace industry at Singapore Technologies Aerospace (a subsidiary of ST Engineering) where she was a senior engineer involved in Aircraft Structural Analysis, Aircraft Maintenance, Repair & Modifications. Her notable contributions include internal loads, stress analysis and weight and balance computations for the structural upgrade of F-5 aircraft and research & development in Automated non-destructive inspection for Fatigue cracks detection using Ultrasonic and Eddy current techniques for which she holds a joint patent. During her time in France, she worked with Messier Bugatti in Vélizy, designing and executing the static and fatigue test plan for the S-92 wheels and brakes.


Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Member, Women in Aerospace

Member, Women in Aviation

Member, American Mensa

Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence Distinguished Purdue Alumni Scholar Award 2023

Aerospace Educator Award, Women in Aerospace 2019

Elected Associate Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2013

International Research and Collaboration Award, University of Sydney 2015 

National Science Foundation Broadening Research Initiation Grants in Engineering 2011