One more set of congratulations to Sriram Malladi for the completion of his thesis. It is now available for download at Virginia Tech's etd website. 

link: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06032013-114013/

During the summer Virginia Tech's CEED host the Student Transition Engineering Program (STEP). Dr. Tarazaga with the aid of Bryan Joyce, Tarek Alkhulaidy, Paul Asbury and Sriram Malladi gave a talk to STEP about University, Education, Engineering and Smart Materials. 

STEP is a great program for incoming freshmen where they get a chance to experience campus life before hand and hit the ground running when the semester starts.