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The department of Materials Science and Engineering is saddened by the news that Charles E. Brackbill passed away on April 10, 2012. Mr. Brackbill received his bachelor's degree from Penn State in ceramic engineering in 1949. He was a member of the American Ceramics Society,... |
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Dr. Robert Kumpf, '84, '86, '88 EAB member and Adjunct member of the faculty, has left Bayer MaterialScience to become Chief Operating Officer of Plextronics, Inc., based in... |
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Alan Piciacchio, who received a BS in Ceramic Science and Engineering in 1989, followed by an MS in Ceramic Science in 1991, recently achieved the level of Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, a prestigious accomplishment within IBM’s technical community. Alan’s MS thesis work was... |
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Russ Reber '81 METAL was recently promoted to VP of Quality, Technical and Customer Service at Carpenter Technology Corporation. Russ will now be responsible for quality accreditation, NDT, testing laboratories, process/product technology, technical resource recruitment and retention and... |
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Jack Coppola (pictured above with Dean William Easterling), retired senior vice president, science and technology for Johns Manville, was awarded the 2011 Graduates of Earth and Mineral Sciences (GEMS) Alumni Achievement Award on... |
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Dr. Maureen L. Mulvihill '89, '91, & '96 has big plans for a very small product. Mulvihill is the president of the Benner Township company formerly known as Piezo Resonance Innovations, which has been reborn in September as Actuated Medical Inc. The... |
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Dr. Koji Watari, pictured left, (Visiting scientist in the Messing Group, 1998-1999) Senior Research Scientist in the Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute in Nagoya, Japan and Professor Akira Nakajima (PhD, MatSE 1997, Messing advisor), Department of Metallurgy and Ceramics Science, Tokyo... |
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Dr. Gregory Yurek, '69 & '70, Founder, Chairman of the Board and President & CEO of American Superconductor Corporation has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. His citation reads "for engineering and leadership in development of high-temperature... |
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Fellow, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan; |
David Saint John, a 2012 MatSC grad and instructor in Penn State's College of...
Donald W. Hamer, a 1968 Penn State alumnus and 2013 recipient of the Materials Sci...
Neal Lewis, a junior performing undergraduate research in Professor Clive Randall...
The 40th Taylor Lecture was given on April 23, 2013, by P.M. Ajayan, the Benjamin...
Beecher Watson III, undergraduate student advised by Dr. Douglas Wolfe won the...
Dr. Michael Hickner receive...
We would like to thank all who attended the awards banquet and congratulations to...
It may sound like an interesting laboratory curiosity, but researchers hope to pri...
Michael Schmitt, a graduate student working with...