We're proud of student Saqib Shahzad! He has received the Elvira and Marshall Cohn Scholarship, which is given to UCF students enrolled in a materials science and engineering program who are interested in pursuing a career in space. tinyurl.com/2s462bjv
Materials science and engineering students and faculty attended the Biomedical Engineering Society meeting this past week in Orlando. Some even presented their groundbreaking research. Thank you to all who participated!
Congratulations to Pritha Sarkar on receiving the Postdoctoral Innovational Fellow Award! Through this UCF program, Sarkar will learn about the commercialization process. She is one of three UCF students to be selected for this honor. tinyurl.com/6449fxtd
ALT Pritha Sarkar and Kausik Mukhopadhyay
We're proud to share that Sudipta Seal has been honored by the Polish Academy of Sciences as a Foreign Member! ✨️
Learn more about Seal's research collaborations with the academy: bit.ly/4e8od2V
ALT Sudipta Seal
Department Chair Sudipta Seal and Associate Professor Mohi Quadir recently traveled to India for the 2026 TransMatter Conference. They attended as distinguished speakers and had a wonderful time. Thanks to the Indian Institute of Technology for hosting them!
Congratulations to Professor Yang Yang! He was recently named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. ✨
Learn more about his work: bit.ly/4hjfzjd
ALT Yang Yang
Chair Sudipta Seal recently attended the NIH COBRE meeting on pancreatic research and had a wonderful time networking with academics and professionals alike! He is also an active member of the NIH Center Advisory Board.
ALT group of attendees at the NIH COBRE meeting
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kausik Mukhopadhyay and his students! Their recent journal article was featured in Ceramic Tech Today. The paper will also be published in the December issue of ACeRS Bulletin. That's what we call impactful research! tinyurl.com/d434uybr
ALT Kausik Mukhopadhyay and Pritha Sarker
As we begin the fall semester, we heartily welcome Assistant Professor Xin Chen to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering! Chen is the co-founder of Equatic and his research focus is electrochemical materials. bit.ly/4zAV8Xc
Congratulations to doctoral student Md Roxy Islam! His work, “Flexible, Biocompatible Supercapacitors Weaved from Layered Phyllosilicates and Zwitterions via Ionicity,” was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
Learn more about his work: bit.ly/4zkFu28
ALT Kausik Mukhopadhyay and Md Roxy Islam in the lab
As we head toward the new academic year, we want to send a hearty congratulations to our recent MSE graduates, David Jensen and Kevin Roughgarden! We look forward to seeing what you accomplish next!
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Who knew snail slime could have so many potential uses? 🐌
Assistant Professor Kausik Mukhopadhyay talks about the properties of snail slime and its use as a material in this article from @NPR : tinyurl.com/3f7wdu7a
We had a great time at GLAMPing Camp, a weeklong leading and making event presented by UCF STEM. Assistant Professor Paria Gharavi shared her work on materials characterizations using electron microscopy and met some very bright future researchers!
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ALT Paria Gharavi leading a class
ALT Paria Gharavi leading a class
Congratulations to Associate Professor Mohiuddin Quadir! He has received an NSF CAREER award, one of the top honors for early-career faculty, for his work on designing intelligent nanomaterials.
Learn more about his work: bit.ly/4wjtThJ
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We're so proud! 🎉
Materials science student Maahir Rahi was selected to conduct research at Stony Brook University for the DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Learn more about his work: bit.ly/4yi9JG7
Congratulations to Chair Sudipta Seal, alumnus Craig Neal and their co-authors for making it to the cover of the most recent issue of Nanoscale! Check out the full article on their research: tinyurl.com/2mz8m2z3
Our students and faculty had the opportunity to participate in Camp Connect this week. We met a number of talented students and were happy to share fundamentals and principles of materials science!
#MaterialsScience #MaterialsEngineering #STEM
ALT MSE student leads lesson at Camp Connect
ALT MSE faculty shares presentation
ALT MSE faculty leads presentation
ALT MSE leads demonstration
UCF highlighted its impact in micro-electro-mechanical systems at the Solid State Sensors, Activators and Microsystems Workshop in Hilton Head, SC. The event was chaired by Associate Professor Swaminathan Rajarman: bit.ly/4xrUv0S
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ALT doctoral student Diana Rodriguez DeFranciso on stage with outstanding paper award with Rajaraman and conference attendees
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ALT conference attendees
We're so proud! Cacie McDornan '20, a project manager at Alleima Advanced Materials, won the 2026 Innovation Prize for advancing wires in critical medical devices like glucose monitors and pacemakers. Learn more about her work: bit.ly/43qLbfS
ALT Alleima project manager Katina Witten and global project manager for wire technology Cacie McDorman
UCF's Associate Professor Yang Yang and his team created a new carbon-based material that produces hydrogen peroxide, promising cleaner, affordable, and sustainable production. Their findings were published in Nature Communications. Learn more: bit.ly/4dmtVhT
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