Archive for September, 2012

Ph.D. Student Tengfei Jiang Wins Best in Session Award at SRC TECHCON

September 30th, 2012

Ph.D. student Tengfei Jiang recently received the Best in Session Award at Semiconductor Research Corporation’s (SRC) Premier Technical Conference TECHCON for her paper entitled “Microstructure effect on thermal stresses in through-silicon-via (TSV) structures and the implication on the keep-out zone (KOZ).” Tengfei is supervised by Dr. Paul Ho.
The Materials Science & Engineering Program congratulates Tengfei [...]

The Texas Materials Institute Proudly Presents: The John B. Goodenough Materials Science & Engineering Symposium – In Honor of His 90th Birthday

September 13th, 2012

John Goodenough 90th Birthday Symposium

Hugo Steinfink, Professor Emeritus, Passes Away

September 10th, 2012

Hugo Steinfink, professor emeritus in chemical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, passed away August 25, 2012, following complications from a cardiac procedure at the age of 88.
Please click here for information on Dr. Steinfink’s career and contributions to engineering.

Portfolio Program Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Wenshan Cai, Georgia Tech

August 23rd, 2012

[ September 26, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Speaker: Dr. Wenshan Cai Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech

Title: Plasmonic and Metamaterials: Manipulating Light with Nanostructured Metals

Location: FNT 1.104, 12 noon

Link for more information on speaker: http://www.mse.gatech.edu

Portfolio Program/EFRC Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Michael Tauber, University of California, San Diego

August 2nd, 2012

[ September 19, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Speaker: Dr. Michael Tauber, University of California, San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Title: TBA

Location: FNT 1.104 at 12 noon

Link to speaker’s research website: http://tauber.chem.ucsd.edu/

Portfolio Program/Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Edwin Ned Thomas, Rice University

January 3rd, 2012

[ September 5, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Speaker: Dr. Edwin Ned Thomas, Rice University, Dean of Engineering, Department of Material Science and Engineering

Title: “Some New Ideas to Manipulate the Mechanical Behavior of Polymeric Materials- from Phonons to Ballistics to Shock”

Location: FNT 1.104 at 12 noon

Link for more information on speaker: http://memsweb.rice.edu/thomas/

MS&E Seminar Speaker: Dr. Edwin Thomas, M.I.T.

June 23rd, 2011

[ September 5, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Speaker: Dean Edwin “Ned” Thomas, Rice University, George R. Brown School of Engineering

Title: TBA

Location: FNT 1.104 at 12 noon.

Link to speaker’s research website:  http://eltweb.mit.edu/