Spotlight: Alex Moseson is a senior BS/MS (MEM/Materials) student.

He was assigned to three Co-ops while at Drexel: McNeil Consumer and Specialty Pharmaceuticals as a Solid Dose Processing/Manufacturing Co-op, Boehringer Laboratories as a Project Engineer and at STV Inc. as a Vehicle Specialist. This and other experiences at Drexel have culminated in Moseson’s decision to pursue a Ph.D. for a career in academia, researching and implementing Appropriate and Sustainable Technology (AST). AST encompasses critical needs such as clean water supply, developed for the unique constraints of developing communities. The field requires interdisciplinary knowledge from fields as far ranging as Materials Engineering to International Politics. His current research on Geopolymer Concrete, under Dr. Michel Barsoum, will provide a competitive building material suitable for developed and developing communities alike. This process, with low cost, minimal environmental impact, and fantastic longevity, is amazingly the same technology used to cast some parts of the Egyptian pyramids. Alex has already an article in the Journal of Materials Research entitled “On the determination of spherical nanoindentation stress–strain curves.”

Moseson is the Design Team Leader for the newly formed Engineers Without Borders chapter at Drexel University, a non-profit humanitarian organization. This year, he traveled to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina relief with the Drexel University and University of Delaware chapters of Campus Crusade for Christ. They worked to rebuild houses, hope and lives.