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King Examines Materials Supply and Demand Issues at MS&T17

Alexander H. King, Director of the Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Innovation Hub at Ames Laboratory, will deliver the TMS/ASM Joint Distinguished Lecture in Materials and Society, part of the Tuesday morning all-conference plenary session planned for Materials Science & Technology 2017 (MS&T17).

Mary Lee Gambone,

Head of Materials Engineering
Indianapolis, Rolls-Royce North America

Mary Lee Gambone is currently head of the Rolls-Royce Materials Engineering organization in Indianapolis and has worked in aerospace materials for more than 30 years. Since joining Rolls-Royce in 1998, she has had several roles, including Chief of Research and Technology Strategy and Manager of Critical Part Lifing. Her early career as a materials engineer was with the Allison Gas Turbine Division of General Motors and she enjoyed several years with the U.S. Air Force as Team Lead for metal matrix composites research in the Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials Directorate. Gambone earned a B.S. in metallurgical engineering from Purdue University, a M.S in materials engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in materials science.

Matthew Korey and Nelyan López Pérez receive Graduate Research Fellowship.

Mr. Korey was recently awarded a 3 year NSF GRF (https://www.nsfgrfp.org/) from the National Science Foundation to support his doctoral research. He will be working on sustainable polymer synthesis, polymeric composites, and additives for polymeric materials with his advisers Profs. John Howarter and Jeff Youngblood. Matthew joined the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue in 2015 after completing his BS degree in biomedical engineering from The Ohio State University.  

   Professor Anter El-Azab has assembled an impressive international team of editors and the journal's first accepted papers are now available. Read more about the journal and it's goals at:

https://materialstheory.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41313-017-0001-5

http://blogs.springeropen.com/springeropen/2017/06/01/materials-theory-launched/

His poster "Effect of point defects on grain boundary phase transitions and coarsening in polycrystalline YSZ," earned him a $250 award.

Purdue research is leading the way on making energy-efficient sheet metals, and Purdue's plan includes technology transfer with MSE's Professor Trumble, Industrial Engineeing's Professors Chandrasekar and Mann, and M4 Sciences, a leader in advanced machining controls systems.


The team has shown a way to "peel" high silicon steel sheet from an ingot, enabling new alloys to be used for next generation electric motors. This work has been funded with $1.5 million by the Department of Energy.

Materials Engineering undergraduate student, Alejandro Figueroa, was awarded the 2017 Nuclear Energy University Program Scholarship from the U.S.. Department of Energy. He will receive a $7500 scholarship. He is one of 58 undergraduates across the U.S. to receive this award. Alejandro has been working with Prof. Okuniewskis group since the Fall of 2016 where he has been performing porosity analyses in irradiated nuclear fuel obtained from high energy X-ray (synchrotron) micro-computed tomography.

Professor Wayne Chen was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Finland.

Congratulations to Professor Wayne Chen on being awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Finland! Professor Chen has a joint appointment in the Schools of Materials Engineering and Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University.