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Email: adam.powell@nist.gov |
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| Education | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
Cambridge, MA
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| Ph.D. in Materials Engineering |
1992-1997
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| Thesis title: Transport Phenomena in Electron Beam Melting and Evaporation. Advisors: Professors Julian Szekely, Professor Uday Pal. Research included pilot plant-scale experimentation at Sandia National Laboratories, writing a finite element solver for coupled fluid flow and heat transfer with melting front, applying the solver to the electron beam melting hearth, packaging the model for industrial application; applying the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method to vapor transport in electron beam evaporation. Minor in Japanese. GPA: 4.9/5.0. | |||
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
Cambridge, MA
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| S.B. in Materials Science and Engineering, S.B. in Economics |
1988-1992
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| Course work included: Materials Science core requirements and electives in metallurgy and polymers; Economics core requirements and electives in government regulation; computer programming in C, Scheme, Fortran and Postscript; mathematical analysis and topology; concentration in Political Science; three years of Japanese, including Technical Japanese for Materials Science and Related Engineering. GPA: 4.7/5.0. | |||
| MARIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE |
Kentfield, CA
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| Concurrent with High School |
1986-1988
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| Calculus, Differential Equations, and General Chemistry. GPA: 3.7/4.0. | |||
| TAMALPAIS HIGH SCHOOL |
Mill Valley, CA
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| GPA: 4.0/4.0. |
1985-1988
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| Experience | NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY | Gaithersburg, MD | |
| Metallurgist | August 1997-Present | ||
| Mathematical models of liquid free surface shape and solidification, with application to soldered fiber optic interconnect design, a new chip package in which underfill polymer is applied directly to the silicon wafer, and a device to test DNA solution for presence of multiple genes. Used Surface Evolver, PATRAN, PHYSICA, and authored new software for boundary element analysis. | |||
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
Cambridge, MA
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| Teaching Assistant |
Fall Term 1994
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| Transport Phenomena in Materials Engineering, taught by Professor Julian Szekely. Taught recitations, tutored students, wrote homework assignments, exams and lecture notes and typeset them in LATEX, graded all assignments, set up World-Wide-Web homepage and made all course materials available via the Web. | |||
| SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES |
Albuquerque, NM
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| OSSP Research Intern |
Summers 1992-1996
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| Experimental work in conjunction with MIT doctoral thesis. Conducted pilot plant-scale experimentation in Electron Beam Melting and Refining, focusing on characterizing evaporative losses of alloy components and measuring flow velocities. | |||
| NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION |
Kawasaki, Japan
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| Summer Research Intern |
June-September 1991
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| Characterization of aluminum oxide thin films deposited by radio frequency planar magnetron sputtering, and modeling of interfacial delamination. | |||
| TDK Corporation |
Ichikawa, Japan
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| Summer Research Intern |
June-September 1990
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| Preparation and analysis of iron-chromium multi-layered thin films with giant magnetoresistance (GMR) properties. Samples were prepared by molecular beam epitaxy, and magnetic hysteresis and giant magnetoresistance properties were measured and modeled. | |||
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
Cambridge, MA
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| Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program |
November 1989-January 1991
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| A research project on molecular dynamics simulation of quartz degradation in electron radiation, involving writing and editing fortran programs. | |||
| THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY |
Midland, MI
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| Summer Research Intern |
June-September 1989
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| Analysis of properties and processing of coextruded multi-layer polymer composites. Duties included materials testing, data analysis, microscopy and analysis of processing methods. | |||
| Skills | Programming in C/C++, FORTRAN, Scheme, Java; UNIX (Linux, Solaris, ULTRIX) and Windows NT system administration; Japanese language (nearly fluent, read well, write passably). | ||
| Awards | 1995 Wulff Award for Teaching Assistantship in Materials Science. | ||
| CRFP Graduate Fellowship from AT&T. | |||