What's New at ESM?

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Bruce Gluckman, Associate Professor in Engineering Science has four presentations at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting on October 16 – 21 in Chicago, Illinois. Two of the talks will be presented by Dana Lynn Andre and Yina Wei, graduate students, one by Giorgio LaCorte, post doctoral scholar and Bruce Gluckman and the last is a collaborative work with Eric Liau, graduate student and a visiting scholar from Portugal, Luis Jacinto. Further, Bruce will participate in discussions and sessions relating to Ethics in Animal Science. To learn more about the conference, please visit their web site.

Dr. Patrick Lenahan, Distinguished Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, will present talks at the International Conference on Silicon Carbide in Nuremberg Germany and talks at the IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IIRW) Conference at Stanford University, Sierra Camp, California from October 9-23, 2009.

Dr. Cliff Lissenden, Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, is attending a workshop at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on wind turbine condition monitoring from October 7-10, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. To learn more of the meeting, please visit their web site.

Melik Demirel, Associate Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, will present a paper at the 216th annual Electrochemical Society meeting in Vienna, Austria. The meeting is scheduled for October 4 – 9, 2009 and for more information, please view this website.

Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, delivered the Inaugural Lecture on September 16 at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Spanish section of Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI), held in Santander, Spain. His lecture was entitled "Nanotechnology and metamaterials: A marriage made in heaven". More information can be found at this website.