Congratulations to Steve Rolfing who successfully defended his M.S Thesis!
11.30.13
Congratulations to Wei Li who successfully defended his PhD dissertation!
11.20-22.13
Prof. Olevsky participated in the DOE Materials Science and Engineering PI’s meeting in Washington, DC.
10.27-31.13
Prof. Olevsky took part in the Materials Science & Technology 2013 Conference & Exhibition (MS&T'13) held in Montreal, Canada.
9.8-10.13
Prof. Olevsky took part in the NSF DMREF Grantees Meeting held at NSF, Arlington, VA.
8.26-30.13
Prof. Olevsky and PhD. Students D. Giuntini and X. Wei participated in the International Workshop on the Optimized Processing of Multi-Material Architectures for Functional Ceramics held in Roskilde, Denmark.
8.3-11.13
Prof. Olevsky participated in the 8th Pacific Rim International Congress on Advanced Materials and Processing held in Waikoloa, Hawaii.
6.24-27.13
Prof. Olevsky participates in the 2013 Powder Met Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
6.3-7.13
Prof. Olevsky, Dr. Lin, W. Li, D. Giuntini, X. Wei, S. Rolfing and S. Qiao participate the 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology in San Diego, California.
3.25-30.13
Dr. J. Alvarado-Contreras and S. Rolfing visit Moscow Engineering Physics University, Russian Federation, to collaborate on field-assisted sintering research.
3.6-8.13
PhD Students D. Giuntini, X. Wei, and W. Li participate in the 6th annual SDSU Student Research Symposium.
3.3-7.13
Prof. Olevsky participates in the 142nd Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS 2013) in San Antonio, Texas.
1.27-2.1.13
Prof. Olevsky participates in the 37th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites in Daytona Beach, Florida.
12.9-15.12
Prof. Olevsky visits Sinterlan Co. in Nagaoka, Japan.
10.25.12
Congratulations to Tim Young who has successfully defended his Master thesis!
10.14-18.12
Profs. Olevsky and German participate in the World Congress on Powder Metallurgy in Yokohama, Japan.
10.06-11.12
Prof. Olevsky participates in the MS&T 2012 International Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.02.12
Prof. Olevsky and PTL become the recipients of the one of NSF 14 DMREF (Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future) grants in collaboration with University of Washington, Seattle: ceramictechtoday/2012/10/12.
9.15.12
A new Master Student in Mechanical Engineering: Shuang Qiao joins PTL.
9.01.12
Wiley publishes Advances in Sintering Science and Technology II by S.J.L. Kang, R. Bordia, D. Bouvard, and E. Olevsky: http://www.wiley.com.
6.12-15.12
Profs Olevsky and German and PhD Student Wei Li participate in the MPIF Conference on Powder Metallurgy in Nashville, TN.
6.11.12
A two-part paper of PTL affiliates and ARDEC researchers on “Fundamental Aspects of Spark Plasma Sintering: Analysis of Scalability” has been featured in Ceramic Tech Today: ceramictechtoday/2012/06/11.
5.10.12
PhD Student Wei Li participates in the Sintering Workshop, organized by Netzsch Co. in Albuquerque, NM.
5.07.12
Yen-Shan Lin has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Lin!
3.09.12
A Symposium in honor of Prof. German is organized by Prof. Olevsky and colleagues at the TMS Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.
3.07.12
Prof. Olevsky is elected to become Chair of the Powder Materials Committee at the TMS Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.
3.01.12
Congratulations to Prof. Olevsky! He was elected to become a Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society of Ukraine.
2.11.12
A paper of PTL affiliates on “Modeling sintering without constitutive equations” has been featured in Ceramic Tech Today: ceramictechtoday/2012/02/15.
10.22.11
Congratulations to Prof. Olevsky who received a Leading Scientist Award from the Ministry of Science and Education of Russian Federation.
9.15.11
A new Master Student in Mechanical Engineering: Steven Rolfing joins PTL.
9.10.11
PTL welcomes new PhD Students: Diletta Giuntini and Xialu Wei.
9.06.11
PTL welcomes new Post-Doctoral Fellow: Dr. Jose Alvarado-Contreras.
8.28.11-9.02.11
Profs. Olevsky and German attended Sintering 2011 International Conference in Jeju Island, South Korea.
8.01.11-8.26.11
Prof. Olevsky visited Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable
Energy at Denmark Technical University.
4.26.11
Congratulations
to Profs. German and Olevsky! They both are elected to become
Fellows of the American Ceramic Society. The Fellow rank is awarded
to outstanding, broad and productive contributions to the ceramic
sciences and technology.
2.27-3.4.11
PTL
Members Profs. Olevsky and German, PhD students William Bradbury,
Cristina Garcia, Evan Khaleghi, Yen-Shan Lin and Wei Li participate
in the Annual TMS meeting held in San Diego (CA).
1.12-15.11
Dr.
Veena Tikare of Sandia National Laboratories (NM) visited PTL.
1.4-7.11
Prof.
Olevsky participated in NSF CMMI Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
10.5-11.10.10
Dr. Ekaterine Sanaia from the Institute of Physics nad Technology,
Tbilisi, Georgia visited PTL.
11.7.10
William
Bradbury and Dr. Olevsky were featured on the American Ceramic
Society blog Ceramic
Tech Today.
10.29-11.5.10
Congratulations
to Rahul Tyagi, Aditya Bothate, Dmitriy Glozman and Gajendra Pendse
who successfully defended their theses and will graduate with
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering degrees!
Prof.
R. German and PhD Students Wei Li and Ridvan Yamanoglu took part
in MIM
2010 International Conference on Injection Molding of Metals,
Ceramics and Carbides in Long Beach, California, USA.
Congratulations
to PhD student Evan Khaleghi who received an honorable mention
at the Annual ACSESS
Conference organized by the SDSU Computational
Science Research Center. Gordon Brown, Cristina Garcia, Wei
Li and Yen-Shan Lin also participated.
03.02.09-03.05.09
Dr.
German, Dr.Olevsky and PhD Student Wei Li participated in the
Workshop
on Medical Applications of Micro Powder Injection Molding in
Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
The
Powder Technology Lab is located at San Diego State University,
E-120. PTL reserchers have access to a large lab with diverse characterization
and powder processing equipment. In addition, computational opportunities
with Solidworks, Abaqus Comsol and Matlab are available, as well
as access to other engineering lab facilities and an on-campus SEM
and TEM characterization lab and X-ray
Analysis Lab.