A Golden Jubilee of Materials Science and Engineering
A Celebration
of the Founding of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at
Northwestern University with a
Focus on the Future of the Field
Evanston, IL
October 27 and 28, 2005
Northwestern's Materials Science and Engineering Department has a rich heritage as the first in the world and one that has continued to define the field. Fifty years ago the founders of the department established a culture of pioneering research and teaching based upon concepts that applied to broad classes of materials. We continue expand the boundaries. From materials that can be used to make quantum computation a reality and fuel cells that promise cleaner, more efficient energy sources to life-enhancing and life-saving biomaterials, materials science and engineering has the potential to impact society's greatest concerns and to develop new generations of technologies.
We will be holding a two-day symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary on October 27 and 28, 2005. The focus of the symposium will be to reflect on the role played by Northwestern and our department in the development of the field as well as to highlight the current frontiers and future promise of Materials Science and Engineering. This will be an international event.
Co-sponsored by the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering
and Applied Science
and the Office of the Provost, Northwestern University
Symposium Schedule
Symposium Schedule, Bios
and Abstracts (PDF)
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Hardin
Hall, Rebecca Crown Center
633 Clark Street, Evanston
8:30-8:35 - P.W. Voorhees – Northwestern University, Department Chair
Materials Science and Engineering
Welcome
8:35-8:45 – L.B. Dumas - Northwestern University, Provost
Welcome
Session 1 – Materials Science and Engineering Turns Fifty: Past and Future Perspectives
8:45-9:25 – M.E. Fine, Northwestern University
Why Materials Science?
9:30-10:10 – J. Wadsworth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Role of Materials Science in National Security: From Ancient Times to the
Present and into the Future
10:15-10:45 - Coffee break
Session 2 – Metals: a Nanoscale View
10:45-11:25 – J.R. Weertman, Northwestern University
NANO Can Mean Strong
11:30-12:10 – D.N. Seidman, Northwestern University
From Atoms to Microstructures to the Properties of Modern High-Temperature
Structural Alloys
12:15-2:00 Lunch
Session 3 – Ceramics: Novel Processing Routes and High-Tech Applications
2:00 – 2:40 – F.F. Lange, University of California at Santa
Barbara
Making Advanced Ceramic Powders Behave Like Clay: Manipulating Interparticle
Forces for New Shape Forming Technologies
2:45 – 3:25 – S.A. Barnett, Northwestern University
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and the Hydrogen Economy
3:30 – 4:00 - Coffee break
Session 4 – Biomaterials: Current Practices and Future Promises
4:00 - 4:40 – S. Stupp, Northwestern University
Expanding Frontiers in Biomaterials
4:45 - 5:25 – J.J. Jacobs, Rush University
Corrosion of Orthopaedic Implants - Who Cares?
6:00 – Banquet – Orrington Hotel
H. Bienen – Northwestern University, President
Welcome
C.B. Moore – Northwestern University, Vice-President for Research
Welcome
Our banquet speaker will be Professor Stephen Sass of Cornell University, author of The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Society for Metals and was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, a university-wide honor recognizing effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students. The topic of his talk dovetails nicely with the recent collaborations of several faculty with Art Institute personnel on materials in art conservation.
Friday, October 28, 2005
8:30 - 8:35 - P.W. Voorhees – Northwestern University, Department Chair Materials Science and Engineering Welcome
8:35 – 8:45 - J.M. Ottino – Northwestern University, Dean McCormick
School of Engineering & Applied Science
Welcome
Session 5 – Polymers: Soft Materials Solve Hard Problems
8:45-9:25 – A.M. Mayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS&E Goes Soft: A Personal Vision for Polymeric Materials
9:30-10:10 – R.H. Friend, University of Cambridge
Polymer Electronics
10:15-10:45 - Coffee break
Session 6 – Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: Enabling the Information Revolution
10:45-11:25 – T. Aoki, Sony Corporation
Technological Innovation and New Lifestyles in the Broadband Network Era
11:30-12:10 – B.W. Wessels, Northwestern University
New Frontiers in Electronic Materials: III-V Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
and Spintronics
12:15-2:00 - Lunch
2:00 – 2:40 – M.C. Hersam, Northwestern University
Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Materials at the Nanometer Scale
Session 7 – Computational Materials Science: from Simulation to Engineering Practice
2:45 – 3:25 – D. de Fontaine, University of California, Berkeley
Gibbsian Thermodynamics for the Electronics Age
3:30 – 4:00 - Coffee break
4:00 - 4:40 – L.H. Schwartz, Air Force Office of Science Research
(retired)
Materials Engineering for Affordable New Systems
4:45 - 5:25 – G.B. Olson, Northwestern University
Materials by Design
5:30 – 5:40 - P.W. Voorhees – Northwestern University
Final Comments
Symposium
Abstracts
Teruaki Aoki
Technological Innovation and New Lifestyles in the Broadband Network Era
The commercial Internet has only 10-years history. During the period, it
is said that the data
traffic on the network increased 1000 times. There is no need to say that
the internet has
changed the way of business and lifestyles to a great extent and created
new markets. So far,
however, major applications of the internet have been emails and web browsing
running on PCs
because the band width of the network is limited. For the forthcoming years
this situation will
drastically change in the global scale. The broadband network such as ADSL,
digital cable and
optical fiber to the home will be available to most of people at home. In
addition the wireless
broadband networks such as wireless LAN and 3rd and 4th generation mobile
cell phones will be
also available at a reasonable cost. Such broadband infrastructure would
create another new
lifestyle, where people can enjoy any rich content such as music and high-definition
video
anytime and anywhere. In order to realize it, we need to develop various
technologies which
include not only software and systems but also new devices and materials.
Scott A. Barnett
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and the Hydrogen Economy
It is well known that solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) can play a role in a
hydrogen economy by
doing highly efficient conversion of hydrogen to electricity, and efficient
hydrogen production
by steam electrolysis. This talk describes a few alternative approaches to
clean, efficient energy
afforded by the use of hydrocarbon or alcohol fuels in SOFCs.
The current hydrogen economy strategy is to centrally produce hydrogen and
distribute it for use
in e.g. fuel cell vehicles. In the near term (until sufficient renewable
energy sources available),
hydrogen would be produced from hydrocarbons, with steam reforming being
the leading
contender. However, physical separation of the endothermic reforming process
from the fuel
cell (and the heat produced therein) results in significant cost and efficiency
penalties. An
alternative technology is a direct methane SOFC that can co-produce H2+CO
(syngas) and
electricity; projections indicate that this can be a very cost effective
means of producing
hydrogen from natural gas. This talk will also describe recent results on
direct internal reforming
of gasoline in SOFCs; this makes efficient use of excess heat for the endothermic
reforming
reaction, potentially allowing substantially higher efficiency than a hydrogen
fuel cell. Finally,
this talk will describe a renewable energy alternative to the hydrogen economy
that would work
well with SOFCs and that avoids the difficult storage problems associated
with hydrogen.
Didier de Fontaine
Gibbsian Thermodynamics for the Electronics Age
In a monumental classic paper published 130 years ago, J. Willard Gibbs created,
virtually
single-handed, the field of Equilibrium Thermodynamics, whose practical relevance
has kept on
increasing over the years. Gibbsian Thermodynamics is one of the most complete
and rigorous
continuum macroscopic theories ever derived. It is a "black-box" theory,
which is its strength
but also its weakness in an age when Materials Science tends to have discrete,
microscopic
flavor. How is one to obtain the physical parameters needed to make classical
thermodynamics"
go"? From experiment? Yes, that is essential. But today, thanks to fairly
recent theoretical
advances, it is also possible to "do thermo on a computer", to
the delight of those who dislike
messy lab work. I shall describe briefly the new "Alloy Theory" and
illustrate its use by some
examples, including applications to order-disorder reactions in high-Tc superconductors.
Morris E. Fine
Why Materials Science?
The early history of Materials Science as a separate discipline, the establishment
of the Materials
Science Department at Northwestern and its early history will be presented.
Finally some
thoughts on the future of Materials Science will be given.
Richard H. Friend
Polymer Electronics
Conjugated polymers now provide a class of processible, film-forming semiconductors
and
metals. We have worked on the development of the semiconductor physics of
these materials by
using them as the active components in a range of semiconductor devices.
Polymer light-emitting
diodes show particular promise, providing full color range and high efficiency.
Polymerpolymer
hetero-junctions can be exploited both in LEDs and also in polymer photovoltaic
cells.
An important approach which can be exploited with solution-processed polymers
is the
formation of de-mixed polymer blends formed with electron- and hole-accepting
polymers. I will
discuss conditions required for photo-induced charge transfer (as required
for photovoltaic diode
operation) or for energy transfer (as required for LEDs), and consider evidence
for localization
of excitons at the hetero-junction in this regime. Patterned deposition using
ink-jet printing
techniques allows fabrication of full-color LED displays. Direct printing
can also be used to
fabrication sub-micron geometry polymer transistors and circuits. I will
describe the use of such
circuits for active-matrix display backplanes.
Mark C. Hersam
Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Materials at the Nanometer Scale
The Hersam Research Group develops nanofabrication and nanocharacterization
techniques for
hybrid organic/inorganic materials and devices. Ongoing research topics include
silicon-based
molecular electronics, organic light emitting diodes, molecular rotors, nanopatterned
sensors,
encapsulated carbon nanotubes, and catalytic oxide surfaces. In all cases,
the interplay between
the organic and the inorganic subcomponents influences the overall structure
and properties of
the hybrid nanomaterial. Consequently, nanoscale characterization of organic/inorganic
interfaces is required to develop structure-property relationships in these
systems. Furthermore,
nanometer scale processing techniques enable optimization of the performance
of hybrid
organic/inorganic devices.
As a case study of our research approach to nanomaterials science and engineering,
this talk will
focus on the application of the structure-property-processing paradigm to
silicon-based
molecular electronic materials and devices. A homebuilt ultra-high vacuum
(UHV) scanning
tunneling microscope (STM) allows individual molecules to be imaged, addressed,
and
manipulated on semiconducting surfaces with atomic resolution at room temperature.
Specifically, three different molecules will be considered on the Si(100)
surface: styrene,
cyclopentene, and 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy (TEMPO). In all cases,
STM
spectroscopic characterization of individual molecules mounted on degenerately
n-type Si(100)
show multiple negative differential resistance (NDR) events at negative sample
bias. On the
other hand, at positive sample bias, the current-voltage characteristics
do not show NDR,
although a discontinuity in the differential conductance is observed. When
the Si(100) substrate
is changed to degenerate p-type doping, the charge transport behavior is
qualitatively similar but
at the opposite bias polarity. These empirical observations can be quantitatively
explained using
a capacitive equivalent circuit model and the energy band diagram for a semiconductormolecule-
metal junction. In addition, using multi-step feedback controlled lithography,
heteromolecular nanostructures consisting of both styrene and TEMPO molecules
have been
fabricated on hydrogen passivated Si(100). Atomic-scale characterization
of these structures will
be discussed in the context of silicon-based molecular electronics.
Joshua J. Jacobs
Corrosion of Orthopedic Implants - Who Cares?
In the vast majority of patients, permanent orthopedic implants are well
tolerated, i.e. they are biocompatible. However, there is an increasing recognition
that, in the long term, permanent
orthopedic implants may be associated with adverse local and remote tissue
responses in some
individuals. These adverse effects are mediated by the degradation products
of these implant
materials which may be present as (1) particulate wear and corrosion debris,
(2) colloidal
organometallic complexes (specifically or non-specifically bound), (3) free
metallic ions, (4)
inorganic metal salts/oxides, and/or (5) sequestered in an organic storage
form such as
hemosiderin. Much of the focus on the long term biocompatibility of implant
materials has
centered on the metallic components because of their tendency to undergo
electrochemical
corrosion resulting in the formation of, at least transiently, chemically
active degradation
products. Concern about the release and distribution of metallic degradation
products is justified
by the known potential toxicities of the elements used in modern orthopedic
implant alloys -
titanium, aluminum, vanadium, cobalt, chromium, and nickel. Toxicity may
be by virtue of (i)
metabolic alterations, (ii) alterations in host/parasite interactions, (iii)
immunologic interactions
of metal moieties by virtue of their ability to act as haptens (specific
immunological activation),
anti-chemotactic agents (non-specific immunological suppression), or lymphocyte
toxins, and
(iv) by chemical carcinogenesis. At this time, the association of metal release
from orthopedic
implants with any metabolic, bacteriologic, immunologic, or carcinogenic
toxicity remains
conjectural since cause and effect have not been established in human subjects.
Nonetheless, in a
number of settings, corrosion of orthopedic implants has resulted in adverse
clinical outcomes
due to the local histological responses to corrosion products. Improved preclinical
testing
protocols are required in order to facilitate the development of metallic
implant systems that are
more resistant to corrosion and mechanically-accelerated electrochemical
processes.
F. F. Lange
Making Advanced Ceramic Powders Behave Like Clay: Manipulating Interparticle
Forces for
New Shape Forming Technologies
Clay, when saturated with water, was the first hand-molded material made
by man. Nearly all
ceramics are still made with powders. Advance ceramic powders do not have
the inherent,
plastic properties of clay. Recent research has shown that interparticle
forces can be manipulated
to produce clay-like behavior and new shape forming technologies.
Without repulsive shrouds, particles attract one another to from touching,
cohesive networks
because of their pervasive, attractive van der Waals forces. Either the electrostatic
double layer
method, which shrouds the particles with ions, or the steric method, which
shrouds the particles
with molecules, can be used to produce repulsive forces. Because the shrouds
have a low atomic
mass, they do not strongly contribute to the van der Waals attractive force.
Repulsive forces
arise when the shroud of one particle penetrates that of an approaching particle.
The separation
distance needed to produce repulsion can be controlled by the ‘thickness’ of
the shroud. Thus,
when the shrouds strongly interact at large separation distances, the van
der Waals force can be
completely shielded and the particles are strongly repulsive. When the interaction
occurs at very
short separation distances, the van der Waals force first causes the particle
to be attractive, but
repulsive before they touch. For this case, the particles sit in a potential
well and form a weakly
attractive, but non-touching network. Forces are required to pull attractive
particles apart; these
networks have a yield stress that is required for shape forming. The yield
stress will depend on
the interparticle force, and the number of particles per unit volume. Rheological
methods have
been developed to measure the ‘strength’ of a particle network.
These methods are not only used
to characterize the interparticle forces, but also to judge the shape forming
ability of a
consolidated slurry.
These fundamental principles will be used for new forming applications that
include:
• crystallization of identical nano-particles
• crystallization of sub-micron spherical particles within much larger
emulsion droplets
•
rapid shape forming via isopressing at µm to cm component scales
Anne M. Mayes
MS&E Goes Soft: A Personal Vision for Polymeric Materials
It’s an exciting time to be a materials scientist. Progress in fields
as disparate as medicine,
transportation, information processing and defense will in the future go
hand-in-hand with
developments in materials chemistry and processing. Polymeric materials,
in particular, have a
defining role to play in addressing some of our key 21st century challenges.
Advances in
polymer synthesis and processing in the last decade have generated a bountiful
toolbox for
fabricating polymeric and organic/inorganic hybrid materials with properties
tailor-made for a
given application, in some cases taking cues from examples in nature. This
talk offers some
personal reflections of how recent innovations in polymer science could be
put to use in coming
decades to address national and global technology priorities.
G. B. Olson
Materials by Design
Building on Northwestern's tradition of innovation, a systems approach to
computational
materials design pioneered at Northwestern two decades ago has reached commercial
success
and redefined undergraduate materials education. The recent DARPA-AIM initiative
has
broadened the methodology to span the full materials development and qualification
cycle, while
integration of graduate "scieneering" research with undergraduate "techmanities" education
has
applied a unified approach across metals, ceramics, polymers, composites
and processed foods,
and exposed undergraduates to concurrent materials design in a multidisciplinary
engineering
setting. The new ONR "D3D Consortium" initiative integrates multiscale
3D tomographic
analysis and simulation to provide a new level of accelerated high fidelity
materials design. As
an agent of "affordable change," application of computational design
to "green" materials now
entering the marketplace is enabling a transformation to sustainable technology
responsive to
society's broader needs.
Stephen L. Sass
The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone
Age to the Age of
Silicon
Materials have enabled revolutionary advances in how we live, work, fight
and travel, hence the
naming of eras after them -- Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. This talk explores
the role of
materials in the development of modern Western industrial civilizations,
by putting technology
into an historical and human context, examining the advances made possible
by innovations with
materials, starting with the Stone Age. Connections between critical developments
are
identified, for example, the relationship among materials, agriculture and
written languages in
the fourth millennium B.C., and among the Exodus of the Hebrews, the general
tumult in the
Eastern Mediterranean and the onset of the Iron Age, at the end of the second
millennium B.C.
The roles of China and Islam in stimulating advances in technology will be
explored. Early
technologies will be illustrated with beautiful works of art.
Lyle H. Schwartz
Materials Engineering for Affordable New Systems
Academic departments focused on materials research have evolved over the
last half century and
now, with some exceptions are broadly focused and are designated Departments
of Materials
Science and Engineering. It will be the contention of this presentation that
while the “Science“ part of this name has evolved to extraordinary degrees, the “Engineering” part
is still in many
ways in its infancy. To discuss this issue, it is first necessary to establish
a definition of
engineering in the modern day, and then to examine the developments in our
field and see how
they match up against the definition.
As most fields of engineering have evolved, computational methodology has
been developed
enabling designers to integrate the combined knowledge of that field into
convenient packages
leading to improved designs, shortened design cycles and more affordable
systems. Materials
selection remains a critical part of the design cycle, but our contribution
to this process remains
largely a body of empirically obtained property data that the designer feeds
into the design
software as a “given”. New materials, particularly structural
materials, are developed using our
knowledge base, but final properties are obtained only by costly empiricism.
Several steps have
been taken over the years to introduce appropriate computational capabilities
to the materials
development process, and in recent years the integration with design has
been made in
rudimentary ways. However, we still have a long way to go before the E can
really be justified in
MSE, and much of that road will be traveled only with the assistance of our
colleagues in
departments of mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering.
David N. Seidman
From Atoms to Microstructures to the Properties of Modern High-Temperature
Structural Alloys
“ If 30 years from now we do not solve the energy problem, life as we know
it will be changed.” This critical observation (paraphrased from
a statement by Professor Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel
Laureate in Physics and Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
is relevant to
my presentation, which concerns research on metallic alloys for use at elevated
temperatures.
Carnot's famous cycle for the most efficient thermodynamic heat engine, of
any type, tells us that
the higher the operating temperature, with respect to ambient temperature,
the greater is its
thermodynamic efficiency (1820s). This key result of the Carnot cycle leads
inexorably to the
conclusion that it is imperative that we continue to improve the ability
of metallic alloys to
function at elevated temperatures in heat engines of all types, and to understand
why they are
capable of operating at elevated temperatures using the basic concepts of
materials science and
engineering.
With this as a preamble I focus on why studying metallic alloys on an atomic
scale,
subnanometer, using radically new instrumentation, impacts on much of their
behavior at
considerably larger length scales, centimeters to meters. The local-electrode
atom-probe (LEAP)
tomograph provides an investigator with a three-dimensional picture of a
reconstructed atomic
lattice that contains both positional and chemical information, which, in
turn, yields the
microstructure on length scales from the subnanoscale to mesoscale. In this
presentation I will
illustrate the above points with results from our current research on model
high-temperature
nickel-aluminum-chromium base superalloys and aluminum-scandium-element X
base alloys,
where their microstructure on a subnanometer to mesoscale has a direct impact
on their elevated
temperature properties. Additionally, I will discuss what has to be accomplished
to further
improve these alloys to increase their maximum operating temperatures.
Samuel Stupp
Expanding Frontiers in Biomaterials
The interface between materials science and biology has its genesis more
than half a century ago
at the time when known materials were first used to repair human tissues.
These biomaterials,
many still in use today, are basically inert but can repair the structure
of tissues or restore the
function of failed organs. The field is now expanding into the exciting realm
of bottom up
molecular and supramolecular design of materials to interact directly with
cells. Such"
bioactive" materials could soon become the drivers of tissue and organ
regeneration in humans.
The new opportunities are emerging at the convergence of nanoscience and
biology, and are
opening other frontiers that will have broad impact in science. The use of
designed materials to
learn biology, the design of materials that imitate biology, or the use of
biology to make abiotic
materials are all part of this exciting new field. The lecture will illustrate
various aspects of the
field explaining the development of self-assembly codes for biomolecular
materials and the
functions that emerge.
Jeffrey Wadsworth
The Role of Materials Science in National Security: From Ancient Times to
the Present and into
the Future
Throughout human history, from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age to the Iron
Age, materials
science has been the driving force behind the development of revolutionary
technologies for
national security. The influence of Damascus steels on European steelmaking
is a pre–Industrial
Revolution example. In modern times, advances in materials science guided
the development of
nuclear weapons from the Manhattan Project to their ultimate expression in
the Trident missile
system. Today, our emerging capabilities for designing and engineering materials
at the atomic
level offer remarkable opportunities to improve national and global security.
Materials science is
essential to promoting nuclear nonproliferation, reducing the global danger
from weapons of
mass destruction, protecting warfighters and first responders, and extending
our ability to combat
asymmetric attacks.
Julia R. Weertman
NANO Can Mean Strong
As nano-sized features are introduced into a metal (e.g., grain size, precipitates,
or layered
structures) large increases in strength can result. These benefits often,
but not always, are
accompanied by a devastating loss of toughness. Current knowledge will
be presented of
phenomena associated with deformation in nanocrystalline metals such as
microstructural
instabilities under stress and plasticity mechanisms when dislocation activity
is restricted. An
understanding of such processes is needed to design useful nanocrystalline
alloys.
Bruce W. Wessels
New Frontiers in Electronic Materials: III-V Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
and Spintronics
Recent developments in synthesis of ferromagnetic semiconductors have
led to the possibility of
electronic devices that use both charge and spin. These materials can
potentially enable
semiconductor circuits that exhibit electronic, magnetic, and photonic
functionalities. For
example, injecting spin polarized current into a semiconductor would
enable qubit (quantum bit)
operation for quantum computing. The ferromagnetic semiconductors are
synthesized by doping
nonmagnetic semiconductors with transition metals. To obtain ferromagnetism,
the
semiconductors must be doped to levels in excess of their equilibrium
solubility limit. Using
metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy, metastable semiconductor alloys have
been formed with
Curie temperatures above room temperature. The nature of the magnetic
interaction has been
studied using synchrotron radiation. The magnetic properties are attributed
to the presence of
atomic scale magnetic ion clusters that interact via free carriers.
Short Biographical Notes of Speakers
Teruaki Aoki
Advisor, Sony Corporation.
He received his Ph.D. degree from Northwestern. He became general manager
of Sony's semiconductor group in 1983 and went on to management positions
in corporate planning, research and development strategy, recording media
products, and consumer audio video products. In 1998 he moved to New York
to become President and Chief Operating Officer of Sony Electronics, a
U.S. subsidiary. He returned to Tokyo in 2000 to serve as Senior Executive
Vice President of Sony.
As of 2005, he is Advisor of Sony Corporation, President of Sony University,
and Managing Director of Sony Foundation for Education.
Scott A. Barnett
Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering,
Northwestern University.
He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals, has 11 issued
patents in the area
of thin films and solid oxide fuel cells. He was awarded the Office of Naval
Research Young
Investigator Award, and is a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society. He is
also founder of
Functional Coating Technology LLC (Evanston).
Didier de Fontaine
Professor Emeritus, Department of Materials Science & Mineral
Engineering, University of
California Berkeley.
He received his Ph.D. degree from Northwestern. He has numerous honors including
Fellow of
the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society Turnbull
Lecturer.
Morris E. Fine
Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus, Department
of Materials Science & Engineering,
Northwestern University.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and fellow of the
American Physical
Society, ASM, TMS, ACerS, and AAAS. He has received many awards, including
the
Mathewson Gold Medal (AIME), the Douglas Gold Medal (AIME), the ASM Gold
Medal, and
the TMS Educator Award. He delivered the ASM Campbell Memorial Lecture and
the Institute
of Metals Robert Mehl Lecture. Dr. Fine joined the department in its early
days in 1954, was
its first chair and is currently principal or co-investigator of several
sponsored research
projects.
Richard H. Friend
Cavendish Professor of Physics and Chair of the School of Physical Sciences,
Cambridge
University.
He has received numerous awards and honorary doctorates. He has started two
successful
companies focused on polymer electronics technology and is Fellow of the
Royal Society.
Mark C. Hersam
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering,
Northwestern University.
He has been named an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator, a National
Science
Foundation CAREER Award recipient, an Army Research Office Young Investigator,
an
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research
Fellow.
Joshua J. Jacobs
Crown Family Professor and Associate Chairman for Academic Programs, Department
of
Orthopedic Surgery, Rush Medical College.
He received his BS degree from Northwestern. His major research focus is
on the
biocompatibility of permanent orthopedic implants, particularly joint replacement
devices. He
has received many honors including Ann Doner Vaughan Kappa Delta Award, American
Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and Surgeon-In-Chief Pro-Tempore, Hospital
for Special
Surgery.
Fredrick F. Lange
Professor and Chair, Materials Science & Engineering
Department, University of California at
Santa Barbara.
He is the former Chair of the Materials Science & Engineering Department
at UCSB. He is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering, was a Humbolt Senior Fellow
and has
received the Max Planck Research Award.
Anne M. Mayes
Toyota Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
She received her Ph.D. degree from Northwestern. She has won numerous awards
including
MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the American Physical Society Dillon
Medal for
Polymer Physics. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. She is
a MacVicar
Faculty Fellow at MIT.
Gregory B. Olson
Wilson-Cook Professor of Engineering Design, Department
of Materials Science & Engineering,
Northwestern University
He is a founder of QuesTek Innovations LLC, in Evanston. He is a fellow of
ASM
International and The Metals, Minerals and Materials Society.
Stephen L. Sass
Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering,
Cornell University.
He received his Ph.D. degree from Northwestern. He is a fellow of the American
Physical
Society and the American Society for Metals and was named a Stephen H. Weiss
Presidential
Fellow, a university-wide honor recognizing effective, inspiring and distinguished
teaching of
undergraduate students.
David N. Seidman
Walter P. Murphy Professor, Department of Materials
Science & Engineering,
Northwestern
University.
He is a fellow of The Metals, Minerals and Materials Society, the American
Physical Society,
and ASM International. He received a Max Planck Research Prize of Max-Planck-
Gesellschaft, and an A. Von Humboldt Stiftung Prize, and was twice a John
Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Fellow.
Lyle H. Schwartz
Director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (retired)
He is former director of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
of the National
Institute for Standards and Technology and former President of the Federation
of Materials
Societies. He received his Ph.D. degree from Northwestern, was on the MSE
faculty for 20
years, and directed NU’s Materials Research Center for 5 years. He
is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering and has received many awards and honors.
Samuel Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor, Department of Materials
Science & Engineering
and Department of
Chemistry, School of Medicine, Northwestern University.
He received his Ph.D. degree from Northwestern. He is a member of the American
Academy
of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of numerous societies, and has received many
awards including
the Department of Energy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Materials Chemistry,
and the
American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry.
Jeffrey Wadsworth
Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
He is former Deputy Director for Science and Technology at Lawrence Livermore
National
Laboratory and earlier worked for Lockheed. His honors include membership
in the National
Academy of Engineering and election as a Fellow of ASM International; The
Minerals, Metals,
and Materials Society (TMS); and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
He has published more than 275 papers and 1 book and has been awarded 4 patents.
Julia R. Weertman
Walter P. Murphy Professor Emerita, Department of
Materials Science & Engineering,
Northwestern University.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy
of Arts
and Sciences and a Fellow of The Metals, Minerals and Materials Society and
ASM
International. She received the Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research
Society and
the Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers.
Bruce W. Wessels
Walter P. Murphy Professor, Departments of Materials
Science & Engineering,
and Electrical
Engineering & Computer Science, Northwestern University.
He was recently named chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer
Science. He is Fellow of ASMI and the American Physical Society. He is the
author of 255
articles and co-author of five books and has been awarded thirteen patents.
Area Hotels
Please make your hotel reservations as soon as possible since Homecoming weekend begins October 28.
| Best
Western University Plaza ** 1501 Sherman Avenue Evanston, IL 60201 847-491-6400 |
Hilton
Garden Inn Evanston ** 1818 Maple Avenue Evanston, IL 60201 847-475-6400 |
The Homestead ** 1625 Hinman Avenue Evanston, IL 60201 847-475-3300 |
| Hotel Orrington** 1710 Orrington Avenue Evanston, IL 60201 847-866-8700 |
Margarita European Inn ** 1566 Oak Avenue Evanston, IL 60201 847-869-2273 |
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| Comfort Inn North Shore * 9333 Skokie Boulevard Skokie, IL 60077 800-654-2000 847-679-4200 |
Doubletree Hotel North
Shore * 9599 Skokie Boulevard Skokie, IL 60077 800-879-4458 847-679-7000 |
Hampton
Inn & Suites * 5201 Old Orchard Road Skokie, IL 60077 800-426-7866 847-583-1111 |
| Hilton
Northbrook * 2855 N. Milwaukee Avenue Northbrook, IL 60062 800-445-8667 847-480-7500 |
Holiday
Inn North Shore * 5300 W. Touhy Avenue Skokie, IL 60077 847-679-8900 |
Marriott
Suites Deerfield * Two Parkway North Deerfield, IL 60015 800-228-9290 847-405-9666 |
| The Purple Hotel* 4500 W. Touhy Avenue Lincolnwood, IL 60646 847-677-1234 |
Renaissance
North Shore Hotel * 933 Skokie Boulevard Northbrook, IL 60062 847-498-6500 |
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| * 20 to 30 minute drive to Northwestern Campus ** Within walking distance of Northwestern Campus |
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