2024 Student News
- Graduate students Emily Lamport, Adria Kajenski, Christopher Areias, Morgan Michael, Nathaniel D’Agati, Jotham Kasule, Lucas Unger, Sam Fedorka, and Basil Vanderbie, attended the International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society (IMAPS) New England 50TH Symposium & Expo in Boxboro, Mass. on May 7, 2024. Each student presented a poster that focused on their research.
- Undergraduate Student, John Bennet, is now part of the Immersive Scholar Program at UMass Lowell, which allows students from five colleges to work on research on campus or out in the community. He is currently working on various techniques associated with printed electronics including pad printing and the electrical characterization of conductive nanoparticle inks.
- Ph.D. student, Emily Lamport received a scholarship from the from the IPC Education Foundation for her excellent paper “Implementation of 3D Printed Near Chip-Scale Interposers into X-Band Dual Channel MMIC Assembly.” Her paper was presented during Technical Conference Session S14: Factory of the Future 2: Additive Manufacturing, on Wednesday, April 10 at the IPC IPC APEX EXPO 2024 in Anaheim, California.
- Daniel Bousquet and Gavin Alexander completed their undergraduate degrees in May 2024 from the Umass Lowell Chemistry and ECE departments, respectively. Gavin will begin working on his M.S. and Daniel will start his Ph.D. in the ECE department with Assistant Professor Oshadha Ranasingha.
- Gavin Alexander graduated with his B.S. in chemistry from UMass Lowell in May 2024. For his undergraduate thesis, he worked on the synthesis and formulation of Ag nanoinks for printed electronics. His research was nominated for the Difference Maker Award at the UMass Lowell 27th Annual Student Research and Community Engagement Symposium, which was a university-wide competition with presentations by students on Tuesday April 2nd.
- Ph.D. student and BAE employee, Ian Armstrong presented his paper titled "Additively-Manufactured High Density Interconnects for Defense Applications” at the Annual GOMACTech in Charleston, S.C, March 2024. This annual conference has focused on advances in systems and microelectronics being developed by the Department of Defense and other government agencies.
- Ph.D. Student, Basil Vanderbie, and M.S. students Michelle Connolly, Lucas Unger and Shawn Kelliher attended the American Physical Society Meeting held in Minneapolis, MN, March 2024.