Adam Clayton Powell IV (engineer)
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'''Adam Clayton Powell IV''' (born 1970) is a [[materials science|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]]<ref>{{ 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 | date = May 2007
| doi = 10.1007/s11837-007-0063-y }}</ref><ref>{{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 | date = June 2007
| doi = 10.1149/1.2721763 }}</ref>, polymer membranes<ref>{{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 | date = 2006
| doi = 10.1016/j.memsci.2005.05.030 }}</ref>, [[fluid-structure interaction]]<ref>{{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 | date = 2005
| doi = 10.1002/anac.200410032 }}</ref>, and [[transport phenomena]] education<ref>{{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 | date = 2006 }}</ref>. 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 [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in [[materials science|materials science and engineering]] and [[economics]] in 1992, and a Ph.D. in materials engineering also from MIT in 1997. After a postdoc at [[National Institute of Standards and Technology|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;<ref>{{ cite web | url = http://www.debian.org/devel/people#hazelsct | title = Powell, Adam C | work = Project Participants | publisher = Debian.org | accessdate = 2007-10-02 }}</ref> and an avid [[Gospel music]]ian, and director of the [http://www.bostontemple-sda.org/ Boston Temple] Youth Gospel Choir.
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.opennovation.com/apowell/ Powell's bio]
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