T
he mission of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
is to produce B.S./M.S./Ph.D. graduates who can excel in leadership
positions in industry and academia at national and international levels.
Facts at a Glance
Tenure-Track Faculty FTE
Auxiliary Faculty FTE
11
10
Three MSE Doctoral Graduates Find Academic Positions
14
Spanier Receives Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers
15
Drexel MSE Number One in the Nation in
NSF Graduate Fellowships in Materials
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Undergraduate Students
93
Graduate Students
81
Ph.D. Awarded (07-08)
12
M.S. Awarded (07-08)
12
B.S. Awarded (07-08)
10
New Research Awards
$6.9M
Research Expenditures
$4.1M
Refereed Journal Publications
98
Nat’l and Internat’l Awards Won
36
Drexels Materials Science and
Engineering Listed Among Top
Ten MSE Programs Nationwide
In January 2007, The Chronicle of Higher Education announced that Drexel Universitys doctoral program in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) is rated among the top
ten MSE programs nationwide, according to the 2006 Faculty
Scholarly Productivity Index, a research initiative partly funded by The State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook
and produced by Academic Analytics. Academic Analytics, a
for-profit company, rates faculty members’ scholarly output
at nearly 7,300 doctoral programs around the country. The
company examines the number of book and journal articles
published by each program’s faculty, as well as journal citations, awards, honors, and grants received. For more information about the 2006 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index,
visit http://www.materials.drexel.edu/topten/.
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2007-2008 Highlights
read the complete annual report online at
Dr. Gwénaëlle Proust (advisor: Surya Kalidindi), Dr. Davide Mattia (advisor: Yury Gogotsi),
and Dr. Matthew Cathell (advisor: Caroline Schauer), three alumni of MSE, have been appointed
to faculty positions this year.
MSE Professor Jonathan E. Spanier was honored at a White House ceremony with President
Bush on Thursday, November 1 as one of 58 researchers to receive a Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation’s highest honor for professionals at the
outset of their independent research careers.
BS/MS student Holly McIlwee (advisor: Caroline Schauer), Ph.D. student in MEM and former MS student in MSE Alex Moseson (advisor: Michel Barsoum), and Ph.D. student Stephen
Niezgoda (advisor: Surya Kalidindi) are recipients of the National Science Foundation Graduate
Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP).
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Drexel-France Collaboration Produces
Groundbreaking Results on Supercapacitors
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Celebrating the Career of Dr. Roger Doherty
A group of researchers led by Prof. Yury Gogotsi published two articles this year that raise
the bar for energy storage in supercapacitors and point to new avenues for further energy increases.
Alumni/ae, friends, family, colleagues, and distinguished guests gathered over Drexel’s Blue
and Gold Days to wish A. W. Grosvenor Professor Roger Doherty well as he moves towards his
retirement.
Please read on for a comprehensive look at
the department’s activities over the past year
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From The Department Head
I
t is my pleasure and privilege to report to
you our continued accomplishments for the
2007-2008 academic year, a testament to
the hard work and excellence demonstrated by
the students, staff, and faculty
of the Department.
As of September ’08, we
count 93 undergraduates, 30
MS (20 of which are BS/MS
students) and 51 Ph.D. students. Last year we graduated
12 Ph.D. and 14 MS students,
which tied the all-time records
for both MS and Ph.D. degrees
awarded from our Department.
The previous records were set
in 1989-90 for MS and 2004-05 for Ph.D.
Several of our graduates have received academic positions. Dr. Gwénaëlle Proust (advisor: S. Kalidindi) and Dr. Davide Mattia (advisor:
Y. Gogotsi), have received Lecturer positions
at the University of Sydney, Australia and the
University of Bath, UK, respectively. Matthew
Cathell (advisor: C. Schauer) will be an Assistant
Professor in the School of Engineering at The
College of New Jersey. Our graduate students
continue to receive recognition. Jessica Schiffman (advisor: C. Schauer) won the MatPAC
Award and was selected as a NSF Lindau Fellow.
Marko Knezevic (advisor: S. Kalidindi) received
the Nicolitch Scholarship. Siddhartha Pathak
(advisor S. Kalidindi) and Marko Knezevic and
Jameson Detweiler and Eric Eisele (advisor M.
Barsoum) placed in the 2008 Baiada Business
Plan Competition. Three of our students, Holly
McIlwee (advisor C. Schauer) , Alexander Mose-
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son (advisor M. Barsoum), and Stephen Niezgoda (advisor S. Kalidindi), received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships; that’s more than any
other Materials program in the US. All of this
is evidence that our successes
are not only in terms of quantity, but quality as well. We are
producing high caliber students
who excel at the national and
international level.
acterization facility, two new major instruments
were added to the CRF: a JEOL JEM2100 TEM
(bought with internal funds, installed and in full
operation) and a FEI DB235 FIB-SEM (bought
with the support of an NSF-MRI grant, currently
being installed). Prof. Surya Kalidindi took over
as director of the Centralized Research Facility,
despite the fact that he was on sabbatical. Dr.
Ed Basgall and Dr. Craig Johnson were hired to
manage SEM and TEM, respectively.
Prof. Jonathan E. Spanier
was one of 58 researchers to
receive a Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists
and Engineers (PECASE). The
PECASE is the nation’s highest
honor for professionals at the outset of their
independent research careers. Jonathan is the
first assistant professor at Drexel to be selected
for this recognition since the inception of the
program in 1996 under President Clinton.
Several new projects have been funded including Prof. Caroline Schauer’s “Mechanically
Robust Structural Color System based on Biomimetic Principles” (NSF/GOALI with Avon),
Prof. Li’s “Carbon Nanotube Induced Polymer
Crystallization, Structure and Morphology”
from NSF, and Prof. Shih’s “Array Piezoelectric
Nanocantilever Sensors to Detect Immune Responses to Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies
and Breast Cancer Markers” from the PA NanoTechnology Institute.
Prof. Yury Gogotsi was one of two faculty
university-wide to be named a Trustee Chair
Professor. Since joining us in 2000, Yury has
served as founder and director of the A.J.
Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, and the W.M.
Keck Institute for Attofluidic Nanotube-based
Probes. He has also served as Associate Dean
of the College of Engineering, established a
world-class Centralized Research Facility (CRF)
and an Industry Consortium, and has raised
more than $10M in funding for research and
education. This year, Yury was also named a
Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.
Several of our faculty members serve as editors or members of editorial boards of archival
journals. This year Prof. Kalidindi was appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of Computers, Materials
& Continua, Prof. Gogotsi continues to serve as
editor of Carbon, Prof. Alan Lawley continues
his long service as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Powder Metallurgy, and
Prof. Marcolongo was chosen for the Journal of
Biomedical Materials Research, Part A editorial
board.
In an effort to enhance our world-class char-
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Our newest faculty member, Prof. Ulrike
Wegst, and colleagues have received the Werner-Köster-Award for 2007 for their paper “Ma-
www.materials.drexel.edu
terials for violin bows.” Also, Prof. Mitra Taheri
is joining us as of September 2008.
In May, we celebrated the accomplishments
of Prof. Roger Doherty, who retired after 26
years of service at Drexel. Roger also received
the ASM Sauveur Award this year in recognition of his pioneering materials science and
engineering achievements. But beyond titles
and numbers of papers and awards, Roger’s
intellectual capacity and curiosity, together
with a genuine care for the students and the
Department, are an inspiration to all of us. Finally, don’t expect Roger to stop contributing
just because he has retired. He will follow the
example of Prof. Emeritus Alan Lawley, who,
along with his colleagues, received the “Outstanding Technical Paper” award at the World
Congress on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate
Materials for their work on “Development of a
Dual-Phase Precipitation-Hardening PM Stainless Steel.”
In closing, I invite you to explore this report
and learn more about our recent activities.
If you happen to be in the Philadelphia area,
please take the opportunity to visit us and meet
with me, other faculty, and students.
Best wishes for an innovative year,
Antonios Zavaliangos
Interim Department Head
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Our Faculty
Faculty News
M AT E R I ALS FACULTY
Michel W. Barsoum (Ph.D., MIT)
Caroline L. Schauer (Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook)
Roger Doherty (Ph.D., Oxford, UK)
Wei-Heng Shih (Ph.D., Ohio State University)
Yury G. Gogotsi (Ph.D., Kiev Polytechnic, UA)
Jonathan E. Spanier (Ph.D., Columbia University)
Surya R. Kalidindi (Ph.D., MIT)
Mitra Taheri (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Richard Knight (Ph.D., Loughborough, UK)
Starting September 2008
Christopher Y. Li (Ph.D., University of Akron)
Professor (50% in Physics)
Michele Marcolongo (Ph.D., U. of Penn.)
Anne Stevens Assistant Professor
Distinguished Professor
A. W. Grosvenor Professor
Professor
Department Head and Professor
Auxiliary Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Professor
Assistant Professor & Interim Assoc. Dept. Head
Hoeganaes Assistant Professor of Metallurgy
T.S. Venkataraman (Ph.D., WPI)
Ulrike Wegst (Ph.D., U. of Cambridge)
Antonios Zavaliangos (Ph.D., MIT)
Interim Department Head and Professor
A F F I L I ATED FACULTY
Franco Capaldi
Bahram Nabet
Adam Fontecchio
Giuseppe Palmese
Alexander Fridman
Wan Young Shih
Haviva Goldman
Karl Sohlberg
Selçuk Güçeri
Yen Wei
Anthony Lowman
Margaret Wheatley
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
John S. Nyheim Chair Prof. of Mech. Engr. and Mechanics
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Dean of the College of Engineering
Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department Head of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ihab Kamel
Jack Keverian
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Dr. Christopher Li
Dr. Jonathan Spanier
Dr. Christopher Li was promoted to Associate Professor in September 2007. Prof. Li joined the Department in January 2002
after receiving his Ph.D.
and working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Polymer Science at the University of Akron. Prof. Li
directs the Soft Matter
and Hybrid Materials research group.
Dr. Jonathan Spanier was awarded early tenure
and promoted to Associate Professor as of September
2008. Dr. Spanier joined
the Department in September 2003 after receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Applied
Physics and working as a
Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Department of Chemistry
& Chemical Biology at Harvard University. Prof. Spanier directs the MesoMaterials Laboratory and has
a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering.
Prof. Li has received
several awards since
joining Drexel University,
including: a NSF-CAREER award, a DuPont Young Faculty award, an Outstanding Research Award from the
Department, and an ASM Bradley Stoughton Award for
Young Teachers. This year, Prof. Li and colleagues from
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Enginering and
Chemical and Biological Engineering received a grant
from the National Science Foundation to study longterm properties of polyethylene clay nanocomposites.
Research Facilities Gain
New Equipment
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
John M. Reid Prof. of Biomedical Engineering and Science
E M E R I T US FACULTY
Roger Corneliussen
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University is pleased to announce the tenure of two of our finest professors.
Alan Lawley
Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering
Samuel K. Nash
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Using internal funds, Drexel University acquired
a JEOL JEM-2100 Transmission Electron Microscope
(TEM) in the fall of 2007. The JEM-2100 resides
in the Centralized Research Facilities and features
a LaB6 electron gun, a high-stability goniometer stage specifically tuned for high tilt
tomographic applications, an advanced control system allowing for integration of STEM,
EDS, and EELS, and Windows-based software
providing an easy-to-learn interface.
Harry C. Rogers
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visit us online at
www.materials.drexel.edu
Since joining Drexel University, Prof. Spanier has received a U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award, a Nano-Bio Interface Innovation Award,
and the Outstanding Research Award from the Department. Read more about Prof. Spanier’s PECASE award
on page 14.
Carbon nanoworm [1] &
carbide-derived carbon [2]
(P. Reddington); nanocrystalline Si [3] (C. Johnson)
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Our Staff
Department of Materials
Science & Engineering
A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology
Institute (DNI)
Dustin Doss
Holly Burnside
Andrew Marx
Shirin Karsan
Technical Staff
Technology Coordinator
Keiko Nakazawa
Materials Program Coordinator
Dorilona Rose
Operations Manager
Judy Trachtman
Academic and Financial Coordinator
MSE was pleased to promote Keiko Nakazawa to a fulltime position, Materials Program Coordinator, in December 2007. Keiko has played
a key role in the DREAM and
SENSORS NSF-REU programs
this year, collecting applications, arranging the logistics,
and serving as the primary
contact for REU students before, during, and after the
summer program. Keiko continues to pursue her M.S. in
Arts Administration at Drexel and hopes to finish by summer 2009.
Dr. Edward Basgall joined
Drexel in November 2007
as Manager of Electron Microscopy in the Centralized
Research Facilities. Ed has a
Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences
from the University of Illinois
and several years of experience managing nano- and
microscale materials characterization laboratories at the
University of Illinois, University of Massachusetts, Medical College of Georgia, and Penn State University, as well
as Carl ZeissSMT, Inc.
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Excellence in Scholarship
Nanotechnology Program Coordinator
Nanotechnology Business Coordinator
Doctor of Philosophy
Massimiliano Binci
A Novel Spectral Framework for Second-Order Homogenization Theories
Advisor: Surya Kalidindi
Zarife Goknur Cambaz
Brandon A. McWilliams
Numerical Simulation of Electric Field Assisted Sintering
Advisor: Antonios Zavaliangos
Dianne M. Rothstein
Formation of Carbide Derived Carbon Coatings of SiC
Advisor: Yury Gogotsi
Protein Mediated Attachment Mechanisms Associated
with Blastocyst Implantation
Advisor: Michele Marcolongo
Matthew David Cathell
Dejan Stojakovic
Hari Kishore Duvvuru
Kishore Kumar Tenneti
Peter Finkel
Director of Microfabrication Facilities
Spectral Methods for Microstructure Modeling during
Deformation Processes in Cubic Polycrystalline Metals
Advisor: Surya Kalidindi
Craig Johnson
Donia Said El-Khamy
Wenhai Wang
Guzeliya Korneva
Aiguo Zhou
Centralized Research
Facilities (CRF)
Ed Basgall
Manager, Electron Microscopy
Dee Breger
Director of Microscopy
TEM Microscopist
Zhorro Nikolov
Manager, Materials Characterization and Microfabrication
Dr. Craig Johnson joined the Centralized Research Facilities in July 2008 as Transmission Electron Microscopist.
Craig received his Ph.D. in
Chemistry from Arizona State
University in 2004 for his research on the applications
of transmission electron microscopy in solid state and
physical chemistry of minerals. He has completed two
post doctoral fellowships at
Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Center for Functional
Nanomaterials, and in the Nanomaterials Research Group
at CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France. Craig manages the operation and training of users for the new JEOL JEM2100
TEM and the associated sample preparation equipment.
visit us online at
Structurally Colored Biopolymer Thin Films for Detection
of Dissolved Metal Ions in Aqueous Solution
Advisor: Caroline Schauer
Processing Mechanics of Alternate Twist Ply (ATP) Yarn
Technology
Advisors: Frank Ko and Christopher Li
Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes
Advisors: Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner and Yury Gogotsi
Davide Mattia
Templated Growth and Characterization of Carbon
Nanotubes for Nanofluidic Applications
Advisor: Yury Gogotsi
Microstructure Evolution in Deformed and Recrystallized
Electrical Steel
Advisors: Roger Doherty and Surya Kalidindi
Nanoscale Hierarchical Phase Behavior of Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers
Advisor: Christopher Li
Towards an Improved Understanding of Strength and
Anisotropy of Cold Compacted Powders
Advisor: Antonios Zavaliangos
Kinking Nonlinear Elastic Solids: Theory and Experiments
Advisor: Michel Barsoum
Congratulations to all of
our 2008 graduates!
MSE Graduates Record
Number of Ph.D. Students
For the second time, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University has graduated 12
Ph.D. students in an academic year, tying the departmental
record of the 2004-2005 academic year. This brings the total number of Ph.D. graduates in the department to 122,
40% of whom have graduated in the last five years.
The department celebrated all of its Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. graduates on Saturday, June 14th at the annual departmental commencement lunch at the University Club. Graduating students and their families gathered to be honored by
the department and to roast the faculty.
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Excellence in Scholarship
Master of Science
Bachelor of Science
Kristopher D. Behler
Arek Robert Blazejewski
John Chmiola
Rahul Sabu Joseph
Michael J. Laudenslager
Benjamin M. Legum
Huidong Li
Holly Alice McIlwee
Alexander J. Moseson
Adarsh Singh Sagar
Ryan Jay VanderMeulen
Venkata Lakshmi Saujanya Yachamaneni
Hakki Orhan Yegingil
Qing Zhu
Adam C. Blackford
Ryan Buchs
Ryan J. Carmichael
Stefanie Rose Jasinski
Ronson James Lamond
Michael J. Laudenslager
Carl Lee
Holly Alice McIlwee
Adam Fredric Schvom
Ryan Jay VanderMeulen (Cum Laude)
Three MSE Doctoral Graduates
Find Academic Positions
Dr. Gwénaëlle Proust (advisor: Surya Kalidindi), Dr.
Davide Mattia (advisor: Yury Gogotsi), and Dr. Matthew
Cathell (advisor: Caroline Schauer), three alumni of
MSE, have been appointed to faculty positions this year.
Proust has been appointed
Lecturer in the School of Civil
Engineering at the University
of Sydney in Sydney, Australia.
At Drexel, Proust worked with
Professor Surya Kalidindi and
the Mechanics of Microstructures Group on identifying the
complete space of feasible
anisotropic properties in polycrystalline microstructures. From 2005 to 2007, Proust worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Mattia has been appointed Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath
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working on mass transport at
the nanoscale. Mattia worked
under the mentorship of Professor Yury Gogotsi and the
Nano Materials Group on the
synthesis and characterization
of carbon nanotubes for nanofluidic applications. Mattia
graduated in 2007.
Effective August 2008, Ph.D. student Matthew
Cathell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Technological Studies in the School
of Engineering at The College
of New Jersey. Matthew joined
the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in
2003. He received his B.A.
degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry from La Salle University. His doctoral research
was focused on identifying and
modifying natural polymer materials fashioned into
biomimetic thin films for the binding of aqueous heavy
metal pollutants.
to read more student profiles, visit
Alumni Impact
Alumnus Diran Apelian
Appointed 2008 TMS President
MSE alumnus Dr. Diran Apelian (B.S. 1968) has been
appointed the 2008 president of TMS, The Minerals,
Metals & Materials Society. He is also the recent
recipient of the 2007 Acta
Materialia, Inc. J. Herbert
Holloman Award. According to the award details,
this award “recognizes outstanding contributions to
interactions between materials science and technology
and societal interests and/
or contributions to materials technology that have had a
major impact on society.”
Dr. Apelian is the Howmet Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and the Director of the Metal Processing Institute (MPI) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In addition to graduating from Drexel in 1968, he served as a
faculty member and in several administrative positions
at Drexel University from 1976 until 1990.
Laughlin Receives Distinguished
Alumnus Award
The 2008 Department of Materials Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award went to Professor
David E. Laughlin (B.S., ‘69) for “outstanding contributions to the science and practice of materials science and
engineering and to engineering education in materials
and related industries.”
Laughlin received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He is currently ALCOA Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, with a courtesy appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also Editor of Metallurgical and Materials
Transactions. He has authored more than 350 techni-
cal publications
in the field of
phase transformations, physical metallurgy
and magnetic
materials, and
has
coedited
five
books.
Since 1986 he
Dr. David Laughlin is awarded the 2008
has been inDistinguished Alumnus Award by Professor
Roger Roherty
vestigating the
magnetic properties and microstructure of soft magnets (HITPERM),
hard magnets (FePt and CoPt) and magnetic thin films
for recording media and heads.
Graduating Ph.D. Students
Receive Best Dissertation
and Most Likely to Enhance
Drexel’s Reputation Awards
Two graduating MSE Ph.D. students have received
Drexel University’s highest awards for graduating doctoral students.
Davide Mattia (advisor: Yury Gogotsi) was one of
two students selected to receive the award for graduates
deemed to show the most promise in enhancing Drexel’s
reputation in the field of Mathematical Sciences and Engineering.
Aiguo Zhou (advisor: Michel Barsoum) was one of
two students to receive the best dissertation in Mathematical Sciences and Engineering award.
Previous award winners from MSE include Thomas
Juliano for best dissertation in 2005 and Ranjan Dash in
2006 and María Pía Rossi in 2007 for the most likely to
enhance Drexel’s reputation award, all advised by Professor Yury Gogotsi.
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Materials In Action
Natural Materials
Bamboo & Wood in Musical Instruments
Professor Ulrike Wegst and colleagues have received the Werner-KösterAward for 2007 for their paper “Materials for violin bows.” [U.G.K. Wegst, S.
Oberhoff, M. Weller, M.F. Ashby: Int. J. Mat. Res. 98 (2007) 1230-1237]
Y-Carbon Inc. (www.y-carbon.us) was founded by Prof. Yury
Gogotsi, former research assistant professor Dr. Gleb Yushin
(now at Georgia Tech) and Ph.D. advisee, Dr. Ranjan Dash, to
commercialize carbide-derived carbon (CDC) technology, which
was the focus of Ranjan’s thesis as well as Ph.D. dissertations
of John Chmiola, Z. Goknur Cambaz, and other students that
Gogotsi advised.
This prestigious award is presented every year by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM, the German Materials Research Society) and
the Carl Hanser Verlag for the best paper published in the International Journal
of Materials Research.
Dr. Stefan Oberhoff, Dr. Ulrike Wegst, Dr.
The paper reports a study of the material properties of pernambuco, a
Frank Heinricht, and Dr. Manfred Weller
tropical wood, and thirteen alternative materials. Pernambuco, indigenous to
Brazil, is the preferred material for violin bows. However, it is practically extinct in the wild. The authors found that, on
purely mechanical grounds, other materials exist that could make as good violin bows as pernambuco.
To date, Y-Carbon has licensed 10 patents from Drexel University, established headquarters at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Keystone Innovation Zone, and received funding from the NanoTechnology Institute (NTI), Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center, and BAE Systems. Y-Carbon started paying royalties within
six months of licensing the patents from Drexel, and has relocated to the Arkema Facility in King of Prussia.
“Little did we expect that this paper would be so successful, because the topic is so unusual and quite specific,” said
Wegst. “We are delighted that our niche research, which all of us enjoyed so very much, is gaining this recognition.”
An earlier article on the same theme, “Wood for sound,” published in the American Journal of Botany [U.G.K. Wegst: American
Journal of Botany 93(10): 1439-1448. 2006], was the inspiration
for a column by Philip Ball in Nature Materials journal’s “News and
Views” section, “Material witness: virtuosi’s choice.” The “Wood
for Sound” article also resulted in an invitation to write a related
piece, “Bamboo and Wood in Musical Instruments,” for the 2008
edition of the Annual Review of Materials Research [38 (2008)
323-349].
Y-Carbon’s technology allows the production of nanoporous carbon of uniform and controlled pore size. By
varying different precursor and processing parameters, pore size can be tuned between 0.5 and 2.2 nm with 0.1
nm or better precision. The technology also allows porous carbon of pores up to 30 nm. CDC can be produced in large quantities and at a low cost, successfully competing with activated carbons and other porous materials used in current technologies.
Y-Carbon’s current focus is on the application of CDC technology in supercapacitors, rechargeable devices for storing
electrical energy. Supercapacitors can charge and discharge
much faster than a battery, are able to operate at a wider range
of temperatures, and have longer life cycles (up to 1,000,000
cycles). Some known applications for supercapacitors include
cell phones, VCRs, CD/DVD players, security systems, back-up
power storage, and power boosters for hybrid/electric vehicles.
Recent applications of supercapacitors include the largest pasA small button cell supercapicator, which is just 1.6 mm in
senger aircraft in the world, Airbus 380, specifically the emerheight and stores 5 F. It operates at 2.7 V. (Photo courtesy
gency door mechanism, and wind turbines to adjust the blade
of Y-Carbon, US, www.y-carbon.us.)
angles for optimal performance. Their wide use in a variety of
other electrical energy storage and harvesting applications is expected in the near future.
Other possible applications of Y-Carbon’s technology include blood filtration, for the treatment of acetaminophen poisoning, liver failure, and sepsis; water purification and desalination; and storage of gases such as
methane and hydrogen.
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visit us online at
The award
was presented
on September
1, 2008 during the DGM
Day banquet in
Nürnberg, Germany.
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Woods for
Soundboards
Bamboo
Materials
for Strings
(Bamboo)
Woods for
Xylophone
Bars
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Woods for Piano Actions
3
Woods for Violin
Backs and Ribs
Woods for
Wind Instruments
Increasing
Characteristic
Impedance, z
Materials for Strings
(Gut, Silk, Nylon)
2
400
www.materials.drexel.edu
CFRP
Balsa
Increasing
Sound Radiation
Coefficient, R
(a) Optical micrograph of a transverse cross section of a bamboo culm.
(b) Optical micrograph of the wall of the bamboo culm showing the radial
distribution of vascular bundles. (c) Scanning electron micrograph of the
culm wall at higher magnification. Vascular bundles, fibers, and parenchyma are aligned with the longitudinal axis of the culm. The bundles have
become almost totally sclerified in the tissue at the periphery. (d) Micrograph of the vascular bundles at higher magnification. (e) Micrograph of
a transverse cross section of individual fiber cells in a fiber bundle.
Woods for
Violin Bows
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Speed of Sound (1000 m/s)
“[Y-Carbon Inc.] will be able to solve a large number of energy, environmental and health problems ... that don’t have a
good solution at the moment,” said Prof. Gogotsi, in a July 2008
article in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Density (kg/m3)
800
1200
1600
A material property chart for bamboo and woods, plotting the speed of
sound, c, against density, ρ, allowing two additional acoustical properties to be read from this chart. Lines of slope 1 represent the sound
radiation coefficient, R = c /ρ. Lines of slope –1 represent the characteristic impedance, z = c × ρ. All materials on an individual line of slope
1 or slope –1 have the same value of this property and thus radiate the
same amount of sound or have the same impedance. Materials above a
line have a higher value of the respective property than do those below.
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&
Awards Achievements
Spanier Receives Presidential
Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers
Professor Jonathan Spanier was honored at a White
House ceremony with President Bush in November 2007
as one of 58 researchers to receive a Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The
PECASE is the nation’s highest honor for professionals at
the outset of their independent research careers. Spanier is the first assistant professor at Drexel to be selected
for this recognition since the inception of the program in
1996 under President Clinton.
research at the frontiers of science and technology and
community service demonstrated through scientific
leadership and community outreach.” Nominated by
the Department of Defense, Spanier is cited for “innovative research in materials science and engineering to
improve synthesis strategies to produce novel and advanced hybrid nanostructures with specific properties
and multifunctional capabilities.” He is also cited “for his
exceptional teaching of graduate and undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds.”
Spanier received a B.A. from Drew University in 1990
and a Ph.D. with Distinction from Columbia University in
2001. Prior to joining the College of Engineering in 2003,
Spanier held a postdoctoral position at Harvard University.
Gogotsi Named Fellow of the
Electrochemical Society
Professor Yury Gogotsi has
been named a Fellow of the
Electrochemical Society in recognition of his scientific achievements and service to the society.
Dr. Jonathan Spanier (2nd from left) receiving the PECASE award from
Dr. John H. Marburger III (Director of the Office of Science & Technology), Dr. Alan Shaffer (Principal Deputy Director, Defense Research and
Engineering), and Dr. William Rees, Jr. (Undersecretary of Defense)
(from left to right)
Nine federal departments and agencies annually
nominate beginning scientists and engineers whose work
shows exceptional promise for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge. PECASE awardees receive
funding for up to five years to further their research in
support of critical government missions. As part of his
PECASE, Spanier will receive $1 million over five years.
According to John H. Marburger III, Director of the
Office of Science & Technology Policy, “Selection for
this award is based on the combination of innovative
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Gogotsi is being recognized
for “development of new nanostructured carbon materials with
tunable structure and properties, which advanced the area of
electrochemical capacitors, and major contributions to
understanding high-temperature corrosion of nonoxide
ceramics.” His nomination was
supported by three divisions
within the society: High Temperature Materials, Fullerenes/
Nanotubes, and Batteries.
New Fellows were recognized at the Plenary Session of
the Electrochemical Society’s 214th Meeting in Honolulu, HI on Monday, October 13, 2008.
for a complete list of awards, visit
Kalidindi Appointed CoEditor-in-Chief of Computers,
Materials & Continua
Dr. Surya Kalidindi has been
appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of
Computers, Materials & Continua (CMC), an international
journal publishing original research papers in the areas of
computational materials science
and engineering,
at various length
scales
(quantum, nano, micro, meso, macro) and various time scales (picoseconds to hours).
Kalidindi is one of four editors-in-chief.
CMC is published in 2 volumes and 6 issues per year by Tech Science Press.
Knight Receives Drexel
University Myers Award for
Distinguished Service
Auxiliary professor Richard Knight is the 2007-2008
recipient of the Drexel University Harold M. Myers Award
for Distinguished Service. This
is the highest service award at
Drexel presented to a faculty
or staff member of the Drexel community who has gone
above and beyond their position in service to the university
community.
Rick was recognized by
colleagues and students as an
integral member of department, college, and university
life in the area of service. He was particularly cited for
his position as the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering Chemical Hygiene Officer, his work in helping to transition the Centralized Research Facility from a
departmental to a college and university facility, and his
role as faculty advisor to student groups.
The previous departmental recipient of the Myers
Award, academic and financial coordinator Judy Tracht-
www.materials.drexel.edu/ar/awards
man, received the award in 2002.
The award, consisting of a certificate of recognition
and $2000, was presented at a Faculty Recognition Dinner on Wednesday, June 4 in Behrakis Grand Hall.
Drexel MSE Number One in
the Nation in NSF Graduate
Fellowships in Materials
Three materials science and engineering students
have received federal fellowships.
BS/MS student Holly McIlwee (advisor: Caroline
Schauer), Ph.D. student in MEM and former MS student
in MSE Alex Moseson (advisor:
Michel Barsoum), and Ph.D.
student Stephen Niezgoda (advisor: Surya Kalidindi) are recipients of the National Science
Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship (NSF GRFP). In addition, Niezgoda is the recipient of a Department of Defense
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowship (NDSEG). Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D. student Amy Peterson is the fourth
recipient of the NSF GRFP at Drexel.
Honorable mention for the NSF GRFP went to MSE
Ph.D. student Christopher Hobson (advisor: Yury Gogotsi) and MSE B.S. student and Civil, Architectural, and
Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student Jameson Detweiler.
The NSF GRFP is a prestigious and highly competitive fellowship which provides three years of support
for graduate study leading to research-based master’s
or doctoral degrees. McIlwee, Moseson, and Niezgoda
are three of only 30 materials students who received the
fellowship nationwide. With three recipients, our department represents the largest number of awardees in
materials for students receiving their B.S. at a particular
institution.
These three students now make a total of six students from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University to receive the NSF fellowships. Past recipients include Ph.D. students Kris Behler,
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María Pía Rossi, and John Chmiola (all advised by Prof.
Yury Gogotsi).
Holly McIlwee ’08
While at Drexel University, Holly has worked in the
Natural Polymers and Photonics Laboratory under the
direction of Professor Caroline Schauer. Her research
involves creating novel sensors while incorporating thin
films of biopolymer, chitosan,
and gold nanoparticles to
attract and detect the presence of toxic metal ions, such
as mercury or lead in water.
Post-graduation, Holly was
funded by NSF-International
Research and Education in
Engineering (IREE) to conduct research in France and will
pursue her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at Harvard University.
Alexander Moseson ‘07
Alex is working toward his doctorate in MEM with
research in MSE under the direction of Professor Michel Barsoum. Alex was inspired by the technology used
by the ancient Egyptians to
cast parts of the pyramids
in place, which has led him
to work towards developing alternative concrete. The
concrete will be affordable,
easy to make, and produces
little CO2, which will benefit
developing communities. As
an undergraduate, Alex was
a member of 8 To The Bar,
Drexel’s all male a capella
group, and Campus Crusade For Christ. Alex is a founding member and former president of the Drexel chapter
for Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Stephen Niezgoda ‘06
Stephen is a member of the Mechanics of Microstructures Group (MMG), led by Professor Surya Kalidindi. The MMG approach considers micro-scale structure
in the development of new materials for particular applications. Stephen’s mathematical analysis of micro-
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structure will take much of the guesswork out of material design. Stephen’s practical experience as an aircraft
mechanic taught him how to
analyze and solve problems
and inspired him to learn
more. Now, as a Ph.D. student, he is able to address the
“why” questions. Stephen
has published two papers in
peer-reviewed journals, and
has more in production. He
is involved with several volunteer activities, including
tutoring and mentoring undergraduate students, and
designing and running a hands-on demonstration for the
ASM Materials Camp. He plans to graduate in 2009 with
his doctorate in MSE. Stephen has been funded by the
NSF IGERT program for the past two years.
Siddhartha Pathak’s Image
Wins Second Prize in MRS
“Science as Art” Competition
Ph.D. student Siddhartha Pathak’s (advisors: Surya
Kalidindi and Haviva Goldman) image entitled “Growth
Steps on La0.8Ca0.2CoO3,” has won second prize in the “Science as Art” competition at the 2007 MRS Fall Meeting.
One of an initial 50 finalists, Pathak’s image was chosen
from among 200 to compete at the annual meeting in
Boston, MA for multiple first prizes of $500 and second
prizes of $300 each.
Marko Knezevic Receives
Nicolitch Scholarship from
Studenica Foundation
Ph.D. candidate Marko Knezevic (advisor: Surya Kalidindi) has received the $5,000 Dragomir Nicolitch Charitable Trust Scholarship from the Studenica Foundation
to support him in the 2007-2008 academic year.
The Dragomir Nicolitch
Scholarship Fund was established in part to provide basic
support to students of Serbian background from any of
the states that made up the
former Yugoslav nation for
graduate study at an institution of higher learning in the
United States of America.
Previous Drexel recipients of the award include
former Ph.D. students Svetlana Dimovski (advisor: Yury
Gogotsi), Milan Ivosevic (advisors: Richard Knight and
Richard Cairncross), and Dejan Stojakovic (advisor:
Surya Kalidindi).
for a complete list of awards, visit
This work was done at the High Temperature Materials Laboratory (HTML) at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)
under the SURA (Southeastern Universities Research Association)/ORNL Summer 2005 Program in Materials Research.
This image has previously been selected as the
Grand Prize Winner of the 50th International Conference
on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology Nanofabrication Bizarre/Beautiful Micrograph Contest.
B.S./Ph.D. Student Jameson
Detweiler Sweeps Senior Design
and Business Plan Competitions
B.S. (MSE)/Ph.D. (CAEE) student Jameson Detweiler came in first in both the College of Engineering Senior Design Competition and LeBow College of Business
Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship in Technology 2008
Business Plan Competition, along with B.S. student Eric
Eisele (advisor: Michel Barsoum). Ph.D. students Marko
Knezevic and Siddhartha Pathak (both advised by Surya
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Kalidindi) came in third in the Business Plan Competition.
Both competitions were held on June 4, 2008.
Detweiler’s winning senior design team project,
“Composite Solar Lighting – A Fiber-Optic LED Daylighting Solution,” is part
of the Drexel Smart
House
initiative.
Other members of
the senior design
team include Thaddeus Konicki, James
McCann, and Luke
McCrone, all from
The Drexel Smart House, a 4,500 square
the Department of
foot duplex, is located on the corner of
Electrical & Com35th and Race Streets
puter
Engineering
(ECE). MSE junior Eisele contributed design work to this
project. Professors Caroline Schauer (MSE) and Adam
Fontecchio (ECE) served as advisors to this senior design
team. There were 121 senior design teams and, ultimately, six were chosen to compete in the final College
of Engineering competition.
“Summalux Technologies,” Detweiler’s and co-team
member Eisele’s winning entry in the Business Plan Competition, will receive $12,000 in seed funding and $40,800
in in-kind support. To learn more about the Drexel Smart
House project, visit www.drexelsmarthouse.com.
Chmiola and Gogotsi’s Work
on Supercapacitors Featured
as an NSF Discovery
The groundbreaking work on supercapacitors by
Ph.D. student, NSF Fellow, and former IGERT Fellow
John Chmiola and MSE Professor Yury Gogotsi has
been featured in the “Discoveries” section of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Web site.
The article details the energy saving importance
of supercapacitors and the novel applications Chmiola
and Gogotsi are currently pursuing.
The Discoveries section of the NSF Web site features recent innovations and breakthroughs in science,
engineering, technology, and education research currently or formerly funded by the NSF.
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Major Research
Drexel-France Collaboration
Produces Groundbreaking
Results on Supercapacitors
and linearly with capacitance.
In the work published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a solvent-free ionic liquid was
investigated as the electrolyte and a series of nanoporous carbons with average pore size tuned to be smaller than 1 nm was used as the electrodes. Ionic liquids
offer the possibility to work with a higher voltage than
traditional electrolytes (it means, higher energy) and
at much higher temperature, for example, in the engine compartment of a car. This work showed that by
decreasing the pore size of the carbon electrode to the
electrolyte ion size, it is possible to double the amount
of energy stored as compared to the state-of-the art
for ionic liquid supercapacitors. It means that, for example, electric cars using such supercapacitors can go
further on a single charge.
The efficient use of electrical energy generated
from low-emission or renewable sources such as solar,
wind or moving equipment is often limited by inadequate batteries having a short lifetime. As an article
in the January 2008 issue of The Economist points out,
capacitive energy storage devices, so-called supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, are beginning to supplant,
rather than just supplement batteries in applications
that have grown tired of the long and expensive search
for the better battery. The growing popularity of supercapacitors in hybrid electric vehicles, home appliances and back-up power
sources is due to a number
of desirable properties including: an order of magnitude higher power than
batteries, short charging
times, and maybe most importantly, nearly infinite
cycle life – far longer than
the devices they are powering. Work continues, however, to increase the energy
stored in supercapacitors.
Geometric confinement of ions in extremely small pores. Both
Work published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition highlights
fundamental
misunderstandings in describing
double layer capacitance.
By controlling the pore size
of the electrode precisely
between ~0.5 – 1 nm and
studying the behavior of
the cations and anions of
a typical supercapacitor
anions and cations enter the pores with no solvent-molecule
A group of researchers
electrolyte, tetraethylamscreening charge at pore sizes below 1.5 and 1 nm, respectively.
led by Prof. Yury Gogotsi
Therefore, it can be asserted that, in the experiments, the ions
monium tetrafluoroborate
enter the pores either bare or with partial solvent shells
from Drexel University and
in acetonitrile, individually,
(TEA+ = tetraethylammonium, AN = acetonitrile).
Prof. Patrice Simon from the
unexpected
correlations
Université Paul Sabatier in France recently published
between pore size and performance were obtained.
two articles in the Journal of the American Chemical
Decreasing the pore size was expected to decrease
Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
the ion accessibility and, hence, energy storage capacthat raise the bar for energy storage in supercapacitors
ity of the supercapacitors. In reality, as the pore size
and point to new avenues for further energy increases.
was decreased, the capacity increased. More experiments are needed to precisely understand this anomaIn a supercapacitor, energy is stored via the electrolous mechanism, but the results speak for themselves.
static adsorption of ions into a charged porous carbon
Small pores are not the enemy in designing high enelectrode. The energy of the devices increases with the
ergy supercapacitors.
square of the operating voltage of the supercapacitor
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Initiatives & Activities
Thus, careful design of the carbon pore size and
understanding the atomistic mechanisms of capacitance can potentially lead to tremendous improvement in the performance of electrical double-layer capacitors and their wide use in a variety of applications
ranging from public transportation (trains and buses)
to electric cars, home appliances, and even toys and
flashlights. The development of this technology was
supported in part by the US Department of Energy and
is being currently commercialized by Drexel spin-off
company Y-Carbon.
Schauer Awarded NSFGOALI Grant
Professor Caroline Schauer has been awarded
an NSF-GOALI grant in the
amount of $293,786 in a partnership with Avon. The three
year award, GOALI: Mechanically Robust Structural Color
System Based on Biomimetic
Principles, will work to develop a mechanically robust
color system based on the
structural mechanisms which
give butterfly wings and beetle shells
such intense color. The research approach combines thin film modeling to design a range of biomimetic
structures with laboratory created
analogs of single and multilayered
thin films. If successful, this proposed work advances
the knowledge of structural coloration and the mechanical properties of such materials, which are typically mechanically weak in nature.
Schauer serves as the PI and Steve Carlo serves as
the Co-PI for Avon. The National Science Foundation’s
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) program provides funding for universityindustry partnerships.
www.materials.drexel.edu/ar/grants
Li Awarded NSF Grant
Professor Christopher Li is the recipient of a $300K
three-year grant from the National Science Foundation
Division of Materials Research. The grant is entitled
“Carbon Nanotube Induced Polymer Crystallization,
Structure and Morphology.”
Professor Li and his lab recently discovered that
polymer single crystals could grow on carbon nanotubes (CNT) in a controllable manner. Since polymers
can be easily end-functionalized, this discovery immediately leads to a unique CNT functionalization technique
which is different from all existing methods. The hybrid
structure generated, called nano hybrid shish kebabs
(NHSK), possesses much higher specific surface area
compared to that of pristine CNTs. This could facilitate
using CNTs in sensor and catalysis support applications.
Spanier Leads Grant to
Acquire New Instrument
Dr. Jonathan E. Spanier, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering (PI) received a $498,073
award from the NSF Division of Materials Research under the Major Research
Instrumentation
(MRI)
program entitled “MRI:
Acquisition of Systems for
the Integration of Raman
Scattering, Luminescence
and Scanning Electron Microscopies.” Drs. Caroline
L. Schauer (MSE), Yury Gogotsi (MSE), Zhorro Nikolov
(CoE), and Elisabeth S. Papazoglou (BIOMED) are Co-PIs
on this award. The award will support the acquisition of
a metrology and nano-fabrication system that will integrate scanning electron imaging and focused-ion beam
processing with local optical excitation, emission, and
scattering spectroscopies within a single experimental
platform. The FIB/SEM instrument has been procured
and will be installed in the College of Engineering’s Centralized Research Facility (CRF).
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Celebrating the Career of
Dr. Roger Doherty
Special Highlights
Barsoum’s Paper
Reaches 500
Citations
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A paper by Dr. Michel Barsoum,
A.W. Grosvenor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; and
Tamer El Raghy, Ph.D. ’97; has exceeded 500 citations. This is the
first paper ever
from the College of Engineering to reach that
mark. The paper,
“Synthesis and
characterization
of a remarkable
ceramic: Ti3SiC2” appeared in the
July 1996 issue of the Journal of the
American Ceramic Society.
Dr. Barsoum’s h-index (a measure of the impact of a scientist’s
publications) has reached 34, which
is also a College of Engineering record. Though the various measures
of publication impact may differ, it is
unquestionable that Dr. Barsoum’s
work on MAX phases has been pioneering, as evidenced by the large
body of relevant literature, as well as
the commercial production of MAXTHAL® by Kanthal/Sandvik (www.
kanthal.com; www.3one2.com).
Pertaining to another prominent area of Professor Barsoum’s
research, he was invited to deliver a
lecture entitled “The Mystery of the
Great Pyramids of Egypt: The role
of scientific research in arriving at a
partial solution” at MIT’s annual Sigma Xi lecture on Wednesday, May 7,
2008.
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Alumni/ae, friends, family, colleagues, and distinguished guests gathered over Drexel’s Blue and Gold Days to wish
Department of Materials Science and Engineering A. W. Grosvenor Professor Roger Doherty well as he moves towards
his retirement.
A dinner and department fundraiser in Roger’s honor was held on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 in the Bossone Research
Enterprise Center Atrium to coincide with Drexel’s alumni weekend. Over $10,560 was raised to support the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Endowment Fund. The Endowment, launched in 2003 in honor of Professor
Alan Lawley’s retirement, was established to help recruit and retain high quality materials students and faculty. Alcoa,
one of Roger’s long-time industry collaborators, sponsored a table at the event.
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The department also celebrated the accomplishments of alumni, faculty, staff, and students with its Distinguished
Alumnus Award and departmental awards. The 2008 Department of Materials Science and Engineering Distinguished
Alumnus Award went to Professor David E. Laughlin (B.S., ‘69). Distinguished Professor Michel Barsoum received the
2008 Outstanding Research Award (7). The 2008 Outstanding Teaching Award went to Professor Caroline Schauer. For
exceptional service, the 2008 Outstanding Service Award was given to Interim Department Head and Professor Antonios Zavaliangos (3). Keiko Nakazawa was a recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Staff Award (8). The 2008 Outstanding
Graduate Student Award was awarded to Dianne Rothstein (4, advisor: Michele Marcolongo) and the tie for the 2008
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award went to B.S./M.S. students Holly McIlwee (advisor: Caroline Schauer) and
Rahul Joseph (5, advisor: Jonathan Spanier).
Additionally, Roger presented several special guests with signed copies of his latest co-authored book, ThermoMechanical Processing of Metallic Materials, a textbook published by Elsevier in the Pergamon Materials Series in 2007.
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Roger and Frank Nowicke (1); Roger and Weiland Hasso (2); Roger and Antonios Zavaliangos (3); Antonios
and Dianne Rothstein (4); Antonios and Rahul Joseph
(5); Roger with Tony Rollett and John Liu (6); Roger
and Michel Barsoum (7); Roger and Keiko Nakazawa
(8); Dean Selçuk Güçeri and Roger (9); Sam Nash, Diran Apelian, Paula & Robert Koerner, Michael Micklus,
& Frank Cagliari (10); David Laughlin, Surya Kalidindi,
& John Liu (11); Chris Hovanec, Adam Blackford, &
Robert Koerner (12); Roger and Judy Doherty (13)
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Supporting MSE
A Special Thanks to All MSE Donors!
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering gratefully
acknowledges its donors. Your generosity will benefit both current and future
MSE students and faculty, reaching well beyond the classroom and lab. If
you are interested in making any form of contribution to the department,
please visit http://www.materials.drexel.edu/support/.
• Undergraduate scholarships
(Grosvenor and Koczak Scholarship funds)
• Departmental endowment
fund (faculty development and
graduate fellowships)
The Anne L. Stevens Scholarship Program for Young Women was
established in 2007 with a generous gift from Stevens (’80) and the Lockheed
Martin Corporation Directors Charitable Award Fund. The scholarship is
provided to female students who demonstrate academic merit and financial
need. The inaugural class of Stevens Scholars are:
Zakiya
Carter
Thao
Vi Le
Caroline
McCormick
Ms. Barbara Graves
Dr. Samuel K. Nash
ArcelorMittal
GUROK Turizm ve
Madencilik A.S.
Dr. Carl T. Necker
Mr. David A. Armbruster
Dr. Michel W. Barsoum
Ms. Cynthia S. Best
Boeing Philadelphia
When you contribute to Drexel, please be sure to
designate your contribution to Materials Science and
Engineering. Possible venues for
contribution include
Joan
Burger
Dr. Diran Apelian
Valarie
Pelletier
Barbara
Robinson
Hoeganaes Corporation
Dr. Milan Ivosevic
Dr. Natraj C. Iyer
Dr. Yu-Hsun Nien
Dr. Zhorro Nikolov
Dr. Frank L. Nowicke, Jr.
Mr. Michael J. Pechulis
Center for Powder
Metallurgy Technology, Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
Pharmaceutical Research &
Development, L.L.C
Mrs. Annette C. Pennoni
Central Machine Products Co.
Mr. Rahul Sabu Joseph
Mr. Young Soo Chung
Dr. Athina P. Petropulu
Dr. Surya Kalidindi
Mr. Roland C. Cochran
Dr. Gwenaelle Proust
Kensey Nash Corporation
Mr. Matthew E. Coda
Dr. Harry C. Rogers, Jr.
Professor Jack Keverian
Mr. John F. Copeland
Dr. Anthony D. Rollett
Mr. Marko Knezevic
Mr. William Crawford
Dr. Caroline L. Schauer
Ms. Pamela J. Knight
Dr. George E. Dieter, Jr.
Mr. Ernest L. Schwenk
Mr. K. Sharvan Kumar
Mrs. Nancy Russell Dieter
Dr. Eugene Shapiro
Dr. Hoa L. Lam
Dr. Roger D. Doherty
Mrs. Janice Marquart Shapiro
Dr. Alan C. W. Lau
Mr. George H. Drayton
Dr. Wan Y. Shih
Dr. Alan Lawley
Mr. Hari Kishore Duvvuru
Dr. Johnathan Spainer
Dr. Christopher Y. Li
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
Synthes Maxillofacial
Ms. Poey Koon Lim
Dr. Mahmoud A. El-Sherif
Dr. Mitra L. Taheri
Mr. Donald R. Lundy
Exponent, Inc.
Dr. Jonathan David Thomas
Dr. Hongyu Luo
Dr. Peter Finkel
Mrs. Judith L. Trachtman
Dr. Michele Marcolongo
Dr. John P. Foster
Mr. Chris Vargas
Materials Strategies
Mr. Eric J. Franco
Mr. David J. VonRohr
Mr. Michael J. Micklus
General Motors Corporation
Dr. Ulrike Wegst
Mr. and Mrs. Diego F. Luzuriaga
GKN Foundation
Mr. J. Richard Yourtee
Prof. Eugene P. Munday III
Dr. and Mrs. Yury Gogotsi
Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos
Mrs. Harriet S. Nash
Mr. C. R. Pennoni
If you have donated to MSE in FY 2008 and are not listed here, we apologize for the oversight.
Please contact us if you wish to be recognized in future publications.
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Drexel University
Department of
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2007-2008 Annual Report
News Editor
Dorilona Rose
Contributing Editor
Holly Burnside
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Broken Glass Microsphere (E. Eisele)
TEM image of SiC (NMG)
Mg Growth on V Foil (S. Amini)
Twisty chitosan fibers (J. Schiffman)
Coccolith (A. Sakulich)
SiC whiskers, as-produced (NMG)
FEM Compaction Temps. (G. Klinzing)
Carbon nanoworm (P. Reddington)
Silicon Nanocones (MML)
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