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2006

Chairs’ Letters
Letters from the outgoing and incoming MSE department chairs
Three 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.

1 Here one finds some of the best teachers, scientists, engineers,
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Chairs’ Letters 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
3 receives top evaluations from our students each year (including
Research the 2006 Mars Fontana Teaching Award from this year’s senior
class) for teaching subjects like electronic materials and
5 computational materials science. His clear presentations, wry
wit, and empathy for students make him a department treasure.
Faculty & Staff John Morral Ju Li is another gem, who this year was named the Materials
Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator. Students
6 were so impressed with his ability that at the Rib n’ Roast
Honors & Awards 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,
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whose knowledge of titanium alloys and the development of jet
Alumni engines is encyclopedic. He teaches our senior design course
and peppers his lectures with his own experiences in industry.
12 The list of our talented faculty members doesn’t end there as
Students you will see when you read on.

In our newsletter you will learn of exciting new programs on

15 sensors, nanostructured materials, atomic scale modeling,
Development metallic glasses, etc. These programs are enhanced by our
world renowned materials characterization laboratories where
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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.
University
John Morral
From Our New Chair
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Greetings to all. I
am looking forward
to serving MSE as
chair over the next
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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
Ohio
Rudy Buchheit
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
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highest caliber. As you have gotten to
know him, you have come to appreciate
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that he is a man of deep principles and come to be associated with Ohio State.
understanding. These elements of his We have done well for a long time, and
character have been the foundation of his I am optimistic that we will continue to
leadership under which MSE has grown succeed.
and been enhanced. For that, we are all
indebted. I’d like to express my personal My optimism is based on three main
appreciation for the efforts and patience ingredients whose influences I see
John has had with me over the past every day. First, we have a large and
several months as I have prepared for my accomplished alumni base that is
new duties. generous to MSE in many ways; not the
least of which is scholarship support that
At this point of enables us to make awards
transition, I find “...it is clear that this to undergraduate students at
myself reflecting is a forward-looking a rate approaching $100,000
more than ever on
the contributions
group that manages per year. Each and every
year this generosity has
and the individuals self-transformation a quantitative impact on
that have come well.” recruiting and retention of
to define the rich some of the best students
legacy of MSE and the Metallurgical and at Ohio State. On that note, I point to
Ceramic Engineering departments that the second ingredient; the students. We
formed it. I have been associated with enjoy what has become a steady stream
Ohio State for nearly ten years, but it of keen and bright students from across
took no time at all to realize that this is Ohio and beyond. These individuals enrich
an organization that deeply values its themselves and the department while
reputation and strengths in the traditional here, and go on to make an impressive
elements of our field -- metals, ceramics, range of contributions to the national
structure-property relationships, materials research and technology enterprise. The
characterization, materials processing third ingredient is the faculty and staff.
and materials degradation. No apologies There is no question that we have an
are made for these affections; nor should extremely capable and accomplished
any be made. These elements of materials faculty; both past and present. The
science and engineering are essential accolades and notoriety conferred on this
for the vitality of the national economic group scarcely recognizes the abilities
enterprise. and effort that I see day in and day out.
The staff is surely under-recognized
At the same time, it is clear that this is for their efforts, but as far as I can tell,
a forward-looking group that manages they are no less dedicated and certainly
self-transformation well. This is made no less important to the continued
evident in our emerging research thrusts in success of MSE. Sure, we have aging
computational materials science, inorganic buildings, a demanding administrative
materials science, and biomaterials, environment, and downward pressure on
each of which grew from deliberate and budgets, but none of these issues present
strategic group decisions. It is also made insurmountable difficulties given the
evident by the fact that we have had capabilities and talents I see embedded
and continue to build leading research within the people that define MSE at Ohio
activities related to structure, properties State.
and characterization of materials at
small length scales. These decisions and Let me conclude by saying that it is
commitments have had a clear impact on a privilege and an honor to serve this
the composition of our current faculty. The distinguished department in this new role.
group has increased in size by a quarter, I look forward to both the opportunities
and more than a third of our present roster and challenges ahead, but most of all,
comprises individuals who arrived after I look forward to interacting with an
I did. Our staff roster has changed even outstanding group of people who have a
more than that of the faculty. The lesson in shared vision of excellence and vitality for
this accounting is that we must gracefully Materials Science and Engineering at Ohio
build from our strengths into new arenas State.
in ways that enhance the reputation of
materials research and education that has Rudy Buchheit
 Professor Sheikh Akbar’s group
Research Newshas 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 a. SEM image of nano-
fibers, scale bar, 1 micron.
alternative to typical b. TEM image of a nano-
machine-based methods fiber, scale bar 200 nm.
for carving ceramics. c. electron diffraction
pattern of the nano-fiber.
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 industry standard, while maintaining a
to or exceeding
those of conventional
metals, while their
amorphous structure
makes it possible to use molding and
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 and
his 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.
A solitary electron wave (ripples of red and
blue, center) travels along a polymer chain,
causing the chain to bend in the middle.
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
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.
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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
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MOM nanowires, using various innovative
methods. Also, they are assembling
the MOMs into nanocircuits that show
unusual functional properties.
Au
SnO2
Au
60 nanometer gold wires on either side of
tin oxide.
MSE
Pt Pt
Au NiO Au
60 nanometer gold wires on either side of
nickel oxide.
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
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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.
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.
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
University
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.
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Solar energy is particularly abundant, but
frequently unused due, in part, to the high
cost of energy collection. Professor Henk
Verweij and Matthew Mottern have been
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collaborating with researchers at SINTEF,
a Norwegian research institute, to develop
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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
Left: Continuous measurement of sheet
deformation.
Right: Tension-compression loading combined with
metallography and acoustic emission testing.
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
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.
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 Hamish
Fraser, Jerry Frankel, Mike
Mills, 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.
l-r: Yunzhi Wang, Mike Mills, Hamish
Fraser, and Jerry Frankel on China’s Great
Wall in Summer 2005.
 The Titan 80-
300™ electron
microscope,
capable of
magnifying 30
million times, was
recently installed
in our Central
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Electron Optics
Facility (CEOF).
The Titan obtains
lateral resolution
Titan 80-300™ electron better than 1
microscope, built by FEI Ångstrom and
Company, is capable of energy resolution
magnifying 30 million
times. 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
emeritus
status by the
OSU Board
of Trustees.
Carroll was
the Foundry
Education
Foundation 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 Eric
Kreidler 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.
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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 Stefanescu
joined 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
M at e r i a l s S c i e n c e a n d E n g i n e e r i n g
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
MSE
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 Sunrise Senior Living, as a program coordinator. In a very short
Inc. in McLean, Va. In time she has proven herself to be an
Congratulations! Peter Anderson and her spare time, she exceptional hire.
Yunzhi Wang were both promoted to full serves as a pro bono
professor effective October 1, 2005. immigration attorney Megan Daniels joined
for the non-profit the department on
organization, Just April 17, 2006 to be
Sabbatical & Leave Neighbors Ministry, Inc. our new undergraduate
in Arlington, VA. Pris advisor. She came with
was much loved by a varied background
Professor Jerry Frankel was on
our students for her help and unfailing and previous advising
sabbatical for the 2004-2005 academic
friendship. Her email is prisnorth@hotmail. experience at Columbus
year at the Max Plank Institute for Iron
com if you'd like to drop her a line. State Community
Research in Duesseldorf, Germany. Jerry
College. She has already
was a Humboldt Research Scholar and
Steve Neer, our undergraduate demonstrated wonderful empathy for both
did experiments on corrosion of stainless
coordinator, left on February 24, 2006 our students and their parents, perhaps
steel under thin aqueous solutions using a
to take a supervisory position in the because she has teenage children of her
Kelvin Probe Potentiostat.
Psychology department. It was a move own.
up for Steve as he will have more
Professor Glenn Daehn was on sabbatical
responsibilities in a bigger department. For Angella Brown joined the department
for the 2004-2005 academic year. During
five years Steve was a much-appreciated on July 3, 2006 as the department's HR
this time he worked at Excera Materials
beacon of administrator and fiscal assistant. She
Group as their Chief Technologist.
light that is a graduate of Ohio State where she
helped guide studied Business. She
Professor Hamish Fraser was on
our students has worked for the
research leave during Spring Quarter
through the Center for Materials
2006 in Germany at the University
undergrad Research, the College
of Goettingen, Institute for Materials
maze. of Medicine,and the
Physics. There he worked on Atom Probe
Department of Radiation
Tomography of heat-treated beta-Ti alloys
Wendy l-r: Wendy Ranney, Mei Medicine at the OSU
to measure nanoscale variations in solute Wang, and Steve Neer at
Ranney, our Medical Center.
concentrations accompanying phase Steve’s good-bye lunch.
department's
separation. These variations are known
HR administrator and fiscal assistant,
to have an important influence on the
retired from OSU on March 31, 2006 after Faculty
Honors and Awards
nucleation of alpha in the beta phase. An
30 years of service. She served MSE from
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research
August of 2000 until her retirement.
Prize funded the leave. Sheikh Akbar
2003 Guest editor of 2 special
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Gary Dodge, our long time building

Associate Professor Wolfgang Windl issues of Journal of Materials
coordinator and technical staff manager,
spent the summer of 2006 at the Science
retired on June 30, 2006 after 38 years at
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits 2005 R&D 100 Award (x2) NASA
OSU. He was employed by the Ceramic
in Erlangen, Germany, where he helped TGIR Award for fire detection
Engineering department before it merged
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to form an atomistic-modeling group and sensors

with Metallurgical Engineering to form the
worked on process-simulation problems
MSE department. He will be remembered
for nanoelectronics devices. His stay
by many students for his work on the Peter Anderson
was funded by a Humbolt fellowship 2005 MRS Blue Ribbon Award
undergraduate labs.
associated with the Fraunhofer-Bessel 2005 Lumley Award, OSU
Research Award he received. College of Engineering
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2006 Boyer Award for Excellence

New Staff
in Teaching Innovation, OSU
Staff Retirements & Changes College of Engineering
Cameron Lottie
joined the department
Priscilla “Pris” North, the Chair’s
on May 8, 2006 as Rudy Buchheit
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Assistant, left Ohio State on January 6, 2004 Stanley E. Harrison Faculty

Assistant to the
2006 to join her husband who had taken Award, College of Engineering,
MSE Chair. She
a job in the Washington, D.C. area. Pris Ohio State University
was employed
received her law degree from Capital 2006 Charles E. MacQuigg
previously by the
University while working full time in Award, given by the students in the
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MSE. She's now enjoying her role as a College of Engineering for outstanding
Surgery department
staff attorney for the corporate offices of teaching
where she worked
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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 Collings
ICMC Lifetime Achievement Award
Glenn Daehn
Featured as part of “Really Smart People
Doing Really Smart Things” OSU
advertising campaign
Kathy Flores
NSF Career Award
ONR Young Investigator Award
2006 Lumley Research Award, OSU
College of Engineering
Jerry Frankel
Alexander Von Humbolt Foundation
Research Award for Senior US
Scientists
Fellow of NACE International
2006 Fellow of The Electrochemical
Society, Fellow of ASM International,
Lumley Interdisciplinary Research
Award, OSU College of Engineering
Hamish Fraser
2004 Fellow of TMS
Alexander Von Humbolt Foundation
Research Award for Senior US
Scientists
Winston Ho
Keynote 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 Li
2006 Lumley Research Award, OSU
College of Engineering
2005 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 Morral
2005 Honored with a symposium on
multicomponent and multiphase
diffusion and an honorary dinner
held at the 2005 TMS Annual
Meeting
Mike Mills
Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award,
OSU College of Engineering
Pat Morris
2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, OSU
College of Engineering
Nitin Padture
2005 Fellow of the American Ceramic
Society
Dave Rigney
2003 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 Stefanescu
2006 Honored by the Central Ohio
Chapter of the American Foundry
Society for his efforts to revive the
OSU foundry program.
Robert Wagoner
Fellow ASME
Distinguished Service Award, AIME
Fellow of TMS
TMS Distinguished Service Award
Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Pohang
University of Technology
Clara M. and Peter L. Scott Faculty
Award, OSU College of Engineering
Yunzhi Wang
Senior visiting Research Fellow, Institute
of Metal Research, Chinese
Academy of Science
2005 KC Wong Research Award
2005-2008 Min Jiang Scholar
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2006 Lumley Research Award, OSU
College of Engineering
Wolfgang Windl
Fellow 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
M at e r i a l s S c i e n c e a n d E n g i n e e r i n g
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.,
MSE
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.
Distinguished Alumni
Award Recipients
The 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.”
2004
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.
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.
2005
V. “Anthony” Ananthanarayanan (MS
’85) of Beavercreek, OH is a Technical
Fellow at the Delphi Energy and Chassis
Group.
University
Randall German (MS ‘71 METE),
CAVS Chair Professor of Mechanical
Engineering; Director, Center of
OSU
Advanced Vehicular Systems,
Mississippi State University.
Robert Schafrik (PhD ‘79 METE),
General Manager of Materials and
Process Engineering, GE Aircraft
S tat e
Engines.
2006
Patricia Morris (BS ‘80 CER) Professor,
Department of Materials Science
and Engineering at The Ohio State
Ohio
University.
Chong O. Park (PhD ’79) Dr. Park is
a professor in the Materials Science
and Engineering Department at Korea
The
Advanced Institute of Science &
Engineering.
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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 4.0
GPA. Peter Anderson
was 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. l-r: Peter Anderson,
Qizhen Li, and John Morral
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."
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 2004
Engineers Foundation of Ohio General
Scholarship for 1 year.
Alumni News
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 Harvey
from Caterpillar, Inc., Mary Juhas
Senior 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: Karla
Brammer (Top Academic Award), Ashley
Manny, 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 Lindsey
Saylor (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 Butler
and 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 Engineering
Senior Engineer
Vista 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
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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
William Carden 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
M at e r i a l s S c i e n c e a n d E n g i n e e r i n g
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
MSE
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?
1940s
Eugene Dornbrook (BC ’46) is retired as a
metallurgy sales rep for US Steel Corp.
1950s
Burton 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.
University
Raeman Sopher (MS ’56) is retired and
living in Vermont.
1960s
OSU
Jack 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
S tat e
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.
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
The
children’s books staring “Boing Boing the
Bionic Cat.” For more about Larry’s cross-
10
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.
1970s
Michael 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.
1980s
V. “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
 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).
Scott MacKenzie 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
Packaging Materials at Honeywell
International in Spokane, WA.
1990s
Rajarshi 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 Jennifer
Wisecup 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
welcomed
the arrival of
their baby
girl, Jayna
Catherine.
Jayna Searles
w w w. o s u . e d u / m s e
Brian Weis (BS ’98) is with NuVox
Communications in Columbus.
2000s
Xi-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.
M at e r i a l s S c i e n c e a n d E n g i n e e r i n g
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
MSE
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.
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 In Memory
Student News
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, ’48
M.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.
University
Jack A. Lytle (’52 BC and MS) of
Arlington Heights, IL passed away on
April 9, 2005.
OSU
Dale McKissick (’53 M.S. METE) of
Virginia Beach, VA passed away Nov.
18, 2003.
William “Tom” Moore (BS, MS ’64)
S tat e
of Powell, OH passed away August 7,
2004.
Neal Wyer (BC ’32) passed away in
November 2003.
Ohio
Donna Spretnak, wife of former
Professor Joe Spretnak, passed away
on June 7, 2006.
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A Student's
Perspective
Megna 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!
Megna Shah
Graduates, ‘04-‘06
Bachelors Matt Ryan, ‘04 Barbara Padgett, ’05 (Buchheit) Syadwad Jain, ’06 (Buchheit)
Nicole Auvil, ‘05 Scott Sass, ‘04 Deanna Phillips, ’05 (Anderson) Manish Kamal, ’05 (Daehn)
Brian Barnhart, ‘05 Lindsey Saylor, ‘05 Doug Pohlman, ’04 (Mobley) Jiho Kang, ’06 (Frankel)
Erin Barry, ’05 Paul Shade, ‘05 Alison Polasik, ’05 (Fraser) Sujoy Kar, ’05 (Fraser)
Kevin Bertke, ‘06 Megna Shah, ‘05 Steve Polasik, ’05 (Mills) Hyung-Chan Kim, ’04 (Gupta)
Aaron Bishop, ‘05 Elizabeth Sherer, ‘06 Greg Quikel, ’04 (Verweij) Yeong Ho Kim, ’05 (Frankel)
Chris Brady, ‘04 Brian Staarmann, ‘04 Karthik Ravichandran ’05 (Windl) Youngseok Kim, ’06
Matt Brandes, ‘04 Anne Tanner, ‘05 Vishnu Ravula, ’04 (Lannutti) (Buchheit)
Nick Brown, ‘04 Josh Tuggle, ‘05 Brandon Rollins, ’04 (Williams) Libor Kovarik, ’06 (Mills)
Matt Bruns, ‘04 Brian Welk, ‘05 Mahavir Sanghavi, ’04 (Rigney) Chong-Hoon Lee, ’04 (Akbar)
Tricia Bull, ‘04 Nate Wollenbrug, ‘04 Tom Searles, ’05 (Fraser) Eunguk Lee, ’04 (Dregia)
Randy Butler, ‘05 Jon Wright, ‘05 Dipanjan Sen ’05 (Windl) Eunha Lee, ’04 (Fraser)
Patrick Cain, ‘06 Travis Wulber, ’05 Kevin Shelley, ’04 (Sahai) Min Li, ’06 (Wagoner)
Mary Cavanaugh, ‘04 Mark Yavorsky, ‘06 Rachel Tarvin, ’05 (Williams) Qizhen Li, ’04 (Anderson)
Chia-yun Chou, ‘05 Jason Zielsdorf, ‘03 Alex Tsai, ’05 (Lannutti) Tao Liang ’06 (Windl)
Matthew Conneely, ‘06 Karen M Turek, ’06 (Williams) Xiaodong Liu, ’05 (Frankel)
Sean Connors. ‘03 Master of Science Maria Ungaro, ’04 (Buchheit) Heather Powell, ’04 (Lannutti)
Jaumale Daniels, ‘06 Ravi Angal, ’05 (Morral) Kinga A Unocic, ’06 (Daehn) Xuan Peng, ’05 (Wagoner)
Sean Davis, ‘04 Olukemi Ayodeji, ’05 (Lannutti) Ray Unocic, ’05 (Mills) Ning Ma, ’05 (Wang)
Richard Delmont, ‘05 Luke Bawazer, ’04 (Anderson/ Mark Veliz, ’05 (Williams) Sudhakar Mahajanam, ’05
Joe DePetro, ‘04 Sandhage) Robert E A Williams, ’06 (Fraser) (Buchheit)
Tom Dirham, ‘03 Mohit Bhatia, ’05 (Dregia) Fariaty Wong, ’04 (Buchheit) Chen Shen, ’04 (Wang)
Joshua Dolezal, ‘06 Matthew Brandes, ’05 (Mills) Di Yu, ’04 (Verweij) Yao Shen, ’04 (Anderson)
Jonathan Evarts, ‘06 Randall Butler, ’05 (Hansford) Jingyu Shi, ’06 (Verweij)
Tom Feister, ‘04 Carmen Carney, ’06 (Akbar) Doctor of Haibo Wang, ’04 (Lannutti)
Seth Finkelstein, ‘04 Rebecca Elaine Cochran, ’06 Philosophy Jianfeng Wang, ’04
Andrew Geiger, ‘05 (Padture) Dhriti Bhattacharyya, ’04 (Wagoner)
Nick Gingo, ‘05 Sean Connors, ’04 (Fraser) (Fraser) Jianhui Wu, ’04 (Rigney)
Andy Gledhill, ‘04 Anjan Contractor, ’06 (Sumption/ Richard Boger, ’06 (Wagoner) Kaisheng Wu, ’03 (Wang)
Charles Glosser, ‘06 Dregia) Pete Collins, ’04 (Fraser) Sehoon Yoo, ’05 (Akbar)
Scott Golowin, ‘06 Ryan Dehoff, ’05 (Mills) Mala Seth Dehra, ’06 (Daehn) Yuhchae Yoon, ’04 (Buchheit)
Nick Gramly, ‘04 Andrew W. Emge, ’06 (Rigney) Wei Gan, ’05 (Wagoner) Xinyan Zhao, ’06 (Frankel)
Jon Guerrieri, ‘04 Osvaldo Figueroa, ‘03 (Verweij) Tsai-Shang Huang, ’05 (Frankel)
Megan Harper, ‘04 Timothy Frech, ‘06 (Rigney)
Ed Herderick, ‘05 Arda Genc, ’05 (Fraser)
Arlene Holloway, ‘04 Andrew Dean Gledhill, ’06
Matt Horne, ‘04 (Padture)
Adrian Hruszkewycz, ‘06 Michael Groeber, ‘06 (Ghosh)
Justin Ilacqua, ‘06 Muhammad Hadi, ’04 (Akbar)
Amanda Jelley, ‘06 Megan Harper, ’04 (Fraser)
Jed Johnson, ‘05 Brian Hazel, ‘03 (Williams)
Eric Karlen, ‘05 Daniel Huber, ‘06 (Fraser)
William Keyes, ‘04 Philip Huseman, ’06 (Verweij)
Kantoshi Kikuchi, ‘06 Mariano Iannuzzi, ’04 (Frankel)
Tony Knuth, ‘04 Sarah Jordan, ’04 (Sahai)
Michael Koucky, ‘06 Biraja Kanungo, ’04 (Flores) About the background image:
William Kovacs, ‘04 Sujoy Kar, ’03 (Fraser)
Elizabeth Mercer, ‘05 Hong Jin Kim, ’05 (Rigney) Topological remodeling of the red blood cell
Kristen Merlo, ‘04 Girdhari Kumar, ’05 (Buchheit) cytoskeleton. During its 120-day lifetime, a
Emily Meyer, ‘05 Matthew Lambert, ’05 (Flores) red blood cell circulates in the human body
half a million times, often squeezing through
Joshua Mills, ‘06 Adrienne Lamm, ’04 (Anderson) narrow capillaries half its diameter. A protein
Eric Omohundro, ‘04 Huyong Lee, ‘03 (Anderson) network (cytoskeleton) ensures its structural
Paul Pavka, ‘06 Xiao Dong Liu, ’03 (Frankel) integrity. The above is a computer model of
the cytoskeleton; each individual ligament
Tara Podnar, ‘05 Xiaoyuan Lou, ’05 (Wagoner) (spectrin molecule) is about 80 nanometers.
Doug Pohlman, ‘03 Weiqi Luo, ’05 (Wang) With analytical and computer modeling, one
Andrea Popik, ‘04 Jun Ho Moon, ‘05 (Mills) hopes to understand the roles of network
defects and remodeling dynamics in
Anthony Prescenz, ‘04 Matthew Mottern, ’05 (Verweij) influencing the fluidity and damage tolerance
Donovan Richie, ‘06 Soumya Nag, ’05 (Fraser) of the entire cell. (Image provided by Dr. Ju Li)
Pablo Rojas, ‘04 Jim Nash, ’04 (Daehn)
Brandon Rollins, ‘04 David Norfleet, ’05 (Mills)

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Donors
Individual Donors:
Mr. and Mrs. John Adams
Dr. Sheikh Akbar
Dr. Diane Albert
Ms. Ferne Allan
Mr. John Altstetter
Dr. Peter Anderson
Dr. Neil Ault
Dr. Joseph Bailey
Mr. Robert Bartlett
Dr. and Mrs. Franklin Beck
Dr. Russell Bennett
Mr. Walter Bennett
Dr. Linda Berdayes
Dr. L.R. Bidwell
Mr. John Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Burk
Mr. James Clum
Dr. James Cordea
Mr. Michael Crews
Ms. Connie Cron
Mr. Richard Daniel
Mr. Eduardo Del Rio Perez
Mrs. Louise Dierker Patek
Dr. Earl Dietz
Mr. Winston Duckworth
Mr. William Ebihara
Bill and Judy Ellinger
Mr. Howard Federspiel
Ms. Beth Findura
Mr. Steven Fisher
Dr. Frederick Fraikor
Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Frankel
Mr. Richard Fredericks
Mr. Scott Furlong
Mr. Carl Gartner
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Geist
Ms. Carrie Gordon
Mr. Leroy Gordon
Dr. Arnab Gupta
Dr. Prabhat Gupta
Mrs. Florence Hall Leslie
Mr. Richard Hannon
Major Bob Henning
Dr. William Herrnstein III
Dr. John Hirth
Mr. Arthur Hoenie
Dr. Rollin Hook
Dr. John Hoppers
Dr. Jim Houseman
Ms. Jody Hribar
Mr. Ronald Hughes
Ms. Amy Johnson
Dr. and Mrs. James Johnson
Mr. Paul Johnston
Mr. Robert Johnston
Mr. Rowdy Joseph
Dr. Mary Juhas
Dr. Allan Katz
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Kegarise
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Dr. Joseph Kenty
Mr. Wesley King
Mr. Charles Kistler Jr.
Mr. Robert Koehler
Dr. Eric Kreidler
Mr. Daniel Leavell
Mr. Robert Laird
Dr. Trent Latimer
Mrs. Florence Leslie
Drs. Ju and Qing Li
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Livingston
Mr. Jack Lytle
Ms. Caroline Markworth
Mr. and Mrs. David Markworth
Ms. Sharon Markworth
Mr. Robert Matz
Mr. Charles G. Mayer
Mr. Douglas Meyer
Mr. Nathaniel Miljus
Dr. Espy Miller
Dr. Robert Miller
Mr. Charles Morin
Dr. John Morral
Mr. Patrick Murley
Mr. Joseph Nachman
Mr. Robert Needham
Dr. Dale Niesz
Mrs. Priscilla North
Mr. Neil Orians
Mr. Geroge Paraskos
Mr. Howard Pearch
Mr. Christopher Perhala
Mr. David Price
Dr. and Mrs. Archie Priestley
Ms. Barbara Raines
Ms. Nancy Raines
Mr. Robert Raines
Mr. Hal Rice
Mr. Michael Rich
Mr. David Rohe
Mr. Jay Scharenberg
Mr. Paul Schasney
Mr. Coulson Scheurmann
Mr. Gregory Schieleit
Mr. George Scholes
Mr. Robert Scott
Dr. Paul Shewmon
Ms. Elizabeth Shook-Shewmon
Mr. Michael Smith
Dr. Bob Snyder
Mr. William Sorensen
Ms. Jeanne St. Pierre
Dr. Roger Staehle
Dr. David Stahl
Dr. Katherine Stevens
Mr. J. Grant Stradley
Mr. Mark Straszheim
Mr. John Swartz
Ms. Barbara Trueman
Ms. Marion Uhl
Mr. John Varhola
Mr. Michael Vinarcik
Mr. Wesley Wells
Dr. Robert Wagoner
Dr. Yunzhi Wang
Mr. W. Timothy Weisert
Ms. Catherine Wright
Corporate Donors:
3M Foundation
Alcoa Foundation
American Honda Motor Car Co, Inc.
Edison Welding Institute Inc.
Edward Orton Jr. Ceramic Foundation
Engineering Systems, Inc.
FEI Company
Ford Motor Company
Foseco Steel
Foundry Educational Foundation
General Electric Fund
General Motors Corporation
Halliburton PAC
Honda Research Institute USA Inc.
Honda Research of America
Honeywell International
Lockheed Martin
Phillips Plastics Corp
Saint-Gobain
Sputtering Target Mfg. Co., LLC
Srico Incorporated
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)
Development Donations
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.
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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
Flores
welcomed
Jimmy into
their family
on October 2,
2004.
Jin Wang
(CISM) and
her husband
Mubing Xu
are the proud
parents of
Daniel Xu, born
August 9, 2004
at 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
M at e r i a l s S c i e n c e a n d E n g i n e e r i n g
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
MSE
welcomed Brandon into their family on
August 10, 2006.
ASM Teacher Materials Camp
OSU – 2006
Among 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
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