2012-2013 Woodruff School Annual Report

2012–2013 Annual Report

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Letter from the Chair I am proud to present the 2012–13 Annual Report highlighting the fabulous accomplishments of our faculty, staff, students, and alumni over the past year. The Woodruff School enjoyed record enrollments as we implemented our new flexible curriculum while expanding the designbuild-innovate component through the Invention Studio and multidisciplinary capstone design experiences. We enjoyed a record year by winning $39.9M in new research awards, which led the College of Engineering. One faculty team won a multi-university research program on the design of inherently safe nuclear reactors while three of our faculty members won large new ARPA-E programs. The fact that four of our junior faculty members received NSF CAREER Awards signifies that we continue to recruit the best and the brightest to the ranks of the Woodruff School’s faculty.

In 2012, we celebrated the 50 year founding of the Nuclear Engineering program at Georgia Tech. It was gratifying to welcome so many NRE alumni and retired faculty members to campus to acknowledge their many contributions to the success of this critically important program.

By any measure 2012–13 was a tremendously successful year. Transforming the lives of our students as well as making significant contributions to solve global challenges are two of our most important accomplishments. We also continued to be an integral member of the Georgia Tech community through a wide range of collaborations and through generating over $100 million in revenue for Georgia Tech.

These are among the many accomplishments that inspire us as we celebrate 125 years of Engineering the Future: ME125, the 125th anniversary of Mechanical Engineering, throughout the upcoming 2013–2014 academic year. The momentum and quality of the Woodruff School will propel future generations of our students and faculty to continue to change the world!

Best Regards, Bill Wepfer Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair and Professor

NEW Faculty & Staff We welcome the following new faculty & staff members to the Woodruff School: Lenna Applebee Academic Advisor, began Jan. 2013 Lula Baker HR Coordinator, began Apr. 2013 Kathleen Halley Grants Administrator, began June 2013 Hailong Chen Assistant Professor begins Nov. 2013

Anna Erickson Assistant Professor began Nov. 2012

Surya Kalidindi Professor began Dec. 2012

Tony Kim Assistant Professor began July 2013

Seung Woo Lee Assistant Professor began Jan. 2013

Candler Hobbs Communications Officer, began Feb. 2013 Louise Lowe Mail Clerk, began Oct. 2012 Crystal Petway Administrative Professional, began Aug. 2013 Angela Smith Administrative Professional, began July 2013 Calla Talman Academic Advisor, began July 2013

Julie Linsey Assistant Professor began Jan. 2013

Julien Meaud Assistant Professor began Aug. 2013

Jerry Qi Associate Professor begins Jan. 2014

Jonathan Rogers Assistant Professor began Aug. 2013

Shannon Yee Assistant Professor begins Jan. 2014

Nathaniel Watkins Financial Administrator, began Apr. 2013 Kenneth Williams Administrative Professional, began Nov. 2012

Student Groups

There are a number of groups for students to join in the Woodruff School. These organizations offer a unique opportunity to learn about the many facets of mechanical engineering, meet practicing professionals, and provide valuable service to the School. Read more...

Honor Society Pi Tau Sigma Professional Societies American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) American Nuclear Society (ANS) Acoustical Society of America (ASA) American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) SAE International Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

Competition Teams Georgia Tech CanSat Team GT Off-Road GT Motorsports HyTech Racing RoboJackets Solar Jackets Wreck Racing

Student Groups Makers Club Mechanical Engineering Graduate Association (MEGA) NRE Student Advisory Committee Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW) Woodruff School Student Advisory Committee (WSSAC)

ME125: the 125th Anniversary of Mechanical Engineering

In 2013, the Woodruff School celebrates

125 Years of Engineering the Future.

Visit me125.gatech.edu to view our interactive timeline, sign the ME125 guestbook, subscribe to the MEGaTech newsletter, plan to attend events throughout the 2013–2014 academic year, and make a gift to benefit the Woodruff School in an effort to leverage our history so as to continue to ensure the success of our future.

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New Undergraduate curriculum Mechanical Engineering is transforming into Multidisciplinary Engineering

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Providing students with more flexibility regarding which courses they take is at the heart of the change to the mechanical engineering curriculum. The new Woodruff School curriculum, effective Summer 2012, retains the strengths of the previous The strength of ME curriculum includes fundamentals as well as experience in professional practice and design

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hrs

Gen. Ed. & General Engineering Prep

36

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ME Core Curriculum

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program, giving students a broad grounding in the fundamentals as well as experience in professional practice and design. The change in the curriculum lies in the opportunity for students to elect to

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Engineering Design & Prof. Practice

expand their knowledge beyond mechanical engineering, pursuing interests in multidisciplinary topics, or elect to deeply concentrate in one specialized area of mechanical engineering. Use your

The new ME curriculum offers a remarkably flexible path to complete your degree, utilizing the breadth or depth option minor certificate

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The GT ME degree delivers an amazing start to a successful career

129 Total Curriculum Course Hours

Georgia Tech BSME’s average starting salary is $62,000 GT BSME's are also offered signing bonuses that average $6,000

Virtually every company that makes a product hires an ME Job prospects & mobility are remarkably high for GT BSME’s

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About the Woodruff School The first degree offered at the Georgia School of Technology, as the Institute was called at its inception in 1888, was the Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Today, the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering offers:

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6

bachelor of science programs

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master of science programs

doctor of philosophy programs

Rankings, 2012 U.S. News & World Report

No. 3

No. 6

national ranking of ME undergraduate program

No. 10

national ranking of ME graduate program

national ranking of NRE graduate program

Enrollment

2,103

814

undergraduate students

graduate students

455 MS

309 women 259 international

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359 PhD

178 distance learning 126 women 225 international

Degrees awarded, 2012–2013

438

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BS Degrees

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number of full-time, tenure-track faculty

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MS Degrees

PhD Degrees

Faculty & Staff 19 senior faculty with endowed or distinguished chairs 29 faculty with NSF Early CAREER Awards 14 National Academy of Engineering members who

27 adjunct appointments 34 research faculty 7

academic professionals

hold emeritus or adjunct appointments

59 staff members Finance

FY13 Expenditures GT Foundation

$39.6M

$4,943,485

State

$23,736,151

new sponsored research awards for FY13 Sponsored Research $24,361,209

NSF Career Award Winners The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

During the 2012-2013 academic year, four faculty members of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering were awarded NSF CAREER Awards and will receive funding for their research over the next five years. Further, CAREER Awards include an outreach component, in which the recipient of the award must integrate an educational activity as part of their research proposal.

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb was awarded for her research into the geometric control of flexoelectricity in patterned dielectric thin films. For her outreach project, she will look to recruit and retain women in science and engineering.

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Alper Erturk’s CAREER Award was in his research on the electroelastic dynamics of flexible piezoelectric composites for enhanced biomimetic locomotion and energy harvesting.

As outreach, he will inspire underrepresented and minority K-12 students to study in the STEM fields.

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David Hu was awarded for his research on the locomotion through particulate environments by invertebrates and vertebrates. Hu plans to establish a student photography organization to facilitate scientific communication to the public for his outreach project.

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Olivier Pierron received his award for his research on the fundamental investigation of surface fatigue crack initiation mechanisms in nanocrystalline FCC metals. In outreach, he will develop a summer enrichment program for high school students.

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ARPA-E Award winners Researchers from the Woodruff School were awarded grants totaling $9.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to develop energy technology solutions. The new awards are for projects involving solar fuel generation and power generation from vortices of solar heated air.

Srinivas Garimella, Hightower Chair in Engineering and Professor, was awarded $2.3 million from the Department of Defense-Navy and ARPA-E to develop a highly efficient absorption heat pump for military use. The pump, using exhaust heat from a diesel generator, could lower the amount of energy used for heating and cooling at forward operation bases by 50 percent.

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Ari Glezer, George W. Woodruff Chair in Thermal Systems and Professor, is to receive $3.7 million from ARPA-E to develop a method to capture energy from “dust devils,” wind vortices that harvest the thin layer of hot air along the ground created by the sun. If successful, Georgia Tech’s approach could cost 25 percent less than conventional wind and 60 percent less than traditional solar power.

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Asegun Henry, Assistant Professor, will receive $3.6 million from ARPA-E to develop a high-efficiency solar reactor to produce solar fuel. Using liquid metal, the reactor transports heat away from the sunlight-collection point to a chemical reaction zone, minimizing the loss of solar heat. This system could enable cost-effective solar fuels that would be used for transportation and continuous electric power generation.

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NSF Grant

NSF Awards Georgia Tech with $7.3M The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Georgia Tech and the Griffin-Spalding County School System a five-year, $7.3 million grant to enhance middle and high-school education in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

The initiative — led by the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) — will introduce about 5,100 Griffin-Spalding County students in grades six through nine to advanced manufacturing learning experiences, such as working with robots and creating items using computer design and 3-D printers.

Called Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP), the project aims to inspire students to study STEM topics, particularly manufacturing, by exploring their creativity and watching their creations come to life.

Additionally, Georgia Tech faculty will be using the project for research purposes. They will be investigating whether STEM innovation and design courses impact students’ academic engagement, content understanding, knowledge transfer and persistence in STEM. Researchers will also study how professional development of teachers affects the deployment of the advanced manufacturing curriculum, and will explore and describe the barriers to change within educational systems.

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Inventure Prize Winner

Christopher Taylor, ME senior, won Georgia Tech’s 5th annual Inventure Prize competition, an invention competition designed to encourage and support Georgia Tech students’ interest in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Broadcast on Georgia Public Broadcasting March 13, 2013, Taylor’s invention, Chewbots, stole the show. Chewbots are a line of fully automated robotic dog toys that make owning a dog easier and are more exciting and interactive for dogs.

As the winner, Taylor walked away with $20,000 provided by Google, a patent for his invention, and a spot in Georgia Tech’s startup accelerator program, Flashpoint.

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Research & Academia The research and academic activities at the Woodruff School are defined by our people. Our faculty self-select into one or more research area groups, as well as participate in interdisciplinary centers across campus, many of which are run by the Woodruff School. The size and quality of our research program, along with our ability to partner and collaborate with teams of fellow Georgia Tech colleagues, as well as external companies and organizations, allows us to offer our students remarkable experiences and opportunities both inside and outside the classroom. The following are overviews on select professors and students, their research, and the collaborative and inclusive efforts on behalf of the Woodruff School.

Acoustics/Dynamics Under the support of the Office of Naval Research, Karim Sabra, associate professor, is developing a passive acoustics means to monitor ocean temperatures variations due in part to global warming effects. This passive technique relies on using previously unexploited recordings of ocean ambient noise from existing hydrophones arrays installed in the world. Read more...

bioengineering An interdisciplinary team including Craig Forest, assistant professor, was awarded a $4.3 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. The research team will undertake a five-year effort (2012-2017) to develop new precision robotics that will enable biologists and clinicians to automatically assess the gene expression profile, shape, and electrical properties of individual cells embedded in intact tissues such as the brain. Read more...

Fluid Mechanics Minami Yoda, professor, was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society by the Division of Fluid Dynamics “for outstanding contributions for experimental fluid dynamics and optical diagnostics and, specifically, for innovative contributions to the development of evanescent-wave illumination techniques to study flows in near-wall regions.” Read more...

automation/mechatronics Using piezoelectric materials, Jun Ueda, assistant professor, and Joshua Schultz (ME Ph.D. ’12), replicated the muscle motion of the human eye to control camera systems in a way designed to improve the operation of robots.

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CAE & Design Bert Bras, professor, and researchers from Georgia Tech are partnering with GE and Ford Motor Co. to study ways to add greater efficiencies to electric driving and charging performance.

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Heat transfer, Combustion, & Energy Systems Professors Yogendra Joshi, Satish Kumar, and Minami Yoda have successfully initiated a Site for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) in Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2) to develop new methods for synergistically operating electronic systems and cooling equipment, as dynamic self-sensing and self-regulating systems that are predictive, stable, and verified in real time.

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Manufacturing Jonathan Colton, professor, was named one of thirteen Jefferson Science Fellows for the upcoming academic year of 2013-2014. The Jefferson Science Fellows program is designed to further build capacity for science, technology, and engineering expertise within the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Read more...

Micro & Nano Engineering A paper whose authors include four ME graduate students, Bhaskar Pant, Sukwon Choi, Eva Baumert, Brian Allen, and three professors, Samuel Graham, Ken Gall, and Olivier Pierron, on MEMSbased nanomechanics was selected to receive the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) 2014 Hetenyi award as the best research paper published in Experimental Mechanics in 2012. Read more...

Mechanics of Materials Supporting the White House Materials Genome Initiative, Georgia Tech announced the launch of its Institute for Materials (IMat), the newest of nine Interdisciplinary Research Institutes.

Representing a community of nearly 200 faculty conducting materials-related research, IMat will be run by founding Executive Director, David McDowell, Carter N. Paden Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing and Regents’ Professor. Read more...

Tribology Itzhak Green, professor, is the incoming Chair of the Nominations and Oversight Committee of the ASME Tribology Division. His most recent research focuses on the dynamics of rotating machinery, early diagnosis and prognosis of flaws, and the physical extraction and mathematical characterization of the mechanical and tribological properties of articular cartilage.

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Nuclear & Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs are an integral part of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

Nuclear & Radiological Engineering Bojan Petrovic, professor, will lead the research team awarded $6 million by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Nuclear Energy University Programs to design improvements that strengthen the performance and safety of nuclear systems beyond today’s capabilities. Georgia Tech’s three-year project will engage universities, industry partners, and international organizations to develop a novel concept of a light water reactor with inherent safety features. Read more...

Medical Physics Assistant professor Lei Zhu’s group develops advanced imaging techniques for diagnosis, prognosis, nextgeneration radiation therapy modalities, and nanoscale biological studies.

With projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Varian Medical Systems, Zhu’s major research interest is to reduce imaging errors and statistical noise of x-ray CT stemming from the fundamental physical processes via better system design and modeling. Read more...

STudent, Faculty, & Staff Awards FACULTY & ACADEMIC PROFESSIONALS Said Abdel-Khalik Appointed as member of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) Advisory Council Steve Antoiovich Inducted into World Academy of Structural Integrity Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb NSF CAREER Award; 2013 IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award Wayne Book ASME 2013 Robert E. Koski Medal Mohammed Cherkaoui NSF Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Award

Dirk Schaefer Appointed as Founding President of the International Society of Engineering Education (IGIP), USA Region; ASME Atlanta Chapter “Mechanical Engineer of the Year”

Davis Hoffman 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium 1st Place Poster

Suresh Sitaraman 2012 ASME/Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division (EPPD) Applied Mechanics Award

Aniruddha Joshi Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Outstanding Paper Award

Susan Thomas 2013 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow; BMES 2013 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award Bill Wepfer ABET Fellow Wayne Whiteman Anderson D. Smith Administrator of the Year Award

Dhruv Hoysall ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-inAid Award

Alisha Kasam 2013-2014 Fulbright U.S. Student Award Suhasa Kodandaramaiah Named in Forbes.com 30 Under 30 Drew Loney Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS) Scholars Award

Sueng-Kyum Choi Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Pui- Kuen Yeung ASME Fellow Minami Yoda American Physical Society Fellow

Yan Li Boeing Engineering Student of the Year Award Honorable Mention in the Graduate Category

Baratunde Cola AAAS 2012 Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science

Ting Zhu 2013 ASME Sia Nemat-Nassar Early Career Award

Malcolm Macdonald ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid Award

Jonathan Colton Jefferson Science Fellow for the U.S. State Department/USAID

Woodruff School Teaching Fellows: Peter Carnell, Askash Dixit, Sam Graham, Tequila Harris, Peter Hesketh, David Hu, Kyriaki Kalaitzidou, Todd Sulchek, Susan Thomas, Charles Ume, Yan Wang, Zhuomin Zhang

Hassan Masoud SES2012 3rd Place in Graduate Student Presentation Competition

Suman Das Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair Nico Declercq Ambassador of the PromoDoc Initiative Chaitanya Deo Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure Alper Erturk NSF CAREER Award Craig Forest 2013 Engineer of the Year in Education recipient by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE); Class of 1934 Outstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology Award; Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award Ken Gall SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics Srinivas Garimella Department of Defense and ARPA-E Award Andres Garcia 2012 Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society of Biomaterials; 2012 AAAS Fellow; Awarded title of Regents’ Professor Ari Glezer ARPA-E Award Sam Graham SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics; Promoted to full Professor Asegun Henry ARPA-E Award David Hu NSF CAREER Award; 2013 Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award; ENGAGE Everyday Examples in Engineering Award Yogendra Joshi 2013 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the General Category David McDowell Named Founding Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Materials (IMat) Chris Paredis Promoted to full Professor Bojan Petrovic Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program Award; Awarded tenure Olivier Pierron NSF CAREER Award; 2013 CETL/ BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award; SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics; Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure Erica Ryherd Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure Richard Salant Appointment of Professor Emeritus, Jan 2014

STAFF Louis Boulanger Promoted to Mechanical Specialist Dana Foster Promoted to Administrative Professional Senior Mason Hollandbeck Spring 2013 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award Cary Ogletree Fall 2012 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award

STUDENTS Brian Allen SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics Banafsheh Barabadi 2013 ASME InterPACK Best Poster Award Eva Baumert SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics Md Bhuiyan Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE)2013 Annual Technical Conference (ANTEC) 3rd Place in the Graduate Student Poster Competition Lauren Casa Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS) Scholars Award Sukwon Choi SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics Chandan Edirisinghe SES2012 2nd Place in Undergraduate Student Presentation Competition

Kathryn Matlack 2013 Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Award Winner Mason McClatchey Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering 2013 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Peter McKeon ICA 2013 Montreal International Congress on Acoustics Best Student Paper Award in Engineering Acoustics Alex Muroyama NSF Award Jaeyun Moon Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Outstanding Paper Award Dhruv Nair Alphabet Energy Inc. Thermoelectric Design Award S. Natarajani 2013 Sigma Xi Best MS Thesis Olutobi Ogunleye 2013 Class of Space Technology Research Fellow Gregory Ostrowicki 2013 Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Bhasker Pant SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics Parisa Pooyan TMS 2012 Student Poster Contest Best of Show in the Graduate Category Sathya Raghavan Intel Best Student Paper Award Nathan Sacks ASME Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) Intern Jason Shieh Pi Tau Sigma’s national recipient of the Ed and Fay Griggs Scholarship Thomas Stone ASME 2013-2014 Graduate Teaching Fellow Christopher Taylor 2013 Inventure Prize Winner

Fei Fei Fan Southeast Regional Energy Symposium Poster Competition 3rd Place

Scottie Walker 2013 INMM Conference 2nd Best Student Paper Award

Talia Field NSF Award

Ryder Winck 2013 Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis

Man Prakash Gupta 2013 ASME InterPACK Travel Grant and Outstanding Poster

Dazhong Wu ASME Atlanta Chapter Outstanding Student

Ravi Haksar 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium 1st Place Poster

Sihong Zhao ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Conference Best Student Paper Award; 2013 Sigma Xi Best MS Thesis

David Heath Alphabet Energy Inc. Thermoelectric Design Award Caitlin Henegar NSF Award Sebastian Herzig Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Software Available for Public Release Award

NE50 Celebration

NE50 NE 50th Anniversary Celebration

Founding of the School of Nuclear Engineering 1962

NE50 NE50

November 1-2, 2012

Georgia Tech celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the School of Nuclear Engineering on November 1-2, 2012 with a reunion which featured a symposium on “The Future of Nuclear Energy" and a colloquium on “The History and Contributions of NE at Georgia Tech."

Bringing together nearly 200 attendees from government, industry, research laboratories, and academia to address the future of nuclear energy, sessions of the symposium covered nuclear energy in the near-term, closing the nuclear fuel cycle, and nuclear energy in the future.

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ADvisory Board

Mr. David P. Adams III BME 1986 Adams Capital, Inc.

Mr. Jeffrey Gasser BME 1983 Southern Nuclear Operating Company

Mr. Carl Ring BME 1978 Ring Container Technologies

Mr. Thomas G. Arlotto ME 1982 Maestro Strategies LLC

Dr. Johney Green, Jr. MSME 1993, PhDME 2000 Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Dr. Randy Sheffield BME 1988, MSME 1990, PhDME 1994 OneSubsea

Dr. Farshad Ali Karimi-Azad BME 1982 The Babcock & Wilcox Company

Mr. Manuel Junco, Jr. BME 1975 Jacobs Engineering Group

Dr. Finis Southworth AREVA Inc.

Mr. Michael H. Burnside BME 1974 Retired, Catchlight Energy

Mr. Bryan LaBrecque BME 1981 Clayton State University

Mr. R. Keith Chambless BME 1980 GeoFields, Inc.

Dr. Matthew P. Miller MSME 1990, PhDME 1993 Cornell University

Dr. Dana C. Christensen National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mr. Blake Moret BME 1985 Rockwell Automation

Mr. Ralph Cleveland BME 1986 Chartis Insurance at AIG Mr. Stanley W. Connally, Jr. BME 1993 Gulf Power Mr. James Dullum BME 1974 Fieldstone Equity

Mr. Floyd R. Nation BME 1968 Winston & Strawn LLP Mr. Brian C. Palmer BME 1981 GE Energy Dr. JohnĂŠ M. Parker BME 1992, MSME 1995 PhDME 1997 University of Kentucky

Ms. Stella M. Sudderth BME 1980 MRU, Inc. Dr. Karen A. Thole The Pennsylvania State University Dr. Lindsey Thornhill BME 1984, MSME 1986, PhDME 1996 Science Applications International Corp Mr. Michael Tinskey MSEE 1991 Ford Motor Company Mr. Manuel Walters BME 1992 Shell Oil Products US Dr. John F. Zino PhDNE 1999 GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC

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