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DMSE News—April 2001
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Our Department
has once again maintained its top spot. There is very stiff (and
healthy!) competition from other institutions in several different
areas of engineering. Overall, MIT's School of Engineering has
also maintained a comfortable lead. Congratulations to everyone
in DMSE!
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New
DMSE Academic Programs
Beginning
Fall 2001, the Department will replace the present degree programs
in Electronic Materials, Ceramics, Polymers, Biomaterials, Metallurgy,
Materials Science and Materials Engineering with four
new academic programs—Electronic, Photonic and Magnetic
Materials, Bio- and Polymeric Materials, Structural and Environmental
Materials, and Emerging and Fundamental Studies in Materials—which
focus more on the integrative nature of the field rather than
on the specific materials classes.
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Major new research
projects involving DMSE faculty
Several major new research efforts,
funded through the MURI (Multi-University Research Initiative)
and DURINT (Defense University Research Initiative on NanoTechnology)
Programs, have been awarded to DMSE colleagues and their MIT collaborators
in the past few weeks. The following list provides a summary of
these programs. All programs are multi-departmental and, in most
cases, multi-institutional efforts, which are led by DMSE faculty
or which have active participation from DMSE faculty.
1. MURI on Hybrid active FSMA/Polymer
Micro-Composites and Electrostrictors; (funded by the Office
of Naval Research)
Dr. Robert O'Handley, co-PI's: Profs. Yet-Ming Chiang, Hagood
(Aero & Astro), along with colleagues from UCLA, UCSD.
Level of funding: $950,000 per year for first three years with
an optional $1,000,000 per year for two additional years. (The
MIT portion accounts for 50% of the total effort).
2.MURI on Micromechanical Systems
for Fuel Processing and Conversion to Electrical Power; (funded
by the Army Research Office)
PI: Prof. Klavs Jensen, co-PI's: Profs. Tuller, Barton (ChemE),
Schmidt (EECS), Ying (ChemE) and Spearing (Aero & Astro)
Level of funding: $3,166,727 for the first three years, with
an optional $2,971,398 for an additional two years (100% MIT
effort).
3. DURINT on Nanostructured and
Interfacial Materials; (funded by the Office of Naval Research)
PI: Subra Suresh, co-PI's: Profs. Jackie Ying (ChemE), Lallit
Anand (MechE), with additional collaborators from MIT (Argon
and Yip), Rutgers University, Institute of NanoTechnology, Karlsruhe,
Technical University of Berlin, Argonne National Laboratory,
and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Level of Funding: $3,000,000 for the first three years, with
an optional $2,000,000 for an additional two year. (92% of funding
for MIT).
4. DURINT Equipment Grant for
A Comprehensive Experimental Facility for Nano- and Meso-Scale
Mechanical Behavior of Nanostructured Materials and Coatings;
(funded by the Office of Naval Research)
PI: Subra Suresh
Level of Funding: $500,000. (100% MIT)
This funding will add valuable new equipment and resources to
the NanoMechanical Technology Lab. in DMSE.
5. DURINT on Polymeric Nanocomposites;
(funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research)
PI: Mary Boyce (MechE), Co-PIs: Profs. Ned Thomas, Gareth McInley
(MechE), Greg Rutledge (ChemE), David Parks (MechE), with external
collaborators from the University of Akron.
Level of Funding: $3,000,000 for the first three years, with
an optional $2,000,000 for an additional two year. (Mostly MIT
effort.)
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FACULTY
HONORS
Lorna
Gibson, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science
and Engineering, was named a Fellow of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers International (ASME) this March. ASME has
a membership of over 100,000 engineers world-wide. DMSE congratulates
Prof. Gibson on her achievement.
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Anne
M. Mayes, Associate Professor of Polymer Science, was named
one of the 2001 MacVicar Faculty Fellows. The MacVicar Fellow
proram recognizesMIT faculty committed to excellence and innovation
in teaching. Forty-six MIT faculty have been named MacVicar Fellows
since the program began in 1992. See the Tech
Talk article for full details of the 2001 MacVicar Day.
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STUDENT
HONORS
Krystyn Van
Vliet and Andrew Gouldstone received first prize in the Bodycote
Metal Technology Paper Competition. They were awarded $3000 and
presented their winning paper, Determination of mechanical
behaviour via instrumented indentation: application to coated
material systems, at the Bodycote
International PLC Annual Dinner in November 2000. Details of the
presentation can be seen on the Bodycote
website.
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OBITUARIES
Alice Kimball
Smith, wife of the late Cyril Stanley
Smith, died on Tuesday, 6 February, at the age of 93. Since 1995,
Dr. Smith had been living in Ellensburg, Washington to be near
her daughter, Anne Smith Denman. Alice Smith accompanied Cyril
to Los Alamos where they and their two children, Anne and Stuart,
lived until the end of the war. When the Smiths came to Cambridge
in the early 1960s, Alice was one of the first Scholars to be
accepted to the newly established Radcliffe Institute. From 1962
to 1964 she worked there to complete her major and highly acclaimed
book A PERIL AND A HOPE: THE SCIENTISTS' MOVEMENT IN AMERICA,
1945-1947 (1965), much of it based on her experiences at Los Alamos.
In 1980 Alice Smith co-authored a second book, with Charles Weiner,
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER: LETTERS IN RECOLLECTION. From 1963 to 1973,
when she retired, Alice Smith was director of the Radcliffe Seminars.
She was Dean of the Radcliffe Institute from 1971 to 1973. Alice's
two children, Anne Smith Denman and Stuart Smith, suggest that
contributions in Alice's name be sent to Mount Holyoke College,
50 College St., South Hadley, Massachusetts 01070,where Alice
was an undergraduate.
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| With profound sadness, we inform
you that we have received word of the death of Professor J. W.
Christian of Oxford University. Jack Christian will be remembered
for generations as one of the great scholars of Physical Metallurgy
and Solid-State Phase Transformations, having in a very literal
sense "written the book" on the subject. Despite a prolonged and
severely debilitating physical illness in the last two decades,
his mental powers were never impaired, and it appears that he was
working until the last moments of his life, as he would have undoubtedly
wished. MIT was one of the (very many) institutions he enjoyed visiting,
having spent a sabbatical here in 1971-72. His many friends, including
colleagues, former students and other collaborators, including many
here at MIT, will remember him with great fondness as a critical
thinker, but most importantly, as a kind and considerate person.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
December
16-21, 2001
The Westin Maui, Lahainia, Hawaii
Chairmen: Professor Robert Langer, Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
MIT Professor M. Hashida, Kyoto University. For more information
contact: Constance J. Beal, 8-5290, cjbeal@mit.edu
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| Any postdocs and research associates
who are interested in becoming a member of Sigma Xi, please contact
Prof. Linn Hobbs at hobbs@mit.edu. |
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Please contact Rachel
Kemper with news and announcements for this page. The DMSE
community will be informed of changes and updates to this page
through regular e-mail notifications. Please see recent award
opportunities and job postings in relevant fields.
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