Musa Ibne
Mannan
PhD candidate at UT Dallas — building the instruments, running the experiments, and writing the code that turns a broken part into an explanation.
Musa Ibne Mannan is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, concentrating in Manufacturing and Design Innovations. He holds an MS in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering from Texas State University and a bachelor's from RUET.
His work runs from high-vacuum thin-film deposition and materials characterization to finite element failure analysis and design for manufacturing. In the Leem Research Group he designed, assembled and operated the laboratory itself — CVD furnaces, hydrogen and inert gas delivery, integrated Raman spectroscopy — while running concurrent computational and experimental programs. Before graduate school he led field teams of 28–35 engineers on refinery and boiler projects in Bangladesh, where resolving 120 design and implementation errors saved roughly 30,000 man-hours.
He also writes crime fiction in Bangla under the pen name Kishor Pasha Imon, with 26 published books between two countries. His bibliography is on Goodreads.
Research Areas
Selected Work
01 Barrel Thermal & Stress Failure Analysis Transient heat transfer and von Mises stress in Abaqus across three alloys, under analytically derived thermal and pressure loads. 02 Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Films Large-area rGO grown by KrF excimer pulsed laser deposition, refined by room-temperature laser annealing, characterized down to 1.8 K. 03 Silane-Treated Ragweed–PLA Biocomposites Composite filament from an invasive weed — fiber extraction through twin-screw extrusion, FDM printing and full characterization. 04 tRNA Fragment Electrochemical Biosensors Printed carbon aptasensors for RNA detection, reaching a 0.4 nM limit of detection on a disposable platform. 05 Diesel NOx Reduction by Urea SCR Hybrid air preheating and selective catalytic reduction cutting NOx by up to 55 percent. Published in Heliyon. 06 Optimized Wood Gasifier Shredder Blade geometry and a dual-gear torque mechanism designed in SolidWorks, validated by FEA to 30 Nm. 07 Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Optimization MATLAB evolutionary optimization over twenty years of ERCOT data, balancing cost, renewables and exit fees. 08 Finite Element Mesh Convergence Study A cantilever beam checked three ways — commercial FEA, closed-form theory, and hand-written Gauss quadrature code. 09 Photopolymer Curing Across the Spectrum Blue light at a third the illuminance cured faster and deeper than green. Wavelength beats intensity. 10 CNC Machining of Complex Geometry Mastercam toolpath generation, posting-option troubleshooting, and a 22-hour cut on a three-axis HAAS VF-3.Publications
- W. Shadman, Musa Mannan, et al. “Electrochemical detection of tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs) based on multi-functionalized carbon surface.” Surfaces and Interfaces (under review).
- M. S. H. K. Tushar, M. I. Mannan, A. Azmain. “Exhaust Gas After Treatment using Air Preheating and Selective Catalytic Reduction by Urea to Reduce NOx in Diesel Engine.” Heliyon, 11(1), 2025.
- M. I. Mannan. “In-Vitro Detection of tRNA Fragments (tRFs) Using an Inkjet-Printed Graphene Electrochemical Aptasensor.” M.S. Thesis, Texas State University, 2023.
- S. Panta, M. I. Mannan, et al. “Comparison of Mechanical and Morphological Properties of Ameo and Glymo Silane Treated Ragweed-PLA Bio-Composites.” CAMX 2022 Proceedings, Anaheim, CA, 2022.
- K. M. Jitendra Tate, Musa Ibne Mannan, et al. “Thermal and Structural Properties of Surface Treated Ragweed Fiber Reinforced Biodegradable Polylactic Acid Biocomposites.” International Journal of Composite and Constituent Materials, 8(2), 2022.