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
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$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
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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
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AWARDED IN FUNDING FROM DOE AND INMM FOR 2 EARLY CAREER $1M FACULTY RESEARCH PROJECTS
#14 GRANT PROJECT BEING CONDUCTED NUCLEAR ENGINEERING WITH ARPA-E GRADUATE PROGRAM $6M AMONG PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES NUMBER OF TENURED AND TENURE- TRACK RESEARCH FACULTY 8 IN PROGRAM Information sourced (from left): U.S. News & World Report; Departmental Resources; ASEE Partnerships Argonne National Laboratory; Research Facilities Idaho National Laboratory; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Pacific The Nuclear Engineering Program offers hands-on experience through Northwest National Laboratory; its research labs. Facilities include the reactor, hot cell, hot scanning United States Department of Energy; electron microscope – focused ion beam tool, hot transmission electron United States Department of microscopy, microstructural characterization, radiation instrumentation Defense; Nuclear Energy University and mechanical testing laboratories. Below are five popular labs for Program; students to gain research knowledge and one of our newest labs that will bring expand our nuclear proliferation research. Research Areas ► ► Nuclear Materials ► ► Radiation Detection and University of Florida Training Reactor ► ► Imaging Nuclear Materials Laboratory ► ► Reactor Physics ► ► Nuclear Security, HiPerGator (University of Florida High Performance Safeguards and Nonproliferation Laser and Optics Laboratory (under construction) ► Fusion and Plasma ► Nuclear Fuels and Materials Characterization (NFMC) Physics Laboratory – A Nuclear Science User Facility ► ► Thermal Hydraulics 7 FACULTY AWARDS Faculty Awards National Awards New Professorships
Assel Aitkaliyeva ■■ Josephine Allen - Genzyme Professor of 2018 Department of Energy Early Materials Science and Engineering Career Award ■■ Jennifer Andrew - University of Florida Term Professor Anthony Brennan ■■ Jim Baciak - University of Florida Term Inducted to 2018 National Academy of Professor Inventors ■■ Erika Moore - Rhines Rising Star Larry Andreas Enqvist Hench Assistant Professor of Materials 2017 Institute of Nuclear Materials Science and Engineering Management Early Career Award ■■ Juan Nino - University of Florida Term Professor Kevin Jones ■■ Simon Phillpot - University of Florida North American Education Symposium Term Professor (NAMES) Award for Outstanding ■■ Yong Yang - University of Florida Term Contributions to Materials Education Professor Michele Manuel Inducted as 2017 ASM Fellow Tenure and Promotions
Juan Nino 2018 Inducted as a 2017 Jefferson Science ■■ Richard Hennig - From Associate Professor to Fellow Professor with Tenure ■■ Simon Phillpot - From Professor to Distinguished Nancy Ruzycki Professor Awarded the ASM Materials Genome 2017 Toolkit ■■ Jennifer Andrew - From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure Wolfgang Sigmund ■■ Josephine Allen - From Assistant Professor to 2017 LGBTQ+ Engineer of the Year Award, National Org. of Gay & Lesbian Associate Professor with tenure Scientists & Technical Professionals ■■ Yong Yang - From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure 8 RESEARCH CENTER
NUCLEAR FUELS AND MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION LABORATORY A NUCLEAR SCIENCE USER FACILITY The University of Florida operates the University of Florida Training Reactor (UFTR) and Nuclear and Fuels Materials Characterization (NFMC) facility, which houses extensive laboratories for the evaluation of both irradiated and unirradiated materials. This includes a reactor facility, hot cell, a microstructural characterization and mechanical testing laboratories. The NFMC facility supports the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) network, facilitating rapid-turnaround experiments (RTE) and mid-to long-term research efforts. ■■ TEM F20 has a 20 -200 kV operating voltage with a Schottky field emission gun ZrO/W source for 0.34 nm point-to-point resolution in conventional TEM imaging. ■■ FEI® Helios™ NanoLab™ 600 DualBeam™ system integrates ion and electron beams for FIB and SEM functionality in one machine. ■■ MTS Series 370 Servohydraulic load frame capable of compression, tension, fatigue, and fracture toughness at room and elevated temperatures.
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NEW FACULTY HIRES JOIN US IN WELCOMING THE NEW MSE AND NE FACULTY
aterials Science & Engineering, which houses the Nuclear Engineering Program, has hired nine new faculty members. The new faculty bring with them exciting new research and opportunities to collaborate across disciplines.
Assel Aitkaliyeva Erika Moore ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RHINES RISING STAR Nuclear Fuels, Radiation LARRY HENCH ASSISTANT Damage, 2D Materials PROFESSOR Biomaterials, Regenerative Engineering, Immunology
Bahar Basim Duwayne Schubring PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE ASSOCIATE ENGINEER Nanotechnology in Two-phase Flow, Nuclear Reactor Manufacturing, Microelectronics Thermal Hydraulics, Quantitative Integration, 2D/3D Chemical Visualization; Nuclear Reactor Safety, Mechanical Planarization Computational and Numerical Methods
Kyle Hartig Michael Tonks ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Computational Materials, Forensics, Remote Sensing, Microstructure Evolution, Structure/ Laser and Optical Science Property Relationships
Amanda Krause Justin Watson ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Interface Design in Ceramic Reactor Physics, Thermal Hydraulics, Materials, Phase Nucleation Multiphysics Modeling and Growth in Non-Equilibrium Environments
Honggyu Kim ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Electron Microscopy, Atomic Resolution Imaging, Electron Diffraction 10 NEW FACULTY
SIX OF OUR NINE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS AT THE UF TRAINING REACTOR.
COMISSIONED IN 1959, THE UFTR IS A LIGHT WATER AND GRAPHITE-MODERATED, GRAPHITE- REFLECTED, LIGHT WATER COOLED REACTOR DESIGNED AND USED PRIMARILY FOR TRAINING AND NUCLEAR RESEARCH-RELATED ACTIVITIES. THE UFTR IS THE ONLY RESEARCH REACTOR IN 11 FLORIDA. RESEARCH
DEVELOPING NEW MATERIALS FOR MOBILE DEVICES
JENNIFER ANDREW, PH.D., IS ENGINEERING SCALABLE AND HIGH- PERFORMANCE MAGNETIC MATERIALS THROUGH A $1.4 MILLION NSF GRANT THAT WILL BE USED IN POWER ADAPTERS.
Three professors from UF’s Herbert identify new synthetic and nano- Wertheim College of Engineering manufacturing processes and are developing nanocomposite harness the beneficial properties of magnetic materials with high metal- and oxide-based materials. It Jennifer Andrew, Ph.D. saturation and low loss for will optimize the creation of compact PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR miniaturizing power magnetic power inductors and transformers Associate Professor components. while still making them compatible with current manufacturing This research grant will help standards. Out of This World MSE Professor Dr. Josephine Allen space and experience radiation and will study the cells back on earth microgravity environments onboard to look for changes as a result of the international space station. microgravity. The cells will be studied on “When astronauts go into space they campus in the Allen Lab at UF to are experiencing extreme conditions look at changes in genomics and which include magnified levels of transcriptomics, which provides radiation compared to earth and insight into the genes that are anti-gravity that doesn’t exist here,” actively expressed and change based Josephine Allen, Ph.D. she said. on external environments, and to PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR gain better insight into the molecular Genzyme Associate Professor of The goal of this study is to compare mechanisms behind cardiovascular Materials Science & Engineering the health of Earth-grown vascular disease through seeing how these cells with vascular cells that go into cells restructure themselves. 12 RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
BUILDING BETTER ENGINES THAT CONSUME LESS ENERGY
MICHAEL TONKS, PH.D. IS USING AN ADVANCED COMPUTER TOOL TO IMPROVE CORROSION RESISTANCE IN ENGINES WITH SUPPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.
Increasing the operating predicts the corrosion of valve temperatures of gasoline engines steels during engine operation. increases their efficiency. The SStAC tool will include the impact of the steel microstructure However, the higher temperatures Michael Tonks, Ph.D. on corrosion, and will be developed PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR accelerate corrosion of engine with new information obtained Associate Professor parts, such as the engine valves, from advanced experiments and due to the combustion gases inside lower length-scale simulations. It Thus, it will help reduce costs for the engine cylinders. will assist in part design, reducing existing engines and will assist in the material and engine design for The goal of this project is to costs by eliminating the need for the engines of the future, reducing develop an advanced computer conservative design and enabling the development time by years. tool, the Stainless Steel Alloy alloy optimization to improve Corrosion (SStAC) tool, that corrosion resistance.
Ph.D. student Charlyne Smith Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. student in chemistry and mathematics, and Charlyne Smith has been awarded is a first year Ph.D. student in the a coveted National Science University of Florida’s Department Foundation Graduate Research of Materials Science and Fellowship. She is a 2017 graduate Engineering. Charlyne was inspired of Coppin State University, where by her childhood in Jamaica to she earned her bachelor’s degree study nuclear energy.
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Ice, Ice, Baby
ERIN JACKSON, MSE ALUM, COMPETED IN THE 2018 WINTER OLYMPICS IN PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA
Erin Jackson has a new material in 39.22 seconds and 39.04 seconds. “I think she developed the skills of her life: Ice. organization and timeliness from It has been reported that Jackson her love of athletics,” Mecholsky The 2015 University of Florida was shocked to not just surpass her said. “Her senior thesis work was Materials Science and Engineering Top 10 dreams but make the team. outstanding and will contribute to a alumna traded her inline skates for journal publication.” ice skates just four months prior to Even more surprising, Jackson is the Olympic games. This February, from Ocala, where the closest ice She graduated cum laude with her she competed in Pyeongchang, rinks are more than an hour away. bachelor’s degree. South Korea, as a member of Though inline skating has been a Team U.S.A. in Olympic long-track feeder for top ice speedskating Prior to coming to UF, Jackson speedskating. competitors. graduated from Forest High School, where she was in the EMIT She finished third in the 500-meter During her time in the Department of (Engineering and Manufacturing race during the Olympic trials in Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Technology) program. Milwaukee snagging the final of Jackson worked with Dr. Jack three spots. Before the qualifying Mecholsky. Her undergraduate Jackson joined Olympic races, Jackson had never skated thesis focused on fracture speedskaters and Ocala natives the course in less than 40 seconds. mechanics of dental ceramics and Brittany Bowe and Joey Mantia. In Milwaukee she had two personal was completed in conjunction with bests, completing the course in UF’s Center for Dental Biomaterials. 14 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Honoring a Lifetime of Achievement The American Association of mechanical and computer systems Physicists in Medicine recently associated with radiosurgery and awarded Frank J. Bova, Ph.D. the image guided procedures, according Edith Quimby Lifetime Achievement to a UF Health news release. Award for his work in radiosurgery. The UF Radiosurgery Program has ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT The award is given to members of treated more than 4,600 patients. In the association who have made 2014, Bova was recognized with both Frank Bova, Ph.D. significant contributions to medical the UF College of Medicine Lifetime NES ‘77 physics throughout their career. Achievement Award and as Office of Bova holds 13 patents for mechanical Technology and Licensing Inventor of PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR and computer systems used in the Year. radiosurgery, with the first awarded MCKNIGHT BRAIN INSTITUTE “As a founding member of the in 1992. He most recently patented a RADIOSURGERY/BIOLOGY UF Radiosurgery Program, Frank robotic imaging platform to provide LABORATORY Bova has become one of the most integrated navigation capabilities for internationally-recognized leaders COURTESY FACULTY surgical guidance, the release said. and graduates of the UF Nuclear J. CRAYTON PRUITT FAMILY Bova received his doctoral degree in Engineering Program, inspiring DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL Nuclear Engineering Sciences with countless nuclear scientists and ENGINEERING a specialization in Medical Physics engineers to pursue careers and from the University of Florida in 1977. research in solving challenges He co-founded the UF Radiosurgery within the medical field,” said Jim Program in 1985 in collaboration Baciak, Director of the UF Nuclear with Dr. William Friedman. Their work Engineering Program, has produced multiple patents for 15 DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING P.O. BOX 116400 GAINESVILLE, FL 32611- 6131 MSE.UFL.EDU
Join us at the following conferences:
AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY ALUMNI AND FRIENDS SOCIAL November 12, 2018 Orlando, FL
THE MINERALS, METALS & MATERIALS SOCIETY ALUMNI AND FRIENDS SOCIAL March 10, 2019 San Antonio, TX