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Rensselaer in Brief
AIAA fellows named
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauts named Martin Glicksman and Zvi Rusak as fellows. Glicksman, who is the John Tod Horton Professor of Materials Engineering, and Rusak, who is a professor of mechanical, aerospace and nuclear engineering, were recognized for the outstanding work in their fields. Glicksman was noted for his experiments on crystal growth in space. Rusak, on the other hand, was noted for his research in vortex flows and transonic aerodynamics.
NSF Career Award
Pawel Keblinski, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. This prestigious award is given to distinguished faculty members at the beginning of their careers. The award will enable Keblinski to further his effort in simulating the effect of interfaces on mechanical properties of polycrystalline diamond.
The five-year, $300,000 grant will help Keblinski and his nanotechnology team understand and model the polycrystalline interfaces at the nanoscale level.
Bright ideas in LEDs
Researchers at the Lighting Research Center announced that they are in the process of developing LEDs and solid state lighting technologies that could replace today’s conventional bulbs. These lighting systems will be more energy efficient and have a longer lifetime.
Although LEDs are increasingly used in traffic signals, automotive lighting, and exit signs, they are not commonly used at homes and offices because they are not as bright as fluorescent and incandescent lights.
In collaboration with the University of California-Santa Barbara, the LRC received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop solid state lighting devices that are not only bright but also energy efficient, low cost, and have better longevity.
Since LEDs are made from semiconductors, researchers at UC-Santa Barbara will work on semi-conducting elements and researchers in the LRC will work on integrating them with optics and electronic controls and test them for different types of usage. |
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