Stony Brook alumnus ('88) Keith Kowalsky and Dan Marantz won
the National Inventor of the Year Award.  Dan founded
Flame Spray Industries (FSI) in 1965.  Keith is the company
president.  Their company and Ford Motors share the
prize for work to coat the interior of automotive
engine-blocks.

Congratulations!

http://www.flame-spray.com/

The 2009 Motor Trend Car of the Year (Nissan GT-R)
uses FSI's coatings to produce 480 horses, 0 to 120mph
in 12 seconds.

http://www.ipoef.org/

http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzcoat0812829800jun05,0,489651.story

01/14/2009
The EDS electronics/computer on the SEM is being replaced next month.

12/20/2008
Have a great holiday season!

12/01/2008
CME passed their preliminary ABET eval.

11/14/2008
Prof. Alex Orlov is having an open house for undergraduates in his new lab (room 305). It contains sensitive spectrometers for trace analysis of environmental chemical hazards.

10/15/2008
Provostial review delayed due to budget crunch.

09/01/2008
Welcome back for the start of 2008/2009..........

08/01/2008
Prof. Chris Weyant will be joining the department and Thermal Spray in the next few days!

07/12/2008
Prof. Nadine Pernodet recently joined Estee Lauder. A search is open for her replacement.

05/14/2008
Good luck with finals!

05/20/2008
Tuesday 3pm to 5pm
End of the Year Party!
Room 232

05/07/2008
The Materials Science Club received the Social Programming Award at the 2007-2008 Campus Life Awards Ceremony. Congrats!!!

04/30/2008
Congrats to Saagar and Eyal, for winning an award for their ESG440/441 Senior Design Project!!!

01/30/2008
Prof. Alexander Orlov has just joined the department. Welcome!

01/28/2008
Welcome back everyone!

12/20/2007
Prof. Gouldstone is moving up to Northeastern in Boston. Good luck Andrew!!

09/06/2007
Stony Brook Technology         Wins 2007 R&D 100 Award
Stony Brook, NY, September 6, 2007
Technology conceived and initially developed at Stony Brook University has received a prestigious R&D 100 Award from R&D magazine. Jointly developed with Stony Brook based spin-off MesoScribe Technologies, this materials deposition technology referred to as Direct Write Thermal Spray allows range of sensors, novel antennas, and electronic circuits to be deposited onto complex components and survive extremely high temperatures, enabling applications in gas turbines, aircraft and other harsh environments. Described as "the Oscars of Invention" by the Chicago Tribune, the R&D 100 awards are given to the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace in the last year. "The Direct Write System is a breakthrough in maskless patterning of thick film materials for novel electronics and sensor applications", said Prof. Sanjay Sampath, Stony Brook Professor and Co-Inventor. The basic technology was developed under a DARPA- funded program at Stony Brook University and licensed to MesoScribe Technologies in 2003 for further enhancement and commercial development. The DARPA MICE program (for Mesoscopic Integrated Conformal Electronics) sought to develop revolutionary material deposition technologies for maskless 3D printing of mesoscale devices onto a range of substrates at low substrate temperature. MesoScribe has since significantly enhanced the product's capabilities and now commercializing both the system and products made from Direct Write for aerospace, power generation, and military markets. The unique capabilities derived from the technology allows for novel applications that would not be possible through traditional manufacturing methods. Stony Brook award recipients include Prof Sanjay Sampath and Prof.Richard Gambino of the Materials Science Department and Prof.Jon Longtin of the Mechanical Engineering department. Collaborators from MesoScribe include Robert Greenlaw, and Dr. Jeffrey Brogan

08-17-2007
Welcome back everyone! A special welcome to new faculty members/students and farewell to anyone who has moved on!

08-01-2007
Prof. Charles Fortmann has joined the department.

12-08-2006
We now also have a campus wide minor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, administered by this department. Also there is a CEE specialization in the Engineering Science General major.

10-01-2006
Dr. Nadine Pernodet and Dr. Tadanori Koga have joined the department, as faculty in the undergraduate program for Chemical and Molecular Engineering. Welcome!

09-01-2006
Welcome Back!

04-01-2006
Congratulations to Prof. Andrew Gouldstone for a Certificate of Special Commendation for Graduate Teaching.

03-29-2006
Congratulations to Dr. Jie Bai for winning a Graduate Council Commendation to Distinguished Doctoral Students.

03-22-2006
Prof. Devinder Mahajan was been inducted into the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (USA Section). Additionally, he was awarded the Crown and Eagle Medal of Honor in recognition of outstanding contributions and services in the field of Petroleum Engineering.

01-22-2006
Welcome Back!

01-16-2006
Reconstruction of the lavatories in Old Engineering will begin this week. The first-floor units are closed.

01-12-2006
The ceiling tiles and lights have been replaced on all four floors of Old Engineering.

01-05-2006
The new construction of Heavy Engineering is complete. Occupants will move in shortly, on a phased basis.

01-02-2006
Construction in the old part of Heavy Engineering will close off the hallways during this week.

12-08-2005
The ESG program and CTSR will be receiving a donation of two gas turbine-engines from a Blackhawk Helicopter.

11-28-2005
Lynn Allopenna joins the department at the Assistant to the Chair.
You can find Lynn in:
Room 314 (right inner office)
lallopenna@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
2-4174
Welcome Lynn!

09/12/2005
This summer, our department and college received a sizeable donation of equipment from AIL/EDO. We owe a great deal of thanks to this company for their continued support of our educational and research programs.

08/29/2005
Prof. Sanjay Sampath has become of Fellow of ASM International. The citation reads, "for seminal contributions to the materials science and process science of thermal spray protective and functional coatings and for the linkage of science to practice in coating technologies".

08/24/2005
Classes begin on Monday the 29th!

08/20/2005
Welcome to Stony Brook for all new incoming students.
The departmental orientation for incoming "graduate students" is Monday 8/22 at 11AM in room 301.

08/08/2005
Our "EPA" audit will begin next week.
We hope everyone is prepared, as usual.

08/01/2005
The main quad area is being repaved and refurbished.

07/20/2005
Keyence will be demo'ing their microscopes here on the 25th.

07/04/2005
Some donated xray equipment will be set up in 217 as soon as it is checked out and all interlocks work.

06/15/2005
We are expecting many visiting high-school and undergraduate students here this summer.
Please try to help them and acquaint them to the best lab and safety practices.

05/25/2005
Congratulations to all graduating students!

03/30/2005
Eudanie Joseph, Wilton Moran, Theodore Feldman and Madeline Augustin will be honored at the Undergraduate Recognition Awards Ceremony. The ceremony will be held on Monday evening, May 2, 2005 from 7:00 p.m. -- 8:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Center Auditorium.

Brinda Alagesan,   Manhasset High School, Manhasset, NY
"Dynamics of Genomic DNA"

Chelsea Gordon,  Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, NY
" A Novel Method of Polymer Metallization"

John Michael Iraci,  Kings Park High School, Kings Park, NY
"Tri-Blends: A Novel Procedure to Create Ideal Plastics Using Recycled Materials Exposed to Supercritical Carbon Dioxide"

Eric Steven Mansfield, Smithtown High School, Smithtown, NY
"Optimization of Hyluronic Acid Hydrogels for Wound Healing"

Amit Mehta,   Saint Anthony's High School, South Huntington, NY
"DNA Electrophoresis of Mega-Base Pair and Circular DNA on Micro-Patterned Surfaces"

Sagar Viplov Mehta,  The Wheatley School, Old Westbury, NY
"Optimizing the Properties of Hyaluronic Acid (HA) Hydrogel Scaffolds for Wound Healing and Tissue Engineering"

Feini Qu,  Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, NY
"Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide to Enhance Polymer Compatibility in Ultra-Thin Films"

Aditi Ramakrishnan,  Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
"Are Nanoparticles safe? Cytotoxicity of Citrate Coated Gold Nanoparticles"

 Matthew Jordan Schlossberger,   John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview, NY
"Electrospinning of Polystyrene and POSS Nanofibers"

Jonathan Andrew Scholl,  The Wheatley School, Old Westbury, NY
"Surface Directed Crystallization of Polymer Thin Films in Supercritical Fluids"

TiffanyYeh,  Syosset High School, Syosset, NY 
"Human Dermal Fibroblast Growth and Response to Polybutadiede and Polybutadiene-Cloisite 6A Nanocomposite Surfaces"

-- the London Times Higher Education Supplement ranked Stony Brook 
No. 136 among the more than 8,300 universities worldwide, and in the 
top 50 in North America.

-- the Institute for Higher Education in Shanghai ranked Stony Brook 
among the top 150 universities in the world.

-- in a ranking of the best science universities, the London Times 
Higher Education Supplement ranked Stony Brook No. 76, making it 21 
in the U.S. and 10 among U.S. public universities.

Allyson Ho, William P. Clements High School, 
Sugar Land, TX and Alex Thachara, The Wheatley 
School, Old Westbury, NY

The Effects of Nanoparticles on Selective Gas 
Permeability of Thin Film Membranes Using 
Supercritical Fluid

In their research, Allyson Ho and Alex Thachara 
explored ways to improve, modify and control the 
porosity of polymer thin films. The applications 
for this technology are many: gas masks which 
filter out large molecules, viruses and bacteria 
while allowing free flow of oxygen and carbon 
dioxide, specialized food wrappings, as well as 
specialized permeable bandages for burns. Such 
devices could for instance prevent airborne 
pathogens such as SARS from infecting people and 
provide preventative measures against bio-
terrorism.

Ms. Ho and Mr. Thachara combined two techniques 
to modify the permeability of very thin polymer 
films made from polystyrene and poly (methyl 
methacrylate). They added assorted nanoparticles, 
then subjected the films to treatment in high 
pressure, super-critical carbon dioxide ­ 
pressure greater than 1,073 pounds per square 
inch and at temperatures greater than 31.3 
celsius. Both these treatments affect the 
porosity. Ms Ho and Mr. Thachara carefully 
controlled and measured the resulting oxygen 
permeability of their films after a combination 
of these treatments. Their mentors were Luckner 
John Jerome and Dr. Miriam Rafailovich.

Fluent in Mandarin, Ms. Ho, a junior, enjoys 
swimming and arts and crafts. She is a member of 
the Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS), 
Youth Expanding Service (YES) and Texas 
Association of Future Educators (TAFE). She 
received semi-finalist honors in the 2003 Siemens 
Westinghouse Competition and honorable mention at 
the 2004 Exxon Mobile Texas Science and 
Engineering Fair. Ms. Ho’s sister, Madelyn, was a 
national finalist in the 2002-03 Siemens 
Westinghouse Competition.
Fluent in Malayalam and Spanish, Mr. Thachara, a 
junior, has been playing the clarinet for almost 
ten years. He is a member of the Medical 
Explorers Club and volunteers at North Shore 
University Hospital . He enjoys basketball and 
football and plans to study pre-law in college. 

Fluent in Malayalam and Spanish, Mr. Thachara, a 
junior, has been playing the clarinet for almost 
ten years. He is a member of the Medical 
Explorers Club and volunteers at North Shore 
University Hospital . He enjoys basketball and 
football and plans to study pre-law in college.

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Jessica Fields, Jericho High School, Jericho, New 
York and 
Taylor Bernheim, Ramaz Upper School, New York, 
New York

From Micro- to Nano- Patterning: Organizing the 
Extracellular Matrix and Directing 
Cell Adhesion

Jessica Fields and Taylor Bernheim's 
bioengineering research is exciting preliminary 
work on the development of human tissue that may 
lead to possible processes for tissue 
regeneration. Motivated by a desire to enable 
tissue engineering, the team studied ways to 
induce extracellular matrix (ECM) self-assembly. 
The control of extra cellular matrix (ECM) 
organization and cell adhesion is critical to 
future advances in tissue engineering. Ms. Fields 
and Ms. Bernheim have developed promising new low-
cost methods of directing nano-patterns of ECM 
assembly, and have begun to explore how different 
cell types respond to these patterns. Their 
research has potential implications for tissue 
engineering, medical implants and cancer 
diagnosis. 

Ms. Fields, a senior, enjoys karate and 
constructing stone sculptures. She is the captain 
of Jericho High School's varsity fencing team and 
is editor-in-chief of Blue and Gold Literary 
Magazine. In 2004, she was an Intel International 
Science and Engineering Fair finalist and, in 
2003, she was a Siemens Westinghouse Competition 
semi-finalist. A National Honor Society member, 
Ms. Fields plans to study biology or psychology 
in college. 

Ms. Bernheim, a junior, speaks fluent Spanish and 
Hebrew. She is a staff writer for Fresh Ink, a 
citywide teen supplement to The Jewish Week. She 
enjoys dancing and helped create and direct 
Teddy's Legacy, a program that brings dance, 
music and poetry to the elderly. She plans to 
study biomedical engineering and journalism in 
college. The team's mentors on the project were 
Dr. Miriam Rafailovich and Dr. Nadine Pernodet. 

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Yisrael Herzberg and Yonatan Schwab, Rambam 
Mesivta High School, Lawrence, NY

Synthesis and Characterization of highly uniform 
Palladium nanoparticles

Mr. Herzberg and Mr. Schwab's research focused on 
making nanoparticles from Palladium. Contrary to 
accepted theory, they found that these 
nanoparticles are highly magnetic. The end result 
makes these nanoparticles a reusable catalyst 
because it can be extracted from a reaction 
region. Their goal is to produce fuel that does 
not pollute the atmosphere. Their mentors were 
Rebecca Isseroff and Dr. Miriam Rafailovich.

Mr. Herzberg, a senior, is a council treasurer 
for his senior class and an avid basketball and 
chess player. He would like to be a Talmudic 
scholar.

Mr. Schwab, a senior, is captain of his College 
Bowl team and editor-in-chief of his synagogue 
newsletter. He plans to study chemistry or 
biology in college.

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Aditi Ramakrishnan, Ward Melville High School, 
East Setauket, NY

Is Nanotechnology Safe? The Cytotoxicity of 
Citrate Coated Gold Nanoparticles in Dermal 
Fibroblasts

Aditi Ramakrishnan's project investigates the 
potential dangers of nanotechnology. 
Nanoparticles are found in many applications, 
including drug delivery systems, vaccines, and 
cosmetics such as sunscreens and blushes. 
However, studies addressing potential health 
risks have not kept pace with the steadily 
increasing stream of nanoparticle applications. 
In her research, Ms. Ramakrishnan proved that 
gold nanoparticles in vitro, which are present in 
cosmetics and biomedical applications, can damage 
cells and may therefore be hazardous to one’s 
health. Her mentors were Dr. Nadine Pernodet and 
Professor Miriam Rafailovich.

Ms. Ramakrishnan, a senior, speaks fluent Tamil 
and Spanish, and was a semi-finalist in the 2003-
04 Siemens Westinghouse Competition. She is an 
accomplished musician, having studied voice and 
violin for 14 years. She was a ccepted to the 
Tanglewood Institute for String Quartet studies 
and has played with the New York All State String 
Orchestra, School of Orchestral Studies Symphony 
Orchestra , Ward Melville Chamber Orchestra, and 
as concertmistress of the 2003 and 2004 LISFA 
Orchestra. She is the founder and director of 
Music without Borders, a group of high school 
musicians who give free private lessons to 
elementary school children who do not have access 
to music instruction. She is interested in 
studying neuroscience, biomedical engineering and 
creative writing in college and aspires to be a 
physician-scientist. 

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MesoScribe Technologies has won a $5.4 million grant from the Department of Commerce to develop sensors that could withstand 2000-degree temperatures in the gas turbine engines used in power plants.

The four-year grant from the agency's National Institute of Standards and Technology will help the company as it seeks to commercialize a process that uses a robotic arm with a plasma gun to deposit layers of coatings that are built into sensors on the surfaces of the components.

The 2-year-old compnay, based in the Long Island High Technology Incubator, licenses the technology from Stony Brook University, where it was developed.

Jeff Brogan, vice president for operations, said the embedded sensors also could be used on turbines used in marine applicatins and commericial and military jet engines.

"The market for harsh-environment sensors is over $1 billion," he said.

By measuring the temperatures in the components, Brogan said, the sensor can warn of cracking or erosion. Manufacturers want to measure the health of their components and run their engines more efficiently, Brogan added. "Right now conventional sensors can't stand that environment."

Brogan said the company also is in talks with the Air Force. "There's tremendous interest for these sensors to be used in military aircraft," he said.

Siemens Westinghouse is a development partner with MesoScribe in developing its direct write technology and is designated as the first end user in power generation.

by Ken Schachter, LI Business News

Kasia will defend her entry at the finalists' meeting on Saturday, October 2 in Akron, Ohio, the home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

This is a major achievement and let us all wish Kasia good luck!

http://www.invent.org/collegiate/.

"New technology is emerging from colleges and universities across the United States and around the world. Students are often the force behind the breakthroughs. Their contributions will become tomorrow's foundation. The Collegiate Inventors Competition's mission is to recognize and encourage students on their quest to change tomorrow.

Professor Richard Gambino has been elected to the National Academy of
Engineering for  the discovery of magnetic anisotropy, the enabling
technology of magneto-optical recording.


Details on the NAE:

National Academy of Engineering elects 76 members and 11 foreign associates

Washington - the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 76 new
members and 11 foreign associates, NAE President Wm. A. Wulf announced.
This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,174 and the number of foreign
associates to 172.

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest
professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.  Academy membership
honors those who have made demonstrated accomplishment in "the pioneering
of new fields of engineering, making major advancements in traditional
fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to
engineering education."

A list of new newly elected members and foreign associate fellows as well
as more details on the this news release is available at
http://national-academies.org

STONY BROOK, N.Y., January 27, 2004 - Stony
Brook University professor Henry J. White, Ph.D. is a
recipient for 2004 of the most prestigious award
offered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for
new faculty members. The NSF CAREER award,
$400,000 over a five-year period, recognizes and
supports the early career-development activities of
those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become
academic leaders of the 21st century.

Dr. White, an Assistant Professor in the Materials
Sciences Department, will study the Structure
Property Relationship of Adherent Silicon Carbide
Coatings on materials traditionally used for ethylene
pyrolysis applications. His work will provide the
solution for a high temperature corrosion materials
problem, which costs the petroleum industry millions of
dollars each year. 

The NSF's Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) program selects the awardees in the basis
of creative career development plans that effectively
integrate research and education.

Dr. White, a licensed professional engineer in the State
of New York, resides in Smithtown with his wife,
Yuxie, and daughter Hillary (age 4). Dr. White also is
an alumnus of Stony Brook, having received in Ph.D. is
Materials and Engineering in 2000.


The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the
National Science Foundation?s most prestigious
awards for new faculty members. The CAREER
program recognizes and supports the early
career-development activities of those
teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the
academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER
awardees will be selected on the basis of creative,
career-development plans that effectively integrate
research and education within the context of the
mission of their institution. NSF encourages submission
of CAREER proposals from new faculty at all
CAREER eligible institutions. Such plans should build a
firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions
to research and education.

01/23/2004
Welcome Back

11/07/2003
Best wishes to Prof. Herman for his retirement

09/15/2003
Congratulations to Prof. Gouma for her "nanonose grant".

09/06/2003
Materials Science tops the College list for research-dollars in 2003!

08/31/2003
Welcome back everyone!

04/02/2003
Undergraduate Recognition Awards:
Cassandra Holzgartner
Christienne Mancini
Soo-Hyun (Steve) Tark
Jason Trelewicz
The award is based upon both academic excellence
and additional education and service activities.
CONGRATULATIONS!

01/22/2003
Welcome back everyone!

01/22/2003
Once again, the Garcia Center (Polymer Group) has racked up tons of Intel and Siemens awards.

01/01/2003
The local ASM Chapter was new web pages, and Prof. Henry White is their current Chairperson.

12/17/02
Pictures from Kitty's party

December 6, 2002
ATTENTION C.E.A.S. UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS:
IT'S TIME TO APPLY FOR  2003-2004  C.E.A.S.  SCHOLARSHIPS !

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) is pleased to
announce the continuation of its scholarship program.   Students who are
matriculated in a CEAS major who wish to apply for one or more of the 16
titled scholarships to be awarded to approximately 36 students for the next
academic year should visit the CEAS Undergraduate Student Office,
Engineering Building 127, where you can read the posted descriptions and
detailed criteria for each scholarship and then pick up copies of the
relevant descriptions and application forms.   (Brief descriptions can be
seen on the CEAS website,   http://www.ceas.sunysb.edu).  Scholarship
amounts range from $500 to $5,000 for the academic year.

You may apply for as many scholarships as you qualify for.  (Please do NOT
take applications for scholarships for which you do not meet the basic
criteria.)   A separate application is required for each scholarship.
Students who are currently (2002-03) the recipients of one or more of these
scholarships MUST REAPPLY for possible continuation.

All of the applications require a resume, some require narrative statements
or essays about academic and career plans, and a few require a faculty
recommendation.  The sooner you begin compiling your application documents,
the better.    You do not have to obtain your Stony Brook transcripts;
those will be supplied by CEAS.  (Transfer students are, however, advised
to attached an unofficial copy of their transfer institution's transcript.)

You have plenty of time to pick up the application materials which are
available now through the beginning of the Spring 2003 semester  in
Engineering 127.  The deadline for submission of completed applications to
the Undergraduate Student Office is:   Monday, February 3, 2003 at 5 p.m.

Good luck on finals, happy holidays, enjoy your intersession break !
Joan M. Kenny
Assistant Dean

12/05/2002
This Wednesday, Dec. 11, representatives of the New York Association of 
Consulting Engineers (NYACE) will be here to speak with interested students 
about careers in consulting engineering and to announce their scholarship 
program for 2003-04. They will distribute scholarship applications and 
give students some details about their work as consulting engineers. 
NYACE will also provide lunch -- free pizza and soda.
All Interested CEAS Students are Invited !
Time: Campus Life Time, 12:45 to 2 p.m.
Place: Engineering, Lect Hall 145 


12/02/2002
We cordially invite you to come and join us as we celebrate 
Kitty Boccio's twenty-one years of service to the Department 
of Materials Science and Engineering.
Thursday, December 12, 2002 
14:00 - 16:00 
SAC, Room 302
Please contact Gertha Benoit-Holis for more 
details if you are interested in attending.
Gertha Benoit-Hollis 
2-4174 ghollis@notes.cc.sunysb.edu 

10/30/02
Prof. Miriam Rafailovich, Materials Science and Engineering, was honored for her excellence in research by Chancellor King at the Chancellor's Research Recognition Award dinner on October 24 at State University Plaza in Albany.

10/25/02
Congratulations goes out to Professor Dilip Gersappe!
He and his wife had a baby girl (Diya) this morning weighing in at 7lbs-1oz

10/20/02
Congratulations to Petr!
He and his wife had a baby girl (Alice).

10/01/02
Prof. Juan Carlos Rojo has joined the department, in the area of Crystal Growth.

09/21/02
Prof. David Larson has left the department, and will continue his work at NASA.

09/10/02
Prof. Gary Halada is the "interim" Undergraduate Program Director.

08/23/02
Welcome new students!!

08/22/02
Prof. Dilip Gersappe is the new Graduate Program Director.

08/20/02
Materials Science tops the College list for research-dollars in 2002!

05/24/02
Prof. Sanjay Sampath has been named by the SUNY Chancellor's Office as a recipient of the "Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities." The award recognizes outstanding research of the State University faculty. This is an important award and is presented to a limited number of faculty members.

05/17/02
Congratulations to all of the graduates.

05/12/02
Good luck on your finals and congratulations to all graduates!!

05/8/02

URECA Awards for ESG Senior Design  Spring 2002
 
URECA Prize Winner
Design and Fabrication of Substrate Fixtures with Data Acquisition 
and Control System during Thermal Spray Processing.
Dominic Vesquez
Kevin McGrogan
 
 
URECA Prize Winner
The Construction and Emplacement of an Undersea Habitat - SUNYLAB
Luis Bonilla
Steve Baader
Sean Reith
 
URECA Honorable Mention
Hot Press with Internal Resistive Heating
Shaffie-Al Balgobin
Pradipto Das

04/08/02
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AWARDED GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIPS
Premier Award in Undergraduate Math, Science and Engineering
Education Goes to Amanda Sammut and Jason Trelewicz

Stony Brook University announced today that two undergraduate students, Amanda M. Sammut and Jason R. Trelewicz, have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

The Scholarship Program was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. It is the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields.

The Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,155 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. Goldwater Scholars have very impressive academic qualifications that have garnered the attention of prestigious post-graduate fellowship programs. Recent Goldwater Scholars have been awarded 44 Rhodes Scholarships, 39 Marshall Awards, and numerous other distinguished fellowships.

Jason Trelewicz, of Mt. Sinai, NY, is a sophomore majoring in Engineering Science, with a GPA of 4.0. The title of his research was "Electronic Circuitry of the Future." He plans to obtain his Ph.D in Engineering and conduct materials science research in high temperature application of thermal spray coatings for a national laboratory or organization.

Amanda Sammut, of Syosset, NY, a junior majoring in biochemistry with a GPA of 3.97, plans to obtain her Ph.D. and conduct research in cardiac care. Her research was entitled "Atherosclerosis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection." The one- and two-year scholarships will cover the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.

The Foundation's Board of Trustees awarded 309 scholarships for the 2002-2003 academic year to undergraduate sophomores and juniors from the fifty states and Puerto Rico; Stony Brook was one of only three New York state institutions to be awarded two scholarships.

04/05/02 Two of our Engineering Science majors, Dominic Vasquez and Christienne Mancini, have received University Undergraduate Recognition Awards for their research within the department.

Christienne's work was entitled:
"Porosity determinations in thermally sprayed hydroxyapatite coatings"

Abstract:
The porosity of various thermally sprayed coatings was determined using an Archimedian Method. The method relies on density determinations and buoyancy effects. First, measurements were carried out on standard samples in order to verify the accuracy and reliability of the Archimedian method. Then, porosity measurements were taken for hydroxyapatite samples and correlated to its physical properties. The results from the experiments show that as the crystallinity of the HAp increases, the porosity increases. Also, as the amorphous content increases, porosity decreases. Other relationships indicated that the porosity decreased as the stand off distance increased and it decreased with a power increase.

01/21/02 Prof. Franco Jona will share the "Surface Structure Prize" this year at the 7th International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces in Newcastle, Australia. Prof. Jona shares this award with Dr. Paul Marcus and Dr. Don Jepsen of IBM/Yorktown, for the body of research in the determination of surface structures. The two previous winners are J. Pendry and K. Takayanagi.

12/03/01
Shira Billet and Dora Sosnowik of the Polymer Center have won $100,000 in this years Seimens Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition.

11/08/00
Materials Science tops the College list for research-dollars in 2001!

11/06/01
Don't forget to vote..........

10/31/01
Happy Halloween!

09/02/01
The training schedule for the SFEG-SEM, STEM-CM12, etc... is quite heavy. Please give ample notice if you require training.

08/18/01
Welcome new students!!

08/01/01
Training on the new SEM has started.

06/22/01
The building has a new power center.

06/08/01
The new SFEG-SEM from LEO was installed.

05/10/01
Good luck on the finals!

05/09/01
Lysa Russo has joined CTSR as a staff engineer and industrial liason.

04/27/01
Congratulations to Dr. Balaji Raghothamachar!

04/24/01
Congratulations to Dr. Yuke Tian!

04/20/01
Congratulations to Dr. Rogerio Lima!

03/30/01
Congratulations to Dr. Wen-Tao Li!

03/08/01
Congratulations Gertha! She just gave birth to Steven.

03/05/01
Several high-school students are Intel semi-finalists for work done within our department. For details, please check this web page.

03/01/01
Gertha Hollis (expecting child) will be out for the next several weeks.

01/24/01
Welcome back!

12/20/00
Congratulations to Dr. Annamalai Lakshmanan!

12/12/00
Congratulations to Dr. Srini Rangarajan!

12/12/00
The new LEO Schottky FEG-SEM is due to arrive in April, along with the EDAX EDS and EBSP systems.

12/08/00
Congratulations to Dr. Yu-Xie Pu!

12/05/00
Congratulations to Dr. Yi-min Zhang!

12/05/00
The DTM Sinterstation 2500Plus Rapid Prototyper has arrived, been installed, and is fully functional.

11/17/00
Congratulations to Dr. Boris (Dave) Kharas!

11/16/00
Congratulations to Dr. Kwan-Woo Shin!

11/09/00
It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of our friend
and colleague Professor Patrick J. Herley.  Patrick came to the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook in
1971, following several years at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He
was both a dedicated teacher and researcher. He was instrumental in
the creation of the Engineering Chemistry undergraduate program (a
joint program with the Dept. of Chemistry). He also established the
original Women in Science and Engineering Program in the
mid-seventies. In addition, he established an excellent reputation
in the area of crystal growth, thermal and photolytic decomposition
of inorganic crystals, hydridation of metals and more recently in
studies of metallic nanoparticles.

Patrick died suddenly in his office on Wednesday, November 7. He
was cherished for his warmth, his compassion, his wit and his
wisdom. He will be deeply missed.

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering  plans  to hold
a commemoration and celebration of Professor Herley's research and
his relationship with students, in the Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, on Wednesday December 6, 2000, from 12 - 1
p.m.  Those interested in attending please contact Gertha
Benoit-Hollis at ghollis@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

A Stony Brook Foundation Fund will be started in Patrick's name to
establish an awards program for Engineering Chemistry.

- Robert McGrath,
  Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Stony Brook Awarded Nearly $8 Million from National Science Foundation

Stony Brook is One of 11 Nationwide to Receive Funding for MRSECs


STONY BROOK, N.Y., September 27, 2000

The University at Stony Brook's Materials Research Science and Engineering
Center (MRSEC) has been awarded nearly $8 million by the National Science
Foundation, making the University only one of 11 institutions nationwide
with existing MSRECs to receive the funding, which was announced today.

Stony Brook's Center for Thermal Spray Research was awarded $4 million
to study "Novel Materials, Processes, and Surfaces by Thermal Spray." The
center is the only one of its kind in the country focusing on thermal spray
coatings critical to the operation of many engineering components and
systems such as bridge and transportation infrastructure. The Garcia Center
for Polymers at Engineered Interfaces was awarded $3.6 million to study
"Polymers at Engineered Interfaces." The Garcia Center, a partnership that
also includes Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory
of Illinois, Polytechnic University, and three CUNY colleges, focuses its
research on the design of polymer thin film properties

Stony Brook and Cornell University were the only New York institutions
to receive the awards, which are for a period of five years.

"The National Science Foundation's announcement that the Materials
Research  Center at Cornell and two research centers at SUNY Stony
Brook have been awarded a combined total of nearly $30 million in federal
funding is outstanding news for New York State," said Governor George E.
Pataki. "New York has made wise investments in research facilities at both
universities, and it is becoming increasingly clear that these investments
are paying off in terms of leveraging additional federal research dollars.
The cutting edge research being conducted at both of these institutions
will also position New York to secure the high-tech, high-salary jobs of
the future."

"We are doing world-class research at Stony Brook and these awards
recognize the importance of that work," said Shirley Strum Kenny, President
of the University. "The extraordinary talents of our people are being put
to good use to advance technology that will have an impact on the region,
the state, the nation, and the world."

The other institutions receiving awards were Brown University, Johns
Hopkins  University, the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon
University, the University of  California at Santa Barbara, Northwestern
University, the University of Maryland/Rutgers University (a joint award),
and the University of Wisconsin. The NSF awards for all the MRSECs totaled
$110 million.

The NSF also announced the establishment of four new MRSECs and awards
at the California Institute of Technology, the University of Virginia,
Pennsylvania State University and the University of Oklahoma/University of
Arkansas (a joint program).

Congratulations to Kendell and Josh

10/27/00
Congratulations to Dr. Shiang-Yu (Sandy) Tan!

10/25/00
Congratulations to Dr. Jhon Londono!

09/04/00
Welcome Back!
The office hours, TA list, course listings have been updated. Prof. Perena Gouma and Prof. Henry White have joined the department. Finally, the "machine-shop" class is being reoffered. Please contact Paul Uhl.

09/01/00
Deborah Michienzi has joined the Department as a Staff Assistant.

07/04/00
Congratulations to Dr. Yeong-Ning Tsay!

07/09/00
Materials Science tops the College list for research-dollars in 2000!

06/27/00
Welcome "summer research scholars" from local high-schools!

06/20/00
The Stratasys FDM3000 rapid-prototyper has arrived.
An Empire State Developement Corporation grant has been awarded for the purchase of a DTM Sinterstation2500+ rapid-prototyper.

06/15/00
Prof. Perena Gouma will be arriving in August to join the faculty.

06/01/00
Dr. Henry White will be joining the faculty this coming fall.

05/01/00
Congratulations Dr. Jiang!

04/17/00
Congratulations Dr. Bliss!

04/03/00
The X-ray Powder Diffraction File is now in the library on CD-rom.

03/27/00
The bid was authorized for a rapid prototyper, which the college will receive in the coming months.

03/20/00
Prof. Gambino received a sputtering system from Veeco. Additionally, we are about to receive an MBE system from AIL. Prof. Dudley received Schuttke cameras from the Schuttke estate. CentralSemi is donating a curve tracer. American Spring Wire donated some polishers. Sentry Systems donated a furnace and rapid quenching equipment. The value of all of this equipment is in excess of one million dollars.

03/03/00
Clare Michelle
Congratulations Mike and Linda!

02/15/00
Alumni Hong Zhang ('91) and Liya Liang ('94) have donated $100K to the department. Please see the full details in CEAS on the Move (V3N6).

Several high-school students in our department have reached the Intel/Westinghouse semi's. Please see the full details in CEAS on the Move (V3N6).

01/28/00
Christienne Mancini won the Int'l Thermal Spray Association's Undergraduate Scholarship. The other two winners are at Universities in Denmark and England. Congratulations!

01/18/00
The Qualifier will be Sat 02/19/00 at 9am in 301.

01/14/00
The graduate computing lab is open, please see the message on 6/5/99.

01/17/00
Welcome Back!
The office hours, TA list, course listings have been updated. Also, a graduate computing-laboratory is open in Eng 206. Finally, the "machine-shop" class is being reoffered. Please contact Paul Uhl.

The department will be acquiring a new SEM, for a grant valued at $500K.

12/08/99
Congratulations Dr. Vetter!

12/07/99
Congratulations Dr. Owusu-Boahen!

10/26/99
An SEM tutorial will offered the week before classes restart. Additionally, some optical uscopes will be available in 217.

Dr. Yimei Zhu will teach a TEM class. Please check the course listings.

10/20/99
Happy Holidays!

10/20/99
Congratulations for two births in the department:
Dominic and Sandra Vasquez are now the proud parents of Savanna Lee Vasquez (7lbs-2oz).

Hillary
Henry White and Yuxie Pu are now the proud parents of a 6lbs-12oz baby girl.

10/14/99

New York State / Long Island (Effective 11/1/99)

Area Code Update 
Beginning on November 1, 1999, eastern Long
Island (Suffolk County) will be getting the new
area code 631. This begins the grace period, when
customers can dial numbers in the affected area by
using the old or new area code. The grace period
will end on April 1, 2000, at which time using the
new area code will become mandatory. 

The area code in western Long Island 
(Nassau County) will not change.


What to do???

1) Do not complain....it is a waste of effort!!!

2) Change your business cards, letterhead, sig-file, 
   fax cover-sheet, web page, and/or any preprinted 
   contact information.

3) Prepare a generic "slip of paper" to enclose with all  
   return mailings, ala:
   "Please note that my phone number has changed from:
            516-632-1234  to  631-632-1234"

4) Leave a note by your phone to remind you to relay
   this information to all incoming callers.
   
5) Contact IMPORTANT people who rarely call you.

6) Hope that the "long-distance slammers", credit card
   companies, telemarketers, roofers, carpet cleaners,
   etc..... do not catch on to the change. 

09/08/99
Materials Science tops the college list for research-dollars in 99!

09-02-99
IEEE Press has just released "Magneto-Optic Recording Materials", coedited by Prof. Richard Gambino and Takao Suzuki. Information about this book and Prof. Gambino is located at: /gambinobook.html

08-19-99
Welcome Back!
New students should check out the New Student web page.

Don't forget the orientation and the upcoming safety training; see the colloquia announcements.

06/26/99
Prof. King is leaving us. He will be heading up Purdue's MSE department.

06/09/99
A new version of the graduate brochure has been posted.

06/05/99
The graduate computing lab should open shortly. It will be in the divided part of the stockroom. The entrance will be along the corridor leading to Light Engineering. Initially, the lab will house six computers. Two computers will contain Photoshop, ImageTool, IP ToolKit, Scion/NIH Image, ImageJ, PaintShop Pro, Graphics Workshop, and MediaCybernetics ImagePro-Plus with Materials-Software. Another two will contain MatLab, Mathematica, SigmaPlot, Origin, Fortran, VC, C++, and VB. Another two will contain MS Office, Framemaker, Illustrator, Quark Xpress, and Pagemaker. Two more computers will be purchased for use with PowderCell, Cambridge Materials Selector, Electron Flight Simulator, and the Powder Diffraction file. A Lexmark colour laser-printer has also been purchased. The lab will also contain a rapid-prototyper, which will be purchased shortly.

06/01/99
There will be a power outage on the 9th at 0800 until 1000.

05/04/99
Congralations Brian!

05/03/99
The departmental reception will be Tuesday 05/11 at 2pm in room 301.

05/01/99
Congralations Tomas!

04-27-99
I draw your attention to the web link below at Merrill Lynch. It highlights a competition for Ph.D. candidates in the sciences, liberal arts and engineering disciplines to consider possible commercial applications of their dissertation research. The competition was created in an attempt to promote greater awareness of market concepts and strengthen the links between the academic and commercial worlds. The Merrill Lynch Forum will award up to $ 150,000 to recent Ph.D. candidates who best explain the commercial application of their dissertation topic. The university department of the top five winners will each receive a $ 5,000 grant. Application deadline is September 15, 1999. The grants will be awarded in January 2000.

Eligible applicants will have successfully defended their doctoral dissertation between January 1, 1997 and September 15, 1999.

Additional information and applications can be secured at:

http://www.ml.com/woml/forum/innovation/

04/26/99
Congralations Jiri!

04/26/99
The Polymer group has acquired a scanning differential calorimeter.

03/19/99
Erin Elizabeth Casey from Gelinas Junior High School won the first Tom Lattimer Award in Recognition for Excellance in Science Investigation. This award was presented by Paul J. Gelinas Junior High, and was awarded to the winner of Science Awareness Day at Gelinas. Erin's project, titled "Testing Materials for Hardness" was quite an undertaking for a twelve year old in seventh grade. Erin was sponsored by the Center for Thermal Spray Research, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in SUNY at Stony Brook.

03/01/99
The College will be acquiring a Rapid Prototyper.

02/01/99
The College will be installing a graduate computing laboratory in this building, shortly. The computers will contain programs for image processing/analysis, computation, presentation preparation, and materials indentification.

01/20/99
Welcome back!

12/20/99
Happy Holidays!

Announcement		ACS National Meeting, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry
		Interfacial Properties on the Submicron Scale
Place:		New Orleans
Date:		August 22-26, 1999
Abstract:

Material properties of solids and fluids in the submicrometer boundary regime at interfaces are increasingly important in today's technological processes. These material properties range from mechanical properties such as hardness, elastic moduli, and rheology to electronic and magnetic properties. Many processes are influenced by interfacially altered material bulk properties, e.g.: wetting, diffusion, friction, lubrication, phase transitions, and chemical reactivity. It is the goal of this symposium to bring an interdisciplinary group of researchers together to conceptualize recent research results in material properties that arise from the interfacial environment.

11-25-98

The  National Institute of  Standards and Technology (NIST) offers Summer
Undergraduate Research Fellowship to students wishing to do research in
Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, or Manufacturing
Engineering.  The research will take place at NIST over a twelve-week
period.

The Fellowships provide a $3,600 stipend, roundtrip travel expenses and a housing
allowance.  The costs per fellow are to be shared jointly by NIST, NSF and
the home institution of the fellow.  RAIRE will pay Stony Brook's share.

Please publicize this opportunity among your students.  If you or they would like more
information about the fellowships or about NIST research programs, check
out the following web sites:

http://www.mel.nist.gov/opps/surf.htm
http://www.physics.nist.gov/ResOpp/surf/surf.html
http://www.msel.nist.gov/surf/surf.html

Applications should be sent directly to NIST by February 15th. All
applicants who will be requiring RAIRE funds must also submit a copy of
their application by February 1st to Christine Bentley
(cbentley@notes.cc.sunysb.edu) in Adminstration 407. 

11-25-98
Mock questions for the upcoming Qualifier have been posted.

11-19-98
MRS Undergraduate Materials Research Initiative

MRS is pleased to announce a new research funding program designed to introduce undergraduates to the excitement of discovery through research in materials science and engineering. Under the program, sponsored by MRS's Academic Affairs Committee, each undergraduate awardee will receive a grant for the cost of a moderate research project of no more that $750 plus an additional award of $250 payable directly to the undergraduate researchers upon completion of the project. If the researcher feels that they require up to $1000 for research, they may forfeit the $250 personal award, providing sufficient justification is included in the proposal. In no case will a proposal requesting more than $1000 be considered. Cost sharing is encouraged but will not influence the selection of successful proposals. MRS will award approximately $20,000 total for this program for fiscal year 1999. The proposal deadline is January 15, 1999 and funding is to be awarded by early February. Complete details are available at

http://www.mrs.org/umri/umri_info.html

11-09-98
Prof. Dudley's new x-ray diffractometer has arrived.

10-25-98
Don't miss the:
Second Annual Garcia MRSEC University/Industry Workshop:
Nanoscale Structure and Imaging in Polymers     (Oct 25-27, 1998)

10-15-98
Prof. Gary Halada received a "Presidential Mini-Grant for Innovative Teaching Projects." Halada's project, "Creation of a Collaborative Learning Environment for Engineering Design," involves the development of video-conferencing capabilities for the Engineering Science computer laboratory. The objective is to enable students in design courses to interact directly with professional engineers across the country. The first projects being planned will allow students to engage in discussions with engineers at SUNY Farmingdale and at the National Ignition Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

10-01-98
Halada to Tackle Radioactive Decontamination Problem

Assistant Professor Gary Halada (Materials Science) will lead a team of CEAS researchers in discovering new ways to decontaminate tons of radioactive waste from decommissioned nuclear weapons sites. The project also includes collaboration with researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) led by microbiologist A.J. Francis and the use of facilities at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. With $425,000 in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding earmarked for Stony Brook and total project funds exceeding $1 million, the researchers hope to tackle what has become a serious environmental concern. Approximately one million tons of radioactive waste currently remain at facilities already closed by the agency. Between 1992 and 2022, nearly 1,700 facilities will have been placed in inactive status, posing a serious and expensive environmental problem. According to DOE estimates, the cost of the large-scale cleanup of these sites could reach $52 billion or more.

The challenge for Dr. Halada, co-Principal Investigator Clive Clayton, and their collaborators from BNL will be to discover safe and cost-efficient ways to reduce the hazard of metals contaminated with uranium and other radio-nuclides. "The ideal result of our research," says Dr. Halada, "will be developing a method for decontaminating several tons of radioactive metal and be left with only a small bucket of easily contained, immobile waste."

The researchers will frame their investigation of this complex problem around a deceptively simple question: Can organic acids be used to decontaminate contaminated metals including metal surfaces that are weathered or corroded? One promising organic material is citric acid, leading Dr. Halada to lightheartedly speculate about the prospect of using orange juice as a decontaminant. "The key to whether organic acids are useful for decontamination lies in how they will interact with radioactive materials," he notes. "Even if organic acids can decontaminate radioactive materials, you run the risk of creating a new waste product that is not benign. As a result, the reduction of the waste stream is an important issue in this research."

This new research will build on previous collaborative efforts between CEAS's Materials Science and Engineering Department and BNL, including research on the use of bacteria to transform mobile uranium and on the corrosion of metals (for example, oil pipelines) by microbial by-products. Further bolstering the researchers' efforts will be BNL's strength in wet chemical and radiological analyses, and Stony Brook's expertise in electron and infrared spectroscopy. "We have had a very productive partnership with Brookhaven National Laboratory," says Halada. "This research has many possibilities for expanding our collaboration beyond this project as we begin to look for ways to decontaminate other surfaces."

09-26-98
Congratulations Aron Newman.

09-14-98
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Applications can be obtained from the Materials Science and Engineering department. If you are a college senior interested in applying to graduate school, then please stop by our departmental office for this fellowship application.

09-09-98
Congratulations Michelle Taube.

08-26-98
Welcome Back!
New students should check out the New Student web page.

Don't forget tomorrow's orientation and the upcoming safety training; see the colloquia announcements.

08/14/98
Materials Science tops the college list for research-dollars in 98!

08-11-98
The Science Coalition features research at Stony Brook this week on their web site.

08-04-98
ASM International is seeking the assistance of students to serve as room monitors for the ASM Materials Solutions Conference, ASM-Heat Treating Society Conference and the TMS Fall Meeting.
Conference Location Date:

ASM Materials Solutions Conference Rosemont Convention Center 12-15 October 1998

ASM-Heat Treating Society Conference Rosemont Convention Center 12-15 October 1998

TMS Fall Meeting O'Hare Hilton Hotel 12-15 October 1998

Room monitor duties include audio visual operations, lighting controls, attendance counts, etc. Student remuneration will be $30 per half-day of monitoring.

For those interested in the monitoring any of the above conferences, please see Ms. Gertha Benoit-Hollis in Engineering room 314 by September 5, 1998 for more information.

07-01-98
Professors David Larson and Michael Dudley of Materials Science along with Vishwanath Prasad, Imin Kao, and Jon Longtin of Mechanical Engineering lead Stony Brook's cutting-edge research in crystal growth and post-solidification processing. They posed the question: "How can we make crystal growth research more productive at Stony Brook?" Thanks to a one-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, they now have their answer. The funds will be used to establish a state-of-the-art laboratory research program unlike any other in the country. It will strengthen Stony Brook's position as a primary force in research into crystal growth processes.

Crystal are the building blocks of many modern-day technologies many people take for granted, such as computers, electronics, and fiber-optic devices. Professors Larson and Prasad lead separate but complementary crystal growth efforts at Stony Brook. These efforts have produced important breakthroughs in the science and are funded by NASA and DARPA, respectively.

Principal Investigator David Larson is excited by the new avenues that grant opens up for Stony Brook: "The new laboratory will free Stony brook researchers from dependency on outside industrial and governmental facilities. It will also allow us to develop new research courses and lab options that will improve student's learning experiences." He also anticipates working with Professors David Ferguson and Wendy Tang on diversity issues designed to increase representation of minorities and women in engineering. With the new facility, researchers at Stony Brook will be poised for even more impressive scientific and technological breakthroughs in important crystal growth processes.

excerpted from CEAS on the Move, by Susan Stafford

06-15-98
Gertha Benoit-Hollis joins the department at the Assistant to the Chair.
You can find Gertha in:
Room 314 (left inner office)
GHOLLIS@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
2-4327
Welcome Gertha!

05-16-98
Congratulations to all of those graduating!
Also, congratulations to those who won awards.

04-24-98
Henry White has been selected to receive the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student. Shichun Qu will receive the President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students.

04-23-98
The program in Technology and Society will be returning to department status. Additionally, they will be announcing a change in their name

04-22-98
The department has list-server discussion group for communicating information to the graduate students. If you have not received any message, then please let me (JQ) know.

04-15-98
There is an absorbed current meter on the SEM. Channel A(1) can switch the SE and BS detectors. Channel B(2) is the current.

04-02-98
NEW SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CURRENT CEAS STUDENTS

	1.  PHOTOCIRCUITS SCHOLARSHIPS
	    TWO $2,500 SCHOLARSHIPS TO ENGRING JUNIORS (2ND SEM JRS)
	    APPLICATION DEADLINE IS:
		 TOMORROW, FRI, APR 3 AT 5 PM 
	    INFO IS ON CEAS WEB PAGE AND FLYERS HAVE BENE DISTRIBUTED IN
		RELEVANT JUNIOR YR ENGINEERING COURSES
	    INFO AND APPLICATION FORMS IN ENGINEERING 127

	2.  NEW ***  DAYTON T. BROWN SCHOLARSHIP
	    ONE @ $1,000 FOR A CURRENT ENGINEERING SOPHOMORE OR JUNIOR
	    INFO WILL BE ON WEB PAGE BY TOMORROW AND IS AVAILABLE NOW
		IN ENGINEERING 127
	    APPLICATION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, APRIL 17

	3.  NEW  ***  TAU BETA PI SCHOLARSHIPS
	    TWO SCHOLARSHIPS, ONE FOR A CURRENT FRESHMAN AND ONE FOR A
	    CURRENT SOPHOMORE
	    TAU BETA PI OFFICERS WILL VISIT RELEVANT COURSES TO ANNOUNCE.
	    INFO WILL BE ON CEAS WEB PAGE BY TOMORROW AND IS AVAIABLE IN
		IN ENGINEERING 127

03-17-98
New x-ray diffractometer usage rules have been posted.

02-15-98
The new ion mill is up, bringing to a total of 3 systems.

02-02-98

Call for Undergraduate Research Papers

The Stony Brook Engineer, the College of Engineering and Applied
Sciences annual undergraduate research journal, is looking for papers
written by undergraduates in CEAS.  The research or innovative design
discussed in the papers should be original and done by the
undergraduates.

Interested students should prepare a two paragraph abstract by February

10, 1998.  The editors would prefer that submissions be e-mailed to the
below address.  The abstract should include:
 Title of Paper
 Name, e-mail, phone numbers and departments of author(s)
 Faculty and industrial advisors
 Any involvement with outside organizations
 A discussion of the background, objectives and results of the project to date.

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the editorial board on the
basis of technical merit and relevancy to the purpose of the journal.
Selections will be made and the author(s) informed by February 15.
Those selected will be asked to provide a one page paper to the editors
by March 1, 1998.  Publication will occur this May.

The Stony Brook Engineer is distributed to the university community,
and to colleges and companies throughout the country.  Publication in
the journal is an excellent way to improve your writing skills and
publish your research.  It also displays the caliber of work being done
by undergraduates at Stony Brook.

Interested author(s) may e-mail James Kinsey at jkinsey@ic.sunysb.edu
or call 216-4643.

Abstract Deadline   February 10, 1998
Notification    February 15, 1998
Selected Papers Submitted  March 1, 1998

Email Abstracts to jkinsey@ic.sunysb.edu.  Those wishing not to
electronically submit should contact James.

01-27-98
Tom Peterson from the Polymer Center is a FINALIST in the Westinghouse Competition. Tom is one of 40 students in the nation to get this far. Amazingly, Long Islanders are 11 of the finalists, and Ward Melville High School (local nearby to Stony Brook) has FOUR finalists. An article in today's Newsday features Tom and his colleagues. This is becoming a trend within our department and the community, as in the past several years we have hosted several entrants, semifinalists, and finalists.

01-26-98
Governor Pataki's budget includes $17 million for the renovation of the Heavy Engineering building. An article in today's Newsday features the need for funding the expanding infrastructure, and includes photos of graduate student Josh Margolies and Prof. Miriam Rafailovich.

01-24-98
The engineering library has relocated to the Main Library building. The existing space will be renovated for PTS, SPIR, and the conference rooms.

01-20-98
Welcome back, everybody. A few things have happened over the break.

• Tom Peterson from the Polymer Center is in the running for the Westinghouse Competition, as a semifinalist.
• The Materials Characterization Lab has a new ion mill.
• Changes have been posted in the FAQ file, especially related to xray users.
• The TEM has been fine-tuned, and a new filament and screen are installed. However, the EDAX unit is temporarily out until it is upgraded.
• 10 BaseT connections have been added into rooms 034, 013, 013A, 001, 015, 117, 115, 113, 109B, 110, 205B, 219A, 219, 311, 314A, and 322. Upgrades to existing rooms will follow.
• B001 will be available for some classes during the spring, but 205 will be used exclusively for ESM350.
• An additional video/microscope will be available in 205, when it is not used by ESM350.
• Changes have been posted on the IMIX page (03/04/03 dead now), especially with respect to file conversions and micron-markers.
• A new domain name is now in use for our department. Please contact me if you have any questions about the switch from eng to matscieng, or if you need an IP number.
• You can also expect doL1 to switch to a faster computer in the coming weeks.

12-18-97
The Holiday Party will be Monday the 22th at 10:00am in the Lounge.

12-16-97

	The following announcement has been mailed to all CEAS U3 and U4 
students who have a cum. GPA of 3.0 or higher.  (The mailing went to their 
permanent/home addresses so that they can work on the scholarship applications 
during the intersession break.)			
	
	If you know a student who is a good candidate for a Weinig 
Scholarship, please contact her/him or ask your department office to do so.


			1997-98 WEINIG SCHOLARS PROGRAM
		The Weinig Foundation Undergraduate Scholarships

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is pleased to announce the 
first year of a new scholarship program for CEAS students with funds generously 
provided by The Weinig Foundation.  For the current (1997-98) academic year, 
six $3,000 scholarships will be awarded to meritorious junior (U3) or senior 
(U4) students in any one of the CEAS programs:  Applied Mathematics and 
Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical (or Computer) 
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Engineering Science.   The Foundation 
has specified that at least two of the recipients will be students majoring in 
Applied Mathematics and Statistics.  In order to be considered for a Weinig 
Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship, students must be matriculated full-time 
and have a cum. gpa of at least 3.0.

To apply for a scholarship, you must provide:
	- the scholarship application cover sheet (available in the CEAS
	  Undergraduate Student Office, Engineering 127, call 632-8381)
	- the name, address, phone number, and email address if applicable
	  of one person  --a professor or an employer--  who may be contacted
 	  for a reference
	- a copy of your resume
	- a brief (no more than one page) narrative that includes a statement
	  of your academic and professional goals and describes financial need
	  if relevant
	- a copy of your academic record  (This will be supplied by the
	  CEAS Undergraduate Student Office when the above-listed documents
	  are submitted).

THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS IS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 
21 (first day of Spring '98 semester) in the Undergraduate Student Office, 
Engineering 127.  Selection will be made not later than February 10, 1998.  The 
six scholarship recipients will attend a special luncheon with Dr. Weinig.

In April 1998, CEAS students will be invited to apply for Weinig Scholarships 
for the 1998-99 academic year with the selection to be made at the end of the 
Spring 1998 semester.  (Recipients of the 1997-98 Scholarships who are 
currently juniors may apply for a second year scholarship for their senior 
year)

12-08-97
Congratulations to Dr.'s Fred, Sanjay, and Tae-wan.

11-26-97
Happy Turkey Day!!!!!!!!

11-26-97
Brookhaven National Laboratory will now be contracted (run) by Stony Brook and Batelle.

Garcia Center for Polymers is Co-Recipient of $505,000 NSF Grant

The Garcia Center for Polymers at Engineered Interfaces, under the direction of Miriam Rafailovich and Jon Sokolov, has been named a co-recipient of a $505,000 Instrument for Materials Research grant from the National Science Foundation for the purchase of a "Time of Flight-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer" (TOF-SIMS). Drs. Rafailovich and Sokolov, Professors in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, collaborated with lead-investigator Dr. Steven Schwarz of Queens College/CUNY to obtain NSF funding for the purchase of the spectrometer which will be located at Queens College.

The Garcia Center for Polymers for Engineered Interfaces is an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center which brings together the faculty and resources of five core institutions: SUNY Stony Brook, Polytechnic University,and the City University of New York at Queens College, the College of Staten Island, and Lehman College to study the scientific properties of polymers. Polymers are vital chemical compounds with a variety of important applications in today's society including food packaging, photographic printing, the coating of camera lenses, and assuring the bio-compatibility of implanted devices.

In the study of the two-dimensional structure of polymer alloy films, a TOF-SIM Spectrometer greatly enhances polymer profiling capabilities. The instrument also provides the ability to measure three-dimensionally the chemical composition of a polymer sample. Under the terms of the NSF grant, Stony Brook researchers will make substantial use of the new TOF-SIM Spectrometer in their work.

09-17-97
There are new web-pages for the following ESG/ESM classes:

• ESG100: Introduction to Engineering Sciences
• ESG201: Engineering Responses to Society
• ESG217: Engineering Design I
• ESG281: Intro to the Solid State
• ESG312: Engineering Lab
• ESG316: Design II
• ESG325: Diffraction Techniques
• ESG339: Thin Films
• ESM350: Structure and Electronic Properties of Solids
• ESM440/1: Engineering Design
• ESM450: Mechanical Properties

09-09-97
Prof. Chris Berndt is appointed as Director of Assessment for the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

09-09-97
A FAQ (frequently asked questions) file has been posted.
All graduate (especially new ones) should read this file.

09-02-97
The Fall 97 course schedule and TA listings has been posted.

09-01-97
There is now another bell-jar and microtome in 217, they will be set-up during this semester. 08-26-97
Jim Quinn (me) has a new phone number (2-6663).

08-25-97
Welcome Back!!!!!!!!!

08-22-97
The campus news server is now on news.sunysb.edu instead of the abel.cc.sunysb.edu server. You can change this yourself in your news reader, or ask me (Jim).

07-31-97
The Undergraduate Guide has been modified.

07-28-97
Congratulations to Dr. Hua Chung.

Materials Science tops the college list for direct research-dollars in 97.

ICCOSS XIII will be held here, at Stony Brook, 07/13-07/18/97.
For more information, check out the pages for the 13th International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State.

07/06/97
The Random Picture Viewer has been completely rewritten. I hope you like the changes.
Additionally, new system stats have been posted.

07/03/97
Another dual ion-mill (DIM-2) is up, but needs to be tweaked.
See me if you want to use it.

07/01/97
I have posted some lab-safety information, which you should all look at (especially new students). There will be a discussion in Room 301, at 15:00, tomorrow.

06/30/97
The upgrade wiring of the Cat5 network and photo-sensors is completed, in this building.
We are still awaiting the installation of switches/hubs.

06/23/97
The is a new optical-microscope/TV-camera/imaging(capture/process/analysis) software system in 215c. If you want to use it, then give me a buzz. This system will be used by 312 in the Fall and 350 in the Spring.

06/16/97
The Siemens/Laue setup is now "street"-legal.
Come see me, if you want to use it.

06/16/97
I have posted a page on the PGT/IMIX imaging system (04/24/03 dead now) and general imaging (04/24/04 dead link now) to answer many recent questions. Please feel free to add information to these pages.

06/14/97
We are looking for the names of companies employing some of the recent undergraduate alumni. Please help out.

06/13/97
The Gatan CCD camera on the CM12-TEM is connected to both a Mac and VCR, for collection of digital and taped images.

06/12/97
Central Services has 5 ultra-stable tables (springs). They'll probably be gone by next week.

06/11/97
Room 205, the undergraduate Materials Science Lab, will be reserved for a PTS summer-class from 07/07/97 to 07/25/97. Please check the schedule posted in the room, if you need to use any instrumentation in this facility.

06/10/97
We have obtained a glass bell-jar vacuum system and ultra-microtome, which will be set up in the Materials Characterization Lab, this summer.

06/09/97
The Gatan DIMs have been swapped.

06/07/97
The 16-bit images from the X-ray/Electron imaging system on the SEM can be read with either ImageTool, Photoshop, etc..... Graduate students are encouraged to use ImageTool and NIH-Image/ImagePC, freely available on the net. Both packages are widely used and offer a host of processing/analysis capabilities.

06-04-97
Congratulations to Dr. Saifi Usmani

06/02/97
The SEM will be down on 06/03/97, while new electrical service is wired in.

05-28-97
The Provost will be meeting with the departmental faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students on 06/03/97 at 2100 hours. Everyone is encouraged to attend this gathering.

05-19-97
Two of the twenty RAIRE/NSF summer-fellowships have been awarded to our Engineering Science undergraduate students. Congratulations! Atleast ten other undergrads are doing funded research this summer with our various research groups.

05-16-97
Congratulations to all the graduates!

05-15-97
Category-5 wiring for the network will be installed this summer in this building. Additionally, new lighting sensors will be installed.

Prof. R. Gambino is quoted in the William Safire's On Language section of the Sunday magazine of the New York Times.

With reference to showstopper:

Can it be that this new word - barely 70 years old - has developed an opposing sense? Apparently so; when Prof. Richard Gambino of the State University of New York at Stony Brook was awarded the National Medal of Technology at the White House two years ago, and began to talk tech, President Clinton pointed to Vice President Gore and said, "talk to Al about that; he's interested in all that information technology." Writes Gambino, no mere computer nerd: "I suggest President Clinton may have picked up this usage of showstopper from the technology wonks he works with - perhaps Al Gore, who did in fact ask some informed technical questions.

"Showstopper is often used in engineering parlance," Professor Gambino continues, "in the sense of `something that presents an insurmountable obstacle.' For example, a boss might ask a young engineer in a project review, 'Is this problem a potential showstopper?' I heard this term at I.B.M Research in techinical discussions at least as early as 1975.

04/30/97
Congratulations to Dr. Varun Singh.

Wednesday, April 9, 1997; 1100-1200
Attention all undergraduates interested in Engineering Science:
PRIME TIME Open-House will be in room 310 of Old Engineering.
Refreshments will be served.
Come on down, and learn about or exciting degree/programs.

04/01/97
I (JQ) will be attending training at PGT on the new IMIX system the week of 04/07/97. Please don't break anything, while I'm away.

March 31, 1997
Undergraduate Research Fellowships are available through the Provost's Office as part the Integrating Research and Education initiative. The summer fellowships are worth $1500 plus on-campus room/board. We encourage all students who are part or want to be part of our Engineering Science program in Undergraduate Research to apply for the fellowships. We also encourage all undergraduates to join research efforts, whether or not you get a RAIRE fellowship. Because, we have additional independent funding, and we want you.
The following groups are actively seeking qualified and interested undergraduate-students, to get involved with research activities:

• Center for Thermal Spray Research
• Center for Polymers at Engineered Interfaces
• Surface Structure Laboratory

Mar. 14, 1997
Stony Brook (SUNYSB) has been ranked 2nd (tied with UCSB, UCB was 1st) as a major-American public research-university. "The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the in the Postwar Era", by researchers from Vanderbilt University and Goucher College. For more information, check out SBNEWS.

Mar. 6, 1997
Prof. Miriam Rafailovich is now an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow, for insightful studies on the interfacial behavior of polymers. Congratulations.

Mar. 4, 1997
Our TopCon/ISI SEM has been upgraded with a new Princeton Gamma Tech (PGT) system for Image Mapping (IMIX). The system can do digital x-ray/electron images. A variety of processing and analysis can be done to the images online, before you ship-off your files (using the net).

Feb. 25, 1997
The University has received a special NSF recognition award for Integrating Research and Education (IRE). Stony Brook is only one of 10 universities to receive this award. The pool of 10 was selected from the top 137 universities in the nation.

Our department has contributed to the effort with its own Undergraduate Research Program (URP), and will continue to support the campus-wide effort.

Feb. 24, 1997
Prof. Jona's new STM, has generated its first image.

02/25/97
Congratulations to Dr. Lan-tao Guo.

Feb. 6, 1997
We welcome the news that the new President of Associated Universities Inc. (AUI) is Lyle H. Schwartz, a Materials Scientist. AUI is the governing organization of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), where we engage in great amount of our research and have extensive collaborations.

The SEM has been refurbished, please give it a whirl.

Jan. 15, 1997
Peter Park, Elliot Martin, and David Angelly are semifinalists in the Westinghouse contest, for research conducted with the Polymer Group. Peter studied "Scanning Microcalorimetry of Polymer Thin Films." Elliot studied 'Thermal Spraying of Recycled Polymers for Abrasion Resistant Coatings in Infrastructure'. David studied "Nanoscale Patterning of Distinct Magnetic Domains."

01-10-97
The Spring 1997 TA Assignment has been posted.

01-09-97
Old Engineering 112 and 114 will be changed from classrooms to computer labs. It looks like all classes are shifting to Union 226 and 237, respectively.

01-06-97
Old Engineering 211 will become part of the Polymer Group.

The Spring 1997 class schedule has been posted.

Prof. Michael Dudley has been reappointed as chairperson of the department. CONGRATULATIONS!

11-01-96
The Thermal Spray Lab has been awarded a multimillion/multiyear grant from the NSF, to become a MRSEC.

The Polymer Group has been awarded a multimillion/multiyear grant from the NSF, to become a MRSEC.

Two such NSF centers is one university is extra ordinary, two such NSF centers in one department is singularly unique.

ANNUAL ENGINEERING FAIR, Weds Afternoon, Oct 9
in the Engineering Quad, Engring Bldg Lobby, and Engrng 145

   11 AM - 3 PM   Northrop Grumman Corp.  Recruiting for Dec 96 and May 97
           Grads for Engineering and Software Engineering positions  AND
	   for Summer '97 Internships  - BRING YOUR RESUMES !

   1-2 PM  Engineering 145
	   Mr. Steven Bonkowksi, VP for Integrated Engineering & Operations
	   Northrop Grumman Corp.
	   "Where is Technology Going ?"  and How will changes in technology
	   affect your career?
	
   2-3:30  Cook out in the Engineering Quad

   2-4:00  Internships Information and Resume Review

   2-5:00  CEAS Student Clubs and Societies
	   demonstrations, fund-raisers, activities for new and continuing
           members

           Open Labs and Classes * (lists and locations available in the Quad)

FROM:  JMKENNY

Subject: SUMMER INTERNSHIPS - PLEASE ANNOUNCE IN CLASS

	THERE ARE SUMMER INTERN JOB POSTINGS FROM OVER 45
	COMPANIES FOR MORE THAN 60 SEPARATE JOBS ON THE
	INTERNSHIPS PROGRAM BULLETIN BOARD IN
	ENGINEERING 127 (CEAS UNDERGRAD STUDENT OFFICE).

	WE WILL RECEIVE MANY MORE POSTINGS FROM COMPANIES
	THROUGH THE MONTHS OF MAY AND JUNE.  STUDENTS WHO DO
	NOT YET HAVE A SUMMER POSITION AND WHO WISH TO HAVE
	THEIR RESUMES SENT IN RESPONSE TO NEW POSTINGS AFTER
	FINAL EXAMS SHOULD LEAVE A SUPPLY OF THEIR
	RESUME WITH MARION IN ENGINEERING 127.

There are a number of positions for Engineering Sci/Materials students
including Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, BNL, and some small manufacturing
companies.  The companies are located mostly in Suffolk and Nassau Counties as
well as in Manhattan. There are positions for sophomore through master's level.