Faculty News
Prof. Richard D. Sisson, Jr.
Prof. Richard Sisson, Jr. was inducted into the Academy of Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech College of Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, on April 27, 2006. Virginia Tech's College of Engineering and the members of the Committee of 100 Advisory Board established an Academy of Engineering Excellence in 1999.
Membership in the 2006 Academy is reserved in general for individuals holding an engineering degree from Viginia Tech's College of Engineering who have made sustained and meritiorius engineering and/or leadership contributions during their careers. Initiates have reached the pinnacle of their professional achievements and will normally have been alumni for 40 or more years. The College of Engineering and the Advisory Board anticipate inducting no more than ten individuals as members of the Academy of Engineering Excellence annually. This selection is made from some 40,000 living alumni of the College of Engineering
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News Release
Prof. Diran Apelian
Prof. Diran Apelian, Director of Metal Processing Institute, receives two of the highest honors from TMS at its society's Annual Meeting which was held in San Antonio, Texas on March 12-16, 2006. Read WPI news release
Prof. Richard D. Sisson, Jr.
Prof. Richard Sisson, Jr. has been elected Vice President of the ASM International Heat Treating Society for a two year term effective September 1, 2005. The appointment will be announced in the ASM News and Heat Treating Progress as well as during the September MS& T '05' Conference to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, Sept. 25-28, 2005.
Prof. Satya Shivkumar
Satya S. Shivkumar has been promoted to professor of mechanical engineering. He became a member of the WPI faculty in 1990. Shivkumar's research is in the area of electro-spinning of polymers and the use of polymers for biomedical applications, which extends to the development of foams based on algae and the processing and testing of biodegradable polymers. These latter polymers are used extensively in drug delivery devices and tissue engineering scaffolds. He holds a B.S. in metallurgical engineering from Regional Engineering College in India, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in materials engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Prof. Diran Apelian
Professor Diran Apelian is the recipient of the 2005 LMD Light technical Service Award. It was given at the TMS 2005 134th Annual Meeting and Exhibition in San Francisco, CA, February 13-17, 2005. Please view this website for more information.
Research Assistant Professor Md. Maniruzzaman
Prof. Maniruzzaman received the Sigma Xi Award for 2004.
Prof. Ronald Biederman
Prof. Biederman was feted at a retirement party held in the WPI Campus Center on January 17, 2004. The party was attended by former MS and Phd Materials Science Graduate Students, friends, family and ME faculty members.
We wish him all the best on his retirement from WPI.
To download pictures of celebration, please click this link.
Prof. Biederman with 32 of his MS and Phd Graduate Students who returned to WPI to help him celebrate his retirement.
Prof. Richard D. Sisson, Jr.
Richard Sisson, Jr., Stephan J. Mashl and Matthew M. Diem of Bodycote Hot Isostatic Pressing, are featured on the cover of the June/July 2003 issue of Heat Treating Progress magazine, Volume 3: Number 4.
Sisson, Mashl and Diem coauthored the Article A COMBINATION HIP+HEAT TREAT PROCESS, pp 52-55.
Prof. Diran Apelian
Diran Apelian was featured on the cover of the Forcast 2003 issue of the Heat Treating Progress magazine, Volume 3: Number 1, January/February 2003.
He also was the author of FORCAST 2003 Heat Treating Industry R&D Needs: A CHTE Perspective, pp 30-32.
Prof. Richard D. Sisson, Jr.
Prof. Sisson was recently nominated for a three-year term to serve on the Board of Trustees for ASM International. Nominees were elected to the board at the ASM Annual Meeting on Monday October 7, 2002 during the ASM Annual Event in Columbus, Ohio.
Information concerning the ASM International Trustee Award is featured on the WPI News Release page.
Prof. Chrysanthe Demetry
Dr. Chrysanthe Demetry has been selected by ASM International as The 2000 Recipient of the Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers. She is cited "for exceptional pedagogy as applied to materials education and the ability to motivate students and generate interest in materials science." For more information, read this press release.
She is also the Recipient of the 2002 Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching this year. Please read this press release for additional information.
Prof. Makhlouf Makhlouf
The article, written by J.M. Olson and M.M. Makhlouf, was published in the Journal of Materials Science, Volume 36: Number 12, pp 3027-3033, and featured on the 15 June 2001 cover.
You may review this article, Grain growth at the free surface of WC-Co materials.
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