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Meet the TMS 2010 Scholarship Winners. . .
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. . . at the TMS 2010 Annual Meeting, Seattle Washington, February 14-18
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2/10/2010 12:00:00 AM...
Securing the next generation of materials scientists and engineers is the intent of the numerous scholarship programs supported by the TMS Foundation and TMS technical divisions. Academic excellence, as well as the potential to provide leadership in addressing future materials challenges, are key among the criteria for selecting scholarship recipients. TMS congratulates its 2010 scholarship winners—who will formally receive their awards at the TMS 2010 Annual Meeting—and wishes them all the best in pursuing their academic and professional goals.
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Kelsey Stoerzinger
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J. Keith Brimacombe Presidential Scholarship
Kelsey Stoerzinger, Northwestern University
Currently a senior in materials science and engineering, Stoerzinger has received a number of awards and honors throughout her undergraduate career, including the Dow Corning Diversity Excellence Scholarship in Chemical Sciences, the ASM International Materials Education Foundation Outstanding Scholar Award, and the C.V. Star Merit Scholarship, Northwestern University. She has worked as a research intern at Northwestern University, where she has studied plasmonic materials, specifically the fabrication and properties of metallic pyramidal nanoparticles. “My particles kill cancer,” wrote Stoerzinger in her scholarship application. “It’s a little more complicated than that, but I’m awfully proud that all the work I put into them may some day save lives.”
Stoerzinger also completed an internship in the General Motors Powertrain Division as a competitive manufacturing intern and is currently the house manager for the Pick-Staiger Recital Hall at Northwestern. In reflecting on her future career path, Stoerzinger said. “I have found a field to go into that gets me excited. I find beauty in the lab, and love knowing not only why things behave the way they do, but also being able to ask, ‘what if?’ While my education may not always explicitly give me the answers, it certainly has shown me how to explore and find out, and how to share my findings with others.”
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Sarah Miller
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Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division Gilbert Chin Scholarship
Sarah Miller, Washington State University
“I knew that I wanted to go to graduate school and receive my Ph.D. since I started my undergraduate years at Washington State University (WSU),” said Sarah Miller, a senior in materials science and engineering. Miller said that her experiences at WSU have “inspired me to consider teaching materials science and engineering at the university level,” providing her with an opportunity “to enhance the lives and educational experiences of future generations while performing research.”
As the current secretary and former treasurer of her Materials Advantage chapter, Miller has participated in a number of educational outreach and service projects. She has worked as an undergraduate research assistant in tin whiskers studies at WSU and has earned a number of other awards and honors, including two NASA Space Grant Science Opportunity Scholarships and last year’s TMS Gilbert Chin Scholarship.
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Eric Young
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Extraction & Processing Division Scholarship
Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division Scholarship
Eric Young, South Dakota School of Mines
Young, a senior in metallurgical engineering, noted in his scholarship application that working as a quality assurance intern with Nucor Steel was a key milestone in his professional development. There, he led a total oxygen study on degassed grades, as well as a study of how to effectively reduce the amount of scale on rolled products. “My experience at Nucor remains unmatched and has driven me to learn more about the steel industry,” he said.
Young also worked as a heat treat engineering intern at Caterpiller, Inc. and a laboratory technician in the Composites and Polymer Engineering Laboratory at the university. He has served as president of the university’s Material Advantage Chapter and is a second-year recipient of the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division Scholarship.
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Ryan Morrison
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Extraction & Processing Division Scholarship
Ryan Morrison, University of Utah
A junior in metallurgical engineering, Morrison is a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, the Phi Kappa Phi honor society, and the Golden Key International Honor Society. He has worked at the university as a research assistant, saying in his scholarship application, “It was great learning experience to understand how research is done and be a part of a practical engineering project.” Also pursuing a minor in Spanish, Morrison volunteers as a translator at a local hospital.
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Kalen Jensen
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Extraction & Processing Division Scholarship
Kalen Jensen, University of Alberta
As a junior in materials engineering, Jensen has already gained valuable professional experiences as a process engineer with Teck Metals at its Trail B.C. lead and zinc smelting and refining facility. A major project that he was involved with there focused on improving the existing indium solvent extraction circuit in order to reliably produce a 99.9999 percent pure product. Said Jensen about his work at Teck, “I have learned that everyone has something to teach me.” He has also served as an undergraduate researcher at the University of Alberta where he investigated tin whisker abatement in lead-free solders.
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Erin Diedrich
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Extraction & Processing Division Scholarship
Erin Diedrich, Washington State University
Diedrich is a junior in materials science and engineering, with an emphasis on metallurgy. Currently the treasurer of WSU’s Material Advantage chapter, she has been active in the club’s efforts to reach out to the community, while also leading fundraising efforts. Her hobbies include creating ironwork for tables and furniture in a home-built forge and she plans to incorporate these skills and interests into her professional life. “My career goals are to participate in hands-on work with metals and alloys, design new, more efficient, and stronger alloys, and work towards more environmentally conscious methods of processing and production,” she wrote in her scholarship application.
Diedrich is also the recipient of the Boeing Endowed Scholarship through the WSU College of Engineering and Architecture and the Ferrous Metallurgy Education Today Scholarship conferred by the American Iron and Steel Institute.
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Laura Jean Lucca
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Light Metals Division Scholarship
Laura Jean Lucca, The Pennsylvania State University
Lucca first became interested in engineering in high school when she attended an ASM International Materials Camp. “I found the field of materials so fascinating that I decided to pursue a career as a materials engineer,” she said. Now a senior in materials science and engineering, with a concentration in ceramics and metals, Lucca has served as an undergraduate research fellow through the Women in Science and Engineering Research program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Her research experiences have included thermodynamic modeling of metal oxides and experimental work with diffusion couples and diffusion triples. In addition, she was selected to participate in an NSF-funded program to develop international collaborations with the Institute of High Performance Computing at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. Lucca has also interned as a student engineer with Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, served as a teaching assistant for a freshman calculus class, and is active in a number of university organizations, including Material Advantage, student council, and the Solar Decathlon team.
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Dmitri Nassyrov
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Light Metals Division Scholarship
Dmitri Nassyrov, McGill University
Said Nassyrov of his education at McGill, “I keep discovering new fields, one more interesting than the other, where my knowledge can be applied.” Now a junior in materials engineering, Nassyrov has augmented his classroom experiences with an internship at the research center of Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium where he worked on recycling residues to improve energy requirement calculations for smelter operations. He also served as an undergraduate research assistant at McGill, focusing on the development of a thermodynamic database for magnesium-based light alloys. He is(two alsos in a row sound awkward) the recipient of the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Undergraduate Student Research Award and the Canadian Die Caster Association Scholarship.
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Michael Fank
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Light Metals Division Scholarship
Michael Fank, University of Wisconsin
Now a junior in materials science and engineering, Fank has gained valuable professional insights through various internships. In a co-op program at Hamilton Sundstrand, he performed wear testing and braze strength analyses for Boeing’s 787-9, among other projects. He was also an engineering intern at J7L Fiber Services, where he developed and implemented a mold pattern location system and reduced both set-up time and scrap parts. He has served as president of the university’s American Foundry Society Chapter and has been involved in numerous educational outreach and social service activities, including volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and teaching chess to elementary school students.
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Whitney Patterson
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Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division Scholarship
Whitney Patterson, Washington State University
“I have a passion for renewable energy technology to ease environmental strain and make our country energy dependent,” said Patterson, a senior in materials science and engineering, with a minor in mechanical engineering. “My career will focus on working with research and development teams on sustainable technology that will directly impact humankind.” To explore these career goals, Patterson has worked as an undergraduate research assistant since she was a sophomore where she has studied the growth of gold nanoparticles on silica nanosprings for clean energy technology. She has also participated in an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates at Cornell University, growing single crystals for defect and transportation studies from polycrystalline rods of cobalt orthosilicate. Patterson has also been actively involved as a member and officer in WSU’s Material Advantage chapter, developed an educational Web site based on her own experimental steel data, and volunteers at the Whitman County Humane Society. She was the 2009 TMS J. Keith Brimacombe Presidential Scholarship recipient.
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David Cole
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Structural Materials Division Scholarship
David Cole, University of Cincinnati
Important insights into life skills as well as professional development informed Cole’s co-op experience at Det Norske Veritas, where he engaged in corrosion studies of oil pipelines. “My experience at Det Norske Veritas with integrity management programs has shown me the importance of developing a plan that guides you for today and also the future,” he said. “Just as we can develop plans to ensure the future of an infrastructure, we should have a plan for our personal lives.”
A junior in materials engineering, Cole has dedicated himself to building learning communities and mentoring others. As a peer leader at the university, he has facilitated a group of freshmen engineering students in their transition to college life. He has also volunteered at a wilderness camp in northern Minnesota devoted to developing leadership and relationship skills in young people, assisted with the first-ever ASM International Teacher’s Materials Camp in Cincinnati, and serves as a volunteer tutor in freshmen calculus. He is also a member of the Alpha Sigma Mu materials honor society and has earned the NACE Hans Schmoldt Scholarship in Cathodic Protection.
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Mohamad Zbib
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Structural Materials Division Scholarship
Mohamad Zbib, Washington State University
A senior in materials science and engineering, Zbib has worked as a technical assistant at WSU, where he has researched the crack morphology and mechanical properties of polycrystalline silicon, used for solar cell applications. The current president of WSU’s Material Advantage chapter, Zbib has cut, ground, and machined parts for more than 100 toolkits designed to teach density testing and materials science concepts to junior high students in the state of Washington. He has also received the International Freshman Academic Award and a Mechanical and Materials Engineering Scholarship, both from WSU.
The application deadline for 2011 TMS Scholarships and awards is March 15, 2010. Scholarship applications and submission requirements can be found at this ink.
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