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The honor of membership into Sigma Xi spans disciplines and courses of research study. Each month in the Sigma Xi Today section of American Scientist magazine, and also on our website, we will be highlighting a different "Fellow Companion" - asking them about their work and what the honor of induction into Sigma Xi has meant for their career.
We are excited to introduce Semant Jain, Ph.D., a Principal Engineer for Goodman Manufacturing in Houston, Texas. A native of India and a graduate of the extremely competitive Indian Institute of Technology, Jain completed his Ph.D. in engineering at the University of Michigan, with a focus on fuel cell research. Throughout his career he has re-engineered the engines of M 1 Al Abraham tanks for the U.S. Army to increase efficiency and decrease sound, modeled the DNA and rheology of polyjners to answer decades old questions of their structure, AND he's also currendy a fashion photographer with work published in Vogue Italial No stranger to the rigors and excitement of interdisciplinary research and working in teams, he now is a Principal Engineer for one of the largest manufacturers of residential air conditioners in the United States, developing new technologies daily to make the homes of millions of...