Research Activities

Group members met with the following for establishing research collaborations and funding

David Hui, Director - National Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Composite Materials Research Laboratory, University of New Orleans
· Robert Y. Lochhead, Professor of Polymer Science, University of Southern Mississippi
· Ken P. Chong, Bruce Kramer, Peter Chang, and Priscilla P. Nelson, National Science Foundation
· H. S. Lew, Dat Duthinh, and Nicholas Carino, National Institute of Standerds and Technology
· T. Paul Teng, John M. Hooks, and Eric Munley, Federal Highway Administration; and David Reynaud, Civil Engineering Research Foundation
· Libby Berger, Thomas J. Dearlove , and Howard Cox, Material Processing Laboratory, Research and Development Center, General Motors Company
· Randy Battey, Mississippi Department of Transportation

Proposals submitted
· NUE: Experimental and Theoretical Nanomodules for Introductory Courses in Engineering Science - National Science Foundation ($99,838)
· Acquisition of Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer for Composites and Nano-Structured Materials Research and Education - National Science Foundation ($101,150).
· Homeland Security Center of Excellence for Composite Structures and Nanotechnology -Department of Homeland Security ($2 million)

Invited Speakers

The following speakers have visited or scheduled to visit:

· Ken P. Chong, Director, Mechanics and Materials, National Science Foundation
· Piyush Dutta, Program Director, US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
· Pedro Rodriguez, NASA, Huntsville, AL
· Al Bush, US Army - ERDC, Vicksburg, MS
· Cheung Poon, National Research Council, Canada
· Sanjay R. Mishra, Department of Physics, The University of Memphis
· David Hui, National Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Nano Composites, Univ of New Orleans
· Ben Wang, Advanced Center for Composite Technologies, Florida State University

MAESC 2004 Conference

A session on Nanotechnology was organized by one of our group members (Dr. Ajit Sadana) at the Memphis Area Engineering Sciences Conference - MAESC 2004, May 12, 2004 in Memphis, TN. Four CSNERG members presented nanotechnology related papers in this session.

Nanotechnology Workshops and Conferences

Two CSNERG members (Ahmed Al-Ostaz and Ajit Sadana) attended the Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education Workshop in Washington DC (September 2003), and two members (Alex Cheng and Raju Mantena) attended the National Nanotechnology Initiative Conference in Washington DC (April 2004), with financial support from the Office of Research and Dean of Engineering.

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© 2004 Composite Structures and Nano Engineering Research Group
The University of Mississippi, University, MS
Questions? Comments? Please contact Dr. Alexander Cheng or Dr. Raju Mantena.