Kyle Overdeep gives a public presentation in the student seminar and successfully defends his thesis proposal.

Oct 15, 2014
2014

Four graduate students of the Weihs Group (Mike, Alex, Kyle O, Kyle S), one former postdoc (Karsten) and Prof. Weihs are presenting at the MRS Fall conference in December at Boston.

Sep 15, 2014
2014

Longyu Zhao’s paper “Permeability measurements and modeling of topology-optimized metallic 3D woven lattices” has been published in Acta Materialia. Congratulations!

Aug 15, 2014
2014

Michael Grapes’s paper “Combining nanocalorimetry and dynamic transmission electron microscopy for in situ characterization of materials processes under rapid heating and cooling” has been published in Review of Scientific Instruments. Congratulations!

Aug 4, 2014
2014

New member to the Weihs Group! Kyle Overdeep’s daughter Emmie Overdeep came to the world on June. 18th and joined the Weihs Group instantly. Welcome and congratulations to Kyle and Beth!

Jun 28, 2014
2014

Two undergraduate students (Angela and Evan) and three high school students (Dylan, Jordan, and Atman) join the Weihs Group to conduct research for the summer. Welcome!

Jun 19, 2014
2014

Michael Grapes, Alex Kinsey, and Kyle Slusarski present in the poster session in the 2014 Gordon Research Conferences Energetic Materials Session. Alumni Dr. Greg Fritz is also invited to give presentation: “Effects of Power Density and Energy Density on Ignition of Reactive Multilayers”.

Jun 15, 2014
2014

The departmental soccer team MS Eagles, with three Weihs Group members (Mike, Kyle, and Longyu) involved, earned the second place of the 2014 Spring JHU Intramural Soccer CoEd B League. Congratulations!

May 15, 2014
2014

Two senior undergraduate students in the Weihs Group, Jasper Lin and Paul Masih Das, will be graduating at the end of this semester. Jasper will pursue his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford and Paul will pursue his PhD’s degree in Physics at UPenn. Congratulations to both of them and we wish you all the best in graduate school!

May 4, 2014
2014

Prof. Weihs gives the Exhibition Keynote Lecture at the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF) in San Diego, California.

Apr 15, 2014
2014

Michael Grapes wins the MRS Silver Graduate Student Award at 2014 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. Congratulations!

Apr 2, 2014
2014

Weihs lab gets a new high speed camera from NAC Image Technology, which can take videos up to 370,000 FPS.

Mar 29, 2014
2014

Michael Grapes’s abstract, “In situ nanocalorimetry with time-resolved electron microscopy for the study of rapid phase transformations”, gets selected as finalist for MRS graduate student awards, and he will present this talk at 2014 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. Congratulations!

Mar 26, 2014
2014

Longyu Zhao’s abstract, “Measuring Permeability and Heat Transfer in 3D Metallic Weaves and Comparing with Simulations based on X-ray Tomographic Imaging”, gets accepted as a poster in the 2nd International Congress on 3D Materials Science in Annecy, France.

Mar 18, 2014
2014

Weihs lab gets a new Perkin Elmer DSC 8000 to replace the old Perkin Elmer DSC Pyris-1.

Mar 15, 2014
2014

The DoE and U.S. Army project “Brazing Dissimilar Metals with Novel Composite Foils” successfully holds kick off meeting, at which Alex Kinsey and Kyle Slusarski give their presentations.

Mar 11, 2014
2014

Michael Grapes gets broadcasted by CBS Baltimore for “The Big Dig Out”, check it out: Link (Starts at 00:26).

Feb 25, 2014
2014

Thomas Voisin from Laboratory of Material Elaboration and Structural Studies in France presents a seminar, Development of titanium aluminides by Spark Plasma Sintering: to a low cost near-net shape blade with enhanced properties, on 2/24/14 at 2:00pm in Maryland Hall 103.

Feb 15, 2014
2014

Michael Grapes gives a public presentation in the student seminar and successfully defends his thesis proposal.

Feb 2, 2014
2014

The Weihs Group celebrates the retirement of Mike Franckowiak, who has been a senior instrument designer in the machine shop for 30 years! Thanks Mike for helping generations of students in the Weihs Group.

Dec 15, 2013
2013