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Alphabetic listing of MSE faculty

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locate... OSU Directory _____________ Listing by research area _____________ Buchheit, Rudolph--Chair _____________ Akbar, Sheikh Anderson, Peter Buchheit, Rudolph Collings, Edward Daehn, Glenn Dregia, Suliman Drummond, Charles Flores, Katharine Frankel, Gerald Fraser, Hamish Ghosh, Somnath Guan, Jianjun Gupta, Prabhat Hansford, Derek Ho, Winston Lannutti, John Mills, Michael Morral, John Morris, Patricia Padture, Nitin Powell, Heather Rigney, David Ringel, Steven Sahai, Yogeshwar Stefanescu, Doru Sumption, Michael Verweij, Henk Wagoner, Robert Wang, Yunzhi Williams, James Windl, Wolfgang Zhao, Ji-Cheng (J.-C.) _____________ Locate Fontana Labs Locate MacQuigg Labs Locate Watts Hall

 

 

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Rudy Buchheit Department Chair. Aqueous corrosion, coatings, co-director of the Fontana Corrosion Center (FCC)--new window. Office: 177 Watts Hall Phone: 614-688-3050 E-mail: buchheit.8@osu.edu	Sheikh Akbar Founder, 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 Phone: 614-292-6725 E-mail: akbar.1@osu.edu
Peter Anderson Mechanical behavior of solids and thin films, micromechanics, dislocation theory, crystal plasticity. Office: 345 Fontana Labs Phone: 614-292-0176 E-mail: anderson.1@osu.edu	William Clark Metallurgy Office: 476 Watts Hall Phone: 614-292-0575 E-mail: clark.31@osu.edu
Glenn Daehn Mechanical behavior of composites, high-temperature deformation, high velocity metal forming, superplasticity, and hyperplasticity. Office: 347 Fontana Labs Phone: 614-292-6779 E-mail: daehn.1@osu.edu	Suliman Dregia Interfacial phenomena, thin films, and electronic materials. Office: 496 Watts Hall Phone: 614-292-1081 E-mail: dregia.1@osu.edu
Charles Drummond Structure and properties of amorphous materials and composites. Office: 388 Watts Hall Phone: 614-292-6732 E-mail: drummond.2@osu.edu	Katharine Flores Mechanical behavior and reliability of materials for structural applications, bulk metallic glasses, biomaterials. Office: 489 Watts Hall Phone: 614-292-9548 E-mail: flores.70@osu.edu
Gerald Frankel Director, Fontana Corrosion Center (FCC); corrosion, electrochemistry and embrittlement. Office: 544 MacQuigg Labs Phone: 614-688-4128 E-mail: frankel.10@osu.edu	Hamish Fraser Director, Center for the Accelerated Maturation of Materials (CAMM); analytical electron microscopy, material processing, high-temperature materials, interfaces, and advanced materials. Office: 141 Fontana Labs Phone: 614-292-2708 E-mail: fraser.3@osu.edu
Jianjun Guan Biomaterials, tissue engineering Office: 494 Watts Hall Phone: 614-292-9743 E-mail: guan.21@osu.edu	Prabhat Gupta Structure and properties of amorphous materials, diffusion processes, glass science. Office: 284 Watts Hall Phone: 614-292-6769 E-mail: gupta.3@osu.edu
John Lannutti Biomaterials, fuel cells, processing and properties of high-temperature materials, polymer-ceramic interactions, and composites. Office: 448 MacQuigg Labs Phone: 614-292-3926 E-mail: lannutti.1@osu.edu	Michael Mills Nickel-based superalloys, titanium alloys, aluminum alloys, intermetallic compounds, mechanical properties, microstructural characterization, high resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy. Office: 478 Watts Hall Phone: 614-292-7514 E-mail: mills.108@osu.edu
John Morral Diffusional kinetics with applications to high temperature coatings, gas-solid reactions, and heat treatment of alloys. Office: 292 Watts Hall Phone: 614-247-4691 E-mail: morral.4@osu.edu	Patricia Morris Sensors, ceramic engineering Office: 298 Watts Hall Phone: 614-247-8873 E-mail: morris.692@osu.edu
Nitin Padture Nano- 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 Phone: 614-247-8114 E-mail: padture.1@osu.edu	Heather Powell Biomaterials for tissue regeneration, tissue engineering, and biomechanics, study of biomimetic and biomechanical strategies to generate tissue scaffolds. Office: 243 Fontana Labs Phone: 614-247-8673 E-mail: powell.299@osu.edu
Yogeshwar Sahai Process metallurgy, mathematical and physical modeling of transport phenomena in materials processing operations. Office: 488 Watts Hall Phone: 614-292-1968 E-mail: sahai.1@osu.edu	Doru Stefanescu Solidification science and processing, computer simulation of microstructural evolution, of casting defects and of mechanical properties, metal casting, metal-mold interface. Office: 137 Fontana Labs Phone: 614-292-5629 E-mail: stefanescu.1@osu.edu
Henk Verweij Orton Chair of Ceramic Engineering, Inorganic membranes and solid oxide fuel cells, colloidal processing and transport properties of inorganic materials. Office: 291 Watts Hall Phone: 614-247-6987 E-mail: verweij.1@osu.edu	Robert Wagoner Director, 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 Phone: 614-292-2079 E-mail: wagoner.2@osu.edu
Yunzhi Wang Structural phase transformations, microstructure evolution in polycrystalline, multi-phase and multi-component materials, dislocations and dislocation substructures. Office: 490 Watts Hall Phone: 614-292-0682 E-mail: wang.363@osu.edu	James Williams Honda Chair. Microstructure-property relations, materials processing, materials characterization, technology policy and management of technology intensive organizations. Office: 143 Fontana Labs Phone: 614-292-7251 E-mail: williams.1726@osu.edu
Wolfgang Windl Computational materials science, nanomaterials modeling, multiscale modeling, semiconductor process simulation. Office: 491 Watts Hall Phone: 614-247-6900 E-mail: windl.1@osu.edu	Ji-Cheng (J.-C.) Zhao High-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 Phone: 614-292-9462 E-mail: zhao.199@osu.edu

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.

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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