Awards
Faculty Awards
Three Minute Thesis Award
Congratulations to Dr. William Vandenberghe from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering for receiving the Three Minute Thesis award in 2023. Dr. Vandenberghe says, “In the 3MT competition, professors outline their research using one slide and presentation limited to 3 minutes.” Professor Vandenberghe won this year’s competition by explaining how his work on two-dimensional materials connects ancient Egyptian technology to the smartphone his daughter wants for Christmas!
Tech Titans Technology Innovator Award
Congratulations to Dr. Walter Voit from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering for receiving the Tech Titans Technology Innovator award in 2023. Voit has developed flexible additive manufacturing resins through Adaptive 3D, a Desktop Metal company he founded. Benjamin Lund PhD’10 was also recognized as the company’s polymer research director. https://pulse.ly/g6x9ou8v5s
Research Awards 2023
We are proud to recognize our faculty who have collectively earned research awards totaling more than $32.5 million since July 2023:
| Principal Investigator (PI) | Award Agency | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Massimo Fischetti | US Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Radiation Effect in Electronic Materials, Circuits, Devices, and Systems: Theoretical Study of Electronic Transport and Thermalization |
| Dr. Kyeongjae Cho | Department of Defense | Energy Storage Systems Campus |
| Dr. Jiyoung Kim | Inha University | SRA: Research with International Future Semiconductor Innovation and Commercialization |
| Dr. Kevin Brenner | National Science Foundation | Strain Effects in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Field‐Effect Transistors |
| Dr. Kyeongjae Cho | SCI: SEED | SCI: UTD Center for Energy Storage Research (ESR) |
| Dr. Jiyoung Kim | Cerfe Labs/US Air Force | CeRAM ALD sub-contract in support of AFRL FA8650-22-F-5402 |
| Dr. Massimo Fischetti | US Air Force OSR | Radiation Effect in Electronic Materials, Circuits, Devices, and Systems: Theoretical Study of Electronic Transport and Thermalization |
| Dr. Orlando Auciello | The Department of Veterans Affairs | Novel Squid Glaucoma microShunt |
| Dr. William Vandenberghe | Virginia Tech | Phononic Traveling Wave Parametric Amplification using Heterostructures of Highly Nonlinear Materials |
| Dr. Jiyoung Kim | Brookhaven National Lab | Angstrom Era Semiconductor Patterning Material Development Accelerator |
| Dr. Jiyoung Kim | COSAR/Sungkyunkwan University Korea | Research and development in the area of materials science and engineering, particularly focusing on creative multilevel materials. |