{"id":923,"date":"2023-08-23T22:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T22:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/?p=923"},"modified":"2023-08-23T22:50:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T22:50:01","slug":"vincent-and-gon-graduate-with-their-masters-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/2023\/08\/23\/vincent-and-gon-graduate-with-their-masters-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent and Gon Graduate with Their Masters Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Cleal and Gonzalo Fernandez Mediavilla successfully defend their MS Degrees working on mechanics of compaction in non-crimp fabric and hot powder bed compaction of additive composites, respectively. Vincent has started a position of test engineer at Trident Systems and Gonzalo joined an engineering position at Dragados USA Inc.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Gon-and-Alex-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"925\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/2023\/08\/23\/vincent-and-gon-graduate-with-their-masters-degrees\/gon-and-alex\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Gon-and-Alex-.png?fit=711%2C785&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"711,785\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gon and Alex-\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Gon-and-Alex-.png?fit=272%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Gon-and-Alex-.png?fit=676%2C746&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Gon-and-Alex-.png?resize=676%2C746\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"746\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Gon-and-Alex-.png?w=711&amp;ssl=1 711w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Gon-and-Alex-.png?resize=272%2C300&amp;ssl=1 272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Gon-and-Alex-.png?resize=600%2C662&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"926\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/2023\/08\/23\/vincent-and-gon-graduate-with-their-masters-degrees\/vin-and-alex\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg?fit=1221%2C744&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1221,744\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Vin and Alex-\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg?fit=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg?fit=676%2C412&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg?resize=676%2C412\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"412\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg?w=1221&amp;ssl=1 1221w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg?resize=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg?resize=1024%2C624&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg?resize=768%2C468&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg?resize=600%2C366&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2023\/08\/Vin-and-Alex-.jpg?resize=945%2C576&amp;ssl=1 945w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Cleal and Gonzalo Fernandez Mediavilla successfully defend their MS Degrees working on mechanics of compaction in non-crimp fabric and hot powder bed compaction of additive composites, respectively. Vincent has started a position of test engineer at Trident Systems and&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/2023\/08\/23\/vincent-and-gon-graduate-with-their-masters-degrees\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6960,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2022\/12\/craft-stamp-graduation-hat-and-diploma-stamp.jpg?fit=450%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9azNq-eT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":882,"url":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/2022\/12\/01\/additive-manufacturing-effect-of-post-treatment\/","url_meta":{"origin":923,"position":0},"title":"Additive Manufacturing: Effect of Post-Treatment","author":"okravche","date":"December 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Pushpa published her MS-thesis based study on the effect of secondary compaction on the mechanical behavior of nylon based short fiber 3D printed composites. 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