2009 Sandy Magnus Visit/MSE Trivia Night Photo Gallery GO TO GALLERY (click on image to enlarge)

Student News

• Congratulations to the MSE senior design team on receiving the Third Prize Award of the 2009 Undergraduate Design Competition .  The team received $1,000 plus up to $500 travel assistance to the attend the MS&T ’09 in Pittsburgh, PA. The members included Adam Jakus, Celeste Mason, Neil Patel, Allison Sanders , and David Soracco
  (Z.L. Wang faculty advisor).
   
• Congratulations to the Fall 2009 recipients of the MSE President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) Awardees and their Mentors!

RECIPIENT MENTOR Nathan Evans Ken Gall Frank Jones Gleb Yushin Martha Lesniewski Ken Gall Taylor Ware Ken Gall

• Congratulations to the 1st Annual Graduate Symposium Awardees!
  Presentations:
       1st Min Kyu Song
       2nd Sehoon Chang
       3rd Kevin Chasse
  
  Posters:
       1st Kenneth Beyerlein
       2nd David Safranski
       3rd Chunqing Peng
  
  With Walter Voit as an honorable mention on both.
  
  The Graduate Symposium Committee consisted of Brad White, Lindsey Goodman, Jack Flicker, Walter Voit, and Ken Beyerlein, with Mo Li as the faculty advisor.
   
• MSE Umbrella Society Announcement
  The annual Pi Mile road race will be held this year on April 18, 2010.  Register to participate at http://gtalumni.org/pages/pimile. Materials Science and Engineering has a team, so when you register, make sure to register under the Materials Science Engineering team!  Also, register before April 8th, because prices will go up that day.
   
• Undergraduate student Kelsey Beaver was selected as a Beckman Undergraduate Scholar. 
   
• Paul Specht, Chris Wehrenberger and Kit Neel’s posters placed first, second and third, respectively, at the 2009 American Physical Society Topical Group Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter.
   
• Melanie Kirkham received a Graduate Student Poster Competition at the International Conference from Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials to Nanodevices and Nanosystems (IC4N).
   
• Adam Jakus received the Sigma Xi Best Undergraduate Research Award and 2009 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.   His poster "Pollenesian Serenity" (pictured above) won 1st place at the Spring 2009 MRS meeting in San Francisco.
   
• Yair Korenblit received two First Place awards at the 5th Annual Georgia Tech Graduate Technical Symposium:  Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Presentation Award.  Yair also won Best Oral Presentation Award at the Georgia Tech Graduate Research Symposium.
   
• ASM Poster Awards 2009 Awardees...
• Laura Cerully received the First Award Graduate Student Competition, Title: Production of Thin-Walled Steel Structures Through Gas Carburization of Fully Reduced Metal-Oxide Mixtures
   
• David Safranski received the Second Award Graduate Student Competition, Title:  Polymerization and Thermo -mechanical Properties of Degradable Poly(ß-amino esters) for Biomedical Applications
   
• Taylor Ware, Dustin Simon, Keith Hearon, Katie Sassaman received the First Award Undergraduate Student Competition ,  Title:  New Design and Materials for Customizable Oropharyngeal Airways
   
• Adam Jakus, Celeste Mason, Neil Patel, Allison Sanders, Alex Soracco received the Second Award Undergraduate Student Competition, Title:  Inorganic Templating of Pollen for use as Catalytic Material.  This poster also won 2nd place at the College of Engineering Undergraduate Symposium help on April 1, 2009.
   
• Congratulations to the following Student Honors Awardees...
• Samuel Britt, Outstanding Senior Award
• Grady Nunnery, Outstanding Teaching Assistant
• James Guthrie  Katherine,  Adam Kajdos,  William Mateker, Chapman/Pentecost Scholarship
• Katie Sassaman, Atlanta Chapter Undergraduate ASM International Award
• Lindsey Goodman, Atlanta Chapter Graduate ASM International Award
   
• The MSE Honor Society won at the Engineering Day Activities Fair held Feb. 19, 2009
   
• MSE Students Win “Best Display Table” at the 2009 National Engineering Week! On Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 several MSE undergraduate and graduate students participated in the 2009 National Engineering Week.  Display tables were set up along Skiles walkway showing off their majors through demonstrations and fun activities for those passing by. The tables were judged by chairs of several departments and the winning table/department received a cash prize. Last year was the first year MSE students participated in the event and won best table. We did it again this year!
  2009 E-Week Photo Gallery  |  2008 E-Week Photo Gallery.    (Contributed by Adam Jakus)
   
• Victor Kumsomboone won best poster in the MedTronic/ASM-Atlanta Poster competition held May 2008.
   
• Rodolfo Camacho-Aguilera was awarded the NSF Graduate Fellowship and the TMS Gilbert Chin Scholarship.  Rodolfo also received the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.
   
• Ricky Whelchel won the Bodycote competition. CLICK HERE for details.
   
• Adam Jakus was awarded a scholarship for the LeaderShape Institute for summer 2008.  The ASM Foundation will be sponsoring his attendance to the week long program.  Adam also received the ASM Materials Education Foundation Outstanding Scholar Award.  His poster, "Modeling and Simulation of the Impact Response of Unfilled Linear Cellular Alloys for Structural Energetic Material Applications," won best undergraduate poster in computational physics at the April APS meeting in St. Louis.
   
• Congratulations to David Mebane and his wife on the birth of Spencer William Mebane, born on September 21, 2007.
   
• Caterpillar will sponsor MSE $10,000 Scholarships
   
• Chuck Compson was selected for a NASA Tech Brief Award for the scientific and technical merits of the developed technology titled, “Method of Electrophoretic Deposition on Non-Conducting Substrates.”
   
• Mark Allen Tschopp, Jr. received the 2007 Luther Long Award which honors the memory of Dr. Luther Long, a former Ph.D. student in Engineering Science and Mechanics at Georgai Tech.
   
• Jiongxin Lu and C. P. Wong (Advisor) received the 57ECTC Best Student Paper Award for their paper titled, “Tailored Dielectric Properties of High-k Polymer Composites via Nanoparticle Surface Modification for Embedded Passives Applications.”
   
• Matt McDowell received the Henry Ford II Scholarship .  This scholarship is given to the outstanding rising senior in each engineering school.
   

• POLLEN DAWN Samuel Shian, MRS Meeting Second Place  Science as Art Competition

  Samuel Shian won second place in 'Science as Art' competition at 2007
  MRS Spring Meeting.  Click here for details.
  
• Neil Patel won a Presidents Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for Summer 2007. The title of his proposal is, “Dispersion and Tailored Dielectric Properties of High-k Polymer Composites via Nanoparticle Surface Modification for Embedded Capacitor Applications.”
   
• Stefanie Asher received the Women’s Resource Center Annual “Make  A Difference” Award.
• David Mebane received an International Research Fellowship from NSF.  After completing his Ph.D. in December 2007 he will be moving to Germany.  The objective of the International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP) is to introduce scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers to international collaborative research opportunities, thereby furthering their research capacity and global perspective and forging long-term relationships with scientists, technologists and engineers abroad.
   
• MSE Student Awards Ceremony and Picnic 2007and PHOTO GALLERY
   
• David Safranski received the Outstanding Senior Award ‘07 – This award is presented to the outstanding senior in the materials science and engineering program wit the highest overall grade point average.
   
• Charles Compson received Outstanding Teaching Assistant (TA) ‘07 – This award is presented to the most outstanding TA, nominated by MSE students, in the School of Materials Science and Engineering.
   
• Samuel Britt received the Chapman/Pentecost Scholarship ‘07 – This scholarship is presented to a junior Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate student who has demonstrated outstanding scholarship.
   
• Erin Camponeschi received the Atlanta Chapter of the ASM International Awards (Graduate) ‘07 – This award is presented to a graduate student in the School of Materials Science and Engineering by the Atlanta Chapter of the ASM International for academic achievement and service to the local student and Atlanta chapters of ASM.
   
• Arsalan Siddiqi received the ASM Undergraduate Award ‘07 – This award is presented to one undergraduate student in MSE by the Atlanta chapter of the ASM International for academic achievements and service to the local student and Atlanta chapters of ASM.
   
• Congratulations to Rodolfo Camacho-Aguilera on receiving Honorable Mention for Goldwater Scholarship .
   
• Congratulations to Jenny Ruth Morber, recipient of a 2007 Georgia Tech Women's Forum (GTWF) Scholarship.
   
• Rodolfo E. Camacho-Aguilera was awarded the ACS scholarship.  He also received the Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division Scholar Award.  He was selected based on outstanding academic accomplishments and leadership.  Rodolfo received this award at the TMS 2007 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
   
• 2006 MSE Student Awards Ceremony Photo Gallery
   
• Rick Neu and Dave McDowell along with two former Ph.D. students, Mahesh Shenoy and Ali Gordon were presented the 2006 ASME Orr Best Paper Award for the paper:  "Thermomechanical Fatigue Behavior of a Directionally Solidified Ni-base Superalloy," Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Vol. 127, July 2005, pp. 325-336.  The award is sponsored by the Materials Division of ASME.  The editors of the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology identified the paper as the best fatigue and fracture paper to appear in the journal within the twelve-month period July 2005 through June 2006.
   
• Soon Gi has just won his third Best Paper award (the past 2 were from TMS) this time from SAIC.
   
• Jenny Ruth Morber has also won an SAIC best paper award this year.
   
• Shelby Highsmith, Jr. won the STM Committee E08 and Fatigue and Fracture Student Presentation Competition on Nov. 15th.  His talk was titled "New specimen designs for 3-D mixed-mode crack growth testing.”
   
• Soon Gi Lee received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2006 Magnesium Technology Symposium, TMS Annual Meeting March 2006.  The paper dealt with new theory for formation of gas induced shrinkage porosity in Magnesium diecastings.
   
• Lauren Halford, wins Novice Talent in the Miss Georgia Pagent and chosen a top ten pagent finalist.  Lauren  plans to continue her platform of Empowering Young Women in Science and Technology and will be working with Lockheed on the Aviation Museum they are working on building in the near future.
• Congratulations to Katie Sassaman , recipient of the 2006 ASM Materials Education Foundation annual Edward J. Dulis Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to an outstanding undergraduate student at the junior or senior level who demonstrates exemplary academic and personal achievements, and interest and potential in metallurgy or materials science and engineering.

• Prystaj Dive Meet Photos MSE Student Awards Banquet 2005

  Laurissa Prystaj, an MSE senior, led the Yellow Jacket Dive Team to a second-place finish at the Georgia Tech Invitational on November 22, 2005 in the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. She tallied a pair of second-place finishes on the one- and three-meter springboards with NCAA Zone qualifying and school record marks. On Friday night, Prystaj posted a Tech record score of 305.95 on the one-meter and set a new school mark on the three-meter board Saturday night with a tally of 351.60. She was also named Georgia Tech Student-Athlete of the Week for Monday, November 21, 2005.  Click here for more details.
• MSE First Annual Student Awards Banquet 2005 (Click here for details.)
• Mark Oliver received the 2005 Phi Kappa Phi award, Tech's highest academic honor, awarded annually to the graduating (graduated) senior with the most outstanding academic record.
• Erik Koep was selected for an Office of Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program.
• Schenck Wiley was selected as a recipient of the prestigious Henry Ford II Scholar Award for 2005.  This award is given to the engineering student with the best academic record at the end of the third year of study.
• Sidhartha Gupta received the Chapman-Pentecost award given to the top MSE junior.
• Eric Nelson won the ASM International (Atlanta Chapter) Undergraduate Award.
• Matthew Kane received the MRS Graduate Student Silver Award. This award honors students of exceptional ability who display a high level of excellence and who show promise for significant future achievements in materials research. 

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