News

Elected to the NIMSA Executive Board

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be participating in the Nanotechnology and Integrated Microsystems Students Association (NIMSA) at the University of Michigan as an executive board member (Education Chair 2012-2013).

 

I will be leading the organization of student seminars for the year.  We have a great set of seminars already lined up that I know you’ll enjoy including:

Mostafa Bedewy
Mohammad Olfatnia
Yuchao Yang

Update: We hosted over 40 seminars this year!

Elected Executive Committee Member of the University of Michigan Graduate Symposium

This year we will be organizing a broader graduate symposium with interdisciplinary topics covered.  This is meant to address emerging areas in nano and micro-manufacturing.

From the website:

“The Engineering Graduate Symposium is a college-wide event focusing on doctoral and master’s programs and graduate student research. This program is open to all College of Engineering current undergraduate and graduate students as well as prospective graduate engineering students from other institutions. The day-long program features the following opportunities for students:

Poster presentations
Departmental visitations
Admissions and funding workshops
Networking with graduate students
Featured speakers”

Feature write up in UTA Research Magazine

The following is a reproduction of a feature article in the UTA Research Magazine.

FULL TEXT

Student Profile: Ryan Oliver
Student’s work could recharge the world’s fuel supply
Ryan Oliver relaxes in his chair, answering questions and providinginformation in a casual manner. He doesn’t come across as a dynamic
achiever. But that’s exactly what he is.

Oliver recently received his master’s degree in industrial engineering from
UT Arlington a year after graduating summa cum laude with his bachelor’s degree. As a graduate student, he worked with professors John Priest in industrial engineering and Brian Dennis in mechanical engineering to develop a microreactor that converts cottonseed and similar agricultural products into […]

Engineering Deans Fellow

I was awarded a fellowship through the Engineering Dean’s office in the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington academic years 2007 and 2008.

 

Judging FIRST Robotics team

FIRST Robotics is a great service to the engineering community by encouraging young people to get involved in an interesting and creative way.

 

Thank you to Professor Brian Huff for giving me the opportunity to engage the students involved in first by being a judge of the competition.  We saw a lot of creativity out there.

President of Institute of Industrial Engineering UTA Chapter

I was honored to serve this role for academic years 2006 and 2007.  We expanded membership and reignited the tradition of holding seminars and attending the annual conference.

Visit their new site http://www.uta.edu/studentorgs/iie/index.html