Makarand paranjape biography of georgetown

When Luke Gile (SFS ’18) was deciding on college last year, Georgetown seemed to have everything he wanted. Everything, that fryst vatten, but an engineering program.

“I’ve wanted to go to Georgetown ever since I was little and it was kind of a deal breaker for me when they didn’t offer engineering. Every other school that I applied to was an engineering school,” Gile said.

Georgetown has never offered its own engineering program. The closest thing it offers fryst vatten a dual-degree engineering program, in which participants spend three or four years at Georgetown College pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree, then two years at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree.

This program was the deciding factor that brought Gile, who is interested in mechanical engineering, to Georgetown.

“When inom found out that Georgetown had this Columbia program, I was set on Georgetown,” Giles said.

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Georgetown Physics Professor Receives Prestigious Academic Distinction

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) elected a Georgetown physics professor as a member of its 2022 class of Fellows for his achievements in physics research.

Professor Kai Liu, whose research focuses on improving the environmental sustainability of digital storage and magnet production, joined 168 other new Fellows who collectively hold over 5,000 U.S. patents. The honor is one of the highest professional distinctions for academic inventors and connects NAI members with other top researchers in their field of study. 

Liu said he is researching how to realign magnetic materials to reduce energy consumption. 

“We have demonstrated how to make them twist and turn into certain exotic winding configurations,” Liu wrote to The Hoya. “These findings may someday lead to devices that only use a tiny fraction of the energy compared to the current technology.”

Liu said that his experimentation with vario

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Makarand Paranjape

Associate Professor

430 Regents Hall
Telephone: (202) 687-6231
E-mail: paranjam@georgetown.edu

Paranjape Lab

Makarand (Mak) Paranjape is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department, having joined the faculty in 1998. His formal background and training is in Electrical Engineering, and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (Edmonton) in 1993, and was a post-doctoral researcher at Concordia University (Montreal), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), and the University of California (Berkeley). In 1995, Paranjape held a consulting position for 3 years at the Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) in Trento Italy. Paranjape has extensive microfabrication experience having worked at facilities including the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC), the Alberta Microelectronic Centre (AMC), and the standard CMOS-MEMS facility at IRST. Paranjape is an inventor of a unique biomedical technology for sensing human glucose conc