Student Highlights

Competitions, Tours and Field Trips

ASM/TMS Student Paper Competition, UI vs WSU

Students from the Materials Science and Engineering Dept. proudly display the 2005 Annual trophy which was awarded to the UI's MSE Department at the ASM/TMS Student Paper Competition on Thursday, April 14.

Lewiston High School science students visited our Magnetic and Electronic Materials Laboratory on April 13, 2004.  They were introduced to the various types of programs and research areas offered in our department. Each student received a hands on experience with the scanning electron microscope, sputter deposition, nano-particles decanting and centrifuge, under the supervision Professor Yang Ki Hong, graduate student S. H. Gee,  and undergraduates, Kelsey Miller and William Stuck. 

         Additional photos can be viewed HERE

Dr. Yang Ki Hong (left) guides a group of students from Lena Whitmore Elementary through our state of the art laboratories explaining to them the importance in Material Science and Engineering.

FIELD TRIP TO NORTHERN OREGON

(Nov. 3-4, 2003)

Students from Dr. Froes' Materials Fabrication class visit Wah Chang in Albany, Oregon. Wah Chang is one of the largest producers of specialty metals and chemicals in the world. Can you pick out the former U of I MSE students? 

(Dan Darlington, Dave Goin, Matt Lee, Will Haskins and Steven Adams). 

A visit to the Department of Energy was a great experience.  Steve Getterman explains the powder metallurgy program at ALRC (Albany Research Center). 

Students listen intently as the processing laboratory at ALRC is described to them.

ALRC Director, Dr. George Dooley gives the students a brief history and current capabilities of the facility.

Bill Riley, our enthusiastic host during our visit to ARLC, describes a poster containing many of the historical developments achieved at the Center to an attentive Nichole Moore

FIELD TRIP TO LA ALUMINUM
November 2002 - Dr. Froes' Material Fabrication Class

  University of Idaho student watches foundry worker, 
  Donnie pull a casting from the hot permanent mold.

L A  Aluminum Plant Manager, Chris Nicol demonstrates the various castings the foundry  manufactures for customers nationwide.

University of Idaho Metallurgy students examines a permanent mold aluminum casting.

Chris Nicol explains the permanent mold aluminum casting process to University of Idaho students.