Mechanical Engineering professor earns NSF CAREER award to research innovative material response modification

Through a highly competitive program under its Division of Materials Research, the National Science Foundation, or NSF, recently awarded Siyuan Dai, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, $720,000 for a CAREER project aimed at developing innovative methods for material response modification benefitting a variety of applications from computer science to biomedicine.

“I am very excited to receive this award,” Dai said. "The proposed research will establish a conceptually new material engineering methodology to establish distinctive material properties for a range of functionalities. It will fill the scientific gap of spatial heterogeneity of isotopes.”

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