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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ECE graduate student Zekeriya Dereli, Cengiz Yücedağ (SFRES) and Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) co-authored a paper “Simple and Low-Cost Method of Planning for Tree Growth and Lifetime Effects on Solar Photovoltaic Systems Performance” for the journal Solar Energy.
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Michigan Tech has launched a new virtual tour of campus and the local area. The Minerals and Materials Engineering building is included among the virtual walking tours. There is an interactive panorama of the foundry as well.
New ranking: Mich. Tech engineering 14th in U.S.
Michigan Technological University has steadily ranked near the top 50 U.S. schools in terms of the quality of its engineering programs, but a recent ranking put Tech in the top 50 for quantity as well.
The College Database ranked Michigan Tech 14th among the top 50 U.S. colleges and universities for engineering, based on the number of different programs offered.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Stephen Anderson.
Class of 1953 Reunion Announcement and Challenge!
“Earlier this year, the plan was announced to convert the campus corridor to a mall, beginning to end West to East, the Alumni Way. It’s a splendid idea with a West End Gateway celebrating the history of the college and mining industry of the Keweenaw Peninsula.”
Read more at TechAlum Newsletter, Alumni Around the World, by Bob Carnahan, ’53.
Assistant Professor Yongmei Jin (MSE/IMP), “Computational Modeling and Simulation of Complex Structures of the High Energy Lithium and Manganese Rich Composite Cathode Materials,” Argonne National Laboratory, DOE.