Ming Gan Wins 2nd place in Best Poster Award

Doctoral student Ming Gan won Second place in Best Poster award competition sponsored by NSF at ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition held in San Diego. This is an international competition as students all over world compete for this and present their exciting work. His poster was chosen from almost 500 posters in the competition sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

He was also one of 44 to be awarded a NSF fellowship (with success rate of ~5%) to attend the competition based on an essay competition. His application was highly ranked by reviewers.

Ming is a Graduate Research Assistant in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering at Purdue. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and 2007, respectively.

Ming is working with Prof. Vikas Tomar towards his PhD degree. His PhD research is on correlations of mechanical and thermal properties in semiconductors at micro-scale. They performed the experimental investigations of scale effect on mechanical stress, and stress/stain effect on thermal conductivity in silicon at micro-scale. They were issued a provisional US patent for their innovative experimental platform and testing technique. Besides being used to investigate the mechanical and thermal properties, the platform and corresponding technique they developed is also applicable to characterize crystalline phase change and chemical composition of crystals, ceramics, and biological samples. It has significant application in the semiconductor industry and biomimetic material research area.

Besides his research work, Ming serves Purdue community as a Tau Beta Pi member.