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Dr. Biernacki receives two international awards from American Ceramic Society COOKEVILLE, Tennessee (Sept. 9, 2016) -Joseph Biernacki, professor of and University Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Tennessee Tech University, recently received two international distinctions from the American Ceramic Society: the Della Roy Lecture Award and the Brunauer Award.

The Della Roy Award acknowledges career achievement in the field of cement science.

This award is presented annually to a single individual from any part of the world for their work in cement science.

“I was quite surprised; shocked actually, when they told me I was chosen to receive the Della Roy Lecture Award,” Biernacki said.

The award was presented in conjunction with Biernacki’s lecture at the American Ceramic Society Cements Division annual meeting held on the North Western University campus this summer. His lecture was titled, “What do artificial intelligence, synthetic life- and nuclear fusion have to do with cement? (a vision for things to come).”

Della Roy was a long-time faculty member at Pennsylvania State University and editor-in-chief of Cement and Concrete Research, an Elsevier publication. With Roy’s many contributions to cement science, Elsevier now endows the Della Roy Lecture in honor of Roy.

“Professors who conduct research at such recognized levels demonstrate their depth of knowledge and thirst to learn more,” said Vahid Motevalli, associate dean for research and innovation for the College of Engineering. “Their immense contributions to Tennessee Tech provide recognition for the university around the globe and are very much appreciated.”

The second award Biernacki received was for his two-part paper titled, “An application of computer-aided molecular design using the signature molecular descriptor –part one, identification of surface tension reducing agents and the search for shrinkage reducing admixtures and part two, evaluating newly identified surface tension reducing substances for potential use as shrinkage reducing admixtures,” that he co-authored with students Hamed Kayello from Akron University, Naresh Tadisina and Natalia Shlonimskaya from Tennessee Tech University, and colleague Donald P. Visco from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Akron University.

“It is a great honor to receive an award named for Stephen Brunauer,” said Biernacki. “Brunauer is extremely well known for his work on gas on surfaces as well as great contributions to the field of cement chemistry.”

In 1938, Brunauer and two other scientists, Paul Hugh Emmett and invented the widely used surface area measuring technique now referred to as the Brunauer Emmett Teller (BET) method.

“I am extremely grateful to receive awards honoring Della Roy, who I had the pleasure of knowing, and Stephen Brunauer, who I only read about in books,” Biernacki said.

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