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Message from the Chairman
Minking Chyu
Greetings from Pitt!
This past year has been one of tremendous success at the Swanson School Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS).
Continue reading the chair's message.
Pitt Nuclear Engineering Program Receives Grants to Enhance Nuclear Energy Education
As part of a federal effort to expand the U.S.'s nuclear energy workforce, the University of Pittsburgh received three government grants totaling $750,000 to bolster the nuclear engineering undergraduate and graduate certificate programs based in Pitt's Swanson School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.
Read more about the grants.
Learn more about Pitt's undergraduate and graduate nuclear engineering programs.
MEMS Faculty Lead Pitt's Center for Energy
The University of Pittsburgh recently announced the creation of a new Center for Energy as part of what Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg referred to as "the increasing need to address the complex energy challenges of our time, which call for more reliable, efficient, and environmentally friendly energy sources."
Read more about about the Center for Energy.
Department to Host First Westinghouse Distinguished Lecture
The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science is proud to announce the first Westinghouse Distinguished Lecture.
Computational Methods for Failure Analysis at the Nanoscale and Macroscale
Presented by Ted Belytschko
Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor of Computational Mechanics
Northwestern University
Friday, October 24, 2008
3 p.m.
Concordia Club
Main Dining Room
4024 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213
Learn more about the lecture.
Lisa Mauck Weiland Receives CAREER Award to Develop Clean-Power Community
Lisa Mauck Weiland, assistant professor, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to help an area community develop a sustainable energy plan. The award funds junior faculty members' emerging careers and includes an education component that encourages outreach to women and underrepresented minorities.
Read more about Weiland's CAREER award.
Meet Joshua Williams, Materials Science Major
Joshua Williams, a junior materials science and engineering (MSE) major from Schellsburg, Pa., was awarded the U.S. Steel Scholarship this year. To receive this scholarship, MSE majors must maintain a 3.0 GPA.
Josh, why did you choose materials science?
"It's very research intensive, which is important to me since I plan to go on for graduate school and someday do research either for a company or at a university. Also, two of my three older brothers are materials science engineers and they've been great role models for me. Brad Storey, who does materials science research, helped me choose a good internship and my other brother, Jesse Williams, completed his materials science degree at Pitt and more recently his doctorate at the University of California-Santa Barbara. I also have a brother, Joel Williams, who is a mechanical engineer at a Baltimore firm, and is also a graduate from Pitt."
Read more about Williams.
Going Weightless for NASA
"Today was one of the best days of my life! It was a very exciting experience to finally be in microgravity (which we have all been anticipating for months
:) )," writes José Bernardo on his blog. "We ... DID NOT GET SICK," he says. John Bennewitz further elaborates, "The closest description of zero gravity I can give is that I subconsciously felt like I was upside down, but my eyes were facing normal."
Read more about their zero gravity experience.
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