Materials Science and Engineering students Megan Kreiger, Meredith Mulder and Alexandra Glover co-authored an article with Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) and Jerry Anzalone (CEE) “Distributed Recycling of Post-Consumer Plastic Waste in Rural Areas,” in the Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings.
Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) co-authored an article “Distributed Recycling of Waste Polymer into RepRap Feedstock” in the Rapid Prototyping Journal, 19(2), pp. 118-125 (2013).
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Assistant Professor Paul Sanders (MSE/IMP) and Research Scientist Tom Wood (MSE/IMP), “Phase III: Prototype Production and Testing,” Amsted Rail
Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) co-authored an article “Progress in Indium Gallium Nitride Materials for Solar Photovoltaic Energy Conversion” in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions.
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Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) and his group’s work with open-source 3-D
printing were quoted or featured in:
*Chemical and Engineering News: 3-D Printers Move Into Research Labs.
*The cover story of Science News: The 3-D Printing Revolution Dreams made real, one layer at a time.
*The Analytical Scientist:Share, and We All Grow Richer.
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Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) and his group’s work with recycling waste into
3-D printing filament were quoted or featured in:
* Tech4Trade’s 3D4D challenge, a charity with a mission to alleviate poverty by acting as a catalyst for the development of new technology-based solutions that address many of the barriers to trade for poor rural communities.
* 3Ders, a 3-D printing news site.
* Personalize, the hub for the personal manufacturing community.
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Graduate students in Materials Science and Engineering will be giving poster and oral presentations at the Graduate Research Colloquium 2013. Their presentations will take place on the second day of the colloquium, February 22, 2013, in the MUB Ballrooms A & B. Presenters, abstracts, and schedules are posted on the Graduate Student Government website.
Day 2 Feb 22 Poster Presentations 10am-12pm
Hui Wang
Day 2 Feb 22 Oral Presentations 1:00pm to 4:20 pm
Patrick Bowen
Hui Wang
Andrew Baker
Fengde Ma
Jie Zhou
Kyle Deane
Marcel Kerkove
Helen Ranck
Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) gave an invited talk at the Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization Center, in Toledo, OH, Feb. 7 titled: “Bandgap Engineering with Indium Gallium Nitride Nano-Columns for Solar Photovoltaics: Progress, Challenges, and Promise”.
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Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) coauthored an article in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews titled “Toward renewable energy geo-information infrastructures: Applications of GIScience and remote
sensing that build institutional capacity.”
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Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) was featured in a story “Our Open Source Future: Hardware” in the Analytical Scientist.
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PI John Diebel (IIE) and Co-PI Joshua Pearce (ECE) have been awarded a one-year, $40,000 research grant for “X-Wire Solar Photovoltaic Racking,” from the University of Michigan-Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Joshua Pearce (MSE) will be presenting, “Radical Reductions in the Environmental Impacts of Manufacturing: A Distributed Approach.” The presentation will be held from 3 to 4 p.m., Monday, Jan. 28, in GLRC 201. The public is welcome.
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