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2009-2010 Dowd--ICES Fellows Announced

Article Posted On 8/19/2009

ICES is pleased to announce the 2009-2010 Dowd-ICES Fellowship recipients: Jueun Lee from Mechanical Engineering, Jacob Melby from Materials Science and Engineering, Scott Peterson from Engineering and Public Policy, and Chris Highly from Biomedical Engineering. This fall, both the new fellows and the outgoing 2008-2009 fellows will present their research projects to the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) community and to Philip and Marsha Dowd at the Dowd Fellowship Symposium this fall.

Below is listed the research projects of the new DOWD-ICES Fellows:

Jueun Lee - "Optimizing Bone and Cartilage Drilling for Orthopedic Surgery," advisors: Burak Ozdoganlar (ME) and Yoed Rabin (ME);
Jacob Melby - "Improving the Efficiency of p-contacts in Nitride-based Light Emitting Diodes via Polarization Doping," advisors: Lisa Porter (MSE) and Robert Davis (MSE);
Scott Peterson - "Grid Support via Plug-in Hybrids," advisors: Jay Apt (EPP, Electricity Industry Center) and Jay Whitacre (MSE, EPP);
Chris Highly - "MEMS Technologies for Microcapsule-based Complex Tissue Engineering Constructs," advisor: Stefan Zappe (BME).

This year's fellows were selected based on the cutting-edge, innovative nature of their projects. These seed projects each exhibit a strong plan for obtaining future external funding and address current areas of direct strategic interest within ICES and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT). All of the selected fellows have been performing graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon for less than four years.

The Philip and Marsha Dowd Engineering Seed Fund was established in 2001 through a generous gift to the College of Engineering from Philip and Marsha Dowd. Initially, the program supported one Carnegie Mellon doctoral candidate per year, but through additional endowments, the Dowds generously expanded the program in 2005 to support four fellows every year.