News Archive

2018

• Dec 10, 2018: Matt Calvin, Weston Craig, Ben Hill, and Fiona Van Leeuwen are all accepted for the Engineering Undergraduate Research Program. Congratulations!
  

• Dec 6, 2018: Chris Stolinski defends his MS thesis on "Inter-laminar Dynamic Fracture of 3D-Printed Plastics."  Congratulations Chris!
  

• Nov 14, 2018: Dr. Berke and Dr. Galliher were interviewed on NPR about our recent NSF grant!
  

• Nov 13, 2018: Prof. Berke is elected Chair of ASME's committee on Experimental Mechanics.
  

• Aug 29, 2018: Dr. Berke is awarded $19,845 from the Air Force Research Lab to study Damage Accumulation in a Novel High-Throughput Method to Measure High Cycle Fatigue.
  

• Aug 28, 2018: Dr. Berke is awarded $336,343 from the National Science Foundation to Investigate the Career Development and Professional Trajectories of Disadvantaged Students in Engineering.
  

• June 18, 2018: Dr. Owen Kingstedt at the University of Utah is awarded $776,669 from the US Department of Energy, with Dr. Berke as a Co-PI.
  

• June 5, 2018: Dr. Berke is elected Secretary of the Fracture and Fatigue Technical Division at the Society for Experimental Mechanics.
  

• April 30, 2018: Katherine Burn and Samantha Burton are selected for the 2018-19 Engineering Undergraduate Research Program. Congratulations Katie and Sam!
  

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• April 27, 2018: Ethan Nickerson defends his MS thesis, "Ultraviolet Difraction-Assisted Image Correlation (UV-DAIC) for Single-Camera 3D Strain Measurement at Extreme Temperatures." Congratulations Ethan!

• April 27, 2018: Robert Hansen defends his MS thesis, "A High Magnification UV Lens for High Temperature Optical Strain Measurements." Congratulations Robert!
  

• April 26, 2018: Thinh Thai defends his MS thesis, "Importance of Exposure Time on DIC at Extreme Temperatures." Congratulations Thinh!
  

• April 12, 2018: Ethan's paper, "Ultraviolet Diffraction-Assisted Image Correlation (UV-DAIC) for Single-Camera 3D Strain Measurement at Extreme Temperatures" is available from Experimental Mechanics.
  

• April 3, 2018: Recent alumnus Trevor Bird is awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship for his PhD studies at Purdue University. Congratulations Trevor!
  

• Mar 2, 2017: Prof. Berke is awarded an AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship for Summer 2018.
  

• Feb 23, 2018: Ethan Nickerson is recognized as the MAE Outstanding MS Student Researcher of the Year. Congratulations Ethan!
  

• Feb 23, 2018: Prof. Berke is recognized as the MAE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year for the third consecutive year.
  

2017

• Dec 19, 2017: Dr. Berke gives a keynote talk at the 2nd International Symposium on Image-based Metrology (ISIMet).
  

• Dec 11, 2017: Emma German and Daniel Waldram are selected for the 2018-19 Engineering Undergraduate Research Program. Congratulations Emma and Daniel!
  

• Nov 20, 2017: Prof. Berke is awarded $123,734 from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to study fracture of C/C rocket nozzles during hot-fire testing.
  

• Nov 10, 2017: Dr. Berke gives a seminar at Lehigh University.

• May 18, 2017: Robert Hansen is awarded a fellowship from the NEUP Integrated University Program. Congratulations Robert!
  

• Apr 24, 2017: Trevor Bird wins First Place in the Undergraduate Engineering category for his presentation at USU's annual Student Research Symposium. Congratulations Trevor!
  

• Mar 11, 2017: Prof. Berke is awarded an AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship for Summer 2017.
  

• Feb 24, 2017: Trevor Bird is recognized as the MAE Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher of the Year. Congratulations Trevor!
  

• Feb 24, 2017: Prof. Berke is recognized as the MAE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year for the second consecutive year.
  

• Jan 9, 2017: Experimental Solid Mechanics is now permanently listed as MAE 5040 and will be offered every Fall.
  

2016

• Dec 7, 2016: Jackson Matsen and Robert Rowley are selected for the 2017-2018 Engineering Undergraduate Research Program. Congratulations Jackson and Bobby!
  

• Nov 15, 2016: Prof. Berke is elected Vice Chair of ASME's committee on Experimental Mechanics.
  

• Nov 13, 2016: Trevor presents his poster at the ASME-IMECE Undergraduate Research and Design Expo.
  

• Aug 12, 2016: Ethan wins 2nd place in the World's Nuclear Energy Future poster competition at INL's 2016 Intern Expo. Congratulations Ethan!
  

• June 14, 2016: Prof. Heng Ban is awarded a $5 Million grant from USDOE, with Profs. Berke and Liu as co-PI's. Congratulations Heng!
  

• Feb 19, 2016: Prof. Berke is recognized as the MAE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year.
  

• Feb 19, 2016: Prof. Berke gives a seminar at Oak Ridge National Lab at Oak Ridge, TN.
  

2015

• Dec 2, 2015: Trevor Bird and Vox Voie are selected for the 2016-2017 Engineering Undergraduate Research Program.  Congratulations Vox and Trevor!
  

• Nov 12, 2015: Prof. Berke gives a seminar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD.
• Nov 5, 2015: Prof. Berke gives a seminar at the Army Research Lab in Aberdeen, MD.
  

• Sept 22, 2015: Profs. Ryan Berke and Nick Roberts are awarded a $329,779 Faculty Development Grant from the USNRC under the supervision of Prof. Heng Ban.
  

• Aug 26, 2015: Prof. Berke is awarded a $226,824 Infrastructure Grant from the USDOE Nuclear Energy University Program.
  

• August 2015: Prof. Berke gives two seminars at Idaho National Lab
• Apr 1, 2015: Prof. Berke gives a seminar at the University of Utah
  
• Feb 9, 2015: Prof. Berke awarded RGS PhD Assistantship for Fall 2015
• Jan 1, 2015: Prof. Ryan Berke joins MAE faculty at USU