Professor Judith Todd, ex-Cambridge, now Head, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University.
Professor Paul Howell, ex-Cambridge, now an incredibly devoted teacher in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. In one of his courses, 350 Penn State students are introduced to Materials using internet technologies.
This is the major textbook that Paul has published, to be in its 2nd edition within one year of publication.
Party at Professor Tarashankar DebRoy's house, State College, Pennsylvania.
Party at Professor Tarashankar DebRoy's house, State College, Pennsylvania. These are the weld modellers in DebRoy's group. From the left, Amit, Xu Lin, Mrs. Zhang and Wei Zhang.
Party at Professor Tarashankar DebRoy's house, State College, Pennsylvania. On the right is Saurabh.
Party at Professor Tarashankar DebRoy's house, State College, Pennsylvania. Paul Howell, Judith Todd and Wendy Howell.
Party at Professor Tarashankar DebRoy's house, State College, Pennsylvania. I stayed there for two nights, exploiting the wireless internet and having wonderful discussions about IT managment, neural networks, smart models, good food ....
The stars! Xu Lin; Papia and Chobi DebRoy.
Paul and Wendy's mineral collections. Spherulites of cristobalite crystallising from glassy rock. The mineral is called Obsidian - rapidly solidified magma containing about 70% silica, crystallising to cristobalite, Notice Avrami type impingement between the spherulites.
2-surface photograph showing the three-dimensional form of the sphreulites. (Paul and Wendy Howell's mineral collection at their home.)
Fossilised wood of a peanut tree. (Paul and Wendy Howell's mineral collection at their home.)
Amethyst (Paul and Wendy Howell's mineral collection at their home.)
Amethyst (Paul and Wendy Howell's mineral collection at their home.)
Dendrites of zinc (Paul and Wendy Howell's mineral collection at their home.)
Dendrites of zinc (Paul and Wendy Howell's mineral collection at their home.)
A solidified splat of aluminium (Paul and Wendy Howell's mineral collection at their home.)
Meteorite showing a Widmanstätten pattern (Paul and Wendy Howell's mineral collection at their home.)
Calcite containing iron ore, (Paul and Wendy Howell's mineral collection at their home.)
Deformed cristobalite spherules.
Saurabh and Wei Zhang, now in Chicago at the American Welding Society meeting. We drove together, in a team of five, over 550 mile from State College to Chicago.
The gang, in Chicago at the American Welding Society meeting.
The gang, in Chicago at the American Welding Society meeting.
The gang, in Chicago at the American Welding Society meeting.
Shaun and Suresh Babu (ex-Cambridge) from Oak Ridge National Labs, at the AWS meeting. Shaun presented his work on rapid prototying of Ti alloys, and Suresh gave five exciting talks.
At a reception.
At a reception.
Chicago at night.
Wei Zhang in action.
The exhibitions at the AWS meeting.
The exhibitions at the AWS meeting.
The exhibitions at the AWS meeting.
The exhibitions at the AWS meeting.
The exhibitions at the AWS meeting. Art?
The exhibitions at the AWS meeting. Aluminium motor cycle frame. Does not look very exciting!
Amitava De (ex-Cambridge), at the meeting for four days, from the IIT Mumbai.
Amit.
Saurabh
John Vitek, Oak Ridge National Labs.
Ed Metzbower (US Naval Research Labs, Washington, ex-Cambridge) and Stan David (Oak Ridge National Labs).
Stephen Liu (Colorado School of Mines) and Suresh Babu.
Passing time at the airport.
Passing time at the airport.
Passing time at the airport.
Passing time at the airport.
Passing time at the airport.
Passing time at the airport.
Passing time at the airport.