Micah Jaffe, senior at Hawken High School spent summer 2013 working on superelastic Nitinol with graduate student Janet Gbur in our group. He presented his work at the Hawken STEMM Research Symposium in Fall 2013, as shown below.

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Photo 1: Micah Jaffe, Senior, Hawken School STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Medicine) Research Symposium, "The Fatigue Strength of Nitinol and Defining Tensile Testing Methods"

Photo 2: Micah Jaffe and Professor Lewandowski demonstrating superelastic properties of Nitinol tube.