ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS CREATES EFFICIENT, ECO-FRIENDLY COOLING TECHNOLOGY
The Alliance for the Development of Additive Processing Technologies (ADAPT) at Colorado School of Mines was part of an international research team that developed a new elastocaloric cooling material that is highly efficient, eco-friendly and easily scaled-up for commercial use.
CONGRATULATIONS, DR. SEAN MILLS!
Congratulations to the Beam Team’s newest PhD, Sean Mills! Sean successfully defended his thesis on Oct. 28, 2019, to complete his PhD in the Materials Science interdisciplinary program.
TOM GALLMEYER WINS GVSETS 2019 BEST PAPER AWARD
PhD student Thomas Gallmeyer won the Best Paper Award at GVSETS 2019. The 11th annual GVSETS & APBI (Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium and Advanced Planning Briefings for Industry) was hosted by the Michigan chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association Aug. 13–15 in Novi, Michigan.
STEBNER IS VISITING RESEARCHER AT ICYS IN JAPAN
Dr. Aaron Stebner spent the summer as a visiting researcher at the International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS) at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan. Read the interview about Stebner’s research and his views on the future of materials.
MINES PARTNERS WITH ADAM SAVAGE TO BUILD 3D-PRINTED IRON MAN SUIT
Mines’ Advanced Manufacturing Program Director Craig Brice and several of his students worked with Adam Savage on an episode of “Savage Builds,” a brand-new series premiering on the Discovery Channel on June 14. The series is all about extreme and innovative engineering challenges.
BEAM TEAM STUDENTS WIN GRADS AWARDS
Congratulations to Beam Team PhD students Sean Mills and Nathan Johnson for winning awards at CSM GRADS 2019!
Mills won best poster presentation and Johnson won best oral presentation.
BEAM TEAM PRESENTS AT TMS 2019
Beam Team students and faculty presented their latest research findings at TMS 2019 in San Antonio, Texas, the week of March 11.
3D EXPERIMENTS SHED NEW LIGHT ON SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS
Shape memory alloys are well known for their remarkable properties —superelasticity, shape memory
Ashley Bucsek PhD ’18 was the lead author on the three papers.
DYLAN COUSINS DEFENDS THESIS ON ADVANCED THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES
Congratulations to Beam Team PhD candidate Dylan Cousins for successfully defending his thesis, “Advanced Thermoplastic Composites for Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing.”
NEXTGEN FELLOWSHIP IN MATERIALS INFORMATICS A SUCCESS
Materials informatics is the next frontier of materials science, taking computational and machine learning tools and applying them to characterizing and discovering materials.
