Reaching an important milestone in their careers, four assistant professors in the College of Engineering have been awarded 2009 CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation. Each will receive approximately $400,000 over five years in support of their research and educational efforts.
In “Sculpting Electric Machines for Unidirectional Motion,” Dionysios Aliprantis of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering seeks to decrease the weight and size of motors and generators, as well as improve their efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Eric Cochran of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering will be investigating new classes of polymer composites in “Block Copolymer Layered Silicate Nanocomposites: Thermodynamics, Dynamics, and Structure Property Relationships.”
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s Zhiqun Lin, the Profile 2050 subject in this issue of Innovate, was recognized for his work in “Evaporation-Driven Self-Assembly of Hierarchically Ordered Structures from Confined Solutions.”
Qingze Zou’s project in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, “Rapid Broadband Nanoscale Viscoelasticity Measurement and Mapping of Soft Materials,” will develop a new system identification and control methodology for scanning probe microscopy.