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.
Dr. Ming Su has had a paper selected as a cover in the journal Advanced Materials (Volume 20, Number 7) titled “Mass productions of vertically aligned extremely long metallic micro/nanowires using fiber drawing nanomanufacturing.”
The NanoScience Technology Center is proud to announce that three of its faculty members received the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (NSF CAREER) award in 2008. The CAREER recipients are Drs. Saiful Khondaker (joint Physics appointment), Andre Gesquiere (joint Chemistry appointment), and Lei Zhai (joint Chemistry appointment). This is a tremendous accomplishment…
AMPAC Associat 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…
We are happy to announce that Dr. Michael Leuenberger (joint Physics appointment) has received the prestigious Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). The Young Faculty Award was created to offer a venue by which research ideas proposed by…