CDCM provides industry mentoring connections for Center students, enabling them to broaden their networks and learn essential skills necessary for a successful transition into the workforce. Overall, 192 graduate students and post-docs have received mentoring through this program, 50 of those from 2025-26 cohort alone. Of those roughly 20% come from CDCM PREM sister centers. This program pairs mentees up with industry mentors and is designed to (i) expose participants to fundamental research as it relates to societal and economic development; (ii) enable them to broaden their networks; and (iii) facilitate a successful transition into the workforce. Over 110 PhD level mentors have participated in this program, coming from companies nationwide like Dow, Tokyo Electron, Intel, Samsung, Merck, Micron and so many more. Mentees report high satisfaction with the program, with 70% noting the program has/will help them secure a job. CDCM has awarded 25 travel grants to enable mentees to visit their mentor companies to present their research, receive site tours and expand their networks.
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Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials
This MRSEC brings together researchers from across science and engineering to create materials with new atomic-scale structures and functionalities, and to develop approaches for actively controlling and reconfiguring materials in real time.