Adam Clayton Powell IV (engineer)
Adam Clayton Powell IV (b. 1970) is a materials engineer focusing on understanding the formation and evolution of materials microstructure during processing and service. He is best known for his work in electrochemistry, polymer membranes, fluid-structure interaction, and transport phenomena education. In September 2007, he founded the engineering consulting firm Opennovation which specializes in using and developing open source engineering software tools to meet clients' mathematical modeling needs.
Career history
Powell received twin Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in materials science and engineering and economics in 1992, and a Ph.D. in materials engineering also from MIT in 1997. After a postdoc at NIST, he joined the MIT faculty in his home Department Of Materials Science and Engineering, where he conducted research in the fields noted above. From 2006-2007 (between leaving MIT and founding Opennovation), Powell was a Managing Engineer at Veryst Engineering LLC.
Noteworthy achievements
Professionally, Powell is the author of twenty refereed publications and twenty-three conference proceedings and other papers full list. He is also a co-author of the forthcoming National Academies study on integrated computational materials engineering.
Powell is a co-PI on and an active Contributor to the Materials Digital Library Pathway, where he is:
- Founder and primary contributor to the Transport Phemonema Archive
- Author of several open source codes for materials-related simulations available at the Powell Research Group section of MatForge
In his spare time, Powell is a Debian GNU/Linux package developer, maintaining seven packages for scientific computing; and an avid Gospel musician, and director of the Boston Temple Youth Gospel Choir.