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Texas A&M Engineering TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEAD Dear Colleagues and Friends, 2017 was a dynamic year for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Among the plethora of exciting events, we are most proud of receiving approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for the Bachelor of Science degree program in materials science and engineering. This will be the first undergraduate program of its kind at a large, land-grant university in the state of Texas. We will welcome the first cohort of sophomore students to the department in fall 2018. In addition to welcoming undergraduate students to the department, we reached record enrollment of 151 total graduate students in 2017 comprised of 26 master’s and 125 doctoral students. As part of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Minority Leaders Program, 12 minority doctoral students per year will be funded and have the opportunity to train in data driven materials discovery and design. Drs. Raymundo Arróyave, Ibrahim Karaman, Dimitris Lagoudas and Patrick Shamberger, are leading the effort for our students. Texas A&M and Georgia Tech University were the two universities selected to host the program. With our growing enrollment, we have added a new faculty member in January 2018. Dr. Kelvin Xie came to us from Johns Hopkins University where he was an assistant research scientist. Our faculty are excelling in many research endeavors while receiving recognition from their peers as prestigious award recipients. Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili is leading an executive committee to establish and develop an interdisciplinary soft matters facility on our campus to unify research activities related to soft matter and improve multifunctional polymer-based materials that are used in many applications, including energy, health care and transportation. NASA has selected a team of Texas A&M faculty for a five-year, $10 million grant as part of NASA Aeronautics’ University Leadership Initiative. Lagoudas, deputy director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, will manage the team, which includes Dr. Darren Hartl as operations director. The faculty at Texas A&M, along with collaborators from six other institutions and companies, will research and design commercially-viable civil supersonic transport aircraft that can modify shape during flight under a range of conditions to meet noise and efficiency requirements for overland flight. We are excited to announce the large donation of a brand-new FEI Titan Themis 300, double corrected high-resolution electron microscope, which will be installed in the Materials Characterization Facility this academic year, and will greatly impact materials research on campus. AZZ Inc. has generously established two fellowships in the department for faculty and graduate students. The AZZ Inc. graduate fellowship will be used to recruit the best and the brightest domestic students in the country to the department, while the AZZ Inc. faculty fellowship will help our young faculty to develop into superstars of research, which will positively impact society. I am honored to present the accomplishments of the Department of Materials Science and 2 Engineering, and would like to offer a sincere thank you to the donors who generously support our programs through significant contributions in support of faculty, students and facilities. Sincerely, Dr. Ibrahim Karaman Department Head and Chevron Professor I 2 DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING | 2017 Annual Report TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 Faculty News 10 Research Spotlight: Dr. Michael Demkowicz 14 Research Spotlight: Patrick Shamberger 16 Student Spotlight 17 2017 Research Publications Cover: Porous hallow carbon fibers with antibacterial fillers for multifunctional textiles. Provided by Dr. Mohammad Naraghi, affiliated faculty member in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Texas A&M Engineering Communications 2018 TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING | engineering.tamu.edu/materials 3 MATERIALIZING OUR FUTURE ANNOUNCING BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University will enroll its first class of sophomores in fall 2018 for the new bachelor of science degree in materials science and engineering. Our goal is to admit 100 students per year to become one of the largest materials science and engineering programs in the country. engineering.tamu.edu/materials 4 DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING | 2017 Annual Report 2017 IN NUMBERS FACULTY Tenured/Tenure-Track 15 ENROLLMENT • 151 Professors 8 Associate Professors 4 Assistant Professors 3 Professors of Practice 1 Affiliated Faculty 49 National Academy of Ph.D. Engineering Members 2 M.S. 26 125 RESEARCH IMPACT Average journal articles published per faculty member 7.4 Average journal articles published per graduating Ph.D. student 7 STUDENT DIVERSITY RESEARCH AREAS • Advanced structural materials • Computational materials science and design • Corrosion science and engineering 54% 33% 26% • Materials for extreme environments • Multifunctional materials Incoming Domestic Incoming Minority Female • Polymers and composites Graduate Students Graduate Students Enrollment INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD Todd Abbott Jay Henderson Ryland Marek Bonnie Tully Pioneer Natural Nucor Steel Texas 3M Evonik Corporation Resources, Oil and Gas Dr. Peter Hong Gao Jeffrey Polzer Vance Cribb, III Dr. Scott Beckwith Applied Materials Shell Global Solutions US Inc. Bell Helicopter Textron, BTG Composites, Inc. Aerospace/Aviation OEM Dr. Lotus Huang Dr. Pratik Joshi Mark Chris The Dow Chemical Company Samsung Austin Semiconductor Roxanne Warren Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. Arconic/ RTI Directed Thomas Lednicky Colleen Schlaefli Manufacturing, Bernardo Duran CFAN- Commercial Aerospace Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Additive Manufacturing AZZ Inc. Dr. Calvin Lundeen John Stevens Wexco Corporation Baker Hughes GE TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING | engineering.tamu.edu/materials 5 TALREJA RECEIVES THE 2017 OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AWARD FROM THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR COMPOSITES Dr. Ramesh Talreja, Talreja has published extensively in the field of damage Tenneco Professor mechanics and fatigue of composite materials. He of Engineering in the has authored the monograph “Fatigue of Composite Department of Aerospace Materials,” and has edited several major works including Engineering and the Polymer Matrix Composites, Damage Mechanics of Department of Materials Composite Materials, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Science and Engineering of Composite Materials and Structures and PMC Fatigue– at Texas A&M University, Fundamentals, and has contributed more than 30 has received the 2017 chapters to numerous books. His book “Damage and Outstanding Research Failure of Composite Materials,” co-authored with C.V. Award in Composites from Singh, was published by Cambridge University Press. He the American Society for is on the editorial boards of 14 journals, and has served Composites (ASC). as associate editor of Mechanics of Materials and as editor- in-chief of International Journal of Aerospace Engineering. The ASC describes the winner of the award as “a His current focus is on structural integrity, durability and distinguished member of the composites community sustainability of composite materials in aerospace and who has made a significant impact on the science and wind power structures. technology of composite materials through a sustained research effort over a number of years.” The ASC’s mission Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, Talreja was a is to provide a communication forum for the engineering professor of aerospace engineering at Georgia Institute of and scientific community and to expedite growth of Technology from 1991-2001. His academic career began knowledge gained from inter-disciplinary engineering at the Technical University of Denmark where he received and scientific research in composite materials, as well as his Ph.D. and Doctor of Technical Sciences degrees in to promote the exploitation of the unique properties of 1974 and 1985, respectively, and served in different composite materials in emerging applications. academic positions until 1991. From 1978-83 he had a joint appointment at the Risø Laboratory of Sustainable In 2013 Talreja received the highest honor, the Scala Energy in Denmark. Award, from the International Committee on Composite Materials (ICCM). The award comes with the designation Talreja received his plaque and award of $1,000 at World Fellow and Life Member of ICCM. the awards banquet of the 32nd Annual Technical Conference, to be held at Purdue University on Oct. 24. CASTANEDA-LOPEZ TO RECEIVE 2018 HERBERT H. UHLIG AWARD The National Association of Castaneda-Lopez is director of the National Corrosion and Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Materials Reliability Center at Texas A&M, where the focus has selected Dr. Homero is to develop the next-generation leaders in corrosion Castaneda-Lopez, an science and technology to work in various industries associate professor in the including energy, national defense, auto, healthcare, Department of Materials infrastructure and multiple government agencies. Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, to “We work to bridge the gap between fundamental receive the 2018 Herbert H. research (science) and technology (engineering),” Uhlig Award. Castaneda-Lopez said. “We serve as a world-class corrosion education and research center creating The
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