Congratulations to Alexandra Bruce, Michael Heiden, and Lisa Rueschhoff for their winning the NSF Graduate fellowships. This prestigious award provides full support for their stipend and tuition for up to 3 years during their PhD.

Prof. David Bahr is one of the authors on the paper "The mechanical response of core-shell structures for nanoporous metallic materials,"

First year MSE graduate student, Kate Lindley, received 2nd place in the "Pb-Free Solders and Other Materials for Emerging Interconnect and Packaging Technologies" Division of the TMS 2014 Graduate Student Poster Competition for her poster entitled, "Nucleation and Growth of Cu33Al17 in Al-Modified Sn-Ag-Cu and Sn-Cu Pb-Free Solder Alloys". The competition was held February 17-19th at The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) annual meeting and exhibition in San Diego, California.

"Some Purdue Reflections and Selected Phenomena in Multicomponent Diffusion"

The Department of Materials Engineering is proud to congratulate our students MaryBeth Pavlick, Daw Gen Lim, Nolan Lantieri and Wanying Li, recipients of 1st place and a prize of $20,000.00, at the 27th Annual Business Plan Competition at Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. The students put together the winning plan in forming ExDie, a company with a unique transformative technology to remove aluminum from an extrusion die in a safe and rapid manner.