MSE Participating Faculty
Distinguished Professor, Bourns College of Engineering
Dean, Bourns College of Engineering
MSE areas: materials processing, solidification, functionally graded composites;
high pressure-high temperature growth of diamond crystals
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Chair, Materials Science and Engineering Program
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1996
MSE areas: materials processing, solidification, functionally graded composites;
high pressure-high temperature growth of diamond crystals
Assistant Professor, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Chemistry
Associate Professor, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Chemistry
Assistant Professor Chemical & Environmental Engineering
B.S. Environmental Engineering 2000
UC Berkeley
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering 2006
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
MSE areas: thermal properties of nanostructured materials.
Associate Professor ,College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Chemistry
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., University of California – Davis
MSE areas: advanced material synthesis and processing; nanocrystalline
materials and nanocomposites; mass transport, nucleation, electric current effects and defects in materials.
MSE areas: chemistry and applications of carbon nanotubes and graphite; neutral radical conductors.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1990
MSE areas: mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes, mechanical
behaviors of ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, acoustics and ultrasonics with applications in
sensing and imaging.