Chairs’ LettersLetters from the outgoing and incoming MSE department chairsThree years ago I left the University of Connecticut where I spent most of my career and came to Columbus, Ohio. The lure was family, friends, and the challenge of chairing one of the best Materials Science and Engineering departments in the country. It’s true that as an alumnus of OSU I was somewhat biased in my thinking, but now as the department reins are turned over to Rudy Buchheit, I can look back and give you a candid view of what I found here.

Simply put, I found that the MSE department is phenomenal. Here one finds some of the best teachers, scientists, engineers, equipment, staff, programs, and students in the world. At least I have seen or met none better in forty years. Consider the following examples. Among our professors Wolfgang Windl receives top evaluations from our students each year (including the 2006 Mars Fontana Teaching Award from this year’s senior class) for teaching subjects like electronic materials and computational materials science. His clear presentations, wry wit, and empathy for students make him a department treasure. Ju Li is another gem, who this year was named the Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator. Students were so impressed with his ability that at the Rib n’ Roast party this year they declared “Professor Li is so smart he can divide by zero!” With regard to engineering, the department has Jim Williams, a National Academy of Engineering member, whose knowledge of titanium alloys and the development of jet engines is encyclopedic. He teaches our senior design course and peppers his lectures with his own experiences in industry. The list of our talented faculty members doesn’t end there as you will see when you read on.

In our newsletter you will learn of exciting new programs on sensors, nanostructured materials, atomic scale modeling, metallic glasses, etc. These programs are enhanced by our world renowned materials characterization laboratories where this year, thanks to the efforts of Hamish Fraser, the incredible TITAN electron microscope was installed. The TITAN is a robust instrument that has sub-Angstrom resolution. In addition, a suite of new mechanical testing load frames was added to the

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high bay laboratory with funding obtained by Jim Williams.

Our ceramics program was severely reduced three years ago when Bob Snyder and Ken Sandhage left for Georgia Tech and then again last year when Eric Kriedler retired. However with the hire of Nitin Padture, a fellow of ACers and a Coble Award winner, and Patricia Morris, an OSU alumnae with a successful industrial career developing new sensors, we have a substantial ceramics program again involving seven faculty members.

Now let me tell you about our wonderful students. Our typical undergraduate enrollment of 150 and graduate class of 100 are a diverse group that includes some of the most accomplished academics and most talented student leaders in the college. On page 12, look for the letter by Megna Shah who wrote this while a student and the Materials Club President. She captures the enthusiasm that makes our students here so special and teaching here so rewarding.

Finally, thank you to our great alumni who have stopped in or made other contact with the department over the past three years. Your interest in the department as well as your financial support for scholarships and other programs have contributed much to our growth and the quality of the programs that we offer.

John Morral

From Our New Chair

Greetings to all. I am looking forward to serving MSE as chair over the next four years. I’d like to share a few of my general thoughts on the present and future of MSE, but before doing so, I’d like to acknowledge John Morral for his service as chair for the past three years. Those of you who have met John quickly appreciate that he is a gentleman and a scholar of the highest caliber. As you have gotten to know him, you have come to appreciate

that he is a man of deep principles and understanding. These elements of his character have been the foundation of his leadership under which MSE has grown and been enhanced. For that, we are all indebted. I’d like to express my personal appreciation for the efforts and patience John has had with me over the past several months as I have prepared for my new duties.

At this point of transition, I find myself reflecting more than ever on the contributions and the individuals that have come to define the rich legacy of MSE and the Metallurgical and Ceramic Engineering departments that formed it. I have been associated with Ohio State for nearly ten years, but it took no time at all to realize that this is an organization that deeply values its reputation and strengths in the traditional elements of our field -- metals, ceramics, structure-property relationships, materials characterization, materials processing and materials degradation. No apologies are made for these affections; nor should any be made. These elements of materials science and engineering are essential for the vitality of the national economic enterprise.

At the same time, it is clear that this is a forward-looking group that manages self-transformation well. This is made evident in our emerging research thrusts in computational materials science, inorganic materials science, and biomaterials, each of which grew from deliberate and strategic group decisions. It is also made evident by the fact that we have had and continue to build leading research activities related to structure, properties and characterization of materials at small length scales. These decisions and commitments have had a clear impact on the composition of our current faculty. The group has increased in size by a quarter, and more than a third of our present roster comprises individuals who arrived after I did. Our staff roster has changed even more than that of the faculty. The lesson in this accounting is that we must gracefully build from our strengths into new arenas in ways that enhance the reputation of materials research and education that has

come to be associated with Ohio State. We have done well for a long time, and I am optimistic that we will continue to succeed.

My optimism is based on three main ingredients whose influences I see every day. First, we have a large and accomplished alumni base that is generous to MSE in many ways; not the least of which is scholarship support that

enables us to make awards to undergraduate students at a rate approaching $100,000 per year. Each and every year this generosity has a quantitative impact on recruiting and retention of some of the best students

at Ohio State. On that note, I point to the second ingredient; the students. We enjoy what has become a steady stream of keen and bright students from across Ohio and beyond. These individuals enrich themselves and the department while here, and go on to make an impressive range of contributions to the national research and technology enterprise. The third ingredient is the faculty and staff. There is no question that we have an extremely capable and accomplished faculty; both past and present. The accolades and notoriety conferred on this group scarcely recognizes the abilities and effort that I see day in and day out. The staff is surely under-recognized for their efforts, but as far as I can tell, they are no less dedicated and certainly no less important to the continued success of MSE. Sure, we have aging buildings, a demanding administrative environment, and downward pressure on budgets, but none of these issues present insurmountable difficulties given the capabilities and talents I see embedded within the people that define MSE at Ohio State.

Let me conclude by saying that it is a privilege and an honor to serve this distinguished department in this new role. I look forward to both the opportunities and challenges ahead, but most of all, I look forward to interacting with an outstanding group of people who have a shared vision of excellence and vitality for Materials Science and Engineering at Ohio State.

Rudy Buchheit

Rudy Buchheit

“...it is clear that this is a forward-looking group that manages self-transformationwell.”

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Professor Sheikh Akbar’s group has found an easy way to carve the surface of inexpensive ceramic material into tiny filaments, creating a platform for devices that potentially can detect chemicals in the air, clean up toxic chemicals, gather solar energy, or form fog-free or self-cleaning surfaces. Each filament, or “nanofinger,” consists of a single crystal of the compound titanium oxide. The filament measures up to

five micrometers long and at most 50 nanometers thick (a thousand times thinner than a human hair). The new process offers a simple chemical alternative to typical machine-based methods for carving ceramics.

Professor Rudy Buchheit and his group in the Fontana Corrosion Center are developing new paint that contains clay and other chemicals that can keep metal from corroding and reveal when an airplane, boat, or bridge needs to be repainted. They have found that the new paint fights corrosion by absorbing chloride ions, the chemical responsible for most metal corrosion, and releasing cerium or other corrosion inhibitors to form a protective film over cracks in the paint. With further development, they believe that the paint could enable maintenance crews to inspect surfaces using a common X-ray technique to determine when repainting was needed.

Assistant Professor Katharine Flores’research group focuses on understanding bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). As a

family, these alloys exhibit impressive mechanical properties including high strength, stiffness, and toughness, similar to or exceeding those of conventional metals, while their amorphous structure

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forming processes historically reserved for weaker polymeric materials. The research group also explores novel laser processing and solid state joining techniques, which may expand the utilization of BMGs in structural applications. Kathy recently received both an NSF Career award and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award to support her program.

Assistant Professor Ju Li andhis collaborators at MIT have recently published a paper on the internal structures of topological defects called solitons, which are charge carriers in the organic conductor polyacetylene. An example is shown in the figure below. Also, his group works on shear band formation in bulk metallic glasses. They have a model that agrees with recent compression experiments on focused-ion-beam carved nanopillars of different diameters. Based on molecular

dynamics simulation data, their model predicts the yield point of bulk metallic glasses in substantial agreement with experiments.

Recent research in Professor W.S. Winston Ho’s group has included selective CO2 membranes, high-flux desalination membranes, and proton-exchange membranes (PEMs). The CO2 membranes possess high CO2

permeability and CO2/H2 selectivity at relatively high temperatures (100 – 180oC). Ho’s group obtained <10 ppm CO in the H2 product with a water-gas-shift (WGS) membrane reactor using the membrane to drive the WGS reaction to the product side via CO2 removal. They have pioneered novel desalination membranes with >100% increase in water flux vs. the industry standard, while maintaining a NaCl rejection of >99%. Also, they have pioneered novel PEMs for fuel cells with much higher conductivity than Nafion® at 120oC as well as suitable conductivity at 25oC.

Professor Michael Mills is leading a team of PIs from OSU and other universities in a major program entitled "Microstructure- and Micromechanism-Sensitive Property Models for Turbine Disk and Blade Systems.” The ultimate vision for this program is to replace models currently used in the design of turbine engines, which are based on costly and time-intensive mechanical testing, with models based on micro-mechanical fundamentals. The new models come from multiscale calculations that have resulted from or been verified by experimental observations. In addition to faculty members, the program involves extensive interaction with researchers and engineers at the Air Force Wright Laboratories, General Electric Aviation, and Pratt-Whitney.

Professor Nitin Padture and his research group have introduced the concept of metal–oxide–metal (MOM) heterojunction nanowires for use as building blocks in future multifunctional nanoelectronic devices. The MOM nanowires provide an unprecedented opportunity for directly measuring functional properties of oxides that are truly nanoscale and free of substrate influence. His group has been able to synthesize a wide range of MOM nanowires, using various innovative methods. Also, they are assembling the MOMs into nanocircuits that show unusual functional properties.

If one examines changes in a tribosystem during and after extended sliding, one commonly finds material that is both structurally and chemically different from the bulk material. The development of this “tribomaterial” influences both friction and wear. Professor David Rigney's group is combining experimental results, molecular dynamics simulations, and continuum mechanics to address the nature of

a. SEM image of nano-fibers, scale bar, 1 micron. b. TEM image of a nano-fiber, scale bar 200 nm. c. electron diffraction pattern of the nano-fiber.

A solitary electron wave (ripples of red and blue, center) travels along a polymer chain, causing the chain to bend in the middle.

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tribomaterial and the processes involved in its formation. The picture that emerges involves transfer and mechanical mixing related to vorticity, which in turn develops from instability in plastic flow. The mechanism may be applicable over a wide range of size scales, from the nanoscale up to macroscopic, e.g., plate tectonics.

Professor Doru Stefanescu has a project supported by the American Foundry Society and five companies to study how the casting skin influences the tensile properties of light weight, ductile iron castings. The research is of interest to automotive companies that are pursuing lighter cars. Also, he is investigating the solidification mechanism of faceted/faceted peritectic reactions via a transparent organic metal analog system. While information on non-faceted peritectics is rather abundant, that on faceted peritectic is scarce. Using a directional solidification set-up previously used in NASA flight investigations, the interface morphology can be observed directly through an optical microscope and correlated to the solidification velocity. The velocity is precisely evaluated from a video recording.

Solar energy is particularly abundant, but frequently unused due, in part, to the high cost of energy collection. Professor HenkVerweij and Matthew Mottern have been collaborating with researchers at SINTEF, a Norwegian research institute, to develop

innovative, low cost, efficient materials for solar cell devices. For example, they have shown that a cheap and simple chemical solution deposition process can generate high quality, transparent and conducting, oxide thin-films essential in many solar cell devices.

Professor Robert Wagoner’s research group continues to work in areas related to sheet metal forming. A new test method, cited by Science Direct’s TOP25 Articles, allows continuous measurement of sheet deformation in tension and compression at large strains. The test opens the door to a variety of investigations, including measurement of the Bauschinger effect, springback, and the properties of friction-stir welds. Also, his group is working on the forming behavior of magnesium sheet. Tension-compression results combined

with metallography and acoustic emission testing allowed for imaging of twins. The results can be deconvoluted using a novel analytical procedure. These advances pave the way to improved formability and expanded use of magnesium sheet in the automobile industry.

Professor Yunzhi Wang has been using the phase field method to create two-dimensional simulations of interdiffusion in high temperature MCrAlY coatings. He and his group, working with Professor John Morral, have obtained simulated microstructures that are remarkably similar to those obtained experimentally. The

simulations use standard thermodynamic and kinetic databases and are able to include the effects of both diffusion and capillarity. In future work, the effect of stress will be added as well.

Professor Gerald Frankel’s group in the The Fontana Corrosion Center is continuing to investigate the corrosion and inhibition of Al alloys. A recent study of AA7075 found that a modified layer, on the order of 100 nm in thickness, forms on the surface as a result of polishing. For only certain tempers, this modified layer is more susceptible to corrosion than the underlying bulk matrix, resulting in a transient dissolution at low potentials.The corrosion susceptibility of the layer is related to a redistribution of Zn from fine hardening particles to intergranular bands, a few nm in thickness, along the

nanograins present in this layer.

A delegation of professors from MSE visited China last summer with the goal of enhancing current global collaborations and developing new ones. Professors HamishFraser, Jerry Frankel, MikeMills, and Yunzhi Wang spent a week visiting the Beijing Institute for Aeronautical

Materials, the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, and the Institute for Metal Research (IMR) in Shenyang. Professor Wang recognized common interest at the IMR in structural materials, computational materials, and corrosion, which led to the trip.

A Molecular Dynamics simulation of a model system of red atoms sliding on another system of blue atoms. The figure shows a mechanically mixed layer and a highly disordered zone at the sliding interface.

An indium tin oxide (ITO) is tailored from a randomly oriented (a) to textured microstructural morphology (b) by controlling the precursor chemistry and thermal treatment.

Left: Continuous measurement of sheet deformation.

Right: Tension-compression loading combined with metallography and acoustic emission testing.

l-r: Yunzhi Wang, Mike Mills, Hamish Fraser, and Jerry Frankel on China’s Great Wall in Summer 2005.

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The Titan 80-300™ electron microscope, capable of magnifying 30million times, was recently installed in our CentralElectron Optics Facility (CEOF).The Titan obtains lateral resolution better than 1 Ångstrom and energy resolution down to 0.1 eV. This gives it the

best performance of any existing TEM or SEM in the world and enables it to obtain new information about electronic properties of materials, for example bonding states or band gaps, as well as, unprecedented spatial resolution of nanomaterials. Astronaut John Glenn visited the Titan soon after its installation and asked CEOF director Professor Hamish Fraser “how large would a hair from my head look in the Titan?” Reportedly Hamish answered directly “600 meters in diameter.”

The Ohio Supercomputer Center awarded an AMD computer cluster to Professors Wolfgang Windl, Ju Li, and Yunzhi Wang. The title of their winning proposal was “Highly Parallel Multiscale Modeling Suite for the Simulation of Real Materials.” This high performance computer cluster will enable advanced research in computational material science and promote our growing computational effort.

Associate Professor John Lannutti was chosen to lead the college Fuel Cell Center. Funding from a Wright Center of Innovation grant has provided both John and Professor Henk Verweij with major funding to develop laboratory facilities for fuel cell research. Their renovated laboratories and new equipment are located on the third and fourth floor of MacQuigg.

The Ohio Center for Advanced Propulsion and Power (OCAPP) is a newly created research center designed to develop new propulsion technology for the aerospace industry. The goal is to develop faster, quieter and more fuel efficient jet engines that will meet future requirements of

military and commercial aero propulsion systems. Professor Jim Williams is the director of OCAPP and was instrumental in obtaining Wright Center of Innovation funding to create the Center.

Faculty Retirements

Professor Carroll Mobley retired effective December 31, 2003 and was awarded emeritusstatus by the OSU Board of Trustees. Carroll was the Foundry EducationFoundation Key Professor and Director of the MSE Foundry. He continues to teach several classes each year and, when he’s not teaching, can be found at a local rifle range!

Associate Professor EricKreidler retired effective June 30, 2005 and was honored with emeritus status by OSU’s Board of Trustees. Eric and his wife Jane (also recently retired from

the State of Ohio), built a new home in Coshocton, Ohio to enjoy retirement. Eric hopes to spend more time on the golf course and ski slopes.

New Faculty

Nitin Padture joined MSE as a full professor in January 2005. He is a Lehigh graduate (Ph.D. 1991) who taught for 10 years at the University of Connecticut before joining our faculty. His research and teaching interests include: ceramic processing; structural ceramics, composites and coatings; functional thin films and one-dimensional nanomaterials; mechanical behavior; and thermal properties. He has received the American Ceramic society’s Roland B. Snow Award and Robert L. Coble Young Scholar Award and is a fellow of ACerS.

Patricia Morris, an OSU alumni (B.Cer.Engr. 1980), joined the department as an Associate Professor with tenure in August of 2005. After leaving OSU, Dr. Morris obtained a Ph.D. in Ceramics with a minor in solid state physics at M.I.T. She then worked on the technical staff of Bellcore before joining DuPont in 1988. There she worked on the structure and electronic/optical properties of ceramics and led a group that developed the Senplex Chemical Sensor.

Doru Stefanescujoined our department as a Research Professor and Foundry Education Foundation Key Professor with funding from a generous gift by the Ashland Chemical Company. He came to us from the University of Alabama where he was the Cudworth Professor of Engineering and Director of their Solidification Laboratory. He is well known for his many publications on solidification science and processing and is an internationally recognized expert on metal casting technology. He has won numerous awards and is a fellow of ASM International.

Courtesy and Adjunct Appointments

Courtesy appointments were given to ECE Professor Steve Ringel, director of the new OSU Materials Research Institute; to ME Professor Somnath Ghosh, a strong collaborator with MSE members; and to Assistant Professor Derek Hansford,who left MSE in 2006 to join the new OSU Biomedical Engineering Department. Also, adjunct appointments were given to Professors R. Yang, E. H. Han, D. S. Xu from the Institute of Metal Research in Shenyang, China, who are developing joint programs with our department.

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Promotions

Congratulations! Peter Anderson and Yunzhi Wang were both promoted to full professor effective October 1, 2005.

Sabbatical & Leave

Professor Jerry Frankel was on sabbatical for the 2004-2005 academic year at the Max Plank Institute for Iron Research in Duesseldorf, Germany. Jerry was a Humboldt Research Scholar and did experiments on corrosion of stainless steel under thin aqueous solutions using a Kelvin Probe Potentiostat.

Professor Glenn Daehn was on sabbatical for the 2004-2005 academic year. During this time he worked at Excera Materials Group as their Chief Technologist.

Professor Hamish Fraser was on research leave during Spring Quarter 2006 in Germany at the University of Goettingen, Institute for Materials Physics. There he worked on Atom Probe Tomography of heat-treated beta-Ti alloys to measure nanoscale variations in solute concentrations accompanying phase separation. These variations are known to have an important influence on the nucleation of alpha in the beta phase. An Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Prize funded the leave.

Associate Professor Wolfgang Windl spent the summer of 2006 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany, where he helped to form an atomistic-modeling group and worked on process-simulation problems for nanoelectronics devices. His stay was funded by a Humbolt fellowship associated with the Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award he received.

Staff Retirements & Changes

Priscilla “Pris” North, the Chair’s Assistant, left Ohio State on January 6, 2006 to join her husband who had taken a job in the Washington, D.C. area. Pris received her law degree from Capital University while working full time in MSE. She's now enjoying her role as a staff attorney for the corporate offices of

Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. in McLean, Va. In her spare time, she serves as a pro bono immigration attorney for the non-profit organization, Just Neighbors Ministry, Inc. in Arlington, VA. Priswas much loved by our students for her help and unfailing friendship. Her email is prisnorth@hotmail.com if you'd like to drop her a line.

Steve Neer, our undergraduate coordinator, left on February 24, 2006 to take a supervisory position in the Psychology department. It was a move up for Steve as he will have more responsibilities in a bigger department. For five years Steve was a much-appreciated beacon of light that helped guide our students through the undergrad maze.

Wendy Ranney, our department'sHR administrator and fiscal assistant, retired from OSU on March 31, 2006 after 30 years of service. She served MSE from August of 2000 until her retirement.

Gary Dodge, our long time building coordinator and technical staff manager, retired on June 30, 2006 after 38 years at OSU. He was employed by the Ceramic Engineering department before it merged with Metallurgical Engineering to form the MSE department. He will be remembered by many students for his work on the undergraduate labs.

New Staff

Cameron Lottiejoined the department on May 8, 2006 as Assistant to the MSE Chair. She was employed previously by the OSU Cardiothoracic Surgery department where she worked

as a program coordinator. In a very short time she has proven herself to be an exceptional hire.

Megan Daniels joined the department on April 17, 2006 to be our new undergraduate advisor. She came with a varied background and previous advising experience at Columbus State Community College. She has already demonstrated wonderful empathy for both our students and their parents, perhaps because she has teenage children of her own.

Angella Brown joined the department on July 3, 2006 as the department's HR administrator and fiscal assistant. She is a graduate of Ohio State where she studied Business. She has worked for the Center for Materials Research, the College of Medicine,and the Department of Radiation Medicine at the OSU Medical Center.

Faculty

Sheikh Akbar 2003 Guest editor of 2 special

issues of Journal of Materials Science

2005 R&D 100 Award (x2) NASA TGIR Award for fire detection sensors

Peter Anderson2005 MRS Blue Ribbon Award2005 Lumley Award, OSU

College of Engineering2006 Boyer Award for Excellence

in Teaching Innovation, OSU College of Engineering

Rudy Buchheit2004 Stanley E. Harrison Faculty

Award, College of Engineering, Ohio State University

2006 Charles E. MacQuigg Award, given by the students in the College of Engineering for outstanding teaching

l-r: Wendy Ranney, Mei Wang, and Steve Neer at Steve’s good-bye lunch.

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2006 Fellow, National Association of Corrosion Engineers

2006 John Weaver Award for Best Speaker, 49th Annual Waterborne and Innovative Coatings Symposium, Cleveland Coatings Society Annual Meeting

Ted CollingsICMC Lifetime Achievement Award

Glenn DaehnFeatured as part of “Really Smart People

Doing Really Smart Things” OSU advertising campaign

Kathy FloresNSF Career AwardONR Young Investigator Award2006 Lumley Research Award, OSU

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Jerry FrankelAlexander Von Humbolt Foundation

Research Award for Senior US Scientists

Fellow of NACE International2006 Fellow of The Electrochemical

Society, Fellow of ASM International, Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award, OSU College of Engineering

Hamish Fraser2004 Fellow of TMS Alexander Von Humbolt Foundation

Research Award for Senior US Scientists

Winston HoKeynote speaker, International

Symposium on Emerging Environmental Technology, Kwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Gwangju, Korea

Perkin Elmer Professor R Kumar Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers

Ju Li2006 Lumley Research Award, OSU

College of Engineering2005 MRS Outstanding Young

Investigator Award. In a presentation associated with the award, Ju gave a talk on “Mechanics and Physics of Defect Nucleation”

2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

John Morral2005 Honored with a symposium on

multicomponent and multiphase diffusion and an honorary dinner held at the 2005 TMS Annual Meeting

Mike MillsLumley Interdisciplinary Research Award,

OSU College of Engineering

Pat Morris2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, OSU

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Nitin Padture2005 Fellow of the American Ceramic

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Dave Rigney2003 Plenary speaker at the meeting

of the WEAR Group of IRG-DECD, Portoroz, Slovenia

2005 Keynote speaker at Forefront of Tribology 2005, Kobe, Japan

2005 Keynote speaker at International Tribology Conference, May 31, 2005, Kobe, Japan

2005 Keynote speaker at World Tribology Conference, Washington, DC

2006 Keynote speaker at MRS Brazil, Oct., 2006, Florianopolis, Brazil.

2006 Keynote speaker at MS&T Symposium on Tribological Contacts, Cincinnati, OH

Doru Stefanescu2006 Honored by the Central Ohio

Chapter of the American Foundry Society for his efforts to revive the OSU foundry program.

Robert WagonerFellow ASMEDistinguished Service Award, AIMEFellow of TMSTMS Distinguished Service AwardDistinguished Adjunct Professor, Pohang

University of TechnologyClara M. and Peter L. Scott Faculty

Award, OSU College of Engineering

Yunzhi WangSenior visiting Research Fellow, Institute

of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science

2005 KC Wong Research Award2005-2008 Min Jiang Scholar

2006 Lumley Research Award, OSU College of Engineering

Wolfgang WindlFellow of Ohio State Teaching

Enhancement Programs (OSTEP)Nano Tech Industrial Impact Award for

discovery of “ideal” interfaces in thin-film systems.

First winner of the Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award, - a new joint award of the Humboldt Foundation- and Fraunhofer Society in Germany.

Mars Fontana Teaching Award, OSU Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

2006 Inaugural speaker at the newly founded Southeastern Pacific Research Institute (SEPARI), Valparaiso, Chile

Alumni

Brent L. Adams (MS ’76, PhD ’79) was named an ASM Fellow in 2004“For contributions to the study of microstructure, including advances in representation, sterology and the development of orientation imaging microscopy.” Brent is the Dusenberry Professor for Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Sue Baik-Kromalic (BS ’90), a member of our External Advisory Committee and Staff Engineer at Honda of America Mfg., Inc. is a trustee elect (2005-2008) for ASM International.

Xi-Yong Fu (PhD, ‘01) has been awarded the William Oxley Thompson Award for 2006. The award is presented to an OSU alumni who has "achieved distinction in their career prior to age 35."

Scott MacKenzie (BS ’81, Met) was named an ASM Heat Treating Society Board Member in 2005.

Dan Miracle (MS ’86, PhD ’90), Senior Scientist in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at Wright-Patterson AFB was honored to serve as the 2004 ASM Alpha Sigma Mu Lecturer.

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G. Sundararajan (MS ’79, PhD ’81) was named an ASM Fellow for 2005. He is the director of ARCI in Hyderabad, India.

Greg Thompson (MS ’98, PhD ‘03), a professor at the University of Alabama, has won an NSF CAREER award.

Graduate Students

Sehoon Yoo, graduate student studying with Sheikh Akbar, was a 2004 finalist in the Collegiate Inventors Award competition. Sehoon invented a way to carve extremely tiny channels in ceramics, creating microscopic ceramic fibers with applications in solar cells, household deodorizers, automotive catalytic converters and chemical sensors. He also received the MRS Silver Award for his presentation, "TiO2 Nanofibers Created by Gas Phase Reaction with H2" in 2005 as well as being one of the seven OSU "Rising Stars" based on his Ph.D. thesis in 2005.

Qizhen Li was honored by the department with a plaque and brief ceremony for graduating in August 2005 with a perfect 4.0GPA. Peter Andersonwas Qizhen’s proud advisor. After a post-doc at Northwestern University, she was hired as an Assistant Professor at the University of Reno, Nevada in August 2006.

Syadwad Jain won a 2004 Graduate School Leadership Award for his work with the India Students Association and the Association for India's Development. As president of the ISA, Syadwad organized a Red-Cross bone marrow drive, Welcome Week events, and an Indian cultural event that brought together five universities and over 400 participants. Additionally, Syadwad received the Student Leadership Award from OSU’s Multicultural Center.

The following graduate students won awards for their presentations at conferences in 2003-2006:

Greg Omweg, W. H. Hobart Award from the American Welding Society for best contribution to Welding Journal in the area of pipe welding, April 2004. (advisor Jerry Frankel). Co-authors included Bill Bruce and Jose Ramirez from EWI and Gerry Koch from CC Technologies.

Yeong Ho Kim, 2nd Place, Mars Fontana Student Poster Award in Corrosion Engineering, NACE Corrosion March 2004.(advisor Jerry Frankel)

Thodla Ramgopal, Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award of the ECS Corrosion Division, October 2003. (advisor Jerry Frankel)

Barbara (Nikki) Padgett won the Pourbaix Prize for a first place poster in corrosion science at NACE, March 2004.(advisory Rudy Buchheit)

At the 2004 Gordon Research Conference on Physical Metallurgy, Babu Viswanathan, Peter Sarosi,Deb Demania (GE Aircraft, Cincinnati), Karthik Subraminian and Mike Mills won the Best Poster Award for their work titled, “Microtwinning as the Rate Controlling Process of Intermediate Creep Temperature in Polycrystalline Ni-based Superalloy”.

Hong Jin Kim, Andrew Emge (advisor Dave Rigney), and Karthik Subramanian won Best Student Poster Award, Stewardship Science Academic Alliances (SSAA) Program Symposium March 2004. This work was supported by DoE, and Hong Jin did an internship at Los Alamos National Labs during the summer of 2003. Their work

was titled, “Effect of sliding velocity on the frictional behavior and microstructure of ductile FCC materials.”

Matt Mottern (advisor Henk Verweij) won 2nd place in the student paper contest at the Eighth International Conference on Inorganic Membranes in July 2004.

Karthik Subramanian (advisor Dave Rigney) received one of three best poster awards at the International Conference on Wear of Materials for their presentation, “Tribological Phenomena at High Sliding Velocities.”

Santi Chrisanti (advisor Rudy Buchheit) won the first place prize in the Electrochemical Society General Student Poster Session (Oct. 2005) at the ECS meeting in Los Angeles for her poster titled "Application of Ce-Exchanged Clay as a Corrosion Inhibiting and Sensing Pigment in Organic Coatings."

l-r: Peter Anderson, Qizhen Li, and John Morral

Distinguished AlumniAward RecipientsThe MSE department is proud to have seven of our alumni recognized by the College of Engineering in recent years. The award “recognizes distinguished achievement of alumni in the fields of engineering or architecture by reason of significant inventions, important research or design, administrative leadership or genius in production.”

2004Joe H. Payer (BC ’66, PhD ’71) is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.

Katherine Stevens, (MS ’87, PhD ’02) Chief of the Survivability and Sensor Materials Division of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at the Air Force Research Lab.

2005V. “Anthony” Ananthanarayanan (MS ’85) of Beavercreek, OH is a Technical Fellow at the Delphi Energy and Chassis Group.

Randall German (MS ‘71 METE), CAVS Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Center of Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University.

Robert Schafrik (PhD ‘79 METE), General Manager of Materials and Process Engineering, GE Aircraft Engines.

2006Patricia Morris (BS ‘80 CER) Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University.

Chong O. Park (PhD ’79) Dr. Park is a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Engineering.

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Hong Jin Kim and Andrew Emge (advisor Dave Rigney) won a Silver Award for their poster in the Ultrafine Grained Materials Symposium at the 2006 TMS meeting.

Undergraduate Students

Mark Andio and James Falk were part of the Freshman Engineering Honors class which competed in Salt Lake City in June 2004 during the annual ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) competition. The competition involved making a device that shot racquetballs into a basketball hoop. Their group, which included Steve Harpster, won the competition, beating several other major universities.

Andrew Bonifas was a Hertz Graduate Fellowship finalist in 2005. The Hertz Fellowship is a highly prestigious award for which there were only two finalists from OSU that year.

Mike Groeber, a 3rd year graduate student, received first place in the 2006 Hayes Graduate Reseach Forum.

Elliott Schulte received the 2004Engineers Foundation of Ohio General Scholarship for 1 year.

The Women in Engineering Recognition Banquet is an annual event to recognize achievements of outstanding women students in the College of Engineering. At the 2004 banquet, several MSE students were honored for their accomplishments including: Justine Mahler (First-Quarter Certificate of Achievement), Mary Cavanaugh and Fariaty Wong(Graduating Students), Karla Brammer,Mary Cavanaugh, Libby Mercer, and Megna Shah (Outstanding Academic Awards). Engineering alumnae in attendance included: Sarah Harveyfrom Caterpillar, Inc., Mary JuhasSenior Assistant Dean in the College of Engineering, Jessica Licardi from GE, Judith McDonald, Director of Academic Advising in the College of Engineering, Jennifer Searles from Procter & Gamble, and Lee Ann Schwope from Excera Materials Group, Inc. The 2005 banquet honored the following MSE women: KarlaBrammer (Top Academic Award), AshleyManny, Libby Mercer, and Megna Shah(Outstanding Academic Awards), Megna

Shah (Leadership Award), Emily Graham(First-Quarter Certificate of Achievement) and Nicole Auvil, Olukemi Ayodeji,Libby Mercer, Emily Meyer, and LindseySaylor (Graduating Students). Returning this year as alumnae were Jessica Licardi and Jennifer Searles.

Recognized in the President’s Salute to Undergraduate Academic Achievement in 2004 were MSE seniors Randy Butlerand Bill Kovacs. This award recognizes the academic achievements of juniors and seniors, as well as faculty nominated by students.

Staff

Mei Wang, our business manager and fiscal officer, was presented an OSU Distinguished Staff Award at a luncheon held on June 15th, 2006. Only twelve such awards are given each year and Mei was the first MSE staff member to receive one. She was cited for being “bright, efficient, reliable and a host of other superlatives.” Also highlighted was her “Herculean effort to take charge of the finances at the department …. and completely restructure it into a modern financial system.”

Letter from an Alumnus

William (Bill) Carden, PE, ’97 MS-Materials EngineeringSenior EngineerVista Engineering, Inc.,Birmingham, Alabama

It was certainly an honor to be asked to contribute to this newsletter. I was surprised to be considered worthy to address the other prestigious alumni, staff and students. Most of all

I appreciate the opportunity to express my gratitude and appreciation to the OSU Materials Engineering Department for the opportunity to serve as a graduate student in one of the nation’s finest institutions. The recognition and respect for the degree I received from OSU has been a tremendous asset to my career and my abilities as an engineer. Over the past year I have been honored in my community. I have received the Young Engineer of the Year Award from the Engineering Council

of Birmingham, and named one of Birmingham Business Journal’s Top 40 under 40. However, I feel more honored being asked to write this article.

I began my education at OSU almost 10

years ago, under the advisement of Dr. Robert Wagoner. Our focus was the investigation and prediction of springback in weight saving materials for the automotive industry. I learned many things during my time at OSU both in the classroom and out. Time I spent in the graduate classroom was a more intense experience than I had expected. I will always appreciate the educational foundation that I received within the halls of Watts. There is no substitute for experience, and experiences were always present for the taking in Dr. Wagoner’s Group. From materials testing and characterization to assembling the quick die change equipment for the sheet metal forming simulator, our skills were constantly put to the test. The forming simulator was an important part of research effort and after months of long hours attending to this beast, my friend and coworker Flemming Damborg did not so affectionately name it the “Big Black Monster”.

After completing my master’s degree, I moved back home to Birmingham, Alabama. I was fortunate enough to be able to begin working with a start up company, Vista Engineering. Vista specializes in engineering research, development and technological solutions. Initially, we had few projects and fewer employees. Now, Vista has many separate business lines and 10 employees and associates. We have an in-house plasma reactor for CVD diamond film growth; are on the cutting edge of automotive forensics and failure analysis; carry out research in materials processing; as well as performing extensive industrial and product liability consulting.

In my role as a senior engineer, I am currently working several areas at Vista, including microstructure modeling of nickel-based superalloys and failure analysis consulting. I have accepted a

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post as director of our vehicle forensics team. This means I could be giving a presentation one week and crawling under a wrecked car in a junkyard the next.

My education at the Ohio State University prepared me well for the many difficult challenges I have encountered in the past years. I have found Ohio State alumni among the finest and most highly regarded engineers in practice, and I am proud to be included in such esteemed company.

William Carden

Where Are They Now?

1940sEugene Dornbrook (BC ’46) is retired as a metallurgy sales rep for US Steel Corp.

1950sBurton Brubaker (BC ’58, MS ’58, PhD ’62) is retired from Dow Chemical and living in Midland, MI.

David L. Douglass (PhD ’58) received the 2004 H.R. Russ Ogden Award from the American Society for Testing and Materials. Douglass is a professor emeritus at UCLA and now a research professor at University of AZ.

Glenn Faulkner (MS ’58) is retired and living in San Jose, CA.

Raeman Sopher (MS ’56) is retired and living in Vermont.

1960sJack Bucher (M.S. '62, Ph.D. '64} is retired from the steel industry but remains active as a metallurgical consultant in Scottsdale, AZ. He is always happy to see old friends who find themselves in the area.

Harold Gegel (MS ’62, PhD’65) was elected a Distinguished Life Member of ASM International in 2004 and is now retired and living in Dayton Ohio.

Larry Hench (BC ’61, PhD ’64) professor of ceramic materials at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of London continues to write children’s books staring “Boing Boing the Bionic Cat.” For more about Larry’s cross-

curriculum studies based on the character, visit www.boing-boing.org.

Rollin Hook (MS ’59, PhD ’66) is retired from Armco Inc. and resides in Arizona.

Gregg Melde (PhD ’69) is retired and lives in Poulsbo, WA.

Robert Miller (BS, MS ’67, PhD ’70) is retired after 34 years as a senior staff engineer at Delphi Automotive Systems in Michigan. Bob also served for many years on our External Advisory Committee.

Jack Patterson (BS’62, MS’62, PhD’66) retired Professor from the Iowa State University now lives in Arizona.

Russell Wenk (BS ’67) is a standards engineer at Boeing Co. in Mesa, AZ.

1970sMichael Crews (BS ’73) is Chief Metallurgist at Metaldyne in Columbus.

Edward Dalder (PhD ’73) is a materials and processing engineer at Lawrence Livermore National laboratory in Livermore, CA.

Carmine Doddato (BS ’79) is a senior manufacturing engineer at Delphi in Wichita Falls, TX.

Donato Firrao (MS ’70) was elected as the Dean of Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in October 2005.

Randall German (MS ’71) formerly at Penn State, is now CAVS Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Center of Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University. Rand received a College of Engineering 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award.

Mohamad Karaminezhaad (Ph.D. ’77) is a faculty member of engineering at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman in Iran.

Charles Morin (BC’72 and MS ’72) is chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Engineering Systems Inc. in Aurora, IL, and has chaired the Materials Science and Engineering External Advisory Committee since 1994.

Larry Offenbacher (BS ’72) is CEO of Rotary Steerable Tools in Houston.

Joe H. Payer (BC ’66, PhD ’71) is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Joe is a leader in the analysis and advancement of materials performance and corrosion control for the long-term disposal of spent nuclear fuel in the proposed high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain. He gave the Plenary Address the NACE Corrosion 2006 conference. Joe resides in Brecksville, OH.

Robert Schafrik (Ph.D. ‘79) of Cincinnati, OH is General Manager of Materials and Process Engineering, GE Aircraft Engines.

Laurel Sheppard (BS’79) is the president of Lash Publications International in Hilliard, OH. She has written a children’s book, “Florence and the Fabulous Flumpinger.” A portion of the proceeds of her book will be donated to Smile Train, an organization which provides free cleft surgery to thousands of children throughout the world.

Lex Vinsel (BS ’79) is a student at Clover Park Technical College in Washington.

Gregory J. Yurek (Ph.D. ’73), formerly at M.I.T., is co-founder, CEO, and President of AMSC Corp.

1980sV. “Anthony” Ananthanarayanan (MS ’85) of Beavercreek, OH is a Technical Fellow at the Delphi Energy and Chassis Group.

Carl Biefeld (BS ’88) is a senior ship design manager for the Navy in Virginia. He is chief engineer in charge of design and construction of the CVN-21 nuclear aircraft carrier, which will replace the Nimitz class.

Gregory Franklin (BS ’86) is a department supervisor at Anchor Hocking Glass in Lancaster, OH.

Steven Kung (PhD ’86) is with the Babcock and Wilcox Research and Development Lab in Barberton, OH.

Scott MacKenzie (BS ’82) serves as Technical Specialist for Heat Treating

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Products at Houghton International in Valley Forge, PA. Scott has worked with Emerson, McDonnell-Douglas, and Boeing and has earned both an MS and Ph.D. from U. of Missouri-Rolla (’95 & ’00).

Carole Markhoff-Matheny (BS ’78, MS

’86) is the managing director of children’s education at the Matheny Academy in Middletown, DE.

Donald Moore, Jr. (BS ’83) is an engineering manager at CeramTec North America, New Lebanon Division in New York and resides in Simpsonville, SC.

Gary Pickrell (BS’85, MS’87) is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is also the associate director of the Center for Photonics Technology at VA Tech.

Robert Pishko (MS ’78) is a senior staff engineer at Alcoa, Inc. in Pennsylvania.

Guy-Michel Raynaud (PhD ’82) is a research manager at Alcan in France.

Thomas Riley II (BS ’82) is a senior engineer at CoorsTek in Golden, CO.

Michael Serfozo (BS ’85) is owner/president of Sol Mates Inc. and owner of Cruise Planners of Ohio.

Andrew Sherman (BS ’85, MS ’87) is president of Powdermet Inc. in Euclid, OH.

G. Sundararajan (MS’79, PhD’81) Director of Arc International, Hyderabad, India, was inducted into the 2005 Class of Fellows by ASM for “contributions to the field of corrosion and wear of metallic and composite materials.”

Roger Tai (BS’88, MS’92, PhD‘92) is head of operations and GM for Axalto Technologies Asia Ltd. in Hong Kong.

Adriana Teklitz (BS ’87) is manager of quality assurance and planning for Zircoa Inc. in Solon, OH.

Marty Weiser (BS ’81) is now Materials Development Manager for Electronic

Brian Weis (BS ’98) is with NuVox Communications in Columbus.

2000sXi-Yong Fu (MS ’00, PhD ’01) is a senior research engineer at Merck & Co. in West Point, PA.

Sarah Jordan (BS ’99, MS ’04) is working in the heat treating department at Timken in Canton, OH. Husband Mark Debruin(’98 METE) is an engineer at an Indiana foundry.

Amy Mazza (BS ’01) received her PharmD and is currently on a fellowship in the College of Pharmacy.

Sarah Meckfessel Harvey (BS ’00) is an operations supervisor and a Six Sigma black belt at Caterpillar, Inc. in Decatur, IL. Sarah and husband Brad also have a son, Zachary, born in December 2004.

Jorge Penso (MS ’00, PhD ’01) is staff consultant/metallurgist for SES Inc in Houston.

Doug Pohlman (BS ’03, MS ’04) is a diffusion engineer with Micron in Manassas, VA.

Katherine Stevens, (MS ’87, PhD ’02) is currently Chief of the Survivability and Sensor Materials Division of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at the Air Force Research Lab. The Directorate is the materials lab for the Air Force and is responsible for all materials and processing research, development, and consulting, as well as all manufacturing technology development and industrial base preparedness. She leads a $50M, 175-person division. Kathy was advised at Ohio State by Hamish Fraser.

Alexis Wheeler (BS ’03) is an analyst at Accenture in Columbus.

Brian Barnhart (BS ’05) was on the 2003 Homecoming Court at OSU. After graduation, Brian hiked the 2,700 mile Pacific Crest Trail. He currently works as a metallurgist in Pittsburgh at Union Electric Steel Corporation, while pursuing a MBA at CMU. Union Electric Steel is the world's leading manufacturer of forged and cast-hardened steel and iron rolls.

Packaging Materials at Honeywell International in Spokane, WA.

1990sRajarshi Banerjee (MS ’97, PhD ’98) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas.

Srabani Banerjee (MS ’98) is a senior technical staff member at AT&T Corp in New Jersey.

Craig Dusek (BS ’99) is an associate metallurgist at AK Steel in Middletown, OH.

John Eggiman (BS ’91) is an applied technology engineer at Ferro Corp. in Cleveland.

Robert Ferraraccio (BS ’95) is a self-employed consultant living in Redondo Beach, CA.

Christopher Goda (BS ’90) is president of The Quantum Group Inc., Twinsburg, OH.

Donghui Lu (MS ’98, PhD ’00) is a group leader at Intel Corp. in San Jose, CA.

Peizhen Kathy Lu (MS ’99, PhD ’00) is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech. Peizhen specializes in nanomaterials and graded materials.

James Moore (MS ’91 Met, PhD ’96) is a senior research engineer at Applied Research Associates, Inc. in New Mexico.

Srikanth Perungulam (MS ’97) is a failure analysis engineer at Texas Instruments in Texas.

Peter Searles (BS’99) and wife JenniferWisecup Searles (BS’99, MS’00) are both engineers at Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati. Jennifer is a member MSE’s External Advisory Committee and both are active in recruiting Ohio State graduates.

On April 7, 2004 they welcomedthe arrival of their baby girl, Jayna Catherine.

Jayna Searles

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A Student's PerspectiveMegna Shah (BS ’06) is currently a Graduate Student at Northwestern University and wrote this perspective on August 29, 2004

Over the past two or three years I have had the pleasure of watching and experiencing the now senior class in Materials Science come together and settle into this department. Coming out of an academically demanding junior year, we

were pretty much forced to rely on each other to get through our classes. Some of us caught on fall quarter that if we work together to complete seemingly impossible thermodynamic assignments, or massive data reports, the time and pain involved was greatly reduced. As the year went on, more and more people realized that it was easier to work together. I can still remember one of our study sessions the night before an exam in the basement lounge. Almost every seat was taken, and nearly everyone from that class was in the basement.

After being stuck with people for that long, there are two options: we either kill each other, or we start to become friends. With the exception of a few “deaths,” we have all become pretty good friends this past year. And here's where the ingenious tradition of happy hour comes into play. Strategically scheduled about twice a quarter at the end of high stress weeks, happy hours were a chance for the students and faculty to get together over a few beers and pizza. That's right, I said faculty. For some reason, although they are our main source of stress during the week, no happy hour is the same without the MSE faculty. These events are literally rated by students according to the number of faculty members that showed up. They are like celebrities in our slightly nerdy world of MSE. While it's undoubtedly fun to watch certain professors play a mean game of flip cup, I think our respect for them goes a lot deeper than that. Yes their long homework assignments or sometimes-mundane lectures may cause us some grief, but these people invest a lot of time in us, the undergraduates. When going into their

office for help with homework, I rarely get a direct answer to my questions. They make sure to spend the time it takes so that I understand the concepts and eventually come to the solutions myself. I find this extremely impressive considering how much easier it would be for them to just give me an answer and get rid of me. They are also willing to help with and discuss topics outside of the classroom, whether it is suggestions in finding a job or tips on going to graduate school. While eating donuts on Friday mornings (another great tradition) professors will have conversations with us as though we are equals, not just students that don't know anything. Having such a rapport with the faculty enables us to feel comfortable asking them questions, tell them when we don't like something, and ultimately learn.

One of the most fun things some of our class participated in this year was the 2004 TMS conference in Charlotte. About twelve of us went to the conference, and it was awesome to hear about some of the cutting edge technologies in the field. We also got to spend time networking with professionals and bonding with each other. This coming school year, the 2005 conference is in San Francisco, and I hope that even more people from our class and the juniors and sophomores will attend (Editor’s note: 27 students went to San Francisco). I also hope that we can get more people involved in the student ASM/TMS chapter here at Ohio State. We plan to do things like have people from industry come and speak and take field trips to places that are doing innovative things in the field. Of course there will be other fun activities including the happy hours and picnics.

The resources we have in the faculty and staff, each other, industry contacts, and student groups have really gone a long way to personalize what would otherwise be a very large school. My senior year is going to be over before I know it, and pretty soon we're all going to head in different directions in our lives, but I will always remember the impact MSE has made on my college career. For now, I look forward to the coming year, and as always, GO BUCKS!

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Russell Bennett (BC and MS ’58, Ph.D. ’70) passed away March 1, 2005. Prior to his retirement, Russ was Vice President of EMTEC and a member of our External Advisory Committee. Russ lived in Centerville, OH.

Elizabeth “Betty” Fontana, 91, passed away on January 5, 2005. Betty was married to Mars Fontana for 50 years. Mars was chair of the Department of Metallurgy from 1950 to 1975 and namesake of Fontana Labs and the Fontana Corrosion Center.

Ted Harley (BC ’43) passed away on August 23, 2006. Ted was the past president of Vesuvius Crucible Company in Pittsburgh, a distinguished alumnus of the Department in the College of Engineering and a winner of the prestigious Benjamin G. Lamme Meritorious Achievement Medal. The Harley family are long time supporters of Ceramic Engineering at OSU.

William “Bill” Cairns Leslie (’47, ’48M.S., ’49 Ph.D. Met.E) of Palmyra, VA passed away Nov. 8, 2003. Bill was a WW II veteran, held a number of industrial research positions, and became a faculty member of the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Jack A. Lytle (’52 BC and MS) of Arlington Heights, IL passed away on April 9, 2005.

Dale McKissick (’53 M.S. METE) of Virginia Beach, VA passed away Nov. 18, 2003.

William “Tom” Moore (BS, MS ’64)of Powell, OH passed away August 7, 2004.

Neal Wyer (BC ’32) passed away in November 2003.

Donna Spretnak, wife of former Professor Joe Spretnak, passed away on June 7, 2006.

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Graduates, ‘04-‘06

About the background image:

Topological remodeling of the red blood cell cytoskeleton. During its 120-day lifetime, a red blood cell circulates in the human body half a million times, often squeezing through narrow capillaries half its diameter. A protein network (cytoskeleton) ensures its structural integrity. The above is a computer model of the cytoskeleton; each individual ligament (spectrin molecule) is about 80 nanometers. With analytical and computer modeling, one hopes to understand the roles of network defects and remodeling dynamics in influencing the fluidity and damage tolerance of the entire cell. (Image provided by Dr. Ju Li)

BachelorsNicole Auvil, ‘05Brian Barnhart, ‘05Erin Barry, ’05Kevin Bertke, ‘06Aaron Bishop, ‘05Chris Brady, ‘04Matt Brandes, ‘04Nick Brown, ‘04Matt Bruns, ‘04Tricia Bull, ‘04Randy Butler, ‘05Patrick Cain, ‘06Mary Cavanaugh, ‘04Chia-yun Chou, ‘05Matthew Conneely, ‘06Sean Connors. ‘03Jaumale Daniels, ‘06Sean Davis, ‘04Richard Delmont, ‘05Joe DePetro, ‘04Tom Dirham, ‘03Joshua Dolezal, ‘06Jonathan Evarts, ‘06Tom Feister, ‘04Seth Finkelstein, ‘04Andrew Geiger, ‘05Nick Gingo, ‘05Andy Gledhill, ‘04Charles Glosser, ‘06Scott Golowin, ‘06Nick Gramly, ‘04Jon Guerrieri, ‘04Megan Harper, ‘04Ed Herderick, ‘05Arlene Holloway, ‘04Matt Horne, ‘04Adrian Hruszkewycz, ‘06Justin Ilacqua, ‘06Amanda Jelley, ‘06Jed Johnson, ‘05Eric Karlen, ‘05William Keyes, ‘04Kantoshi Kikuchi, ‘06Tony Knuth, ‘04Michael Koucky, ‘06William Kovacs, ‘04Elizabeth Mercer, ‘05Kristen Merlo, ‘04Emily Meyer, ‘05Joshua Mills, ‘06Eric Omohundro, ‘04Paul Pavka, ‘06Tara Podnar, ‘05Doug Pohlman, ‘03Andrea Popik, ‘04Anthony Prescenz, ‘04Donovan Richie, ‘06Pablo Rojas, ‘04Brandon Rollins, ‘04

Matt Ryan, ‘04Scott Sass, ‘04Lindsey Saylor, ‘05Paul Shade, ‘05Megna Shah, ‘05Elizabeth Sherer, ‘06Brian Staarmann, ‘04Anne Tanner, ‘05Josh Tuggle, ‘05Brian Welk, ‘05Nate Wollenbrug, ‘04Jon Wright, ‘05Travis Wulber, ’05Mark Yavorsky, ‘06Jason Zielsdorf, ‘03

Master of ScienceRavi Angal, ’05 (Morral)Olukemi Ayodeji, ’05 (Lannutti)Luke Bawazer, ’04 (Anderson/Sandhage)Mohit Bhatia, ’05 (Dregia)Matthew Brandes, ’05 (Mills)Randall Butler, ’05 (Hansford)Carmen Carney, ’06 (Akbar)Rebecca Elaine Cochran, ’06 (Padture)Sean Connors, ’04 (Fraser)Anjan Contractor, ’06 (Sumption/Dregia)Ryan Dehoff, ’05 (Mills)Andrew W. Emge, ’06 (Rigney)Osvaldo Figueroa, ‘03 (Verweij)Timothy Frech, ‘06 (Rigney)Arda Genc, ’05 (Fraser)Andrew Dean Gledhill, ’06 (Padture)Michael Groeber, ‘06 (Ghosh)Muhammad Hadi, ’04 (Akbar)Megan Harper, ’04 (Fraser)Brian Hazel, ‘03 (Williams)Daniel Huber, ‘06 (Fraser)Philip Huseman, ’06 (Verweij)Mariano Iannuzzi, ’04 (Frankel)Sarah Jordan, ’04 (Sahai)Biraja Kanungo, ’04 (Flores)Sujoy Kar, ’03 (Fraser)Hong Jin Kim, ’05 (Rigney)Girdhari Kumar, ’05 (Buchheit)Matthew Lambert, ’05 (Flores)Adrienne Lamm, ’04 (Anderson)Huyong Lee, ‘03 (Anderson)Xiao Dong Liu, ’03 (Frankel)Xiaoyuan Lou, ’05 (Wagoner)Weiqi Luo, ’05 (Wang)Jun Ho Moon, ‘05 (Mills)Matthew Mottern, ’05 (Verweij)Soumya Nag, ’05 (Fraser)Jim Nash, ’04 (Daehn)David Norfleet, ’05 (Mills)

Barbara Padgett, ’05 (Buchheit)Deanna Phillips, ’05 (Anderson)Doug Pohlman, ’04 (Mobley)Alison Polasik, ’05 (Fraser)Steve Polasik, ’05 (Mills)Greg Quikel, ’04 (Verweij)Karthik Ravichandran ’05 (Windl)Vishnu Ravula, ’04 (Lannutti)Brandon Rollins, ’04 (Williams)Mahavir Sanghavi, ’04 (Rigney)Tom Searles, ’05 (Fraser)Dipanjan Sen ’05 (Windl)Kevin Shelley, ’04 (Sahai)Rachel Tarvin, ’05 (Williams)Alex Tsai, ’05 (Lannutti)Karen M Turek, ’06 (Williams)Maria Ungaro, ’04 (Buchheit)Kinga A Unocic, ’06 (Daehn)Ray Unocic, ’05 (Mills)Mark Veliz, ’05 (Williams)Robert E A Williams, ’06 (Fraser)Fariaty Wong, ’04 (Buchheit)Di Yu, ’04 (Verweij)

Doctor of PhilosophyDhriti Bhattacharyya, ’04 (Fraser)Richard Boger, ’06 (Wagoner)Pete Collins, ’04 (Fraser)Mala Seth Dehra, ’06 (Daehn)Wei Gan, ’05 (Wagoner)Tsai-Shang Huang, ’05 (Frankel)

Syadwad Jain, ’06 (Buchheit)Manish Kamal, ’05 (Daehn)Jiho Kang, ’06 (Frankel)Sujoy Kar, ’05 (Fraser)Hyung-Chan Kim, ’04 (Gupta)Yeong Ho Kim, ’05 (Frankel)Youngseok Kim, ’06 (Buchheit)Libor Kovarik, ’06 (Mills)Chong-Hoon Lee, ’04 (Akbar)Eunguk Lee, ’04 (Dregia)Eunha Lee, ’04 (Fraser)Min Li, ’06 (Wagoner)Qizhen Li, ’04 (Anderson)Tao Liang ’06 (Windl)Xiaodong Liu, ’05 (Frankel)Heather Powell, ’04 (Lannutti)Xuan Peng, ’05 (Wagoner)Ning Ma, ’05 (Wang)Sudhakar Mahajanam, ’05 (Buchheit)Chen Shen, ’04 (Wang)Yao Shen, ’04 (Anderson)Jingyu Shi, ’06 (Verweij)Haibo Wang, ’04 (Lannutti)Jianfeng Wang, ’04 (Wagoner)Jianhui Wu, ’04 (Rigney)Kaisheng Wu, ’03 (Wang)Sehoon Yoo, ’05 (Akbar)Yuhchae Yoon, ’04 (Buchheit)Xinyan Zhao, ’06 (Frankel)

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Dr. Joseph KentyMr. Wesley KingMr. Charles Kistler Jr.Mr. Robert KoehlerDr. Eric KreidlerMr. Daniel LeavellMr. Robert Laird Dr. Trent LatimerMrs. Florence LeslieDrs. Ju and Qing LiMr. and Mrs. Scott LivingstonMr. Jack LytleMs. Caroline MarkworthMr. and Mrs. David MarkworthMs. Sharon MarkworthMr. Robert MatzMr. Charles G. MayerMr. Douglas MeyerMr. Nathaniel MiljusDr. Espy MillerDr. Robert MillerMr. Charles MorinDr. John MorralMr. Patrick MurleyMr. Joseph NachmanMr. Robert NeedhamDr. Dale NieszMrs. Priscilla NorthMr. Neil OriansMr. Geroge ParaskosMr. Howard PearchMr. Christopher PerhalaMr. David PriceDr. and Mrs. Archie PriestleyMs. Barbara RainesMs. Nancy RainesMr. Robert RainesMr. Hal RiceMr. Michael RichMr. David RoheMr. Jay ScharenbergMr. Paul SchasneyMr. Coulson ScheurmannMr. Gregory SchieleitMr. George ScholesMr. Robert ScottDr. Paul ShewmonMs. Elizabeth Shook-ShewmonMr. Michael SmithDr. Bob SnyderMr. William SorensenMs. Jeanne St. PierreDr. Roger StaehleDr. David StahlDr. Katherine StevensMr. J. Grant StradleyMr. Mark StraszheimMr. John SwartzMs. Barbara TruemanMs. Marion Uhl

Donors

About the background image:Metal-organic framework (red: O, gray: Zn, white: H, dark: C) is a class of highly crystalline materials with metal oxide cores and organic ligand linkers, which recently broke the world record in specific surface area. They are promising materials for separation, catalysis, and gas storage. Using quantum mechanical calculations, one can predict the structural stability and hydrogen storage capacity of a potential framework before its chemical synthesis is attempted in the lab. (Image provided by Dr. Ju Li)

Individual Donors:Mr. and Mrs. John AdamsDr. Sheikh AkbarDr. Diane AlbertMs. Ferne AllanMr. John AltstetterDr. Peter AndersonDr. Neil Ault Dr. Joseph BaileyMr. Robert BartlettDr. and Mrs. Franklin BeckDr. Russell BennettMr. Walter BennettDr. Linda BerdayesDr. L.R. BidwellMr. John BrownMr. and Mrs. Dwight BurkMr. James Clum Dr. James CordeaMr. Michael CrewsMs. Connie CronMr. Richard DanielMr. Eduardo Del Rio PerezMrs. Louise Dierker Patek Dr. Earl DietzMr. Winston DuckworthMr. William EbiharaBill and Judy EllingerMr. Howard FederspielMs. Beth FinduraMr. Steven FisherDr. Frederick FraikorDr. and Mrs. Jerry FrankelMr. Richard FredericksMr. Scott FurlongMr. Carl GartnerMr. and Mrs. Robert GeistMs. Carrie GordonMr. Leroy GordonDr. Arnab GuptaDr. Prabhat GuptaMrs. Florence Hall LeslieMr. Richard HannonMajor Bob HenningDr. William Herrnstein IIIDr. John HirthMr. Arthur HoenieDr. Rollin HookDr. John HoppersDr. Jim HousemanMs. Jody HribarMr. Ronald Hughes Ms. Amy JohnsonDr. and Mrs. James JohnsonMr. Paul JohnstonMr. Robert JohnstonMr. Rowdy JosephDr. Mary JuhasDr. Allan KatzMr. and Mrs. Ronald Kegarise

Mr. John VarholaMr. Michael VinarcikMr. Wesley WellsDr. Robert WagonerDr. Yunzhi WangMr. W. Timothy WeisertMs. Catherine Wright

Corporate Donors: 3M FoundationAlcoa FoundationAmerican Honda Motor Car Co, Inc.Edison Welding Institute Inc. Edward Orton Jr. Ceramic Foundation Engineering Systems, Inc.FEI CompanyFord Motor Company Foseco Steel Foundry Educational FoundationGeneral Electric FundGeneral Motors Corporation Halliburton PAC Honda Research Institute USA Inc. Honda Research of AmericaHoneywell InternationalLockheed MartinPhillips Plastics CorpSaint-GobainSputtering Target Mfg. Co., LLC Srico Incorporated

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On May 5, 2006 a new scholarship for our undergraduates was established by Carrie Maykuth Gordon (BS ‘74, MS ‘79) along with her family and colleagues. The scholarship is meant to support diversity candidates, with attention given to female students having both merit and need. We’d like to say a special thank you to Carrie and all who donated to MSE during the past three years. Your gifts

have made a difference and are very much appreciated.

At left is a list of what we hope are all our donor names. If your name was excluded, please contact Cameron Lottie by surface mail, by sending an e-mail to lottie.1@osu.edu, or by calling her at (614) 688-3050.We apologize in advance for any oversight.

Renovations

This year Jim Williams, Kathy Flores and Peter Anderson led an effort to renovate the public/common use areas of our Watts/MacQuigg/Fontana building complex. Jim began by raising funds from the faculty, the College and friends of the department. Also, he has obtained a pledge from each our EAC members. These funds are currently being used to update our conference rooms, entrance lobby, and both the undergraduate and graduate student lounges. The goal is to make these spaces both more attractive and more functional. This is all part of a plan to better market our program to visitors, especially incoming freshman and their parents and prospective graduate students.

Our next drive will be to raise money to better equip our undergraduate laboratories. As our enrollment grows it is imperative that we expand our laboratories, while updating equipment that in the workplace has become more automated and accurate.

Recruitment

Each year the department makes a special effort to recruit outstanding undergraduate students into our program. We have displays at the yearly Ohio State Science Day, attend lunches organized by the University for exceptional high school students, staff a booth at various open houses sponsored by the college, and host our own, day-long “MSE Day” open house for high school students. In addition, we offer research opportunities to undergraduates in our laboratories. This year we are also looking forward to “taking the show on the road” and giving MSE presentations in local high schools.

This summer we sponsored a week long Materials Camp for 27 area high school science and math teachers.Other sponsors for the camp were the ASM Materials Education Foundation, the Columbus Chapter of ASM, and several local companies. The purpose of the camp was to expose teachers to materials science and to provide them with hands-on laboratory experiments to take back to their classrooms. An exceptional curriculum and team of "master high school teachers" were provided by ASM International. By all accounts the camp was a tremendous success in generating interest in materials science and engineering among the talented group of teachers who attended the camp and has lead to close ties between the department and local high schools.

ASM Teacher Materials Camp OSU – 2006Among the many schools represented at the camp were The Columbus Metro HS, Hilliard City Schools Gifted Services Central Office, St. Charles Preparatory HS, Thomas Worthington HS, Centerburg HS, West Muskingum HS, Westerville South HS, Columbus Torah Academy, and Pickerington North HS.

Photo by Geoff Hulse

Development Family Additions

Rudy and Cate Buchheit adopted two toddlers (yes indeed, that’s two toddlers!) Boris and Sergei. The boys were born in Siberia and were brought home to Upper Arlington in April 2004 when they were 9 and 13 months old, respectively.

Kathy, Jim and Jenny FloreswelcomedJimmy into their family on October 2, 2004.

Jin Wang(CISM) and her husband Mubing Xuare the proud parents of Daniel Xu, born August 9, 2004at Ohio State weighing in at 9 lbs 2 oz and 21 inches long. Jin is also expecting her second baby boy any day now!

Dave and Ann Rigney have three grandsons: Mark and his wife Diane are the parents of Corey (6) and Evan (2), and Heather and her husband Rick are the parents of Alex (2).

John and Dot Morral became first-time grandparents with the birth of Natalie Morral. Peter and Bronwin Morral are the proud parents.

Angella, Brian and Allison Brown welcomed Brandon into their family on August 10, 2006.

The Ohio State UniversityDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering2041 College Rd.Columbus, Ohio 43210

• expanded Alumni section, • faculty bios and contact information, • detailed information for prospective undergraduate and

graduate students, • concise sections for forms and procedures, • contact information for staff and faculty members.

Be sure to visit the new MSE web site found at www.osu.edu/mse!

The MSE web site has been updated with more information, improved navigation, and a new look. Highlights include:

• improved search features, • Quick Links menu to get to commonly used sections of the

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Your comments and suggestions for improvements are welcome at mse@osu.edu or 614-292-7280.

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