SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH
MSE SEMINAR
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room 610, M&M Building
Catalyst Design Strategies for Chemicals and Fuels
John & Virginia Towers Distinguished Lecture Series
Mark A. Barteau
Director, University of Michigan Energy Institute
DTE Energy Professor of Advanced Energy Research
Department of Chemical Engineering
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.
From Tech Today.
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.
From Tech Today.
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.
From Tech Today.
Four graduate students are going to Lansing for Graduate Education Day, Tuesday, Feb. 19. Governor Rick Snyder has declared the week of Feb. 18 as Graduate Education Week, and more than 50 students from universities and colleges across the state will meet with legislators at the Capitol Building in Lansing.
Among them is Amberlee Haselhuhn, a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering from East Jordan. Her research focuses on metallic foams that could be used for bioactive bone implants.
Read more at Tech Today.
Haselhuhn Going to Lansing for Graduate Education Day
East Jordan Native is a PhD Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Read more at ReadMedia.
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”.
From Tech Today.
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.”
From Tech Today.
Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) was featured in a story “Our Open Source Future: Hardware” in the Analytical Scientist.
From Tech Today.