Researchers from IBM and Purdue University have discovered that tiny structures called silicon nanowires might be ideal for manufacturing in future computers and consumer electronics because they form the same way every time.

Professor Carol Handwerker will receive the leadership award of TMS and Professor Alejandro Strachan will receive the Early Career Award. University of Michigan Professor Tresa Pollock, BSMetE 1984 and a 2008 Distinguished Engineering Alumna of Purdue's College of Engineeering, will become a Fellow of TMS. If you can, join us in congratulating them in San Francisco February 15-19, 2009 at the TMS Annual Meeting!

In this presentation, we shall look at the ways in which the U.S. obtains and uses its energy, in order to identify the opportunities for making changes that might help to ensure the future of our quality of life. We will show how today’s technological choices may have unexpected, though fully predictable outcomes, and illuminate these with examples from the fairly recent past.

Professor Jeff P. Youngblood of Purdue MSE and Professor Nancy R. Sottos of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign served as guest editors for the August 2008 Materials Research Society Bulletin. The topics of self-cleaning and self-healing materials provide a new paradigm for design and fabrication of engineering materials.

MSE researchers have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted.

MSE Professor Carlos Martinez' Research on Emulsions HIghlighted as
Cover Story for Materials Today

Ms. Kalapi Biswas, a doctoral student conducting research on "Bismuth
Telluride Nanowire Composites for Thermoelectric Devices" with
Professor Tim Sands wins prestigious award.

Research from Professor Jeff Youngblood's group is the cover highlight for the March 19, 2008 edition of Macromolecular Rapid Communications.

Purdue MSE graduate Jacob L. Jones received an NSF CAREER Award in 2008 to support a research program developing time-resolved structure-property relationships in piezoelectric ceramics.

A father’s suggestion leads to a career in materials engineering.