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NEWS & EVENTS
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Allen Goland
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| We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our beloved colleague Dr.Allen Goland on January 14, 2010 just shy of his 80th Birthday.
Allen was founding member of the CTSR group since inception in the early 1990s and served on its executive committee during the NSF MRSEC program.
He was deeply involved in application of advanced scattering techniques to characterize the complex pore structure of thermal sprayed coatings.
Prior to his retirement in 1996, Allen spent most of his career as a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He applied innovative techniques to study defects in materials culminating in his work on defects in thermal spray coatings. He was an adjunct professor in the materials science and engineering department, principle investigator in the NSF MRSEC and an external advisory board member to the department.
He advised or co-advised numerous students and post-docs and a mentor to numerous young scientists. We will miss him dearly.
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Dr. Curtis A. Johnson joins CTSR, Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stony Brook University, as an adjunct faculty.
Curt Johnson earned his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgy from The Pennsylvania State University. In 1973, he joined General Electric at their Corporate Research and Development Center (now GE Research) where he has worked on a wide variety of challenges related to the development and application of ceramics. In early 2008, Curt retired from his position of Principal Scientist within the Ceramics and Metallurgy Technologies organization at GE Research. He is currently a part-time consultant with GE.
Over the last 37 years, Curt has worked on the development, fabrication, characterization, life prediction and reliability assessment of advanced ceramics and coatings. He helped develop processes for sintering and near-net-shape fabrication of sintered silicon carbide. He helped advance analytical techniques for probabilistic strength and failure prediction of brittle materials and has applied those techniques to many products and practical problems. Curt’s recent research interests include thermal barrier coatings and environmental barrier coatings with emphasis on fabrication-microstructure-property-performance relationships.
During his tenure at GE, Curt has been recognized with three GE Dushman Awards on sintered SiC, face-pumped lasers, and thermal barrier coatings. He was awarded the Distinguished Career Award from the Hudson-Mohawk Section of TMS in 2008 and the James I. Mueller Award from the American Ceramic Society in 2009. He has authored or co-authored over 25 publications and has 39 issued U.S. patents.
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CTSR wins Best Paper Award for Jounal of Thermal Spray Technology (JTST)
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CTSR publication "Sensing Control and In situ Measurement of Coating Properties: An Integrated Approach toward Establishing Process-Property Correlations" was selected as the best paper for JTST Vol 18, 2009. The contributors include Prof.Sampath, Dr.Vasu Srinivasan, Dr.Alfredo Valarezo, Dr.Anirudha Vaidya and Dr.Tilo Streibl. The selection committee cited "very high impact on our understanding of a process-peropty correlation" and should be "required reading for future thermal sprayers". This is wonderful recognition of the hard work and innovation by the CTSR team. Congratulations !
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Prof. Sanjay Sampath elected for Fellow of the American Ceramic Society
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Prof.Sanjay Sampath, CTSR Director was elected to the status of Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. Prof. Sampath is now a fellow of two societies ASM and Acers. Congatulations! |
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