{"id":43055,"date":"2022-11-02T10:43:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43055"},"modified":"2022-11-02T10:43:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T14:43:50","slug":"students-visit-the-newly-renovated-materials-characterization-and-processing-facility","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/news\/students-visit-the-newly-renovated-materials-characterization-and-processing-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Visit the Newly Renovated Materials Characterization and Processing Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering recently got their first look at the newly renovated Johns Hopkins Materials Characterization and Processing facility. Helmed by Mitra Taheri, a professor in the MSE, the space is \u201cA Modern Foundry in an old Silver Factory\u201d. Situated in the historic Stieff Silver foundry building, it gathers state-of-the-art tools for testing physical properties, fabrication of new materials, and characterization of inorganic and organic materials. Students of Orla Wilson\u2019s Materials Science Lab, a 2-semester lab sequence required of all MSE juniors, were able to use one of the Scanning Electron Microscopes to examine the fractured surfaces of samples of steel, aluminum, and titanium alloy. The electron microscopes are stored in labs designed to be free of vibration and electromagnetic fields to ensure top performance of the instruments and are temperature-controlled via cooling panels with low air current flow and acoustically dead thanks to sound-proofing panels. \u201c[The students] really appreciated seeing the SEM instrument. The hands-on experience is really important as it helps them understand the capabilities of these tool,\u201d says Wilson. \u00a0Veric Tan was one of the students in attendance and echoed Wilson\u2019s sentiments. \u201cThis is an arena to work with the instruments we learn about in class and translate it into actual experience, something that will come in useful when we go into industry.\u201d According to Wilson, it is important to introduce undergraduates like her lab class to the facility to reinforce that it is not just for graduate students. \u201cMy hope is that some of them will get trained on the instruments and that they will realize the range of applicability of the techniques. Many of them are well entrenched in research groups by now. I hope they will think about how the MCP characterization tools can help in their projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43064 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-740x494.jpg 740w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-980x654.jpg 980w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-1220x814.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8405-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/>The Materials Characterization and Processing facility has not had its grand opening yet but as students get a feel for some of the high-tech characterization tools that they have access to, the significant role the facility will play in materials research at Johns Hopkins and in the larger community is evident. For Wilson and her students, the excitement was palpable. \u201cI think it was very cool and rewarding to see how impressed they all were with the facility,\u201d she says. As Mitra Taheri sums it up, \u201cWe are so lucky to be able to have an inspiring facility to show students all over the city and region what they can do as scientists and engineers, and that they have a home for their ideas. The MCP is proud to open its doors to any and all students interested in following their dreams in STEM. It was programs like this that brought me to science myself and it\u2019s so rewarding to show them what an exciting time it is to be a materials scientist. 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