Highlights of The School of Materials Science and Engineering

Summer 2014

www.mse.gatech.edu

Naresh Thadhani, Chair

GEORGIA TECH & COLLEGE OF ENGINERING

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

• 944 faculty; 14,620 UG; 6,917 grad students

• USN&WR - No. 7 public; Top 10 in Res. Exp.

• Smart Money - 1st in Return on Investment

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING – 5th UG, 6th G

• Largest & most diverse engineering college

• All graduate & undergrad programs in top 10 rank by U.S. News & World Report

• No. 1 in engineering B.S. degrees to URGs; No. 1 producer of women engineers; No. 1 in Ph.D.s in Engineering to Asians, African Americans, and Hispanics

• 26% of CoE students participate in Co-op and 33% in international programs

• 28% of CoE students are women, with BME, ChBE, EnvE, and MSE programs at >40%

• 20 CoE Faculty are NAE members; >160 CoE faculty are recipients of NSF CAREER Awards

• FY2013 Sponsored research exceeds $250M

1897 – Jacob Elsas founded the A. French School of Textile Engineering – 3rd School to open at GT

1924 - Advent of kaolin industry - School of Ceramic Engineering formed with B.S. degree program

1959 - Metallurgy Program established in Chemical Engg.

1985 - School of Materials Science & Engineering formed from merger of Ceramics and Metallurgy

2003 - Textile Engineering School renamed School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering (PTFE)

2010 – Complete integration of all materials by merger of PTFE with Ceramics & Metallurgy into the largest and most diverse MSE program in the nation.

History of MSE

• MSE Faculty 38 (33.8 FTEs) + 16 Courtesy

• Chaired and Regents Profs 12 (6 of FTEs)

• Professional Society Fellows 15 (9 of more than two)

• National Academy Members 3 NAE-US; 1 NAE-China; 1 NAS-China

• Total Publications & Patents 448 Pubs; 14 Patents; 52 Inv Discls.

• Research Expenditures $16.5M ($458K/faculty)

• Post-Docs/Visiting Scientists 100+

• Undergrad Program 312 (60%Male / 40% Female)

Ave SAT – 2087 (MSE); 2052 (GT)

100% Research/Co-op/Internship

Bio-Materials, Structural & Functional,

Polymers and Fibers

• Graduate Program 181 MSE (80%M/20%F) + 26 non-MSE

GRE: V-80%; Q-90%; A-50%

10% pursuing internships

MSE PROFILE – Summer ‘14 (Faculty & Students)

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MSE PROFILE – Spring 2014 (Academic Ranking)

(1-MIT, 2-Northwestern/UC Santa Barbara/UIUC, 5-Stanford, 6-Caltech/Cornell/UC Berkeley, 9-Georgia Tech, 10-Michigan)

USN&WR Graduate Rankings

Materials Science &

Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

Bio-Medical Engineering

Civil & Environmental

Engineering

Chemical & BiomolecularEngineering

Industrial & Systems

Engineering

Electrical & Computer

Engineering

Chemistry & Biochemistry

(CoS)

Physics (CoS)

GTRI

GT ManufInstitute

GT MatlsInstitute

IEN & PRC

SEI

Management (CoB)

BME, Chemistry, ChBE, ECE, GTRI,

ISYE, and ME faculty have

joint/courtesy positions in MSE

MSE faculty have joint & adjunct

positions in BME, Chemistry,

ECE, ME, and Management

MSE courses are cross-listed with AE, BME, ChBE, Chem, ECE, & ME; Intro to Materials Science & Engineering Course (MSE 2011) is taken by more than 2000 students across all CoE schools

MSE - Hub of Materials Research & Education at GT

Mechanical

Engineering

VISION AND STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS

The World of Materials Research in MSE @ GT

With synthesis, processing,

computations, modeling,

characterization, and measurements

as our tools, we work on all

materials forms including metals,

ceramics, polymers, textiles, fibers,

composites, nanostructures, &

biomolecular solids

We study material response under

various environments, to

design and develop next generation

materials systems for structural,

electronic, optoelectronic, photonic, bio-

enabled, & energy storage/harvesting

applications

Research in MSE @ GT is aimed at envisioning, predicting, designing, and developing materials for meeting national and societal Grand Challenges related to Environment,

Energy, Health & Human Welfare, Infrastructure, Security, and Transportation

Controlling Light

Energy Security

Health

Communications

Goldfish

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Human

Welfare

Environment

Infrastructure

Transportation

Addressing Societal Challenges of Today & Tomorrow

Materials For Energy Storage & Harvesting

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Zhiqun Lin Faisal AlamgirDong Qin

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Sensors, Telecommunications, Electronic Packaging

Wenshan Cai

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Eric Vogel

Controlling

Light

Lotus Effect - Hydrophobicity

Chris Summers

C.P. Wong

Materials For Health & Human Welfare

Satish Kumar David Bucknall

Sundaresan Jayaraman

Karl JacobKen Gall

Bio-enabled and Bio-inspired Materials

Vladimir Tsukruk

Valeria Milam

Paul Russo

Ken Sandhage

Mohan Srinivasarao

John

Reynolds

Computational Materials and Design

Dave McDowell

Mo Li

Seung Soon Jang

Hamid Garmestani

Arun

Gokhale

Surya Kalidindi

Infrastructure and Transportation

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Stress Corrosion Cracking of Pipelines

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Chris

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Donggang Yao

Preet

Singh

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(b) 15 min at 1095 C,

(c) 30 min at 1095 C

(d) and 30 min at 1100 C

Development of Non-Equilibrium

Morphologies of ’, Low Misfit Alloy

(a) 10 min at 1090 C,

(b) 15 min at 1095 C,

(c) 30 min at 1095 C

(d) and 30 min at 1100 C

Development of Non-Equilibrium

Morphologies of ’, Low Misfit Alloy

(a) 10 min at 1090 C,

(b) 15 min at 1095 C,

(c) 30 min at 1095 C

(d) and 30 min at 1100 C

Development of Non-Equilibrium

Morphologies of ’, Low Misfit Alloy

Tom Sanders

Protection and Security

Naresh ThadhaniRobert Speyer

Joe Cochran

FACULTY ENTREPRENEURESHIP

Verco Materials, LLC (Prof. Robert Speyer) Fabricates phase-pure, theoretically-dense, B4C and SiC for form-fitting armor applications and wear-resistant parts for oil and gas (fracking) industries. Verco’s focus is on boutique armor applications and various flexible, extremity armor systems have been prototyped.

Medshape, Inc. (Prof. Ken Gall) Orthopedic device company that has cleared four product lines through US-FDA. DynaNail is first intramedullary nail based on NITINOL and Altera shape-memory polymer is used to fix soft tissue to bone. Nearly 10,000 products have been used in foot, hand, tricep, ankle, knee, and shoulder surgeries.

Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Prof. Gleb Yushin) founded in 2011 with team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to revolutionize portable energy storage by accelerating commercialization of novel nano-composites for advanced high-energy electrochemical energy storage devices such as batteries that are lighter, smaller, and cheaper than today's state of art lithium-ion technology.