In celebration of the 115 anniversary of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State, we are inviting alumni to present during the monthly Steidle Café. The program will be held in-person in Steidle 402 and online via Zoom. Sign up to receive the link at matse.psu.edu/café.
In-person: Continental breakfast starts at 9:30 a.m. outside 402.
To watch previous 2022 Steidle Cafes, click here.
October speakers will be:
Wilfredo Otaño, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
In the last fifteen years, I dedicated myself to developing a research center at the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey (UPR-C) in collaboration with several colleagues from the Physics and Chemistry area. Actually, we have three dedicated laboratory spaces for research. These multi-user facilities have been used for mentoring hundreds of undergraduate students and I have been directly involved with more than two hundred of them. I am an advocate of providing a set of research activities to the undergraduate students including an initial experience in my laboratory where they learn the "basics“ of the research enterprise, followed by a summer research experience at a university or government facility in the mainland, and ending with a capstone project. Some of the best students have been able to complete studies at several research-intensive institutions.
David Cann, Ph.D.
Professor, Oregon State University
David P. Cann received his BS in Materials Engineering at Virginia Tech in 1991 and completed his PhD in Materials at Penn State University in 1997. After graduation he started his academic career at Iowa State University and in 2005 he joined the faculty at Oregon State University where he is currently Professor of Materials Science. He has served as Editor for the Journal of Materials Science since 2008, holds seven patents, and has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles on the crystal chemistry and defect chemistry of metal oxides.