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Major EMSE EMSE Major EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE EMSE	Dean's List Spring 2008 4.0 Students Ball, Joshua B Zevalkink, Alexandra 3.50-3.99 Students Becker, Katherine M Bell, Wayne M Brooks, Kenneth F Clark, Justin T Durham, Emily M Edick, Jacob D Hafeli, Andrew K Haycock, Meghan M Hintsala, Eric D Hodges, Andrew J Hoffman, Daniel R Johnson, Nicholas D Kaufman, Joseph S Klittich, Mena R Lange, Gretchen L Magaluk, Travis W Martin, James J Rinke, Karl R Schafer, Kyle P Sedar, Leanne M Snyder, Collin C Swanborg, Carolyn L Taylor, Lance P Toll, Ryan M Wilkie, Nathan E Young, Daniel S
	New Funding: Moran Tech Today, August 25, 2008
	Proposals in Progress: Moran, Kampe Tech Today, August 22, 2008
	Building a Better Helmet MSE undergraduate majors Wayne Bell and Nikki Long were interviewed about an interdisciplinary project involving design and engineering of protective "biomorphic" helmets. Tech Today, July 22, 2008
	Proposals in Progress: Hwang, Drelich, Hu, Huang Tech Today, July 21, 2008
	Proposals in Progress: Huang, Hwang, Plichta, Drelich, Hu Tech Today, July 17, 2008
	Jong Lee Recognized for 35 Years of Service to Michigan Tech Tech Today, June 11, 2008 Faculty and staff were recognized for their service in an awards dinner held on May 21, 2008. Dr. Lee is Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering.
	Proposals in Progress: Hu Tech Today, May 14, 2008
	Proposals in Progress: Hu Tech Today, May 12, 2008
	2008 Research Excellence Awards The Office of the Vice President for Research has announced recipients of the 2008 Research Excellence Fund Awards, which total $457,476. Assistant Professor Yung Hang Hu of Materials Science and Engineering was awarded a $39,000 Research Seed Award for his research entitled "Initiative Research on High Reversible Hydrogen Capacity for Hydrogen Storage at Room Temperature."
	2008 Undergraduate Expo Third Place, $75 "Weldment to Casting Conversion for a Semi-Trailer Sand Shoe" Materials Science and Engineering Advisor, Mark Plichta Sponsor, Brian Schulz, Quality and Metallurgy Manager at ThyssenKrupp Team Members: Leanne Sedar, Jarrod Cunnings, Greg Ross, Materials Science & Engineering; Josh Marion, Mechanical Engineering Technology See Also: Senior Design Projects 2007-08
	2008 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Named Rebekah Price (Materials Science and Engineering), "Novel Metal Perhydride for Hydrogen Storage" has received a SURF award, with advisor Jim Hwang (Professor, Materials Science and Engineering). The fellowships, funded by the vice president for research, provide up to $3,000 to support the recipient's summer research work with a faculty mentor. Tech Today, April 8, 2008
	Tech Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Two Michigan Tech students have been awarded $40,500 each in research funding through the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). One student, Alexandra Zevalkink, plans to use the funds to attend graduate school at Michigan Tech. Zevalkink is an undergraduate in materials science and engineering. READ MORE Tech Today, April 7, 2008
	Four Michigan Tech Graduate Engineering Programs Rank in Top 50 U.S.News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools 2009" has ranked four Michigan Tech graduate programs among the best in the country. The programs include Materials Science and Engineering (41th)... Michigan Tech News, March 28, 2008 Tech makes national engineering rankings Daily Mining Gazette, April 1, 2008 Department Chair Mark Plichta responds to the ranking... Great Lakes IT Report, WWJ Newsradio 950, April 1, 2008 Tech programs in Top 50 US News and World Report publishes the rankings. WLUC TV6, March 31, 2008
	Krishna Poster Takes First Place MSE graduate student Lakshmi Krishna's research poster took First Place in the Graduate Student Council (GSC) Poster Session held on March 25-26, 2008. The poster was entitled "PMN-PT epitaxy on R-plane sapphire substrates". Krishna's research advisor is Dr. Moran. Also presenting a poster from MSE was Alex Zevalkink, "Mechanical Alloying of PbTe based Thermoelectric Materials". Lakshmi also presented during the GSC Research Colloquium, as well as Dan Seguin, "Demonstration of epitaxial Fe0.8Ga0.2 films on single-crystal Pb[Mg1/3Nb2/3]0.69[PbTiO3]0.31 substrates".
	X-Ray Paper Selected for Dedicated Issue A manuscript submitted by staff engineer and scientist Edward A. Laitila is not only to be published in the Denver X-Ray Conference proceedings, but has also been selected as one of the papers to which an issue of Powder Diffraction will be dedicated. The paper "Employing X-Ray Scattering to Characterize Materials with Grain Sizes in the Nano-Regime" will be published in the June 2008 issue of Powder Diffraction.
	Alumnus Elected to National Academy of Engineering Tech Today, March 3, 2008 Bhakta Rath, who earned a BS in Metallurgy from Michigan Tech in 1958, has been named to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the academy honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice and education, and for pioneering new or developing fields of technology. READ MORE “Bhakta B. Rath, head of Materials Science and Component Technology Directorate and associate director of research, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. For leadership in advancing materials research and technology to support national security.”
	Proposals in Progress: Hu, Levy Tech Today, February 19, 2008
	Proposals in Progress: Drelich, White, Hu Tech Today, January 17, 2008
	Mills Attends Geophysical Conference Materials Characterization & Fabrication Facilities director Owen P. Mills presented a poster entitled "Comparison of 3D Stereo SEM Shape Data With 2D Projections and BET Surface Area Data for Volcanic Ash: When 3D Might Be Advantageous" at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held 10-14 December 2007 in San Francisco, CA.
	Proposals in Progress: Drelich, Hwang, Hu Tech Today, January 4, 2008
	MTU commencement held Daily Mining Gazette, December 17, 2007 "Commencement speaker Bhakta Rath [see below], a native of India and MTU class of 1958 graduate in metallurgy, told graduates to remain focused on their dreams, no matter how outlandish they may be." READ THE SPEECH
	MTU Alumni Spotlight: Bob Carnahan Michigan Tech Lode, December 12, 2007 Robert “Bob” Carnahan is a1953 graduate of the metallurgy program at Michigan Tech. MSE Alumni Profiles \| Alumni Photos
	Michigan Tech to Honor Three Alumni at Midyear Commencement Michigan Tech News, December 6, 2007 Bhakta B. Rath, a 1958 graduate of Michigan Tech, will deliver the commencement address at Midyear Commencement Friday, Dec. 15. Dr. Rath has received a number of honors and awards, including Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive Award (1999), the Distinguished Award for outstanding contributions to basic and applied research in materials science (1996), and many more. MSE Alumni News
	Ruth Kramer Receives the MTU Creating Connections Award Tech Today, December 7, 2007 Ruth Kramer was one of the staff receiving "Staff Making a Difference" Awards for 2007. The award ceremony will be held on December 12. Ruth was nominated for this award for establishing strong connections with several academy and advisory board members, promoting the department and Michigan Tech, leading recruitment efforts, advising undergraduates, creating the alumni newsletter, and organizing field trips for local high schools.
	Proposals in Progress: Drelich, White, Hu Tech Today, November 1, 2007
	New Faculty: Yun Hang Hu Tech Today, October 20, 2007 Yun Hang Hu joins us as an assistant professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His past research experience includes nanomaterials, hydrogen storage materials, computational nanosciences, catalyst materials for on-board gasoline reforming to hydrogen for fuel-cell vehicles and advanced materials for on-board sulfur removal for fuel-cell vehicles.
	In Print : Hackney Tech Today, October 11, 2007
	Laitila Attends X-Ray Conference Staff engineer and scientist Edward A. Laitila presented a talk entitled "Employing X-Ray Scattering to Characterize Materials with Grain Sizes in the Nano-Regime" at the Denver X-ray Conference (DXC) held July 30 - August 3, 2007. A paper was submitted and will be published in the proceedings titled Advances in X-ray Analysis. August 29, 2007 \| Tech Today, September 12, 2007
	Proposals in Progress: Levy, Jaszczak Tech Today, August 6, 2007
DOD SMART Website	Graduate Student Awarded SMART Scholarship (Swanson) Tech Today, July 31, 2007
	Proposals in Progress: Huang, Hwang Tech Today, July 9, 2007
	Levy Receives Michigan Tech Research Award Tech Today, June 26, 2007 Miguel Levy, who investigates that most ephemeral of substances, light, is the winner of Michigan Tech’s 2007 Research Award. MTU Research Award \| Levy Website
	Proposals in Progress: Xu, Hwang, Moran, Hein, Huang Tech Today, June 15, 2007
	In Print : Hackney Tech Today, May 29, 2007
	Proposals in Progress: Drelich and White Tech Today, May 4, 2007
	Proposals in Progress: Clupper Tech Today, May 1, 2007
	2007 Undergraduate Expo Second Place, $100 Team 151, "Ford Bearing Cap Project" Materials Science and Engineering Advisor, Mark Plichta Sponsor, Ford Motor Company Team Members: Wade Provoast, Kyle Peterson, Andrew Brouwers and Julie Emerick
	2007 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Named (Alexandra Zevalkink) Tech Today, February 28, 2007
	Brain freeze: Students learn science of ice cream, Velcro (Laitila) Daily Mining Gazette , February 27, 2007
	New Funding: Moran Tech Today, February 23, 2007
	Proposals in Progress: Hackney, Moran, Orlovskaya, Levy, Milligan Tech Today, January 31, 2007
	Swenson Publishes Invited Review Paper Tech Today, January 18, 2007