Current Research Group

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Former Graduate Students

Paul Ohodnicki, Ph.D., 2008

Paul is currently an employee at PPG Industries in Pittsburgh, PA.

Jianguo Long, Ph.D., 2008

5863 Rue Ferrari
San Jose, CA 95138
jianguo.long@wdc.com
Jianguo is currently working for Western Digital in San Jose, CA.

F. Johnson, Ph.D., 2003

N.I.S.T.
Bldg 223, Room B148
Mailstop 8552
100 Bureau Drive
Gaithersburg, MD 20899

(301) 975-4936
frank.johnson@nist.gov

High-temperature and frequency-dependent properties and structural evolution of HITPERM, an FeCo-base nanocomposite soft ferromagnetic material.

Frank is currently working in the magnetic materials group at NIST where he is looking at nanocomposite magnets for magnetocaloric cooling applications. Frank received a NASA fellowship for his graduate studies.

S. – J. Son, Ph.D., 2003

237 Roberts Engineering Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Phone: (412) 268-4037
Fax: (412) 268-3113
sson+@andrew.cmu.edu

Thermal Plasma Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Ferrite Particles.

Sangki Jeong, Ph.D., 2002

Materials and Chemistry Program
Korean Institute of Science and Technology
Evaluation and Planning (Kistep)
Seoul, KOREA

Phone: 82.2.589.2249
Fax: 82.2.589.2260
sjeong@kistep.re.kr

Structure and Magnetic Properties of Polycrystalline FePt and CoPt Thin films for High Density Recording Media, Senior Researcher.

Chang-yong Um, M.S., 2002

142 Roberts Engineering Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Phone: (412) 268-3081
Fax: (412) 268-3113
cyum@andrew.cmu.edu

Chih-Ling (Fabian) Lee, Ph.D., 2002

Work Address:
525 Lee Rd.
Rochester, NY 14606
Phone:(585) 458 - 2550 ext. 3027

Home Address:
275 Elmwood Ter.
Rochester, NY 14620
(585) 244-5144
clee@veeco.com

A Study of the biasing of Spin Valve Read Heads for Magnetic Recording.

Raja Swaminathan, M.S., 2001

142 Roberts Engineering Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Phone: (412) 268-3081
Fax: (412) 268-3113
rs6@andrew.cmu.edu

Amy Hsiao, Ph.D., 2001

Mechanical Engineering
Union College
Schenectady, NY 12308
(518) 388-6266
hsiaoa@union.edu

The Crystallization Kinetics of Fe-Zr Based Amorphous and Nano-Crystalline Soft Magnetic Alloys.

Amy is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Union College and has continued summer research at Brookhaven National Laboratory with Laura Henderson Lewis.

Z. Turgut, Ph.D., 2000

UES Inc.
4401 Dayton-Xenia Rd.
Dayton, OH 45432

Phone: (937) 255-2914
Fax: (937) 904-7114
zturgut@ues.com

Thermal Plasma Synthesis of Coated FeCo-FeCoV Nanoparticles as Precursors for Compacted Nanocrystalline Bulk Magnets.

Zafer works with Rick Fingers, et al. at Wright Patterson.

M. Willard Ph.D., 2000

NRC Postdoctoral Associate
Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6340
4555 Overlook Ave., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20375-5343

Phone: (202) 767-4481
Fax: (202) 404-8933
willard@anvil.nrl.navy.mil

Structural and Magnetic Characterization of HITPERM Soft Magnetic Materials for High Temperature Applications.

Matt is working under George Spanos at the NRL and is active in the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials International Conference serving as publication editor.

Sirisha Kuchimanchi, M.S., 1999

9030 Markville Drive, Apt # 3013
Dallas, TX 75243

Phone: (214) 395-0883
sirisha_kuchimanchi@hotmail.com

Bala Ramalingam, Ph.D., 1998

Scientist, Electron Microscopy Group, DMRL
Kanchanbagh PO, Hyderabad 500058, INDIA

Office: 91-40-2458-6762
Home: 91-40-2434-2352
Fax: 2434-0683/2434-1439
bmk_pgh@yahoo.com

Studies of Bonding and Void Nucleation at Inclusion-Matrix Interfaces in Steel.
Advisor: Warren Garrison.

Candida Silva, Ph.D., 1997

19307 Golden Meadow Dr.
Germantown, MD 20876
CandidaCSilva@msn.com

Measurement and Interpretation of AC Susceptibility and Loss in High T_c Superconductors.

Akihiko Fukanaga, M.S., 1997

2-228-1322, Kosugicho, Nakahara-ku
Kawasaki-shi 211-0063, JAPAN
aki-fu@d3.dion.ne.jp

Mark Storch, M.S., 1997

mscc@andrew.cmu.edu

Roberta Sutton, Ph.D., 1996

Division of Materials
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072, Australia

Phone: +61-7-3346 9215
b.sutton@minmet.uq.edu.au

Irradiation Defects in Oxide Superconductors: Their Role in Flux Pinning.

Bobbie is doing a little research and a little tutoring. She will probably have a casual lecturing position in Fall 2004.

Yuichiro Nakamura, M.S., 1995

Engineer -- Nikko Materials Co., Ltd.
Innovative Materials Development Center
187-4 Usuba Hanakawa-cho
Kitaibaraki-shi Ibaraki

Phone: +81-293-43-5132
Fax: +81-293-43-5141
y.nakamu@ish.nikko-materials.co.jp

Ching -Hwa Weng, M.S., 1994

15FL # 22 Tung Shih St
Hsichih Chen
Taipei Shien
TAIWAN

Harold Lessure, Ph.D., 1994

Work Address:
Carnegie Mellon University
ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

(412) 268-7377
lessure@andrew.cmu.edu

Home Address:
1621 King James Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15237

Magnetic Study of Critical Current Density and Flux Pinning in Unirradiated and Neutron Oxide Superconductors.

Beth Baumert, Ph.D., 1994

Structural, Chemical, and Electronic Properties of Superconducting Thin Films and Junctions.

Miroslawa Lidia Bilaniuk, Ph.D., 1993

14 Northview Road
Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6A7

Crystallography, Bonding and Energy of DCH Crystalline Polymer/Nanocrystalline Metal Interfaces. Advisor: Jim Howe

Pang-Jen Kung, Ph.D., 1993

Current Address:
102 Bittercress Court
Apex, NC 27502

Home: (919) 363-2802
Office: (919) 434-5006
pjkung@optotrack.com

The Combined Roles of Anisotropy and Microstructural Inhomogeneity in Determining the Effective Pinning Energy in High-Temperature Superconductors

Partial List of Former Undergraduate Researchers

(If you know of someone who worked on an UG research project with the McHenry group whose information is incomplete we would appreciate hearing from you!)

Class of 2008

Rebecca Snyder
Courtney Ondeck
Blake Darby
Darin Clark
Christopher Manganello
Hilary McWilliams

Class of 2007

Matthew Jones
James Rogers
Keng Yong (Winston) Goh

Class of 2006

Matthew Simone

Class of 2005

Jessamine Winer

Class of 2004

Julia Hess

Class of 2003

Matt Lucas

Current Employer:
Caltech
Materials Science
First Year Graduate
(412) 401-4695

lucas@caltech.edu

Home Address:
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 138-78
Pasadena, CA 91126

Matt has joined the Caltech rugby club.  His brother will also be attending Caltech in Fall 2004 for a Ph.D. in Mechanical engineering. Matt will either be working on Mossbauer diffractometry or high pressure physics. 

Class of 2002

Colin Hinde

M.S. in Mathemeatics, UCLA, 2003

UCLA Department of Mathematics
10741 1/2 Westminster
Los Angeles, CA 90034

chinde@ucla.edu
Phone: (908) 399-3164

Colin earned his Masters in Mathematics in S03 from UCLA (unfortunately just a few months later and he would have gotten Schwartzenegger's signature instead of Davis' on the diploma!) and is continuing his pursuit of a PhD. He has passed his qualifying exams, and is working to extend his knowledge before beginning active research in complex algebraic geometry. He decided to have laser eye surgery (May 04) and describes the results as remarkable.

Josh McKinley

University of Michigan Graduate Student

Nuclear Engr & Rad Sci
2940 Cooley Building
2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104

naclguy@hotmail.com

Josh is pursuing a Ph.D at the University of Michigan.

Class of 2001

Colin A. Ashe

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 13-5034
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 258-5551

Current Home Address:
450 Memorial Dr.
Apt. E-111
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 225-9219

Colin and his wife, Heather, are expecting their first child in May 2004 and he just presented his thesis proposal (S04).

Rebecca Berngartt

Lincoln University
Farm Road 12, P.O. Box 22
Canterbury, New Zealand
(64) (03) 325-7212

Current Home Address:
6111 Ely Vista Dr.
Parma, OH 44129
Phone:(440)885-0130
rebeccam_b@hotmail.com

Rebecca is at the tail end of finishing her thesis for a master's degree at Lincoln University in Canterbury, New Zealand. The degree is called a Master's of Resource Studies, which is basically a degree that looks at incorporating theories of social sciences into natural resource managment. Her thesis focuses on the management of one of the game animal species in the mountains of the South Island. A significant change from her undergrad degree in engineering!

Saijit Daosukho

Current employer:
University of Florida
Chemical Engineering
Ph.D program

Current home address:
284 Corry Village #7
Gainesville, FL 32603
Phone: (352) 846-6009
saijit@ufl.edu

Saijit is doing well in Florida. She finished her master degree in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Florida in December 2003. She is pursuing a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering at University of Florida now.

Mitra Taheri

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
2317 Wean Hall
(412) 268-5635
mtaheri@andrew.cmu.edu

Mitra is a Doctoral Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at CMU working for Tony Rollett.

Class of 2000

Asumini Kasule

M.S. in Materials Stanford University, 2002

Current Home Address:
183 Hartford Road #B28
New Britain, CT 06053
(860) 224-2736
asumini.kasule@pw.utc.com

Current Employer:
Pratt and Whitney
400 Main Street
East Hartford, CT 06108
(860) 557-0446

Asumini is a Materials Engineer at Pratt working in the Advanced Coatings group in Research and development. She is responsible for the development and testing of thermal barrier coatings for P&W turbine hardware. She is working with the National Society of Black Engineers - Alumni Extension Chapter (SNEATP) in Hartford, CT. She is going into her second term as Pre-college initiative (PCI) chair for the chapter. She finds it rewarding to mentor and help students in high school who are considering science or engineering as a career option.

Elise J. Selinger

Current Employer:
Duracon Femoral Knee Cell
Stryker Orthopaedics
Phone: (201) 831-5834

Home Address:
140 Prospect Ave.
Apt. 11C
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Phone: 201-343-0884
elise.selinger@stryker.com

Elise no longer works in casting technology, she was transferred to a product cell to work on a new product introduction. She answers emails at 7:00 AM!

Class of 1999

Neil Donnelly

Mike Gingras

Currrent Employer:
Fab 24 Process Engineer
Intel Ireland Ltd.
Collinstown Industrial Park
Leixlip, Co Kildare, IRELAND

Desk Phone: +353-1-606-7921
Mobile Phone: +353-87-997-5366
michael.gingras@intel.com

Home Address:
109 Castledawson
Maynooth, Co Kildare, IRELAND

Mike ended up at Intel in Ireland, but is looking to move back to Boston (either for work or for school) after Dec. 04. He is looking for something in the MEMS field to apply his Intel experience, but also to get in on the ground floor of some new, interesting technology.

Carsen Kline

kline@ece.cmu.edu
Phone: (412)-268-7008

Works at CMU with Tim Fisher and Chris Bowman in the Nanofabrication facility.

Matthew J. Lee

mjlee25@hotmail.com

Class of 1998

Katie Gallagher

PhD in Physics, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dec. 2002

Current Employer:
Naval Research Laboratory
Code 6360
4555 Overlook Ave SW
Washington, DC 20375
(202) 767-4697

Current Home Address: 250 S. Whiting St.
Apt. 311
Alexandria, VA 22304
Home Phone: (703) 567-0733
Mobile: (571) 217-1792
gallagher@anvil.nrl.navy.mil

Katie is working on exchange spring magnets in collaboration with a chemist to deposit a soft coating on a hard particle. She spends the bulk of her time melt spinning ribbons in collaboration with a group in Georgia that is doing shock and explosive compaction to achieve 100% density and grain size reduction.

Dan Schmidt

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, May 2003

Current Employer:
BASF AG
ISIS-ULP (#524)
8, allée Gaspard Monge
F-67083 Strasbourg Cedex, France
++33 (0)3 90.24.51.78
dschmidt@isis.u-strasbg.fr

Current Home Address:
5, Rue du Fossé des Orphelins
67000 Strasbourg, France
++33 (0)3 88.24.52.64

“Permanent” address in the U.S., i.e. with his parents:
114 East Bolton Street
Savannah, GA 31401
(912)234-3298
dfs17@cornell.edu

Dan moved to France and is not married yet, though he has been in a committed relationship for the last three years with a French woman he met at Cornell. He is very happy with his position in Strasbourg, with BASF. It is BASF's attempt to try something really new and have a research lab in an academic institution - It is getting a lot of attention from industry as a high-risk, high-payoff experiment. Dan has developed the website for this venture (http://www-isis.u-strasbg.fr/BASF/). Dan's girlfriend is a materials scientist as well and is working on the mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses, as well as reinforcement of silica by SiC nanoparticles.

Alex Bircher (1998, Physics)

Fudan University
Shanghai, China
Home Phone: +86 215 507 74 93
Mobile Phone: +86 136 81 61 81 09
alex_l_bircher@yahoo.com

Alex has moved to China (Shanghai) as of September 2003. He began his stay by signing up for a semester of intensive Chinese courses at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Class of 1997

Raechelle Wong

Raechelle married Eric Kai-Yuen Cheng in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2002.

Class of 1996

Francis Johnson (see above)

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT, 1999
Ph.d in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, 2003

Roger Maddelana

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, 1997

Mark Storch (see above)

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, 1997

Class of 1995

Sean Derrington

META Group
208 Harbor Drive
P.O. Box 120061
Stamford, CT 06912

Sean is a research analyst with the META Group.

Michael Forman

maforman1@cs.com

Joe Killeen

Powder Core Process Engineering Supervisor
Magnetics, Inc
East Butler, PA
724-282-3014 ext 4124
jkilleen@spang.com

Home Address:
112 Tracy Lane
Butler, PA 16001
jrkilleen@earthlink.net

After 4 years in the Navy Joe came to Magnetics as the Engineering Supervisor in Strip Wound Products and Specialty Metals and the Quality Manager at Specialty Metals. He left in April 2003 to work as a Metallurgist and Magnetic Test Lab Manager for AK Steel and returned to Magnetics last March as the Process Engineering Supervisor in Powder Cores in their Butler manufacturing facility.

Scott Kirkpatrick

M.S. University of Nebraska in 1999

Current employer:
Rose-Hulman Inst of Technology
5500 Wabash Ave
Terre Haute, In 47803
(812) 877-8383
kirkpat2@rose-hulman.edu

Currently address:
2351 Brooklynn Dr.
Terre Haute, IN 47802
Home Phone: (812) 234-8026
Cell Phone: (412) 654-7329
kirkpatrick@earthlink.net

Since graduating, Scott has held jobs such as patent examiner, process and design engineer, visiting assistant professor and research associate. Scott currently is paid as a lab instructor part time, and part time Research Associate in the MEMS lab cleanroom. He does research with undergraduates. He has filed a business with Indiana, called K&D Design and Development Corp and is working with a couple of different research topics right now: SmCo- and carbon; shape memory alloy heat engines; igniters for missile batteries; MEMS optical delay lines and waveguides in printed circuit boards. Scott and Elaine have a son Ryan and another on the way due in September/end of August. The current name selection is Liam Jacob.

Paul Smith

M.S. Materials Science Cornell University

Current Employer:
Everyready Battery Corporation
401 Gage St.
Bennington, VT 05201
Business phone: (802) 442-1354

Current Home Address:
9 Eastview Drive
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: (802) 442-0340
pas130@lycos.com

Matt Willard (see above)

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, 1999
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, 2003

Class of 1994

Class of 1993

Matt Adler

2001 JD/MBA from University of Chicago
Current Employer:
Shearman & Sterling LLP
599 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022
(212)-848-5326
madler@shearman.com

Current Home Address:
105 E. 15th St. #74
New York, NY 10003
(917)-403-0089

Matt was one of the first MSE members of the CMU Buckyball project. Matt now does alumni interviews for prospective CMU students. One of the kids he interviewed had done some research into buckyballs!

Ruth Zolock

Captain in the U.S. Marine Corp

Class of 1992

Post-doctoral Associates Supervised: 

Hideyuki Okumura (2001-2003)

Associate Professor
Department of Socio-Environmental Energy Science
Kyoto University, Japan

Tel & Fax: 075-753-5476
Email: okumura@energy.kyoto-u.ac.jp

T. Ohkubo (2001)

Now working at NIMS (Japan).

Alex Landa (1999)

Alex is now working at LBNL.

Roberta Sutton (1996)

(see above)

Mei-qing Huang (1996-2001)

Mei-qing is working at WPAFB.

Shao-yan Chu (1995-2001)

Shaoyan is now working for Prof. Laughlin.