Watts News 2007

20 th anniversary in 2008 --We’re preparing for our 20 th anniversary, join us as we celebrate! [p. 13] Materials • Science • and • Engineering

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Governor visits CAMM Gov. Ted Strickland is introduced to the incredible facilities housed in CAMM. For more, see page 3.

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Chair’s Letter Greetings everyone! I invite you to spend a few minutes browsing the 2007 edition of Watts News to catch up on the news in MSE at OSU. It has been a full year and there is a lot to report. Let me prime you with a few of the highlights. Our educational programs remain strong and stable, and there are two interesting developments I wanted to make you aware of. First, a small, but growing number of our courses are now being offered on distance basis. This format involves streaming audio and video lectures, web chats and electronic communications for homework and exams. Students earn regular course credit. It’s a fledgling effort now, but one we hope will grow into distance degree programs over the next several years. On another front, Prof. Glenn Daehn and Megan Daniels, our undergraduate academic advisor and recruiter, are working with the ASM Foundation to make MSE a lead site for the ASM Materials Camps for high school teachers. Materials Camps have been around for a number of years, and MSE has now hosted two. These camps are intensive week-long training sessions aimed at helping high school teachers teach materials science. Around the country, materials science classes have been introduced in the Albuquerque Public School system and in several schools in the state of Washington. This year, a Materials Science class will be taught at Westerville South High School here in Columbus, as well as Trotwood Madison High School in the Dayton area. In Ohio, the time is right for pushing the discipline to the high school level. New state science standards are forcing schools to develop new course content. Materials science is a natural extension of the physical science classes many high schoolers already take. The next teacher camp at MSE is planned for July 2008.

We are in the midst of a growth spurt in the area of biomaterials, and we are pleased to welcome Dr. Jianjun Guan to the faculty. Jianjun is inbound from a research faculty position at the University of Pittsburgh. His arrival is also discussed on page 8. We also have another biomaterials faculty position joint with the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department, and we hope to fill this position shortly. With the growth in faculty comes the need for growth in infrastructure. MSE has teamed with BME, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) and the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute to create the Center for Cell and Tissue Engineering. This center will be housed in 4000 square feet of new space in Fontana Labs and will be the home for facilities supporting cell culturing and characterization as well as processing and characterization of soft materials. I’d also like to report we are teaming with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in an initiative in advanced electronic materials and devices. Under this initiative, the two departments will work cooperatively to join the expertise and facilities in electronic materials processing in ECE with the advanced materials characterization facilities in MSE. At the core of the initiative are two positions for faculty who will be appointed in both departments. Both of these faculty searches are now well underway.

The MSE research enterprise forged ahead as strong as ever last year with research expenditures of nearly $12 million.

The MSE research enterprise forged ahead as strong as ever last year--actually a little stronger as research expenditures approached an all-time high of $12 million. Research in our core metals and ceramic materials programs remains strong. The computational materials On the cover science program is now having the impact we Atomistic model of a hydrotalcitealways hoped it would. Joining this faculty group based ion exchange compound. The substance is used as a corrosion is Dr. Jian-Cheng (J.-C.) Zhao from GE Global inhibiting pigment in anti-corrosive Research. More about J.-C. can be found on page coatings. 8 in the Faculty & Staff section.

All in all, it has been a busy, but productive year. We are looking forward to capitalizing on the opportunities these new initiatives have brought and expect another engaging year ahead. On behalf of the faculty and staff of the department, I hope your year is also productive and rewarding. If you happen to be on campus through the year for business or pleasure, please stop in and say hello. If your travel plans don’t bring you through Columbus, be sure to stay in touch. Best Regards,

Rudy Buchheit, Department Chair

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Special Guest Center for Accelerated Maturation of Materials Hosts Governor Strickland By Peter Collins Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut visited The Ohio State University on March 29, 2007 specifically to visit the Center for Accelerated Maturation of Materials (CAMM). The visit included a presentation and tour by Professor Hamish Fraser, an Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor, and Director of the CAMM. CAMM has developed numerous research programs that have led to significant industrial interactions and strong collaborations with National Laboratories. In addition, CAMM has worked to leverage the State investment through programs such as the Hayes Investment Fund and the Action Fund.

See “Governor” on page 4

Research News Advanced High Strength Steels By Robert H. Wagoner The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is at the forefront of academic research on advanced materials for transportation vehicles. Assisted by the Transportation Research Endowment Program (TREP) in the College of Engineering and the Center for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing of Automotive Components (CAMMAC), a cluster of new projects has just begun. This area promises exciting progress in helping the environment, improving personal safety and security, and conserving natural resources. Materials for transportation vehicles are evolving rapidly in order to reduce mass by increasing specific strength at affordable cost. Such materials offer many advantages: energy conservation, increased safety, and reduction of environmental impact. Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) offer the promise of amazing combinations of strength (for safety, light weight, lower emissions, and fuel consumption) and ductility (manufacturability, energy absorption). Strength and ductility usually vary inversely (Figure 1), so novel microstructures that increase both are revolutionary and highly desirable. AHSS are particularly promising for crash-resistant autobody structures, where stiffness, strength, and energy absorption are required in stamped parts.

See “Advanced Steels” on page 5

MSE graduate students Alison Polasik and Robert Williams discuss with Governor Stickland the capabilities available in the Campus Electron Optics Facility (CEOF), the facility used by CAMM for materials characterizations.

Contents Chair’s Letter, p. 2 Cutting-edge research, new faculty, innovative recruitment, and top-quality academics.

Special Guest, p. 3 The MSE department hosted Ohio’s governor as he toured CAMM.

Research News, p. 3 Next generation steel, insights into corrosion, a small but powerful antenna, and more.

Faculty & Staff, p. 8 New faculty arrive, retirements, and awards; learn more about changes in the department.

Honors & Awards, p. 10 We’re proud of our faculty and students and the recognition received for their hard work!

Alumni News, p. 12 Alumni updates, Metallurgy alum honored by College, and our 20th anniversary!

Development, p. 14 New approaches to recruitment have led to exciting opportunities for our department.

Student News, p. 16 It’s not just study and research for our students! Get a glimpse into our students’ lives.

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Director of the Center for the Accelerated Maturation of Materials (CAMM) and the Campus Electron Optics Facility (CEOF), Hamish Fraser talks with Ohio Governor Ted Stickland about the benefits of Third Frontier research carried out in the department.

While highlighting such programs and collaborations, the Governor’s visit included a tour of numerous electron microscopes and demonstrations of their use by faculty, students (including high school interns), and external collaborators. The facilities available to CAMM and its partners provide tremendous insight into the microstructure of materials. This knowledge is shared among CAMM’s partners and is used to improve existing materials, develop new materials, and meet industrial and societal needs.

Such microscopes, and their application to problems of relevance to the materials community, is of fundamental interest to this department. The “crown jewel” of the department is the world’s highest resolution, commercially available scanning transmission electron microscope – the TITAN. With a resolution of 0.06 nanometers (i.e., the power to magnify 30 million times), the instrument routinely provides images of individual atoms and molecules. Such detail provides insight into the behavior of materials on an atomic level. As materials are better characterized and understood the amount of time from lab-to-marketplace is drastically reduced.

Jan Ringnalda, research scientist with CAMM, describes the Titan TEM as Prof. Mike Mill s, Gov. Strickland, Hamish Fraser, and Chancellor Fingerhu t look on.

The CAMM facilities provide tremendous insight into the microstructure of materials. This knowledge is used to meet industrial and societal needs.

kland, VP for Research at OSU . Famish Fraser, Gov. Ted Stric From l-r: Prof. Jim Williams, Prof slack. Fingerhut, and Dean Bud Bae Robert McGrath, Chancellor Eric

Additionally, Fraser and his colleagues have worked on the development and utilization of an inexpensive table-top scanning electron microscope, the Phenom, that allows for routine imaging of samples in backscattered electron (BSE) mode up to 20,000x magnification, and operates using a 5 kV electron beam. The Phenom is incredibly small and compact for an electron microscope. Slightly larger than a desktop computer and weighing roughly 100 lbs., the Phenom operates by using only a common 110v outlet. It was demonstrated to the Governor by Dr. Peter Collins and CAMM’s high school interns, who had used the microscopes for imaging of a wide range of samples over the previous year. The Governor also saw the small Dual-Beam FIB’s (developed by FEI in collaboration with Fraser), and the remote microscopy work that allows access of instruments at selected remote sites, whereby companies and organizations can make use of the microscopes without having to be on-site. Very recently, such cutting edge remote access earned CAMM the 2007 Experimental and Application Research Award at the Ohio Supercomputing Center’s Advanced Technology Awards for use of the Third Frontier Network (now the OSCNet). For more on CAMM visit www.camm.ohio-state.edu.

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In spite of the promise and potential payoff for society, fundamental technical questions need to be answered before AHSS can be used with confidence. These questions were identified in a workshop held on October 22-23, 2006, organized by Robert H. Wagoner with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The conclusions of that workshop formed the basis for priority national funding by NSF and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The workshop report [1] is available as a 4-Mb download at mse.osu. edu/NSF_AHSS_Workshop.pdf. The major part of the mass of a typical automotive body/chassis has been, and continues to be, formed metallic sheet structures. Therefore, formability and springback are crucial aspects for these applications, along with other characteristics such as strength, corrosion resistance, and weldability. Dr. Wagoner is investigating these aspects in three projects recently begun, each of which is being cost-shared by TREP. Failure Analysis of Advanced High Strength Steels during Draw-Bending is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Auto/Steel Partnership. It is based on collaboration with the Edison Welding Institute and Scientific Forming Technologies, both Columbusbased organizations. The goal is to predict AHSS forming failures thus enabling the design of tools and processes to avoid them. Current failure theories for standard steels do not predict AHSS behavior properly, Figure 2. State-of-the-art characterization techniques are being applied in shear fracture areas to obtain a fundamental understanding of the phenomenon. An innovative draw-bend-fracture technique developed previously in MSE is being adapted to generate an accurate fracture criterion for implementation in commercial forming software. Fineblanking with Advanced High Strength Steels is sponsored by Feintool, a small Swiss-based company. The four-year cost-shared project begins an expected long-term collaboration between Feintool and OSU. The feasibility of replacing some fine-blanked parts of standards steels requiring heat treatment, with AHSS ones eliminating the heat treatment, is the focus. The principal formability needs for fine-blanking will be defined and validated, simple and robust tests will be devised, and the formability of candidate AHSS will be measured using the validated tests. Sheet Formability and Springback of Advanced High Strength Steels is sponsored by the National Science Foundation with co-funding by the U.S. Department of Energy. It is a collaborative project with principal investigators at OSU, the Colorado School of Mines, and General Motors Research and Development. The joint OSU/GM part of the project focuses on the unknown springback behavior of AHSS, a serious obstacle to their widespread use. (“Springback” refers to the undesirable change in the shape of a part when it is removed from forming dies. It causes difficulties in assembly and poor perception of quality.) The project, set to begin late in 2007, will make use of a special draw-bend test developed by Wagoner’s group in the 1990’s, Figure 3.

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Figure 1: Trade-offs of strength and ductility of traditional and advanced high-strength steel s [1, 2]. A narrow band drawn near the bottom of the colored area (i.e. near traditional materials IF, Mild, HSLA, MART) represents the expected relationship. Excu rsions to the top and right (TRIP, DP, CP, TWIP, L-IP) represent unexpected and highly desirable advantages. [2]

Figure 2: Simulated formability of automotive rail using Advanced High Strength Stee l (DP 780), upper figure, predicts safe forming (no red areas). Forming tryout (lower figure) shows very signifi cant cracking, unpredicted by normal methods. [3]

Figure 3: Close-up of the draw -bend springback test developed at OSU (left) and sche matic of the principle of its operation (right). A strip of sheet metal is drawn over the cylindrical pin with a spec ified sheet tension. When the strip is removed after draw ing, the springback is measured as the angle between the leg’s changes by ΔΘ.

[1] R. H. Wagoner: Advanced High Strength Steel, NSF Workshop Report, October 22-23, 2006. Available at http://mse.osu.edu/NSF_AHSS_Workshop. pdf) [2] R. Heimbuch, An Overview of the Auto/Steel Partnership and Research Needs, in Advanced High Strength Steel, NSF Workshop Report, October 2223, 2006, p. 21 [3] T. B. Stoughton, C. Xia, C. Du, M. F. Shi: Challenges for Constitutive Models for Forming of Advanced Steels, in Advanced High Strength Steel, NSF Workshop Report, October 22-23, 2006, p. 73

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Research News, con’t DARPA Grant Seeks to Develop IR Windows from Nanocomposites Professor Nitin Padture has received a $1.6 million grant from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the sole principal investigator at OSU. This three-and-a-half year project involves the study of high-strength ceramic nanocomposites for use as infrared (IR) transparent windows. The project is in collaboration with Surmet Corporation of Burlington, MA, who will primarily be responsible for manufacturing and commercializing these high-performance windows for military applications, such as protection of optical sensors and detectors in harsh environments. Typically, IR windows for various applications are made from singlecrystal ceramics that have no grains or grain boundaries. Such windows are inherently difficult to form into complex shapes, and they are prohibitively expensive. Also, although single-crystal windows have excellent optical properties, they cannot withstand the mechanical demands of some applications, leading to catastrophic failures. Prof. Padture and his collaborators at Surmet Corp. plan to use a novel ceramic nanocomposites approach in making IR transparent windows that are mechanically robust. In this approach the ceramic nanocomposites will have a proliferation of nanoscale grains that are too small to block or scatter IR light, but they will impart high strength. This team is also developing novel processing methods, which will allow the fabrication of complexshaped IR-transparent windows with relative ease and at low cost.

High Velocity Forming Used to Manufacture Fuel Cells American Trim, located in Lima Ohio was awarded $1 million for its project “Agile Low-Cost Manufacture of Fuel Cell Plates via Electromagnetic Forming.” American Trim, with direction from Professor Glenn Daehn, will use high velocity electromagnetic forming (HVEF) to produce usable prototype bipolar plates that have all the required flowfield features. At the conclusion of this project, American Trim expects to have the design and manufacturing parameters required to produce commercial quantities of fuel cell plates sufficient to support a full production line employing 270 people. The collaborators on this project include General Motors Corporation and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. For more, please visit www.odod.state.oh.us/newsroom/releases/1728.asp.

LASM Receives $1M+ to Research MgB2 Materials and Applications The Laboratory for Applied Superconductivity and Magnetism (LASM, mse.osu.edu/lasm) has been awarded $1.1 million for its “Superconductivity Technology Center” project that will promote the commercialization of magnesium diboride (MgB2). MgB2 is a superconductive material that can be used to develop more advanced superconducting wire for the wire coils of medical imaging equipment. “The challenge of using MgB2 in this new application will be to produce long lengths of wire with no defects and creating a method of making persistent joints in the wire,” states co-director of LASM, Dr. Michael Sumption. MgB2 wire will also be beneficial for other applications in the power industry, such as fault current limiters, transformers, motors and generators. The grant will equip the Center with the equipment needed to address the challenges of using MgB2 and to further develop superconducting wire. OSU’s commercialization partner on the project is Hyper Tech Research (HTR) of Columbus. HTR projects MgB2 to be used in a large fraction of MRI machines in the coming years, both standard machines and machines which offer new capabilities.

Research into High-Temperature Coatings Professors Yunzhi Wang and John Morral, along with research associate Dr. Ximiao Pan and students have been investigating how microstructures evolve with time in multiphase diffusion couples. Their work is supported by NSF and has applications to high temperature coatings and processing. Recently they identified three interdiffusion mechanisms that can lead to the formation of a single phase layer where two multiphase materials are joined. One mechanism involves a singularity in the concentration profile of solutes, while another involves the attraction of diffusion profiles to special points on a phase diagram. The single phase layers are important because they can have a profound effect on the adherence of coatings and the strength of diffusion bonded components.

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“Drop-on-Demand” System Permits Fuel Cell and Nanoparticle Sensor Research The Sensor Array Technology and Inorganic Materials Science research groups led by Professors Patricia Morris and Henk Verweij, respectively, have recently acquired a drop-on-demand microdispensing and printing system. The operating principle of the system is similar to that of commercial ink-jet printing systems; however, the components are capable of handling aggressive organic solvents and strongly acidic solutions. The microdispensing printer is capable of printing over an area of 150mm x 150mm with 2um stage accuracy. The system is equipped with four print heads capable of dispensing picoliter droplets. Research in the areas of nanoscale metal conductive lines, fuel cells, and nanoparticle sensor arrays is underway utilizing the microdispensing printer (pictured at right).

Small Size and Wide Bandwidth Makes This Antenna Unique

Active Surface Layers on 7xxx Aluminum Alloys

Professor Henk Verweij, Orton Chair in Ceramic Engineering, is studying the application of ceramic materials for new applications. Verweij, in cooperation with Prof. John Volakis and Dr. Kubilay Sertel from the ElectroScience Laboratory (ESL) at OSU, has developed new GHz devices with ceramic components. Supervised by Verweij, graduate student Lanlin Zhang fabricated structured composites of alumina and titanate ceramics for high-gain miniature antennas.

Professor Jerry Frankel and his student Zhijun Zhao (PhD 2007) used a novel combination of synchronized electrochemical measurements and video capture of a corroding surface to shed insight on an interesting phenomenon whereby surface layers formed on high strength Al alloys are attacked at low potentials. Localized corrosion starts at discrete sites on the surface, penetrates about 100 nm, but then spreads across the surface rather than continuing into the bulk of the material, which is the usual situation for pitting corrosion. Stable pitting corrosion in the underlying bulk alloy only develops when the applied potential is increased to higher values.

Unlike printed circuit boards, such antennas have a very wide bandwidth and achieve their small size by application of the structured composites in photonic arrays. Further improvements will be reached by minimization of dielectric losses in the ceramic materials and application of additional magnetic ceramic layers. The cooperation is funded by a six-year Air Force MURI project led by Prof. Volakis. The program also receives support from the DURIP program A 6-layer high-gain miniature antenna and OSU for capital made of alumina and titanate. investments that allow for larger scale manufacturing of arrays. In addition, funding is provided by the Office of Naval Research, OSU and the DARPA program to develop magnetic ceramics.

The movie clips, which can be viewed online at https://kb.osu. edu/dspace/handle/1811/24628, show clearly that this surface layer dissolution is associated with a peak in the polarization curve. Analytical TEM was used to show that the polishing process results in a surface deformed layer with extremely high strain in which the alloying elements are redistributed from distinct hardening particles into continuous bands that line the boundaries of the nanograins. The high Zn and Mg content in these bands make them much more susceptible to localized corrosion than the bulk matrix. Therefore, these regions and the surface layer are attacked at lower potentials than the bulk matrix. Even though this form of corrosion is limited to the near-surface region, it has implications for corrosion under paint or at adhesively bonded interfaces.

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Faculty & Staff Dave Rigney Retiring after 40 Years of Service Professor David Rigney retired on September 30th, 2007 after 40 years of scholarship, teaching, and service. Dave has taught 45 different classes, authored over 125 publications, and chaired many successful conferences on subjects related to tribology. He has launched many young scientists into successful careers along the way. Dave’s understanding of science is held in very high regard by his peers, and he is an in-demand speaker at conferences around the world. Here at home, Dave has served as chair of most, if not all, of the standing committees in the department, a range of committees across the college and university, and has held several significant administrative posts. Notable among these are his service as Associate and Interim Chair of MSE and Associate Director of the Center for Materials Research (CMR). After all that, you might think Dave would be “worn down”, but our resident tribologist insists this is not the case! Dave will immediately move into the illustrious ranks of our Emeritus Faculty. He will continue to teach and pursue scholarly activities, but as a lifelong learner, he has a long list of pursuits he wishes to engage. We wish Dave all the best and thank him for his significant contributions to the reputation of materials science and engineering at Ohio State.

Jerry Frankel Named DNV Chair in Corrosion Professor Gerald Frankel has been named to the newly created DNV Chair in Corrosion. The position will allow for the study of corrosion-protective coatings on metals and as well as corrosion and cracking issues associated with ethanol distribution. The DNV Chair in Corrosion is supported by Det Norske Veritas, an independent foundation headquartered in Oslo, Norway that serves the maritime and energy sectors and invests in research and innovation with the objective of safeguarding life, property, and the environment. The DNV Chair at OSU is associated with the creation of a Research and Innovation Center at CC Technologies, a DNV company located in Dublin, Ohio. CCT is a contract R&D firm specializing in corrosion, failure analysis and pipeline integrity.

MSE Welcomes Two New Faculty Jianjun Guan The department is pleased to announce the arrival of its newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Jianjun Guan. Jianjun will join the faculty as part of the department’s growing biomaterials emphasis. Prior to joining MSE, Jianjun was Research Assistant Professor in the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD in Chemistry from Zhejiang University, China, and served as a post-doc at the University of Pittsburgh. Jianjun’s future research will focus on the engineering of biomaterials for soft and hard tissues regeneration. His research interests include development of biomaterials possessing robust mechanical properties, design and processing 3-D nanostructured scaffolds, controlled release of biomacromolecules, and development of tissue constructs with primary or stem cells for engineering of soft and hard tissues.

Ji-Cheng Zhao The department is proud to announce the arrival of Dr. Ji-Cheng (J.-C.) Zhao who will join MSE in January, 2008 as a tenured Associate Professor. J.-C. is a materials scientist and project/team leader at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, NY, where he has worked since 1995 when he obtained his PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Lehigh University. His research has focused on phase diagrams, thermodynamics, diffusion, design of advanced alloys and coatings for jet engines, and hydrogen storage materials. In addition to many materials innovations, he developed a diffusion-multiple approach for accelerated materials discovery and development. J.-C. has received several honors including the Geisler Award from ASM International, the Hull Award from GE Global Research, and he was elected a Fellow of ASM International in 2003. He has published about 65 papers and edited/co-edited two books and two theme issues of MRS Bulletin and also holds 36 US patents with 26 more pending. His innovations have been featured in Nature, C&E News, MRS Bulletin, and Advanced Engineering Materials.

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Doru Stefanescu Named Ashland Professor Professor Doru Stefanescu has been named to the Ashland Designated Research Professorship in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. In this new position, Doru will teach and advise students, serve as the Key Foundry Educational Foundation Professor, and conduct metal casting research. The Professorship will allow for the continuation of a metal casting education at Ohio State. Doru is an expert in solidification science and metal casting technology. He joined Ohio State in 2005 as a senior research scientist in materials science and engineering and Foundry Educational Foundation Key Professor, after a long career as a metallurgical and materials engineering professor at the University of Alabama and in the metallurgical industry in Romania and England. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University Politehnica in Romania.

Ju Li Departing to University of Pennsylvania

Nice job Mei! Congratulations to Mei Wang, Business Manager for the MSE department! Mei was awarded both the Above & Beyond Staff Award from the College of Engineering and the University’s Distinguished Staff Award for 2006. Every year these awards recognize staff members who exhibit exceptional accomplishments, leadership, and service to the university community. Mei is described by all who know her as superb, bright, efficient, reliable and a host of other superlatives. Colleagues praise her interpersonal skills and her integrity. In addition to her hectic work schedule, Mei volunteers on weekends delivering hot meals through Meals on Wheels.

Mei with College of Eng ineering Dean Bud Baeslack at the Sept ember 2006 presentation of the “Abo ve and Beyond” award.

Welcome New Staff! Beth Allen Beth Allen, the department’s Human Resources Officer, grew up in Columbus and graduated from OSU in 2005 in Business Administration with a specialization in Human Resources. Upon graduation, she worked for the Department of Radiology at the OSU Medical Center for almost two years. Beth is working toward her Master’s in Labor and Human Resources degree at OSU.

Professor Ju Li will be departing for a new faculty position in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania this Fall. Ju joined our faculty in 2002 and was recently promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Ju has had a strong positive influence on computational materials science on campus and has earned a strong reputation in the broader community for his scientific contributions in materials theory. We wish Ju and his family all the best in their new life and new endeavors in Philadelphia.

Ross Baldwin Ross Baldwin, the department’s Instructional Laboratory Supervisor, graduated from OSU in 2006 with a BFA in Art and Technology. In 2004, Ross began assisting Kenneth Kushner and Gary Dodge in the MSE machine shop as a student employee. Ross recently taught Art 552, a computer animation class, in Spring 2007 for the Department of Art. Samples of his work are available on Ross’ MSE staff web page.

Lloyd Barnhart to Fly into Retirement The department wishes Lloyd “Barney” Barnhart all the best in his upcoming retirement. Barney, who joined MSE 14 years ago from Battelle Labs, set up and supervised the Mechanical Behavior Lab, an integral part of the characterization efforts of the department. Barney has enjoyed working with students and watching their skills and confidence grow.

“To use this complex equipment, most start out having a steep learning curve,” says Barney. “Guiding them through the process has been rewarding.”

May. In retirement they plan to travel and Barney hopes to get in some flying time piloting singleengine airplanes.

When asked what he’s most proud of Barney states, “My relationship with my wife and children.” He and wife Linda will celebrate their 40th anniversary next

Thank you, Barney, for your service to the department!

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Honors & Awards Faculty Rudy Buchheit NACE Fellow honor at the NACE annual banquet Jerry Frankel Named Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and ASM International Hamish Fraser USAF Award for Exemplary Civilian Service 2007 Experimental & Application Research Award Derek J. Hansford Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure, effective October 1, 2007 Winston Ho American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology (2006) 2007 Clarence G. Gerhold Award 2007 Advisor Recognition for Graduate Student Award from the Separations Divisions of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Ohio State Scientists Win Third Frontier Award and Third “R&D 100” Award for Sensors A pollution sensor invented at Ohio State University is among the top 100 innovations of 2006, according to R&D Magazine. This is the third time that Prabir Dutta, chair of the Department of Chemistry, and his research team have earned a spot on the prestigious “R&D 100” list, which salutes the best inventions to emerge from industry, government, and academia each year. Dutta designed the sensor, along with Sheikh Akbar, professor of materials science and engineering, and former graduate students Nicholas Szabo and Jiun Chan Yang. R&D Magazine will list all 100 winners in its September issue, and will hold an October awards banquet in Chicago. Contact: 292-4532, [email protected], or see researchnews.osu.edu/archive/nosensor. htm for more information. Along with a number of prestigious awards, ceramic sensor research at OSU is pleased to have been selected to host the 12th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS12) in July 2008 (see mse.osu.edu/imcs12).

MSE Faculty Honored at College Awards ‘06-’07 MSE faculty have received many awards through the College of Engineering’s 2006-2007 awards program. Award recipients have been recognized at the College’s annual Awards Banquet. Boyer Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovation, for outstanding contributions to the improvement of undergraduate engineering education: Pete Anderson, ‘06 (this is Pete’s second Boyer award). Charles E. MacQuigg Award, presented by students to faculty members who have demonstrated their interest in and willingness to help students: Rudy Buchheit, ‘06 The Lumley Engineering Research Awards, given to researchers successful in pursuing new knowledge of a fundamental or applied nature: Kathy Flores, ‘06 Henk Verweij, ‘07 Ju Li, ‘06 Yunzhi Wang, '06 Mike Sumption, ‘07 Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award, recognizing a team from at least two different departments who has established a record of excellence in interdisciplinary research: Jerry Frankel, ‘06 Scott Faculty Award, honoring a senior faculty member who has achieved both national and international status as a leading educator and researcher: Rob Wagoner, ‘06

Ju Li Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This award honors the most promising researchers in the nation within their fields by providing up to five years of funding to further their research. 2006 MRS Young Investigator Award Mike Mills Appointed Associate Director of the Institute of Materials Research, imr.osu.edu Nitin Padture 2007 ACerS Richard M. Fulrath Award for contributions to advanced ceramics and nanomaterials. This award recognizes outstanding academic and industrial ceramics engineers & scientists under the age of 45. Bob Rapp Presented the 56th Zay Jeffries Honorary Lecture on April 17, 2006 to the Cleveland Chapter of ASM Doru Stefanescu Honorary Professor, University Politehnica, Bucharest, Romania (2006) Appointed Research Professor (The Ashland Designated Research Professorship) for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Materials • Science • and • Engineering Rob Wagoner Distinguished Service Award Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Elected Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers Yunzhi Wang Hsun Lee Research Award, presented by the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science, 2006. Wolfgang Windl 2006 Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award, a new joint award of the Humboldt and Fraunhofer Societies in Germany. 2006 Mars Fontana Teaching Award

Senior Scholar Recognition Awards

Recognizing outstanding senior students. Jonathan Orsborn Jennifer Payler

Outstanding Junior Scholar

Recognizing an outstanding junior student. Katrina Altman

George St. Pierre Award

Students

For scholarship and professional activities in the MSE department. Mark Andio

Nominations to Alpha Sigma Mu MSE Honorary Alpha Sigma Mu, the international professional honor society for MSE, is pleased to nominate the following students for admission into the society. Students of good character with a GPA placing them in the top third of their class may be nominated.

Seniors, ‘06-’07 Mark Andio Ryan Klayman Ashley Manny Jonathan Orsborn Danelle Violet

Michael Gram Justine Mahler Jason Matthews Jesse Rhodes

Juniors, ‘06-’07

Katrina Altman Michael Baughman Aysegul Aygun received a $1,000 scholarship to attend and Sarah Bertke Beau Billet Mars G. Fontana present her poster at Engineering Conference International Elizabeth Brannon Caesar Buie Workshop on Thermal Barrier Coatings in Irsee, Germany, Award Karen Domas Kent Pullins To the outstanding senior August, 2007. Tyler Rolfes Nat Sheppard scholar conducting research Peter Collins received the 2007 Experimental & Application Kathleen Sherer Allyson Stahl in metallurgy. Research Award. Zachary Warchol Jessica Wolever Ryan Glamm Andrew Gledhill received a $700 scholarship to attend and present his poster at the Solid State Studies in Ceramics Alan J. Gordan Conference in New Hampshire, August, 2007. Markworth Memorial Award Dan Huber won the 2007 Experimental & Application Research To the student who best reflects the personal and professional Award. talents of Professor Markworth. Mariano Iannuzzi won first place in the Marcel Pourbaix Justine Mahler poster competition at the Corrosion2006 NACE meeting. The Department Chair’s Award Additionally, Mariano received the NACE Foundation To the outstanding senior scholar in the Materials Science and Graduate Book Scholarship. Engineering program. Hong Jin Kim, Andrew Emge et al. won a Silver Award for their Michael Gram poster in the Ultrafine Grained Materials Symposium at ASM/TMS Chapter’s Ernie W. Christin the 2006 TMS meeting. Girdhari Kumar won second place in the Mars Fontana poster Award For the student who best demonstrates how industrial competition at the Corrosion2006 NACE meeting. Justine Mahler earned the 2006 Second Team All-Central experience has influenced his or her educational development. Tyler Rolfes Region Award for Varsity Rowing. Adam Pilchak was recognized at the quadrennial World Foundry Educational Foundation Titanium Conference, Kyoto Japan, for having one of Scholarship Recipients the best posters. The title of his poster was “The Effect Seniors, ‘06-’07 Juniors, ‘06-’07 of Friction Stir Processing on the Microstructure and Stephanie Collins Michael Baughman Properties of Investment Cast Ti-6Al-4V”. Ryan Glamm Evan Standish Mike Rauscher won the 2007 ACerS-NSF travel fellowship to Ashley Manny present at the European Ceramic Society Annual Meeting. Freshmen, ‘06-’07 Additionally, Mike earned the Sapphire Award from the Sammy Merrill American Ceramic Society. Billie Wang has been awarded a National Science Foundation GK-12 fellowship to teach science to fifth graders in the Columbus Public Thank you for your service! Mike Gram, President-ASM/TMS Schools. Billie will be developing Ashley Manny, President-MSE Club experiments to demonstrate basic The following students have given generously of Mark Andio, Vice Pres.-MSE Club concepts and mentoring students their time and talents to serve as officers in the Caesar Buie, Treasurer-MSE Club in the classroom. department’s student organizations: Nathan Andersen, Secretary-MSE Club

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Alumni News Alumni updates

Charles Morin, Jr. (BS ’72 and MS ‘72) received the 2007 OSU College of Engineering Dean’s Meritorious Service to Students Award. This award is given in recognition of Chuck’s support of engineering students through classroom presentations, internship and co-op opportunities, scholarships and student organization or activity support.

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Howard “Homer” Schomer (BS ‘58) worked in Materials and Production in the Aerospace Industry for many years and retired in March 2000. Remarried October 24, 2005.

Diane Albert (BS ‘82) was named an OSU Women in Engineering Pioneer in Spring 2007. Diane, who holds a PhD in materials science and engineerng from Carnegie Mellon University, graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law in May 2007. Having passed the New Mexico Bar Exam, she was sworn-in September 27, 2007. Rowdy Joseph (BS‘86) recently celebrated his 18th wedding anniversary to wife Kelly. The couple resides in Marysville, Ohio with their two children Ethan and Sydney. Rowdy manages the Vehicle Research Dept. in the Motorcycle Division at Honda R & D Americas located in Raymond, Ohio. Rowdy is active in the Columbus Chapter of ASM International having served as Treasurer, Vice Chair, and Chair. He has been a member of the OSU MSE External Advisory Committee since 2003.

1960’s Jeff Swank (BS ‘66) is a retired Program Manager, having provided engineering support to the US Navy. Jeff now lives in Ocean City, NJ.

1970’s Carmine Doddato (BS ‘79) is a Project Manager with Centrotherm Photovoltaics AG in Luchu Township, Taiwan.

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Mark DeBruin (BS ‘98) lives in Poland, OH and works as a consultant in the metallurgical industry. Mark is studying, as well, to be a high school math teacher. Lamda Muchjin (MS ’95) “My materials science and engineering knowledge provides a solid basis for addressing day-to-day operational concerns in the petroleum industry. “ says Lamda.

He, his wife, and three children are now living in Muscat, Oman. Lamda is working for PDO-Shell after having worked with Unocal and Chevron in Indonesia for ten years. Lamda wishes to pass along many thanks to all of his professors and advisors in MSE especially Dr. Smialowska, Dr Raul Rebak, Dr. Rapp, and Dr. Wilde and also to the famous Fontana Corrosion Center (FCC). “Through the FCC I was provided with the practical knowledge needed to be competitive in the global work force.” Robert Schofield (BS ‘96) Robert is married and has one daughter. He recently came on board with Cutting Dynamics, Inc. of Avon, OH to lead the development of the automated thermoplastic composite aircraft seat facility.

2000’s Ravi Angal (MS ‘05) is working with Siemens Power Generation Inc. in Orlando, FL as a Metallurgical Engineer. Richard Delmont (BS ‘05) is currently working with Armor Holdings Aerospace and Defense Group in Phoenix, AZ. Eduardo del Rio (MS ‘07) is working with TOSOH in Grove City, OH. Xi-Yong “Sean” Fu (PhD ‘01) was awarded the William Oxley Thompson Award in 2006. The Thompson Award is presented to young alumni who have demonstrated distinctive achievement in a career, civic involvement, or both. Sean plays a key role in the research and development of new drugs for Merck. Andrew Geiger (BS ’05) works in sales of digital light microscopy equipment for Keyence Corp. of America in Rolling Meadows, IL. Jon Hedrick (BS ‘07) is working with ATI Allegheny Ludlum as a Process Metallurgist.

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Happy 20th Anniversary! Platinum and china commemorate a 20th wedding anniversary; this is especially appropriate in light of our 20th next year. 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the merger between the Metallurgical Engineering and Ceramic Engineering departments. The formation in 1988 of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering brought together two world-class programs. Over the past 20 years both the field of materials and the department have seen tremendous change. Plans are in the works to commemorate this anniversary and reflect on those changes.

How can you help? If you have interesting photos, anecdotes, or documents related to the merger or the Ceramic or Metallurgical Engineering departments, please forward your items to Cameron Lottie, Assistant to the MSE Chair. Cameron may be reached at 177 Watts Hall 2041 College Rd. Columbus, OH 43210 614-688-3050 [email protected] Please monitor the web site for information on anniversary events, and be sure to keep your contact information up to date through the Alumni section of the site, mse.osu.edu/alumni.

Congratulations to Richard B. Reese Recipient of the College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award for 2007 Dick Reese received his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering in 1963 and master’s degree in 1965 from Ohio State. Reese had a distinguished career as an engineer and high-level manager at NCR, an international corporation with headquarters in Dayton, Ohio, and a major manufacturer with current sales of over $6 billion per year. At the time of his retirement, he was senior vice president of Corporate Customer Services and was one of eight senior executives responsible for running the company. During his rapid rise within NCR, Reese made a variety of significant technical contributions. He oversaw the conversion from mechanical to electronic cash registers

and turned a once-troubled division of the company into one of its best-organized operations. At the time of his retirement, he had responsibility over 21,000 people in the United States and 130 foreign countries and earned annual revenues for NCR of more than $4 billion. In addition to his achievements in industry, Reese served the Ohio State University as a member of the metallurgical engineering department’s External Advisory Committee for three years in the 1980’s. This was a critical period in the department’s history, as the Metallurgical and Ceramic Engineering Departments were developing plans to merge. In 1985 he was honored for his contribution by being selected as the department’s Distinguished Lecturer.

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Development ASM Teacher Camp Twenty-two high school teachers made slime, broke apart light bulbs, and dissolved soda cans at the ASM Materials Camp for Teachers, hosted by our department in early August. Science, math, and technology teachers from Ohio, Michigan, and Missouri participated in the week-long camp whose goal is to provide teachers with tools to introduce Materials Science into their schools. Two gifted high school teachers, Andy Nydam and Debbie Goodwin, who teach materials science in their own schools, served as “master teachers” leading discussions, lectures, and labs. The participating teachers learned methods to engage and interest their students in science and math classes by making slime and comparing various properties, making nylon from raw ingredients, heating and cooling assorted metals to alter their properties, making glass from scratch, and tearing apart light bulbs to learn why they are made the way they are.

It makes the link Beth Eddy, a science teacher that is engineering: from Westerville South High School, found the camp so helpful in 2006 that she science providing convinced the head of the useful objects that district curriculum to allow her to teach a materials we rely on every science class this fall. If this first pilot class goes well, day. she hopes the class will be a permanent addition to the science curriculum in all three high schools in the district.

will inspire more materials science courses to be taught at high schools as applied chemistry,” states MSE professor Glenn Daehn. “It makes the link that is engineering: science providing useful objects that we rely on every day.” Daehn says it is the pupils of the teachers who attend the camp who, in the end, really benefit, and they are usually Ohio residents who are likely to look to Ohio State to start their engineering careers. The camp is a collaborative effort sponsored by the ASM Education Foundation, OSU MSE, ASM-Columbus, NACE, the OSU-Honda Partnership, and Honda of America.

Recruitment “A Personal Touch” was the goal of our undergraduate recruitment efforts this year. In an attempt to connect with prospective students by introducing them to real MSE students, our website A panel of MSE students talked about their decision to featured stories and choose Ohio State and to study materials science and photos of undergraduates engineering to a group of prospective students and parents at the MSE Day, 2007. highlighting their activities, interests, and reasons for choosing MSE as a major. We received positive feedback for holding panel discussions by MSE students who gave straightforward answers to questions from prospective students and parents at various open houses and information days.

“The teachers in the camp do a good job of showing us how to present effective demos and how to relate all that we do to ‘real life,’” said Eddy, one of eight teachers who returned to the camp this year.

Thirty high school juniors and their parents attended MSE Day in May. The day-long event featured materials mini-demos by our faculty and ASM-Columbus members. Each participant received a department tshirt and mug tucked inside a combination backpack/ camp seat generously provided by Honda of America Mfg. More than thirty MSE student volunteers assisted in the event, as well.

The ASM camp provided teachers with tools to meet the new Ohio Core high school curriculum requirements, which, by 2012, will require all high school students to take three units of science with inquiry-based laboratory experience. “We hope this camp

Recruitment was enhanced by the addition of MSE graduate students Jon Evarts and Clarissa Yablinksy to the Student Relations Committee. Jon and Clarissa took MSE demos to schools in the Columbus area, provided tours of the department to prospective students, and assisted with demos at recruitment fairs.

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1. liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish; kind; willing to give and share. For examples, see below. 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. Those donors whose names are listed below in bold provided funds in both 2006 and 2007.

2006 Millicent M. Adams AIST Foundation Sheikh Ali Akbar John D. & Josephine B. Altstetter Ashland Inc. Ashland Specialty Chemical Dr. Joseph Thomas Bailey Raymond & Susan Beder Dr. Burton Dale Brubaker James A. Clum, Edward Orton Jr. Ceramic Foundation Dr. James N. Cordea Connie Winner Cron Richard Russell Daniel Dr. Earl Daniel Dietz Dr. William T. Ebihara Edison Welding Institute Inc Steven Earl Fisher Ford Motor Company Fund Carl W. & Martha J. Gartner Jill Knott Glass Neil Glick Le Roy S. & Carrie M. Gordon Prabhat K. Gupta Dr. William Herrnstein III Kristin Harley Hibbett

Dr. James E. & Beverlee B. Houseman Ronald Lee Hughes Shoji Isobe, Chief Engineer Honda R&D Rowdy Lee Joseph Dr. Mary Catherine Juhas Ronald J. Kegarise Robert Raymond Koehler Angela Grusd Kramer Martha Harrell Kuhn Robert Kirker Laird Dr. David Clinton Langstaff Dr. Trent W. Latimer Florence Hall Leslie Roger A. & Beverly W. Litman Scott Edward Livingston Andrew J. Maykuth David Michael Milam Nathaniel Miljus Jr. Dr. Robert James Miller Joe and Valerie Payer Henry Posner Jr. Michael Joseph Reidelbach Sr Hal Hesser Rice Knight Ridder - Matching Gifts Dr. Frederick Karl Roehrig David L. Rohe Nancy A. Ryan Dr. Robert Edward Schafrik Paul Joseph Schansney

Jay. R. Scharenberg, Edward Orton Jr Ceramic Foundation Coulson M Scheuermann George Scholes, FEI Company Michael Joseph Sens Sheperd Chemical Company Lawrence A. & Joan E. Siff Foundation Cecil Darrell Smith Ron Sorice Rachel Spector Nicole Ann Spretnak Srico Incorporated Madeline S. Stanley Mark James Straszheim Dr. Scott L. Swartz John Allen Varhola Michael John Vinarcik Dr. Robert H. Wagoner Yunzhi Wang Roy Louis Wentz Jr.

2007 3M Foundation Alcoa Foundation Matching Gift American Electric Power American Honda Motor Car

Dr. Peter Martin Anderson Velma M. Beery CC Technologies Mary R. Callahan CompuTherm, LLC Cummins Business Services The Dow Chemical Foundation Dr. Charles Henry Drummond III Horst J. Emmerichs Foundry Educational Foundation GE Foundation Hope Harley Halleen Richard C Hannon Jr., Revocable Trust Bob Hice Martha Davis Hirth Robert Paul Johnston Jr. Dr. Dalton H. & Irene R. Lowe Steven Lewis McGinnis Charles Raymond Morin Jr. Joseph Frank Nachman Courtney Roberts, L H Marshall Co Dr. Vincent John Russo Gregory Fritz Schieleit W. Timothy Weisert Tara Wood, Siemens Power Generation Matching Gifts

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

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 ‘07-’08). John T. Boyd Scholarship (8) George D. Brush Scholarship (3) W. E. Cramer Scholarship (2) Carl J. Cron Internship Dana J. Demorest Scholarship (2) Arthur H. Dierker Scholarship (2) Roger W. Edmonson Scholarship (1) Jonathan William Ellinger Memorial Scholarship (2) Mars G. Fontana Scholarship (2) Wendell A. Glick Ceramic Engineering Scholarship (1)

H.V. Glunz Scholarship (24) Carrie Maykuth Gordon Scholarship (1) John Arthur and Theodore H. Harley Family Scholarship (1) Honda Research Institute (HRI) USA Scholarship (2) Harley C. and Elizabeth K. Lee Endowment (1) Charles R. Morin Scholarship (9) Edward Orton, Jr. Ceramic Foundation Scholarship (5) Gordon W. Powell Scholarship (2)

Ralston Russell Undergraduate Scholarship (1) Robert L Synder Scholarship (1) Rudolph Speiser Fund (1) Joseph W. Spretnak Memorial Scholarship (1) George R. St. Pierre Scholarship Enhancement (1) Arthur S. Watts Scholarship (3) Douglas C. Williams Scholarship (1) Howard Patterson Zeller Scholarship (1)

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Student News MSE senior Tyler Rolfes spent his summer in Germany at Ruhr University Bochum, doing research on steel tooling wear and corrosion resistance (left, Tyler at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin).

at the Taj Michelle and Ed Herderick ip at the rnsh inte Mahal during Ed’s Pune, ory, orat Lab l mica Che l Nationa India.

MSE undergrad Katie Sherer plays sousaphone in the OSU Marching Band and looks forward to dotting the “ i “ in 2008!

Ph.D. student Matt Mottern and r his wife Jessica welcomed thei first son Logan Hewitt Mottern on Dec. 23, 2006.

Master’s student John Carpenter and his wife welcomed Brittany . 31, Aug on a May 2006. nnon MSE undergrad Libby Bra using works on rocket nozzle erosion F. CEO the in ities SEM facil

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Doctoral student Kinga Unocic received the Best in Show “JacquetLucas Award” for her poster on “TEM Sample Preparation Method for Grain Boundary Phase Identificatio n in AlMg alloys” at the 2007 Inte rnational Metallographic Contest .

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Aimiuwu MSE senior Usiosefe “Study tled enti presented his research es to niqu Tech lysis Ana l of Therma ris Deb r Wea in Compare Sliding Energy at the ing” Slid and sion Abra by Caused Research 2007 Denman Undergraduate Forum.

Photos: Geoff Hulse, Megan Daniels, Kevin Fitzsimons