Professor S. Pamir Alpay Elected ACerS Fellow
Pamir Alpay, executive director, speaks at the dedication ceremony of the Innovation Partnership Building (IPB) on Sept. 20, 2018. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)
By: Marlese Lessing, MSE Department, UConn School of Engineering
The Materials Science and Engineering’s own Professor S. Pamir Alpay, Executive Director of the Innovation Partnership Building at UConn Tech Park, has been elevated to Fellow status by the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), a great honor and distinguishment given to individuals who have impacted the ceramics engineering industry through scholarship and enterprise.
Professor Alpay was given this honor at the ACerS Annual Honor and Awards Banquet, in Columbus, Ohio in October. His research in ceramics involves multi-scale modeling, electrothermic heating and cooling, HVAC systems, dielectrically tunable oxides and other practical applications of ceramic materials.
