Providing experience beyond the lab
This fall, the School of Engineering & Applied Science launched the SEAS Graduate Leadership Program—a competitive program designed to provide experiences and training beyond the research lab, including internships and educational opportunities in four main career tracks: academia, industry, public service, and business. The program will accept up to eight enrolled engineering doctoral students each year. The first phase of applications was announced this summer for participation in the business track. Two students, Tarek Fadel (chemical engineering) and Jason Park (biomedical engineering), were accepted to the program and granted admission to a four-class curriculum within the School of Management. Both have interest in gaining a better understanding of finance, management, entrepreneurship, and business strategy for careers in the biotech industry. In cultivating leaders whose interdisciplinary preparation is as strong as their academic credentials, Yale stands to contribute an increasing cadre of professionals whose impact will be felt across diverse disciplines.
Engineering launches digital magazine
Yale Engineering is excited to announce its first digital magazine. The Yale Engineering Magazine has the look of a high-quality magazine publication, but with features only available in an electronic format, such as video and diagram animation. The inaugural issue focuses heavily on research—highlighting breakthroughs and innovation of the past year—while also including student projects, a faculty spotlight, and much more. Please visit www.seas.yale.edu to subscribe.
Bulk metallic glasses have biomedical applications
Last February, we announced that Yale engineers had created a process that may revolutionize the manufacture of nanodevices—exploiting the unique properties of bulk metallic glass (BMG). Now, the list has expanded to include important biomedical applications. As featured in the September 2009 issue of JOM, bulk metallic glasses exhibit an excellent combination of properties and processing capabilities desired for versatile implant applications, from stents to bone replacement. Jan Schroers (mechanical engineering) has teamed up with Themis Kyriakides (pathology) to put the unique processability of BMGs and their outstanding properties to the test.
Unlike most metals, BMGs have an "amorphous" structure that yields many advantages—high strength (three times that of steel), elasticity, corrosion resistance, and durability. Most notable, however, is their unique processability, which allows them to be molded like plastics but with nanoscale precision and complex geometries. "We knew we had a superior material over currently used implant materials and we now have found out that we can indeed put it in the human body," says Schroers. Their in vitro and in vivo study results indicated that the BMGs are compatible with cell growth and tissue function.
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