An Old Friend Honored
Sep. 18th, 2019 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenLast week, a newsletter arrived from Penn State’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering with various news items, but at the top of the first page was the news that Professor Susan Trolier-McKinstry has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Congratulations to her!
I remember thirty or more years ago, when Susan Trolier, as she then was, and I had a class in solid state physics, and would walk together from the class to the Materials Research Laboratory on the far east side of Penn State’s main campus. I didn’t know that she would someday be a professor at that university, or that I would get a job at the Patent Office. Life happens.
I want to quote one paragraph from the newsletter about this impressive lady: “Trolier-McKinstry’s main research interests include thin films for dielectric and piezoelectric applications. She is the director of Penn State’s Nanofabrication Facility. She is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the Materials Research Society. She is also an academician of the World Academy of Ceramics.”
I remember thirty or more years ago, when Susan Trolier, as she then was, and I had a class in solid state physics, and would walk together from the class to the Materials Research Laboratory on the far east side of Penn State’s main campus. I didn’t know that she would someday be a professor at that university, or that I would get a job at the Patent Office. Life happens.
I want to quote one paragraph from the newsletter about this impressive lady: “Trolier-McKinstry’s main research interests include thin films for dielectric and piezoelectric applications. She is the director of Penn State’s Nanofabrication Facility. She is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the Materials Research Society. She is also an academician of the World Academy of Ceramics.”
