Grad Wins Peebles Award
Jiayi Shi, a MIE PhD graduate student, won the Peebles Student Award runner-up at the Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in Daytona Beach held on March 3-6, 2013.
Her oral presentation of her paper entitled “Adhesion-Detachment Mechanics of Thin Shells” was awarded the prestigious award with partial travel support and a check of US$500. She has been working under the supervision of Associate Professor Kai-tak Wan and Professor Sinan Muftu since 2008 and will receive her Ph.D. on May 3, 2013.