We are excited to announce that Roger Tipton has been awarded a Prestigious Cade Museum Prize. To establish creativity and innovation in entrepreneurs and inventors the Cade Museum Foundation was founded in 2004 by Dr. Robert James Cade a physician at the University of South Florida.
Next week I will be in Atlanta for CAMX, the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo, taking place September 21 to 24. I am looking forward to it for two reasons. First, our team is presenting work on biocomposites. The Performance Materials Laboratory has been developing sustainable biocomposites, and CAMX is the right room to share…
We would like to congratulate the team of Roger Tipton, John Bentley, Eduardo Rojas, Tom Weller, and Venkat Bhethanabotla on their new patent, Digital Fabrication of a Small Diameter Polymer Optical Waveguide that was issued by the US Patent Office on December 1, 2020. Patent number 10,852,479 B1 is a big achievement for the team…
This summer, the Performance Materials Laboratory (PML) had the pleasure of hosting Derek Heidenfelder as a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) student. Derek spent the summer running density functional theory (DFT) calculations on advanced semiconductor materials for energy applications, using the UNC Charlotte supercomputer to carry out his simulations. Computational materials research requires a different … Read more
The University of South Florida Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering has announced its annual department awards and Roger Tipton has been awarded the Outstanding Journal Publication Award for “Laser Enhanced Direct Print Additive Manufacturing of Embedded Circular Cross-Section Optical Fiber Interconnects for Board Level Computing Devices” that was published in the Additive Manufacturing Journal…
Dr. Eduardo Rojas is a collaborator with the Performance Materials Lab and has been a good friend for years. He has just been awarded the Great Minds in Stem Educator of the Year! We would like to congratulate Dr. Rojas for the well deserved award. Dr. Rojas is the director of the Wireless Devices and…