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ALEXIS R.ABRAMSON
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

 

Professional Memberships

  • Materials Research Society

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers

  • Tau Beta Pi

  • Society of Women Engineers

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science


Reviewer Activities
Grant Applications

  • National Science Foundation

Journals

  • Journal of Heat Transfer

  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

  • Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

  • International Journal of Thermal Sciences

  • Polymer

  • ASME Proceedings

  • ITHERM Proceeding


Committees & Activities

The Nano-Network, board member, 2003 - present

Nanoscience and Technology Steering Committee, planning and executive committee member, 2004 - present

Search committee, for new faculty hires, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, January 2004 - present

Hathaway Brown High School Student Research Program, mentor of a female high school student who is working in my laboratory, March 2005 - present

Tufts University Interviewer for Prospective Students, 2003 - present

Nano Business Idea Competition, judge, October 2005

Case Research ShowCASE, nanotechnology panel chair, April 2004

The Northeast Ohio Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Symposium, chief organizer, held at Case Western Reserve University, February 2004

International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition, serve as session chair and organizer for 2003 and 2004

CWRU UCITE panel, "The Purpose of an Undergraduate Education," November 2003

CWRU interviewer for Fullbright and Mitchell Scholarships, October 2003

G.I.R.L.S. (Girls Initiative to Revitalize the Learning of Science), mentor, 2003 - 2004

Short Course on Nanotechnology, organizer and lecturer for a two day short course taught to NASA Glenn employees, August 2003

Nanotechnology in Mechanical Engineering Panel, invited presenter and panelist, National Science Foundation, June, 2003

Case Research ShowCASE, judge, April 2003

Graduate Student Assembly, officer, University of California, Berkeley, 1999 - 2002

Graduate Faculty Council, member, University of California, Berkeley, 1999 - 2002

Gears in Motion, directed and mentored middle school girls in designing and building a science museum exhibit on display at the Discovery Museum in Acton, MA, Summer 1998

Gourmet Engineering, developed a new hands-on "heat transfer in the kitchen" course still being taught at Tufts University, Summer 1998