2024
Fall:
With Nahid and Adnan in Little Bangladesh 2024 event.
Adnan Munshi joined my research group as a PhD student. He will be working on reliability and radiation effects in wide bandgap electronics.
Dr. Chintan Chavda joins my group as a post-doc. He will be working on radiation damage mitigation and resilience of electronic devices.
Gongyuan Liu got back to Penn State to continue his PhD research on nuclear graphite. He spent a year at the Idaho National Lab
We welcome Brian Landes as undergraduate research assistant in the lab. Brian will work on radiation vulnerability of electronic devices.
Spring:
Sergei Stepanoff passed PhD comprehensive exam.
Rasel defended his PhD thesis.
Hafijur Rahman passed PhD comprehensive exam.
Sam Cowan completed MS (Paper option).
We welcome undergraduate students, Felix Cooper and Andrew Crilley to the group.
Dr. Melonie Thomas leaves our group after accepting a position at the Los Alamos National Lab.
Sergei Stepanoff received the Robert E. Newnham Award for Research Excellence Award from the Materials Science and Engineering department.
With Nahid and Hafij in Bangladesh Night 2024
2023
Spring: Lawrence Bradley completes his MS and joins Advanced Cooling Technologies.
Summer: Hafijur Rahman joins my research group. His focus is on active control of microstructure in metals and alloys.
Fall: Hafij passes the PhD qualifying exam. We welcome undergraduate students, Sarah Todaro and Luke Warner and wish good luck to Hajin Oh, who starts graduate program at Purdue University.
2022
Spring: Gongyuan Liu joins the research group, co-advised by Jing Du. He is working on nuclear graphite.
Spring: Nahid passes PhD qualifying exam.
Summer: Logan Sharp completes his MS, joins GE Aviation.
Summer: Rasel completes his PhD comprehensive exam. He is working on radiation damage in electronic devices.
Summer: Andrew Bielecki completes MS, presenting his paper, “Motion and Dynamic Analysis in the Mechanism of a Natural Gas Regulator with Integrated Flow Analysis”.
Summer: Nahid completes his PhD comprehensive exam. He is working on stress localization effects on radiation damage.
Fall 22: Dr. Melonie Thomas joined the research group!
Fall 22: Nahid passes PhD comprehensive exam.
2021
Lawrence Bradley III joins the research group, Fall 2021.
Logan Sharp joins the research group, Fall 2021.
Nahid Al-Mamun joins the research group, Fall 2021.
Jason Mazza completes MS, presenting his paper “Decoupling Load and Torque Bearing Functions in a Locomotive Wheel”
Davis Streit completes MS, presenting his paper, “Development of a Tweel™ Performance Test Rig”
Fahim Mobin completes MS, presenting his paper, “Design of a Novel Simplified Endoscopic Device”
2020
Zahabul Islam completes PhD, after accepting a post doc position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
James Kidd completes MS, joins NanoAL LLC.
Abu Jafar Rasel joins my research group, Fall 2020
2017
Zahabul Islam completes PhD comprehensive exam in May 02.
Baoming Wang defends his PhD dissertation on June 28.
Niranjana Sundaresan completes her MS on July 6.
2016
Raghu Pulavarthy completes his PhD and joins Intel Corporation.
2015
Tarek Alam defends his PhD dissertation on June 15. He is to join Intel Corporation
Raghu Pulavarthy completes his MS and continues for his PhD.
2014
Tarek Alam wins the 2014 Penn State Alumni Association Best PhD Dissertation Award. At the award ceremony. Previous winners from our group are Sandeep Kumar, Benedict Samuel and Amit Desai.
I was elected Fellow of the ASME
2013
Raghu Pulavarthy wins the NSF Travel Award for the ASME IMECE 2013
Raghu Pulavarthy passed the Candidacy Exam.
Tarek Alam is awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellow position in the department
2012
Jiezhu Jin defended her PhD thesis. She joined Saint Gobain.
Tarek passed the PhD comprehensive exam
Sandeep Kumar defended his thesis. He will be joining the UC Riverside Mechanical Engineering department as an Assistant Professor.
Tarek Alam wins the MEMS Division Best Poster Awardat the Micro-Nano Forum poster competition (ASME IMECE 2012, Houston)
2011
Sandeep Kumar wins the 2011 Penn State Alumni Association Best PhD Dissertation Award. Previous winners from our group are Benedict Samuel and Amit Desai.
I received the PSEAS Outstanding Researcher Award.
Mohan Manoharan received his PhD. He is set to join Intel Corporation.
2010
Jiezhu Jin wins the 2010 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Award.
I received the PSEAS Outstanding Teaching Award.
Jiezhu Jin wins the ARKEMA Graduate Research Award (recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in polymer research).
Tarek Alam wins the Innovation Award at the Micro-Nano Forum poster competition (ASME IMECE 2010, Vancouver)
2009
Mohan Manoharan wins the 2009 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Award.
Mohan and Sandeep passed the PhD comprehensive exam, while Michelle finished her MS.
Sandeep Kumar wins the 2009 Kulakowski Travel Award (in honor of Professor Bohdan Kulakowski).
Jiezhu Jin passed the PhD Comprehensive exam (Materials Science & Engineering).
Benedict Samuel completes his PhD. He is set to join Intel Corporation.
Christina Lentz defends her MS (Materials Science & Engineering) thesis. She is set to join 3M Corporation.
Sandeep Kumar receives honorable mention at the Micro-Nano Forum poster competition (ASME IMECE 2009)
2008
Benedict Samuel wins the 2008 Penn State Alumni Association Best PhD Dissertation Award.
Mohan Manoharan wins the 2008 Kulakowski Travel Award (in honor of Professor Bohdan Kulakowski)
Mohan Manoharan wins the 2008 University Graduate Fellowship (UGF) Award.
Jonathan Culp completes his MS.
2007
Sanjeeva Redlapalli completes his MS.
Todd Ziegler completes his MS.
Amit Desai completes his PhD. He is set to start a post doc position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Martin Samayoa completes his MS.
Amit Desai wins the 2007 Penn State Alumni Association Best PhD Dissertation Award (given to two students in the College of Engineering, annually).
2006
Lisandra Colon-Jiminez and Sonia Cortes worked with us in the summer of 2006 as summer RAs.
2005
Benedict Samuel completes his MS, and continues for a PhD.
2004
Tabitha and Jennifer Looi came to work with us in Summer 2004.
2003
I start as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Month before, I defended my PhD thesis. Amit Desai joins my research group in Fall 2003 and Benedict Samuel at the end of that semester.