Many changes have been taking place within the group and so this may be only partially complete: Joe Whitmore has joined the group as a PhD student. Joe will be co-advised with Prof. Chen Zhang and will develop ALD processes for organic and porous substrates. Aisha Al-Obaid is now in her second semester as an ChE assistant professor at Kuwait University, teaching classes in numerical analysis and starting up her research program this spring. Hossein Salami is now a postdoc at Georgia Tech in the Bommarius and Grover research groups working in a non-ALD bio-oriented project. Alan Uy spent nearly two weeks in Ben Guerir, Morocco last fall representing Team Maryland’s contribution to DarnaSol in the 2019 African Solar Decathlon. Since graduating in May 2019, Corinne Grob has been at Northrop Grumman near BWI. She started doing Systems Engineering work on a radar program and has moved up to Model Based Engineering in support of multiple programs.

Akanksha Bhat has left her position at NREL to accept a new position with Clean Power Research based in Kirkland, WA and is currently serving as the Product Manager for the company’s PV power simulation product. Jinay Shah graduated in Dec 2019 with M.Eng in Energy Systems Engineering and a graduate certificate in Mechanical Engineering and is now working as an Energy Engineer at CLEAResult in Atlanta. Tisha Travis has been working for W. R. Grace for 2 years as a process development engineer. Aarthi Vadapalli is now a thin-film process engineer at Micron Technology in Manassas, VA, and Justin Foss is co-oping in the Process System Infrastructure Design Team at the Tesla Gigafactory. Finally, I have started a year as program director of Process Systems, Reaction Engineering, and Molecular Thermodynamics in the CBET division of NSF.