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 Class pic - 2017 grads! |  Class pic - 2018 grads! |  Class pic - 2019 grads! |  Hannah dropping into the dunk tank. |  Dr. Balk won Student Organization Faculty Advisor of the Year! |
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 2023 Grad, Tylee |  Senior Send Off 2017! |  Not sure why we always pick up Ron...but we do! |  Meeting up before graduation! |  A bunch of us attached MSE paradigm keychains to our graduation gowns. |
 Some MSE seniors at Senior Send Off! |  The 16-17 MA Officer Team...with Dr. Balk present in spirit. |  Dr. Kalika dropping into a dunk tank...what a good sport! |  Grabbing Dr. Kalika for a pic before graduation! |  Order of the Engineer rings! |
 Ed, Hannah, and Nick repping MA at DanceBlue! |  Some upperclassmen model their new MSE pullovers. |  UKMSE wishes the happiest of birthdays to Dr. Doug Kalika, chair of the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department! To celebrate, University of Kentucky Material Advantage hopped on our new Form2 and made Dr. Kalika a brand new Tau Beta Pi bent, which he's holding in his left hand. 🎉🎁🎈🎄🎉🎁🎈 |  MSE seniors Grant Boggess, Alec Kamas, and Mujan Seif visited the University of Michigan's Engineering Graduate Symposium. |  2023 Graduates! |
 Dr. Balk's graduate student, Azin Akbari, gave a great talk at MA's November meeting about her path to graduate school. |  MA got the chance to explore the Center for Applied Energy Research this semester. |  MA officers had a great time at SEC Nation while picking up some spirit points for DanceBlue. |  MA had a great time meeting parents at the College's Parent Weekend Pancake Breakfast! |  Some MSE seniors enjoying some Canes after a meeting with the Chemical and Materials Engineering Advisory Board. |
 Loved turn out at our October meeting! Hannah Frankel started off the meeting with some hot dog failure analysis. |  MA students came in clutch during career fair set up. Scheduling problems postponed set up until 8 PM, so these students had a late night! |  MA President Hannah Frankel poses with Peyton Cochell at an MA cook out. |  Dr. Beck informs/entertains almost 200 first year engineers at the first MSE Info Session! |  Dr. Thom Cochell plays with his dog, Peyton, who was our favorite guest at our second cook out! |
 MSE senior Ed Frasier mans the grill at our welcome back cook out! |  MSE seniors Tanner Thieneman and Hannah Frankel play with Jake Balk, Dr. Balk's dog! |  MSE senior Mujan Seif plays with Jake Balk at the welcome back cook out. Mujan considers this a high point of her college career. |  Ed Frasier and Jacob Trusty can't help but play with the cart. |  Several officers rep Material Advantage at Campus Ruckus 2016! |
 MA President Hannah Frankel shows off her Arduino powered LED during FYE Teaching Assistant training. She and MA VP Mujan Seif will be assisting in EGR 102 this coming Fall! |  Incoming freshman Mackenzie Rockefeller, a participant in the Women in Engineering Chemical and Materials Engineering Summer Workshop holds her very own thermoelectric device. She's powering a small fan with just two cups of water at different temperatures! |  MSE professor Dr. YT Cheng enjoys some liquid nitrogen prepared ice cream at MS&T15. |  Material Advantage won SWE Bowl 2016, a competition composed of practice FE questions. Team members included current MSE seniors Mujan Seif, Alec Kamas, Tanner Thieneman and recent graduate Scott Elliot. The first place prize included $750 and bragging rights among the engineering student organizations. |  William Callister, author of "Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction," visits campus and enjoys dinner with students. |
 Recent graduate Cory Abeling suits up to work on his senior design project in the undergraduate lab. |  MA students tour Corning's glass manufacturing facilities in Harrodsburg, KY. |  Dr. Mona Shirpour's electronic materials class enjoys some fresh air after their last lecture. Even engineers have class outside once in a while. |  Dr. Matthew Beck models the fingerless gloves included with the acrylic nail lamp used in the polymer hands-on experience. |  We actively encourage our students to join multiple organizations. Above are the materials engineering students who are also members of Phi Sigma Rho, the engineering social sorority. From left to right: Francesca Iturri, Macara Curry, Mujan Seif, Sarah Smith, and Hannah Frankel. |
 The coolest step of the polymers hands-on experience is sticking a liquid polymer solution under a UV light and then pulling out a rigid sheet. Can't forget the safety glasses though! |  MSE Senior Ron Norasak poses next to a furnace while conducting a laboratory investigation of ion exchange in glass in MSE 407. |  3D Printing Chair Jacob Trusty shows off the UK logo he just printed! |  Hannah Frankel poses next to a piece of equipment used at the Dome Competition at MS&T15. |  MSE professor Dr. Matthew Beck conducts the shuttle tile demo with recent graduate Scott Elliot and Freshman Advisor Zachary Fuqua. |
 Dr. Mona Shirpour lectures on alternative energy in MSE 402 'Electronic Materials'. |  Students cram just a few minutes before their ceramic materials final exam. |  Dr. Thom Cochell turned 28, 29, or 30 this past February, and students threw a small party in MSE 407. He would not confirm his actual age. |  MA students tour Lexmark, a company with especially strong ties to the UK MSE program. |
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