Department News 2003

December 2003

• Prof. Sridhar Seetharaman was awarded an NSF CAREER Award
  Professor Greg Rohrer was chosen to receive the Richard M. Fulrath Award from the American Ceramic Society in 2004. This award recogizes outstanding academic and industrial ceramic engineers/scientists who are 45 years of age or younger at the time of the presentation of the award at the ACerS Annual Meeting Banquet.
• Profesor Richard Fruehan was chosen to recieve CIT's Distinguished Professor of Engineering Award. This is the highest award that a Professor can receive from the Engineering College and was based upon Prof. Fruehan's leadership in the area of chemical metallurgy and process development related to the steel industry.
• Professors David Laughlin and David Lambeth were chosen to receive the Outstanding Research Award of the College of Engineering. This award is based upon the pioneering and successful interdisciplinary development of key magnetic thin film technology ( the B2 structured underlayers of NiAl and RuAl) that have been implemented worldwide and have lead to improved performance and a continued increase in storage density in hard disk drives.
• Professor Prashant Kumta's research on Methanol Fuel Cells written up in Pittsburgh Post Gazette (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03335/245885.stm)
• Professor Elias Towe was elected to Fellow of the American Physical Society. APS fellowship is limited to no more than 0.5% of the membership. Elias's citation is "For pioneering contributions to the application of quantum dot nanostructures in optoelectronic devices and for innovative use of phenomena in the design of novel optical devices

October 2003

• Professor Hubert Aaronson to receive the 2004 Hume Rothery Award from TMS at the TMS Annual meeting in March 2004. This award is presented annually to an outstanding scientific leader for exceptional scholarly contributions to the science of alloys.

August 2003

• Professor Anthony Rollett begins a sabbatical leave in Germany

June 2003

• Yan Wang, Martin Valdez and Prof. Sridhar Seetharaman win the 2003 Marcus A. Grossman Young Author Award of ASM.
  

May 2003

• Prof. M. McHenry wins the Philbrook Award
  

April 2003

• Prof. Richard Fruehan has a prize named after him by the Iron and Steel Society. The Richard J. Fruehan Award will be given to the authors of the best paper in a Process Technology Division conference in a given year.
• Prof. Marc De Graef''s new book entitled "Introduction to Conventional Electron Microscopy" was released by Cambridge University Press
  

February 2003

• Prof. Richard Fruehan is selected as the 2004 J. Keith Brimacombe lecturer by the ISS to honor outstanding achievement in the area of iron and steel
• Prof. Alan Cramb is selected to receive the Benjamin J. Fairless Award of the AIME for distinguished achievement in ferrous metallurgy