Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) and graduate students Chenlong Zhang (MSE), Joseph Rozario (ECE) and Jephias Gwamuri (MSE) co-authored: “The Viability of Nanotechnology-based InGaN Solar Photovoltaic Devices for Sustainable Energy Generation” in the Material Research Society Symposium Proceedings.
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PI Michael Morley (IIE), Co-PI Jaroslaw Drelich (MSE) and Co-PI Jeremy Goldman (Bio Med) have received a $100,000 grant from the University of Michigan for a one-year project, “Commercialization of a Novel Bioabsorbable Stent.”
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Seminar
Dr. Robert Amaro
NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Materials Research Engineer
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Tuesday, October 15th
11:00 am
Room 406 ME-EM
Fatigue Crack Growth Modeling of API Pipeline Steels in Hydrogen Transportation Service
Jointly sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
If You 3-D Build It, They Will Come: Build My Lab Contest
The open-source paradigm is now enabling creation of open-source scientific hardware by combining 3-D printing with open-source microcontrollers. In this way scientists can develop an Open-Source Lab of high-quality custom equipment at much lower costs than was ever possible before.
They invite submissions of DIY blueprints for building laboratory equipment for science and education. Submit your designs for laboratory equipment by December 16th for your chance to win some cool prizes.
Included in the prizes is a copy of Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs.
Read more at SciTechConnect, by Joshua Pearce. Story announced in Tech Today.
Pandora’s Box
How do we harness the power of 3-D printing while protecting ourselves from its dark side?
“With the exponential growth of free designs and expansion of 3-D printing, we are creating enormous potential wealth for everyone,” says Joshua Pearce, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Michigan Technological University. Those who work closely with 3-D printers also see potential for the technology in an unexpected area: food.
Read more at The American Prospect, by Jeff Saginor. Story announced in Tech Today.
Assistant Professor Paul Sanders (MSE) has been honored as the inaugural grant recipient for the Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award from the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST). The award totals $35,000.
Ron Ashborn, executive director of AIST said, “Overall, the committee felt the proposal was well-rounded and quite impressive, with strong letters of endorsement and a demonstrated track record of achievement relative to steel.”
“Paul has done a tremendous job coordinating our project activities in MSE,” said Department Chair Stephen Kampe. “These have included our industrial-sponsored senior projects and advising the Advanced Metalworks Enterprise (AME). He has strategically leveraged our facilities, such as the metal casting laboratory, to create excellent value for the sponsors of these projects–many of whom are affiliated with AIST. He submitted an outstanding proposal to AIST that will serve to formalize the strong historical partnership that Michigan Tech has with the ferrous materials industry.
“From a personal standpoint, I cannot be more humbled by this honor coming to Michigan Tech,” Kampe added. “Professor Peaslee was an accomplished professor and valued colleague at Missouri S&T who died at a very young age, unexpectedly, in May of this year.”
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Recipients of Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURFs) will present end-of-summer project updates Monday and Tuesday (Aug. 12 and 13), from 9 to 11 a.m., in Fisher 139.
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SURF award recipient in MSE includes:
Matthew Tianen
Advisor: Jaroslaw Drelich
Development of Zn-based Alloys for Bioabsorbable Stents
Associate Professor Joshua Pearce’s (MSE/ECE) efforts on 3D printing have been picked up both locally and nationally. His economic analysis was picked up by CNN blogger Heather Kelly in her “What’s Next” column entitled “At Home Printing Could Save Consumers Thousands.” The story also made the UPI wire and Business News Daily. His workshops that teach area teachers how to use 3D printers were covered by WLUC TV6, ABC 5&10 and Second Wave.
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Research by MSE students Ben Wittbrodt, Alexandra Glover and John Loreto and Gerald Anzalone (MSE), and Douglas Oppliger (EF), John Irwin (MET) and Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) on distributed manufacturing and 3-D printing has made both the popular technical press nationally including Popular Science, Computer World, Tech Crunch, Slash Dot, Kurzweil and Gizmodo and the international news including major newspapers ABC, and El Correo in Spain and the Krone, which is Austria’s largest newspaper with an average daily readership of 2,970,000.
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The story about Associate Professor Joshua Pearce’s (MSE, ECE) economic analysis of the value of 3D printing was featured on Gizmodo, a leading technology website. See online.
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Master’s student Ben Wittbrodt ’13 (MSE) is featured in this ABC News technology feature on 3D printing, “Printing Keychains and Shower Heads: 3-D Printing Goes Beyond the Lab.” Associate Professor Joshua Pearce (ECE/MSE) is quoted in the story, which resulted from his study on the economics of 3D printing.
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Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) was interviewed for the show Science, Health and Technology for NTN24 International News Channel, which airs in all Latin America, the Caribbean and in Europe through different cable systems and DirectTV in the US. The interview in Spanish covered Michigan Tech’s efforts in distributed production using low-cost open-source 3-D printers.
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Read more and watch the video (in Spanish) at NTN24.
Michigan Tech’s research in distributed manufacturing with 3-D printing continues to be covered abroad, including an article in La Nacion of Costa Rica. Closer to home “Click, print, fire: Grand Rapids startup hits accelerating 3D printed weapons market” extensively quoted Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE).
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The Washington Post published a profile of Michigan Tech alumnus Paul Jablonski ’87, a metallurgist with the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. His profile was part of a series on little-known federal workers whose work has a significant impact on society.
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DOE metallurgist revolutionized coronary stent technology
The tiny scaffolding had to be strong, long-lasting and visible to an X-ray. It had to be able to hold open a human artery for extended periods of time to keep blood flowing. It had to be able to keep people alive.
That was the task put before Paul Jablonski, a metallurgist in the Process Development Division of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Albany, Ore.
Jablonski brought to bear his own metallurgical expertise as well as his creativity and innovation to make unusual prototypes of the material. There was some skepticism about the potential of these alloys, since their creation in some cases went against metallurgical theory.
Read more at the Washington Post.
Medical Daily, a medical news web site, reported on Professor Jaroslaw Drelich’s (MSE) research using copper nanoparticles mixed with vermiculate to prevent bacterial contamination of food.
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Copper Nanoparticles Could Prevent Food Borne Illness, Viruses
A new inexpensive, effective material could revolutionize food safety.
Jaroslaw Drelich, a professor of materials science and engineering, is behind a new food protection method that relies on copper nanoparticles embedded in vermiculite – an inert compound found in mixtures such as potting soil.
“When you make a discovery like this, it’s hard to envision all the potential applications,” said Drelich. “It could even be mixed into that wad of dollar bills in your wallet. Money is the most contaminated product on the market.”
Drelich is now working with Michigan Tech SmartZone to commercialize the nanoparticle material.
Read more at Medical Daily, by John Ericson.
Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) co-authored an article titled “The Internet and other ICTs as Tools and Catalysts for Sustainable Development: Innovation for 21st Century” in Information Development.
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