MSE alumnus Dr. Aaron Sakulich (B.S. 2005, Ph.D. 2010) has been appointed assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to begin in August 2012.
While at Drexel, Sakulich worked in the MAX Phase and AAC Research Group under the guidance of Professor Michel Barsoum. He received a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship in 2007 to work at the University Hassan II-Mohammedia near Casablanca, Morocco.
Since graduation, he has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI and is currently a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Sakulich's areas of expertise include sustainability, green materials, alkali activated slag cements, and geopolymers.