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Dream : DREAM Fellows : 2006 Fellows : Joan Burger
Joan Burger
Interview
Q: What is your name?
A: Joan Burger
Q: What school are you currently attending?
A: Drexel
Q: What year will you be starting in the fall?
A: Pre-junior
Q: Why did you choose to attend the DREAM program?
A: To learn more about the research aspect of materials science, naturally. It’s good experience to learn to make posters, presentations, and papers, I’m sure I’ll wind up doing oodles of those. The pay’s good and the people are pretty swell too.
Q: Who are you working with, and what research are you doing?
A: Dr. M.W. Barsoum’s MAX phase project and Geopolymers project. Graduate advisors are Sandip Basu and Aaron Sakulich. MAX phases I work with the AFM and the nanoindenter mostly on thin films. MAX phases are schizophrenic ceramics, they exhibit both metal and ceramic properties, the best of both worlds. Geopolymers here are currently in the quest to find a water insoluble commercial and residential qualified cement/concrete formula, cheap, simple, not hi-tech to make, environmentally friendlier than normal (Portland) cement.
Q: What are your goals/aspirations for the future?
A: I honestly still have no idea. I’m quite spontaneous and shifty in that category. I’m aspiring to be an awesome martial artist, but as far as materials and jobs and such, I have no idea, don’t think I need one right now either.
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