Several alumni, faculty, and staff were honored at the October 2004 Thornton Society Dinner with VEF Awards.
Thursday, January 1, 2004
Leland D. Melvin ('91), 2004 Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate Award
Fall 2004 -Virginia Engineering
Several alumni, faculty, and staff were honored at the October 2004 Thornton Society Dinner with VEF Awards.
Leland D. Melvin (MSE ’91) was awarded the 2004 Young Engineering Graduate Award from the Virginia Engineering Foundation.
Several alumni, faculty, and staff were honored at the October 2004 Thornton Society Dinner with VEF Awards.
Leonid V. Zhigilei awarded NSF-NIRT (Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams) grant
Fall 2004 -Virginia Engineering
Ioannis Chasiotis (MAE) and Leonid V. Zhigilei (MSE) with three other collaborators from Case Western Reserve University and Michigan Tech were awarded an NSF-NIRT (Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams) grant. This is a four-year grant with an original total budget of $1.6 million, which has a focus on the experimental and computational study of biological and organic nanofibers
Ioannis Chasiotis (MAE) and Leonid V. Zhigilei (MSE) with three other collaborators from Case Western Reserve University and Michigan Tech were awarded an NSF-NIRT (Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams) grant. This is a four-year grant with an original total budget of $1.6 million, which has a focus on the experimental and computational study of biological and organic nanofibers
Matthews Family Contributes Additional Funds to Wilsdorf Hall
Fall 2004 - Virginia Engineering
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| Professors Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf and William Jesser, Valerie Matthews and Dean James H. Aylor at the 2004 Thornton Society Dinner |
Matthews, whose son is the rock music composer and performer Dave Matthews, was an IBM Corporation research scientist who had a long-term research affiliation with the Engineering School.The gift will support the construction of a connector between Wilsdorf Hall and the Chemistry Building. Wilsdorf Hall is an under-construction materials science building that will serve as a research and teaching facility. The building will also house conference rooms and faculty offices. Previously, the Matthews Family contributed $500,000 for construction of a 1,000-square foot laboratory in the building in honor of Mr. Matthews’ long relationship with the Engineering School and with Professors William Jesser and Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf.
Professors Elzey and Fitz-Gerald lead Wheelchair Translation Project
Spring 2004 - Virginia Engineering
The Wheelchair Translation Project group was confronted with a real-life problem here on Grounds this past fall: how to design a device allowing wheelchair users to navigate up and down stairs while avoiding the use of ramps.
In team fashion, students from the pilot classes taught by Professors Elzey and Fitz-Gerald designed, built and tested two separate wheelchair translation systems to solve the problem.
The Wheelchair Translation Project group was confronted with a real-life problem here on Grounds this past fall: how to design a device allowing wheelchair users to navigate up and down stairs while avoiding the use of ramps.
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| Wheelchair project team |
Thursday, September 18, 2003
Wilsdorf Hall Ground Breaking
Wilsdorf Hall Groundbreaking Engineering School Expects New Building To Foster Collaborative, Nanotechnology Research
September 18, 2003 -- UVA Top News
The University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science will break ground on Thursday, Sept. 25, for Wilsdorf Hall, a building that will bring researchers in materials science, chemical engineering and nanotechnology under one roof.
The building — a $38.9 million, 99,000 gross-square-foot, five-story structure that will link the University’s materials science and chemical engineering buildings — will contain research laboratories, faculty offices, conference rooms, computational facilities and work-study areas.
“By bringing together researchers from different disciplines, this building should encourage interdisciplinary research, especially in the field of nanotechnology, one of the thrust areas outlined in the University’s Virginia 2020 planning initiatives,” said Richard Miksad, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. “We expect these state-of-the-art facilities to encourage new research initiatives that have been limited in the past by the unavailability of laboratory space.”
The building will be named in honor of the late Heinz Wilsdorf, first chair of the Department of Materials Science, and his wife, Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, University professor of applied science.
The drive to build Wilsdorf Hall gained momentum with a lead gift from alumnus Gregory H. Olsen, who received his doctorate from U.Va.’s Department of Materials
Science. Olsen is president and chief executive officer of Sensors Unlimited Inc., a manufacturer of remote-sensing equipment based in Princeton, N.J.
Olsen’s $15 million gift is the largest ever received by U.Va.’s Engineering School.
“Greg’s vision and generosity will allow U.Va. to move forward in these exciting and path-breaking fields of research,” said William A. Jesser, professor of materials science.
Olsen was Jesser’s first Ph.D. candidate, and his 1970 dissertation on thin films of iron still sits on a shelf in Jesser’s office. Olsen worked with RCA in Princeton before founding his own companies, Epitaxx in 1984 and Sensors Unlimited in 1991.
The family of singer Dave Matthews has contributed funds in honor of the late John Matthews, Dave Matthews’ father, who pursued post-doctoral research here with Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf.
Additional funding was provided by the state bond issue, the Engineering School and University. A National Science Foundation grant provided support for the Center for Nanoscopic Materials Design to be housed in the building.
Construction workers are currently moving underground utilities lines and plan to begin building in February 2004. Construction is expected to be finished in late fall 2005, with occupancy beginning in 2006.
The University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science will break ground on Thursday, Sept. 25, for Wilsdorf Hall, a building that will bring researchers in materials science, chemical engineering and nanotechnology under one roof.
The building — a $38.9 million, 99,000 gross-square-foot, five-story structure that will link the University’s materials science and chemical engineering buildings — will contain research laboratories, faculty offices, conference rooms, computational facilities and work-study areas.
“By bringing together researchers from different disciplines, this building should encourage interdisciplinary research, especially in the field of nanotechnology, one of the thrust areas outlined in the University’s Virginia 2020 planning initiatives,” said Richard Miksad, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. “We expect these state-of-the-art facilities to encourage new research initiatives that have been limited in the past by the unavailability of laboratory space.”
The building will be named in honor of the late Heinz Wilsdorf, first chair of the Department of Materials Science, and his wife, Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, University professor of applied science.
The drive to build Wilsdorf Hall gained momentum with a lead gift from alumnus Gregory H. Olsen, who received his doctorate from U.Va.’s Department of Materials
Science. Olsen is president and chief executive officer of Sensors Unlimited Inc., a manufacturer of remote-sensing equipment based in Princeton, N.J.
Olsen’s $15 million gift is the largest ever received by U.Va.’s Engineering School.
“Greg’s vision and generosity will allow U.Va. to move forward in these exciting and path-breaking fields of research,” said William A. Jesser, professor of materials science.
Olsen was Jesser’s first Ph.D. candidate, and his 1970 dissertation on thin films of iron still sits on a shelf in Jesser’s office. Olsen worked with RCA in Princeton before founding his own companies, Epitaxx in 1984 and Sensors Unlimited in 1991.
The family of singer Dave Matthews has contributed funds in honor of the late John Matthews, Dave Matthews’ father, who pursued post-doctoral research here with Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf.
Additional funding was provided by the state bond issue, the Engineering School and University. A National Science Foundation grant provided support for the Center for Nanoscopic Materials Design to be housed in the building.
Construction workers are currently moving underground utilities lines and plan to begin building in February 2004. Construction is expected to be finished in late fall 2005, with occupancy beginning in 2006.
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