Welcome for Fall 2024
In fall we welcome the following new lab members: Tanner Ballance - postdoctoral researcher; Vasilis Karamitros - Lilian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Charles MacWilliams - graduate student.
Outreach
Our lab hosted teams of grandparents and grandchildren in the 2024 Purdue University Grant Parent University and the class “No Bones About It”. We had lots of fun breaking bone and exploring how bone mineral and collagen make up this fascinating biological tissue.
Tracer Grant
Glynn Gallaway received a Purdue CoE Tracer Grant to support a research stay at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. See the news story here: https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/AboutUs/News/Spotlights/2024/2024-0425-tracer
Summer 2024 Graduation
Tanner Ballance successfully defended his PhD thesis and received his Ph.D.!
AAUW
Chizaram Ugboh receives a Critical Professions Fellowship of the American Association of of University Women
Thomas Siegmund, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
siegmund@purdue.edu
Office: ME 2186
Phone: +1 (765) 494-9766
The mission of the Microstructure Testing and Analysis Laboratory is to advance the knowledge on the mechanics of engineering materials and biological materials under consideration of micro-scale effects and processes. Our research is concerned with the relationships between materials architecture, constitutive description, and the overall function of architectured and microstructured materials.
We also collaborate with many industry partners, as part of the Indiana Consortium on Simulation-Based Engineering of Materials and Structures (ICSEMS).
Thomas is part of the Solid Mechanics area in the School of Mechanical Engineering. Learn more about other Solid Mechanics faculty throughout Purdue University.