Professor Cappelleri was awarded the 2009 Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) Young Scientist Award by IEEE CASE. This award is presented for the best paper and presentation by a junior faculty member and will be presented at the LabAutomation2010 Conference in Palm Springs, CA in January and will be featured in the Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA). The title of the recognized paper is 'Towards Fully Automated Phototransfection'.
Advisors on Duty 2009 Schedule (doc, pdf)2009 Freshmen Orientation Contest Winner (doc)Professor Fisher was recently awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER grant for a proposal entitled CAREER: Fundamental Research Leveraging Nanoparticle-Induced Crystallization in Semicrystalline Polymer Nanocomposites. As described on the NSF website, the NSF Career program suppors junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. (See news item here) Professor Fisher was presented with the 2009 Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston Jr. Outstanding New Educator Award from the Mechanics Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) at the ASEE Annual Conference in Austin, Texas. The award is given to young faculty members who have shown a strong commitment and made exceptional contributions to mechanics education. Professors Fisher and former PhD student, Dr. Gaurav Mago (now at Lubrizol Advanced Materials), along with Professor Kalyon (Chemical Engineering) and Professor Sadhan Jana from the Department of Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron will serve as Guest Editors for a special issue of the Journal of Nanomaterials entitled Polymer Nanocomposite Processing, Characterization, and Applications. Professor Yang is Track Chair of Technical Track 13: Nano and Micro Systems at the 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition to be held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida from November 13-19. Track 13 consists of approximately 50 sessions and over 200 papers related to advances in Nano and Micro Systems.
Congratulations to all Mechanical Engineering students who have graduated in May. Best of luck in your future career pursuits! (List of undergraduate and graduate award winners here.) Alessandro Spinelli, Class of 2010, was selected as a Tau Beta Pi Scholar for the 2009-10 Academic Year. Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society, awards these prestigious scholarships based on high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and the promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. Congratulations! Professor Yang's research highlighted in SPIE Newsroom (more)
ASME group sponsors 2nd Annual Trebuchet Competition (more)ME undergraduate students win awards at ASME District Conference (more)
ME undergraduate awarded Santomauro Green Technology ScholarshipErich Rau, class of 2010, was awarded the Santomauro Green Technology Scholarship. The scholarship was established to honor the passion with which Anthony Santomauro embraced environmental technologies. Erich is an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student pursuing a concentration in Power Plant Engineering. (Stevens News Service Story here)
ISPE Student Chapter tours Novartis manufacturing facility in Suffern, NY
The Stevens chapter of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) recently toured the Novartis manufacturing facility in Suffern, NY. The trip was arranged by Joe Manfredi of the Student Affairs Committee of the ISPE New Jersey Chapter. The facility tour covered all manufacturing areas in this world class finishing and packaging facility. Suffern's level of production was 4.5 billion doses and 154 million packs in 2007. Suffern is focused on continuous improvement, especially in throughput time (material in to product out), which once was 30 - 60 days, is now 8 - 10 days, and has a goal of 3 - 4 days.
Ph.D. student Vinod Challa has paper on Energy Harvesting featured as a "Most-accessed article" in Smart Materials and Structures for 2008The paper 'A vibration energy harvesting device with bi-directional resonance frequency tunability' in Smart Materials and Structures (V17, 015035) by PhD student Vinod Challa and Professors Fisher, Shi, and Prasad is featured as a 'most-accessed article' published by the journal Smart Materials and Structures in the year 2008. A recent publication from Prof. EH Yang and post-doctoral scholar Onjae Sul in the journal Nanotechnology (Nanotechnology 20, 095502) describing the fabrication and characterization of a carbon nanotube bimorph thermal nanoactuator created using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) was highlighted on the website nanotechweb.org Professor EH Yang is the University PI on a 2 year NASA SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase 2 grant.
The Student Affairs Committee of the NJ Chapter of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) recognized Stevens for "Outstanding Performance During the 2007-2008 Academic Year, Including Outstanding Overall Performance and Significant Membership Growth." Representing Stevens at the presentation was Dr. Richard Berkof, Industry Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Engineering Program at Stevens.
- First Place - Group 1: Trevor J. Bradley, John A. Ciarlante, Travis M. Colon, Isaura J. Guzman, Kaitlin E. McClymont
- Second Place - Group 2: Michael F Aguas, Scott Michael Ginsberg, Richard J. Wengenroth, Matthew F Zwilling
- Third Place - Group 3: Anthony J.Giamella, Mohd Aiman Abdul Jallil, Jeffrey J., Jr. Jeski, Michaelo J Velarde
Dr. Michael Nosonovsky from the Mechanical Engineering department was awarded 2008 ASME Burt L. Newkirk award for outstanding theoretical research in nanotribology, adhesion, and tribology of functional bioinspired surfaces, including the scale effect on friction and patterned non-adhesive surfaces using the Lotus effect. The Burt L. Newkirk award is given to one person annually to recognize notable contributions to the field of tribology in research or development as evidenced by important tribology publications. Profs. Chassapis and Hadim were recently awarded a $150K grant from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology (NJCST) to establish the NJ Innovation Partnership Institute in Clean-Energy Technology at Stevens. The New Jersey Governor's Office of Economic Growth has identified clean energy technology as one of four targeted industry sectors that are key to the state's future economic development. Joining Stevens in the partnership are Bergen Community College, Public Service Electric & Gas Co., Erin Engineering Co., and PJM Interconnection. For more information, see the Stevens News Service article here. Professors Sven Esche and Costas Chassapis were awarded a $500k grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue 'Virtual Environments for Collaborative Learning'. The lead investigators will be joined by researchers from Columbia University 's Teacher's College in developing and assessing the impacts of virtual learning environments in the undergraduate engineering experience. (Stevens News Service Story here) Stevens selected recipient of 2008 Jostens Institution of the Year awardThe Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) selected Stevens as the recipient of the 2008 Jostens Institution of the Year award. The award is given annually to the ECAC institution that best exemplifies the highest standards of collegiate academic and athletic performance. Past award winners include Princeton University, Harvard University, and Georgetown University. (read more) A recent research paper of Professor Choi and co-workers at UCLA published in Physical Review Letters was highlighted in the journal Nature. The work demonstrates that textured hydrophobic surfaces can achieve slip lengths almost 10 times longer than previously achieved. Such work coud potentially be used to significantly reduce drag in fluidics applications. (link to Nature Research Highlight here) Prof. Yong Shi (PI) was awarded a 3 year grant from NSF for the project ' NAFCs Acoustic Emission Sensors for real-time monitoring of structures’. The objective of the research is to to apply innovative nanotechnologies for creating acoustic emission (AE) sensors for real-time monitoring of structures. The proposed AE sensors are composed of Nanoscale Active Fiber Composites (NAFCs) and the project involves the design, manufacturing and characterization of the consisting of piezoelectric (PZT) nanofibers. This work will result in advanced self-powered sensors with high sensitivity, excellent conformability and suitability for being imbedded into or attached on the surface of structures. The 2007-08 Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Group "Handheld Spy Chopper" (Christopher Alexander,
Brandon MacWhinnie, Michael Manzione, Sonal Pujji, and Juan Rodriguez) was highlighted in the September 2008 issue of Popular Science article "Generation Next:Radical Ideas from Today's Young Geniuses". The blurb from the magazine is available here Prof. Yang was invited by several research/education institutions in Korea to discuss efforts at Stevens in the area of MEMS and Nano technology. A link to an online story (in Korean) is here Professor Rich Berkof, with co-author Bram Demeulenaere of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, published the article "Improving Machine Drive Dynamics: A Structured Design Approach Toward Balancing" in the Journal of Mechanical Design (Volume 130, Issue 8, 082302). The paper provides a structured design approach for machine designers and researchers developing linkage and cam-follower mechanism.
Prof. Yong Shi and co-PIs Chang-Hwan Choi, Frank Fisher, and EH Yang (Mechanical Engineering) and Stefan Strauf (Physics and Engineering Physics) were awarded an MRI grant to enable the purchase of an Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Etcher for nano/micro device fabrication. The requested ICP etching system will greatly augment existing micro/nano fabrication capabilities within the MicroDevices Laboratory (MDL) at Stevens. Research projects directly benefiting from the requested system include: 1). Nano and micro devices for sensing, communications and medicine; 2) Single-electron carbon nanotube memory devices; 3) Nanoengineered surfaces for microfluidic and nanobioscience applications; and 4) Bottom-up prototyping of microchemical systems. Prof. Yong Shi was awarded a 3 year grant from NSF for the project 'MEMS Umbrella-shaped Actuator with Active Structure for Medical Applications'. Co-PIs working with Prof. Shi on the project are Ming Zhang and Sundeep Mangla from SUNY Downstate Health Science Center. The objective of the research is to design, fabricate and test an umbrella-shaped microactuator based on an integrated micro/nanofabrication technique for thrombus retrieval in stroke therapy. (read more)
Prof. Prasad elected a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (read more)Three Mechanical Engineering Senior Design teams swept the student poster awards at the First Annual Reseach and Entrepreneurship Day on April 30. Additional information on the 2008 Senior Design teams can be found here. - First Place: Design of a Vision Guided Robotic Vehicle (Advisor: Prof. Stolkin): Colin Harrier, Matt Hochberger, Kirk Deligiannis, Margon Baron (ECE)
- Second Place: Design and Development of a Shoulder Implant (Advisor: Prof. Zhu): Natalia Chabebe, Nathaniel Skinner, Bridget McNulty (BTM), Beth Rychick (BTM)
- Third Place: Gentler Exercise Machine (Advisor: Prof. Berkof): Dave Damato, Steven Jacobsen, Mike Fitzgerald, Dimitri Apostol
The Stevens ASME Student Section won two awards at the ASME District A Professional Development Conference held at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, on Saturday, April 5, 2008 (details)
Professor Costas Chassapis is PI of a recently awarded $3M National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in the area of Multiscale Research. The grant, made through NSF's Graduate Education Division and the GK-12 program, will provide support for up to 10 Stevens doctoral students per year over a 5 year period conducting research in the broad area of multiscale engineered systems. As part of the GK-12 program, these PhD students will earn a nine-credit graduate education certificate 'Teaching and Learning in STEM Disciplines', as well as disseminate their research results to several participating high schools within the framework of the New Jersey Alliance for Engineering Education (NJAEE). The team includes Professors Esche and Fisher from Mechanical Engineering, Professor Stolkin from CEOE, Professor Lechler from the Howe School, and Elisabeth McGrath, Director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). (See the Stevens press release here)
US citizens and permanent residents who are interested in this program and enrolling in the PhD program at Stevens should email Professor Chassapis for more information.
A story in the March 13 edition of the Star-Ledger entitled 'Suburban Planning' profiled a architectural design recently completed by John Nastasi, Industry Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Graduate Program in Product Architecture. The renovation and expansion project, referred to as 'the suburban prototype', uses the computer aided design tools prevalent in industries such as automotive and aerospace design (but not yet fully exploited in architecture) to 'create a home that is as visually interesting and energy efficient as possible'. Carlos Cárdenas, design and strategy director of MEME, a digital media company who used Nastasi's prototype as a case study in his doctoral dissertation at Harvard, in quote in the story as saying "John is one of the few architects who has fully embraced parametric modeling and digital fabrication techniques", adding that Nastasi's work "has generated a special view of what architectural education should be about in the future." (newspaper article is here) Prof. EH Yang was invited by the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to give a presentation at a workshop on Piezoelectric MEMS held in San Francisco, CA, March 11-12, 2008. Prof. Yang was among the approximately 25 experts from around the world invited to discuss research efforts in piezoelectric MEMS technologies. The workshop, sponsored by DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), was conducted to explore an area of growing interest within the agency potentially important to U.S. defense capabilities and the national security. The International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) Student Affairs Committee arranged a plant tour of the L'Oreal USA facility located in Piscataway, NJ on March 4. After discussion of the overall operation of the facility the tour focused on the water purifying room where students saw the large-scale Reverse Osmosis system, manufacturing and processing facilities, and the packaging areas. Earlier in October the group had toured the Schering-Plough Facility located in Union, NJ, which primarily produces batches for clinical trials, with Professor Leonid Shnayder. Here the tour focused on the fermentation facility and the experimental lab scale production areas. The 2006-07 Senior Design Project 'Automatic Pill Bottle Opener' (with students Jorge DaSilva, Murat Kocak, William Indoe, and Jay Peterson; faculty advisor Prof. Richard Berkof) was featured in the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of Pharmaceutical Engineering. The goal of the project was to develop an automated, electromechanical consumer medication container opener for individuals suffering from arthritis, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, or any other cause for general muscle weakness and reduced grip strength. The project, supported by a generous grant from the ISPE New Jersey Chapter, won top honors at the 2007 ISPE New Jersey Student Poster Contest (article available here). Prof. Yang's paper one of the most-accessed articles in the journal Nanotechnology in the area of 'Patterning and Nanofabrication' for the Year 2007. The article, entitled 'Hierarchical Magnetic Assembly of Nanowires' was also selected as the cover article in the May 23, 2007 issue of the journal. An image from a paper by Prof. Chang-Hwan Choi and co-workers at UCLA was selected as one of 12 Images of the Year 2007 by the journal Biomaterials (click here). The article describes the use of well-defined nanostructures on silicon surfaces to study how cells sense and respond to the three-dimensional nature of their environment. The selected figure shows a fluorescence microscopy image of an immunostained fibroblast cell grown on the three-dimensional sharp-tip nanostructures. The abstract of the article is here. PhD student Vinod Challa and Professors M.G. Prasad, Yong Shi and Frank T. Fisher published the paper 'A vibration energy harvesting device with bi-directional resonance frequency tunability' in Smart Materials and Structures (V17, 015035). The paper describes the application of magnetic forces to tune the resonant frequency of vibrating cantilever beams, with application in the area of vibrational energy harvesting. Prof. Yang (PI) was awarded a 3 year Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant for CNT research. The project team consists of 3 Stevens faculty members (Profs. Yang and Fisher of Mechanical Engineering, and Prof. Strauf in Physics and Engineering Physics) and Prof. Dan Choi at the University of Idaho. The team will exploit novel CNT structures and investigate their electron energy properties for future high-speed, low-power electronics applications. The 2nd International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems will be held on Aug 3-6, 2008 in New York.The conference is sponsored by the ASME Micro/Nano Systems Technical Committee. It will provide researchers with different background a unique forum for exchange of technical and scientific information on current developments and emerging issues in the design and dynamics of micro- and nano-scale systems. flyer
Prof. Yong Shi is organizing the Symposium on Applied Mechanics, Friction and Tribology of MEMS/NEMS. Deadline for abstract submission is Jan. 21, 2008. flyer Prof. Yang gives keynote talk at the 9th ASME/Pacific Rim Technical InterPACK ConferenceProf. Yang gives keynote talk entitled 'Microfabricated Actuators for Space Applications' at the 9th ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and exhibition on the Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS and Electronic Systems (InterPACK'07) in Vancouver, BC, Canada in July 8-13, 2007. Prof. Yang co-authors the paper "Site-Specific Magnetic Assembly of Ferromagnetic Nanowire," in the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.The paper discussed the effect of variation in local magnetic field on magnetic assembly of 30 nm and 200 nm diameter Ni nanowires synthesized by template directed electrodeposition. Simulation results indicated a local magnetic field strength at the electrode tip increased by a factor of 2.5 with use of a needle-shape electrode compared to rectangular-shape electrode. Prof. Yang co-PI on NASA SBIR Phase 1 grantProf. Yang is a co-PI on the NASA SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase 1 research grant 'Micromachined Piezoelectric Multi-layer Actuators for Cryogenic adaptive Optics' with TRS Technologies, Inc. (State College, PA). The project is to develop micromachined single crystal piezoelectric actuator arrays which will enable ultra-large stroke, high precision shape control for large aperture, lightweight and cryogenic adaptive optics structures for future NASA Science and communications applications. Such technology could directly support the requirements of several future NASA space missions such as the ORIGINS missions SUVO, SAFIR, and Planet Imager. Stevens to host the Tau Beta Pi District 2 Conference in February 2008
Stevens was chosen as the host of the Tau Beta Pi District 2 Conference in February 2008 at the 2007 National Convention in Dearborn, Michigan. District 2 consists of 22 New York and New Jersey chapters, from schools as far away as Buffalo. The dates are of the Conference will be the afternoon/evening of February 16th and the morning/lunch of February 17th. Stevens undergraduate Mechanical Engineering team wins first prize at the annual ISPE New Jersey Chapter Pharmaceutical Student Poster ContestThe annual ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering) New Jersey Chapter Pharmaceutical Student Poster Contest was held at the Stevens Babbio Center, Apr. 2007. It was organized and hosted by Dr. Richard S. Berkof, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Engineering Program, and Faculty Advisor for the Stevens Student Chapter of ISPE. This regional contest was attended by students and faculty from Stevens, Rutgers, and NJIT, plus pharmaceutical industry executives.
First place in the student poster competition was awarded to the "Automatic Pill Bottle Opener," which was developed by the Stevens Mechanical Engineering Senior Design project student team of Jorge DaSilva, Jay Peterson, Murat Kocak, and William Indoe (Prof. Richard Berkof, advisor). The Automatic Pill Bottle pener is the first fully automatic device of its kind, and features a self-centering, lowering, and rotating assembly to accommodate medication containers of all shapes, sizes, and enclosure types. This product is designed for individuals suffering from arthritis, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and any other cause for general muscle weakness and reduced grip strength.
Both the Automatic Pill Bottle Opener and a second Stevens project entry, entitled "Impedance Mammography" by Stevens undergraduates Katherine Freed, Megan Caldeira, Rachel Ostroff, and Esther Rogriguez (project advisors Prof. Vicki Hazelwood and Prof. Ranier Martini), were awarded all-expense paid trips to the Student Poster Contest at the ISPE International Conference in Las Vegas in November, 2007. Professor Zhu receives funding for clean coal and renewable energy researchProfessor Zhu has received funding for his research proposal "Process Technologies for Clean Coal and Renewable Energy" from the XinAo Research Institute, XinAo Group Co., Ltd. The objective of this research is to study the processes and systems used for producing clean coal energy and renewable energy in order to reduce costs and increase system efficiency, particularly to optimize the processes needed for reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases from coal power plant stacks using biomass and producing biofuel, and to optimize the manufacturing process to reduce production cost of large scale thin-film solar panels for power generation and for building integrated photovoltaics applications. (read more) ME co-op student receives Space, Land, and Sea Systems (SLS) Achievement Award from Hamilton SundstrandStephen Yanczura, Mechanical Engineering class of 2010, has received a Space, Land and Sea Systems (SLS) Achievement Award from Hamilton Sundstrand. Yanczura recently completed a Project Engineering Co-op for Hamilton Sundstrand, as part of Stevens' Cooperative Education Program. Yanczura supported Hamilton Sundstrand's International Space Station (ISS) Program in the activation of the new Oxygen Generation Assembly (OGA) on the ISS. The OGA was designed and tested by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; in 2009, it will be equipped to support six crew members at the ISS by providing an improved oxygen generation system. (read more) 1st Annual Liberty Metro Area MEMS/NEMS workshop to be held at Stevens Monday July 23The goal of this one-day workshop is to facilitate collaboration and enhance communication between NYC metro area researchers in the MEMS/NEMS area. MEMS/NEMS applications research is expected to pave the way for the creation of technologies that will impact areas as diverse as biomedical technology and diagnostics and control, along with energy, transportation, robotics, manufacturing, deep space studies, information technology and national security.
Prof. Yang Chairs MEMS/NEMS Conference Sessions and Technical CommitteeFor his expertise in MEMS/NEMS, Prof. E.H. Yang has been invited to organize and chair the following conference sessions and committees: - Chair of Fabrication, Packaging and Materials Committee for ASME MEMS Division.
- Technical Program Committee, IEEE Sensors Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Oct. 2007.
- Organizer of Micro and Nano Devices Symposium in the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 2007.
His paper he co-authored, which is entitled: "Hierarchical Magnetic Assembly of Nanowires," has been selected as Cover Issue of IOP Nanotechnology 2007.
Prof. Shi's Research on Nano Active Fiber Composites (AFCs) Recognized by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing.Prof. Yong Shi and his PhD student Shiyou Xu from Stevens have been selected to receive the 2007 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Fellowship Award for their research on 'Fabrication and Characterization of Nano AFC's as Acoustic Emission Sensors' during the 2007 ASNT Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 12-16, 2007.
Active Fiber Composites (AFC) present a number of advantages in comparison with conventional acoustic emission (AE) sensors, such as lightweight, flexibility (adaptable to curved surfaces), anisotropic sensitivity, and potential for integration into composites for real time structure health monitoring. However, the thickness of the typical AFCs is about 300 µm due to the large fiber diameter (125 µm or more). Although the manufacturing processes are compatible with polymer matrix laminates, their diameters are too large to be embedded in, for example, graphite fiber composites which have fiber diameters of a few microns. Piezoelectric nanofibers developed at Prof. Shi's lab in Mechanical Engineering Department can potentially solve this problem when used in the form of Nano AFCs. The nanofibers developed by electrospinning processing could be readily used as reinforcements, sensors and also actuators for nano AFCs. New process are currently being developed to integrate piezoelectric nanofibers with matrix materials and electrodes using micro fabrication methods. Due to their nanoscale size, the Nano AFC sensors could couple much higher sensitivities with much low driving voltage as compared to traditional sensors. Additional information can be found here. Stevens ASME Student Section wins First PrizeThe Stevens ASME student section was awarded first place in the Old Guard Technical Webpage competition at the ASME Student Professional Development Conference (District A) held at New Jersey Institute of Technology on Saturday, April 14, 2007. The winning entry was “Engineers Without Borders” and the winning team members are Greg Maietta, Nick Strand, Dave Velasco, Katie Weatherall and Chloe Weck. The co-advisors of the mechanical engineering senior design project of “engineers without borders” are Professors Fisher and Thangam. Crystal Peyton is the president of the ASME student section and Chloe Weck is the president of “Engineers without Borders”. Professor M. G. Prasad is the faculty advisor of ASME student section and a co-advisor of Engineers Without Borders along with Professor Leslie Brunell.
Stevens Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) RecognizedThe Stevens Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (www.stevens.edu/ewb) received the third place award for their photo documentation of their assessment trip to Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, at the Engineers Without Borders – USA International Conference at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, April 12-14, 2007. The Stevens team consists of Mechanical Engineering undergraduates Nicholas Strand, David Velasco, and Chloe Weck, as well as Civil Engineering student Greg Maietta and Business Technology undergraduate Katie Weatherall. In an attempt to raise the standard of living for the people in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, the goal of the project is to implement a hydroelectric system in the region that will provide 20kW of power for the community of El Dulce. The cost of building and implementing this system will be shared between the community and the Stevens chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Their senior design advisors are Profs. Fisher and Thangam in Mechanical Engineering. Product-Architecture Lab collaborates to win Museum of Modern Art/P.S. 1 Competition HOBOKEN, N.J. ― The Museum of Modern Art and the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announced that the Los Angeles-based firm Ball-Nogues, led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues, in collaboration with The Product-Architecture Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology, are the winners in the eighth annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. This year, five finalists selected by a closed nomination process were asked to present designs for an installation at P.S.1 with the allotted project budget of $70,000. The winning installation, Liquid Sky, designed by Ball-Nogues in collaboration with Paul Endres of Endres Ware Architects/Engineers and Mark Pollock, Cory Brugger, and Erik Verboon of the Product Architecture Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology, will be on view in the P.S.1 courtyard beginning June 21, 2007.
“Needless to say, we are proud and excited for these three young men and look forward to the work needed to get the installation ready for June,” said Professor John Nastasi, who directs the Product-Architecture Lab at Stevens.“We're very excited about winning P.S. 1,” said Benjamin Ball. “Gaston and I are thrilled to be working with Mark, Erik and Cory on the project. We could not have built the confidence to tackle a project like this without their help, especially the parametric modeling aspect of the project, which would be unfeasible without their automation of the process. Having had some experience with recent architecture/design school grads, I can say that you have put them on the right track in The Product-Architecture Lab at Stevens. They are miles ahead of their competition from other schools.” Liquid Sky will immerse the viewer in kaleidoscopic patterns of color created by sunlight filtering through an array of translucent, tinted Mylar petals that resemble blossoming flowers of stained glass. Together, the petals form a tensioned surface that reconfigures the horizon, cresting above the walls of the P.S.1 courtyard. Six towers constructed from untreated utility poles support the surface while providing discrete spaces at their base for relaxing on enormous community hammocks made of brightly colored netting.
For more information about the Product-Archtecture Lab at Stevens, please visit www.productarchitecturelab.com New Graduate Certificate: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing PracticesThe multi-disciplinary graduate program in pharmaceutical manufacturing engineering was developed to provide the necessary skills to engineers and others in healthcare related industries. The focus is manufacturing and the facilities needed for manufacturing, within the framework of the regulatory requirements in the pharmaceutical industry. FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) regulatory requirements include GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and QSR (Quality Systems Regulations). These FDA-regulated industries continue to expand with leading-edge products, technologies, and increasingly sophisticated manufacturing processes. Stevens will provide critical training, so that professionals can meet the major demands of the 21st century.
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