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The Rhines Report Fall 2018 DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING THE RHINES REPORT FALL 2018 Meet the NEW FACULTYTHE DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING IS GROWING. FIND OUT MORE ON PG 10. # UF IS NUMBER8 8 AMONG PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT 2019 CHAIR’S MESSAGE he Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) has seen dramatic changes in the last few years, including a revitalization and resurgence in activity, aggressively seeking to set a new standard for MSE programs. With the merging of the Nuclear Engineering program, increased funding for research, hires, and student development, the department is now stronger than ever and poised to globally demonstrate areas of excellence that are one-of-a-kind and unique to this institution. Michele V. Manuel, Ph.D. Although the changes have been dramatic, CHAIR our foundations and fundamental spirit have DEPARTMENT OF remained solid, resolved, and unwavering – intellectual diversity tightly integrated with MATERIALS SCIENCE a commitment to excellence in teaching and & ENGINEERING service. Our contributions to the field have always been strong. The members and alumni of the department can solidly say that they are innovators in every facet of our profession. electron microscopes and materials property testing equipment. Our strength arises from Currently the department has 32 tenured and our commitment to excellence in teaching tenure-track (T/TT) faculty, and we are excited and research. We are developing the next about the opportunity to hire 6 more faculty generation of leaders in materials and nuclear over the next few years. We have expanded sciences and engineering through cutting- our undergraduate laboratory space by 3,500 edge education programs, and by performing sq. ft. and added advanced equipment and high-impact research that benefits society and characterization tools, modern simulation and serves the needs of the state and nation. computational software, and additive printers. Additionally, we have completed renovations on Our department is steeped in tradition but has a new 1,100 sq. ft. Nuclear Fuels and Materials an eye on the future. We hope you will be a part Characterization (NFMC) facility which includes of our future. “IT’S AN EXCITING TIME TO BE A PART OF MSE, WE’RE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE.” 2 INSIDE FALL 2018 SPOTLIGHT - RHINES ....4 DEPARTMENT FACTS ....6 FACULTY AWARDS ........8 SPOTLIGHT - RESEARCH CENTER .......................9 4 NEW FACULTY ............ 10 RESEARCH .............12-13 ALUMNI FEATURES ............ 14-15 Cammy R. Abernathy DEAN, HERBERT WERTHEIM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING 10 12 Michele V. Manuel CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING John (Jack) Mecholsky, Jr. ASSOCIATE CHAIR AND PROFESSOR James (Jim) Baciak NUCLEAR ENGINEERING PROGRAM DIRECTOR, FLORIDA POWER AND LIGHT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 13 15 3 FEATURE $1M GIFT HELPS UF MSE SHOOT FOR THE STARS DR. WALDEN “WALLY” RHINES, SON OF UF MSE (MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING) DEPARTMENT FOUNDER FREDERICK N. RHINES, CONTINUES HIS FAMILY’S SUPPORT. he University of Florida’s Department of Materials “THE RHINES FAMILY IS AN Science and Engineering continues to benefit from the IMPORTANT PART OF THE Rhines family since the founding of DEPARTMENT’S PAST AND FUTURE, the department by Professor Fred AND WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THEIR Rhines 59 years ago. Dr. Walden “Wally” C. Rhines, son of Fred CONTINUED SUPPORT.” Rhines, has made a gift of $1 million Dr. Michele Manuel, Chair, UF Department of to the department to establish the Rhines Rising Star Professorships. Materials Science & Engineering The Rhines Rising Star initiative will fund two assistant professorships leader in worldwide electronic Wally Rhines holds a bachelor’s that will be awarded to selected design automation used by degree in metallurgical engineering early career faculty who are already companies worldwide. Prior to his from the University of Michigan demonstrating distinguished time at Mentor Graphics, he spent and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in performance in research and 21 years at Texas Instruments, materials science and engineering teaching. where he was the executive vice from Stanford University. Aside president and led the company’s from his engineering degrees, Wally Wally Rhines is the chairman and groundbreaking efforts in digital also holds an MBA from Southern chief executive officer of Mentor signal processing. Methodist University and Honorary Graphics, a Siemens Business, a Doctor of Technology degrees 4 FEATURE from UF and Nottingham Trent position. (And now) I think the dean Materials and the Ellis D. Verink Jr. University. has done a terrific job in providing Professor of Materials Science and momentum to grow the engineering Engineering. His father, Fred Rhines founded college, and I want MSE to be a part the department on the talents and of that growth,” Rhines said. promise of early career faculty with the philosophy that outstanding As the department continues to THE RHINES people want to work with other be a source of pride for the Rhines LEGACY outstanding people. This gift, says family, identifying ways to support Wally, will continue to honor his and ensure its continued success is father’s legacy to support assistant key, says Wally. The gift is therefore professors of this caliber. made to help accelerate the growth and energy of the department, he The professorships will bear the believes. Rhines name and the names of two outstanding pioneering faculty “Endowed professorships carry in honor of their service to the a level of prestige that positively department - The Rhines Rising reflects on our faculty and their Star Robert DeHoff Assistant research,” Rhines said. While Wally didn’t attend Professor of Materials Science the University of Florida, “The Rhines family is an and Engineering, and the Rhines he has a long, historical important part of the department’s Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant connection to the university past and future, and we are grateful Professor of Materials Science and and the department for their continued support” Engineering. because of his family. said Michele Manuel, Chair for DeHoff and Hench were both early the Department of Materials His father’s materials in their careers when Fred Rhines Science and Engineering. “Wally science and engineering hired them. Hench joined the understands the impact of having legacy at UF clearly made a department in 1964 and invented endowed professorships for faculty lasting impact on him – his Bioglass, the first human-made as a way of showing our support and bachelor’s degree from the material to bond with living tissues confidence in the groundbreaking University of Michigan is in and is now used to repair bones, research and teaching that metallurgical engineering, joints and teeth. DeHoff joined the faculty are contributing within the and his master and Ph.D. department during its founding department and college.” degrees from Stanford are year in 1959 and was Rhines’ final in materials science and MSE continues its momentum Ph.D. student at Carnegie-Mellon engineering. with the Rhines Rising Star University. DeHoff became an professorships. With the generous In addition, he also holds expert in thermodynamics, writing support of the Rhines family, the an MBA from Southern the first and second editions of department now has 10 named Methodist University, and he Thermodynamics of Materials professorships, including the received Honorary Doctor Science. Frederick N. Rhines professorship of Technology degrees from “They helped attract more faculty established by Wally and his wife in the University of Florida in and students like them,” Wally 2007. Other named professorships 2016 and Nottingham Trent Rhines said, “eventually, taking include the Rolf E. Hummel University in 1998. the department to a top-ranked Professorship for Electronic 5 FAST FACTS MSE FAST FACTS IN THE COUNTRY FOR MOST FEMALE FACULTY IN MATERIALS SCIENCE #2 &ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT #10 14 NUMBER OF NEW FACULTY MATERIALS SCIENCE & HIRES IN 2018 AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT 9 GROWING RANKING AMONG PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES NUMBER OF TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK RESEARCH 32 FACULTY IN DEPARTMENT Information sourced (from left): U.S. News & World Report; Departmental Resources; U.S. News & World Reports; ASEE HIGHLIGHTS These professorships are the result of donors who prioritize research and want to help attract and retain CERTIFICATES 10 top faculty. Thanks to a $1 Million gift in 2018, the Undergraduate and graduate ENDOWED department added two new named professorships students can pursue a PROFESSORSHIPS honoring the legacy of the department founder, Dr. certificate in biomaterials, ceramics, electronic materials, Frederick “Fred” Rhines and two early faculty, Robert metals or polymers. DeHoff and Larry Hench. EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING Students are trained on RESEARCH CENTERS & INSTITUTES industry-standard equipment, including the scanning election Major Analytical Instrumentation Center microscope, polymer 3D printers, and ion-characterization Particle Analysis Instrumentation Center DISTANCE LEARNING Institute for Cell Engineering & Regenerative Medicine Students can participant in the Nanoscale Research Facility online program, EDGE, to earn a bachelor’s or master’s degree Center for Particulate and Surfactant Systems from afar. The Gator Nation is 6 and can be everywhere. FAST FACTS NE FAST FACTS AWARDED IN FUNDING FROM DOE AND INMM FOR 2 EARLY CAREER $1M FACULTY RESEARCH PROJECTS #14 GRANT PROJECT BEING
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