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Materials Science and Engineering College of Engineering Winter 2017 MSEnews In This Issue From Our Chair .............. 2 New Faculty .................. 3 Research Highlights ....... 4 Education .................... 12 Faculty ......................... 15 Alumni ......................... 18 Student Excellence ...... 20 Gifts from Donors ........ 23 2 | From Our Chair Dear Alumni and Friends: The year 2016 marked Electron Microbeam Analysis Lab (EMAL) comprising of department alumni was the 5th year anniversary that is now closed. In Fall 2016, Associate reconstituted this year with a kick-off of Materials Genome Professor Anish Tuteja took over as the meeting in Fall 2016 homecoming. Earlier Initiative (MGI), a Chair of MSE’s Graduate Program replacing in the year, MSE hosted the inaugural MSE major federal initiative Professor Jinsang Kim who completed his Distinguished Alum Lecture presented by launched by President term as Graduate Chair, and Associate Professor Elizabeth A. Holm from CMU. Obama to spark a Professor Pierre Ferdinand Poudeu became The lecture was presented as a graduate paradigm shift in how the new Chair of MSE’s Master’s program. seminar in the department and the awardee new materials are Finally, this year, Associate Professor Max was the department’s invited guest of discovered, developed, Shtein was renewed for another term honor at the annual MSE graduation dinner. and deployed. Over as faculty co-director of the College of The annual CoE alumni merit award was the past five years, federal agencies, Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship. presented in Fall 2016 to Dr. Aaron Crumm. including DOE, DoD, NSF, NIST, and Professor Rachel Goldman was re- The department website features a new NASA, have invested more than $500 appointed as Associate Director of Applied page dedicated to alumni (http://www.mse. million in resources and infrastructure in Physics. Congratulations to all these engin.umich.edu/alumni) and I invite the support of this initiative. This highlights the faculty members in their new or continuing alumni to send us news and updates. impact of materials research in shaping leadership roles on campus! In the calendar year 2016, MSE welcomed the national economy in the 21st century. This year MSE initiated several new events two new Assistant Professors: John Heron The White House press release on MGI’s to enhance student experience in the and Ashwin Shahani. John works in the 5th anniversary featured a selection of department. The MSE undergraduate area of growth and device fabrication accomplishments and technical successes committee, chaired by Professor Joanna of multifunctional complex oxides while that included DoD’s Lightweight Innovations Millunchick, organized the inaugural MSE Ashwin works in solidification science and for Tomorrow (LIFT) Manufacturing Career fair inviting companies seeking 4D X-ray tomography. Innovation Institute for metals processing MSE graduates, and several outreach and structural design to provide lighter With the University gearing up for and open house events on campus. weight products, systems, and vehicles the bicentennial celebrations (http:// The graduate committee initiated a MSE directed by Professor Alan Taub; DOE’s bicentennial.umich.edu), 2017 promises graduate student symposium recognizing Center for PRedictive Integrated Structural to be an action-packed year on campus. I the research accomplishments of MSE Materials Science (PRISMS), directed by look forward to interacting with many more PhD students through oral and poster Professor John Allison, NSF’s Summer of the MSE alumni next year. presentation competition and several prizes School for Integrated Computational were awarded. Materials Education directed by Professor Go Blue! Katsuyo Thornton. 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Schlissel ex officio. © 2017 Regents of the University of Michigan MSEnews Winter 2017 Materials Science and Engineering College of Engineering mse.engin.umich.edu mse.engin.umich.edu College of Engineering Materials Science and Engineering Winter 2017 MSEnews New Faculty| 3 Heron and Shahani join MSE as Assistant Professors John Heron and doctoral (2013) degrees In September his doctoral degree in Materials joined the from the University of California 2016, the Science and Engineering. During Department Berkeley he began postdoctoral Department this time, his research focused of Materials research at Cornell University under of Materials on the crystallization behaviors Science and the co-mentorship of Professors Science and of highly faceted systems from a Engineering as Darrell Schlom and Dan Ralph. Engineering liquid phase. Some of his work is an Assistant During this period, his research will welcome highlighted in [1]. Professor in focused on the deposition and Ashwin “I studied alloys of aluminum (Al) Winter 2016. characterization of fully epitaxial Shahani to and silicon (Si). The Al-Si alloy John studied Physics as an composite multiferroics consisting the faculty as is used in 90% of the total Al undergraduate at the University of a large magnetostriction metals, an assistant professor. cast parts produced. The highly galfenol (Fe Ga ), or metamagnetic of California, Santa Barbara. His 1-x x Shahani says that patterns in directional covalent bonds of the materials, (Fe Rh ), on ferroelectric undergraduate research was 1-x x nature have always fascinated Si phase have a profound impact thin films (BaTiO ) and substrates performed under the mentorship 3 him. “We see beautiful structures on the chemical and mechanical of Professor David Awschalom. (PMN-PT). He then focused on the falling from the sky, and yet we properties of the material.” He used magnetotransport design and measurement of ferroic cannot explain how they came and magnetoelectric properties of For his work, Shahani was awarded and magnetometry studies to be. How do molecules in the National Science Foundation to investigate the evolution these systems in prototype device the disordered gaseous state architectures to push towards (NSF) graduate research fellowship of magnetic properties of the organize themselves into ice as well as the first place award at magnetic semiconductor Ga the goal of ultra-low energy crystals? This is a fundamental 1- consumption spintronics. the John E. Hilliard symposium. xMnxAs as a function of Mn question that remains to be alloying. At U-M, John will develop a answered.” At UM, Shahani will develop a research group that will explore research group at the forefront As a graduate student he was Snowflakes are but one example of solidification science. His awarded the NDSEG graduate the epitaxial deposition and from a large class of complex properties of new oxide materials group will explore a wide range fellowship and worked in the patterns. Other examples of unanswered questions in thin film complex oxide group and heterostuctures in the include dendritic and faceted pursuit of finding undiscovered the community, with particular of Professor Ramamoorthy structures. Shahani believes emphasis on the growth of Ramesh at the University of material functionalities for hybrid that the problem of pattern magnetoelectrics-spintronics eutectics, semiconductors, and California, Berkeley. During this formation in such systems not quasicrystals. time his research focused on applications. Particular