tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66645231634051617742024-02-18T22:27:18.475-08:00MSE NEWSAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-47925728468430095772017-07-11T12:46:00.002-07:002017-07-11T12:46:51.877-07:00Multifunctional Materials Integration: Cooler Chips Mean Smaller Devices Assistant Professor Mona Zebarjadi, collaborating with Assistant Professor Stephen McDonnell, is developing an active electronic cooling device using two-dimensional (2-D) materials that could remove this roadblock. “The cooling we think we can get from these devices beats the best coolers on the market,” Zebarjadi said. “We are very excited about the possibilities.”
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-35742765046759505702017-06-22T10:15:00.005-07:002017-06-23T07:13:08.312-07:00Dong and Wadley earn IJMR Best Paper of YearUVA research scientist Liang Dong and University Professor Haydn Wadley have been awarded the 2017 Werner Koester Award for best paper. Each year the International Journal of Materials Research (IJMR) honours the "best paper" that appeared in the volume of IJMR of the preceding year.
The winning paper was entitled “Strong cellular lattices with nitro-carburized stainless steel hollow trusses.”Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-61155603184463331102017-05-21T12:31:00.002-07:002017-05-21T12:41:21.342-07:00Congratulations 2017 Grads of MSE, EP, and Engineering Science!Final Exercises is a special time at UVA. We celebrate those who achieved today the culmination of years of hard work. Congratulations to the Class of 2017.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-1504528372614079102016-08-24T08:45:00.000-07:002016-08-24T08:45:10.570-07:00George Cahen's lasting impactFrom SEAS E-News: Engineers learn by doing. That is the
reason Professor George Cahen often gives for championing experiential
learning at UVA Engineering—and it is a lesson Cahen, now retiring after
40 years at UVA, himself learned as a boy growing up in Baltimore.
“The value I place on experiential learning goes back to my time with my
dad. He gave me a real sense of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-24364940808780288972016-08-14T11:19:00.000-07:002016-08-25T11:54:53.902-07:00Robert Kelly named 2016 recipient of the H. H. Uhlig Award from ECSMaterials Science and Engineering Professor Robert Kelly has been named the 2016 recipient of the H. H. Uhlig Award from the Electrochemical Society’s Corrosion Division, another indicator of the exceptional quality of the corrosion research at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science.
BY SEAS NEWS
“We have a 30-year history of excellence in corrosion Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-36531870606765896132016-07-21T13:15:00.000-07:002016-07-28T07:43:58.974-07:00John Scully offers lessons from Flint in NAE's The Bridge Each issue of the National Academy of Engineering publication The Bridge features articles by leading engineers and scholars on a chosen topic. The most recent issue addresses challenges at the interface of technology and policy. Among them is a timely article by John Scully discussing the critically aging US infrastructure, entitled "The Corrosion Crisis in Flint, Michigan: A Call for Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-47184427291503518362016-06-15T05:08:00.002-07:002016-07-27T08:46:03.678-07:00Jack Snodgrass library added to CESE collectionUVA's Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering recently received a near 50 book donation from the family of Jack Snodgrass. Snodgrass worked at Reynolds aluminum company in Richmond and was a frequent collaborator with CESE.
This is the third such gift of books to the Center's library. Jerry Kruger (CHEM PhD), a world renown corrosion scientist, offered his collection to the library Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-87421435579402263772016-05-23T05:00:00.000-07:002017-05-26T14:06:07.562-07:00Inaugural Graduate Student Department AwardsOn May 20, 2016 gathered to acknowledge the many accomplishments of our faculty and students.
The event not served to honor the awardees, but also to honor and thank all who were nominated as well as the many students who daily take an active role and personal ownership in the ongoing development of programmatic excellence.
Nominations for 2016's graduate student awards included some of our Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-995454598282169652016-04-22T11:49:00.001-07:002016-07-27T09:07:56.520-07:00Engineering Science Student Receives Truman Award for Solar Energy ResearchUniversity of Virginia undergraduate
student Jill Ferguson has been named a Truman Scholar and will receive
$30,000 toward graduate school and the opportunity to participate in
professional development to help prepare her
for a career in public
service leadership.
Read more in UVA TODAY Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-12820557007159809292016-03-16T14:12:00.001-07:002016-07-27T08:59:04.368-07:00U.Va graduate students net four top spots at NACE International Corrosion 2016 conferenceThis March, CORROSION 2016 conference was held in Vancouver, British Columbia. The world’s largest corrosion conference and exposition, CORROSION offers students the opportunity to enter posters in one of three categories: (1) the Marcel Pourbaix category for the field of corrosion science; (2) the Mars Fontana category for the field of corrosion engineering; and (3) the Harvey Herro category forAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-26472160143852678042016-03-08T13:09:00.003-08:002016-07-27T09:03:51.436-07:00Corrosion the culprit: key papers on water crisis in Flint, MI made publicly accessibleJohn Scully, Technical Editor in Chief of the journal CORROSION, recently published a special editorial section covering the centrality of corrosion in Flint's water crisis. Additionally, in his capacity as technical editor, he choose to make public via open access the full texts (see below) of many of key scientific papers, including several of Marc Edwards, professor at Va Tech. Well Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-2054092340869912742016-03-01T13:34:00.001-08:002016-03-29T11:42:08.684-07:00Alumni Chip Blankenship elected NAE
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that it has
elected UVA Engineering alumnus Charles P. “Chip” Blankenship, Jr., as
an academy member, among the most prestigious and important professional
distinctions for an engineer. Election to membership is among the highest professional
honors accorded an engineer.
Blankenship is president and chief executive officer of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-16655106450342027032016-03-01T13:27:00.001-08:002016-03-01T13:27:17.316-08:00James Burns recieves Air Force (YIP) Young Investigators Research Program AwardAccording to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the YIP awards intend "to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities for the young investigators to recognize the Air Force mission and the related challenges in science and engineering." The awards program is competitive. The Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-51301138996336589782015-11-19T14:05:00.000-08:002016-05-27T08:33:02.534-07:00Henry B. Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching awarded to John ScullyProfessor John Scully has been selected as the 2016 winner of the ECS Henry B. Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching. The award will be presented at next year's ECS Meeting in San Diego, California, USA in May 2016.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-65282539298550533402015-11-19T06:23:00.002-08:002015-11-29T08:26:36.914-08:00Understanding corrosion from the nanoscale to the macroscale Associate Professor Petra Reinke and Charles Henderson Chaired Professor John Scully are collaborating in a new Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) sponsored by the Office of Naval Research to understand, predict, and control the role of minor elements on the early stages of corrosion in metal alloys. The multimillion dollar effort, Understanding Corrosion in 4-D, will involveAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-38399096174139231162015-11-18T12:28:00.000-08:002015-12-03T07:15:25.924-08:002015 Robert W. Cahn Prize awarded to Brad Richards, Hengbei Zhao, and Haydn Wadley The best paper of the year award in the Journal of Materials Science has been awarded to Brad Richards, Hengbei Zhao, and Haydn Wadley. The Cahn Prize was named in honor of the founding editor of the Journal of Materials Science, Robert Wolfgang Cahn who founded the journal in 1966. The paper, "Structure, composition, and defect control during plasma spray deposition of ytterbium silicate Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969932972809035223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-10871329166609052052015-11-16T09:51:00.003-08:002015-11-19T06:40:38.416-08:00Extreme Challenge: UVA engineer Haydn Wadley and his team push materials to their failure point"Sometimes spectacular failures inspire you to investigate the
fundamental processes that are responsible, and that knowledge then sets
the stage for designing new materials and new structures that can
survive under even more extreme conditions.”
November 13, 2015 | UVa Today | by Charles Feigenoff
“Things get pretty interesting when you take materials to their point of failure,” said WadleyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969932972809035223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-43905306986196644812015-10-28T09:36:00.000-07:002015-11-19T09:44:29.736-08:00Jerry Floro emphasizes hands-on approach with REU (research experience for undergraduates)
No
one ever fell in love with engineering by reading a textbook. Knowing
this, many Engineering School faculty members welcome undergraduates
into their labs each summer as part of the National Science Foundation
Research Experience for Undergraduates program (REU).
"Learning by Doing" | by SEAS VEF
“When you are in the laboratory, you’re trying as hard as you can to
find an answer toAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-74139309306523927392015-08-19T10:48:00.000-07:002015-11-19T09:42:24.486-08:00New U.Va. Dual-Degree Program Aims to Meet Demand for STEM TeachersBegining this Fall 2015, a great opportunity awaits those interested in earning a degree in teaching! The University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Curry School of Education have joined forces to offer a five-year Bachelor of Science/Master of Teaching program, responding to a nationwide demand for teachers with rich backgrounds in STEM fields.
Written by Aubree Breen with UVA Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-11358239513873418042015-07-07T11:28:00.002-07:002015-07-08T09:55:06.803-07:00Professor Robert Johnson and his team simulate Pluto's upper atmosphereThis July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will probe the Pluto system. Modeling and simulation work done by Professor Bob Johnson and his team show promising data revealing that nitrogen in the atmosphere from the cold and distant dwarf planet Pluto could be flowing over to its moon Charon, which would be the first known example of a such an event.
img: Nasa
The Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-78985615842512242332015-07-02T11:34:00.000-07:002015-07-02T13:54:36.677-07:00UVA ECS Student Chapter Ranked #1 With 32 students, the University of Virginia student chapter of the Electrochemical Society ranked number one as the ECS student chapter with the largest presence according to May press posting. Founded in 1902, the Electrochemical Society is the largest international organization promoting electrochemical and solid state science and technology. With over 8,000 members in 70 nations, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-18972411939641180692015-07-01T10:39:00.000-07:002015-07-06T07:04:58.835-07:00MSE-ES Jill Fergusson represents UVA NExT at White House ForumOn May 20 at the White House Forum on Small Business Challenges to Commercializing Nanotechnology, Jill Ferguson (ES' 17) spoke before members of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and members of the National Economic Council, along with business leaders and representatives of academia.
Jill Ferguson of UVA NExT speaking at the White House
According to White House press Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-29487568211877221582015-06-22T08:14:00.000-07:002015-07-02T13:55:19.651-07:00MSE mourns the loss of professor Raúl BaragiolaThe Materials Science and Engineering Department was saddened to learn that Raul Baragiola, the Alice and Guy Wilson Professor of Engineering Physics and Materials Science, died Sunday June 21, 2015.
Professor Baragiola joined the University of Virginia in 1990 following positions at Rutgers University, the Bariloche
Atomic Center in Argentina, and as CEO of his own computer and softwareAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014281129633257623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-57072583702791876182015-06-16T04:48:00.003-07:002015-06-24T10:06:25.119-07:00Wadley Lab Wins Major Equipment AwardThe Wadley Lab group received notification of DOD approval to construct a $800,000 high temperature, high water vapor pressure laser gradient test facility as part of the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program. The new instrumentation will enable the University of Virginia researchers to recreate the thermal, environmental and mechanical loading conditions within future ceramicAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969932972809035223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6664523163405161774.post-45891681466298114252015-05-22T13:48:00.001-07:002015-05-22T13:51:19.446-07:00Congratulations to the MSE, EP, and ES class of 2015!“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!”
from ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
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