Materials Science and Engineering

Blessing Masanga, a first-year Case Western Reserve University computer science student, was honored with a second-place poster competition award at the 2026 Midwest Climate Collaborative Summit. The award recognizes her poster presentation titled “Departmental footprint: Redefining sustainability…

In March, the Pittsburgh section of the American Ceramic Society awarded the J. Earl Frazier Memorial Scholarship to Jacob Akana, a second-year student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, in recognition of his research. This scholarship is…

Rishabh Kundu, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Material Science and Engineering, has been honored with a research award in the Application of Machine Learning and Modeling category at the Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio (PINO) 2026 conference. The award, sponsored by…

Rishabh Kundu, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been appointed a Sustainability Champion by the Office of Energy & Sustainability at Case Western Reserve University. The recognition, awarded through a nomination-based process, honors…

This January, over 20 visitors from several Department of Energy - National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE-NNSA) labs (Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia) and production facilities (KCNSC and Y12), and from the AWE in the UK visited Case Western Reserve for the seventh Bi-Annual Winter Meeting…

Rishabh Kundu—a ThinkEnergy and Swanger Fellow and second-year PhD student at Case School of Engineering’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering—was awarded the D.T. Rankin Award by the Energy Materials and Systems Division (EMSD) of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). This award…

Ryan Eaton, a fourth-year materials science and engineering student at Case Western Reserve University, was recently named the recipient of the 2025 Lewis C. Hoffman Scholarship award, which recognizes an outstanding third or fourth-year student who demonstrates excellence in academics, leadership…

The Center for Materials Data Science for Reliability and Degradation (MDS-Rely), which Case Western Reserve University and the University of Pittsburgh co-founded in 2021 with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), has added a third research site. Adding Carnegie Mellon…

Congratulations to Associate Professor Laura Bruckman who has been appointed to the Climo Professorship for the Case School of Engineering. The Climo Professorship was established in 2004 by the university's board of trustees.

Sylvie Crowell, a master's student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was selected as one of the two 2024 Henry DeWitt Smith Scholars by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). She was recognized at TMS 2024 - the 153rd Annual Meeting…