Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering Student Mitra Shabani for receiving an invitation to Future Faculty Development Program at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering as part of the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program sponsored by NSF. Mitra is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University under the supervision of Dr. Garrett Pataky researching a novel class of metal alloys called high entropy alloys to identify the onset of nanoscale deformation using state-of-the-art high resolution measurements and electron microscopy. Her goal is to enter academia as a tenured track assistant professor, doing research in her field of expertise and teaching classes to undergraduate and graduate students.
Being passionate about teaching and education, she has been a graduate laboratory assistant for four semesters, teaching undergraduate mechanical engineering laboratories. She also received a graduate teaching fellowship for spring 2020 to teach the Mechanics of Materials course. Mitra is also taking classes from the Department of Engineering and Science Education (ESED) at Clemson University in order to get her ESED certificate.
More about the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Future Faculty Discovery Development Program:
PITT Future Faculty Discovery Development Program (PITT-FFDDP) is an expense-paid two-day program for doctoral and post-doctoral scholars from traditionally underrepresented minority (URM) in their STEM research fields, and who are interested in an academic career. The program is designed to identify the scholars toward the end of their doctorate or post-doctorate programs but early in their beginning search for faculty career in the STEM field
