Congratulations to Ricardo for his achievement of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Energy and Minerals Engineering at Penn State! It’s great to have students committed to the mission of sharing knowledge with others.
Congratulations to our alumna Melissa Marshall (BS '00) for McFarland Award
Let us congratulate our alumna Melissa Marshall (BS 2000) on receiving 2024 David Ford McFarland Award Lecture for Achievement in Metallurgy for her extraordinary achievements in the industrial side of our field. She is currently vice president at Westinghouse, accountable for the global internal audit, enterprise risk management, and global financial controls programs.
You can read more about her story in this Penn State news article.
Congratulations to Yu Zhong (PhD '05) for the promotion to Full Professor
Let us congratulate Yu (Michael) Zhong (PhD 2005) for the promotion to Full Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he leads the Integrated Materials and Processes Design Group.
Congratulations to Hui for a successful defense!
Huge congrats to Hui for acing their thesis defense! Her hard work and dedication have paid off tremendously. Here's to a bright future ahead!
Group Sushi Friendsgiving
Today, in the spirit of Friendsgiving, we had a nice sushi lunch at Tadashi - a nearby place beloved by many of our members and alumni!
Zentropy Featured by ASM
In a recent news article titled “Zentropy and the art of creating new ferroelectric materials” by ASM International, you can see how Zentropy applies to the materials discovery process and could change the world.
Congratulations to Alexander
Congratulations to Alexander on passing his Comprehensive Exams today!
Zentropy Featured by Penn State
Our Zentropy approach has recently been featured in Penn State’s news article where Dr. Liu discusses how we apply it to parameter-free prediction of ferroelectric to paraelectric transition temperature in PbTiO3 entirely from first-principle computations.
Technical details can be found in our resent publication on the topic 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2023.115480
Congratulations to Adam and Zhening
Congratulations to Adam and Zhening on passing their Comprehensive Exams today.
Adam’s talk was titled: Robust Materials Data Processing towards Materials Discovery Exemplified with High-Entropy Alloys
Zhening’s talk was titles: Design and characterization of functionally graded materials: SS304L to IN625 FGM and Fe- to Cu- alloy FGMs
TMS2023 Symposium in Honor of Dr. Liu
At the 2023 TMS Annual Meeting, TMS held an honorary symposium to recognize the contributions of Dr. Liu. The symposium was designed to applaud the impact of Liu on the fields of computational materials science and materials design on the occasion of his 60th birthday, the 20th anniversary of Liu coining the term “Materials Genome”, and the progress of computational thermodynamics (CALPHAD) in the last 50 years as the foundation of materials design.
Dr. Liu was also named a TMS Fellow in 2022.
Learn more in this recent interview. http://ow.ly/Nqjw50Og0Li
The news has also been featured on materialstoday Twitter page!
Adam, Alexander, Rushi, Hui, and Shuang Received NSF Travel Awards
Adam, Alexander, Rushi, Hui, and Shuang, have all received generous Travel Awards of around $1,500 from National Science Foundation (NSF) which will cover their registration at CALPHAD Conference in Boston, MA this June. Congratulations!
Alexander, Rushi, Hui, and Shuang Got PSU MatSE Travel Award
Alexander, Rushi, Hui, and Shuang, have all received a travel award from our MatSE Department that will support their travel to CALPHAD Conference in Boston, MA this June. Congratulations!
Adam Got PSU MatSE Travel Award
Adam has received a travel award from our MatSE Department that will support his travel to TMS 2023 Meeting this March in San Diego, CA. Congratulations!
Best JMI Paper Award for Our HEA Generative Design Paper
Our Generative deep learning as a tool for inverse design of high entropy refractory alloys (10.20517/jmi.2021.05) paper in the Journal of Materials Informatics received the Best 2022 Paper Award (3rd Place). Notably, in the last year, it was also the most downloaded paper in the journal.
Congratulations to Shuang
Congratulations to Shuang on passing his Comprehensive Exam today! His talk was on A computational study of thermodynamic and mechanical properties of nickel and refractory based alloys.
Adam's Poster on Alloy Abnormal Data Detection and ULTERA Won at PSU's Materials Day
Adam’s Poster showcasing the ULTERA Database infrastructure and our tools for Abnormal Data Detection in HEAs (applicable to most alloys) has has been selected by Penn State’s industry partners as one of 8 poster out of about 200 at the Materials Day event, organized by Materials Research Institute.
Our Article on the Cover of Computational Materials Science
Our recent article, “Insight into ideal shear strength of Ni-based dilute alloys using first-principles calculations and correlational analysis,” is featured on the cover of the [September issue] of Computational Materials Science, volume 212.
Article here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2022.111564
Congratulations to Yu Zhong (Ph.D. 2005) for receiving his tenure
Dr. Yu Zhong (Ph.D. 2005) received tenure at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in the department of Materials Science & Engineering. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Chelsey for receiving tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
Dr. Chelsey Hargather (Ph.D. 2012) received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in the department of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering. Congratulations!
Her promotion was featured in the ASM news at https://static.asminternational.org/amp/202210/56/
CONTRATULATIONS TO BILL WANG FOR BEING A TENURED PROFESSOR
Congratulations to Dr. Bill Wang (M.S. 2012 & Ph.D. 2013) for being a tenured professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Northwestern Polytechnical University, China