March 25, 2011
Ming Su, Ph.D., an assistant professor at NanoScience Technology Center and Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, was recently awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from National Science Foundation, for his research, “Biosensing in Thermal Space”. This five year project will allow him to explore a new biosensing technique based on solid-liquid…
March 4, 2011
Recently, Ms. Diane Maldonado’s colleague Ms. Debbie Fry and her supervisor Ms. Rajeswari Cabey nominated her for the USPS Employee of the Month award in appreciation of Diane’s invaluable role in the NSTC staff structure and her accomplishments. Ms. Maldonado received the award for February 2011 and her recognition was celebrated at the NSTC with…
AMPAC/NSTC congratulates Dr. Ming Su, who has been selected to receive the 2011 Excellence in Research Award from the Institutes and Centers. Su’s accomplishments will be recognized at the Founder’s Day celebration on Wednesday, April 6 at 10:00 a.m. in the Pegasus Ballroom in the Student Union.
Lei Zhai and postdoctoral associate Jianhua Zou have engineered the world’s lightest carbon material in such a way that it could be used to detect pollutants and toxic substances, improve robotic surgery techniques and store energy more efficiently. The new material belongs to the family of the lightest solid, also known by its technical name…
February 9, 2011
Ashley Ewh will be inducted into the Order of Pegasus, UCF’s most prestigious student award. She is a senior in the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) and has worked with Yong-Ho Sohn as a research assistant in AMPAC, UCF’s materials research center, for the past 4 years. Ashley was introduced to Professor…
“High yield fabrication of chemically reduced graphene oxide field effect transistors by dielectrophoresis”, an article by Daeha Joung, A. Chunder, Lei Zhai, and Saiful I. Khondaker, is one of eight Electronics and Photonics articles chosen to appear in Nanotechnology Highlights 2010. The complete article previously appeared in Nanotechnology Volume 21, Number 16. Download Nanotechnology Highlights…
February 5, 2011
Yue Zhao, a Ph.D. student of AMPAC Associate Professor Dr. Jiyu Fang who graduated in Fall 2007 was been named as a recipient 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…
We congratulate Atul Asati (mentor: Dr. Perez), Xiong Liu (mentor: Dr. Huo), and Paul Stokes (mentor: Dr. Khondaker) on this accomplishment. The UCF Research Week is an annual event held to highlight student’s unique contributions to the university’s research mandate. Each annual Research Week has a defining theme and this year’s topic was the Environment:…
Rene Diaz, an Undergraduate Research Assistant working with AMPAC Professor Dr. Sudipta Seal, received 1st place in the Old Guard Technical Poster at the Southeast ASME Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC) held in Tallahassee for a paper entitled “Plasma Sprayed Chromium Carbide Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes”. In addition, at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence…
Ashley Ewh was selected as a 2008 Goldwater Scholar. Ashley is a major in Mechanical Engineering and an AMPAC undergraduate research assistant who worked on an INL-supported program with AMPAC Associate Professor Dr. Yongho Sohn. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering. Ashley is also a winner of the Astronaut Scholarship.