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MSE department 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 Buchheit, Department Chair
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-688-3050 | Office: 177 Watts Hall
Professor. Aqueous corrosion, coatings, co-director of the Fontana Corrosion Center (FCC).
Sheikh Akbar
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-6725 | Office: 295 Watts Hall
Professor. Founder, CISM; Superionic conduction, multicomponent diffusion, sensors, thin-films, nano-structured ceramics. Chair of IMCS12, the 12th International Conference on Chemical Sensors
Peter Anderson
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-0176 | Office: 492 Watts
Professor. Mechanical behavior of solids and thin films, micromechanics, dislocation theory, crystal plasticity.
William Clark
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-0575 | Office: 476 Watts Hall
Professor. Structure property relationships, particularly interfaces in materials, biomaterials, and their characterization.
Glenn Daehn
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-6779 | Office: 347 Fontana Labs
Mars G. Fontana Professor of Metallurgical Engineering. Mechanical behavior of composites, high-temperature deformation, high velocity metal forming, superplasticity, and hyperplasticity.
Suliman Dregia, Graduate Studies Chair
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-1081 | Office: 496 Watts Hall
Associate Professor. Interfacial phenomena, thin films, and electronic materials.
Charles Drummond
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-6732 | Office: 388 Watts Hall
Associate Professor. Structure and properties of amorphous materials and composites.
Katharine Flores, Undergraduate Studies Chair
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-9548 | Office: 489 Watts Hall
Associate Professor. Mechanical behavior and reliability of materials for structural applications, bulk metallic glasses, biomaterials.
Gerald Frankel
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-688-4128 | Office: 544 MacQuigg Labs
Professor. Director, Fontana Corrosion Center (FCC); corrosion, electrochemistry and embrittlement.
Hamish Fraser
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-2708 | Office: 141 Fontana Labs
Ohio Regents Eminent Scholar and Professor. Director, Center for the Accelerated Maturation of Materials (CAMM); analytical electron microscopy, material processing, high-temperature materials, interfaces, and advanced materials.
Jianjun Guan
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-9743 | Office: 494 Watts Hall
Assistant Professor. Biomaterials, tissue engineering.
Prabhat Gupta
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-6769 | Office: 284 Watts Hall
Professor. Structure and properties of amorphous materials, diffusion processes, glass science.
John Lannutti
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-3926 | Office: 448 MacQuigg Labs
Associate Professor. Fuel cells, biomaterials, electrospinning, tissue engineering, disease models, biomimetic materials, scaffold design, cell-based biodevices.
Michael Mills
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-7514 | Office: 478 Watts Hall
Professor. Nickel-based superalloys, titanium alloys, aluminum alloys, intermetallic compounds, mechanical properties, microstructural characterization, high resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy.
John Morral
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-247-4691 | Office: 292 Watts Hall
Professor. Diffusional kinetics with applications to high temperature coatings, gas-solid reactions, and heat treatment of alloys.
Patricia Morris
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-247-8873 | Office: 298 Watts Hall
Associate Professor. Chemical sensors, electrical and optical properties of materials, surface characteristics of ceramics, and processing methods used to obtain the specific properties of interest.
Roberto Myers
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-8439 | Office: 278 Watts Hall
Assistant Professor, joint appointment with Electrical and Computer Engineering. Electronic materials, optical materials, wide bandgap semiconductors.
Nitin Padture
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-247-8114 | Office: 2066 Physics Research Building
College of Engineering Distinguished Professor. Director, Center for Emergent Materials; Nano- and micro-scale structural ceramics, composites, coatings, and functional 1-D and 2-D nanomaterials devices. Ceramics synthesis and processing, thin films, coatings, composites, nanomaterials, mechanical behavior, thermal properties.
Heather Powell
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-247-8673 | Office: 243 Fontana Labs
Assistant Professor, joint appointment with Biomedical Engineering. Biomaterials for tissue regeneration, tissue engineering, and biomechanics, study of biomimetic and biomechanical strategies to generate tissue scaffolds.
Siddharth Rajan
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-2572 | Office: 205 Dreese Lab
Assistant Professor, joint appointment with Electrical and Computer Engineering. Electronic materials.
Yogeshwar Sahai, Department Associate Chair
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-1968 | Office: 488 Watts Hall
Professor. Fuel cells, mathematical and physical modeling of transport phenomena in materials processing operations.
Doru Stefanescu
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-5629 | Office: 137 Fontana Labs
Ashland Designated Research Professor. Solidification science and processing, computer simulation of microstructural evolution, of casting defects and of mechanical properties, metal casting, metal-mold interface.
Henk Verweij
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-247-6987 | Office: 291 Watts Hall
Professor. Orton Chair of Ceramic Engineering; Inorganic membranes and solid oxide fuel cells, colloidal processing and transport properties of inorganic materials.
Robert Wagoner
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-2079 | Office: 484 Watts Hall
Professor. Director, Center for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing of Automotive Components (CAMMAC); Sheet forming, finite element modeling, plasticity theory and practice, micro-mechanisms of deformation.
Yunzhi Wang
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-0682 | Office: 490 Watts Hall
Professor. Computational materials science, microstructure evolution during coupled interdiffusion, grain growth, phase transformation and plastic deformation processes, energetics and kinetics of elementary defects, Ni-base superalloys, light alloys, shape memory alloys and steels.
James Williams
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-7251 | Office: 143 Fontana Labs
Professor, Honda Chair. Microstructure-property relations, materials processing, materials characterization, technology policy and management of technology intensive organizations.
Wolfgang Windl
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-247-6900 | Office: 491 Watts Hall
Associate Professor. Computational materials science, nanomaterials modeling, multiscale modeling, semiconductor process simulation.
J.-C. Zhao
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-9462 | Office: 286 Watts Hall
Associate Professor. High-throughput materials research, materials property microscopy tools, hydrogen storage materials and materials for energy, thermodynamics and phase diagrams, and advanced alloys and coatings.
Adjunct faculty
Suresh Babu
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-247-0001 | Office: 130 EJTC
Associate Professor in Industrial, Systems, and Welding Engineering, courtesy appointment in MSE. Dr. Babu's 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.
Rajarshi Banerjee
Contact: web | E-mail | Phone: (940) 891-6812 | Office:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of North Texas
P. O. Box 305310
Denton, TX 76203-5310
Fax: 940-565-4824
Associate Professor, Nanostructured thin films and multilayers; metallic biomaterials; metal-matrix composites; phase transformations; structure-property relationships.
Henry J. Cialone
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-688-5122 | Office: Edison Welding Institute
President and CEO of EWI, Dr. Cialone has a record of creating new business opportunities through technological innovation. Prior to joining EWI in 2005, he was an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute, where he helped develop and manage a considerable alternative energy portfolio, ultimately leading the commercial energy business and serving on the governing board of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Cialone was instrumental in the creation of the FutureGen Industrial Alliance for a near-zero-emissions coal-fired power plant, the Battelle Energy Advisory Council, and a joint venture with Energetix Group leading to the formation of Energetix Genlec, a subsidiary of Energetix Group plc.
He is a member of the Miami University Research Advisory Council; a Trustee of the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City; member of the Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition; Non-Executive Director of the NanoSteel Company; and Non-Executive Director of the Energetix Group plc. Cialone received his BS degree in materials engineering from Brown University, and his MS and PhD degrees in materials science, also from Brown, where he specialized in hydrogen enhanced fracture.
Edward Collings
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-688-3701 | Office: 389 Watts Hall
Adjunct Professor. Director and founder of the Laboratory for Applied Superconductivity and Magnetism (LASM), Superconductivity.
Dennis Dimiduk
Contact: E-mail | Phone: (937) 255-9839
Materials Research Engineer, Processing and High Temperature Materials
Branch, Metals
and Ceramics Division, Materials Laboratory, AF Wright Aeronautical
Laboratories, WPAFB, OH
Gunther Eggeler
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lehrstuhl Werkstoffwissenschaft, Institut für Werkstoffe, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Somnath Ghosh
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-2599 | Office: W496 Scott Lab
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; multiple-scale computational modeling of behavior and failure of heterogeneous materials.
En-Hou Han
Contact: E-mail
Professor and Deputy Director, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science.
Derek Hansford
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-9957 | Office: 278 Watts Hall
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.
W.S. Winston Ho
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-9970 | Office: 291 Watts Hall
Professor, Joint appointment with Chemical Engineering. Membrane separations, fuel cell processing and membranes, materials for fuel cells, and environmental areas.
James Larsen
Senior Scientist, Structural Materials Life Prediction, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate.
Dennis McGarry
Contact: email | (614) 888-4160
Project Engineer, SEA Ltd.
Dr. McGarry's areas of expertise are materials failure
analysis, corrosion, welding metallurgy, superalloys and high temperature
coatings.
Steven Ringel
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-292-6904 | Office: 375 Caldwell Labs
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.
Narasi Sridhar
Contact: email | (614) 761-6920
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.
Michael Sumption
Contact: web | email | Phone: 614-688-3684 | Office: 394 Watts Hall
Adjunct Professor. Superconductivity
Jeffrey Wadsworth
Executive Vice President, Global Laboratory Operations, Battelle Memorial Institute Columbus, Columbus, Ohio.
Dongsheng Xu
Contact: email
Professor, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science.
Rui Yang
Contact: email
Professor and Director, Shenyang R&D Center for Advanced Materials, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science.
Emeritus faculty
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 | 378 Watts | (614) 292-6178
David A. Rigney
Professor Emeritus: Materials aspects of friction and wear, structure/properties characterization.
E-mail | 345 Fontana Labs | (614) 292-1775
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
[This info last updated Tue Nov 3 11:20:32 2009]
