Assistant Director John Diebel (IIE) and Professor Yoke Khin Yap (Physics), “High Yield Synthesis of High Quality Boron Nitride Nanotubes,” University of Michigan–Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Professor Yoke Khin Yap (Physics/MuSTI), Instructor Dustin Winslow (Physics/MuSTI), and Assistant Director John Diebel (IIE/MuSTI), “High Quality Baron Nitride Nanotubes,” NSF.
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Will Cantrell, coordinator for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, will conduct a workshop on writing effective SURF proposals at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 28, in Fisher 127.
Faculty and staff are encouraged to notify students interested in applying for SURF funding to attend.
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Professor Raymond Shaw (Physics/EPPSI), “Holographic Measurements of Cloud Microphysical Properties: Transitioning HOLODEC to Community Airborne Research Platforms,” NASA
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According to the Intellectual Property Citation Index (IPCI), a product of the National Applied Research Laboratories in Taiwan, Michigan Tech particularly excels in research related to instruments and instrumentation, materials science, electrical engineering and physics.
As an example, physics Professor Yoke Khin Yap’s investigation of boron nitride nanotubes “has yielded important results and has been a recipient of funding from the prestigious National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program,” said Baker. Yap’s research points towards a number of commercial applications in a range of industries from aerospace to alternative energy to medicine.
Read more at Tech Today, by Kevin Hodur.
A large crowd in Fisher 135 was treated to a newly formatted Fourth Annual Bob Mark Elevator Pitch Competition Wednesday night. It was more realistic: the contestants had only 90 seconds to pitch their product, with elevator sound effects marking their beginnings and endings.
More than 20 teams did their best pitches, and the judges had some hard choices to make. Winning first prize and $1,000 was MyPaar (My Love), a dating website for India, created by physics PhD student Abhi Kantamneni. He also won the Audience Favorite Award and $200.
Kantamneni said he got his inspiration for the idea at 2:30 a.m. one morning, while immersed in another competition. “I realized that my other idea was no good, and I needed to follow one important part of a business model: think of the customer first.”
In spite of nearly double the number of contestants and added entertainment, the event still concluded in about an hour and a half, thanks to many hands that helped: SBE Instructor Michele Loughead and undergrad students Travis Beaulieu (physics and one of last year’s winners), Mason Pew (sound design) and Haley Carlson (marketing).
Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Dennis Walikainen.
The School of Business and Economics’ Bob Mark Memorial Elevator Pitch Competition was covered by the Detroit News recently.
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Yoke Khin Yap (Physics), Co-PI Dustin Winslow (Physics) and Co-PI
John Diebel (IIE) have received $50,000 from the National Science Foundation for a six-month project, “I-Corps: High Quality Boron Nitride Nanotubes.”
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I-Corps: High Quality Boron Nitride Nanotubes
There are few research groups in the world capable of producing high-quality BNNTs. Based on their unique capability in growing high-quality BNNTs researchers will investigate a scanning chemical vapor deposition (SCVD) technique.
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The Department of Physics welcomes Sanjeev Gupta, a Fulbright scholar, who came to Tech Oct. 22. Gupta was awarded his PhD in physics from Bhavnagar University, India, in 2010, and spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy. His time at Michigan Tech will be spent primarily with Professor Ravi Pandey’s research group.
Gupta will help design advanced materials that can be future building blocks for solar cells, batteries, and photonic and optoelectronic devices.
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Two teams from Michigan Tech have been chosen to join in the Michigan Clean Energy Venture Challenge. One of the teams is GreenedIt!, a web-based application for energy auditing.
GreenedIt! team members are physics students Travis Beaulieu, an undergraduate, and graduate student Abhilash Kantamneni. The team traveled to East Lansing for their initial training this past weekend.
“The training we received through the challenge was incredibly useful,” said Beaulieu. “The whole point was to try and get young entrepreneurs into the mindset of finding a customer need and forming the idea around the customer’s feedback. Thankfully this training worked for our team, and we had a complete pivot during the weekend.”
Read more at Tech Today, by Dennis Walikainen.
Professor Yoke Khin Yap (Physics/MuSTI), “Synthesis and Characterization of Functional Boron Nitride Nanostructures,” NSF.
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