A team of researchers at Purdue University and Texas A&M University recently demonstrated that incorporating copper layers into a thin film of the amorphous metal copper niobium (a-CuNb) can significantly enhance its plasticity.

Ecobionanocomposites: How to build a better buzzword!

When: September 28, 6:00pm

Where: Lafayette Brewing Company, 622 Main St.

A new computing technology called “organismoids” mimics some aspects of human thought by learning how to forget unimportant memories while retaining more vital ones.

Mary Lee Gambone is currently head of the Rolls-Royce Materials Engineering organization in Indianapolis and has worked in aerospace materials for more than 30 years.

King Examines Materials Supply and Demand Issues at MS&T17

Matthew Korey and Nelyan López Pérez receive Graduate Research Fellowship.

Materials Engineering Professor Anter El-Azab is the founding editor-in-chief of a new journal from the Springer Nature publishing group, “Materials Theory”.

Purdue research is leading the way on making energy-efficient sheet metals, and Purdue’s plan includes technology transfer with MSE’s Professor Trumble. This work has been funded with $1.5 million by the Department of Energy.

His poster "Effect of point defects on grain boundary phase transitions and coarsening in polycrystalline YSZ," earned him a $250 award.

Materials Engineering undergraduate student, Alejandro Figueroa, was awarded the 2017 Nuclear Energy University Program Scholarship from the U.S.. Department of Energy. He will receive a $7500 scholarship. He is one of 58 undergraduates across the U.S. to receive this award.