UCI's Carl Zeiss Center of Excellence Celebrates with Open House
By Anna Lynn Spitzer
May 2, 2006 -- The Carl Zeiss Center of Excellence at UCI officially came on line following a two-day open house, April 27-28, in the Calit2 Building.
Highlights of the open house included a student competition and display that featured micrographs made with the scanning electron microscopes in the lab. Eleven UCI students submitted entries and three prizes were awarded. First prize went to Thomas Pine, an engineering graduate student, for his micrograph “Thermal Facets on the Free Surface of Annealed Yttrium-Doped Strontium Titanate (SYT) Ceramic Pellet.” Pine won a gift package from Zeiss including a high-end pair of binoculars.
Grace Qin won second place in the competition for “Crystal Tree of Perovskites,” walking away with an Apple Ipod Nano. Qin is a graduate student in materials science and engineering.
Third place honors went to Adam Schofield, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student, for “Seventy Microns Beneath the Surface.” Schofield won an Apple Ipod Shuffle.
In addition to the micrograph display, open house festivities included lab tours, an hors d’oeuvres buffet and a presentation by Dr. Dirk Stenkamp, managing director of process control solutions at Carl Zeiss SMT AG, Germany.
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“We’re very pleased that the Zeiss Center of Excellence is open for business,” said Albert Yee, Calit2 Irvine division director. “We here at UCI have had access to it for a short time, but now it will be available to the business community as well.” The three state-of-the-art scanning electron microscopes in the lab will be available to industry users on a recharge basis. The lab is expected to be widely used by local aerospace, semiconductor, forensics, materials research and nanotechnology companies.
Calit2@UCI was a perfect choice for the Center of Excellence, says Peter Clark, president and general manager of Carl Zeiss SMT Inc. “We wanted an environment that made a strong and genuine statement of innovation, technology and excellence. Calit2 exactly matched this requirement. It was also clear that UCI has a strong desire to grow and a vision to position itself as one of the leading universities in North America.”
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