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Prof. Robert Richards, class of 1868,faculty member from his graduationuntil 1914, Department Head1873–1914. Famous for his ore dressinglab and the summer camps in mineraland metal-rich areas in the West.

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Dear friends,

MIT is preparing to celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2011;please watch the Institute communications for ways that youcan participate. As we’ve been reflecting on Course III’s placein MIT’s history and its place in society, we found a few gemsto share with you. Below are extracts from Prof. RobertRichards’ 1911 annual report; you’ll notice the Departmentalaccomplishments and needs sound very familiar even thougha century has passed.

The year in the Mining Department has been a prosperous one. The

student numbers are keeping up. The laboratories, although crowded

to desperation, are still giving satisfaction to students and turning out

researches of interest all over the world.

New Equipment. A large number of split shovels and pans have been

procured for the use of both the third and fourth-year classes. These

are to be kept in the supply room and served out to students desir-

ing them. The split shovel or fork with little troughs as prongs retain-

ing and discarding alternately the fine ore poured upon it is the most

accurate known device for sampling ores. A new Hunter’s sifter has

been installed for use in sifting and mixing ores, fluxes, etc., prepara-

tory to sampling and assaying. A mechanical sieve designed by Pro-

fessor Bugbee has been fitted up in one corner of the laboratory for

use in sifting large quantities of very fine material, replacing the te-

dious operation of sifting by hand, using small sieves, when prepar-

ing samples for class work. We have added two new assay balances.

This makes six new assay balances altogether. There still remain eight

balances which are in poor condition and should be replaced when-

ever opportunity offers.

With warmest wishes,

Ned Thomas77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 6-113Cambridge MA 02139-4307617-253-5931.email: elt@mit.edu

The jigs have been rearranged to work in a more logical order. The

Johnston vanner installed a few years ago has been worked over

and its speed regulation changed by gears, so that now it conforms

to the requirements of our laboratory work. For the Wetherill mag-

netic separator, new take-off belts were secured to replace the old

belts which were a constant source of trouble. A new tool post

grinder is proving to be a very efficient machine for truing up rolls

of both patterns and for taking down other metal surfaces which

are too hard to be turned in a lathe. Two new electric resistance fur-

naces wound with Excello wire instead of platinum, have been built

by the Department and are enlarging the field of work. A Wilson-

Maeulen millivoltmeter and a Siemens & Halske recording gal-

vanometer have been supplied for Professor Hofman’s work. A

new horizontal grinder and polisher has been fitted up by the De-

partment for preparing metallographical specimens and is proving

more satisfactory than the old style vertical machine.

Course Scheme. The new scheme adopted two years ago has now

come into use for all classes and it seems to be working out very

well indeed. Under the new scheme it is found that Option I, or the

general option, attracts the large number of students, which as the

Department feels, is as it should be. Some progress has been made

toward a summer school of surveying. The courses in Elementary

Metallurgy and Electro-Metallurgy are now discontinued, the

ground being covered by the course in Applied Electro-Chemistry.

A new Course on Metallurgy of Engineering Materials is given in

the second term to Course XIII. The Course in Metallography has

been rearranged to allow more lecture hours.

Advance Students and Undergraduates. Mr. J. A. Grant finished

up his work in June having made an investigation of coal dust as

an agent in coal mine explosions and having discovered apparently

some new points. There are no candidates for advance degrees in

the Department during the present school year. The fourth-year

class in mining engineering and metallurgy numbers about twenty,

the third and second years each about thirty.

Summer School. After the omission last year of the summer school

owing to the large number who took summer work instead, an in-

teresting and profitable summer school in mining was held this year

in Minnesota and in Canada. [The group traveled to power plants,

mills, and mines] and a more delightfully satisfactory trip rarely

happens. At all the mines, mills and furnaces the students were

treated with the greatest kindness and consideration through the

influence of the officers of the several companies. The school oc-

cupied a little over four weeks and cost each man about $130.

Positions for Graduates. As in former years, practically all the grad-

uating class who were free to take the positions offered were able

to secure work without delay. There have been two or three older

men who have been out of employment and not able to secure

work quickly. The demand which comes to the Department is more

frequently for the young graduates than for men of a few years’

experience.

Professional Work. Professor Richards spent most of the summer

in Ontario, Michigan, Montana, Utah, Colorado, and Missouri in

studying and making improvements in concentration. He was re-

tained as expert in three patent cases.

Professor Hofman was appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury

to investigate the losses in lead endured in the smelting of lead

ores and the refining of base bullion, with a view to levying the

right amount of duty upon ore and bullion imported into the

United States for treatment. He visited works in New Jersey, Illi-

nois, and Texas. The report made upon this investigation has been

accepted both by the United States Treasury and the smelting com-

panies interested. He has devoted all his spare time to the prepa-

ration of his book on metallurgy. Professor Charles E. Locke visited

in a professional way a gold property in Korea helping to settle im-

portant questions and getting much good experience. Professor E.

E. Bugbee is preparing notes for his assaying class.

Visitors. We have had large numbers of visitors during the past

year. Perhaps the most noted being Baron Mitsui and Dr. Dan and

their party. There have been also several other Japanese and a large

number of former students.

Need of Space. It seems hardly necessary to speak of this again

this year. The condition has now become chronic. This is our most

pressing physical want. We ought to make such an appeal, and

put our case so strongly, either in this report, or elsewhere, that

when a move is made, the Mining Department will be considered

first. This equipment is a mere nothing compared with what we

would like to add if space permitted. The main reason that we are

not spending all of our appropriation is owing to the fact that we

have no place to put any new apparatus if purchased.

Gifts. Professor Richards has from time to time given classifiers and

jigs. Mr. Arthur W. Geiger has presented the Department with two

assay balances. The drawings and technical papers of the late

Charles O. Parsons, class of 1873, were given to the Department.

They form a valuable addition to the library.

ROBERT H. RICHARDS.

June 30, 1911

N E W F A C U L T YIn 2011, we will welcome Polina Anikeeva as the AMAXAssistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering.Dr. Anikeeva graduated from St. Petersburg State Poly-technic University with the B.S. in Biophysics in 2003, andreceived the Ph.D. from our Department in 2009, focus-ing on physical properties and design of light emitting de-vices based on organic materials and nanoparticles,working under the supervision of Prof. Vladimir Bulovic inEECS. She currently holds the Dean’s Postdoctoral Fel-lowship, School of Medicine, Stanford and is in the groupof Prof. Karl Deisseroth in the Department of Bioengi-neering. Her current research is centered on developmentof novel non-invasive methods for in vivo neural stimula-tion and design of opto-electronic devices for simultane-ous recording and stimulation of neural circuits.

When asked to describe her research interests, Dr. Ani-keeva writes, “There is a missing link between laboratoryand clinical neuroscience research and industrial medicaldevice development. I intend to bridge the gap betweenthose two worlds by developing hybrid functional mate-rials and devices for clinical applications. . . . My initial re-search will focus on projects dedicated to the developmentof hybrid materials and devices that act as interpreters be-tween man-made electronics and neural circuits throughthe conversion of electromagnetic (EM) field energy in theform of radio-frequency (RF) field or light into a change ofthe electrochemical potential across cellular membranes.”She is enthusiastic about pursuing her research interestsat MIT, where collaborations between colleagues, depart-ments, and schools create innovations almost daily.

She explains that, “While research is a very significantpart, of my life, I cannot possibly imagine a fulfilling careerwithout teaching. My goal, as a future teacher, is to in-fect the students with my curiosity for materials science

and to inspire them to become future academic and in-dustry leaders in the field.” She hopes to create a subjectthat teaches hybrid organic-nanoparticle optoelectronics,offering students hands-on lab sessions.

R E C E N T A P P O I N T M E N T S

Professor Subra Suresh was officially sworn in on Octo-ber 18 as director of the National Science Foundation.John Holdren (Course XVI S.B. ’65, S.M. ’66), PresidentBarack Obama’s science adviser and director of the Officeof Science and Technology Policy, administered the oathof office to Suresh in the Secretary of War CeremonialRoom of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building inWashington.

As NSF director, Prof. Suresh will lead a $7.4 billion inde-pendent federal agency that supports all fields of scienceand engineering research, as well as a wide span of edu-cational programs that reach more than 2,000 institutionsacross the U.S. and involve approximately 200,000 edu-cators, researchers and students. NSF funding accountsfor more than half of all non-medical science and engi-neering basic research at American academic institutions.President Obama nominated Prof. Suresh to lead the NSFearlier this year, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the nom-ination in September.

Professor Christine Ortiz is MIT’s new dean for graduateeducation, effective August 1. In her new role, Prof. Ortizwill collaborate with students, faculty and staff across theInstitute on issues related to graduate education and re-search and will focus on increasing graduate-student op-portunities for academic, professional and personaldevelopment. She will also facilitate the advancement andinformation exchange of graduate curricula, formulatenew ways to grow the graduate-student community andstrive to provide a better understanding and enhancementof the climate and level of diversity in the graduate studentpopulation.

A member of the DMSE faculty since 1999, Prof. Ortizhas served as a member or chair on many critically im-portant DMSE, SoE, and Institute committees, includingthose that focus on undergraduate and graduate educa-tion, mentoring, international strategy and diversity. She isa member of MIT’s Initiative on Faculty Race and Diver-sity and is often invited to speak at panels and workshopsgeared to improving the experiences of underrepresentedminority students and faculty members. In 2009, she re-

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ceived a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award forrecognition of service that reflects the late civil rightsleader's ideals and vision.

Her leadership achievements at MIT and in her professionhave been recognized by her peers and in awards, includ-ing the National Science Foundation Presidential Early Ca-reer Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2008, she wonthe National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fel-low Award from the Department of Defense.

N E W B O O K SInside Real Innovation: Address-ing an Underlying Crisis in Amer-ica's Innovation Pipeline andEconomy, by Prof. Eugene Fitzger-ald, Andreas Wankerl, and CarlSchramm, will be published thismonth. The three authors, all inno-vators themselves, explain thatmodern innovation is a cyclicalprocess, rather than a linear one, inwhich processes and developments eventually come to-gether after a period of trial and error.

Cellular Materials in Nature and Medi-cine, written by Professor Lorna J. Gibsonand her co-authors Michael F. Ashby andBrendan A. Harley, was published by Cam-bridge University Press this fall. The bookaddresses the structures and mechanics ofcellular materials, both natural and syn-thetic, and their uses in medicine. Diversematerials have similar structures: honey-comb-structure, like wood or cork, foam-

structure, like adipose tissue, coral, or sponge, cylindricalshells, like animal quills or plant stems. Medical develop-ments include tissue scaffolding and metal foams used inorthopedic applications.

Professor Jim Livingston recentlypublished Arsenic and ClamChowder: Murder in Gilded AgeNew York. While he is known asan expert on magnetic materialsand has authored a book basedon the Course III undergraduatecurriculum, Prof. Livingston is alsoan author of histories of interest-ing and intriguing but little-known

figures in New York. This book tells the true story of his dis-tant cousin who was tried for murdering her mother witha bowl of clam chowder laced with arsenic. The trial dom-inated the media at the time; the accused was from a so-cially-prominent family, she had three illegitimate children(and was pregnant with a fourth), and, if convicted, wouldbe the first female sentenced to the electric chair.

N E W H I R E SMatt Humbert has joined DMSEas a Technical Instructor and is in-volved with metallography, in-struments in the Laboratory forAdvanced Materials, helpingteach the undergraduate labs, es-pecially 3.042, the MADMECcompetition, and many otherthings. Matt is a 2008 grad of

Course 2; his S.B. thesis was on physical and mathemati-cal modeling of transient flows in transfer lines. While anMIT undergrad, he worked in the DMSE Foundry and wasa TA for 2.670 (Machine Tools I). After graduation, heworked as a Cementing Field Engineer for Schlumbergerin Prudhoe Bay Alaska.

Elissa Haverty is the new gradu-ate assistant in the DMSE Aca-demic Office. Elissa graduatedfrom the University of Massachu-setts with the B.A. in Journalism.She has been a promotions assis-tant for several radio stations andwas an intern at CBS Broadcast-ing Co. in Brighton, MA.

F A C U L T Y S E A R C HDMSE is currently conducting a faculty search for a tenure-track position to begin July 2011 or thereafter. The ap-pointment is expected to be at the assistant or untenuredassociate professor level, although, in special cases, a sen-ior faculty appointment may be appropriate. After con-sideration of the Departmental current needs, strengths,and expected future direction, the Search Committee isactively recruiting candidates with an interest and demon-strated original research in structural materials, materialsengineering, or materials processing. For more informa-tion or to refer a candidate, please contact DMSE-Search-Master@dmsefacsrch.mit.edu.

We hope that in the very near future, construction willstart on a Lab for Engineering Materials (LEM), directlyacross the Infinite Corridor from the Lab for AdvancedMaterials (LAM). This space will provide a home for equip-ment that is currently housed in several areas and severalbuildings. Students, faculty, and staff will be very glad ofthe opportunity to use prototyping and fabrication equip-ment, adjacent to the Undergraduate Teaching Lab. Someof the renovations are funded by a grant from BP to sup-port facilities for research on corrosion.

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Proposed view of exterior of the Laboratory for Engineering Materials (LEM), pending approval and engineering

studies. View is towards the intersection of the Infinite Corridor and the Building 4 hallway.

Proposed plan for the Laboratory for Engineering

Materials (LEM). Infinite Corridor is at left. The

space will open into and enlarge the Undergraduate

Teaching Lab.

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M A D M E CMADMEC, the Makingand Designing MaterialsEngineering Contest, isnow in its fourth year. Fiveteams competed for atotal of $20,000, each de-veloping a prototype thatused materials science tosolve a problem in alterna-tive energy. The contest isnow supported financially by BP, Dow, and Saint-Gobain.Scientists at the Saint-Gobain Research and Development

Center in Northboro, MA, signon as mentors for a team.

The first-place team ($10,000)was Smart Curtain, Sisi Ni andLing Li, who designed a"stealthy and smart" energyconservation system thatcloses a curtain when the sunis shining to reduce solar heat-ing. Their innovative systemuses a light detector to actuatea shape memory alloy thatopens and closes the curtains.

Team MARTHA won secondplace ($6,000). Their entryaddressed the need in devel-oping nations for refrigera-tion, in an area withoutelectricity service. Theyadapted existing technologyto improve the rate and dura-tion of evaporative refrigera-tion.Their prototype was thelargest constructed to date forMADMEC. Team membersare Nicolas Aimon, Christo-pher De Vries, William Her-bert, Samuel Humphry-Baker,and Benjamin Mailly.

Third-place winners were Sunsplitting, Ethan Crumlin, Yi-Chun Lu, and Jin Suntivich ($4,000). They developed alow-cost photoelectrochemical solar cell that operates byharvesting light to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.To accomplish their goal, they explored new designs andmaterials, in hopes of finding a solar-power technologyfor the developing world.

F P O P 2 0 1 0“Discover Materials Science and Engineering,” the Fresh-men PreOrientation Program that began in 2009, contin-ued this summer. DMSE is grateful to Siamrut Patanavichfor again undertaking the huge task of oranizing mentorsand instructors for the three-day event. We’re also grate-ful to Michael (Course VIII ’52 and Ph.D. ’67) and MaryLubin who created the Horace A. Lubin Fund (3628800),in memory of Mr. Lubin’s father. The Horace A. LubinAward for Outstanding Service recognizes an undergrad-uate student who has contributed to the DMSE commu-nity in an unusual way. The Lubin Fund can also be usedto support undergraduate student activites; over the sum-mer, these funds helped fund FPOP and allowed JanilleMaragh and Carlos Salinas to complete UROPs.

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Smart Curtain, Ling Li and Sisi Ni.

Team MARTHA's prototype, under construction in the Foundry.

Sunsplitting discusses their MADMEC entrywith Dr. Tom Kalantar, the judge representingDow Chemical.

FPOP students getting acquainted.

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S A D O W A Y 6 0On March 7, 2010, Prof. Donald R. Sadoway turned 60years of age. To mark the occasion, a symposium was heldat MIT on June 9–11. Over one hundred friends, col-leagues, and former students journeyed to MIT to cele-brate this milestone with his family and members of hisresearch group. Attendees presented papers in researchareas of particular interest to Prof. Sadoway, most notablyenergy storage. The symposium’s highlight was a lovelydinner with dancing; the guests were delighted to havethe opportunity to express appreciation for the supportand inspiration they have received from Prof. Sadowaythroughout their professional careers.

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Prof. Sadoway with his family: from left, daughterLaryssa, son Andrew, wife Rebecca Rosenberg, DonSadoway, son Steven, and daughter-in-law DianaDonovan.

Prof. Sadoway with Professor Masafumi Maeda, Executive Vice President and Managing Director ofthe University of Tokyo.

Prof. Sadoway presents the closing remarks in 10-250.

On June 4, 2010, MIT celebrated its 145th Commencement Exercises. The Course III graduates included twentyS.B., ten S.M., twelve M.Eng., thirty-six Ph.D., and two Sc.D. recipients. All DMSE alumni/ae are invited to joinus for the 2011 Course III Luncheon, immediately following Commencement. Photo courtesy of Dan Cogswell,Ph.D. 2010, who had one of the best views of Killian Court.

The School of Engineering Dean’s Office has published atimeline of the school’s history. Here are some of the high-lights from our Department’s first 150 years.

1865MIT opens its doors and one of its very first coursesof study is the Department of Geology and Mining. Whymining? Because Boston business is a key financier of min-ing operations in the American West.

1870MIT President Runkle makes a successful trip to theWest Coast via the newly completed transcontinental rail-way to tour mines and smelters and generate interest inMIT. The following summer Prof. Robert H. Richards leadsstudents on an expedition to the West to collect gold, sil-ver, and other metals.

1889MIT renames the “Laboratory of Mining Engineer-ing and Metallurgy” in honor of John Cummings, an earlysupporter of the school. Cummings was president ofShawmut Bank, served on the state senate and house ofrepresentatives, and served as MIT treasurer, 1872–89.

1916 MIT moves to Cambridge and Course III alumniColeman du Pont, Pierre du Pont, and Charles Haydenprovide funding for Building 8, designated for use by theDepartment of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy. Build-ing 8 labs are still used by DMSE, though the disciplinesstudied have evolved considerably.

1920s Professor John T. Norton begins using x-ray tech-nology to determine the atomic structure responsible forcrystallinity of metals.

1927 New graduate-level specialization of physical met-allurgy, along with applied optics, industrial radiology,physics of crystallography compounds. Undergraduateoptions include mining engineering, petroleum produc-tion, metallurgy, physical metallurgy.

1931 Three new subjects reflect growth of the aircraft in-dustry and the need forlightweight metals: alu-minum and magnesium al-loys, welding inmanufacturing, corrosionand heat-resistant alloys.

1937Writing for the TechReview, MIT PresidentKarl Taylor Compton ob-serves, “The metallurgistnow requires not only athorough training inprocesses and physics of metallurgy, but also a knowledgeof physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and ceramics.”

1940sMIT Metallurgical Project focuses on developing amethod for producing solid uranium blocks from powder.The material serves as the core of the first reactor to pro-duce atomic powder (at University of Chicago).

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Metallurgy lab, MIT, Boston campus.

Course III students, 1898, Boston campus.

Making test specimens ofpottery in the CeramicsLaboratory, 1933.

1946 Professor John Chipman, head of the department,oversees facilities and personnel changes as research be-gins to address ceramics and polymers, using the meth-ods and principles for studying metals.

1948 Professor Herbert H. Uhlig publishes The CorrosionHandbook, which remains a key reference work.

1961 Building 13 opens. The Center for Materials Scienceand Engineering is funded by a grant from ARPA (Ad-vanced Research Projects Agency). Many DMSE facultyand staff move into the new facility to pursue interde-partmental and interdisciplinary projects.

1969 3.091, Solid StateChemistry, becomes anoption for first-year stu-dents to meet the Chem-istry GIR. 3.091 is one ofthe largest classes taughtat MIT, attracting overhalf of each year’s incom-ing freshmen. In succession, John Wulff, Gus Witt, andDon Sadoway are remembered as iconic instructors bygenerations of MIT students.

1972 Glassblowing classes allow studentsto study hands-on art and science simul-taneously. After Glass Lab director PageHazlegrove’s untimely death in 1997, alectureship and art residency is establishedin her honor, hosting such acclaimedartists as Kiki Smith, Mags Harries, DaleChihuly, Lino Tagliapietra, and Maya Lin.

1973 The Materials Research Society isfounded and holds its first meeting inBoston. The organizing committee in-

cluded Prof. Harry Gatos (Ph.D. ’50 Course V), Dr. Rod-ney Hanneman (S.M. ’61, Ph.D. ’64), and others. Today,membership is 15,000 and still meets annually in Boston.

1974 After eight previous name changes, the departmentreceives its current title. Graduate programs include Ce-ramics, Materials Engineering, Materials Science, Metal-lurgy, and Polymers.

1974 Professor Morris Cohenchairs the National Academyof Science’s Committee onSurvey of Materials Scienceand Engineering (COSMAT).The groundbreaking report,Materials and Man's Needs,“outlined the intellectualfoundation of materials sci-ence and charted its direc-tion.” His observations drew upon his earlier research intothe structure of iron and steel, which contributed to thedevelopment of high-strength steels. His work with steel“helped to establish the principles underlying the devel-opment of all synthetic materials, including metals, plastics,ceramics, polymers, composites and even biomaterials,synthetic materials used to make medical implants.“ In1976, Prof. Cohen received a National Medal of Science.

1977 The Center for Materials Research in Archaeologyand Ethnology is founded. CMRAE, a consortium of eightBoston-area educational and cultural institutions, pro-motes the sharing of knowledge, graduate level educa-tion, and research facilities, thereby stimulating theincorporation of science, and especially materials engi-neering, in the pursuits of archaeology, anthropology, andart history. Professor Cyril Stanley Smith is a leader in thenew field of archaeological materials.

1977 The inaugural Wulff Lecture is held, “Haynes Stel-lite 21—The History of an American Alloy,” by John Wulff.The goal of the Wulff Lecture, now presented each falland spring, is to educate, inspire, and encourage MIT un-dergraduates to take up the study of materials science andengineering.

1980 Initially funded by the NSF, the Materials ProcessingCenter (MPC) opens with Prof. Mert Flemings as itsfounding director. Founded in response to a recognizednational need to improve the materials processing knowl-edge base and streamline the process of translating mate-rials research results into industrial innovations andapplications, MPC strives to support and enhance the poolof talented materials processing students and profession-als available to industry.

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The Great GlassPumpkin Sale is afundraiser held eachOctober.

Prof. Morris Cohen

1984 Professor Sam Allen launches a freshman seminar inblacksmithing. The seminar remains popular today. Stu-dent projects have included everything from forgingJapanese swords to fireplace tools.

1993 Anne M. Mayes’86 joins the MIT facultyand is the first womanfaculty member hired inDMSE to receive tenureand be promoted to fullprofessor. After early re-tirement due to medicalreasons, she provided theinitial funding for a fellowship, also supported by gifts fromcolleagues, friends, students, the Dean, and the Provost;this is MIT's first fellowship named for an alumna. Profes-sor Mayes, a MacVicar Fellow, has been recognized withmany teaching and professional awards, in part for her re-search on polymers in areas such as recycling efficiencyand water filtration systems.

1998 The Singapore MIT Alliance begins. ManyDMSE professors are actively involved in the Ad-vanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems Pro-gramme.

2000s DMSE expands its research focus to includenano technology, biomaterials, and energy storage.Faculty cross traditional disciplinary boundaries in de-veloping photonic materials, biomedical devices, andnew materials for rechargeable batteries with longerand stronger charges.

2002 The interdisciplinary NanoMechanical Tech-nology Lab allows researchers to probe the mechanicalproperties of surfaces and devices at the atomic and mo-

lecular scale. It is home to MIT's first nanoindenters, ma-chines that probe and measure the properties of surfacesof engineering and biological materials.

2002 Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN)founded. The mission: to develop and exploit nanotech-nology along with light-weight materials to dramaticallyimprove the survivability of soldiers. The ultimate goal is tohelp the Army create a 21st century “battlesuit” that com-bines high-tech capabilities with light weight and comfort.Professor Ned Thomas was the founding director.

2003 The DMSE Undergraduate Teaching Lab opens. Thisfacility allows the department to closely align classworkand labwork, continuing its mission of hands-on explo-ration of participation in science and engineering.

2007DMSE Headquarters moves into a new home on thefirst floor of Building 6, creating a new Chipman Roomand administrative offices.

2008 DMSE graduates launch an Alumni Club, the firstgroup dedicated to a single department at MIT. They buildrelationships between current students and alumni/ae,providing career mentoring and resources.

2008 Professor Gerbrand Ceder initiates the “MaterialsGenome Project,” a computer-modeling initiative with thegoal of discovering new materials for energy technologies.

2010 The Laboratory for Advanced Materials (LAM)opens on the Infinite Corridor. The lab is a shared and re-configurable facility for researchers to collaborate on in-terdisciplinary projects.

Prof. Anne M. Mayes

Toby Bashaw, Technical Instructor, in theDMSE Forge.

Garrett Lau presents his poster at the UROP Symposium in the Chipman Room, Summer 2010.

F A C U L T Y H O N O R SAt the Worcester Polytechnic Institute commencementceremony on May 15, Prof. Angela Belcher received anhonorary doctorate of engineering.

Professor Gerd Ceder gave the Fall 2010 Wulff Lecture,“Computationally Designing Materials for the Clean En-ergy Economy.”

Professor Yet-Ming Chiangwas named a member of theU.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Re-newable Energy Advisory Committee (ERAC). The nine-teen ERAC members represent academia, government,and industry.

DMSE was well-represented at the White House EnergyInnovation Conference this past spring. The workinggroup included Professors Yet-Ming Chiang and GeneFitzgerald and Dr. Desh Deshpande, a member of theDMSE Visiting Committee and the founder of MIT’s Desh-pande Center. Professor Fitzgerald moderated an after-noon session called “Sustainable and High-Growth EnergyBusinesses.”

Professor Michael Demkowicz received Honorable Men-tion for the TMS 2011 Early Career Faculty Fellow Award.

IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,has honored Prof. Gene Fitzgerald as a co-recipient of theAndrew S. Grove Award, the highest award presented bythe electronic devices community. Professor Fitzgerald iscited for his “seminal contributions to the demonstrationof Si/Ge lattice mismatch strain engineering for enhancedcarrier transport properties in MOSFET devices.”

S T U D E N T H O N O R SMihai Duduţă, ’10,�� received the Outstanding SeniorThesis Award for “Semi-solid Rechargeable Flow Battery.”His advisors were Profs. W. Craig Carter and Yet-MingChiang. Mr. Duduţă was elected to Tau Beta Pi.

Thomas William Hay V, ’10, was recognized with theBest Internship Report Award for “Electrical Characteristicsof Femto-second Laser Microstructured Silicon Photodi-odes,” advised by Prof. Silvija Gradečak. He also receivedan MIT Impact Award from the Public Service Center.

Bryn Waldwick was Outstanding Senior, Class of 2010.

Lina Garcia and Ian Mattswere named the OutstandingJuniors, Class of 2011.

Joshua Steimel was named Outstanding Sophomore,Class of 2012.

Brittany Jones, ’12, received the Student Activities OfficePerspectives Award, which recognizes commitment to di-versity education and cultural celebration.

Willie Mae Reese, ’10, received the Peter and SharonFiekowsky award for excellence in teaching from the Ex-perimental Study Group.

Yulia Tolstova, ’10, received a Senior Legacy Award fromFenway House.

Salvador Barriga received the DMSE John Wulff Awardfor Excellence in Teaching.

The Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Research Award was pre-sented to Eric Homer for “Modeling the Mechanical Be-havior of Amorphous Metals by Shear TransformationZone Dynamics,” advised by Prof. Christopher Schuh.

Uwe Bauer received the 1st-Year Graduate Student Exceptional Performance Award.

YongJoo Kim received the Award for an OutstandingPaper by a 1st- or 2nd-Year Graduate Student for “PhaseBehavior of Symmetric Disk-Coil Molecules,” advised byProf. Alfredo Alexander-Katz.

Siamrut Patanavanich, ’09 and current grad student, re-ceived the Horace A. Lubin Award for Outstanding Serv-ice recognizing his work in organizing the FreshmenPreOrientation Program for DMSE.

David Bradwell, M.Eng. ’06 and member of the SadowayGroup, was named one of the TR35 for his work in de-veloping an inexpensive and reliable battery that couldstore renewable energy. Each year, Technology Reviewnames 35 innovators under 35 years of age.

Yi-Chun Lu of Prof. Yang Shao-Horn’s group won the2010 Electrochemical Society Battery Division Student Re-search Award.

Jonathan P. Singer received a Best Poster Award at the2010 COMSOL conference in Boston. “Design of NovelLithographic Strategies Through Application of Electro-magnetic and Multiphysics Simulations” was co-authoredby Jae-Hwang Lee, Sisi Ni, Michael A. Gibson, Steven E.Kooi, and Edwin L. Thomas.1110

Awards and Honors

MIT’s Student Activities Office presented the DistinguishedDedication Award to Megan Brewster in recognition ofher role as a student leader and her dedication to improv-ing student life at MIT. Ms. Brewster is one of the foundersof Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT), which receivedthe Strength and Conviction Award.

Kevin McComber, ’05 and current grad student, was rec-ognized with the Student Activities Office Legacy Awardfor his sustained and outstanding contribution to the MITcommunity.

A L U M N I H O N O R SDiran Apelian, Ph.D. ’73, Howmet Professor of Mechan-ical Engineering at WPI and director of the WPI Metal Pro-cessing Institute, received the 2010 National MaterialsAdvancement Award from the Federation of Materials So-cieties during a ceremony at the National Press Club inWashington, D.C.

Martin Weinstein, S.M. ’59, Sc.D. ’61, received the Rens-selaer Polytechnic Institute Davies Medal for EngineeringAchievement, which recognizes a Rensselaer alumnus witha distinguished career of engineering achievement, publicservice, and technical and managerial accomplishments.

New TMS Awards Honor DMSE FacultyKelly Zappas, Journal of Materials, Oct. 2010

Beginning in 2012, TMS will present the Morris CohenAward and the Cyril Stanley Smith Award; these awardsrecognize excellence in materials science and engineering.

Morris Cohen: From Metallurgy to MaterialsMorris Cohen grew up around metals. His family’s busi-ness produced and refined lead-based alloys used in metaltype and solders. In 1929, he enrolled in MIT with plansto complete a metallurgy degree and return to the familybusiness. Instead, he began an academic career that cul-minated in 1975 when he was named Institute Professor.

Professor Cohen is best known for his role in expandingthe field of metallurgy into the discipline of materials sci-ence. “The Cohen Report played a key role in moving ac-ademic departments to expand into ceramics, polymers,semiconductors, and composites—and the universal par-adigm of structure-property-processing-performance re-lations that hold regardless of the particular type ofmaterial considered,” said Ned Thomas, current holder ofthe Morris Cohen Chair.

Professor Thomas emphasizes the honor of holding theCohen Chair, “Any materials scientist would be very, veryhighly honored to recive an award in Cohen’s name.When I would go to Japan as the Morris Cohen Profes-sor—always, right after my talk, members of the audiencewould greet me and want to pass their best regards to meto take back to Morris. He was especially loved in Japanfor his outstanding metallurgical contributions.”

Cyril Stanley Smith: The Structure of EverythingWhile the Cyril Stanley Smith Award recognizes achieve-ments in materials structure, to former DMSE colleagueJohn Cahn, materials structure doesn’t fully encompassProf. Smith’s interests, which included, in short, the struc-ture of everything. After joining the MIT faculty in 1961,Prof. Smith became as much a historian as a metallurgist.

“He spent his entire time at MIT on the structure of every-thing—not only on metallurgy history, but on the ideas inscience. He really considered the structure of society, ofknowledge. Everything had structure,” said Prof. Cahn,now at the University of Washington. “He could look atthe surface of a two-dimensional section of somethingopaque and not only see what it looked like in three di-mensions, but he could also infer a fourth dimension. Hisideas of history are exactly like that. He would see theevolution of a society or an idea in time or space.”

Professor Smith started his career as a research metallur-gist at the American Brass Company in 1927 and laterjoined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, where he di-rected the preparation of the fissionable metal for theatomic bomb and other materials for nuclear experiments.At the University of Chicago, he founded the Institute forthe Study of Metals. “It was the first interdisciplinary lab,to the best of my knowledge,” said Prof. Cahn. “He hadcome from Los Alamos where he was head of metallurgyand he had his eyes opened that physics, chemistry, andmath could have an enormous impact on metallurgy. . . .That the field has become so much bigger is because ofSmith.”

The end of December is seeing the end of an era in DMSEas Dave Roylance and Bernie Wuensch retire; both ofthem have outstanding relationships with students andboth have spent many years at MIT. The blow is softenedby the fact that, for the near future, they will continue toteach, in a part-time role, and Prof. Roylance will serve asthe Internship Coordinator and as an undergraduate ad-visor.

D A V I D K . R O Y L A N C EOver the course of his careerat MIT, Prof. Dave Roylancehas interacted with DMSEundergraduates in an as-tounding number of ways:on the Undergraduate Com-mittee, as the Communica-tions Advisor, as the SafetyOfficer, as Executive Officer,writing Mechanics of Mate-rials, a textbook used in 3.11, as the Wellesley/MIT Co-ordinator, as the ROTC advisor, and more. In addition tothese departmental obligations, he has also held an equalnumber of MIT offices and served on Institute-wide com-mittees dedicated to student life. He is dedicated to thewell-being of our students and incredibly knowledgeableabout how to help them navigate MIT.

Professor Roylance holds the B.S.M.E. and Ph.D. from theUniversity of Utah, both in Mechanical Engineering. Hejoined the MIT faculty in 1975, after serving in the U.S.Army, including a stint at the Army Materials and Me-chanics Research Center in Watertown where he workedon polymers for high-strain rate and high-temperature applications.

During his career at MIT, Prof. Roylance has taught manyundergraduate and graduate subjects and has served asadvisor for countless students. He’s seen a remarkable shiftin science and engineering education; as a member of theMIT Athena Committee, he helped shape use of comput-ers in the classroom. In DMSE, he was one of the first toassign problem sets that required use of computers.

Students and colleagues praise Prof. Roylance for his will-ingness to share his time and expertise, his patience, andhis good humor.

B E R N H A R D T J . W U E N S C HProfessor Bernie Wuensch ar-rived at MIT as a freshman,and has made this place hishome. He holds the S.B. andS.M. in Physics and the Ph.D.in Crystallography from whatwas then the Department ofGeology (now Earth andPlanetary Sciences); in 1964,he joined the Department ofMetallurgy as Assistant Professor of Ceramics, after spend-ing a year at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

An expert in x-ray crystallography and transport phe-nomena in complex perovskite oxides, Prof. Wuensch hasintegrated his research into the classroom, encouragingstudents to look for symmetry and structure all aroundthem, whether in tile floors, in other class assignments, orin nature.

During his years on the DMSE faculty, Prof. Wuensch hasserved on innumerable Institute and Departmental com-mittees. For many years, he has been the DepartmentalUROP Coordinator and has served on the UndergraduateCommittee. He was Director of the Center for MaterialsScience and Engineering from 1988 to 1993, and spentsix months as acting DMSE Department Head in 1981. Hehas been honored with teaching awards from MIT andwith the Outstanding Educator Award from the AmericanCeramic Society. He is a fellow of both the American Ce-ramic Society and the Mineralogical Society of America.In 2003, he received an honorary doctorate in Engineer-ing from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

Professor Wuensch is well-known for exceptional teachingin 3.60, Symmetry, Structure, and Tensor Properties ofMaterials, a graduate subject that has been offered for atleast three decades.

He is beloved as a colleague, instructor, and advisor, al-ways taking time to listen and then crafting a careful andthoughtful reply.

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Retirements

Omar S. Abdul-Hamid PhD’93

Paul H. Adler SM ’81Ariya Akthakul SM ’98, PhD’03

Adrian E. Albrethsen PhD ’63Benjamin C. Allen SM ’54,ScD ’57*

Samuel M. Allen SM ’71, PhD’75*

Steven Allen SM ’51, ScD ’59*Ronald E. Allred ScD ’83*Frank F. Aplan ScD ’57Arthur H. Aronson ’58*Raymundo Arroyave SM ’00,PhD ’04

Charles P. Ashdown PhD ’84*Steven A. Attanasio PhD ’96Francis J. Azzarto SM ’67James C. Baker PhD ’70Shuba Balasubramanian SM’96

Chester L. Balestra ’66, ScD’71*

Metin Basaran SM ’71, PhD’74

Max Batres ’96Renato G. Bautista SM ’57Mark G. Benz SM ’59, ScD’61*

Frederick S. Blackall IV SM ’75John E. Blendell SM ’76, ScD’79

David F. Bliss SM ’81Donald O. Bolger SM ’85Valerie Jordan Booden ’95J. Robert Booth ScD ’72*H. Kent Bowen PhD ’71*Tracy Barnum Braun ScD ’74Donald Brayton ’64, SM ’66*James F. Bredt ’82, SM ’87,PhD ’95

William E. Brower, Jr. PhD’69*

Caryl B. Brown SM ’95*Paul E. Brown ’56, SM ’57,ScD ’61*

T. David Burleigh SM ’80,PhD ’85

Pavel Bystricky PhD ’97*John C. Campbell SM ’57*Douglas J. Carlson ScD ’89*Bruce L. Carvalho SM ’90,PhD ’93

Julius Chang ’81, SM ’82,PhD ’89*

Anil R. Chaudhry SM ’83Andrew Chen SM ’91, PhD’95*

Katherine C. Chen PhD ’96*Long-Qing Chen PhD ’90Patty P. Chen ’03, MNG ’04Jeremy Cheng ’01*David R. Chipman ’49, ScD’55*

Roland Tuck-Chow Choo ScD’91

Manoj K. Choudhary ScD’80*

Uma Chowdhry PhD ’76*Kuo Chin Chuang PhD ’65*Yong-Chae Chung PhD ’95Harold R. Clark PhD ’82William S. Coblenz SM ’77,PhD ’81*

Richard E. Cole SM ’52*Aliki K. Collins PhD ’87*Joel A. Conwicke PhD ’69*Edgar W. Cook SM ’68Christopher A. Coronado PhD’94*

Catherine M. Cotell SM ’84,PhD ’88

Jeanne L. Courter PhD ’81*David C. Cranmer SM ’78,PhD ’81*

Mark M. D’Andrea, Jr. ’58,SM ’62*

Benita J. Dair PhD ’99Daniel B. Dawson SM ’67,ScD ’73*

Mark R. De Guire PhD ’87*Joseph M. Dhosi SM ’59, SM’65*

Carl L. Dohrman PhD ’08Chun Christine Dong PhD ’90Alfred L. Donlevy SM ’63*Mary C. Doswell SM ’82James L. Drummond SM ’70*Colin R. Ducharme MBA ’06,SM ’06

David C. Dunand PhD ’91*Casey Lynn Dwyer ’03Andreas T. Echtermeyer SM’85, PhD ’88

George Economos SM ’51,ScD ’54*

Jonathan Mark Edward MNG’08

John W. Elmer ScD ’88*Jim Eng ’35*Alan T. English SM ’60, PhD’63*

Erten Eser SM ’72, PhD ’78*David J. Fanger SM ’96*Robert S. Feigelson SM ’61Howard C. Fiedler SM ’50,ScD ’53*

Marc A. Finot ScD ’96Paul M. Fleishman SM ’82*Frederick B. Fletcher ScD ’72*Gordon E. Forward ScD ’66Robert A. Frank ’83, SM ’85,ScD ’89*

Gerald S. Frankel ScD ’85*Robert L. Freed PhD ’78*Douglas W. Fuerstenau ScD’53*

Rosendo Fuquen Molano ME’73, SM ’73, ScD ’82

Robert J. Furlong, Jr. SM ’77*Jeffrey P. Gambino PhD ’84*Amitava Gangulee ScD ’67*Terry J. Garino PhD ’87

John J. Gassner, Jr. ScD ’85Frank W. Gayle ScD ’85*David M. Gibbons ’01*Ralph G. Gilliland PhD ’68*Emilio Giraldez Paredes PhD’86*

Stacy Holander Gleixner ’92*Daniel S. Gnanamuthu MTE’72

Joseph I. Goldstein ’60, SM’62, ScD ’64*

Robert S. Goodof ’72, SM’73*

Frank E. Goodwin SM ’76,ScD ’79*

Taras Z. Gorishnyy PhD ’07David M. Goy SM ’86*Dodd H. Grande SM ’83, PhD’87*

Amy R. Grayson ’97, PhD’03*

Martin L. Green PhD ’78Abbie Sue C. Gregg ’74Manohar S. Grewal ScD ’72*Vernon Griffiths ScD ’55*Honglin Guo PhD ’98*Raymond M. Hakim PhD ’68Steven S. Hansen ’73, SM’75, ScD ’78*

Robert A. Hard SM ’49, ScD’57*

Anne B. Hardy PhD ’88Benjamin Hellweg ’97, SM’00

Michael V. Herasimchuk ’39*Lloyd H. Hihara SM ’85, PhD’89

Gregory J. Hildeman ScD ’78David C. Hill ’68, SM ’69,PhD ’70*

Charles Sungyup Hong MNG’09

William F. Hosford, Jr. ScD’59*

Simone Peterson Hruda SM’87, PhD ’92*

Peter Yaw-Ming Hsieh SM’99*

Gordon Hunter ’80, SM ’81,PhD ’84*

Jang-Hi Im SM ’71, ScD ’76Bor Z. Jang SM ’79, PhD ’82*Mark H. Jhon ’01*Timothy V. Johnson ScD ScD’87

Tamala R. Jonas SM ’89, PhD’93

Sandra K. Joung ’95, SM ’96Kenneth G. Jow ’02, SM ’03*Debra L. Kaiser ScD ’85*Karsten August Kallevig ’99*Robert H. Kane ’63, SM ’64,ScD ’68*

Junichi Kaneko SM ’65, ScD’67*

Shinhoo Kang SM ’80, PhD’83

Rakesh R. Kapoor SM ’87,ScD ’89

Theodoulos Z. Kattamis SM’63, ScD ’65

Allan P. Katz ’69*Robert Nathan Katz ’61, PhD’69

George A. Keig ScD ’66*Joan E. Kertz SM ’01Heinz Killias PhD ’64Yong-Kil Kim PhD ’88*Christopher G. King ’82*Gerald A. Knorovsky ScD ’77*David B. Knorr SM ’77, ScD’81*

Iwao Kohatsu PhD ’71*Joseph P. Krajc ’69David Kramer ’55*Laura Lynn Beecroft Kramer’91*

George Krauss SM ’58, ScD’61*

Richard C. Krutenat PhD ’65Charles R. Kurkjian ScD ’55Anthony D. Kurtz ’51, SM’52, ScD ’55

Raymond K.F. Lam ScD ’88*Harold R. Larson ScD ’67David E. Laughlin PhD ’73Michael R. Lebo PhD ’71Arthur K. Lee SM ’80, PhD’84

D. William Lee ScD ’58Hyuck Mo Lee PhD ’89*Jae-Gab Lee PhD ’91Lidia H. Lee PhD ’84*Charles A. Lewinsohn ’87Jennifer A. Lewis ScD ’91Kathy Hsinjung Li ’05, MNG’06

Qiong Li SM ’88Yaoqi Li SM ’08Yawen Li PhD ’05Matthew R. Libera SM ’83,ScD ’87

Jenny A. Lichter ’04, PhD ’09Ching-Te Lin SM ’96, PhD’98*

Der-Gao Lin PhD ’87Minfa Lin ScD ’90*Pinyen Lin PhD ’90*Roger J. Lin MNG ’03Ulf H. Lindborg ScD ’65*Hung C. Ling ’72, ScD ’78*Hongbao Liu PhD ’95Herbert W. Lloyd SM ’52*Charles E. Lyman PhD ’74*John P. Lynch, Jr. ’52*Bruce A. MacDonald SM ’61,PhD ’64*

Scott A. Macdonald ’99Imtiaz Majid PhD ’88Sanjeev Makan SM ’97Louis J. Martel ’56Thomas O. Mason PhD ’77*Lawrence J. Masur SM ’82,PhD ’88*

Satoru Matsuo PhD ’93*

! MIT and DMSE thank our generous alumni/ae for their support of

Course III during the fiscal year ending in June 2010. Gifts can be

made by visiting http://giving.mit.edu.

Donors

*1861 Circle member (have given annually for five or more years).

Mary L. McCarthy SM ’81Robert L. McCormick SM ’82,PhD ’85*

Michael E. McHenry PhD ’88Paul C. McIntyre ScD ’93Joanna M. McKittrick PhD ’88Bruce D. McLaughlin ScD’69*

Michael McNallan ’70, SM’74, PhD ’77*

Hiroshi Menjo SM ’85*Stephen A. Metz ’67, PhD’70*

Arthur B. Michael ScD ’52*Gary A. Miller ’60, SM ’61,ScD ’65*

Thomas P. Moffat ScD ’89*Francois R. Mollard SM ’60,ScD ’67*

Cesare Monti SM ’96Michael J. Mori PhD ’08John E. Morral PhD ’69*William G. Morris SM ’63,ScD ’65*

Alan J. Morrow ’72, SM ’73*Samuel K. Nash SM ’48, ScD’51*

George E. Nereo SM ’63, ScD’66*

Harvey R. Nesor ’61*Trinh Tran Nguyen PhD ’06Barbara M. Nichols ’94*Walter Nummela ScD ’63*Solar C. Olugebefola ’99, PhD’07

Binu K. Oommen SM ’06William R. Opie ScD ’49*J. I. Orbegozo SM ’65Alex J. Otto PhD ’91Albert E. Paladino, Jr. ScD’62*

Satyavolu S. Papa Rao PhD’96

James Pappis ScD ’59*Robert I. Park ’88Tae-Soon Park PhD ’02Woonsup Park PhD ’88*Charles A. Parker SM ’81,PhD ’84*

Neil E. Paton PhD ’69George W. Pearsall ScD ’61Richard W. Pekala SM ’83,ScD ’84

Jason S. Pellegrino ’08Regis M. N. Pelloux SM ’56,ScD ’58

Sean F. Peterson ’94*William T. Petuskey ScD ’77*Alfonso Pinella SM ’66*Jerry D. Plunkett PhD ’61Richard F. Polich SM ’65Alan W. Postlethwaite SM’49*

Roger Wayne Powell PhD ’74Elisabeth Prasman SM ’97Paul K. Predecki SM ’61, PhD’64

William R. Prindle ScD ’55*Svante Prochazka SM ’68*Livia M. Racz ’89, PhD ’93*

Joe Raguso SM ’91*Ranjan Ray ScD ’69Michael Joseph Read PhD ’02David J. Reed ScD ’77Christine M. Reif ’84Aldo M. Reti ’65, SM ’67, ScD’70*

William H. Rhodes ScD ’65*Richard E. Riman PhD ’87*Martin D. Robbins SM ’56*William L. Robbins PhD ’72*McDonald Robinson ScD ’67*Neil E. Rogen SM ’56, MTE’57*

Irwin B. Roll SM ’52, ScD ’58Alan R. Rosenfield ’53, SM’55, ScD ’59*

Thomas A. Rowe ’66, SM’67*

Michael F. Rubner PhD ’86*Robert C. Ruhl PhD ’67*Scott Ivan Rushfeldt MNG ’05Cecily A. Ryan ’00Anil K. Sachdev ScD ’77*Norihisa Saito SM ’85*Mark Sakai SM ’05Srikanth B. Samavedam PhD’98*

K. K. Sankaran PhD ’78*Howard T. Sawhill SM ’81,PhD ’85

Thomas F. Schaub, Jr. SM ’95*Susan L. Schiefelbein PhD’96*

Erika K. Schutte ’95Elliot M. Schwartz ’89, PhD’95*

George K. Schwenke SM ’96Huankiat Seh PhD ’05Maurice E. Shank ScD ’49*Andrew M. Sherman ’67, PhD’72*

William M. Sherry PhD ’78Akihiko Shibutani SM ’77Bruce M. Shields SM ’52*Scott A. Sikorski SM ’89, PhD’94*

Daniel Knight Sparacin PhD’06

Mark S. Spotz PhD ’90David F. Springsteen ’54*Edward S. Sproles, Jr. ScD’76*

Edward T. Stephenson, Jr. SM’56*

Alan W. Swanson PhD ’72*Douglas J. Swenson ’87Kwan Wee Tan MNG ’08Peter Tarassoff ScD ’62*Michael J. Tarkanian ’00, SM’03

Emma R. Tevaarwerk ’00Ellen S. Tormey PhD ’82*Min-Hsiung Tsai ME ’72*Chi-Yuan A. Tsao PhD ’90Nicholas Tsui PhD ’07John C. Turn, Jr. PhD ’79*Johannes M. Uys ScD ’59*Leo F. P. Van Swam SM ’70,ScD ’73

Ryan M. Wagar ’03Robert H. Walat ’93*David M. Walter ’84*Lorraine C. Wang ’97Michael J. Wargo ’73, ScD’82*

Michael J. Warwick SM ’88,ScD ’91

George Wei PhD ’76Leslie S. Weinman PhD ’71*Janine J. Weins PhD ’70*Stanley Weiss SM ’55, ScD’65

David O. Welch SM ’62*Eric Werwa PhD ’97*Thomas R. White ’69*George G. Wicks PhD ’75*Ronald L. Wohl SM ’80

Brian S. Wolkenberg SM ’00*Jeryl K. Wright ScD ’73*Eric John Wu PhD ’02Thomas A. Yager PhD ’80*Juichiro Yamaguchi SM ’86*Man F. Yan ’70, ScD ’76Chiang Y. Yang PhD ’77P. John Yavorsky, Jr. PhD ’71Miao Ye PhD ’08Tri-Rung Yew SM ’87, PhD’90

Chan Hoe Yip MNG ’06Euijoon Yoon PhD ’90James Andrew Yurko PhD ’01Juris Zagarins MTE ’83*Emmanuel N. Zulueta SM’80*

G R A D U A T E F E L L O W S H I PF U N D R A I S I N G

The DMSE faculty titles offer a glimpse into the Depart-

ment’s past, honoring well-known names in materials sci-

ence like Morris Cohen, John Elliott, Tom King, and, more

recently, Mert Flemings. Another list, which is not quite as

well-publicized, is of the many individuals (and onegroup) who are honored with a named fellowship en-dowed through the generosity of family and friends.When incoming students receive these fellowships, theyare asked to provide a short biography that we send tothe donors or the honorees. While many of our studentsare supported through the DMSE Fellowship Fund, orthrough MIT or outside fellowships, the following areawarded regularly:

Gilbert Y. Chin fellowshipR.L. Coble fellowshipMorris Cohen (1933) fellowshipNicholas J. Grant fellowshipJohn F. Elliott fellowshipRonald A. Kurtz fellowshipCarl M. Loeb fellowshipAnne M. Mayes (1986) fellowship David V. Ragone fellowshipRobert M. Rose Presidential fellowship, given by

Craig, ’61, S.M. ’62, Sc.D. ’64, and Rose TedmonVasilios and Danae Salapatas fellowshipsH.F. Taylor fellowshipH.H. Uhlig graduate fellowshipStuart Z. Uram fellowshipWenckus fellowshipClass of ’39 fellowship

DMSE recently reaffirmed its public commitment to sup-port all first-year graduate students through endowedfellowships. This will provide financial security while thesestudents adjust to the demands of a graduate educationand explore MIT’s wide range of research opportunities.

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October was a very busy and important month with twokey events occuring with a span of three days!

10/10/10 • I had thepleasure of being the fa-ther of the bride this fall—a very special occasion forfamily and friends and anice duty to “give away”my daughter, Heather.

10/12/10 & 10/13/10 •The Visiting Committeemet with the Depart-

ment. The meeting was well attended and all the memberswere highly engaged throughout the meeting. The Com-mittee was very pleased with the progress made by theDepartment during the last two years. The Department is

ranked #1 in US News and World Report for both theUG and G programs. Our UG enrollment, currently 140sophomores, juniors and seniors, is at an all time high. Wereceived praise for introducing the Course III FreshmanPreOrientation Program and continuing MADMEC andother hands-on materials engineering activities. The UGsand Gs were quite happy with the Department, appreci-ate the devotion of the faculty to teaching and research,and very much like the new labs. The overview researchprogram talks of our new professors, Drs. Jeff Grossmanand Polina Anikeeva, were very well received by the Vis-iting Committee, and the Committee was quite excitedabout the plans for the new Laboratory for EngineeringMaterials (LEM).

If you will be in Cambridge, please stop by and see someof the exciting things happening in DMSE!—Ned Thomas

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