Emily Anne Vargas Wins 1st place for her technical poster at National Space & Missile Materials SymposiumMaterials Science Ph.D. student Emily Anne Vargas was awarded 1st Place for her Technical Poster titled “Preform Processing of Oxide-Oxide Ceramic Matrix Composites (Ox-Ox CMCs)” at the National Space & Missile Materials Symposium + Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange (NSMMS + CRASTE) Joint Symposia in Madison, WI June 24-27th, 2024. Emily Anne represented the University of…
Recycling Composites to Sustain Wind EnergyProfessors Steve Nutt (Materials Science) and Travis Williams (Chemistry) will undertake a collaborative project to develop a recycling solution for composites in wind blades. The PI’s will develop a chemical solvolysis method to separate fibers and matrix, then return both components to service for multiple life cycles. The project, entitled “Recycling Composites to Sustain Wind…
USC M.C. Gill Composites Center participate in UCLA TBP Research ExpoOn June 2nd, 2023, the Tau Beta Pi Research Center Expo was held at UCLA to bring together professional and aspiring researchers from various disciplines. Among them were three graduate students from the USC M.C. Gill Composites Center: Alison Kennedy, Carineh Ghafafian, and Patricio Martinez. These students were the only representatives from USC and talked…
Alison Kennedy wins awards at ASM student nightAlison Kennedy, a 2nd-year graduate student advised by Prof. Steve Nutt at USC's M.C. Gill Composites Center, won the 1st Place and People's Choice awards in the graduate division at the annual Student Night of the Los Angeles Chapter of ASM International, hosted in Marina Del Rey on May 23rd, 2023. Alison's presentation highlighted the potential…
SAMPE Open House 2023The M.C. Gill Composites Center hosted the sixth annual SAMPE-LA USC Chapter Open House on Tuesday, April 25th. The event held 23 attendees, including local industry professionals and both graduate and undergraduate students. Visitors were shown presentations highlighting some of the current research in the composites center, followed by a lab tour and poster session,…
Prof. Bo Jin received the 2022 ASC/DEStech Young Composites Research AwardProf. Bo Jin has received the 2022 ASC/DEStech Young Composites Researcher Award (age 35 or younger) from the American Society for Composites (ASC). The award was presented at the 2022 ASC Technical Conference Awards Banquet held at the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) on September 20th, 2022. “The Young Composites Researcher Award winner is a…