Selected
MRSEC Facts
- The MRSEC was established
in 1996 by a grant form the
National Science Foundation.
- The Center's research involves
collaborative efforts between
faculty in five different departments
and two colleges within CMU.
- Prof.
Gregory S. Rohrer is
the Center director.
- Prof.
Robert Suter directs
the Center's educational
activites.
- Prof.
Anthony D. Rollett directs
the Center's outreach activites.
- Each year, the Center supports
approximately eight graduate
student thesis projects.
- Each year, the Center supports
approximately ten undergraduate
research projects
- The Center supports an orientation
imaging microscopy laboratory,
a scanning Auger electron microscope
laboratory, and a surface preparation
and characterization facility
that are available to the materials
research community.
- Oversight and guidance for
the center is provided by an
external advisory committee
composed of distinguished scientists
drawn from industry, academia,
and the national laboratories.
- The Center has established
liasons with Brigham Young
University, California State
University at Northridge, Florida
A&M University, Lehigh
University, and the University
of Pittsburgh.
- The Center has conducted
collaborative research with
National Laboratories, Industrial
Concerns, and Universities
in the U.S. and abroad.
- Some of The Center's former
graduate students and postdocs
include: Tomoko Sano (Ph.D.),
Wayne Archibald (Ph.D.), Chang-Soo
Kim (Ph.D.), Ying Pang (Ph.D.),
Mitra Taheri (Ph.D.), Bassem
S. El Dasher (Ph.D), Jeehyun
Lee (PD), Peng
Yu (PD), Melik
Demirel (Ph.D.), Soonwuk
Cheong (Ph.D), David Saylor
(Ph.D.), Sowmya Mahadevan (MS),
Kevin Cherry (MS), Shilei Sun
(Ph.D.), Jennifer Lowekamp (Ph.D.),
Chun-Te Wu (Ph.D.), Ashit Talukder
(Ph.D.), Jay Kapur (MS), Arati
Bagal (MS), Chih-Chao Yang
(Ph.D.), Wenge Yang (PD), and
Ira Livschiz (PD).
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