Congratulations to our undergraduate student Charlie Teeter on completing his senior design project for the 2023-2024 school year! Charlie spent his time in the DCG focusing on refractory alloys with Noah Phillips at ATI, with his project entitled “Designing a Recrystallization Kinetics Model for Dilute Niobium Alloys”. Thanks to David Beaudry for his mentorship and the ONR MURI program for support of Charlie’s work!
We are excited to see what you do next, Charlie! Check out this article about Charlie and his project.
JHU Materials Science and Engineering senior JD Carrizo, participated in the senior design program in DCG for the 2022-2023 school year! Mentored by Nick Gigliotti and Vivian Su, JD studied “Mechanical Property Optimization of a Light-Tunable GelMA Model Designed to Address Preterm Birth”. Congratulations to JD on his award-winning final presentation and his graduation from JHU!
Check out this article about JD and his project!
Jocelyn Freed was selected for the Dynamic Characterization Group’s Women in Nuclear Science (WINS) fellowship for the summer of 2023! Jocelyn will be mentored by PhD students, Emily Hopkins and Annie Barnett, for the entirety of the summer, and will be studying the He bubble dynamics in irradiated Fe alloys and steels under simulated laser weld repair conditions. Jocelyn originally from Philadelphia, PA and is a rising junior at Johns Hopkins University, pursuing her Bachelors of Science in Materials Science in Engineering. Jocelyn would like to credit her experience attending Materials Camp at Drexel University (ASM International Camp) for her passion for all opportunities materials science!
As in previous years, the Hopkins Extreme Material Institute (HEMI) is a host site for the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) high school apprenticeships (formally called REAP). This apprenticeship is focused on providing Maryland high school students from underserved/underrepresented minorities in STEM an opportunity to participate in a research project at a university. DCG participated in the HEMI AEOP program this summer, supporting two students, Giancarlo Zambrano (mentored by Nicholas Gigliotti) and Gianluca Zambrano (mentored by Emily Hopkins).
Giancarlo spent his apprenticeship analyzing TEM micrograph images of cervical tissue at varying stages of pregnancy. His work goes toward an effort to standardize microscopy data analysis of tissue fibril sizes with machine learning techniques. In addition, Giancarlo gained experience synthesizing hydrogels and learned about basic ESEM imaging. Giancarlo will be attending Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 2022 to pursue materials and biomolecular engineering.
Gianluca focused on training and improving a machine learning object detection model to analyze in situ irradiation data from TEM videos, and learned about many common electron microscopy techniques and preparation methods. In the fall of 2022, Gianluca will be attending Duke University to pursue engineering (undecided).
High school senior Emma Liu was selected for the Army Educational Outreach Program’s summer internship, to work with Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute Fellow, Professor Mitra Taheri. Emma Liu spent the summer of 2021 studying deep learning object detection methods for analysis of in situ irradiation electron microscopy videos, mentored by PhD students Emily Hopkins and Cassandra Pate. Emma plans to attend the University of California – Los Angeles where she will pursue a degree in Mathematics in the Fall of 2021. Take a look at the article about the HEMI-AEOP intern final presentations here!
We are always looking for opportunities to interact with our world’s young scientists! Please reach out!
Pictured: Professor Mitra Taheri with Gilman kindergarten class, using microscopes to observe frozen fruit tissue!
Structure of Materials:
First of the Introduction to Materials Science series, this course seeks to develop an understanding of the structure of materials starting at the atomic scale and building up to macroscopic structures. Topics include bonding, crystal structures, crystalline defects, symmetry and crystallography, microstructure, liquids and amorphous solids, diffraction, molecular solids and polymers, liquid crystals, amphiphilic materials, and colloids. This course contains computational modules; some prior knowledge of computer programming is needed.
Materials in Extreme Environments:
This survey course provides a broad perspective of the challenges materials face in evolving technologies related to energy production, aerospace, medicine, and even data storage. The course will introduce topics by technology and review the current materials in use, the challenges they face, and the future outlook in terms of opportunities, improvements, and research. Information will be provided from literature, media, and guest speakers from key industries and technology sectors. Pictured: Guest lecture by Scott Hsu, Senior Advisor and Lead Fusion Coordinator at the Office of the Under Secretary for Science & Innovation.
Professor Taheri served as co-chair to The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Neurodiversity symposium in the Diversity in Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions Fourth Summit. Along with several professionals in the materials science field, Dr. Taheri is working to address what it means to be neurodiverse, and working with the community to support collaborative workspaces that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Read more about her efforts here!
