MSE department faculty
Alphabetic listing of MSE faculty
Summary of research interests and contact information, as well as a link to detailed information on that faculty member's research interests and background.
Rudy BuchheitDepartment Chair. Aqueous corrosion, coatings, co-director of the Fontana Corrosion Center (FCC)--new window. Office: 177 Watts Hall |
Sheikh AkbarFounder, CISM; Superionic conduction, multicomponent diffusion, sensors, thin-films, nano-structured ceramics. Chair of IMCS12, the 12th International Conference on Chemical Sensors Office: 295 Watts Hall |
Peter AndersonMechanical behavior of solids and thin films, micromechanics, dislocation theory, crystal plasticity. Office: 345 Fontana Labs |
William ClarkMetallurgy Office: 476 Watts Hall |
Glenn DaehnMechanical behavior of composites, high-temperature deformation, high velocity metal forming, superplasticity, and hyperplasticity. Office: 347 Fontana Labs
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Suliman DregiaInterfacial phenomena, thin films, and electronic materials. Office: 496 Watts Hall |
Charles DrummondStructure and properties of amorphous materials and composites. Office: 388 Watts Hall |
Katharine FloresMechanical behavior and reliability of materials for structural applications, bulk metallic glasses, biomaterials. Office: 489 Watts Hall |
Gerald FrankelDirector, Fontana Corrosion Center (FCC); corrosion, electrochemistry and embrittlement. Office: 544 MacQuigg Labs |
Hamish FraserDirector, Center for the Accelerated Maturation of Materials (CAMM); analytical electron microscopy, material processing, high-temperature materials, interfaces, and advanced materials. Office: 141 Fontana Labs |
Jianjun GuanBiomaterials, tissue engineering Office: 494 Watts Hall |
Prabhat GuptaStructure and properties of amorphous materials, diffusion processes, glass science. Office: 284 Watts Hall |
John LannuttiBiomaterials, fuel cells, processing and properties of high-temperature materials, polymer-ceramic interactions, and composites. Office: 448 MacQuigg Labs |
Michael MillsNickel-based superalloys, titanium alloys, aluminum alloys, intermetallic compounds, mechanical properties, microstructural characterization, high resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy. Office: 478 Watts Hall |
John MorralDiffusional kinetics with applications to high temperature coatings, gas-solid reactions, and heat treatment of alloys. Office: 292 Watts Hall |
Patricia MorrisSensors, ceramic engineering Office: 298 Watts Hall |
Nitin PadtureNano- and micro-scale tailoring of: (i) structural ceramics, composites, and coatings; and (ii) functional 1-D and 2-D nanomaterials devices. Office: 480 Watts Hall |
Heather PowellBiomaterials for tissue regeneration, tissue engineering, and biomechanics, study of biomimetic and biomechanical strategies to generate tissue scaffolds. Office: 243 Fontana Labs |
Yogeshwar SahaiProcess metallurgy, mathematical and physical modeling of transport phenomena in materials processing operations. Office: 488 Watts Hall |
Doru StefanescuSolidification science and processing, computer simulation of microstructural evolution, of casting defects and of mechanical properties, metal casting, metal-mold interface. Office: 137 Fontana Labs |
Henk VerweijOrton Chair of Ceramic Engineering, Inorganic membranes and solid oxide fuel cells, colloidal processing and transport properties of inorganic materials. Office: 291 Watts Hall |
Robert WagonerDirector, Center for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing of Automotive Components (CAMMAC); Sheet forming, finite element modeling, plasticity theory and practice, micro-mechanisms of deformation. Office: 484 Watts Hall |
Yunzhi WangStructural phase transformations, microstructure evolution in polycrystalline, multi-phase and multi-component materials, dislocations and dislocation substructures. Office: 490 Watts Hall |
James WilliamsHonda Chair. Microstructure-property relations, materials processing, materials characterization, technology policy and management of technology intensive organizations. Office: 143 Fontana Labs |
Wolfgang WindlComputational materials science, nanomaterials modeling, multiscale modeling, semiconductor process simulation. Office: 491 Watts Hall |
Ji-Cheng (J.-C.) ZhaoHigh-throughput materials research, materials property microscopy tools, hydrogen storage materials and materials for energy, thermodynamics and phase diagrams, and advanced alloys and coatings. Office: 286 Watts Hall |
On-site adjunct faculty
Sudarsanam Suresh Babu
Associate Professor in Industrial, Systems, and Welding Engineering, courtesy appointment in MSE. Dr. Babu research focuses on fundamental understanding of phase transformations during processing of advanced materials through computational modeling and characterization. Computational material modeling pertains to computational thermodynamics and kinetics modeling. Characterization relates to nanoscale characterization and in-situ time-resolved scattering using neutron and synchrotron beam lines. In addition, interdisciplinary research to develop and deploy integrated process modeling for automotive, aerospace, chemical, energy, medical, and microelectronics industries.
Office: 130 Edison Joining Technology Center
Phone: (614) 247-0001
Fax: (614) 292-6842
E-mail
Edward Collings
Superconductivity
Office: 389 Watts Hall
Phone: 614-688-3701
E-mail
Somnath Ghosh
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; multiple-scale computational modeling of behavior and failure of heterogeneous materials.
Office: W496 Scott Lab
Phone: 614-292-2599
E-mail
Derek Hansford
(Assistant Professor with joint appointment in Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering)
Microfabrication of biomedical microdevices, microfabricated drug delivery vessels, microfabrication of biomaterials, biocompatibility of microfabricated structures.
Office: 278 Watts Hall
Phone: 614-292-9957
E-mail
W.S. Winston Ho
(Joint appointment with Chemical Engineering) Membrane separations, fuel cell processing and membranes, materials for fuel cells, and environmental areas.
Office: 291 Watts Hall
Phone: 614-292-9970
E-mail
Steven Ringel
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering; electronic materials; optoelectronics, photovoltaics, molecular beam epitaxy, compound semiconductors, nanostructures, defect and interfaces, optoelectronic integrated circuits.
Office: 375 Caldwell Labs
Phone: 614-292-6904
E-mail
Michael Sumption
Superconductivity.
Office: 394 Watts Hall
Phone: 614-688-3684
E-mail
Off-site adjunct faculty
Rajarshi Banerjee
Associate Professor, Nanostructured thin films and multilayers; metallic biomaterials; metal-matrix composites; phase transformations; structure-property relationships.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of North Texas
P. O. Box 305310
Denton, TX 76203-5310
E-mail | (940) 891-6812
Fax: 940-565-4824
Dennis Dimiduk
Materials Research Engineer, Processing and High Temperature Materials
Branch, Metals
and Ceramics Division, Materials Laboratory, AF Wright Aeronautical
Laboratories, WPAFB, OH
E-mail | (937) 255-9839
En-Hou Han
Professor and Deputy Director, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science. E-mail
James Larsen
Senior Scientist, Structural Materials Life Prediction,
Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate.
Dennis McGarry
Project Engineer, SEA Ltd.
Dr. McGarry's areas of expertise are materials failure
analysis, corrosion, welding metallurgy, superalloys and high temperature
coatings.
E-mail | (614) 888-4160
Narasi Sridhar
Director, DNV R&I Center
Dr. Sridhar's areas of expertise include corrosion resistant alloys, localized corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, pipeline corrosion, corrosion modeling and prediction, performance of nuclear waste storage cannisters.
E-mail | (614) 761-6920
Dongsheng Xu
Professor, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science.
E-mail
Rui Yang
Professor and Director, Shenyang R&D Center for Advanced Materials, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science.
Emeritus faculty
Franklin H.
Beck
Professor Emeritus
Patrick A.
Gallagher
Professor Emeritus
John P. Hirth
Professor Emeritus
E-mail
Eric Kreidler
Professor Emeritus: Ceramics
E-mail
Glyn Meyrick
Professor Emeritus: Metallurgy
E-mail | 378 Watts
Carroll
Mobley
Professor Emeritus:
Solidification, casting, crystal growth, and foundry technology.
E-mail
Gordon W. Powell
Professor Emeritus
E-mail | 497 Watts | (614) 292-6608
Robert A. Rapp
University Professor Emeritus: Corrosion
E-mail | (614) 292-6178 | 378 Watts
David A. Rigney
Professor Emeritus: Materials aspects of friction and wear, structure/properties characterization.
E-mail | (614) 292-6178 | 378 Watts
Paul G. Shewmon
Professor Emeritus
E-mail | 378 Watts | (614) 457-4378
Susan
Smialowska
Professor Emerita: Corrosion
E-mail | 548 MacQuigg, (614) 292-0290
George St.
Pierre
Distinguished University Professor and Chairman Emeritus
E-mail | 378 Watts, (614) 893-5287
Bryan E. Wilde
Professor Emeritus
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