Mechanical Engineering

Professor Cappelleri receives Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) Young Scientist Award

October 15, 2009

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'. [Read more...]

ICE Blog Launched on Research Enterprise Website!

October 2, 2009

Stevens Institute of Technology is happy to announce the launching of their new Inventiveness, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Blog! As a part of the Research Enterprise website, ICE blog will highlight innovative research and educational opportunities within the University. The goal of ICE blog is to provide an in-depth look at some of the unique research being done by our faculty, complete with media, professor and student insights. Many of the research projects that our faculty study are on the leading edge of technology innovation; our students are surrounded by incredible learning opportunities and gain critical experience for a successful [Read more...]

Dr. Frank Fisher chosen for this year's SAA Outstanding Teacher Award

September 4, 2009

Dr. Frank Fisher, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and co-director of the Institutes Nanotechnology Graduate Program, will receive the Stevens Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher award on September 26th, at the Stevens Athletic Hall of Fame Brunch being held at Stevens during Homecoming 2009. Professor Fisher also serves as director of Stevens’ Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials Lab, and teaches Modeling and Simulation, Introduction to Nanoscale science and Technology and Techniques of Surface Nanoscale Characterization. Among his varied technical research interests, Dr. Fisher has focused on important areas of education, including engineering outreach programs for K-12 students. He has received funding from [Read more...]

Stevens Dr. Frank Fisher Honored with the Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

September 1, 2009

Dr. Frank Fisher of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology recently won The National Science Foundation’s most competitive peer accolade, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for his research, Fundamental Research Leveraging Nanoparticle-Induced Crystallization in Semicrystalline Polymer Nanocomposites. The CAREER program supports junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, a strong commitment to education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. “Dr. Fisher’s achievement of the prestigious and highly competitive NSF CAREER Award is validation by his peers of the quality of his [Read more...]

Dr. Frank Fisher (Mechanical Engineering) awarded NSF CAREER grant

July 1, 2009

Professor Fisher was recently awarded an NSF CAREER grant for research in the area of 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. (more here) [Read more...]

Dr. Fisher wins 2009 Outstanding Educator Award from ASEE

June 25, 2009

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. [Read more...]

Drs. Kalyon and Fisher: Guest Editors for the Journal of Nanomaterials

June 23, 2009

Professors Dilhan Kalyon and Frank Fisher are set to serve as Guest Editors of special issue of Journal of NanomaterialsProfessors Kalyon and Fisher, as well as former PhD student Dr. Gaurav Mago (now at Lubrizol Advanced Materials) will serve as Guest Editors for a special issue of the Journal of Nanomaterials entitled Polymer Nanocomposite Processing, Characteriation, and Applications. [Read more...]

Prof. EH Yang's research highlighted on IOP's nanotechweb.org website

February 14, 2009

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 [Read more...]

Founding of Innovative Institute in Clean-Energy Technology

September 12, 2008

Professors Constantin Chassapis and Hamid Hadim were recently awarded a grant from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology (NJCST) to establish the NJ Innovation Partnership Institute in Clean-Energy Technology (IPI-CET) at Stevens.The main goal of the IPI-CET is to develop educational and training programs and curricula at various levels that are needed in response to rapidly increasing workforce challenges within the energy industry, providing expertise to Mechanical Engineering students specifically in the Nuclear Engineering field. “To address these challenges, creative solutions and effective strategies will be developed within the IPI-CET at Stevens as they relate to pipeline development, career awareness and outreach, [Read more...]

Dr. Shi Awarded NSF Grant for Nano Acoustic Sensors

September 11, 2008

Stevens Professor Yong Shi was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study: Nano AFCs Acoustic Emission Sensors for Real-time Monitoring of Structures.The objective of his research is 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 Shi's research involves the design, manufacturing and characterization of the sensors consisting of piezoelectric (PZT) nanofibers. His work will result in advanced acoustic emission sensors with high sensitivity, excellent conformability and suitability for being imbedded into or attached on the surface of [Read more...]