Dr. ZhongYang (Z.-Y.) Cheng Professor, Materials Engineering / Mechanical Engineering 275 Wilmore Lab, Auburn, AL 36849-5341 Phone: (334)844-3419, Fax: (334)844-3400
	Smart Materials and Structure Laboratory
Home News Professor Members Teaching Research Publications Links	2011 Dr. Cheng will deliver an invited talk on Development of Wireless Biosensors for in-situ and in-field Detection of Pathogen in Food, International Symposium on Applications of Nanotechnology and Biosensors in Agriculture and Food, April 14-16, Hangzhou, China. 2010 Dr. Cheng delivered an invited talk on Dielectric study of interfacial layer in nanocomposites with polymer matrix, 2010 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston. 2009 Dr. Cheng delivered an invited talk on Role of Interfacial Layer in Newly Developed High-performance Electroactive Polymers and Composites, 12^th International Meeting on Ferroelectricity (IMF-12), Xi’an, China. 2009 Dr. Cheng delivered an invited talk on Structure and Properties of CCTO-based Ceramic-Polymer 0-3 Composites, 6^th International Conference on High-Performance Ceramics, Harbin, China. 2009 Dr. Cheng delivered an invited talk on Wireless Micro/Nano-Biosensor for in-situ Detection of Bacteria in Water, PittCon Conference 2009, Chicago. 2008 Dr. Cheng delivered an invited talk on Magnetostrictive Nanowires for Biosensors, 3^rd International Conference on Smart Materials, Structural and System (CIMTEC 2008), Italy 2008 Dr. Cheng was invited to serve as a member of International Advisory Aboard, CIMTEC 2008. 2007 Dr. Cheng was awarded 3M Faculty Award, 3M Center, Saint Paul. 2007 Dr. Cheng delivered an invited talk on Electromechanical Properties and Mechanism in newly Developed Electroactive Polymers, Semiconducting and Insulating Materials Conference XIV, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 2007 Dr. Cheng won the Faculty Research Award, Auburn Alumni Engineering Council. 2007 Dr. Cheng was selected to be Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 10^th edition 2006 Dr. Cheng was selected by AMS as the Outstanding Faculty Member of Materials Engineering 2006 Dr. was awarded 3M Faculty Award, 3M Center, Saint Paul. 2006 Dr. Cheng was awarded Outstanding Oversea Chinese Scholar Award, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 2005 Dr. Cheng was awarded 3M Faculty Award, 3M Center, Saint Paul. 2005 Dr. Cheng was one of four instructors for an MRS tutorial on Smart Materials – Fundamentals and Applications 1996 Dr. Cheng was awarded International Union of Crystallography Young Scientists Award, Vienna, Austria. Awards to Dr. Cheng’s Students 2007 Best Student Poster Award, Kewei Zhang won 1^st Place Poster Award, 2007 Alabama Water Resource Conference 2007 Best Student Poster Award, Liling Fu won 2^nd Place Poster Award, 2007 Alabama Water Resource Conference 2006 Best Student Poster Award, Liling Fu, Suiqiong Li, and Kewei Zhang, awarded 1^st Place Poster Award, 2006 Alabama Water Resource Conference 2006 Suiqiong Li was selected as one of the participants in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) summer graduate student research program. 2005 Best Student Paper Award, Suiqiong Li, 2^nd Place – 15^th GSC Research Forum, Auburn University 2005 Best Student Poster Award, Suiqiong Li, 1^st Place Poster Award, 2005 Alabama Water Resource Conference 2004 Best Student Paper Award, Zhimin Li and Suiqiong Li, 2^nd Place Paper at the Smart Materials and Structures Conference of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). 2004 Best Poster Award, Zhimin Li and Z.-Y. Cheng, Recipient of the SPIE award at 11^th SPIE International Annual Meeting on Smart Structures and Materials
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