January 23, 2023 - Dr. Sangid co-organizes the UQ & Model Validation for ICME special session at AIAA SciTech with Dr. Barron Bichon. Also, Dr. Kris Stopka and Drew Priest also present at the AIAA Conference.
January 9, 2023 - The ACME2 group welcomes PhD Candidate Ian Homes and MS Candidate Taylor Hodes. Welcome!
December 13, 2022 - Congrats to Brandon Mackey for a very successful preliminary exam, way to go Brandon!
November 18, 2022 - A huge congrats to John Ferguson for successfully passing his preliminary exams.
November 1, 2022 - Dr. Kris Stopka gives one invited and one oral presentation at the International Conference on Additive Manufacturing in Orlando, FL.
October 29, 2022 - Purdue Space Day is a huge success!
October 11, 2022 - Dr. Sangid gives an invited talk at MS&T and John Ferguson presents a poster.
September 2, 2022 - Congrats to Glenn Peterson earning the rank of Major in the United States Air Force.
August 26, 2022 - Sven Gustafson gives an invited seminar at the Cornell High Energy Synchroton Source.
August 15, 2022 - The ACME2 lab welcomes new group members - PhD students Sean Skweres, Sai Harshit Gaddam, and Kyle Jung, as well as MS students Niti Prasad, Liam Ward (co-advised by Prof. DeLaurentis), and Drew Priest. Additionally, Sean Skweres receives the Lynn Fellowship. Look forward to working with each of you!
August 13, 2022 - A huge congrats to Sidharth Krishnamoorthi for defending his thesis and graduating with his MS degree.
July 8, 2022 - John Ferguson gives a virtual presentation at the CHESS user meeting.
July 4, 2022 - Dr. Sangid gives the keynote presentation at the Modeling of Plasticity at Multiple Length Scales symposium in the European Solid Mechanics Conference in Galway, Ireland.
June 30, 2022 - Dr. Ritwik Bandyopadhyay departs the ACME2 group to start his career as a faculty member at IIT Dehli. Congrats Ritiwk!
June 26-29, 2022 - Sven Gustafson gives a presentation and Javi Solano attends 3DMS Conference in Washington, DC.
May 26, 2022 - Dr. Sangid gives a seminar in the Materials Science and Enginering Department at the University of Virginia.
May 10, 2022 - Dr. Sangid gives an invited talk at the Far-from-equilibrium microstructure evolution in metals symposium at MRS (Materials Research Society) Spring Meeting.
May 7, 2022 - A huge congrats to Dr. Saikiran Gopalakrishnan for successfully defending in PhD dissertation and graduating, as well as Paul Gardner for defending his MS thesis and graduating.
May 5, 2022 - Dr. Sangid presents at the APS User Meeting, held virtually at Argonne National Lab, to support the Dark Field X-ray Microscopy Workshop
April 25-28, 2022 - Saikiran Gopalakrishnan and Dr. Kris Stopka attend and present at the ICME 2022 conference. Dr. Sangid was a co-organizer of this conference and developed and coordinated a live set of ICME tutorials during the conference.
April 1, 2022 - Dr. Sangid is announced a recipient of the University Faculty Scholar.
March 31, 2022 - Dr. Sangid gives a virtual seminar in the Civil and Systems Engineering department at John Hopkins University.
February 28 - March 3, 2022 - Saikiran Gopalakrishnan, Brandon Mackey, Sven Gustafson, Dr. Ritwik Bandyopadhyay, Dr. Kris Stopka, and Dr. Sangid present at TMS, who were joined in attendance by John Ferguson, Leondisas Zisis, and Adam Kordab.
February 27 - Dr. Sangid starts his term as chair of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials technical committee for TMS.
January 3, 2022 - The ACME2 group welcomes PhD candidate - Javi Solano and MS candidate - Patrick Morrison.
December 19, 2021 - A very hearty congrats to the December new graduates - Dr. John Rotella - PhD (co-advised with Prof. Rod Trice), Dr. Greg Scofield - PhD (co-advised with Prof. Ken Sandhage), Joe O’Gara - MS. Well done all!
October 22, 2021 - Dr. Sangid gives a seminar to the RTX Physics-Based Materials and Process Modeling Community of Practice
October 17, 2021 - Dr. Sangid gives a virtual seminar at the University of Sheffield.
October 14, 2021 - Dr. Sangid gives a virtual seminar in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Penn State University.
September 24, 2021 - Congrats to John Ferguson and Brandon Mackey for passing their qualifying exams with flying colors.
August 16, 2021 - The ACME2 group welcomes PhD Candidate Leonidas Zsis and MS Candidate Jack Zocher.
August 6, 2021 - A huge congrats to Dr. Ronald Agyei for receiving his PhD degree and Alejandra Ortiz for earning her MS degrees.
May 21, 2021 - Congrats to Sven Gustafson who received one of two 2021 CHESS Student Research Paper Awards!
May 17, 2021 - Summer arrivals!!! The ACME2 group welcomes post-doc Dr. Krzysztof Stopka and summer undergraduate researchers, Michael Pilipchuk (co-advised by Prof. Hartman) and Michael Pardo (SURF).
May 13, 2021 - Dr. Sangid gives a seminar during the MPE Scientific Advisory Committee Review at Argonne National Lab – Advanced Photon Source.
May 6, 2021 - Sven Gustafson provides an invited talk at the ESRF Dark Field X-Ray Microscopy Workshop at ESRF.
May 5, 2021 - Dr. Sangid receives the C.T. Sun Research Award for faculty in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
April 23, 2021 - Congrats to Alejandra Ortiz for receiving an award for one of the best presentations at the AAE Research Symposium.
April 16, 2021- Congrats to Saikiran Gopalakrishnan who received the 2021-22 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship for exceptional PhD candidates in their final year of doctoral degree completion. Congrats Sai!
March 29, 2021 - Congrats to Javi Solano for receiving the very prestigious Goldwater Scholarship!
March 25, 2021 - Dr. Sangid gives a virtual seminar at the workshop on Strain Localization and Slip Transmission in Grenoble, France.
March 15-18, 2021 - Brandon Mackey and Sven Gustafson give virtual seminars at TMS 2021.
March 16, 2021 - Dr. Sangid, Dr. Hartman, and Dr. DeLaurentis provide a PI DX Spotlight Panel (Virtual) on the topic of Establishing a Robust Digital Twin Design and Architecture.
October 22, 2020 - Dr. Sangid gives a seminar at the Imperial College Titanium Industry Meeting.
August 24, 2020 - The ACME group welcomes new group members - PhD students Sid Krishnamoorthi, Glenn Peterson (co-advised by Prof. Sandhage), and MS student Joe O’Gara. Glad to have you on board!
August 13, 2020 - A big congrats to Saikiran Gopalakrishnan, Kevin Del Re, Rosemary Astheimer, Nate Hartman, Mike Sangid and the rest of the members of the MxD team, who developed the Model-based Feature Information Network, which received a 2020 Manufacturing Leadership Award by the Manufacturing Leadership Council.
August 5, 2020 - Dr. Sangid gives a seminar to the Durability, Damage Tolerance and Reliability Branch at NASA Langley Research Lab.
August 5, 2020 - Congrats to Saikiran Gopalakrishnan who received an outstanding SURF 2020 Mentor Award. And a big thanks to Ryoma Kawakami for nominating Saikiran for this well deserved award.
May 16, 2020 - A hearty congratulations are in order to three new PhD degrees: Drs. Imad Hanhan, Veerappan Prithivirajan, and Ritwik Bandyopadhyay receive their docorates.
May 1, 2020 - Congrats to Rae Delmantagne as she is named as a Fulbright award winner.
February 24, 2020 - Priya Ravi, Ritwik Bandyopadhyay, and Sven Gustafson present their work at TMS 2020 in San Diego, CA.
January 6, 2020 - Imad Hanhan presents his work at AIAA SciTech in Orlando, FL.
December 15, 2019 — Congrats to Kartik Kapoor earning his PhD and Samuel Noone earning his M.S.
December 12, 2019 - Dr. Sangid gives a colloquium in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
December 10, 2019 — The first beamtime at the high throughput high energy X-ray diffraction beamline at 6-ID of Advanded Photon Source takes place based on a NSF major research instrument grant, a new beamline is commissioned.
November 5, 2019 — Dr. Sangid gives a colloquium in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan.
September 30, 2019 — Ritwik Bandyopadhyay presents his work at MS&T 2019.
September 30, 2019 — Drs. Hochhalter, Sangid, Bichon, and Baitelle organize a symposium: "Modeling Variability of Mechanical Behavior through ICME Techniques with Emphasis on Verification, Validation & Uncertainty Quantification,” at MS&T 2019.
August 12, 2019 — The ACME group welcomes new group members - PhD students Brandon Mackey and John Ferguson and MS students Alejandra Ortiz and Paul Gardner.
August 3, 2019 — Drs. Diwakar Naragani and Andrea Nicolas receive their PhD degrees. Congrats!
July 22, 2019 — Drs. Sangid and Venkatesh host an education tools development workshop as part of the 5th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME 2019): Indianapolis, IN.
July 22, 2019 - Sven Gustafson and Ritwik Bandyopadhyay present their work at the ICME conference in Indianapolis, IN.
May 11, 2019 — Alexandra Mallory successfully defends her M.S. thesis and graduates.
March 11, 2019 — Kartik Kapoor, Andrea Nicolas, Sven Gustafson, Ritwik Bandyopadhyay, Veerappan Prithivirajan, and Priya Ravi represent the ACME group and present at the TMS conference in San Antonio, TX.
December 15, 2018 — Michael Waddell successfully defends his M.S. thesis and graduates. Congrats, Michael!
November 11, 2018 — Saikiran Gopalakrishnan presents his work at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2018 in Pittsburgh, PA.
October 10, 2018 — John Rotella, Andrea Nicolas, Imad Hanhan, and Ronald Agyei present at the Society of Engineering Sciences meeting in Madrid, Spain.
October 10, 2018 — Drs. Dunne and Sangid organize "Plasticity, fracture and fatigue: Theory, simulations and experiments” symposium at the Society of Engineering Sciences 2018: Madrid, Spain.
August 15, 2018 - The ACME group welcomes new group member Sam Noone.
July 23, 2018 - Veerappan Prithivirajan, Imad Hanhan, Kartik Kapoor, Ritwik Bandyopadhyay, and Dr. Sangid give presentations at the 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics. New York.
July 16, 2018 - John Rotella and Diwakar Naragani present at the Hael Mughrabi Honorary Symposium, 18th
International Conference on the Strength of Materials (ICSMA 18), Columbus, OH.
April 15 / July 8, 2018 - Andrea Nicolas presents a poster at both the NACE Corrosion 2018 in Phoenix, AZ and the Gordon Research Conference Aqueous Corrosion 2018 in New London, NH.
March 15, 2018 - John Rotella, Ajey Venkataraman, Kartik Kapoor, Diwakar Naragani, and Dr. Sangid give presentations at the TMS conference in Phoenix, AZ and Priya Ravi and Ritwik Bandyopadhyay have posters. Congrats to all!
March 12, 2018 - Drs. Sangid, Shade, Miller, and Eisenlohr host a symposium on 'Coupling experiments and modeling to understand plasticity and failure’ at TMS 2018 in Phoenix, AZ.
January 8, 2018 -- Dr. Barron Bichon and Dr. Sangid organize an ICME technical session on ‘Validation and Uncertainty Quantification of ICME Models’ and Dr. Sangid hosts an ICME Verification and Validation tutorial at AIAA SciTech in Orlando, FL.
December 20, 2017 - Congrats to Andrea Nicolas, recipient of the Purdue Bilsland Fellowship!
December 17, 2017 - Four students receive graduate degrees from Purdue: Andrea Rovinelli receives his PhD, Stephen Carter receives his MS, Alexander Finch receives his MS, and Priya Ravi receives her non-thesis MS and moves on to her PhD. Best wishes to all.
November 7, 2017 - Imad Hanhan and Ronald Agyei represent the ACME group and present at ASME IMECE in Tampa, FL.
October 1, 2017 - The ACME group welcomes Dr. Leslie Mushongera as our newest post-doc.
September 29, 2017 - Congrats to Ritwik Bandyopadhyay for passing his qualifying exam!
August 15, 2017 - The ACME group welecomes Michael Waddell, who will be starting his M.S. studies, and Greg Scofield, who will be starting his PhD and co-advised by Profs. Sandhage and Sangid.
August 15, 2017 - Sven Gustafson receives a 2017 Ross Fellowship from Purdue. Congrats!
July 24, 2017 - John Rotella and Ajey Venkataraman give post presentations at the Gordon Research Conference on Physical Metallurgy.
July 12, 2017 - The ACME group welcomes 3 new graduate students: Sven Gustafson, Alexandra Mallory, and Saikiran Gopalakrishnan!
July 3, 2017 - Dr. Sangid gives the keynote talk at the EIS Fatigue Conference in Cambridge, UK.
June 12, 2017 - Alberto Mello, John Rotella, Imad Hanhan, Ronald Agyei, and Dr. Sangid give presentations at the Society of Experimental Mechanics conference in Indianapolis, IN.
May 23, 2017 - Prithivi Veerappan and Kartik Kapoor give presentations at the ICME conference in Ypsilanti, MI.
May 22, 2017 - The ACME group welcomes three summer undergraduate researchers: Michael Reinhold (SURF program), Rachel Delmontagne, and Brian Chen.
February 26, 2017 - Andrea Rovinelli, Ajey Venkataraman, Prithivi Veerappan, Kartik Kapoor, Diwakar Naragani, and Andrea Nicolas give presentations at the TMS conference and John Rotella has a poster. Congrats to all!
February 3, 2017 - Dr. Sangid is a recipient of a NSF CAREER award.
December 2, 2016 - Congrats to Daniel Chadwick for passing his MS defense with flying colors.
November 14, 2016 - Alexandra Mallory receives the outstanding presentation award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, Tampa, FL. Congrats Alex!
October 18, 2016 - Andrea Rovinelli gives invited seminars at INSA Lyon and University of Bologna.
October 9, 2016 - The 8th Int Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling is held in Dijon France. Andrea Rovinelli, Kartik Kapoor, and Andrea Nicolas present posters (Andy presents two of them). And Diwakar Naragani and Dr. Sangid give presentations.
October 6, 2016 - Congrats to Imad Hanhan for passing his qualifying exams!
September 27, 2016 - Andrea Rovinelli wins the best structures research presentation at the 2016 AAE Research Symposium. Congrats Andrea!
September 19, 2016 - The Dislocations conference is held at Purdue and the ACME group is well represented with posters by Andrea Rovinelli, Ajey Venkataraman, Prithivi Veerappan, Kartik Kapoor, Diwakar Naragani, John Rotella, and Andrea Nicolas.
September 1, 2016 - Huge congrats to John Rotella for being selected as a recipient of the national defense science and engineering graduate fellowship. This is a very competitive and prestigious fellowship.
August 15, 2016 - The ACME group welcomes three new graduate students: Danilo Branco, Ritwik Bandyopadhyay, and Steve Carter.
August 15, 2016 - New professors! Congrats to Prof. Alberto Mello who begins as a visiting associate professor at Purdue University and Prof. Bhisham Sharma who begins as an assistant professor at Wichita State University.
August 6, 2016 - Congrats to Amit Soni who graduated his BS with honors and completed an undergrad research thesis in the ACME group.
August 5, 2016 - Congrats to Stuart McCrorie (best presentation) and Alexandra Mallory (top 25% poster) who were honored at the SURF banquet. Thanks for a great summer full of research!
July 14, 2016 - LTC Todd Book successfully defends his PhD entitled “Structural integrity of additive materials: microstructure, fatigue behavior, and surface processing.” Congrats Todd! And now on to West Point…best of luck!
July 11, 2016 - Andrea Rovinelli and Diwakar Naragani present their research at the 3DMS Conference in St. Charles, IL.
May 23, 2016 - Dr. Sangid gives a Pints of Science talk at Black Acre Brewery in Indianapolis. The talk focused on materials defects and their role in performance and failure within the topic, Atoms to Galaxies. The TV Wolf APA was well worth the trip! https://pintofscience.us/event/atoms-to-galaxies
May 23, 2016 - The ACME lab welcomes new researchers: Srikanth Gopalakrishnan (PhD Student), Alexandra Mallory (SURF student), Stuart McCrorie (SURF Student), Priya Ravi (Summer grad researcher), and Brian Chen (high school researcher). Definitely made for a fun and productive summer!
May 13, 2016 - Seth Kijewski graduates with his MS degree. Congrats Seth!
April 25, 2016 - Andrea Rovinelli passes his prelim exam with flying colors. Congrats Andrea!
April 18, 2016 - Dr. Sangid gives a seminar at NASA Langley Research Center.
March 21, 2016 — The research team receives the DARPA Director’s Award for best YFA project and with it comes additional funding to continue this research on the certification of additive manufactured materials. Thanks to the team: LTC Todd Book, Kartik Kapoor, and Prithivi Veerappan for all their hard work!
February 16, 2016 — Dr. Sangid is awarded as a TMS Early Career Faculty Research Fellow.
February 15, 2016 — Todd, Sai, Andy, Alberto, Kartik, Diwakar, and Kamalika present at TMS 2016 in Nashville, TN. Ajey, John, Andrea, and Prithivi present posters at the conference. And Hannah Woods receives the Light Metals Division Scholarship. The ACME lab is well represented!
January 7, 2016 -- Dr. John Matlik, Dr. Vasisht Venkatesh, and Dr. Sangid organize an ICME technical session and tutorial panel on workforce development for ICME at AIAA SciTech Conference in San Diego, CA.
January 4, 2016 — Ronald and Imad present at the AIAA SciTech Conference in San Diego, CA.
December 7, 2015 - Congrats to Sai for passing his PhD defense, “A microstructure based fatigue life prediction framework and its validation."
December 3, 2015 — Lena successfully defends her MS thesis, entitled “Fatigue behavior of complex geometries produced by additive manufacturing.” Way to go Lena!
December 3, 2015 - Dr. Alberto Mello presents at the ASIP conference in San Antonio, TX.
October 27, 2015 - John Rotella passes his MSE prelims! Congrats John.
October 16, 2015 — Dr. Sangid is the Jones seminar speaker at Dartmouth University.
October 8, 2015 -- Saikumar Reddy and Todd Book presented at MS&T 2015 in Columbus, OH.
October 2, 2015 - Congrats Prithivi, Diwakar, Ajey, Ronald, and Andy on passing the Quals!
September 30, 2015 — Congrats to Todd Book for passing his prelims!
August 31, 2015 — The ACME lab welcomes two new Master’s students: Daniel Chadwick and Alex Finch and one undergrad researcher: Amit Soni. Welcome!
July 23, 2015 -- Diwakar Naragani is awarded the best poster prize (3 awards given out of 106 posters) at the Gordon Research Conference on the Frontiers in Physical Metallurgy. Diwakar’s poster was entitled ‘Investigation of nonmetallic inclusion-driven failures’ with co-authors Drs. Michael D. Sangid, Paul A. Shade, Jay Schuren, Hemant Sharma, Jun-Sang Park, Peter Kenesei, Joel V. Bernier, and Todd J. Turner.
July 20, 2015 — Kartik Kapoor, Diwakar Naragani, Andrea Nicolas, John Rotella, and Andrea Rovinelli present posters at the Gordon Research Conference on Frontiers in Physical Metallurgy.
May 26, 2015 — The ACME Lab welcomes three undergraduate summer researchers: Hannah Woods, Catalina Parada, and Samuel Otto.
April 29, 2015 -- Congrats to Catalina Parada and Hannah Woods for receiving the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
April 21, 2015 -- Congratulations to Imad Hanhan for receiving the 2015 National Science Foundation Research Graduate Fellowship. This is a very prestigious award. Way to go Imad!
Aprl 3, 2015 — Christian (Kevin) Vuong is announced as the award winner of the Charles C. Chappelle Fellowship, 2015.
March 25, 2015 — Dr. Sangid is announced as the ASME Materials Division - Orr Early Career Award, for seminal contributions to the area of experimental and computational fatigue, fracture, and creep.
March 16, 2015 — Drs. Diana Lados, Brad Boyce, Weizhou Li, and Michael Sangid organize the Integrative Materials Design II: Performance and Sustainability Symposium at TMS Conference in Orlando, FL.
March 16, 2015 -- Saikumar Reddy, Ajey Venkataraman, and Todd Book presented at TMS 2015 in Orlando, FL.
January 6, 2015 -- A series of ICME panel sessions are held at the AIAA SciTech Conference organized by Dr. John Matlik, Dr. Steve Arnold, and Dr. Sangid.
January 4, 2015 -- Dr. Vasisht Venkatesh, Dr. Sangid, and Dr. John Matlik organize an ICME short course at the AIAA SciTech Conference.
December 8, 2014 -- Saikumar Reddy's passes his preliminary exams. Congrats Sai!
November 10, 2014 -- Dr. Sangid attends the NAE-EU Frontiers of Engineering to discuss Aerospace Materials.
October 25, 2014 -- Purdue Space Day has launched. We welcome 600+ grade school students to Purdue to learn about space and other STEM fields. Thanks to John Rotella for leading efforts to include Materials Science in PSD.
October 17, 2014 -- Dr. Sangid presents a seminar at the Ohio State Univ Materials Science Colloquium.
October 14, 2014 -- Congrats Saikumar Reddy for receiving the TMS Superalloys award at MS&T!
October 3, 2014 -- Dr. Sangid receives the DARPA Young Faculty Award.
October 1, 2014 -- Purdue hosts the SES conference with the Microscale and Microstructural Effects on Mechanical Behavior Symposium organized by Drs. Tom Bieler, Sam Daly, and Sangid.
September 26, 2014 -- Congrats Andrea Rovinelli and Todd Book for passing their qualifying exams.
Sepetember 12, 2014 -- The ACME lab welcomes PhD student John Rotella and MS student Lena Huynh to the group.
August 22, 2014 -- The ACME lab groups welcomes two PhD students Kartik Kapoor and Diwakar Naragani and a MS student Matt Lancaster (co-advised by Prof. Rod Trice). Welcome!
August 15, 2014 -- John Rotella wins the Purdue Ross Fellowship. Congrats!
August 15, 2014 -- The ACME lab welcomes a PhD student Prithivi Rajan and MS students Ronald Agyei and Andrea Nicolas.
August 8, 2014 -- Congrats to Imad Hanhan for winning the SURF best research presentation award (one of five awards out of 143 students). Way to go Imad! And thanks to Imad and Connor for all your hard work this summer.
July 10, 2014 -- Saikumar Reddy wins the 2014 International Symposium on Superalloys Scholarship sponsored by TMS. This prestigious award represents Sai’s contribution to materials science and engineering with an emphasis on all aspects of the high-temperature, high-performance materials used in the gas turbine industry. Congrats Sai!
July 2, 2014 -- ACME lab welcomes post-doc Dr. Alberto Mello.
June 10-11, 2014 -- Dr. Sangid presents at the third annual multiaxial and multiscale fatigue summit.
June 2, 2014 -- Dr. Sangid presents a seminar at Oak Ridge National Lab.
May 27, 2014 -- ACME welcomes to undergrad summer researchers. Connor Sullivan as part of the NSF Undergraduate Education in Nanotechnology in Engineering and Imad Hanhan as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow.
April 20, 2014. Dr. Sangid is announced as an ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) award winner.
April 17, 2014 -- Dr. Sangid presents at the Colorado School of Mines Seminar Series within the Materials Science Department.
March 11, 2014 -- Dr. Sangid presents at MIT's Mechanics - Modeling, Experimentation, and Computation Seminar Series within the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
February 17, 2014 -- Saikumar Reddy and Andrea Rovinelli presented at TMS 2014 in San Diego, CA.
January 29, 2014 -- Dr. Sangid is announced as an AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award winner.
January 29, 2014 -- Dr. Sangid presents at the University of South California Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series.
January 15, 2014 -- Dr. Bhisham Sharma joins the ACME lab as a post-doctoral research associate. Welcome Bhisham!
January 13, 2014 -- A series of ICME special sessions are held at the AIAA SciTech Conference organized by Dr. John Matlik, Dr. Steve Arnold, and Dr. Sangid.
December 19, 2013 -- ACME welcomes Dr. Kun Wang, an associate professor from Huazhong University of Science and Techonology, China, who is spending a year at Purdue as a visiting scholar.
December 2, 2013 -- Dr. Sangid organizes the Materials Performance symposium within THERMEC, he also delivers the Keynote seminar in the Nanomaterials symposium.
Novermber 22, 2013 -- Matt Durbin successfully defended his Master's thesis at "Assessing Variability in Microstructural Influence of Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior". Congrats Matt! Matt's next post will be in Melbourne with the Austrilian Air Force.
September 3, 2013 -- The ACME lab welcomes Major Todd Book as a new PhD students. Welcome Todd, glad to have you in the lab!
August 19, 2013 -- The ACME lab welcomes three new PhD students: Tony Favaloro, Andrea Rovinelli, and Ajey Venkataraman!
August 16, 2013 -- Dr. Sangid's review paper "The Physics of Crack Initiation" is currently the most downloaded paper in the last 90 days for the International Journal of Fatigue (Aug 2013 to Feb 2014, (last ACME website update)).
July 22, 2013 -- Andrea Rovinelli successfully defended his Master's thesis at the Alma Mater Studiorum Universita di Bologna. His research thesis is entitled, "Influence of microstructure variability on short crack growth behavior." Congrats Andrea!
July 19, 2013 -- Dr. Sangid is an instructor for the ASM Materials Camp for High School STEM Teachers.
June 24, 2013 -- Dr. Sangid presents a seminar at Imperial College, London, UK.
June 18, 2013 -- Dr. Sangid presents a seminar at the INES Lyon, France.
May 20, 2013 -- Congrats to German Parada and Kevin Vuong for receiving the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
April 2, 2013 -- Congratulations to Tony Favaloro for receiving the 2013 National Science Foundation Research Graduate Fellowship. This is a very prestigious award. Way to go Tony!
March 3, 2013 -- Dr. Sangid organizes the Fatigue in Materials symposium within the TMS conference with co-organizers Drs. Kontsos and Zhai.
January 7, 2013 -- Welcome Brandon Puccio as an undergratude researcher joining the ACME lab.
December 14, 2012 -- Congrats to Dr. Sangid for winning the TMS SMD Young Leader Professional Development Award.
December 9, 2012 -- ACME welcomes Matt Durbin, an Australian Air Force engineer who is completing his Master's at Purdue and co-advised by Kevin Walker.
November 2, 2012 -- Congrats to Saikumar Reddy for passing his Qualifying Exam!
November 2, 2012 -- ACME welcomes Dr. Lijie Chen, who is spending a year at Purdue as a visiting scholar, and Brandon Puccio, who will be working on his honors project in Spring 2013.
September 24, 2012 -- Dr. Sangid presents at the Illinois Institute of Technology MMAE Seminar Series.
September 14, 2012 -- Welcome Andrea Rovinelli, who is visiting ACME for a year from the University of Bologna, Italy!
August 15, 2012 -- The ACME lab welcomes new members: Saikumar Reddy, Javier Esquivel, and Megan Kinney!
August 15, 2012 -- Congrats to Javier Esquivel for receiving the Ross Fellowship!
July 17, 2012 -- Dr. Sangid is an instructor for the ASM Materials Camp for High School STEM Teachers.
June 21, 2012 -- Prof. Sangid and co-authors Dr. Saeidpourazar, Prof. Rogers, and Prof. Ferreira from UIUC received the first runner-up award for Outstanding paper at the NAMRI/SME (North American Manufacturing Research Institution/Society of Manufacturing Engineers) conference.
June 13, 2012 -- Dr. Sangid attends an NSF sponsored workshop on emerging research areas in the science of metals and metallic nanostructures at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
June 11, 2012 -- Congrats to Nicoletta Fala for receiving the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
May 14, 2012 -- The ACME lab is founded in the School of Aero and Astro! Thanks to Prof. Skip Grandt for generously donating his Fatigue and Fracture Lab and equipment.
January 2, 2012 -- Dr. Sangid begins as an Assistant Professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University.
October 13, 2011 -- Dr. Sangid attends a workshop to promote the use of high energy x-ray diffraction experiments and detailed computational analyses for understanding multiscale phenomena in crystalline materials at Argonne National Lab.
