Broadening Participation through Partnership
presented by
Shaik Jeelani, Ph.D., P.E.
Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs
Director, Center for Advanced Materials
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama
At
STC Broadening Participation Workshop
Organized by
The Office of Integrative Activities
Science and Technology Centers Program
National Science Foundation
March 21-23, 2007
Center for
International
Research &
Development (CIN)
Center for
Computational
Epidemology
(CCE)
Center for Integrated Study
of Food Animal & Plant
Systems (CISFAPS)
Center for
Advanced Materials
(T-CAM)
Research Centers
NASA Center for Food &
Environmental Systems for
Human Exploration of
Space (TU-CFESH)
Center for Biomedical
Research
(CBR)
Center for Biomedical
Information Management
Systems (BIMS)
The George Washington
Carver Agricultural
Experimental Station
(GWCAES)
National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare
The Mission of T-CAM
• To strive for a fundamental understanding of
the nature of advanced materials towards the
goal of industrial and military applications
• To motivate and educate minority students,
undergraduate through Ph.D., in the science
and engineering of advanced materials
CREST II
2003-2008
Pre-College
Programs and
Linkages with
School Systems
Linkages with
Colleges and
Universities
Collaboration
with
Industries
Collaboration
with National
Laboratories
Ph.D.,
MSE
Synthesis, Manufacturing and Characterization
of Structural Nanocomposites
Research
Components
Synthesis and
Analysis of
Nanocomposites
Modeling and
Manufacturing of
Structural Nanocomposites
Performance Evaluation of
Structural
Nanocomposites
U. S. Army
ARO/BCE
NSF/EPSCoR
ACNM
NSF/IGERT
MSU/ERC
STTR Phase I
Adv. Matl. Tech.
SBIR Phase II
Vista
Engineering
SBIR Phase II
Ondax Corp.
NSF/PREM
Tuskegee
University
CREST/RISE
Funded by NSF
UA/ERC
UK/ERC
NSF/REU
UNL/ERC
Center for Advanced Materials
ARMY CENTER of EXCELLENCE
FOR BATTLEFIELD CAPABILITY
ENHANCEMENT
University of
Delaware
Purdue University
Development of Flexible Extremities Protection
Utilizing Shear Thickening Fluid/Fabric
Composites (STF)
Tuskegee University
Army Research Office
(ARO)
Research Triangle Park, NC
Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
Research Tasks
•Synthesis of STF
•Rheological and Interface Characterization
•Constitutive Models and Wave Propagation
•Performance Evaluation
Center for Advanced Materials
CREST
IGERT
IGERT: Multidisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Training in
Nanomaterials Science and Engineering
Primary Objective:
To substantially increase the number
of minorities holding PhDs in
Materials Science and Engineering
M.S. & Ph.D.
@TU
Mentoring
Faculty & Student Exchange
Undergraduate
Program & REU
@ TU & Cornell
M.S. & Ph.D.
@Cornell
Mentoring
Pre-college Program
(REH & RET)
@TU & Cornell
NSF/ PREM Tuskegee-Cornell Research and Education Partnership
Partnership in ERC Proposals
•MSU/ERC: Safety Simulation (SafeSim) Center
•UA/ERC: Novel Ionic Liquids Applications and
Manufacturing (NILAM)
•UK/ERC: Sustainable Manufacturing Enterprise
•UNL/ERC: Advanced Continuous Nanofiber Technologies
Ph.D. Students in MSE Program
NAME
LAST DEGREE EARNED/
MAJOR/UNIVERSITY
EXPECTED
GRADUATION DATE FOR
PHD
1
Edwin Hampton
BS/Chemistry/Alabama State University
May 2008
2
Renee’ Rodgers
BS/Aerospace Eng./Tuskegee University
May 2007
3
Danielle Hudson
MS/Chemistry/Tuskegee University
May 2008
4
Merlin Theodore
MS/Mechanical Eng./Tuskegee University
May 2008
5
Dangale
Robinson
BS/Materials Science/Univ. of AlabamaBirmingham
May 2008
Ph.D. Students in MSE Program Cont.
NAME
LAST DEGREE EARNED/
MAJOR/UNIVERSITY
EXPECTED
GRADUATION DATE FOR
PHD
6
Wanda Jones
BS/Chemistry/Miles College
May 2008
7
Okechukwu Akpa
BS/Electrical Eng./Morgan State University
May 2010
8
Maria Calhoun
MS/Mechanical Eng/Tuskegee University
May 2010
9
Gregory Strawder
BS/Mathematics/Albany State University
May 2011
10
Ivy Krystal Jones
MS/Physics/Hampton University
May 2010
11
Lazbourne Allie
MS/Mechanical Engineering/ Tuskegee
University
May 2010
Ph.D. Students in MSE Program Cont.
NAME
LAST DEGREE EARNED/
MAJOR/UNIVERSITY
EXPECTED
GRADUATION DATE FOR
PHD
12
Jessie Mayo
MS/Mechanical Eng./Tuskegee University
May 2010
13
Nydeia Wright
MS/Chemistry/Tuskegee University
May 2010
14
Shaik Zainuddin
MS/Mechanical Eng./Tuskegee University
May 2010
15
Tiffany Nelson
MS/Materials Science/Univ. of Cincinnati
May 2010
16
Mary Rogers
MS/Chemistry/Univ. of Southern
Mississippi
May 2010
17
Jaronda Ingram
BS/Mechanical Engineering/Tuskegee
university
May 2011