M SE First Annual Student Awards Ceremony 2005

The First Annual Student Awards Ceremony was held this year on April 26, 2005.  We celebrated the accomplishments and outstanding academic achievements of our student body.  Undergraduate scholarships and awards, graduate fellowships and awards were presented, along with the three new  Awards: The  Advanced Publication Award, Research Initiation Award, and Outstanding Thesis Award.  A special recognition was given also in honor of Dr. Kenneth Sandhage on receiving the B. Mifflin Hood Professorship.

MSE Undergraduate Scholarship Awards

Zachary Baker E. J. Grassman Scholarship Charles Ballowe E. J. Grassman Scholarship Samuel Britt Birmingham AL_GT Scholarship GT Club Matching Scholarship Harold Couch President’s Scholarship National Merit Scholarship Vardaan Chawla Jo M. Teague Scholarship Stuwart Chen E. J. Grassman Scholarship Peter Cook Jo M. Teague Scholarship James Coughlin Clifford A. Cowles Scholarship Cravey, Green, Wahlen Scholarship Jo M. Teague Scholarship Richard Whitehead Scholarship Sidney Goldin Scholarship Joseph Crawford E. J. Grassman Scholarship Phillip Draa E. J. Grassman Scholarship Mario Flores Caterpillar Scholarship Goizueta Foundation Scholarship

Sidhartha Gupta Jo M. Teague Scholarship Lauren Halford E. J. Grassman Scholarship Mark Oliver Class of 1951 President’s Scholarship Goldwater Scholarship James Painter Deans’ Scholarship E. J. Grassman Scholarship George Woodruff Scholarship Lockheed-Martin Scholarship National Merit Corp. Carol Pavlak Boeing Scholarship Jonathan Peak Mark E. Floer Scholarship  Laurissa Prystaj Athletic Scholarship-Diving Caterpillar Scholarship Kevin Rodkey Boeing Scholarship David Safranski Jo M. Teague Scholarship Katie Sassaman Rolls-Royce Scholarship

Zachary Segraves Boeing Scholarship Kathleen Silver Alcoa Scholarship Jo M. Teague Scholarship Matthew Stigall Athletic Scholarship   Jo M. Teague Scholarship Daniel Sweat National Merit Sponsor Sean Teague E. J. Grassman Scholarship GT Club Matching Scholarship Northern CA_GT Club Scholarship Gregg Vanlaningham Jo M. Teague Scholarship Ricky Whelchel F & D Birkett Scholarship Harold Whitaker Jo M. Teague Scholarship Andrew Whitman Jo M. Teague Scholarship National Merit Sponsor Schenck Wiley Caterpillar Scholarship President’s Scholarship

Special Undergraduate Awards

Sidhartha Gupta
Allan T. Chapman & Joseph Pentecost
Memorial Scholarship Award

Erik Nelson
Atlanta Chapter of the ASM International Award

Mark Oliver
Outstanding Senior Award
Phi Kappa Phi Award

Schenck Wiley
Henry Ford II Scholar Award

MSE Graduate Fellowships

Harry Abernathy NSF Fellowship President’s Fellowship Shawn Allan Boeing Fellowship Stefanie Asher Boeing Fellowship Bryan Baker President’s Fellowship Bryan Bell NSF IGERT Fellowship John Bennett GAANN-CHE Fellowship Charlie Capozzi GAANN-Polymers Fellowship

Daniel Eakins Christopher Sanders Fellowship Kip Findley President’s Fellowship Phillip Graham President’s Fellowship James Harris Boeing Fellowship William Hughes External Advisory Board Fellowship Materials Science Fellowship NSF STEP Fellowship Joy Justice William R. Hearst Fellowship Matthew Kane ASEE Fellowship President’s Fellowship

Scott Lieberman President’s Fellowship Helene Rick Boeing Fellowship Heather Sharpe President’s Fellowship Mark Tschopp NSF Fellow President’s Fellowship Robert Williams FACES Fellowship NSF Fellowship   President’s Fellowship Jianwen Xu Applied Materials Fellowship Tsuyoshi Yamashita President’s Fellowship

Special Graduate Awards

Kip Findley
Outstanding Teaching Assistant

Scott Lieberman
Atlanta Chapter of the ASM International Award

Mark Tschopp
First Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium Award
Auxiliary Services Impact Award
 

PUBLICATION AWARDS

Advanced Publication Award

The Advanced Publication Award is presented to Georgia Tech MSE graduate students who have authored or co-authored a paper in a peer-reviewed journal with an impact factor greater than seven. These papers are based on work conducted at Georgia Tech.

Puxian Gao, Co-author, “Rectangular Porous ZnO-ZnS Nanocables and ZnS Nanotubes,” Advanced Materials Dec. 3, 2002, 14, No. 23, Z. L. Wang, Advisor.

Co-author, “Single-Crystal Hexagonal Disks and Rings of Zn-O: Low-Temperature, Large-Scale Synthesis & Growth Mechanism,” Angewandte Chem. 2004, 116, 5350-5354, Z. L. Wang, Advisor.

Yi Li, Lead Author, “Electronics Without Lead,” Science Galley, April 4, 2005,
C. P. Wong, Advisor.

Ying Liu, Lead Author, “Well-Aligned “Nano-Box-Beams” of SnO2,” Advanced Materials February 17, 2004, 16, No. 4, Meilin Liu, Advisor.

Lead Author, “Novel Nanostructured Electrodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Fabricated by Combustion Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD),” Advanced Materials February 3, 2004, 16, No. 3, Meilin Liu, Advisor.

Christopher Ma, Lead Author, “Nanobelts, Nanocombs, and Nanowindmills of Wurtzite ZnS,” Advanced Materials February 5 , 2003, 15, No. 3, Z L. Wang, Advisor.

Daniel Moore, Co-author, “Nanobelts, Nanocombs, and Nanowindmills of Wurtzite ZnS,” Advanced Materials February 5, 2003, 15, No. 3, Z L. Wang, Advisor.

Xudong Wang, Lead Author, “Mesoporous Single-Crystal ZnO Nanowires Exitaxially Sheathed with Zn2SiO4,” Advanced Materials July 19, 2004, 16, No. 14, Z L. Wang, Advisor.

Lead Author, “Rectangular Porous ZnO-ZnS Nanocables and ZnS Nanotubes,” Advanced Materials Dec. 3, 2002, 14, No. 23, Z L. Wang, Advisor.

Rusen Yang, Co-author, “Single-Crystal Nanorings Formed by Epitaxial Self-Coiling of Polar Nanobelts,” Science Magazine February 27, 2004, Volume 303,
Z. L. Wang, Advisor.

Yuelan Zhang, Lead Author, “Dual-Scale Porous Electrodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells from Polymer Foams,” Advanced Materials 2005, 17, No. 4, Meilin Liu, Advisor.
 

Research Initiation Award

The Research Initiation Award is presented to Georgia Tech MSE graduate students who have authored or co-authored a peer -reviewed journal paper. These papers are based on work conducted at Georgia Tech. This award may be won once as the lead author and once as a co-author. In each case, the papers were accepted for publication or in print within 18 months of the start of the student as a graduate student in MSE at Georgia Tech.

Shawn Allan, Co-author, “Sol-gel Synthesis on Self-Replicating Single-cell Scaffolds: Applying Complex Chemistries to Nature’s 3-D Nanostructured Templates,” Chemical Communications 651-653, 2005, Ken Sandhage, Advisor.

Matthew Dickerson, Lead Author, “Ceramic Nanoparticle Assemblies with Tailored Shapes and Tailored Chemistries via Biosculpting and Shape-Preserving Inorganic Conversion,” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Volume 5–63-67, 2005, Ken Sandhage, Advisor.

Christopher Gaddis, Lead Author, “Freestanding Microscale 3-D Polymeric Structures with Biologically-Derived Shapes and Nanoscale Features,” Journal of Materials Research, Sept. 2004, Ken Sandhage and Valeria Milam, Advisors.

Puxian Gao, Co-author, “Measuring the Work Function at a Nanobelt Tip and at a Nanoparticle Surface,” Nano Letters, Volume 3 No 8 1147-1150, 2003, Z. L. Wang, Advisor.

Yi Li, Lead Author, “Adherence of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold and Their Effects for High-Performance Anisotropic Conductive Adhesives,” Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 34. No. 3, 2005, C. P. Wong, Advisor.

Co-author, “Development of a Novel Polymer-Metal Nanocomposite Obtained Through the Route of In Situ Reduction for Integral Capacitor Application,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 93, 1531-1538 2004, C. P. Wong, Advisor.

Michael Weatherspoon, Lead Author, “Sol-gel Synthesis on Self-Replicating Single-cell Scaffolds: Applying Complex Chemistries to Nature’s 3-D Nanostructured Templates,” Chemical Communications, 651-653, 2005, Ken Sandhage, Advisor.

Yuelan Zhang, Co-author, “Composite Cathode Based on Yttria Stabilized Bismuth Oxide for Low-Temperature Solid Fuel Cells,” Applied Physics Letters, Volume 82, No. 6, Meilin Liu, Advisor.
 

Outstanding Thesis Award

Each year all eligible M.S. and Ph.D. theses are reviewed for submission to the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Graduate Student Thesis Research competition. The theses chosen for Sigma Xi submission receive the MSE Outstanding Thesis Award.

Zhe Cheng, M.S. Thesis, “Reaction Kinetics and Structural Evolution for the Formation of Nanocrystalline SiC via Carbothermal Reduction,” Michael Sacks, Advisor.

David Mebane, M.S. Thesis, “Electrical Behavior of Anisotropic Silicon Carbide Whisker/Alumina Composites,” Rosario Gerhardt, Advisor.

Benjamin Church, Ph.D. Thesis, “Fabrication and Characterization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Interconnect Alloys,” Tom Sanders, Jr., Advisor.

Jeffrey King, Ph.D. Thesis, “Fabrication of Opal-based Photonic Crystals Using Atomic Layer Deposition,” Christopher Summers, Advisor.

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