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Mechanical Engineering Graduate Trainees Speak at the Society for Experimental Mechanics Annual Conference

June 22, 2022

Maria Hessin, a graduate student, J.D. Boyd, a postdoctoral scholar, and Laura Waldman, a postdoctoral scholar, all in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, gave talks at the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) annual conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Pictured above from left to right: J.D. Boyd, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Martha E. Grady, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laura Waldman, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maria Hessin, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Tony Butera, an undergraduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

The SEM Annual Conference and Exposition focuses on all areas of research and applications pertaining to experimental mechanics, and has evolved to encompass the latest technologies supporting optical methods; additive & advanced manufacturing; dynamic behavior of materials; biological systems; micro-and nano-mechanics; fatigue and fracture; composite and multifunctional materials; residual stress; inverse problem methodologies; thermomechanics; and time-dependent materials. 

Hessin, Boyd, and Waldman gave talks on their research. 

Martha E. Grady, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, currently serves the Society as the Chair of the Education Committee. In her time as Chair, she has created and implemented the SEM Student Ambassador Award Program. Because of the pause to in-person meetings, this annual conference was the inaugural year of the program. https://sem.org/educationcommittee