National Academy of Engineering members to speak at OSU-Tulsa in Spring

Friday, March 6, 2015

(STILLWATER, Okla., February 4, 2015) – Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Oklahoma State University – Tulsa is hosting a seminar series to expose students, faculty and research staff on latest trends in science, engineering and technology. Each seminar will be held from 2-3 p.m. starting on March 26, following on April 23 and 30, at HRC 153, OSU-Tulsa campus. The three scheduled speakers, Dr. Subhash C. Singhal, Dr. Clyde Briant and Chuck Kurkjian, are prominent in the fields of MSE and members of National Academy of Engineering that is the highest honor to an engineer.

The series is part of graduate education and research and is new to the program. The main topic for this series is mostly advanced materials useful in nanotechnology, energy, electronics, aerospace and medicine. Attendees will expand their knowledge in each one-hour session and become familiar with the current state of advanced materials.

Singhal is a Battelle Fellow and Director, Fuel Cells for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) where he provides senior technical, managerial and commercialization leadership to the laboratory’s extensive fuel cell program. Before joining PNNL in April 2000. He worked for Siemens Power Generation, formerly Westinghouse Electric Corporation for more than 29 years.

Briant is currently serving as the Otis E. Randall University Professor and Professor of Engineering at Brown University.   From 2003-2006, he served as Dean of Engineering at Brown, and from 2006-2013, he served as Vice President for Research. His primary research interest has been in the area of structural materials and more recently has moved into the field of science and engineering studies. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Kurkjian has been affiliated with the Princeton Materials Institute (PMI, now PRISM) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University, where he is currently a visiting scientist.  He is now living in Maine and is an adjunct professor in the Engineering Department at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham, Maine. His fields of interest include glass strengths, strengthening and flaws, indentation hardness and cracking.

MSE welcomes anyone interested in the latest trends in science, engineering and technology.

Oklahoma State's School of Materials Science and Engineering aims to create new materials with improved performance for diverse applications such as in nanotechnology, aerospace, energy systems, electronics and medicine. A materials scientist utilizes physics, chemistry, biology and engineering discipline to explore and understand the interplay among processing, structure and properties in metals, ceramics, polymers and composites.

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