Watts News 2008

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The Ohio State Univers i ty • Depar tment of Mater ia ls Sc ience and Engineer ing

Fall 2008

20th anniversary in 2008 • MRSEC awarded for emergent materials • Three new faculty

Watts News

Nano-islandsSelf-assembling nano-islands could bring interesting properties to optical and electronic applications. More on page 4.

Center for Emergent MaterialsThe National Science Foundation has awarded OSU its first MRSEC, The Center for Emergent Materials. More on page 3.

20th AnniversaryFormer Department Chair George St. Pierre reflects on the 1988 merger of Ceramic and Metallurgical Engineering. More on page 16.

20th Anniversary, p. 16

Alumni News, p. 14

Honors & Awards, p. 11

Research News, p. 3

Chair’s Letter, p. 2Cutting-edge research, new faculty, innovative

recruitment, and top-quality academics.

An NSF Center, our solidifcation program,

modeling, and how we fix a broken heart.

We’re proud of our faculty and students and

the recognition received for their hard work!

Alumni updates! Keep up-to-date with MSE

alums through social networking.

George St. Pierre looks back at the merger of

Ceramic and Metallurgical Engineering.

Faculty News, p. 9The Department welcomes new faculty in the

biomaterials and electronic materials fields.

Contents

Student News, p. 20It’s not just study and research for our students!

Get a glimpse into our students’ lives.

Development, p. 18New approaches to recruitment have led to

exciting opportunities for MSE at OSU.

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Greetings and welcome to the 2008 edition

of Watts News! This is the 20th anniversary

of the Materials Science and Engineering

Department at Ohio State. As you peruse

the issue make sure to check the great

article authored by George St. Pierre

on the circumstances surrounding the

merger between Ceramic Engineering and

Metallurgical Engineering that resulted

in the formation of MSE. George shares

his perspectives on those times and the

resulting cascade of events that shaped

MSE at Ohio State.

We welcome a number of new faculty in 2008. Dr. Heather

Powell arrived in January as an Assistant Professor with a

joint appointment in MSE and Biomedical Engineering

(BME). Heather is one of our accomplished alums (PhD,

2004) who is most recently from Shriners Children’s Hospital

in Cincinnati. Heather’s specialties include tissue engineering

and regeneration, biomechanics, and tissue scaffolds. She joins

Professors Jianjun Guan and John Lannutti and colleagues

in BME and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

This infusion of talent is leading to a number of fascinating

initiatives at the materials science-biology-physiology frontier.

Biomaterials is an area that has been primed for growth on

campus for some time, and now that growth has a fantastic

outlet in our new biomaterials faculty.

Joining us this fall as Assistant Professors are Dr. Roberto

Myers and Dr. Siddharth Rajan. Both are most recently from

the University of California at Santa Barbara and are jointly

appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and

MSE as a part of our Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices

Initiative. Their expertise and a $1.8M investment in facilities

represents the first exciting step in the Initiative. Roberto’s

interests lie in the areas of epitaxial growth of wide bandgap

semiconductors and generation of new types of quantum

structures including quantum wells, quantum dots, and two-

dimensional electron gases. Siddarth carries out research in the

areas of nano-scale semiconductor devices, molecular beam

epitaxy, and III-nitride semiconductors. Roberto and Siddarth

have already begun a close collaboration and we look forward

to having them both on campus.

If these initiatives sound new for MSE at Ohio State—they are.

However, activities in our traditional areas remain as strong

as ever. Dr. J.-C. Zhao also arrived on campus in January

coming from GE Global Research. J.-C., who joins us as an

Associate Professor, brings with him an expertise in high-

throughput materials research, materials property microscopy

tools, hydrogen storage materials and materials for energy,

thermodynamics and phase diagrams, and advanced alloys

and coatings. J.-C. adds considerably to our strengths in metals

research and is reinventing notions of what it means for new

faculty to “hit the ground running”. He has already won both

NSF and DOE funding.

I am pleased to announce a significant development in our

research enterprise--the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM).

The CEM is a $10.8M NSF-funded Materials Research Science

and Education Center (MRSEC). Including cost-sharing, CEM

expenditures exceed $17M over the next six years. Professors

Nitin Padture and Kathy Flores from MSE will serve as the Center

Director and the Education/Outreach Director, respectively.

The CEM comprises two Interdisciplinary Research Groups

(IRGs) involving about 21 faculty from MSE, ECE, Physics

and Chemistry. One IRG will carry out research aimed at

developing new understanding of electron-spin injection and

transport in low-dimensional spin-preserving materials like

silicon and carbon for next-generation information processing

and computing. The other IRG is aimed at design and control

of innovative double perovskite heterostrucutres and the

emerging field of oxide-based multifunctional electronics for

energy-efficient, fast computers with integrated memory and

logic.

To support the growth in our faculty ranks and in the research

program, we have engaged in a graduate enrollment initiative

aimed at taking our graduate student population from the low

90s to 120 by 2010. This initiative is being supported in part

by reprogramming elements of departmental funding and by

new research funding. Progress so far has been excellent and we

currently have 110 graduate students in the program.

We are also beginning a program of undergraduate enrollment

growth to coincide with the new college-wide enrollment

initiative. Our goal is to graduate 40 BS candidates per year.

Strong enrollments depend on successful recruiting. Early

indications are that our recruiting approaches are delivering as

we have admitted 50 new sophomores in the major this fall.

To learn more about these and many other activities going on

in MSE, I invite you to browse the 20th Anniversary issue of

Watts News or visit our website at mse.osu.edu. We are primed

for an engaging and rewarding year upcoming and hope the

same awaits you. As always, if your travels bring you to campus,

please stop in and say hello. Best Regards,

Cha ir ’sLet ter



OSU Wins NSF Materials Research Science

and Engineering Center (MRSEC)

ResearchNews

A new $10.8 million interdisciplinary research center at Ohio

State University will study and develop materials for tomorrow’s

electronics.

We are pleased to announce that OSU has won its first ever

National Science Foundation (NSF) MRSEC, titled Center for

Emergent Materials (CEM). This is also the first and the only

MRSEC in the state of Ohio since the 1994 inception of this

highly competitive and prestigious NSF program. The OSU

CEM was established on September 1, 2008 for a duration

of six years with $10.8 million funding from NSF, which is

augmented by a $6.2 million OSU cost share and a significant

investment in the field of advanced materials. The OSU CEM is

the largest among the five new MRSECs selected for funding by

NSF from a pool of 87 applicants that competed in a national

competition held every 3 years. This MRSEC award puts OSU

squarely in the top echelon U.S. universities with significant

materials research programs.

The CEM will marshal Ohio

State’s considerable expertise in

electronic materials. From plastics

to semiconductors to unique

hybrid materials, the CEM faculty

are experts in understanding and

manipulating materials on the

atomic, molecular, nanometer,

and micrometer levels. “This is a

first for Ohio State and the state

of Ohio,” said Nitin Padture,

professor of materials science and

engineering at Ohio State and

Director of the CEM. “The fact

that we won this highly sought after center speaks volumes

about the outstanding quality of our faculty team and its

interdisciplinary research, and the excellent infrastructure and

support we enjoy.”

“The cornerstone of the CEM will be research into

magnetoelectronics,” he explained. This field, also known as

spintronics, utilizes the spin of electrons in molecules and

crystals for data storage and computing. Magnetoelectronics

could be the key to developing computers that store more data

in less space, process data faster, and consume less power. A

computer with this kind

of integrated magnetic

memory would function

as soon as it was switched

on, no “boot up” needed.

At the heart of the CEM

are two Interdisciplinary

Research Groups (IRGs).

IRG-1, titled Towards

S p i n - P r e s e r v i n g ,

Heterogeneous Spin

Networks, develops a

new understanding of

electron-spin injection

and transport in low-dimensional, spin-preserving

materials such as silicon and carbon. This understanding

provides a new materials-basis for creating novel high-density

spin networks for next-generation computing. IRG-2, titled

Double Perovskite Interfaces and Heterostructures, designs

and controls multifunctional properties of innovative double

perovskite heterostructures through the understanding

of structure, defects, and magnetotransport properties at

interfaces. This new understanding of magnetism in metallic

oxides enables important advances

in the emerging field of oxide-

based electronics.

Researchers must not only develop

new materials, but also find new

ways to study and manipulate

materials. The 21 CEM faculty

--in departments as diverse as

chemistry, physics, materials

science and engineering,

and electrical and computer

engineering--are collaborating

across disciplines to do just that. NSF’s

MRSEC program supports interdisciplinary materials research

and education, while addressing fundamental problems in

science and engineering. Universities that host MRSECs must

possess “outstanding research quality and intellectual breadth,

provide support for research infrastructure and flexibility in

responding to new opportunities, and strongly emphasize the

The CEM will marshal Ohio State’s considerable expertise in electronic materials.

CEM Director Nitin Padture, left, works with doctoral student Jenny Dorcena on materials that would boost computer memory and processing speed while consuming less power.

Scanning tunneling microscope image of individual Co atoms (scarlet) positioned on a Cu surface (gray). Image courtesy of J.A. Gupta (Physics)


R e s e a r c h N e w s , c o n ’ t

Atomistic simulation results showing density of states in a Si | GaP | Fe

heterostructure for electron spin injection in Si. Image courtesy of W. Windl

(MSE)

integration of research and education.”

In fact, of the 75 people at who will take part in the CEM, more

than half are students, both graduate and undergraduate. “A

significant number of undergraduates, graduate students, and

post-doctoral scholars will be educated and trained under the

auspices of the CEM,” Padture said. “The creation of this large

and diverse workforce in highly interdisciplinary materials

research will contribute

towards maintaining US

global leadership in the field of

advanced materials and related

technologies.”

The CEM also sponsors

a Seed Funding program,

which provides the necessary flexibility and vitality to the

CEM to develop into new areas within the rapidly-changing

landscape of advanced materials research. Integrated with the

research activities, the CEM enhances classroom education,

creates research internship opportunities, widens the Science-

Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM) “pipeline,” and

enhances diversity in STEM. Activities include an innovative

education research program aimed at cognition of materials

science concepts, K-12 outreach and visitation programs,

undergraduate research programs, and graduate-education

enhancement programs.

The multidisciplinary OSU advanced materials community

is already home to major world-class shared experimental

facilities, which are brought to bear on CEM research and

education.The CEM collaborates with the electronics, storage,

and instrumentation industries; national laboratories and

Only eight universities nationwide boast both an NSEC and a MRSEC

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Self-Ordered Nano-Islands

Recent research at OSU by Michael Rauscher, Suliman Dregia,

and Sheikh Akbar has led to the development of a novel and

inexpensive process to create a pseudo-periodic array of single

crystal ceramic nano-islands. The structure is created via a

simple two step process. First, a thin film of gadolinia-doped

ceria (GDC) is deposited on a single crystal substrate of yttria

stabilized zirconia (YSZ). After deposition, one needs only to

heat treat the film under proper conditions that lead to film

break up and self-ordering of nano-islands. The islands are

roughly 100-200 nm on an edge with channel gaps ranging

in size from 10-75 nm. On average, the islands have a 150 nm

square base and form into a truncated pyramid. The average

gap spacing is about 50 nm. An invention disclosure has been

filed for this process.

This research has both scientific

as well as technological impact.

First, the process provides an

inexpensive route to fabricating

self-assembled ceramic

nanostructures on a large scale

without requiring lithography. In

light of its interesting properties

(high-temperature stability

and oxygen ion conductivity),

the GDC-YSZ system may have

intrinsic usefulness for a range of potential optical, electronic,

and magnetic applications. Second, solely due to the morphology

of the structure, additional biological nano-fluidic applications

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On the Cover



The Solidification/Casting Program

in the Dept. of Materials Science and

Engineering (MSE) at OSU is on the

move under the motto: The difficult

we will do today; the impossible will

have to wait a little longer. Rooted in

a long and glorious tradition (one

has just to look at the sculpture on

the Fontana building entrance) the

program has been revitalized over

the last three years with an influx of

new equipment, industry and private

donor cash contributions, and last,

but maybe most important, many

interested students.

The American Foundry Society (AFS) Student Chapter has

increased its membership from 1 in 2005 to 12 currently. The

chapter has been officially recognized as a University Student

Chapter by OSU. This recognition allows the chapter to obtain

OSU funds. Under the able and enthusiastic leadership of the

chapter chairman, Evan Standish, the student chapter has

undertaken a project to cast chess sets. Substantial interaction

with and advice form industry has helped the students. The

project attests to the students’ interest, as they receive no

credit hours or monetary reward for their effort, and has been

publicized by iMix on The Big Ten Network (http://www.wosu.

org/imix/?date=04/08/2008&id=0).

Our students also participate in another national metal casting

organization, The Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF).

The total number of registered FEF students has reached 12, the

highest number since 2003. In 2008 alone, they have received

$11,300 in scholarships from FEF.

The response of the industry to our request for support has

been exceptional. The Central Ohio AFS chapter has “adopted”

our student chapter and our program, and to date has donated

more than $23,000 in cash toward the equipment fund. The list

of cash donors includes FEF, Cummins, three private donors,

and ... the MSE department. At the initiative of Bill Massey

(Ashland), the immediate past president of the Central Ohio

AFS chapter, a challenge has been issued to other AFS chapters

across the nation to match cash donations, and contributions

have been received or pledged from the Southwestern Ohio

Chapter, the Central Illinois Chapter, and the Wisconsin

Chapter. To date, cash contributions have exceeded $46,000.

The Albert Klein Technology Group has donated engineering

time and produced the engineering drawings for the new

upgraded casting laboratory. Magmasoft has donated 11

positions with their mold filling and solidification software

in the MSE computer labs. The software is currently

used in both undergraduate and graduate classes, as well

as for research. Other important industrial equipment

donors include Tinker-Omega and Fairmont Minerals

(continuous mixer Tom 50S, 200lb flat top compaction

table) and Electronite (pyrometer, cup stands and cups for

thermal analysis). With the newly installed gravity roller

conveyer, the donated equipment up and running, and a

new 75kW 150lb ferrous Inductotherm induction furnace

becoming operational this year, the march forward of the

Solidification/Casting Program is unmistakable. To date,

the value of equipment donations has exceeded $121,000.

All these remarkable accomplishments would not have been

possible without the generous support of Ashland Specialty

Chemical that has financed the Ashland Designated Research

Professorship currently filled by Dr. Doru Stefanescu, and

has opened their casting laboratory to the OSU students for

teaching and research, as the OSU laboratory undergoes its face

lift.

So l id i f i ca t ion/cas t ing

research has also been re-

energized. Sponsorship

from NASA and AFS has

attracted to the program

three graduate students

and has resulted in

presentations at the

2008 AFS National

Convention in Atlanta

and at the 10th Asian

Foundry Conference in

Nagoya, Japan where

Dr. Stefanescu was the

plenary speaker.

Recognizing the

contributions that the

Solidification/Casting

Program at OSU will

bring to the national industry,

Caterpillar Inc. has presented the program with a $20,000

research grant. If you want to be part of this exhilarating ride

you can contribute to the Casting/Solidification Fund #312069;

Room 477 Watts Hall, 2041 College Road, Columbus, Ohio

43210.

To contact Dr. Stefanescu, please visit mse.osu.edu/faculty/

stefanescu/.

Detail, from relief carving on entryway of Fontana Labs.

OSU Solification and Casting Program

Doru Stefanescu


Interfacial Segregation as Intrinsic Interface Property

Shrinking the dimensions of semiconductor devices makes

them faster, which allowed the semiconductor industry since

several decades to at least double the performance of integrated

circuits every 18 months (“Moore’s Law”). Today’s commercial

silicon devices have reached dimensions of only a few tens of

nanometers. One of the important factors for fabricating fast

nanoscale devices is to ensure a sufficiently high conductivity in

the silicon base material, which is reached by adding impurity

atoms (“dopants”) such as arsenic or boron. For the demands

on today’s devices, the dopant concentration needs

to significantly exceed the solid solubility limit.

Fabrication of such metastable alloys is highly

sophisticated by now, but still plagued by dopant

loss mechanisms. One of the most important

loss mechanisms is the pile-up of dopants at the

interface between silicon and insulating silicon

dioxide layers.

Following his 2006 Fraunhofer-Bessel Award

from the German Humboldt Foundation,

Wolfgang Windl spent a total of nine months at

the Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Systems

and Device Technology in Erlangen, where he researched with

his colleagues the fundamentals of interfacial dopant loss for

the example of arsenic in silicon[1,2]. As a result, they could

show that segregation of arsenic to the interface between silicon

and silicon-dioxide is an intrinsic property of the interface. This

means that the segregated arsenic sheet concentration depends

only on the arsenic concentration in the silicon substrate, but has

negligible dependence on external conditions such as processing

temperature. Based on

dopant profiling with

sub-nm resolution

using a multitude

of characterization

methods, an

eng ine er ing- l e ve l

model for use in

commercial process

simulation software

was developed that

can now reliable

predict arsenic

segregation during

silicon device

fabrication (see

figure at left). Z-contrast image of arsenic-doped Si/SiO_2 interface and arsenic

concentration from calibrated electron-energy loss spectroscopy

(right).

1. L. Pei, G. Duscher, C. Steen, P. Pichler, H. Ryssel, E. Napolitani, D. De Salvador, A. M. Piro, A. Terrasi, F. Severac, F. Cristiano, K. Ravichandran, N. Gupta, and W. Windl, Detailed arsenic concentration profiles at Si-SiO2 interfaces, J. Appl. Phys. 104, 043507 (2008).2. C. Steen, A. Martinez-Limia, P. Pichler, H. Ryssel, S. Paul, W. Lerch, L. Pei, G. Duscher, F. Severac, F. Cristiano, and W. Windl, Distribution and Segregation of Arsenic at the SiO2/Si Interface, J. Appl. Phys. 104,

023518 (2008).

Identifying Flow Defects in Bulk Metallic Glasses

Professors Kathy Flores, Wolfgang Windl, and their students

are studying the nature and evolution of low atomic density

regions in bulk metallic glasses with atomic-scale modeling. Bulk

metallic glasses are novel engineered

amorphous metallic alloys with great

potential for future applications,

since they combine more than twice

the strength of titanium with the

processability of plastics. Regions

with low atomic density, sometimes

called “open” volume, are believed to

be the flow defects responsible for

plastic deformation of bulk metallic

glasses. Profs. Flores and Windl have

proposed a new method to identify

the ill-defined flow defects from

the electron density of the material, with densities

lower than what is found in crystalline material of analogous

composition defining regions of open volume. Further research

addresses the question of how the size and shape of open

volume regions is connected to the two observed deformation

mechanisms, which are uniform homogeneous flow (observed

at elevated temperatures) and discrete shear-band formation

(observed at

temperatures below

the glass transition).

This computational

work is comple-

mented by an on-

going experimental

study of plastic

deformation and

associated structural

changes in more

complex metallic

glass systems in

Prof. Flores’ group.

Cross section through the electron density (blue to red = low to high) in a Cu-Zr bulk metallic glass.




Large-Scale Three-Dimensional Computer Simulations to Assist in Superalloy Design

Significant cost savings can be realized in materials design and

optimization by using computer modeling, reducing the amount of

experimental effort necessary. In close collaboration with colleagues

at CAMM, research by Prof. Yunzhi Wang has focused on the

development of computational models and simulation techniques.

Informed and validated by experimentation, these models provide

a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms underlying

microstructural evolution during phase transformations and plastic

deformation. Practical applications to microstructural engineering

of advanced materials are also developed using these tools.

Shown in the figures on the right are three-dimensional computer

simulation predictions of microstructural evolution in a Ni-base superalloy for jet engine

applications; (a) is the starting microstructure in a brand new turbine blade and (b) and (c)

are the microstructures after 9 hours continuous operation at 1300K (1027oC) under 152

MPa tensile and compressive stress, respectively. These quantitative simulation predications

provide valuable data for the assessment of the creep behavior and lifetime of turbine blades

that are a key component determining the safety, performance and fuel efficiency of a turbine

engine. The simulation predictions were made by Ning Zhou, a Ph.D. student in Prof. Wang’s

group in MSE. The simulation method used is the phase field method and the calculations

were carried out at the Ohio Supercomputer Center.

New Material Found in Rocket Nozzles?

Professors John Morral and Wolfgang Windl with their

students are studying the erosion mechanisms of a new

generation of rocket nozzles that will operate at higher

than normal temperatures and pressures. The nozzles

are made of artificial graphite, which consists of coke

particles in a binder matrix. Morral’s group is relating

the microstructure to experimental erosion rates that are

measured at Penn State, while Windl’s group is investigating the possible presence of

the elusive “carbyne” phase of carbon in the nozzles (with linearly bonded carbon) by

using ab initio calculations,

Raman spectroscopy, and x-

ray and electron diffraction.

The impact of the research

may be extended to other

applications of artificial

graphite including nuclear

materials and graphite

electrodes.

Microstructure of artificial graphite revealing striated coke particles in a chaotic binder matrix.

Example of an abnormal carbon structure predicted by ab initio calculations.


J.-C. Zhao Receives DOE Funding to Explore Hydrogen Storage

Energy is an increasingly important

issue for human society. Materials

for energy generation, storage,

transportation, conversion,

conservation, and usage will

become an extremely important

area for research. These materials

include hydrogen and energy

storage materials, materials for

energy conversion (thermoelectric

materials, magnetocaloric materials,

photovoltaics, etc.), and materials

for nuclear energy generation,

among others.

A “grand challenge” to the implementation of hydrogen-powered

vehicles is the development of suitable on-board hydrogen

storage systems and materials that can satisfy the performance

targets proposed by the U. S. Department of Energy. As Dr.

Robert F. Service, an editor of the Science magazine put it “If

producing hydrogen cheaply has researchers scratching their

heads, storing enough of it on board a car has them positively

stymied.” (Science 2004). Mr. Masatami Takimoto, Executive

Vice President of Toyota also stated in 2006, “There exists the

necessity for an epoch-making advance in new materials for

hydrogen storage.... This is the hardest challenge.”

The new $1.1M DOE project “Aluminoborane Compounds for

On-Board Vehicular Hydrogen Storage” will be combined with

the existing $1.2M DOE project “Lightweight Intermetallics

for Hydrogen Storage” awarded to Professor Zhao earlier this

year to tackle the hydrogen storage “grand challenge.” For more

information, visit www.energy.gov/news/6480.htm.

Cardiac Patches for Broken Hearts

Research in assistant professor Jianjun Guan’s group focuses on the engineering of

cardiovascular tissues including small diameter

blood vessels and heart muscle. His group is

developing polymer based flexible biomaterials

that can mimic some key biological properties

of the proteins in the heart and blood vessel.

They have recently developed a technique

that can simultaneously assemble nanofibers,

stem cells, and bioactive macromolecules

under electrical field (electrospinning). This

permits the rapid formation of

heart patches, not only mimicking

the highly anisotropic structure

and mechanical properties of the

heart muscle, but also preserving

cell survival/growth. This technique

is capable of fabricating highly

cellularized heart patches within

one hour. It is advantageous over

traditional tissue engineering

techniques in terms of fabrication

time and cell population in the

tissue constructs. Traditional

tissue engineering follows a time-

consuming “seed and grow”

approach where cells are seeded

in the pre-formed 3-D scaffolds

and grow into high density. The

fabricated heart patches are found

to direct stem cells to grow into a

highly aligned structure similar to

the heart. They are working on the

differentiation of stem cells into

heart cells aiming to generate a

readily implantable, beating heart

muscle. These cardiac patches

may find application potential for

patients with chronic heart failure.

In another project, Dr. Guan’s

group is developing new stem cell

therapy techniques that may be

applied for patients with early heart

disease. They have developed a

stem cell delivery system containing

thermosensitive hydrogel and stem

cells. This can be injected at room

temperature and forms a flexible

hydrogel with mechanical properties

matching those of the native heart.

By tailoring the chemistry of the

3-D confocal microscopic image shows high density of stem cells are presented in the cardiac patch.

Thermosensitive hydrogel is injectable around room temperature, forms flexible hydrogel at body temperature.

The developed stem cell delivery system was injected into the murine heart.

hydrogels and incorporating growth factors, they are able

to retain survival of the stem cells. In collaboration with the

medical school at OSU, they have successfully injected the

developed stem cell delivery system in murine (laboratory

mice) hearts.


Fontana Corrosion Center

“Over the past year, the FCC has initiated several large programs

in collaboration with other universities and corporations,”

states Fontana Corrosion Center Director Dr. Gerald Frankel. New funding from SERDP is supporting studies on chromate-

free inhibitors and coatings for Al alloys. This study is in close

collaboration with colleagues at Michigan State University

and United Technologies Research Center. A larger group of

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Facu l t yNews

MSE Welcomes Three New Faculty

Welcome Siddharth Rajan

Dr. Siddharth Rajan joined the faculty as Assistant

Professor with joint appointments in Electrical and

Computer Engineering and Materials Science and

Engineering in September 2008. He received dual

major degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering

from Birla Institute of Technology and Science,

Pilani, India in 2001. He received M.S. and Ph.D.

degrees in electrical and computer engineering from

University of California, Santa Barbara in 2004 and

2006, respectively. His past research involved high-

speed and high-performance electronic devices,

novel semiconductor device structures, and

molecular beam epitaxy of III-Nitrides. Currently, he is focusing

his research on nano-scale III-Nitride semiconductor devices,

Welcome Roberto Myers

Dr. Roberto Myers will join the

faculty at The Ohio State University

as an Assistant Professor in Materials

Science and Engineering with a

co-appointment in Electrical and

Computer Engineering starting in

Fall 2008. He received his B.Sc. in

materials science and engineering at

the University of Pennsylvania in 2001

and completed his PhD in materials

science in 2006 at the University

of California, Santa Barbara. Dr.

Myers is finishing a Post-Doctoral

Fellowship in the group of Professor David Awschalom in

the California NanoSystems Institute at UC Santa Barbara. At

Ohio State, Dr. Myers plans to setup a molecular beam epitaxy

system for the growth of group III-nitride heterostructures.

Electrons confined to nm length scales within these materials

are quantized into energy subbands that can reach energies

spanning the near-IR and into the visible spectrum. High

efficiency intersubband optical transitions could be utilized

for solid state lighting, telecommunication, and optical storage.

For more about Roberto’s research see mse.osu.edu/faculty/

myers/.

Welcome Heather Powell

Dr. Heather Powell, a new Assistant Professor of

Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical

Engineering, conducts research on biomaterials

for tissue regeneration. Prior to her arrival at Ohio

State, Powell was a post-doctoral research fellow

at the Shriners Hospitals for Children where she

performed research on human bioengineered skin.

She received her doctorate in MSE from The Ohio

State University in 2004.

Dr. Powell’s research interests include biomaterials,

tissue engineering and biomechanics. Her research

utilizes principles of materials science, polymer chemistry,

cellular and molecular biology, and genetic engineering to

generate materials/devices that can be utilized to replace, restore

or improve the function of diseased or damaged tissues. In

tissue engineering, cells are commonly combined with a scaffold

of native or synthetic origin to guide cellular organization

and differentiation while providing mechanical strength and

integrity. The current generation of scaffolds does not possess

all of the necessary properties to replicate the native tissue. Dr.

Powell utilizes biomimetic and biomechanical strategies to

generate scaffolds which can provide the optimal balance of

mechanical properties and biological function. For more about

Heather’s research see mse.osu.edu/faculty/powell/. J.-C. Zhao Part of Select NAE “Frontiers of Engineering”

Symposium

Dr. J.-C. Zhao was among eighty-two of the nation’s brightest

young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of

Engineering’s (NAE) 14th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering

symposium. The participants, from industry, academia,

and government, were nominated by fellow engineers or

organizations and chosen from more than 230 applicants. “I

am honored to be selected to participate in this event,” says J.-

C. “I look forward to the opportunity of meeting and discussing

with many outstanding engineers and scientists.”

“America’s competitiveness will largely depend upon the next

generation of innovators,” said NAE President Charles M. Vest.

“The U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program brings some of

the country’s rising-star engineers, from a diverse range of

disciplines, together for an exchange of ideas that will surely

molecular beam epitaxy, energy-efficient semiconductor

devices, and new material technologies. Siddharth Rajan held

positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara and

General Electric Global Research. He received the JNC-ASR

Fellowship in 2000, CNID Fellowship in 2003, the EMC Best

Paper Award in 2005, and the WOFE Best Paper Award in 2007.

He has co-authored 50 journal and conference publications.


Robert Wagoner Honored by Award, Serves as Visiting

Professor

Dr. Robert H. Wagoner has been selected

to receive the title of Doctor Honoris Causa

(Honorary Professor / Honorary Ph.D.

Degree) from the Technical University

of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania. The

award is based on his achievements in

materials science and metal forming, and

on his collaboration with Professor Dorel

Banabic. Recent recipients of the award

include William H. (Bill) Gates, then

CEO of Microsoft, and William Jefferson

(Bill) Clinton, former president of the

United States. Rob will travel to Cluj and

Bucharest, Romania, in the Spring of 2009 to accept the award

and to participate in a parade and other ceremonial festivities.

Also, this Fall Rob will visit the Swinburne University of

Science and Technology in Hawthorn, Australia in October and

November 2008 as a Visiting Professor. He will collaborate with

Professor John Beynon, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and

Industrial Sciences, in the area of forming of advanced high

strength steels. Then in the Spring of 2009, Rob will visit the

the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

in Trondheim, Norway. As a Visiting Professor, he will work

with Hans Jurgen Roven and Magnus Langseth on metal

forming, and automotive crash structural simulation. Rob will

be on Special Research Leave during Spring Quarter 2009.

Rob chaired an ad-hoc committee to review the governance

structure of TMS, the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society,

from March to July 2008. A 40-page report with 5 major

recommendations was presented to the TMS Board of

Directors on July 25. These involved new bylaws, new policy

manuals, a new document retention and destruction policy,

new committees and revised committee responsibilities. All

5 recommendations were accepted by the Board without

modification.

12th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors

Professor Sheikh Akbar hosted the 12th

International Meeting on Chemical

Sensors (IMCS) mse.osu.edu/imcs12

held in Columbus, Ohio from July 13-

16, 2008. This meeting is held every

other year and rotates around the

world. IMCS is an interdisciplinary

forum that focuses on all aspects

of chemical sensors encompassing

physics, chemistry, materials science,

engineering disciplines and industrial

applications. The Columbus meeting

was sponsored by the OSU Office of

Research, College of Engineering and College of Mathematical

and Physical Sciences; Case Western Reserve University;

US Department of Energy/NETL; Sensors Division of the

Electrochemical Society; and the IEEE Sensors Council.

This year’s meeting was attended by 310 scientists, engineers and

company representatives from 30 countries. The meeting held

49 technical sessions representing 210 oral presentations and

146 posters were presented. The topics covered many sensor-

related areas including semiconducting, electrochemical, optical

and piezo-electric sensors; sensors for health (biosensors),

safety and security; sensor arrays, electronic nose and signal

processing; mechanism, modeling and simulations; nano-

materials and nano-structures; novel approaches to sensing;

manufacturing and packaging. A banquet was held at COSI

and featured an exciting and inspiring talk by Professor Lonnie

Thompson entitled, “Global Climate Change: A Paleoclimate

Perspective from the World’s Highest Mountains”. The next

IMCS will be held in 2010 in Perth, Australia.

69th Annual Conference on Glass Problems

The 69th Annual Conference on Glass Problems will be held

on November 3 – 6, 2008 at the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow.

Dr. Charles H. Drummond, Director and Associate Professor,

says that the four-day meeting is expected to draw 300 – 400

domestic and foreign attendees from the glass industry and

suppliers to the glass industry. “This meeting is the largest glass

meeting the United States and has a tradition of discussing the

current issues facing the glass industry,” says Drummond.

The Glass Problems Conference, sponsored by Ohio State

since 1947, is believed to be the longest running university-

sponsored meeting in the industry. The meeting occurs every

year at Ohio State. Topics this year include firing and modeling

help contribute to keeping us at the forefront of technological

advancement and may even spark a breakthrough that changes

the way we live.”

The symposium was held Sept. 18-20, 2008 by Sandia National

Laboratories at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque,

and will examine emerging nanoelectric devices, cognitive

engineering, drug delivery systems, and understanding and

countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

F a c u l t y N e w s , c o n ’ t



of glass furnaces, refractories

used in glass melting and

environmental issues. In

addition, short courses and

a workshop on safety are

planned. Tabletop displays

by suppliers to the glass

industry and hospitality

suites are part of the

meeting and promote a free

exchange of ideas between

glass manufactures. Further

information, registration,

and hotel reservation forms

can be found on the web site:

glassproblems.com.

Glass threads by this year’s Glass Problems Conference featured artist Mary Ann “Toots” Zinsky, © 1988 Toledo Museum of Art.

Students

Senior Scholar Recognition Awards Recognizing outstanding senior students.

Jonathan OrsbornJennifer Payler

Outstanding Junior Scholar Recognizing an outstanding junior student.

Greg Ebersole

George St. Pierre Award For scholarship and professional activities

in the MSE department.

Sarah Bertke

Faculty

Professor Emeritus Robert Rapp presented lectures at the

Norwegian Advanced Institute for Science and Techology

in Trondheim in September 2007. In October, he traveled

to Korea to serve on an External Advisory Committee for

MSE at KAIST (Korean Advanced Institute for Science and

Technology). Bob was also named an honorary member of

the Japan Institute of Metals in March 2008.

Former Assistant Professor Ju Li, now on faculty at the

University of Pennsylvania MSE department, won the Hardy

Award.

Nitin Padture won the Fulrath Award in 2007, as well as an

award from ACerS.

Robert Snyder, former chair of the department and current

chair of the MSE dept at Georgia Tech, was awarded the

TMS Educator Award for his leadership and contributions

to education in MSE.

Honors &Awards

MSE Faculty Honored at College Awards ‘07-’08

MSE faculty were honored to receive the following awards at

the College of Engineering’s 2007-2008 awards program and

banquet.

Charles E. MacQuigg Award, presented by students to faculty

members who have demonstrated their interest in and willingness

to help students:

Charles H. Drummond III

Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award, recognizing a team

from at least two different departments who has established a

record of excellence in interdisciplinary research:

Edward “Ted” CollingsRobert Wagoner

Scott Faculty Award, honoring a senior faculty member who

has achieved both national and international status as a leading

educator and researcher:

James Williams

Robert Wagoner received the AIME Honorary Member award,

one of the highest honors AIME bestows on an individual.

The citation states: “For research accomplishments in

the mechanical behavior of materials, as an educator of

generations of students in these areas, and for reforming

AIME toward a sustainable future.”

Jim Williams was awarded the TMS Institute of Metals Lecturer

and Robert Franklin Mehl Award at the TMS Annual Meeting

in March 2008.

George St. Pierre and Sarah Bertke

Somnath Ghosh, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and

Adjunct Professor of MSE, will be hosting the 10th U.S. National

Congress on Computational Mechanics. The Congress will be

held in Columbus, OH July 16-19, 2009. For more, please visit

usnccm-10.eng.ohio-state.edu.


ASM/TMS Chapter’s Ernie W. Christin AwardFor the student who best demonstrates how

industrial experience has influenced his or her

educational development.

Kent Pullins

Mars G. Fontana AwardTo the outstanding senior scholar conducting

research in metallurgy.

Tyler Rolfes

Foundry Educational Foundation Scholarship RecipientsJuniors, ‘07-’08 Sophomore

Daniel Owsley Daniel CampbellEvan StandishCraig Vanderbilt

Alan J. Markworth Memorial AwardTo the student who best reflects the personal and professional

talents of Professor Markworth.

Jessica Wolever

H o n o r s & A w a r d s , c o n ’ t

Kent Pullins,right, receives the

Christin award from last year’s

recipient, Tyler Rolfes.

Among 415 students participating in the 2008 Denman Undergraduate

Research Forum, held in May were MSE undergraduate students Abby McKain, Zachary Warchol, Katrina Altman, Caesar Buie, and Justin Bennett. The Forum is an opportunity to showcase outstanding student

research and encourage all undergraduates to participate in research as a

value-added element of their education.

Students were judged by faculty, corporate,

and external judges, with winners receiving

cash awards. Throughout the day the five MSE

students displayed posters detailing their research,

and answered questions from judges and the

university public.

Congratulations go to Caesar Buie, whose

project “Investigation of NiTi Dental Alloys”

earned second place in the Forum’s Engineering

category. Caesar’s project advisors

were MSE Professor William Clark

and William A. Brantley, Director

of the Graduate Program in Dental

Materials at OSU.

The Department Chair’s Award To the outstanding senior scholar

in the Materials Science and

Engineering program.

Katrina Altman

General Student Awards

Holly Oliver won third place

in the 2007-2008 NexTech Fuel

Cell Essay Contest.

Bradley A. Meibers was a 2008 ASM Materials Education

Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship Recipient. Brad was

awarded the George A. Roberts Scholarship at the MS&T

Leadership Luncheon in October, 2008.

Ed Herderick won the Diamond Award for Graduate

Excellence in Materials Science from the Basic Science Division

of the American Ceramic Society at the MS&T conference in

Pittsburgh in October 2008. The award was based on his work

“Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Metal-Oxide-

Metal Heterojunction Nanowires”. His advisor is Prof. Nitin

Padture.

Rudy Buchheit and Katrina Altman

Denman Undergraduate Research Forum

Clockwise, from bottom: Abby McKain (advised by Patricia Morris), Justin Bennet (advised by Katharine Flores), and Caesar Buie (advised by William Clark and William A. Brantley)



MSE Students Receive Women in Engineering Awards at February Banquet

First-year Certificate of

Achievement

Yifan Jiang Tiffany Ngan Jacqueline Ohmura

Outstanding Academic Award

Sarah Bertke - Caterpillar, Inc.

Karen Domas - Honda R&D

Elizabeth Martin - EWI

Olivia Rumpke - Cummins

Katie Sherer - Northrop

Grumman

Stacey Vansickle -

ArcelorMittal

Jessica Wolever -

ArcelorMittal

Top Academic Award

Katrina Altman -

ArcelorMittal

Thank you for your service!

The following students gave generously of their time and

talents to serve as MSE Club officers in 2007-2008:

Zack Warchol, PresidentAbby McKain, Vice President

Sarah Bertke, TreasurerLeslie Andrews, Secretary

Scholarships

Our students benefit greatly from the generosity of our donors! The funds provided through these scholarships are a key tool used to attract and retain

top-notch students. Perhaps as a student you received one of these scholarships or would like to aid our students as they pursue a degree. If so, please

contact us for information on how you can help (numbers in parentheses indicate the number of students receiving funds in ‘08-’09).

John T. Boyd Scholarship (7)

George D. Brush Scholarship (3)

Ceramic Scholarship Fund (1)

W. E. Cramer Scholarship (1)

Dana J. Demorest Scholarship (2)

Arthur H. Dierker Scholarship (1)

Roger W. Edmonson Scholarship (3)

Jonathan William Ellinger

Memorial Scholarship (2)

Mars G. Fontana Scholarship (3)

H.V. Glunz Scholarship (12)

Carrie Maykuth Gordon Scholarship (3)

John Arthur and Theodore H. Harley

Family Scholarship (3)

Honda Research Institute (HRI)

USA Scholarship (1)

Harley C. and Elizabeth K. Lee

Endowment (5)

Charles R. Morin Scholarship (10)

Edward Orton, Jr. Ceramic

Foundation Scholarship (3)

Gordon W. Powell Scholarship (3)

Ralston Russell Undergraduate

Scholarship (2)

Robert L Snyder Scholarship (4)

Rudolph Speiser Fund (1)

Joseph W. Spretnak

Memorial Scholarship (2)

George R. St. Pierre Scholarship

Enhancement (2)

Arthur S. Watts Scholarship (4)

Douglas C. Williams Scholarship (1)

Howard Patterson Zeller Scholarship (1)

Ph.D. Student Lanlin Zhang Earns Perfect 4.0!

Ph.D. candidate Lanlin Zhang (advisor

Henk Verweij) will graduate this Fall

with a perfect 4.0 GPA! Ms Zhang, whose

hometown is Nanjing in east China, earned

her Bachelor’s degree from Fudan University

in Shanghai, majoring in materials science.

After graduating with Honors, she joined

our graduate program in September 2003.

Under the supervision of Dr. Verweij,

she is currently collaborating with the

ElectroScience Laboratory to create highly

innovative ceramic antenna structures.

Says Lanlin, “I am very proud to be one

of the pioneers to realize this sophisticated

antenna, from a design originated on paper, by using advanced

ceramic processing.”

Lanlin finds the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of materials science

compelling. “The professors have contributed to my learning by always

responding to my questions with kindness and patience,” says Lanlin. “In

addition, I enjoy the stimulating academic environment and cozy home-away-

from-home atmosphere created by all the professors, students, and staff.”

In her spare time, Lanlin watches movies, enjoys yoga, swimming, and reading

National Geographic magazine. A former hobby was making pastries, “until I

realized it was very difficult to reach the equilibrium between calories burned

and calories consumed!”

Ph.D. candidate Lanlin Zhang with Dept. Chair Rudy Buchheit


Updates

1950’s

Robert (Bob) Henning (BS ‘54) retired

in 1995 from Sandia National Labs.

Bob was recipient of the 2003 ASM

International Putnam Award and

served for 25 years as the treasurer

of the Albuquerque Chapter of ASM.

Bob now lives in Los Lunas, NM.

John P. Hirth (MS ‘53) was awarded the

position of MRS Fellow, 2007-2008.

1960’s

Robert Eppich (MS ‘61) is currently

active as a consultant in the metal

casting industry.

Larry Hench (BC ‘61, PhD ‘64) was

awarded the OSU Alumni Association’s

‘Highest Professional Achievement’

award in November 2007.

AlumniNews R&D Americas, Inc. Rowdy resides in

Marysville, Ohio with wife Kelly and

children Ethan and Sydney. He also

serves on the MSE External Advisory

Committee and is past chair of ASM

Columbus Chapter.

Scott MacKenzie (BS ‘82) was named a

Fellow of ASM at the recent MS&T

Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.

Guy Raynaud (PhD ‘82) received the 2007

MSE Departmental Distinguished

Alumni Award in October 2007.

1990’s

Mark DeBruin (BS ‘98) lives in

Youngsown, OH and works as a high

school math teacher.

Brent Harle (MS ‘92) is married with

three kids, ages 5, 9 & 10. Now living

near Calgary, Alberta and working in

northern Alberta on the Horizon Oil

Sands Project since Sept. 2003.

Christopher Holt (MS ‘97) is president

/owner of Holt Scientific LLC

(holtscientific.com) in Bexley, OH.

Michael Launsbach (BS ‘91) works as

an Engineering Manager with Alcoa

Power and Propulsion - Howmet

Castings in Exeter, Devon UK.

Roger Cheong-Ling Tai (PhD ‘92) is Vice

President of Gemalto Limited N.V. in

Hong Kong.

Matthew Tangeman (BS ‘91) is President

of Custom Glass Machinery Ltd. in

Columbus, OH. Matthew recently

formed Custom Glass Machinery Ltd

to bring digital ceramic frit printing

technology and other related proceses

to the glass industry throughout North

America.

Mary Terfler Ticknor (MS ‘96) recently

resigned from Honda of America

Manufacturing after 19+ years. She

is currently enrolled in the Master of

Education program at OSU. She will

earn her Integrated Science licensure

Summer 2009. Her goal is to teach

high school physics and hopefully

introduce or strengthen existing high

school material science classes.

Michael Vinarcik (MS ‘90) is a Trim

Engineer with Ford in Dearborn, MI.

Send us your updates!

What’s happening in your life? Promotions,

awards, honors, retirement, children and more;

if you’d like to let others in the MSE community

know, please complete the on-line form found on

the web at “mse.osu.edu/alumni”. If you like, we’ll

post your update on the web site and include it in

next year’s Watts News!

1970’s

John Alexander (BS ‘77) is working

with AK Steel Corp. and lives in West

Chester, OH.

Peter Blau (PhD ‘79),

in recognition

of over twenty-

five years of

contributions to

the field of friction,

lubrication and

wear, was named

in May 2008 a Fellow

of the Society of Tribologists and

Lubrication Engineers (STLE). Over

the course of his career, launched by

graduate work under the mentorship

of Prof. David Rigney, Peter has

also been elected a fellow of ASM

International and ASTM International.

After leaving OSU in 1979, his career

took him to the National Bureau of

Standards (now NIST) and to Oak

Ridge National Laboratory, where

he now leads the Tribology Research

User Center in the Materials Science

and Technology Division. The second

edition of Peter’s book “Friction

Science and Technology: Concepts

and Applications” was published in

October 2008 by CRC/Taylor and

Francis Press.

James Houseman

(PhD ‘70) was

awarded the

OSU College

of Engineering

D i s t i n g u i s h e d

Alumnus Award

for his involvement

in several

professional and civic organizations.

1980’s

Rowdy Joseph (BS ‘86)

is Chief Engineer

and Manager

of the Vehicle

Research Dept in

the Motorcycle

Division for Honda Rowdy Joseph

Peter Blau

James Houseman



He was elected to the College of Fellows

of the Engineering Society of Detroit

in 2008; also will be receiving the Allan

Ray Putnam Service Award from ASM

International at the Fall 2008 MS&T.

Michael just completed his second

term as ASM Detroit Chairman (was

past chairman in 2001-2002).

Leslie Wood (BS ‘96) is married with

three children (two girls and a boy).

He was recently promoted to Director,

Internatioinal Business Development

at Amsted Rail responsible for technical

and commercial activities for wheels,

axles, and wheel sets around the globe.

Leslie lives in Oswego, IL.

Joan Kertz Yurko (BS ‘99) received her MS

in Materials Science and Engineering

from Massachusetts Institute of

Technology in 2001, married to Jim

Yurko in 2002, gave birth to baby boy

Jake in 2006, and passed Patent Bar

Exam in 2007. Joan and her family live

in Holland, MI.

2000’s

Brian Barnhart (BS ‘05) was on the 2003

Homecoming Court at OSU. After

graduation, Brian hiked the 2,700

mile Pacific Crest Trail. He currently

works as a metallurgist in Pittsburgh

at Union Electric Steel Corporation,

while pursuing a MBA at CMU. Union

Electric Steel is the world’s leading

manufacturer of forged and cast-

hardened steel and iron rolls.

Michael Baughman (BS ‘08) works

with Caterpillar as a Senior Associate

Engineer.

Lukmaan Bawazer (MS ‘04) is earning

his PhD at the Univ. of California,

Santa Barbara.

Mohit Bhatia (PhD ‘07) works as a

Process Engineer for Intel Corp. in

Hillsboro, OR.

Jonathan Blank (PhD ‘08) works with

GE Aviation as a Materials Application

Engineering Team Leader.

Elizabeth Brannon (BS ‘08) works as

an engineer with CCTechnologies in

Dublin, OH.

Matthew Chalker (BS ‘08) currently lives

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The passing of dear friends

On February 2,

2008, Charles “Chuck” Morin

died peacefully at

his home in Aurora,

IL. Born in 1947

in Burlington, VT,

Chuck attended

OSU and met his

wife, Beth, whom

he married in 1968.

He earned both his

BS and MS degrees

in Metallurgical

Engineering at OSU and went on to hold a

number of key positions in industry. The full

text of Chuck’s obituary may be viewed through

the link found at mse.osu.edu/department/

news/.

On February 20, 2008, Dr. Franklin H. Beck Sr. passed away in Columbus, OH. Franklin

is survived by his loving wife of 64 years,

Jean C. Beck, as well as many children and

grandchildren. He served the MSE department

for many years, being widely known for his

work and publications on the topic of corrosion.

The full text of Frnklin’s obituary may be

viewed through the link found at mse.osu.edu/

department/news/.

Gary Keller (MetEng 1954) passed away at his

home in Palace Verdes, CA in 2007.

in Columbus performing research

for Professor Nitin Padture. He and

his fiance are preparing to move to

Melbourne, Australia where Matt

will be attending the University of

Melbourne for his Masters in Cultural

Materials Conservation, beginning in

March 2009.

Rakesh Dhaka (MS ‘07) is working with

US Steel Corp. as a Research Project

Engineer. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

Adam Dyer (BS ‘08) works as a Process

Engineer researching Stainless and

Silicon Steel processing with ATI -

Allegheny Ludlum in Brackenridge,

PA.

Andrew Emge (PhD ‘08) works as an

Engineer/Technologist with GE and

lives in Cincinnati, OH. He and his

wife are looking forward to the arrival

of their first child in Fall 2008.

Scott Gallagher (BS ‘02) works with

Panhandle Energy in Indianapolis,

IN where Scott serves as a Manager

of Engineering & Construction.

He provides overall direction for

Panhandle’s major capital projects.

Andrew Geiger (BS ‘05) works as a

Senior Sales Executive with Keyence

Corp. in Rolling Meadows, IL where

he is in charge of capitol sales of digital

light microscopy equipment.

Jon Guerrieri (BS ‘04) is working

as a Process Metallurgist at RTI

International Metals Inc. in Niles,

OH.

Andy Hohman (BS ‘00) Andy married

Jaylene Hade in Sept., 2006 and they

are expecting their first child in Spring

2008.

Tutty Hussin (MS ‘02) works with Alcoa

Fastening Systems in Torrance, CA.

She lives in the Los Angeles area where

she is married and has one daughter.

Sarah Jordan (BS ‘99, MS ‘04) Sarah is

the division metallurgist Commercial

Metals Corporation’s heat treating

division (Impact Metals). She works

to improve the heat treating of round

bars and structural steel used in

everything from cranes to rifles. Sarah

recently implemented and received

certification for ISO 9001 at the

Youngstown plant and is responsible

for the recently started implementation

at the Alabama facility. Sarah and

husband Mark Debuin (BS ‘98) live in

Youngstown, OH.

Hong Jin Kim (PhD ‘07) is a Senior

Engineer at Samsung Electronics in

South Korea. Hong Jin will serve as an

editor of the ‘Journal of The Korean


The Formation of The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at

The Ohio State University

On July 1, 1988, the Department of Materials Science and

Engineering, MSE, was officially created following approval

by several bodies in the College of Engineering, the University

Faculty, and the Board of Trustees. Simultaneously, the

Departments of Ceramic Engineering and Metallurgical

Engineering were dissolved into the new MSE department

and the combined faculties became the first

faculty of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State

University. But a great deal of discussion and planning during

the preceding eighteen months was necessary to bring about

this change.

During the 1970’s and early 1980’s, most of the departments of

metallurgy and metallurgical engineering in the USA changed

their names to MSE or incorporated materials into their names

and programs. For example, MIT changed its name from

metallurgy to MSE and Carnegie-Mellon changed its name

to MEMS, Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science.

The traditional professional metals societies followed suit. The

American Society for Metals (ASM) became ASM International

and changed the name of its center from Metals Park to Materials

Park. Similarly, The Metallurgical Society of AIME became The

Metals, Minerals, and Materials Society. These changes came

about because there was a growing national need to integrate

the study of metals, ceramics, polymers, and electronic materials

at a fundamental level. At most universities, this responsibility

fell to the metallurgy/metallurgical engineering department

because it was the only existing department focused on the

study of the relationships between the micro- and macro-

structure and properties of materials and the role of processing

in developing optimum properties for complex and demanding

material applications. So those departments smoothly became

MSE departments with a moderate amount of concern about

the underlying curriculum

implications, e.g., the need

for a stronger organic

chemistry base in polymer

science, etc.

By the mid-1980’s almost

all of the departments of

metallurgy had adopted

the MSE banner with

appropriate broadening

of faculties and academic

programs. Only a small

number of universities

had departments of

ceramic engineering

and some of those did

not have a department

of metallurgy, e.g.,

Alfred University. The

existing departments

of ceramic engineering

retained their separate

identity as did the

principal professional

body, The American

Ceramic Society.

20th

Ann iversary

Faculty of the newly formed Department of Materials Science and Engineering (c. 1989)

Back row, L-R: Sheikh Akbar, Valerie Powers, Prabhat Gupta, Dave Rigney, Yogesh Sahai, Carrol Mobley, Gary Dodge.

Second row, L-R: Jim Cawley, Pat Gallagher, John Lannutti, Hamish Fraser, Bob Rapp.

Front row, L-R: Suliman Dregia, Claire MacDonald, Lorie Boomershine, Donna Smith, Susan Smialowska, George St. Pierre,

Eric Kreidler, Glyn Meyrick, William Clark, Roland “Bud” Farrar.

Also part of the faculty at this time: Peter Anderson, Franklin Beck, Glenn Daehn, Mike Drory, Chuck Drummond, Bill Lee,

Dennis Ready, Paul Shewmon, and Rob Wagoner.

The gifts for a 20th wedding anniversary are said to be china and platinum. These are especially fitting as we look back on the joining of the Department of Ceramic Engineering and the Department of Metallurgical Engineering! Former Chair George St. Pierre offers his thoughts on the merger and the resulting Department of Materials Science and Engineering.



At Ohio State, the situation was made complex because there

were two strong and long-standing separate departments

of ceramic engineering and metallurgical engineering with

independent faculties, student bodies, and degree programs.

Both departments had academic and research programs

focused on structure/processing/

properties relationships and

associated separate laboratories.

Dennis Readey chaired the Cer.E.

department and George St.Pierre

chaired the Met.E. department.

A healthy respect and spirit of

cooperation existed between the

two departments. Nevertheless,

the faculty of Met.E. felt a

strong necessity to incorporate

its programs within the context

of materials in the manner of

its peer departments at other

universities. On the other hand,

the faculty of Cer.E. was more

comfortable with the status

quo. Initially, Met.E. opened

discussions with Cer.E. on the

possibility of creating new degree

programs in materials science

and engineering combining the

efforts of both departments. Both

faculties engaged in this activity

enthusiastically with helpful

exchanges between all members

including, in particular, Kathy

Faber, David Rigney, John Hirth,

Dennis Readey, and George

St.Pierre.

Although some progress was made along those lines, it became

increasingly clear to the Met.E. faculty that a strong focus

on materials could only be established by the inclusion of

materials in its name. Whenever the possibility of combining

the two departments to encourage enhanced degree programs

in ceramics, metallurgy, polymers, and electronic materials

was introduced, it was quickly tabled. The Met.E. faculty

elected to follow the course of requesting to change its name

to the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials

Science. This left Ceramic Engineering free to maintain its own

independent status and to request an appropriate name change

as well. Dr. St.Pierre consulted with departmental alumni and

with the Met.E. industrial advisory committee. Concurrently,

he met with faculty members and chairs throughout the

College of Engineering including the Departments of Electrical,

Chemical, Mechanical, Ceramic, Civil, Industrial, and Welding

Engineering with the proposal for a departmental name

change incorporating materials science. After some discussion,

most of the sister departments adopted in principle the concept

of adding materials science to the name of the department

of metallurgical engineering. Dean of Engineering Donald

Glower called a meeting of his Executive Council at which

Met.E.’s proposal for a name

change was to be discussed.

Several members brought up

a discussion of the need to

bring materials science and

engineering into sharper focus.

The concept of merging Cer.

E. and Met.E. to form a new

materials-oriented department

was introduced by the Chair

of Electrical Engineering, H.C.

Ko. Although Cer.E. had serious

reservations there was a strong

sentiment by the other college

representatives to consider

such an approach. Dean Glower

asked to change the Met.E.

proposal for a name change to

a college proposal for a merger

of Cer.E. and Met.E. to form a

new department of MSE. The

proposal was approved by the

Dean’s Executive Committee

which included the Chairs

of all College of Engineering

departments.

It was a stressful time for both

departments as they worked

toward the creation of a new joint department. Several hurdles

remained to be cleared. First, the faculty of the College of

Engineering gave its approval to the proposal. Then, the

University Faculty Senate voted in favor of the proposal. Finally,

President Edward Jennings and Provost Myles Brand presented

the proposal to the Board of Trustees. The approval process

moved surprisingly fast considering the consecutive approvals

that were required. So in the late Spring of 1988 the Board

approved formation of the new MSE department effective July

1, 1988. The combined faculties of Ceramic and Metallurgical

Engineering elected George St.Pierre as the chair of the new

MSE department and the Dean, Provost, and Board of Trustees

made the appointment to take effect on July 1, 1988.

Thus, in the Autumn of 1988, the new Department of Materials

Science and Engineering began by building on its strengths

in both ceramics and metallurgy with the continuance of

Events in 1988:- George H. W. Bush defeats Michael Dukakis

in Presidential Election

- Sonny Bono elected Mayor of Palm Springs, CA

- Aloha Flight 243 loses several yards of its upper

fuselage while in flight

- Iran-Iraq War ends

- First prototype B-2 Stealth Bomber revealed

- Benazir Bhutto sworn in as Prime Minister of

Pakistan

Obits:- May 21, Sammy Davis Jr., singer/actor

- July 27, Frank Zamboni, inventor

- August 14, Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker

- November 27, John Carradine, actor

- December 6, Roy Orbison, singer

Prices in 1988:- First-class stamp: $0.22

- Gallon of regular gas: $1.08

- Dozen eggs: $0.89

- Movie ticket: $3.50

- PC with 30 MB hard drive, 512K RAM, &

monitor: $1,249

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MSE Day & Scholarship Competition Winners

Friday, May 2, 2008, the

MSE department hosted

high school sophomores

and juniors and their

parents for our annual

MSE Day, a time of

introduction and

exploration of the field

of materials. Our guests

received an

overview of

the major, its

specializations,

and inform-

ation on job

prospects. Following this introduction the students

rotated through a series of brief demonstrations that

highlighted an important materials concept.

High School Teachers Learn New Approaches to Teaching Science

at “Materials Camp”

Materials are part of our lives every day. But

not many incoming college students know

what materials science is or what materials

science engineers do.

Faculty from Ohio State and officials from

ASM International are trying to change

that, by training high school science

teachers to take the science of materials

into their classrooms and laboratories.

This summer, high school

science teachers from across the

nation arrived at Ohio State for

the first ASM Advanced Materials Camp for Teachers.

The Advanced Materials Camp provided classroom

lesson plans and laboratory protocols as well as teacher

lab training, all free of charge to the participating

teachers.

ASM, the Materials Information

Society, is leading a national

effort to enlist the next generation

of scientists and engineers by training

high school teachers to introduce

materials science courses into high school

classrooms, to encourage more students

to prepare for careers in the STEM fields

and to build awareness of the exciting

opportunities in these areas.

Ohio State’s Advanced Materials Camp

was the only professional development

workshop of the 22 camps held

throughout North America that focused

on more advanced materials training of

teachers. All of the 25 teachers attending

the Ohio State camp

have previously

attended an ASM

Materials Camp for

Teachers, and plan to introduce materials

science into their own classrooms.

The Ohio State advanced camp provided

more in-depth training and new

instruction methods and laboratory

Deve lopment

experiences for the teachers to take back

not only to their own classrooms but to

their fellow teachers as well. Teachers

attending the Ohio State camp came

from eleven different states.

Materials science and engineering is an

interdisciplinary field that studies the

fundamental properties of matter, in order to create

materials, processes and components that improve

daily life. Materials science includes

elements of applied physics and

chemistry, two courses often taught

in high schools. By training teachers

to take the study of physics and

chemistry farther by introducing

materials science labs and

experiments into their classrooms,

ASM hopes that more students

will choose materials science and

engineering for their careers.

For more info, contact Dr. Glenn

Daehn at mse.osu.edu/faculty/daehn.

Few incoming college students know about materials science...OSU Materials and ASM International are working to change that by training high school science teachers to take MSE back to their classrooms. MSE undergrad Justin Bennet explains shape-memory alloy and its unique

behavior to high school students taking part in MSE Day.



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Southwestern Ohio Chapter, Dale O. Walsh

American Foundrymans Society Central Ohio Chapter, Edmond Krohn

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The MSE department wishes to thank each of its supporters for their generosity. It is by means of such kindness that this program is able to provide our

students with the high quality education that serves them so well. The department wishes to acknowledge each of our donors; if we have inadvertently

left off a donor’s name, please accept our apologies and contact us so we may correct our records.

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If you would like to learn more about how you might help support the department’s educational and research efforts, please contact the department at (614) 292-2553, e-mail us at [email protected],

or visit mse.osu.edu/alumni.

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OperationsGlobal Impact for Cardinal Health

Employees Care Program

Susan B GreenbergerDr. Prabhat K GuptaAmerican Honda Motor Car CompanyDr. Robert and Heidi RappDr. Larry Leroy HenchDr. William Herrnstein IIIDr. John and Martha HirthDr. James and Beverlee HousemanRobert Paul Johnston JrDr. Mary Catherine JuhasKing Saud UniversityL H Marshall CompanyCharles George MayerDaniel Edward Moderick, Jr. Dr. John MorralDavid L Rohe

Dr. Robert Edward SchafrikGregory Fritz SchieleitDr. David StahlElizabeth Ann and R Walter SteurDawn Garrow StubleskiGeorge and Nadine ValcoJoseph Michael VaneckoThe Vanguard Group FoundationJohn Allen VarholaDr. Yunzhi WangWashington Mutual Foundation

Matching Gift ProgramDr. James Anthony WoolleyDr. Gerald Wayne Worth

Social Networking: MSE Presence on the Web

Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Ning, Twitter, and blogs may seem

like teen-age time-wasters to the uninitiated, but for college

recruiters, social networking sites are the most efficient and

cost-effective means of getting their message to their audience.

In June, Mark Cooper, MSE graduate program coordinator,

and Megan Daniels, MSE undergraduate advisor, attended a

conference entitled Increasing Enrollment and Retention via

Technology: Blending High Tech and High Touch, hosted by

Innovative Educators of Boulder, Colorado. Web designers,

MSE undergrad Justin Bennet explains shape-memory alloy and its unique behavior to high school students taking part in MSE Day.

Following the demonstrations, our guests took part in a

scholarship competition. The students answered essay questions

on materials related topics such as “How has materials science

and engineering helped or advanced your favorite hobby or

pastime?” The essays were read by various MSE department

personnel and ranked according to creativity, communication,

and application of basic materials knowledge.

Two of our guests were winners of the MSE Day Essay

Competition, each winning a $1000 scholarship if they pursue

a degree in MSE at Ohio State.

recruitment professionals, and inform-

ation technology experts explained the

need for colleges to move into the arena

of the Web 2.0, as today’s students’ use

of the technology has become second-

nature. (See “MSE Undergrads are

Blogging” on page 20)

Promoting materials science and

engineering to high school students

as an educational option can be

daunting. Open houses and personal visits to the

department are helpful, but also time-consuming and limiting.

A free YouTube account now allows the department to post

videos of labs, demos, and interviews with faculty and students.

Viewers searching for information on shape memory alloys are

even entertained by MSE’s rendition of TBDBITL’s Script Ohio

(this video alone has received nearly 600 visits in two months).

We invite you to “drop by” our networking sites! Look for MSE

on several social networks, username “osumaterials.”

YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/OSUMaterials

Facebook: search “ohio state materials”

Blog: osumaterials.wordpress.com

Social network: osumaterials.ning.com

Thank you Ceramphysics!

Thank you to Ceramphysics, Inc. ([email protected])

for donating a multi-year collection of Ferroelectrics

to the Science and Engineering Library.

Grad School? Save the date!

The MSE department will host its annual Graduate

Program Open House February 5 & 6, 2009. For

details, visit mse.osu.edu/goh.


StudentNews

Back row, L-R: Matt Stuck, Eric Sher, Caesar Buie, Kent Pullins, Mitch Bruns, Usiosefe Aimiuwu; Third row, L-R: Zach Brown, Ally Stahl, Adam Dyer, Mike Baughman, Zack Warchol, Mike Gram; Second row, L-R: Melissa Walker, Libby Brannon, Karen Domas, Beau Billet, Matt Chalker, Tyler Rolfes; Front row,

L-R: Katie Sherer, Katrina Altman, Abby McKain, Leslie Andrews, Sarah Bertke, Jessica Wolever, Nat SheppardAlso graduating: Tim Wysong. Photo by Geoff Hulse.

MSE Undergrads are Blogging

Several undergraduate MSE students,

including two new incoming

freshmen, are sharing their student

experiences on a common blog:

osumaterials.wordpress.com.

Blogging has become more common

for the recruitment and retention of

college students as they seek authentic

information and advice from their

peers. Today’s millennial generation

is less likely than previous ones to

respond well to traditional print and

web material, which they perceive as public relations hype. They

use forums such as facebook, YouTube, and MySpace to get the

real story from each other. In response, the MSE department is

making an effort to have a presence in these arenas.

If you have materials-related videos, articles, and photos that

you would like to share with prospective and current students,

please send these to Megan Daniels at [email protected].

Congratulations 2008 Seniors!

Undergrad Summer Internship in Ceramic Engineering

Third-year MSE undergraduate

student Evan Uchaker spent his

summer as a ceramic engineering

intern with Morgan Electro Ceramics

in Bedford, Ohio, making prototype

parts for customers, and assisting in

their development and production.

“Every order is different, as per the

customer’s request,” says Uchaker. “I

have learned a great deal about the

properties of PZT (lead zirconium

titanate) and production methods,

such as: sputtering, dicing, firing,

screen printing, and photolithography.”

Uchaker met representatives of the company at OSU’s

Engineering Expo last autumn, followed up with an email,

and received the internship in the spring. As result of his

summer experiences, Uchaker says he is considering an MSE

specialization in either ceramic or electronic materials.



Junior Seeks to Serve

MSE 3rd-year student Justin Bennett began working on shape

memory alloys research with

faculty member Katharine Flores

during spring quarter of his

freshman year. While learning

metallurgical preparation and

microscopy, Justin developed

a method for shaping memory

wire into a “Script Ohio.”

Justin regularly takes the

very popular shape memory

wire demonstration to student

recruitment events for the department.

This past year, as a sophomore, Justin was the youngest MSE

student to present his research at the university’s prestigious

Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. In addition,

Justin and MSE classmate Christopher Eastman worked as

undergraduate teaching assistants for the Fundamentals of

Engineering Honors program.

Beyond his studies Justin belongs to many organizations,

including St. Paul’s Outreach with whom he shares housing

with members in a dedicated Catholic lifestyle. Through this

group he has worked on California’s Pacific Crest Trail in the

High Sierra and has received mission training in Minnesota.

REU Provides Valuable Experience

Elizabeth Martin, a third-year MSE

undergraduate student, enjoyed a

California summer participating in a

Research Experience for Undergraduates

(REU) at the University of California,

Berkeley. Her REU research focused on

molecular biology, and Martin, who will

pursue a graduate degree in biomedical

engineering, believes her degree in MSE

with a specialization in Biomaterials and

the summer research experience will

strengthen her grad school application.

Summer REUs, which usually are funded by the National

Science Foundation are available for US undergraduate students

in all academic areas at universities around the country. REU

students typically receive housing, travel expenses, and a

stipend for 10 weeks in addition to the valuable experience of

working with research groups.MSE Royalty!

Gregory Ebersole, a fourth-year

MSE undergrad, was selected to

be on OSU’s Homecoming Court

for 2008. Homecoming Court

members are chosen based on

their leadership qualities, spirit,

integrity, and achievement

through their contributions and

involvement at Ohio State.

Ebersole’s extensive OSU

involvement includes being a

cabinet member of Phi Gamma

Delta fraternity and serving as a

presidential host greeting VIPs

at the home of OSU president

Gordon Gee. He has worked as a

summer orientation leader and as a physics TA for freshman

Morgan Electro Ceramics is a subsidiary of Morgan Crucible

Company. Their products are widely used in the automobile

(sensors), medical (ultrasound), and aquatic (radar)

industries.

honors engineering. Pursuing an MSE specialization in

biomaterials, a minor in general business, and pre-medicine

courses, Ebersole plans to continue his studies towards a PhD

in Biomedical Engineering.

A member of the highly-selective Sphinx Honorary, Ebersole

also received the MSE Department’s Outstanding Junior

Scholar Award last spring. Ebersole spent this past summer

in an internship with Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory near

Pittsburgh where he ran mechanical and material distortion

analysis of fuel elements in the reactor core and evaluated a new

finite element analysis program.

L-R: Clarrisa Yablinsky, Ben Morrow, Ed Herderick, and Andy Gledhill

show some Buckeye spirit at the top of Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh

after riding up the Duquesne Incline. They were in Pittsburgh for the

MS&T conference.


Alumni! Stay in touch!This Summer the MSE department launched its own social network at osumaterials.ning.com. The site seeks to link all members of the OSU Materials family and provide a place on the web where we can connect. Sign up is simple and free! When you register, be sure to join the Alumni Group within the network.

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accredited B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs in both

areas along with new degree programs in Materials Science

and Engineering. The combined faculty (See Fig. xx for a

photograph of some of its members.) worked in groups to

find opportunities for attracting and maintaining a strong

undergraduate and graduate student body, for consolidating

and enhancing some laboratories, and for pursuing programs

of faculty development and leading research.

Over the last twenty years, the Department of Materials

Science and Engineering has been successful in building on its

traditional strengths in atomic structure, physical and process

metallurgy, corrosion science, metal processing, mechanical

properties, ceramic processing, glass technology, and high-

temperature materials to develop enhanced programs of study

and research in computational approaches in materials science,

biomaterials and tissue engineering, electronic materials and

devices, and accelerated materials innovation and development

through a number of joint programs with other discipline

areas. The next twenty years will be equally exciting for the

MSE department with contnued improvements in the sensors,

structure characterization facilities, and small-scale in situ

instruments available for rapid analysis of materials, control of

processing, and prevention of failure.

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Society of Tribologists and Lubrication

Engineers’ through March, 2010. Also,

he recently gave an invited talk on the

‘46th Spring Conference of Korean

Society for Tribologists and Lubrication

Engineers’ Changwon University,

Gyeongnam, Korea,

June 19, 2008.

The talk title was

“ Un d e r s t a n d i n g

of Tribomaterial:

transfer, flow and

mixing”.

S u d h a k a r Mahajanam (PhD

‘05) is married

and working

as a Materials Engineer with

ConocoPhillips in Bartlesville, OK.

Ashley Manny (BS ‘07) works with Alcoa

Howmet in the Engineering Training

Program.

Abby McKain (BS ‘08) works in the

Edison Engineering Rotational

Program with General Electric in

Cleveland, OH.

Emily Meyer (BS ‘05) lives in Cincinatti

and works with Frost, Brown, Todd

as an Associate Attorney in the

Intellectual Property department.

Matthew Mottern (PhD ‘07) is working

with Intel and living in Hillsboro, OR.

Soumya Nag (PhD ‘08) is currently a

Post-Doc at the Univ. of North Texas

in Denton, TX.

Vishal Nazareth (MS ‘08) works as a

Materials Engineer with Del West in

Valencia, CA.

Barbara Padgett (PhD ‘08) is working for

CC Technologies (a DNV Company)

and lives in Columbus, OH.

Jayson Parrish (BS ‘07) is working with

Kohler Corp. as a Quality Engineer

and lives in Sheboygan, WI.

Paul Pavka (BS ‘06) spent the summer

of 2008 in Bayreuth, Germany where

he carried out mechanical testing and

characterization of different forms of

a triblock copolymer of styrene and

polyisobutylene, or “SIBS”.

Tyler Rolfes (BS ‘08) works as an Edison

Engineering Development Program

Associate with General Electric in

Cleveland, OH.

Gregory Thompson

(PhD ‘03) was

awarded the TMS

International Young

Leader Scholar

Award at the

March 2008 TMS

& AIME Awards

Presentation. Greg

received tenure and

was promoted to Associate Professor

in the Department of Metallurgical &

Materials Engineering, University of

Alabama, in August 2008.

Joshua Tuggle (MS ‘08) is working with

CC Technologies and lives in Grove

City, OH.

Kunal Vaed (MS ‘01) is an Operations

Strategy Associate with Booz Allen

Hamilton, a management consulting

firm in New York City. Kunal lives in

West New York, NJ.

Sudhakar Mahajanam

and his wife Sudha

at the 2007 NACE

Conference.

Matt Stuck (2008), Jon Hedrick (2007), Adam Dyer

(2008), and Usiosefe Aimiuwu (2008) show their

alumni spirit at the Fall 2008 Engineering Career

Expo. They were recruiting for ATI, Allegheny Ludlum.

Greg Thompson



institutes; other U.S. universities; and international universities and

laboratories in China, Germany, India, and United Kingdom.

Ohio State is already home to another NSF-funded materials-related

center, the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC),

which supports research in nanotechnology. Only eight universities

nationwide boast both an NSEC and a MRSEC: University of

California, Santa Barbara; Cornell University; Harvard University;

University of Pennsylvania; Northwestern University; University of

Massachusetts; University of Wisconsin; and now The Ohio State

University.

Prof. Nitin P. Padture of MSE is the founding Director of the CEM.

Other MSE faculty members participating in the CEM are: Profs.

Katharine M. Flores, Hamish L. Fraser, Patricia A. Morris, Steven A. Ringel (courtesy appointment in MSE) and Wolfgang Windl. Prof. Flores leads the education and outreach effort for the CEM.

To contact Dr. Nitin Padture, CEM Director, visit his web site at

mse.osu.edu/faculty/padture.

High-resolution transmission electron microscope image of Sr2FeMoO6 double perovskite epitaxial thin film on a SrTiO3 substrate. Image courtesy of F. Yang (Physics), P.M. Woodward (Chemistry), and H.L. Fraser (MSE)

E m e r g e n t M a t e r i a l s , f r o m p a g e 4

including DNA and protein separations are attractive. Using

soft-imprint pattern transfer techniques, it is even conceivable

that the nanostructure could be used as a master template to

transfer the pattern to other materials of interest. The isolated

nano-islands may also be used as substrates to be capped

with other materials of interest by deposition techniques,

which is the approach used with semiconductors to produce

structures with interesting optical and field-emission

properties. In general, because the self-patterned structure

is extremely inexpensive to manufacture and the features

are self-organizing, a wide realm of nanotechnology-based

applications could be impacted by this process.

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participants in that project come from the US Army, Navy,

and Air Force, as well as Boeing and Henkel Corporations.

The FCC is also collaborating with the Univ. of Virginia,

Univ of Hawaii, and Univ. of Southern Mississippi to look at

the discrepancies between the behavior in field atmospheric

exposures and accelerated laboratory tests such as salt spray

chambers. This work, funded by the Office of the Secretary

of Defense, has already revealed interesting interactions of

UV radiation, ozone, humidity, and salt contamination,

generating highly reactive species that play critical roles in

atmospheric corrosion of silver. Finally, the connection

between the FCC and DNV has been strengthened with

additional support for the DNV chair, which is being used

to study SCC of steel in ethanol, adhesion of polymer films

on steel, and electrochemical reduction of CO2.

Jerry Frankel and Narasi

Sridhar of DNV co-

authored the cover article

“Understanding Localized

Corrosion” for the Oct. 2008

edition of MaterialsToday.

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Above: SEM micrograph of the self-ordered nano-islands of GDC on YSZ.Below: Growth of islands outward from a single point showing self-catalytic nature.


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