[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"5590","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"480","style":"width: 167px; height: 250px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"321"}}]]Dr. Nolan Hertel, Professor of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering in the George W.

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Calling all alumni... Are you interested in brushing up on your Statics skills? Would you like to know what’s going on in the Woodruff School lately? Want to be among the first to participate in an ME free massive open online course (MOOC)? You can get all this PLUS a commemorative ME125 gift if you register to take “Applications in Engineering Mechanics, taught by our very own Dr. Wayne Whiteman beginning November 4.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1091","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","style":"width: 200px; height: 251px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left;","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]Engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi has named ASME member Lt. Col. Donald W. Rhymer, MSME '99 and PhDME '05, as its eighth McDonald Mentor.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1079","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"361","style":"width: 250px; height: 188px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"480"}}]]Mihir Pathak (Ph.D. ME '13, MSME '10, BSME '08), has been selected as a Fellow for the extremely competitive and prestigious Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF).

Ten university projects, including one from the Georgia Institute of Technology, to conduct advanced turbine technology research under the Office of Fossil Energy’s University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for additional development.

For the fourth consecutive year, funding provided through Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) by the NNSA Next Generation Safeguards Initiative has allowed Georgia Tech students enrolled in the Nuclear Safeguards class to spend a week (over Spring Break) at ORNL taking the Nondestructive Assay (NDA) Applications for International Safeguards laboratory course. The students cover a variety of applications from uranium enrichment measurements to radioactive material holdup measurements.

Defects such as cracks in a material can be responsible for the failure of structures as big as the nuclear reactors to the smart phones in our pockets. Now researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburg, Sandia National Laboratories and Zhejiang University (China) have discovered a new type of atomic-scale defect, called stacking fault tetrahedron, that can critically affect the deformation and fracture of pressure vessels in nuclear reactors and interconnects in smart phones.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1035","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","style":"width: 120px; height: 150px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left;","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]Joseph L. Smith, Jr. (BME '52 and MSME '53) passed away peacefully on May 7, 2013 in Wayland. Joe went on to earn his doctorate degree from MIT in 1959 and became a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT until his retirement in 2008.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1033","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","style":"width: 235px; height: 250px; float: right;","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]The IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (IEEE-UFFC) announced Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb as the winner of the 2013 IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award.