The CAREER Award is the the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Both Blair Brettmann and Sourabh Saha have recently been granted CAREER awards in their fields of chemical and mechanical engineering, respectively. They will receive $500,000 over the next five years to provide support to their research and educational outreach programs.
Blair Brettmann Wins Prestigious NSF Career Award
Blair Brettmann, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering, has won a 2020 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. Brettmann’s research program seeks to understand how to design formulations and molecular interactions between materials to predictably control manufacturing and properties of polymer-containing products. Her research group aims to integrate early-stage research with design for manufacturing in order to allow for rapid material composition customization, similar to how 3D printing enables rapid customization of part geometry.
Sourabh Saha Receives NSF CAREER Award
Sourabh Saha, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation’s division for Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) for his research related to rapid manufacture of three-dimensional nanostructures for nano-enabled devices. Saha directs the Woodruff School’s STEAM lab that focuses on generating scalable manufacturing capabilities to overcome performance tradeoffs such as quality vs cost of manufacturing.
About the NSF CAREER Program
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.