What's New at ESM?

Dr. Tony Huang, James Henderson Assistant Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, is attending the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) 2009 conference in Orlando, Florida on November 13 – 19. While at the conference he will serve as the organizing chair for the 2009 ASME Society-wide Micro/Nano Technology Forum. To learn more about the IMECE conference, please visit their website.

Dr. Melik Demirel, Associate Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, has been invited to present a lecture on nanostructured polymers at the 56th technical program, American Vacuum Society on November 10th, 2009 in San Jose, California.

To learn more about the conference, please visit their website.

Hongyan Yuan, Graduate Student in Engineering Science and Mechanics under the advisor of Dr. Sulin Zhang, Assistant Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics will attend the 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress on October 31 - November 6 in Boston, Massachusetts. Hongyan will be presenting a paper ‘Coarse-Grained Modeling of Vesicle-Substrate Interactions.” To learn more about the conference, please visit this website.

Tom Mackay
School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
3:35pm - 4:25pm
114 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building

Dr. Cliff Lissenden, Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, presented research at the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Conference on October 20 – 21 in Columbus, Ohio. To learn more about the conference, please visit their website.

James K. Breakall
Department of Electrical Engineering, PSU

Wednesday October 28, 2009
3:35pm - 4:25pm
114 EES Building

Dr. Robert McGrath (B.S., E SC), Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, presented a seminar titled "The Present Status and Future Promise of Renewable and Efficient Energy Technologies" on October 2nd at the University Park Campus. Dr. McGrath, a former Penn State Associate Vice President of Research was on campus for a Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment (PSIEE) advisory board meeting during the same week.

Dinesh Agrawal, Professor of Engineering Science and Director of the Materials Research Institute's Microwave Processing and Engineering Center, has been elected to the grade of Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). Dr. Agrawal will be recognized at the ACerS Honors and Awards Banquet at the 111th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, on Monday, October 26, 2009.

Congratulations on this accomplishment.

Prof. Melik Demirel presented an invited talk on soft nanomaterials at the 2009 Discovery to Commercialization Conference at Philedelpia October 15. The meeting has been organized by Ben Franklin Institute. To learn more about the conference, please visit their web site.

Charles Bakis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, will be presenting an invited lecture on Life Cycle Analysis Issues in the Use of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites in Civil Infrastructure at the International Workshop on Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Infrastructure Materials, 21-22 Oct. 2009, Sapporo, Japan.