Shayne Bement, undergraduate student in Engineering Science, will travel to Washinton, D.C. in late March to attend Open 2013 - National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). While at the conference, Shayne will present his Open Minds Exhibition Project. To learn more about the conference, please visit their website.

Isin Dizvay, graduate student in Engineering Science and Mechanics, under the advising of Professor Barbara Shaw, will travel to Orlando, Florida in March to attend the National Association of County Engineers (NACE) 2013 conference. While at the meeting, Isin will present a poster in the student poster competition, share and network with other graduate students, professors and industry professionals to advance research ideas and future opportunities. To learn more about the NACE 2013 meeting, please visit their website.

Daniel Cook, graduate student in Engineering Science and Mechanics, under the advising of Professor Barbara Shaw, will travel to Orlando, Florida in March to attend the National Association of County Engineers (NACE) 2013 conference. While at the meeting, Daniel will present a poster in the student poster competition, share and network with other graduate students, professors and industry professionals to advance research ideas and future opportunities. To learn more about the NACE 2013 meeting, please visit their website.

Drew Pulsifer, graduate student in Engineering Science and Mechanics, under the advising of Professor Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, will travel in early March to San Diego, California. While on travel, Drew will attend the Bioinspiration, biomimetics, and Bioreplication III technical conference of the SPIE: Smart Structures/NDE Symposium. Drew’s attendance at the conference will allow him to present a paper entitled: Progress toward visual decoys to trap the male emerald ash borer. The paper and presentation describe the progress made by Penn State researchers to develop an artificial decoy to lure male emerald ash borers which can be used as a lure in a trap that could help limit the spread of this destructive invasive species. To learn more about the conference, please visit their website.

Hui Yang, graduate student in Engineering Science and Mechanics, under the advising of Professor Sulin Zhang will travel to San Antonio, Texas to attend and present at The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) 2013. While attending the conference, Hui will present a paper entitled Mechanics of Lithiation in Silicon. Hui’s multiscale model that couples atomistic simulations with continuum chemo-mechanics to study the phase transformation stress generation, large plastic flow, damage evolution and failure in lithiated Silicon will be presented. The study will shed light on the lithiation-mediated degradation in nanostructured electrodes. The multiscale modeling framework is generic and will provide a basis for simulating the morphological evolution, stress generation, and failure in high-capacity electrodes for the next-generation lithium-ion batteries. To learn more about the conference, please visit their website.

Alineza Ostadhossein, graduate student in Engineering Science and Mechanics, under the advising of Professor Sulin Zhang, will travel in early March to San Antonio, Texas to attend The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) 2013. While at the conference, Alineza will present a paper entitled Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Crack Propagation in Silicon Nanowires/Effect of Lithiation. Further, Lithium ion batteries (LIBS) are widely used to power devices for portable electronics. Silicon represents one of the most promising anode materials for the next generation of LIBS. The effect of lithiation will be examined on the critical griffith’s load and strain energy distributions during crack propagation of Silicon NWs. To learn more about the conference, please visit their website.