MSE Second Annual
Student Awards Ceremony 2006

The Second Annual Student Awards Ceremony  was held this year on April 6, 2006 in the MaRC Auditorium.  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  Advanced Publication Award, Research Initiation Award, and Outstanding Thesis Award.  Also special congratulations went out to our 2006 Spring Graduates.

MSE Undergraduate Scholarship Awards

Zachary Baker E. J. Grassman Scholarship Charles Ballowe E. J. Grassman Scholarship Stuwart Chen E. J. Grassman Scholarship Peter Cook Jo M. Teague Scholarship Joseph Crawford E. J. Grassman Scholarship Phillip Draa E. J. Grassman Scholarship Mario Flores Caterpillar Scholarship Sidhartha Gupta Jo M. Teague Scholarship Lauren Halford E. J. Grassman Scholarship Stan Hill Jo. M Teague Scholarship Ross Hinson E. J. Grassman Scholarship

Jeffrey Jasmin Jo M. Teague Scholarship Stephanie Johnson Caterpillar Scholarship Melody Lin MSE Scholarship David Lorang Boeing Scholarship David Lu Caterpillar Scholarship Theresa Mara Caterpillar Scholarship Justin Oh Jo M. Teague Scholarship James Painter E. J. Grassman Scholarship Carol Pavlak Boeing Scholarship Nicholas Philips MSE Scholarship Laurissa Prystaj Athletic Scholarship   Caterpillar Scholarship

Kevin Rodkey Boeing Scholarship David Safranski Jo M. Teague Scholarship Zachary Segraves Boeing Scholarship Kathleen Silver Alcoa Scholarship Jo M. Teague Scholarship Matthew Stigall Athletic Scholarship Jo M. Teague Scholarship Sean Teague E. J. Grassman Scholarship Gregg Vanlaningham Jo M. Teague Scholarship Andrew Whitman Jo M. Teague Scholarship Charles Schenck Wiley Caterpillar Scholarship

Special Undergraduate Awards

Charles Schenck Wiley
Outstanding Senior Award

Sidhartha Gupta
Sigma Xi Best Undergraduate Research Award

Simon Dunham
Atlanta Chapter of the ASM International Award

Stanley Davis
Chapman/Pentecost Scholarship

Ross Mackowski
Jerry Wilson Scholarship
 

MSE Graduate Fellowships

Phillip Graham President’s Fellowship James Joel Harris Boeing Fellowship Matthew Kane President’s Fellowship NSF Fellowship Melanie Kirkham President’s Fellowship Scott Lieberman President’s Fellowship Morgana Martin Boeing Fellowship Tammy McCoy FACES Fellowship David Mebane Boeing Fellowship Daniel Moore Sam Nunn Security Fellowship

Jenny Ruth Morber Boeing Fellowship Lawrence Pranger Boeing Fellowship Christopher Tison Boeing Fellowship GAANN-CHE Fellowship Mark Tschopp President’s Fellowship NSF Fellowship Garritt Tucker EAB Fellowship Material Science Fellow Lionel Vargas John T. Corcia Fellowship Greg Vialle Boeing Fellowship Robert Williams President’s Fellowship NSF Fellowship FACES Fellowship

Special Graduate Awards

Davy Gaillot
Outstanding Teaching Assistant

Scott Lieberman
Atlanta Chapter of the ASM International 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.

Matthew Dickerson, Co-author, “Rapid, Room-Temperature Formation of Crystalline Calcium Molybdate Phosphor Microparticles via Peptide-Induced Precipitation,” Advanced Materials, 2005. Ken Sandhage, Advisor

Puxian Gao, Lead Author, “Conversion of Zinc Oxide Nanobelts into Superlattice-Structured Nanohelices,” Science Magazine, September 9, 2005, Vol. 309.

Lead Author, “Crystallographic Orientation-Aligned ZnO Nanorods Grown by a Tin Catalyst,” Nano Letters, July 30, 2005, Vol. 3, No. 9, 1315-1320.

Co-author, “Measuring the Work Function at a Nanobelt Tip and at a Nanoparticale Surface,” Nano Letters, June 11, 2005, Vol. 3, No. 8, 1147-1150.

Co-author, “ZnO Nanobelt/Nanowire Schottky Diodes Formed by Dielectrophoresis Alignment across Au Electrodes,” Nano Letters, December 21, 2005, Vol. 6, No. 2, 263-266.  Z. L. Wang, Advisor

Davy Gaillot, Co-author, “Conformally Back-Filled, Non-Close-Packed Inverse Opal Photonic Crystals,” Advanced Materials, November 4, 2005.  Chris Summers, Advisor

Changshi Lao, Lead Author, “ZnO Nanobelt/Nanowire Schottky Diodes Formed by Dielectrophoresis Alignment Across Au Electrodes,” Nano Letters, December 21, 2005, Vol. 6, No. 2, 263-266.

Co-author, “Large-Size Liftable Inverted-Nanobowl Sheets as Reusable Masks for Nanolithiography,” Nano Letters, August 4, 2005, Vol. 5, No. 9, 1784-1788.

Co-author, “Conversion of Zinc Oxide Nanobelts into Superlattice-Structured Nanohelices,” Science Magazine, September 9, 2005, Vol. 309.  Z. L. Wang, Advisor

Yi Li, Lead Author, Recent Advances of Conductive Adhesives as a Lead-Free Alternative in Electronic Packaging: Materials, Processing, Reliability and Applications,” Science Direct, MSR 324, 1-35.  C. P. Wong, Advisor

Jin Liu, Co-author, “ZnO Nanobelt/Nanowire Schottky Diodes Formed by Dielectrophoresis Alignment Across Au Electrodes ,” Nano Letters, December 21, 2005, Vol. 6., No. 2, 263-266. Z. L. Wang and Rao Tummala, Advisors

Chris Ma, Lead Author, “Road Map for the Controlled Synthesis of CdSe Nanowires, Nanobelts, and Nanosaws-A Step Towards Nanomanufacturing,” Advanced Materials, 2005, Vol. 17, No. 1-7.  Z. L. Wang, Advisor

Wenjie Mai, Co-author, “Conversion of Zinc Oxide Nanobelts into Superlattice-Structured Nanohelices,” Science Magazine, September 9, 2005, Vol. 309. Z. L. Wang, Advisor

Curtis Neff, Co-author, “Photonic Crystals Fabricated Using Patterned Nanorod Arrays,” Advanced Materials, 2005, Vol. 17, No. 2103-2106. Chris Summers, Advisor

Larry Pranger, Co-author, “Photonic Crystals Fabricated Using Patterned Nanorod Arrays,” Advanced Materials, 2005, Vol. 17, No. 2103-2106. Rina Tannenbaum, Advisor

Jinhui Song, Lead Author, “Elastic Property of Vertically Aligned Nanowires,” Nano Letters, August 22, 2005, Vol. 5, No. 10, 1954-1958. Z. L. Wang, Advisor

Yangyang Sun, Co-author, “Well-Aligned Open-Ended Carbon Nanotube Architectures: An Approach for Device Assembly,” Nano Letters, December 6, 2005, Vol. 6, No. 2, 243-247.  C. P. Wong, Advisor

Xudong Wang, Lead Author, “Large-Size Liftable Inverted-Nanobowl Sheets as Reusable Masks for Nanolithiography,” Nano Letters, August 14, 2005, Vol. 5, No. 9, 1784-1788.

Lead Author, “Photonic Crystals Fabricated Using Patterned Nanorod Arrays,” Advanced Materials, 2005, Vol. 17, 2103-2106.

Co-author, “Elastic Property of Vertically Aligned Nanowires,” Nano Letters, August 22, 2005, Vol. 5, No. 10, 1954-1958.

Co-author, “Morphology-tuned Wurtzite-type ZnS Nanobelts,” Nature Materials, December 2005, Vol. 4.  Chris Summers and Z. L. Wang, Advisors

Yonghao Xiu, Co-Author, “Aligned Carbon Nanotube Stacks by Water-Assisted Selective Etching,” Nano Letters, October 20, 2005, Vol. 5, No. 12, 2641-2645. C. P. Wong, Advisor

Lingbo Zhu, Lead Author, “Aligned Carbon Nanotube Stacks by Water-Assisted Selective Etching,” Nano Letters, October 20, 2005, Vol. 5, No. 12, 2641-2645.

Lead Author, “Well-Aligned Open-Ended Carbon Nanotube Architectures: An Approach for Device Assembly,” Nano Letters, December 6, 2005, Vol. 6, No. 2, 243-247.  C. P. Wong, 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.

Hongjin Jiang, Lead Author, “Variable Frequency Microwave Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles,” Journal of Nanoparticle Research, June 20, 2005, No. 1-8.

Lead Author, “Conductivity Enhancement of Nano Silver-Filled Conductive Adhesives by Particle Surface Functionalization,” Journal of Electronic Materials, June 27, 2005, Vol. 34, No. 11. C. P. Wong, Advisor

Changshi Lao, Lead Author, “Formation of Double-Side Teethed Nanocombs of ZnO and Self-catalysis of Zn-terminated Polar Surface,” Chemical Physics Letters, May 5, 2005, No. 408, 174-178.

Co-Author, “Three Dimensional Interconnected Nanowire Networks of ZnO,” Chemical Physics Letters, November 2, 2005, No. 417, 359-363.  Z L. Wang, Advisor

Jiongxin Lu, Co-author, “Conductivity Enhancement of Nano Silver-Filled Conductive Adhesives by Particle Surface Functionalization,” Journal of Electronic Materials, June 27, 2005, Vol. 34, No. 11. C. P. Wong, Advisor

Jinhui Song, Lead Author, “Systematic Study on Experimental Conditions for Large-Scale Growth of Aligned ZnO Nanowires on Nitrides,” Nano Letters, April 16, 2005, Vol. 109, 9869-9872.

Lead Author, “Growth of Uniformly Aligned ZnO Nanowire Heterojunction Arrays on GaN, AIN, and Al0.5Ga0.5N Substrates,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 7, 2005, Vol. 127, 7920-7923. Z. L. Wang, Advisor

Arun Sreeranganathan, Co-author, “Variability in the Tensile Ductility of High-Pressure Die-Cast AM50 Mg-Alloy,” Science Direct, Scripta Materialia, 2005, Vol. 53, 851-856.  Arun Gokhale, 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.

Puxian Gao, Ph.D. Thesis, “Piezoelectric Nanostructures of ZnO:  Synthesis, Characterization and Biomedical Application”
Z. L. Wang, Advisor

Joel Harris, M.S. Thesis, “Particle Cracking Damage Evolution in 7075 Wrought Aluminum Alloy Under Montonic and Cyclic Loading Conditions”  Arun Gokhale, Advisor

SPRING GRADUATES 2006

Senior Recognition

• Peter Cook
• Nicholas Danna
• Craig Durkin
• William Florkowski
• Sidhartha Gupta
• Stan Hill
• David Hohman
• James Hutchins
• Mariam Mathew
• Virat Mehta
• Ryan Peterson
• Rachel Rose
• Kathleen Silver
• Sunil Smith
• Charles Schenck Wiley

Graduate Student Recognition

Ph.D.

• Erik Koep
• Yajun Liu
• Ghazal P. Saheli
• Raymond Oh
• Chendong Zou

M.S.

Hua (Harry) Hu

Graduating 4.0 GPA

Charles Schenck Wiley, Undergraduate

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