Adam Clayton Powell IV (engineer)

Adam Clayton Powell IV (born 1970) is a materials engineer focusing on understanding the formation and evolution of materials microstructure during processing and service. He is best known for his work in electrochemistry [ cite journal
last1 = Powell | first1 = Adam
last2 = Shibuta | first2 = Yasushi
last3 = Guyer | first3 = Jonathan
last4 = Becker | first4 = Chandler
title = Modeling Electrochemistry in Metallurgical Processes
journal = JOM
volume = 59 | issue = 5 | pages = 35–43 | month = May | year = 2007
doi = 10.1007/s11837-007-0063-y ] [cite journal
last1 = Powell | first1 = Adam
title = Phase Field Modeling of Transport-Limited Electrolysis in Solid and Liquid States
journal = Journal of the Electrochemical Society
volume = 154 | issue = 6 | pages = F122–F133 | month = June | year = 2007
doi = 10.1149/1.2721763 ] , polymer membranes [cite journal
last1 = Zhou | first1 = Bo
last2 = Powell | first2 = Adam
title = Phase Field Simulations of Early Stage Structure Formation During Immersion Precipitation of Polymeric Membranes in 2D and 3D
journal = Journal of Membrane Science
volume = 268 | issue = 2 | pages = 150–164 | year = 2006
doi = 10.1016/j.memsci.2005.05.030 ] , fluid-structure interaction [cite journal
last1 = Powell | first1 = Adam
last2 = Dussault | first2 = David
title = Floating Solids: Combining Phase Field and Fluid-Structure Interactions
journal = Applied Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics
volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 157–166 | year = 2005
doi = 10.1002/anac.200410032 ] , and transport phenomena education [cite journal
last1 = Powell | first1 = Adam | last2 = Bartolo | first2 = Laura
title = The [http://teaching.matdl.org/ Transport Phenomena Archive] on the NSDL [http://matdl.org/ Materials Digital Library Pathway]
journal = Journal of Materials Science Education
volume = 28 | issue = 1 | pages = 91–97 | year = 2006 ] . In September 2007, he founded the engineering consulting firm [http://www.opennovation.com/ Opennovation] which specializes in using and developing open source engineering software tools to meet clients' mathematical modeling needs.

Career history

Powell received twin Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in materials science and engineering and economics in 1992, and a Ph.D. in materials engineering also from MIT in 1997. After a postdoc at NIST, he joined the MIT faculty in his home department of Materials Science and Engineering, where he conducted research in the fields noted above. From 2006-2007 (between leaving MIT and founding Opennovation), Powell was a Managing Engineer at [http://www.veryst.com/ Veryst Engineering LLC] .

Noteworthy achievements

Professionally, Powell is the author of twenty refereed publications and twenty-three conference proceedings and other papers [http://www.opennovation.com/apowell/Publications.html full list] . He is also a co-author of the forthcoming [http://www.nas.edu/ National Academies] [http://www7.nationalacademies.org/nmab/CICME_home_page.html study] on integrated computational materials engineering.

Powell is a co-PI on and an active contributor to the [http://matdl.org/ Materials Digital Library Pathway] , where he is:
* Founder and primary contributor to the [http://teaching.matdl.org/ Transport Phemonema Archive]
* Author of several open source codes for materials-related simulations available at the [http://www.matforge.org/powell/ Powell Research Group] section of [http://www.matforge.org/ MatForge]

In his spare time, Powell is a Debian GNU/Linux package developer, maintaining seven packages for scientific computing; [ cite web | url = http://www.debian.org/devel/people#hazelsct | title = Powell, Adam C | work = Project Participants | publisher = Debian.org | accessdate = 2007-10-02 ] and an avid Gospel musician, and director of the [http://www.bostontemple-sda.org/ Boston Temple] Youth Gospel Choir.

References

External links

* [http://www.opennovation.com/apowell/ Powell's bio]