Faculty

  • Robert G. Kelly

    Associate Chair for Operations AT&T Professor of Engineering Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Co-Director, Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering
    Robert G. Kelly

    Robert G. Kelly has been conducting research on the corrosion of metals for the past 30 years.

  • Ji Ma

    Assistant Professor
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    Ji Ma's research explores using additive manufacturing to create materials with novel properties and incorporating these materials in designed geometry to produce functionally unique parts, focusing on the additive manufacturing of metallic alloys and control of solidification, porosity, residual stress, and micro-to-nano-scale microstructure.

  • Stephen J. McDonnell

    Associate Professor
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    Stephen McDonnell’s current research interests are centered interfaces relevant to next generation nanoelectronics devices.

  • Elizabeth J. Opila

    Department Chair, Rolls Royce Commonwealth Professor of Engineering Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Rolls Royce University Technology Center on Advanced Material Systems
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    Our research focuses on materials for use in extreme environments and can be applied to materials for use in aircraft engines, rocket engines, energy conversion technologies, and thermal protection systems.

  • Joseph Poon

    William Barton Rogers Professor of Physics
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    Joseph Poon's research group focuses on three projects: i) Study of thermoelectric properties of semiconductors and semimetals ii) Synthesis of thin films study of ferrimagnetic and antiferromagnetic heterostructures that show skyrmionic state and anomalous Hall effect. iii) Study of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with properties in  composition space.

  • Petra Reinke

    Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director Engineering Physics Program
    Petra Reinke

    Petra Reinke received her first degree, a diploma (M.S.) from the University of Konstanz in Germany, in Chemistry where she focused on physical chemistry.

  • John R. Scully

    Charles Henderson Chaired Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Co-Director of Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering
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    Scully's primary research interest is to understand the relationships between a material's structure and composition and properties related to environmental degradation. His historical current focus is on advanced aluminum, magnesium, titanium, ferrous and nickel-based alloys, as well as stainless steels and aluminum-based intermetallic compounds.

  • Gary James Shiflet

    Professor Emeritus
    Gary James Shiflet

    Dr. Shiflet's primary interests are in the kinetics and thermodynamics of phase transformations in crystalline and amorphous solids with particular emphasis on the atomic mechanism involved.Interaction potential models are used to compare experiment with theory. Results are extended to microstructure-property relationships.

  • William Soffa

    Professor Emeritus
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    Professor Soffa’s research interests are in the areas of phase transformations, magnetic materials and crystal plasticity. He has been particularly interested in using electron microscopy to study clustering and ordering in solid solutions and in the synergistics of these processes in…
  • Edgar A. Starke, Jr.

    University Professor Emeritus
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