MechSE PhD candidate Sohan Kale was named a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow (MF3) in the College of Engineering for 2015-2016.
The MF3 program facilitates training of the next generation of engineering professors. The Fellows program focuses on three components: research, teaching, and mentoring.
Written by Julia Cation
MechSE PhD candidate Sohan Kale was named a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow (MF3) in the College of Engineering for 2015-2016.
The MF3 program facilitates training of the next generation of engineering professors. The Fellows program focuses on three components: research, teaching, and mentoring. MF3 students will have opportunities to attend a variety of workshops, seminars, courses, and other events to improve their knowledge of faculty responsibilities—in addition to mentoring an undergraduate student and completing a teaching assignment.
“The Fellowship is designed to complement the research skills I’ve developed as a doctoral student with teaching and mentoring skills to facilitate my transition to academia. The workshops will help me to better communicate my research, write proposals, and improve my pedagogical skills. I will also get an opportunity to mentor and advise a student on a research project, which is a crucial aspect of excelling as an academic,” said Kale.
As part of Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski’s group, Kale focuses on modeling disorder induced effects in disordered media, in three major areas: disorder-induced statistical effects; effective properties of random composites; and continuum percolation in nanocomposites.
“Sohan is a very hard worker. He has already co-authored papers in AIP Advances, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Journal of Applied Physics, and a chapter in the Handbook of Damage Mechanics. He has also been helpful in getting the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Novel High Voltage/Temperature Materials and Structures off the ground in 2013-2014, and he is already providing new results to our industry members,” said Ostoja-Starzewski.