Mechanical Engineering Department
Materials Science & Engineering

Graduate Students 2006-2007

Raul Correia

Raul Correia graduated in May 2005 from WPI with a BS in Chemical Engineering and a Minor in Materials Engineering. After taking the courses in his major and minor, he decided to persue a MS in Material Science.

rcorreia@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Brian Dewhirst

Research Assistant

 Brian Dewhirst Received his BS from WPI in Physics in 2002. In the Fall of 2003, he returned as a graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering. In 2004, he joined the ACRC MPI as a Research Assistant and completed his requirements for his Masters in the Fall of 2005. Brian is continuing his research project in the Metals Process Institute as he completes his PhD program.

dewhirst@wpi.edu     Ext. 6043     Office: WB315

Xiaoshu Dai

Stoddard Fellow

Xiaoshu Dai arrived in August from Beijing China. She graduated from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, majored in polymer engineering and received her BS in Material Science and Engineering. This year she earned her Master's Degree and now is pursuing her PhD in Materials Science at WPI. She is our Stoddard Fellow for 2006/2007.

undoll@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Shelley Dougherty

Teaching Assistant

 Shelley received her BS from the University of New Hampshire Durham in 2005. During her undergraduate years at UNH she conducted polyer research for Dr. Durant in the Nanostructured Polymer Research Center. When she is not studying she enjoys hiking, waterskiing in the White Mountains during the Summer and skiing, snowboarding in the Winter.

sad5@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Huanan Duan

Research Assistant

Huanan Duan is pursuing his PhD in Materials Science at WPI, with his research interests focused on nanofabrication, nanomanufacturing, and novel properties of nano-sized materials and structures. Huanan became a member of MTE family July 2005, immediately after he received his Master Degree of Engineering at the College Metallurgical Science and Engineering of Central South University in China, where his research was studying anti-corrosion behavior of cermets in high-temperature cryolite melts. With these interests as the guiding star, he promises to be a credit to the team.

Selected publications and thesis information:

huanan_d@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Leigh Duren

Industrial Intern

Leigh Duren of Belgrade Lakes, Maine graduated from Messalonskee High School in Oakland, Maine in 2002. On May 20, 2006 she received her Bachelor Degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science and Engineering. In her senior year she began to explore options after school and has a real interest in recycling and reusing of materials. Her Masters thesis will be done through an industrial internship with wTe Corporation, a recycling company of Bedford, MA. More specifically she will be working on technology for in situ sorting and identification of molten metal. Ideally, this technology will be used world wide to improve efficiency by reducing the time used to sample and test melt composition, as well as encourage the use of scrap metal by providing unambiguous composition data.

leighd@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Patrick Hogan

Industrial Intern

Patrick Hogan graduated from WPI in May 2006 receiving a BS in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Materials Science. He worked with Prof. Qingyue Pan on the CRP reactor last summer and conducted research for his MQP. He will be studying die soldering and continue his Industrial Internship with SPX Contech Metal Forge.

phogan@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Olga Karabelchtchikova

Industrial Intern

Olga Karabelchtchikova is an engineer-physicist in Physical Metallurgy and received degree from Lipetsk State Technical University (Russia) in 2002.
She continued her graduate work in Industrial Engineering (Texas Tech University) working with x-ray diffraction and modeling of the residual stresses in steels. By combining these two disciplines, her current research area is in the field of materials characterization and process modeling and optimization of industrial gas carburizing as she pursues her PhD.
Beginning June 2006 she is an industrial intern with Caterpillar where she works on various industrial projects and continues her dissertation research.

Information regarding her Award and MS thesis:

olly@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Shimin Li

Research Assistant

Shimin Li graduated from Dalian Jiaotong University in 2000 with a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering. She received her M.S. in Materials Engineering at Beijng Polytechnic University in 2003. She is now pursuing her PhD in Materials Engineering with a Research Assistantship with Prof. Apelian in the Metals Processing Institute.

shiminli@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Jonathan Longabucco

Industrial Intern

Jonathan Longabucco graduated in May 2006 from WPI with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. After taking the first Materials Science course he knew that was the field he wanted to pursue. He returns to WPI this fall to continue his studies in Material Science at the Masters level.

jonnyq@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Courtney Nowill

Teaching Assistant

Courtney Nowill graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering in May 2006 and will be a Teaching Assistant this fall in the Materials Science Program. She is currently working with Professor Sisson on a research project on the heat treatment of aluminum alloys while she pursues her Master's degree.

cnowill@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB313

Kevin Shepardson

Kevin Shepardson was accepted into the BS/MS Degree program in June of 2003. Kevin graduated from WPI with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in May 2005 and will continue his research this year towards his Master's degree in Materials Science. His M.S. thesis topic is "heat treatment of nickel-boron coatings".

shep@wpi.edu    Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Kimon Simeonidis

Kimon Simeonidis joined the Materials Science Engineering in January 2005. He comes to us from Athens, Greece where he graduated from the National Technical University of Athens. He is a Teaching Assistant in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

simkimon@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Aparna Varde

Aparna Varde graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science at WPI on August 15, 2006. During her doctorate, she worked as a Research Assistant in the Center for Heat Treating Excellence on the Quenching Project. Her dissertation was on "Graphical Data Mining for Computational Estimation in Materials Science Applications". She got her M.S. in Computer Science from WPI in February 1999 and her B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Bombay in May 1995. Aparna will join Virginia State University as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Math and Computer Science starting September 5, 2006. Her research interests are mainly in Scientific Databases, Data Mining and Semantic Web.

Tracey Vincent

Tracey Vincent is an RF electronic engineer and received her Meng from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. She has worked for Barry Industries, Inc in southern Massachusetts since 2003 designing thick film circuits on ceramic substrate or embedded into co-fired ceramic. Since fall 2005 she has divided her time between Barry Industries and pursuing a PhD in Materials Engineering with Prof. Bar-On; investigating the correlation between material characterization and electrical parameters. Information regarding publication:

tvincent@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Xiaolan Wang

Teaching Assistant

Xiaolan arrived from China this Spring to pursue her MS in Materials Science. She graduated from the Zhejiang University in 2004 and was able to gain valuable working experience at Centrix-EG., Ltd. for 1 year after graduation before she came to WPI.

eva824@wpi.edu     Ext. 5681     Office: WB333

Virendra Warke

Research Assistant

Virendra arrived at WPI in August 2001 from Pune, India to pursue a Masters Degree. He is working on his research with Prof. Mahklouf in the Advanced Casting Research Center. His current projects are:

viren@wpi.edu     Ext. 6157     Office: WB318

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