Dr. Al E. Segall This is Me

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1. 1. COMING OF AGE FOR WSU VANCOUVER

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   Published on: 3/4/2001   Last Visited: 4/11/2004

   The federal government has given Al Segall $375,000 to find out.
   
   As chairman of the engineering program at Washington State University Vancouver, Segall will use the money from a National Science Foundation grant to study how lasers cut into industrial ceramics.
   
   The NSF award is one of two government grants Segall won in the past few months. They represent another step forward for WSU Vancouver's engineering program, which moved into a brand-new, $29 million building at the start of the year.
   
   The Vancouver branch campus is maturing as a university, Segall said, and beginning to fulfill its promise as a research institution that aids high-tech industry while offering advanced degrees to its students.
   
   "You're opening up opportunities for the local residents," he said, "but also for local industry to work with the university toward improving productivity."
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   Even lasers leave some imperfections, however, and so Segall and PM Industries applied for the NSF grant to learn how to improve the process.
   
   The idea Segall came up with was inspired by his high school job working for a tree surgeon.
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   Although Segall will oversee the research, most of the work on the PM Industries project will be done at WSU's main campus in Pullman. That's because graduate students will conduct most of the experiments, and WSU Vancouver's graduate program in manufacturing engineering doesn't start until fall.
   
   Come September, though, Segall said there likely will be opportunities like this one for Vancouver students, too. He hopes to have them working on advanced research projects, funded by government and private grants that may also pay their tuition.
   
   "In the future there will be projects where they can have their whole degree funded for them," Segall said.
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   In addition to the NSF grant, Segall also won an $82,500, two-year grant from the Washington Technology Center for a project to increase the efficiency of sapphire wafer manufacture at Saint-Gobain Crystals and Detectors, a crystal manufacturing company in Washougal.
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   * WHAT'S NEW: $29 million Engineering and Life Sciences Building opened in January; two research grants recently awarded to program chairman Al Segall
   
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2. 2. STLE - Technical Committee Officers

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   Published on: 1/1/2002   Last Visited: 7/7/2002

   Dr. Al Segal, Vice Chair (main) Washington State University 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave. Vancouver, WA 98686-9600 PH: (360) 546-9462 FAX: (360) 546-9038
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   Dr. Al Segal, PSC Washington State University 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave. Vancouver, WA 98686-9600 PH: (360) 546-9462 FAX: (360) 546-9038

3. 3. STLE - 2004 Abstracts

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   Published on: 8/13/1999   Last Visited: 2/25/2004

   Al Segall Penn State University 212 EES Bldg. University Park, PA USA 814 865-7829 aesegall@psu.edu
   
   LEAD AUTHOR BIO: Albert E. Segall Received his Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1992. After completing his degree, Dr. Segall remained at Penn State and served as the Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Materials and a Senior Research Associate at the Applied Research Laboratory until 1999. In 1999, he joined the Washington State University Vancouver faculty as an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering where he eventually became the Director of Engineering Programs. In the 2002, Dr. Segall returned to Penn State as an Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics.