Dr. Tony Huang, Associate Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, will travel to Bejing, Shanghai, Xian, and Wahan China from May through June 2011. Tony will present three papers at the Transducers 2011 conference and visit eight universities across China to recruit students and establish collaborations. To learn more about the Transducers 2011 conference, please visit their web site.

Dr. Osama Awadelkarim, Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, traveled to Albany, New York in early May 2011 to present at the International Nanotechnology Conference held at the College of Nanoscience and Engineering. To learn more about the conference, please visit this web site.

Dr. Barbara Shaw, Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, traveled to Arlington, Virginia on May 18 to attend a NSF Advisory Committee for Polar Program Meeting. To learn more about the meeting, please visit their web site.

Dr. Al Segall, Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, will attend, present and chair sessions at the annual Society of Tribologists and Engineers meeting. The paper Al will present is entitled "Evaluation of Sliding, Reciprocating, and Fretting Wear of Self-Lubricating Coating Created by High Velocity Particle Consolidation." The meeting will be held in Atlanta, GA on May 18. To learn more information about the conference, please visit their web site.

Kamrun Nahar, research associate, Center for Neural Engineering, along with Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald, professor of engineering science and mechanics, used data mining to find the most relevant information about the corrosion-resistant properties of Alloy 22, an alloy candidate for nuclear-waste canisters. They reported their findings in the latest issue of Corrosion Science.

"Data is collected when a phenomenon is poorly understood and laboratory experiments are carried out," said Kamrun. "Large amounts of data exist everywhere. Every area of study has terabytes of information that could be used better by using data mining techniques to extract valuable information from data."

Alloy 22 is known for its corrosion-resistant properties and is most commonly used where resistance to rust and damage is crucial, such as in radioactive waste containment. Alloy 22 also is used in waste incinerators, pollution control, nuclear-fuel reprocessing and chemical manufacturing.

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Dr. Joe Cusumano, Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, and collaborators in Kinesiology and Hershey Medical Center has just won the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society Best Paper Award. The paper was entitled “Arm swing symmetry and coordination are reduced in early Parkinson’s disease,” authored by Xuemei Huang, Joseph Mahoney, Mechelle Lewis, Guangwei Du, Stephen Piazza and Joe Cusumano. The award winning paper will be fast-tracked for publication in Gait & Posture.

Dr. Joseph Rose, Paul Marrow Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from SPIE for Structural Health Monitoring and Smart Structures. Joe was awarded this honor at the SPIE Smart Structures and NDE conference in San Diego, California. ESM Congratulates Professor Rose!

Dr. Melik Demirel, Associate Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, is to give an invited talk at the American Vacuum society (AVS) meeting on May 3 in San Diego, California. To learn more about AVS, please visit their web site.