ESM graduate students Sean Pursell and John Meeker attended the 5th annual “How to Engineer Engineering Education” workshop held at Bucknell University in cooperation with NSF, July 17-19, 2006. The workshop was an active learning experience and culminated with participants developing an instructional module.

Fei Yan, Engineering Science and Mechanics doctoral student, will present a postered titled "Ultrasonic Guided Wave Imaging of a Composite Plate with Air-Coupled Transduceres" atthe ASME PVP 2006/ICPVT-11 Conference and QNDE 2006, to be held July 22 - August 4, 2006.

Jason Campbell, Engineering Science and Mechanics doctoral student, has been awarded the outstanding paper for his paper titled "NBTI: An Atomic-Scale Defect Perspective". The paper was presented at the IEEE International Reliability Physics Conference in San Jose, CA, March 26 - 30, 2006.

The paper was co-authored with Patrick M. Lenahan (Penn State, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics) and A. T. Krishnan and S. Krishnan (Texas Instruments).