AMPAC News

• September 1, 2009 - UCF Scientist win research grant to develop power-plant sensor. A trio of UCF scientists has been awarded $811,186 by the U.S. Department of Energy to invent a tiny-but-tough device that could help solve global warming and reduce energy consumption.
• August, 2009 - Dr. Sudipta Seal, a Professor with the Advanced Materials Processing Center, the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering and the NanoScience Technology Center, has been named as the new Director of AMPAC and the NSTC.
  
• September, 2008  -  Dr. Sudipta Seal, AMPAC Professor of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Materials (ASM) in recognition "For pioneering the development of multi component surface engineered oxides for a multitude of industrial applications."
• May 23, 2008  -  The UCF Board of Trusteees honored junior Mechanical Engineering major Ashley Ewh for becoming a 2008 Goldwater Scholar. She works in the lab of AMPAC Assoc. Professor Dr. Yongho Sohn and  plans to pursue a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering.  She is also a winner of the Astronaut Scholarship.

AMPAC News Archive

• Honors student Ashley Ewh majoring in Mechanical Engineering, and an AMPAC Undergraduate RA, who worked on INL-supported program with AMPAC Assoc. Professor Dr. Yongho Sohn, was selected as a 2008 Goldwater Scholar.  The on-line announcement can be found at http://www.act.org/goldwater/
• March 2008  -  Yue Zhao, a Ph.D student of AMPAC Assoc. Professor Dr. Jiyu Fang who graduated in Fall 2007 was been named as arecipient of the 2007 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. The award recognizes students across all research-based doctoral degree fields in 31 countries. Awardees are selected on academic merit and research achievements after three rounds of judging by invited experts from their field in China as well as their host country.  More information about the scholarship can be found at www.csc.edu.cn/en.
• AMPAC Assoc. Professor Dr. Yongho Sohn and two of his students, Mr. Emmanuel Perez (Doctoral Candidate) and Ms. Ashley Ewh  (UG Research assistant), were selected to attend INL Advanced Test Reactor National User Facility Summer Workshop with full financial support from INL.   This is a week-long workshop where attendees learn about the test reactor, and identify potential research programs and funding opportunities in the light of many on-going research programs at INL.
• Rene Orlando Diaz, an Undergraduate Research Assistant working with AMPAC Professor Dr. Sudipta Seal, received 2nd place and a $400 scholarship in the "Physical Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Sciences" Division of the Showcase of Undergraduate Research (SURE).
  
• Rene Diaz, an Undergraduate Research Assistant working with AMPAC Professor Dr. Sudipta Seal, received 1st Place in 1st place in the Old Guard Technical Poster at the Southeast ASME Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC) held at Tallahasse for a poster paper on  "Plasma Sprayed Chromium Carbide Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes"
• AMPAC Asst. Professor Dr. Christine Klemenz was elected a Member of the Commission of Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials (CCGCM) of the International Union of Crystallography
• AMPAC Asst.. Professor Dr. Christine Klemenz was nominated as member of the program committee for the Solid State Laser Technology XVIII Conference, which will take place January 2009 in San Jose, CA as part of the LASE 2009 Symposium and the Photonics West event