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Branagan to Deliver Commencement Address
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Nanotechnology pioneer Daniel Branagan will be the speaker at Michigan Technological University's spring commencement.
Nearly 900 graduates will be honored at the May 8 ceremony, including 762 bachelor’s degree candidates and 14 graduates receiving associate degrees. Twenty-eight doctoral degrees will be awarded, as well as 89 master of science degrees and three master of engineering degrees.
Branagan, a 1990 graduate of Michigan Tech, is the founder and chief technical officer of The NanoSteel Company, LLC, and heads NanoSteel’s Institute of Nanomaterials Research and Development located in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
In 2002, Forbes Magazine recognized him as one of the important innovators of our time, one of 15 people who will reinvent the future. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named him one of the top 100 "brilliant young innovators" in the world whose work will have "a deep impact on how we live, work, and think in the century to come."
Branagan and his work have also been recognized by the World Technology Summit, the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, Lockheed Martin, the Science Coalition, Basic Energy Science, R&D Magazine and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The NanoSteel Company’s focus is on exploiting advances in materials and on taking new materials across the great technological divide from basic discovery to near-term, large-scale industrial production and commercial utilization. NanoSteel currently manufactures thermal spray and hardfacing materials to protect the surfaces of parts that are under attack from wear, erosion, corrosion and/or cavitation.
Branagan developed the material while working as a staff scientist at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, where he worked for seven years before founding NanoSteel in 2002.
After receiving a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from MTU, Branagan earned a doctorate in metallurgy from Iowa State University in 1995.
Branagan has authored or co-authored 40 scholarly papers and is the co-inventor of seven patents with 14 additional pending. In 2003 he received Michigan Tech's Outstanding Young Alumni Award.
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