Professor Jones, an advisee of Professors Bowman and Slamovich, is an assistant professor at the University of Florida since 2006 following postdoctoral research at the University of New South Wales, Australia and Iowa State University. His research on piezoelectric materials provided inspiration for current activities of the NSF Focused Research Group on Piezoelectrics lead by Professors Bowman, Garcia and Blendell

Over the past two years we've put together an excellent car and a great team," said MacKenzie Sellers, a senior in materials engineering and president of Purdue Solar Racing. "The team functions as a project team would in industry. We have a budget and schedule to design and build the vehicle. We perform testing, and we work with different disciplines to accomplish our goals

Metal-induced Structural Transformations during Alpha Synuclein Aggregation

The School of Materials Engineering recently celebrated the long and distinguished career of Dr. Richard Grace with the creation of an endowment and dedication of a conference room and library in his honor.

The goal of the project is to develop a new approach to the fabrication of high-temperature diboride-based ternary composite ceramics, with a higher heat and oxidation resistance than materials presently available.

The Purdue Board of Trustees ratified this professorship on Thursday November 20, 2008. Professor Schuhmann was the first Head of the School and a leader in many aspects of research, education and policy at Purdue. Professor Handwerker joined Purdue in 2005 having previously served as Chief of the Metallurgy Division at the National Institute of Science and Technology.

Researchers from IBM and Purdue University have discovered that tiny structures called silicon nanowires might be ideal for manufacturing in future computers and consumer electronics because they form the same way every time.

Professor Carol Handwerker will receive the leadership award of TMS and Professor Alejandro Strachan will receive the Early Career Award. University of Michigan Professor Tresa Pollock, BSMetE 1984 and a 2008 Distinguished Engineering Alumna of Purdue's College of Engineeering, will become a Fellow of TMS. If you can, join us in congratulating them in San Francisco February 15-19, 2009 at the TMS Annual Meeting!

In this presentation, we shall look at the ways in which the U.S. obtains and uses its energy, in order to identify the opportunities for making changes that might help to ensure the future of our quality of life. We will show how today’s technological choices may have unexpected, though fully predictable outcomes, and illuminate these with examples from the fairly recent past.

Professor Jeff P. Youngblood of Purdue MSE and Professor Nancy R. Sottos of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign served as guest editors for the August 2008 Materials Research Society Bulletin. The topics of self-cleaning and self-healing materials provide a new paradigm for design and fabrication of engineering materials.