Recent News
  • October 2021: Congratulations to Angela Mudge for successfully completing her thesis! She is currently a Mechanical Engineer for the Secure Communications group at Cubic.



  • October 2021: Congratulations to Simone Stevers for successfully completing her thesis! He is currently an Instrumentation Engineer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.



  • August 2021: Congratulations to Kaitlin Kehl for publishing her research in the Journal of Materials Science with an Impact Factor of 4.22 (K. Kehl, K. Morsi, Reactive Processing of Nickel Alumnide-Carbon Nanotube Composites, Journal of Materials Science (in press, 2021). Kaitlin, a recent AMPL alumni, is currently a Process Sustaining Engineer II at Dexcom.



  • May 2021: Congratulations to Mohammed Shahidul Islam for successfully completing his thesis. Shahid is now working at Intel as a Process Engineer (Etch Mod & Int Yield).



  • May 2021: Congratulations to AMPL member, Cyrus Fitch, for his paper (C. Fitch, K. Morsi, Effect of Shortening Carbon Nanotubes on Carbon Nanotube Dispersion, Damage and Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotube-Metal Matrix Nanocomposites, Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis, 10, 167-173 (2021) ). Cyrus is an Engineering Manager at Kyocera.



  • March 2021: Congrats to recent AMPL alumni, Prathmesh Modi, Mehul Chauhan, and Vanessa Bundy for their publication in the ASME Journal of Materials Engineering and Technology (P. Modi, M. Chauhan, V Bundy, K. Morsi ‘Particle Size effects on the Electrically Activated Reaction Synthesis (EARS) of Ni-CNT/Al Hierarchical Composite Powders’ ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology 143(3):031005 (2021)). Mehul currently works at Applied Materials, Vanessa currently works at General Atomics, and Prathmesh currently works at ASML.


  • October 2020: Dr. Morsi delivers an invited talk at the American Manufacturing Strategies Virtual Summit under Future Technologies.



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