M.Eng. students present research to Intel, Boeing, others

After conducting research with corporations and Ivy League laboratories, 13 materials science and engineering M.Eng. students presented their work on May 18 to a panel of expert judges from Intel, Boeing, Indium, and other top engineering companies.

The students were competing for the Boeing MSE M.Eng. Project Award, but more importantly, the presentations were the culmination of an academic year spent honing their problem-solving skills and developing as professionals.

Projects included metal alloy development for Xallent, LLC, thermal analysis for low-temperature solder-mixed assembly for Universal Instruments Corporation, and research for offshore hydrogen production for the Symbiotic Engineering and Analysis Lab at Cornell. A full list of projects can be found on the MSE website.

“It was truly a privilege to sit and listen to my students’ final project presentations. They have all worked so hard, and overcome many challenges, to complete amazing technical projects,” said Alex Deyhim, associate director of the M.Eng. program. “These students will go on to become the technical leaders of tomorrow in major corporations around the world.”

The winners of the Boeing MSE M.Eng. Project Award are:

First Place Winner:
Project Title: Development of Fluorine-Based Etching Process for Amorphous Silicon in Metasurface Optical Sensors
Company/Faculty Name: AMS OSRAM
Student Name: Yibei Li
Award: $750

Second Place Winner:
Project Title: FAPBI3 Quantum Dot Solar Cells with a Self-Assembling Monolayer Hole Transport Layer
Company/Faculty Name: Dr. Qiuming Yu
Student Name: Henry Harwood
Award: $500

Third Place Winner:
Project Title: Hemp Fiber Characterization & Testing for Hemp Fiber Reinforced Composites
Company/Faculty Name: Professor Lawrence B. Smart
Student Name: Melisa Kreismanis
Award: $250

Deyhim thanked the staff at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility and the Cornell Center for Materials Research for supporting the students, and thanked the esteemed panel of judges: Dan Newman, Boeing Corporation; Mike Boldt, Moog Inc.; Hongwen Zhang, Indium Corporation of America; Sarah Wozny, Intel Corporation; Mark W. Smithers; Boston Engineering Corporation; Roland Lynch, Capsulated Systems Inc.; Jim Wilcox, Universal Instruments Corporation; Gary Navrotski, Advanced Photon Source; and Karl Smolenski, Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics.