DSSL paper becomes a featured article in JIMSS

DSSL paper titled “Piezoelectret Foam-Based Vibration Energy Harvesting” has been selected as a featured article in the “Editor’s Choice – SMASIS 2014” of the Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures.

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Dr. Anton gives invited lecture at LADSS

Dr. Anton presented an invited lecture titled “Smart Materials: An Enabling Technology for Cyber Physical Systems” to the Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School (LADSS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.

Dr. Anton volunteers at FIRST Lego League Championship

Anton_FLLDr. Anton volunteered as a referee at the 2013 FIRST Lego League East Tennessee Championship event held at Tennessee Tech.  FIRST Lego League is an exciting STEM robotics program for small teams of students ages 9 to 16.  Teams build unique robots using LEGO MINDSTORMS technology to solve a set of missions in the Robot Game.  The 2013 Challenge was called Nature’s Fury.  There were about 40 teams from all over Tennessee in attendance.  Click for more information on FIRST!

DSSL welcomes Chase Ray

Chase RayDSSL welcomes one of our first MS students, Chase Ray.  Chase graduated from Tennessee Tech with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in December, 2012.  Welcome Chase!