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2017 TANMS Young Scholars Program Culminates with the Dedication of the Elijah S. Robinson Award
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erican Museum and the California Science Center. The Young Scholars Program culminated with the students providing a team oral presentation on their research project and participated in a "Perfect Pitch" competition designed by Mr. Mattsson where teams presented their ideas on how to resolve negative environmental impacts of pesticides by using TANMS multiferroic technology.
Elijah's spirit epitomizes the TANMS principles and is best expressed by his own words: “Because I understand how important technology is to this world […] I have a big plan for myself and will pursue it and give it my all. I’m fully aware of the hard work it will take and I know it’s all worth it in the long run. […] I'm driven to become a software engineer and take advantage of all opportunities that are available to me. Opportunities like TANMS YSP is what I'm searching for and I will love to be a part of it and grow as a STEAM prodigy.” 
Elijah exemplified TANMS' values and vision in his generosity and compassion for others, and in his resilience and persistence in the pursuit of higher education and engineering career goals. In his memory, TANMS dedicates the Elijah S. Robinson Award for Inspiration, Integrity and Scholarly Promise in Engineering. TANMS Welcomes Professor Dino Di Carlo As New Faculty Researcher
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PHOTO CREDIT: Erin Ng, UCLA Daily BruinTANMS Graduate Student Wins Best Student Paper Competition at 2017 IEEE International Microwave Symposium
TANMS Successfully Pilots New High School Outreach Program and Welcomes Lawndale High School as a New Precollege Partner
 Ms. Genota came to TANMS as a participant of our 2016 Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program with high recommendations from Lawndale High School principal, Paula Rodas, and UCLA MESA/CEED Director, Rick Ainsworth. Widely recognized for her outstanding and dedicated teaching, Ms. Genota is a recipient of numerous awards including Teacher of the Year from Inglewood Unified School District in 2016, MESA Advisor of the Year for the State of California in 2007, and the Certificated Employee of the Year from Lawndale High School in 2017. As TANMS Deputy Director, Professor Jane Chang, so well indicated, “TANMS is truly fortunate to have Ms. Genota whose dedicated effort makes it possible to broaden the impact of our ERC.”
The four-day pilot implementation at Lawndale High School
culminated with a closing ceremony where all of the students who participated
gathered to be recognized for their contribution to the new TANMS effort. Members of the TANMS leadership team also
provided inspirational talks that invited the students to explore their
potentials as future engineers. We are extremely excited to witness the success of the Lawndale High School pilot. In just a few weeks on June 22-24, TANMS will be hosting the first TANMS Summer Teacher Institute at UCLA. In partnership with UCLA Center forExcellence in Engineering Diversity, UCLA MESA, and UCLA Science Project, TANMS will introduce the new TANMS Electromagnetism and Nanoscale Motor Module along with NGSS and Common Core strategies to a group of MESA teachers from the Los Angeles region. Together, we aim to broaden our impact in encouraging the pursuit of STEM from high school and beyond.
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The TANMS Electromagnetism and Nanoscale Motor Modules were
developed to align with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) while
incorporating fundamental concepts from core TANMS research involving
multiferroics and nanoscale motors. Over two class periods, students engage in interactive lectures and hands-on activities as they investigate
the world electromagnetism and explore multiferroic science and nanomotors. 
TANMS Researcher Appointed as Associate Professor at Northwestern University
 Dr. Khalili has been a valued member of TANMS since the center's inception in 2012, working closely with Professor Kang Wang to lead the 1D Thrust and Memory Testbed development. He has been with the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering since 2009 where he advanced from a postdoctoral scholar (2009-2010), to a research associate (2010-2013), and to the current position as Adjunct Assistant Professor (since 2013). He
previously served as project manager at UCLA for two DARPA
multi-institution programs (2009-2014), focusing on spin-transfer-torque
magnetic random access memory (STT-RAM) and non-volatile logic (NVL),
working with several university and industry partners. Since 2012, he has also served as co-founder and chief technology officer of Inston Inc.,
a startup company pioneering voltage-controlled MRAM. In this role, he
led the development of Inston's IP portfolio of 20+ patents, and
established and led joint projects with major industry players. Dr. Khalili received the B.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree (with distinction) from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, in 2008, both in electrical engineering. His professional activities have included serving as a guest editor for Spin, and serving on the technical program committee of the Joint MMM/Intermag Conference. Dr. Khalili's presence in TANMS will be sorely missed. We wish him the best success in his new position at Northwestern and look forward to opportunities to collaborate with him in the future. |
TANMS to Welcome Two TANMS Doctoral Fellowship Recipients
 Of the four TANMS Doctoral Fellowship awards that were offered this year, TANMS is excited and proud to
announce that two incoming doctoral students, Adrian Acosta and
Michael Guevara de
Jesus, have accepted the awards and will be joining the TANMS research team in
fall 2017. The
TANMS Doctoral Fellowship was established to encourage students
from
underrepresented groups to pursue a doctoral degree in
Engineering with a focus
on TANMS research to advance diversity
and innovation
in the field. Graduating from the Interamerican University of
Puerto Rico with
a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Michael Guevara de Jesus is not new to the
TANMS family. Michael first joined the TANMS family in summer 2014 as a participant of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program under the late Professor Ephraphim Garcia at Cornell University. He returned to TANMS for a second summer of REU in 2016 under Professor Abdon Sepulveda at UCLA. Michael will conduct his doctoral research under the supervision of Professor Christopher Lynch in UCLA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Adrian Acosta comes to TANMS with the highest recommendations from the University of Arizona with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He will be joining the TANMS team under Professor Jane Chang in UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. We are fortunate to have them both on board and offer our most hearty Congratulations and Welcome! |
TANMS Doctoral Student Receives Tenure-Track Faculty Appointment
 TANMS is very proud to announce
that one of our doctor students, John Domann, was offered a tenure-track
faculty position at Virginia Tech. John
will serve as an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering and
Mechanics (BEAM) Department at Virginia Tech starting in the next academic year.
John is currently finishing his Ph.D. in the Active Materials Laboratory under
Professor Greg Carman with UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. John
received his bachelor’s and master’s degress from the University of Kansas,
where he was named a Fellow with the Institute for Advancing Medical Innovation
and co-invented a piezoelectric spinal fusion implant that recently finished a
successful animal trial and has been licensed by a startup company.John’s doctoral work at UCLA broadly focused on the dynamics of magnetoelastic materials across numerous size and time scales. He worked with AFRL researchers from Eglin Air Force Base to conduct experimental studies on the impact and shock response of Galfenol, a magnetoelastic material. This work included analysis of Galfenol’s use in pulsed power generation devices, as well as the first analytic model of a strain-powered antenna. John’s recent work with TANMS focused on the strain mediated control of nanoscale magnetism. The goal of this work is to create novel devices with multiple orders of magnitude energy efficiency improvements of current state of the art electronics. He collaborated with numerous TANMS researchers to explore the magnetoelastic control of the quantum mechanical exchange bias effect, energy efficient magnetic logic devices, novel antenna designs, and micron scale magnetic motors. In addition to his research, John made significant contributions to the TANMS Education programs by serving as a graduate mentor and by participating in the development of teaching modules that introduced high school and undergraduate students to multiferroic materials and devices. John looks forward to continuing his research on multiferroic devices and exploring their applications in the biomedical field at Virginia Tech. |
2017 Annual Review Site Visit
TANMS Annual Review
NSF Site Visit
May 2-3, 2017 - UCLA Luskin Conference Center
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Spring 2017 IAB Meeting
 TANMS Industrial Advisory Board Meeting
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TANMS Industry Member Inston Inc. Receives NSF Small Business/ERC Collaboration Opportunity Award
 We are happy to announce that one of our Industrial Affiliates members, Inston Inc., was recently (February 2017) awarded a NSF SECO grant. TANMS collaborated with INSTON to submit a SECO (Small-Business/ ERC Collaborative Opportunity) Supplemental Funding Opportunity available to current NSF SBIR Phase 2 awardees that collaborate with current NSF ERCs. Award details and abstract is available at https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1430815&HistoricalAwards=false . Working with TANMS under this SECO supplement, Inston plans to achieve ambitious memory device metrics that go beyond those originally outlined in its Phase II program, to support its technical roadmap for the 20 nm CMOS technology node and beyond. Inston plans to achieve this by leveraging the joint expertise at Inston and TANMS. In particular, the expertise and facilities available within TANMS with respect to strain engineering of nanomagnetic devices – both modeling and experimental – will significantly accelerate Inston’s progress to achieve this technology milestone. This partnership will make MeRAM devices compatible with CMOS 20 nm and below nodes without the need for high-voltage transistors or charge pumping, hence achieving higher-density memory arrays. Based on Inston’s interactions with customers and semiconductor foundries, it sees a large opportunity at these technology nodes for MeRAM to replace high-performance embedded SRAM. In particular, while recent public announcements from foundries (Samsung and Global Foundries) have confirmed that magnetic memory will be available within two years at the 28 nm node, there is a pressing need to develop solutions for the 20 nm node and below, as well as to achieve higher speed to replace SRAM (currently not possible with spin torque MRAM, which is too slow compared to SRAM Cache memories). This is driven by the scaling challenges of current-controlled spin-torque MRAM to achieve competitive performance at 20 nm and below nodes, where our voltage-controlled MeRAM offers a clear performance-density advantage. We are looking forward to collaborating with Inston Inc on this exciting NSF SECO! |
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