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Fall 2007
Watt s N e ws
T he O h i o S t a te Un ivers i t y • D epar t ment of Mater ials Science and Eng ine er ing

Governor visits CAMM

Gov. Ted Strickland is introduced to the incredible
facilities housed in CAMM. For more, see page 3.
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Chair’s
Letter
Greetings everyone! I invite you to spend
a few minutes browsing the 2007 edition
of Watts News to catch up on the news in
MSE at OSU. It has been a full year and
there is a lot to report. Let me prime you
with a few of the highlights.
Our educational programs remain strong
and stable, and there are two interesting
developments I wanted to make you
aware of. First, a small, but growing
number of our courses are now being
offered on distance basis. This format
involves streaming audio and video lectures, web chats and
electronic communications for homework and exams. Students
earn regular course credit. It’s a fledgling effort now, but one
we hope will grow into distance degree programs over the next
several years.
On another front, Prof. Glenn Daehn and Megan Daniels, our
undergraduate academic advisor and recruiter, are working
with the ASM Foundation to make MSE a lead site for the ASM
Materials Camps for high school teachers. Materials Camps
have been around for a number of years, and MSE has now
hosted two. These camps are intensive week-long training
sessions aimed at helping high school teachers teach materials
science. Around the country, materials science classes have been
introduced in the Albuquerque Public School
system and in several schools in the state of The MSE research enterprise forged
Washington. This year, a Materials Science class
will be taught at Westerville South High School ahead as strong as ever last year with
here in Columbus, as well as Trotwood Madison
High School in the Dayton area. In Ohio, the research expenditures of nearly $12
time is right for pushing the discipline to the
high school level. New state science standards
million.
are forcing schools to develop new course content. Materials
science is a natural extension of the physical science classes
many high schoolers already take. The next teacher camp at
MSE is planned for July 2008.
The MSE research enterprise forged ahead as strong as ever
last year--actually a little stronger as research expenditures
approached an all-time high of $12 million. Research in our
core metals and ceramic materials programs
remains strong. The computational materials
On the cover science program is now having the impact we
Atomistic model of a hydrotalcite-
based ion exchange compound. The always hoped it would. Joining this faculty group
substance is used as a corrosion is Dr. Jian-Cheng (J.-C.) Zhao from GE Global
inhibiting pigment in anti-corrosive Research. More about J.-C. can be found on page
coatings.
8 in the Faculty & Staff section.
We are in the midst of a growth spurt in the area of biomaterials,
and we are pleased to welcome Dr. Jianjun Guan to the faculty.
Jianjun is inbound from a research faculty position at the
University of Pittsburgh. His arrival is also discussed on page
8. We also have another biomaterials faculty position joint with
the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department, and we hope
to fill this position shortly.
With the growth in faculty comes the need for growth in
infrastructure. MSE has teamed with BME, Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) and the Davis Heart and
Lung Research Institute to create the Center for Cell and
Tissue Engineering. This center will be housed in 4000 square
feet of new space in Fontana Labs and will be the home for
facilities supporting cell culturing and characterization as well
as processing and characterization of soft materials.
I’d also like to report we are teaming with the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in an initiative
in advanced electronic materials and devices. Under this
initiative, the two departments will work cooperatively to join
the expertise and facilities in electronic materials processing in
ECE with the advanced materials characterization facilities in
MSE. At the core of the initiative are two positions for faculty
who will be appointed in both departments. Both of these
faculty searches are now well underway.
All in all, it has been a busy, but productive year. We are
looking forward to capitalizing on the opportunities these
new initiatives have brought and expect another engaging year
ahead. On behalf of the faculty and staff of the department, I
hope your year is also productive and rewarding. If you happen
to be on campus through the year for business or pleasure,
please stop in and say hello. If your travel plans don’t bring you
through Columbus, be sure to stay in touch.
Best Regards,
Rudy Buchheit,
Department Chair
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Special
Guest
Center for Accelerated Maturation of Materials
Hosts Governor Strickland
By Peter Collins

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut visited
The Ohio State University on March 29, 2007 specifically to visit the Center for Accelerated MSE graduate students Alison Polasik and Robert Williams
Maturation of Materials (CAMM). The visit included a presentation and tour by Professor discuss with Governor Stickland the capabilities available in the
Hamish Fraser, an Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor, and Director of the CAMM. Campus Electron Optics Facility (CEOF), the facility used by
CAMM for materials characterizations.
CAMM has developed numerous research programs that have led to significant industrial
interactions and strong collaborations with National Laboratories. In addition, CAMM has
worked to leverage the State investment through programs such as the Hayes Investment
Fund and the Action Fund.

See “Governor” on page 4 Contents

Research Chair’s Letter, p. 2

Cutting-edge research, new faculty, innovative
recruitment, and top-quality academics.

News Special Guest, p. 3

Advanced High Strength Steels
By Robert H. Wagoner
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is at
the forefront of academic research on advanced materials
for transportation vehicles. Assisted by the Transportation
Research Endowment Program (TREP) in the College of
Engineering and the Center for Advanced Materials and
Manufacturing of Automotive Components (CAMMAC),
a cluster of new projects has just begun. This area
promises exciting progress in helping the environment,
improving personal safety and security, and conserving
natural resources.
The MSE department hosted Ohio’s governor
as he toured CAMM.
Research News, p. 3
Next generation steel, insights into corrosion, a
small but powerful antenna, and more.
Faculty & Staff, p. 8
New faculty arrive, retirements, and awards;
learn more about changes in the department.
Honors & Awards, p. 10
We’re proud of our faculty and students and
the recognition received for their hard work!

Materials for transportation vehicles are evolving rapidly in order to reduce mass by
Alumni News, p. 12
increasing specific strength at affordable cost. Such materials offer many advantages: Alumni updates, Metallurgy alum honored by
energy conservation, increased safety, and reduction of environmental impact. College, and our 20th anniversary!
Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) offer the promise of amazing combinations of
strength (for safety, light weight, lower emissions, and fuel consumption) and ductility Development, p. 14
(manufacturability, energy absorption). Strength and ductility usually vary inversely New approaches to recruitment have led to
(Figure 1), so novel microstructures that increase both are revolutionary and highly exciting opportunities for our department.
desirable. AHSS are particularly promising for crash-resistant autobody structures,
where stiffness, strength, and energy absorption are required in stamped parts. Student News, p. 16
It’s not just study and research for our students!
See “Advanced Steels” on page 5 Get a glimpse into our students’ lives.

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Governor con’t

While highlighting such

programs and collaborations,
the Governor’s visit
included a tour of numerous
electron microscopes and
demonstrations of their use by
faculty, students (including high
school interns), and external
collaborators. The facilities
available to CAMM and its
partners provide tremendous
insight into the microstructure
of materials. This knowledge Jan Ringnalda, research scientist
Director of the Center for the Accelerated Maturation of with CAMM, describes the
is shared among CAMM’s Titan TEM as Prof. Mike Mill
Materials (CAMM) and the Campus Electron Optics s, Gov. Strickland, Hamish
partners and is used to improve Fraser, and Chancellor Fingerhu
Facility (CEOF), Hamish Fraser talks with Ohio Governor t look on.
Ted Stickland about the benefits of Third Frontier research existing materials, develop new
carried out in the department. materials, and meet industrial
and societal needs.

Such microscopes, and their application to problems of
relevance to the materials community, is of fundamental
interest to this department. The “crown jewel” of
the department is the world’s highest resolution,
commercially available scanning transmission electron
microscope – the TITAN. With a resolution of 0.06
nanometers (i.e., the power to magnify 30 million times),
the instrument routinely provides images of individual
atoms and molecules. Such detail provides insight into
the behavior of materials on an atomic level. As materials
are better characterized and understood the amount of
time from lab-to-marketplace is drastically reduced.
kland, VP for Research at OSU
. Famish Fraser, Gov. Ted Stric
From l-r: Prof. Jim Williams, Prof slack.
Fingerhut, and Dean Bud Bae
Robert McGrath, Chancellor Eric
The CAMM facilities provide
tremendous insight into the
microstructure of materials.
This knowledge is used to
meet industrial and societal
needs.
Additionally, Fraser and his colleagues have worked on the
development and utilization of an inexpensive table-top
scanning electron microscope, the Phenom, that allows
for routine imaging of samples in backscattered electron
(BSE) mode up to 20,000x magnification, and operates
using a 5 kV electron beam. The Phenom is incredibly
small and compact for an electron microscope. Slightly
larger than a desktop computer and weighing roughly 100
lbs., the Phenom operates by using only a common 110v
outlet. It was demonstrated to the Governor by Dr. Peter
Collins and CAMM’s high school interns, who had used
the microscopes for imaging of a wide range of samples
over the previous year. The Governor also saw the small
Dual-Beam FIB’s (developed by FEI in collaboration with
Fraser), and the remote microscopy work that allows access
of instruments at selected remote sites, whereby companies
and organizations can make use of the microscopes without
having to be on-site. Very recently, such cutting edge
remote access earned CAMM the 2007 Experimental and
Application Research Award at the Ohio Supercomputing
Center’s Advanced Technology Awards for use of the Third
Frontier Network (now the OSCNet).

For more on CAMM visit www.camm.ohio-state.edu.

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Advanced Steels con’t

In spite of the promise and potential payoff for society, fundamental technical questions
need to be answered before AHSS can be used with confidence. These questions were
identified in a workshop held on October 22-23, 2006, organized by Robert H. Wagoner
with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The conclusions of that

Ductility
workshop formed the basis for priority national funding by NSF and the U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE). The workshop report [1] is available as a 4-Mb download at mse.osu.
edu/NSF_AHSS_Workshop.pdf.

The major part of the mass of a typical automotive body/chassis has been, and continues
to be, formed metallic sheet structures. Therefore, formability and springback are crucial
aspects for these applications, along with other characteristics such as strength, corrosion Figure 1: Trade-offs of strength
and ductility of traditional
resistance, and weldability. Dr. Wagoner is investigating these aspects in three projects and advanced high-strength steel
s [1, 2]. A narrow band
recently begun, each of which is being cost-shared by TREP. drawn near the bottom of the
colored area (i.e. near
traditional materials IF, Mild,
HSLA, MART) represents
the expected relationship. Excu
Failure Analysis of Advanced High Strength Steels during Draw-Bending is funded by the rsions to the top and right
(TRIP, DP, CP, TWIP, L-IP)
represent unexpected and
U.S. Department of Energy and the Auto/Steel Partnership. It is based on collaboration highly desirable advantages. [2]
with the Edison Welding Institute and Scientific Forming Technologies, both Columbus-
based organizations. The goal is to predict AHSS forming failures thus enabling the design
of tools and processes to avoid them. Current failure theories for standard steels do not
predict AHSS behavior properly, Figure 2. State-of-the-art characterization techniques
are being applied in shear fracture areas to obtain a fundamental understanding of the
phenomenon. An innovative draw-bend-fracture technique developed previously in
MSE is being adapted to generate an accurate fracture criterion for implementation in
commercial forming software.

Fineblanking with Advanced High Strength Steels is sponsored by Feintool, a small

Swiss-based company. The four-year cost-shared project begins an expected long-term
collaboration between Feintool and OSU. The feasibility of replacing some fine-blanked
parts of standards steels requiring heat treatment, with AHSS ones eliminating the heat
treatment, is the focus. The principal formability needs for fine-blanking will be defined
and validated, simple and robust tests will be devised, and the formability of candidate Figure 2: Simulated formability
of automotive rail using
AHSS will be measured using the validated tests. Advanced High Strength Stee
l (DP 780), upper figure,
predicts safe forming (no red
areas). Forming tryout
(lower figure) shows very signifi
Sheet Formability and Springback of Advanced High Strength Steels is sponsored by cant cracking, unpredicted
by normal methods. [3]
the National Science Foundation with co-funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.
It is a collaborative project with principal investigators at OSU, the Colorado School of
Mines, and General Motors Research and Development. The joint OSU/GM part of the
project focuses on the unknown springback behavior of AHSS, a serious obstacle to their
Figure 3: Close-up of the draw
widespread use. (“Springback” refers to the undesirable change in the shape of a part when -bend springback test
developed at OSU (left) and sche
it is removed from forming dies. It causes difficulties in assembly and poor perception of matic of the principle of
its operation (right). A strip of
sheet metal is drawn over
quality.) The project, set to begin late in 2007, will make use of a special draw-bend test the cylindrical pin with a spec
ified sheet tension. When
developed by Wagoner’s group in the 1990’s, Figure 3. the strip is removed after draw
ing, the springback is
measured as the angle between
the leg’s changes by ΔΘ.

[1] R. H. Wagoner: Advanced High Strength Steel, NSF Workshop Report,

October 22-23, 2006. Available at http://mse.osu.edu/NSF_AHSS_Workshop.
pdf)

[2] R. Heimbuch, An Overview of the Auto/Steel Partnership and Research

Needs, in Advanced High Strength Steel, NSF Workshop Report, October 22-
23, 2006, p. 21

[3] T. B. Stoughton, C. Xia, C. Du, M. F. Shi: Challenges for Constitutive

Models for Forming of Advanced Steels, in Advanced High Strength Steel, NSF
Workshop Report, October 22-23, 2006, p. 73

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Research High Velocity Forming Used to

Manufacture Fuel Cells

News, con’t
DARPA Grant Seeks to Develop IR
Windows from Nanocomposites
Professor Nitin Padture has received a $1.6 million grant from
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the sole
principal investigator at OSU. This three-and-a-half year project
involves the study of high-strength ceramic nanocomposites for use
as infrared (IR) transparent windows. The project is in collaboration
with Surmet Corporation of Burlington, MA, who will primarily
be responsible for manufacturing and
commercializing these high-performance
windows for military applications, such
as protection of optical sensors and
detectors in harsh environments.
Typically, IR windows for various
applications are made from single-
crystal ceramics that have no grains
or grain boundaries. Such windows
are inherently difficult to form
into complex shapes, and they are
prohibitively expensive. Also, although
single-crystal windows have excellent optical properties, they cannot
withstand the mechanical demands of some applications, leading to
catastrophic failures. Prof. Padture and his collaborators at Surmet
Corp. plan to use a novel ceramic nanocomposites approach in
making IR transparent windows that are mechanically robust. In
this approach the ceramic nanocomposites will have a proliferation
of nanoscale grains that are too small to block or scatter IR light, but
they will impart high strength. This team is also developing novel
processing methods, which will allow the fabrication of complex-
shaped IR-transparent windows with relative ease and at low cost.
American Trim, located in Lima Ohio was awarded $1 million for its project
“Agile Low-Cost Manufacture of Fuel Cell Plates via Electromagnetic
Forming.” American Trim, with direction from Professor Glenn Daehn,
will use high velocity electromagnetic forming (HVEF) to produce usable
prototype bipolar plates that have all the required flowfield features.
At the conclusion of this project, American Trim expects to have the
design and manufacturing parameters required to produce commercial
quantities of fuel cell plates sufficient to support a full production
line employing 270 people. The collaborators on this project include
General Motors Corporation and the Department of Materials Science
and Engineering at The Ohio State University. For more, please visit
www.odod.state.oh.us/newsroom/releases/1728.asp.
LASM Receives $1M+ to Research
MgB2 Materials and Applications
The Laboratory for Applied Superconductivity and Magnetism (LASM,
mse.osu.edu/lasm) has been awarded $1.1 million for its “Superconductivity
Technology Center” project that will promote the commercialization of
magnesium diboride (MgB2). MgB2 is a superconductive material that
can be used to develop more advanced superconducting wire for the wire
coils of medical imaging equipment.
“The challenge of using MgB2 in this new application will be to produce
long lengths of wire with no defects and creating a method of making
persistent joints in the wire,” states co-director of LASM, Dr. Michael
Sumption. MgB2 wire will also be beneficial for other applications in
the power industry, such as fault current limiters, transformers, motors
and generators. The grant will equip the Center with the equipment
needed to address the challenges of using MgB2 and to further develop
superconducting wire. OSU’s commercialization partner on the project is
Hyper Tech Research (HTR) of Columbus. HTR projects MgB2 to be used
in a large fraction of MRI machines in the coming years, both standard
machines and machines which offer new capabilities.

Research into High-Temperature Coatings

Professors Yunzhi Wang and John Morral, along with research associate Dr. Ximiao Pan and
students have been investigating how microstructures evolve with time in multiphase diffusion
couples. Their work is supported by NSF and has applications to high temperature coatings and
processing. Recently they identified three interdiffusion mechanisms that can lead to the formation
of a single phase layer where two multiphase materials are joined. One mechanism involves a
singularity in the concentration profile of solutes, while another involves the attraction of diffusion
profiles to special points on a phase diagram. The single phase layers are important because they
can have a profound effect on the adherence of coatings and the strength of diffusion bonded
components.
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“Drop-on-Demand” System Permits Fuel Cell and Nanoparticle

Sensor Research
The Sensor Array Technology and Inorganic Materials Science research
groups led by Professors Patricia Morris and Henk Verweij, respectively,
have recently acquired a drop-on-demand microdispensing and
printing system. The operating principle of the system is similar to
that of commercial ink-jet printing systems; however, the components
are capable of handling aggressive organic solvents and strongly acidic
solutions. The microdispensing printer is capable of printing over
an area of 150mm x 150mm with 2um stage accuracy. The system
is equipped with four print heads capable of dispensing picoliter
droplets. Research in the areas of nanoscale metal conductive lines,
fuel cells, and nanoparticle sensor arrays is underway utilizing the
microdispensing printer (pictured at right).

Small Size and Wide Bandwidth Active Surface Layers on 7xxx

Makes This Antenna Unique Aluminum Alloys
Professor Henk Verweij, Orton Chair in Ceramic Professor Jerry Frankel and his student Zhijun Zhao
Engineering, is studying the application (PhD 2007) used a novel combination of synchronized
of ceramic materials for new applications. electrochemical measurements and video capture of
Verweij, in cooperation with Prof. John a corroding surface to shed insight on an interesting
Volakis and Dr. Kubilay Sertel from the phenomenon whereby surface layers formed on high
ElectroScience Laboratory (ESL) at OSU, strength Al alloys are attacked at low potentials. Localized
has developed new GHz devices with corrosion starts at discrete sites on the surface, penetrates
ceramic components. Supervised by Verweij, about 100 nm, but then spreads across the surface rather
graduate student Lanlin Zhang fabricated than continuing into the bulk of the material, which is
structured composites of alumina and the usual situation for pitting corrosion. Stable pitting
titanate ceramics for high-gain miniature corrosion in the underlying bulk alloy only develops when
antennas. the applied potential is increased
to higher values.
Unlike printed circuit boards, such antennas have a very
wide bandwidth and achieve their small size by application The movie clips, which can be
of the structured composites in photonic arrays. Further viewed online at https://kb.osu.
improvements will be reached by minimization of dielectric edu/dspace/handle/1811/24628,
losses in the ceramic materials and application of additional show clearly that this surface
magnetic ceramic layers. layer dissolution is associated
with a peak in the polarization
The cooperation curve. Analytical TEM was used
is funded by a to show that the polishing process results in a surface
six-year Air Force deformed layer with extremely high strain in which the
MURI project led alloying elements are redistributed from distinct hardening
by Prof. Volakis. The particles into continuous bands that line the boundaries of
program also receives the nanograins. The high Zn and Mg content in these bands
support from the make them much more susceptible to localized corrosion
DURIP program than the bulk matrix. Therefore, these regions and the
A 6-layer high-gain miniature antenna
and OSU for capital made of alumina and titanate. surface layer are attacked at lower potentials than the bulk
investments that matrix. Even though this form of corrosion is limited to the
allow for larger scale manufacturing of arrays. In addition, near-surface region, it has implications for corrosion under
funding is provided by the Office of Naval Research, OSU paint or at adhesively bonded interfaces.
and the DARPA program to develop magnetic ceramics.

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Faculty &
Staff
Dave Rigney Retiring
after 40 Years of Service
Professor David Rigney retired on September 30th,
2007 after 40 years of scholarship, teaching, and service.
Dave has taught 45 different classes, authored over 125
publications, and chaired many successful conferences
on subjects related to tribology. He has launched many
young scientists into successful careers along the way.
Dave’s understanding of science is held in very high
regard by his peers, and he is an in-demand speaker at
conferences around the world.
Here at home, Dave has served as chair of most, if not all, of the
standing committees in the department, a range of committees
across the college and university, and has held several significant
administrative posts. Notable among these are his service as
Associate and Interim Chair of MSE and Associate Director of
the Center for Materials Research (CMR). After all that, you
might think Dave would be “worn down”, but our resident
tribologist insists this is not the case! Dave will immediately
move into the illustrious ranks of our Emeritus Faculty. He
will continue to teach and pursue scholarly activities, but as
a lifelong learner, he has a long list of pursuits he wishes to
engage. We wish Dave all the best and thank him for his
significant contributions to the reputation of materials science
and engineering at Ohio State.
Jerry Frankel Named
DNV Chair in Corrosion
Professor Gerald Frankel has been named to the newly
created DNV Chair in Corrosion. The position will allow
for the study of corrosion-protective coatings on metals
and as well as corrosion and cracking issues associated
with ethanol distribution. The DNV Chair in Corrosion
is supported by Det Norske Veritas, an independent
foundation headquartered in Oslo, Norway that serves
the maritime and energy sectors and invests in research
and innovation with the objective of safeguarding life,
property, and the environment. The DNV Chair at
OSU is associated with the creation of a Research and
Innovation Center at CC Technologies, a DNV company
located in Dublin, Ohio. CCT is a contract R&D firm
specializing in corrosion, failure analysis and pipeline
integrity.
MSE Welcomes Two New Faculty
Jianjun Guan
The department is pleased to
announce the arrival of its newest
faculty member, Assistant Professor
Jianjun Guan. Jianjun will join the
faculty as part of the department’s
growing biomaterials emphasis. Prior
to joining MSE, Jianjun was Research
Assistant Professor in the McGowan
Institute of Regenerative Medicine
at the University of Pittsburgh. He
received his PhD in Chemistry from
Zhejiang University, China, and
served as a post-doc at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jianjun’s future research will focus on the engineering of
biomaterials for soft and hard tissues regeneration. His research
interests include development of biomaterials possessing
robust mechanical properties, design and processing 3-D nano-
structured scaffolds, controlled release of biomacromolecules,
and development of tissue constructs with primary or stem
cells for engineering of soft and hard tissues.
Ji-Cheng Zhao
The department is proud to
announce the arrival of Dr. Ji-Cheng
(J.-C.) Zhao who will join MSE in
January, 2008 as a tenured Associate
Professor. J.-C. is a materials scientist
and project/team leader at GE
Global Research in Niskayuna, NY,
where he has worked since 1995
when he obtained his PhD degree in
materials science and engineering
from Lehigh University. His research has focused
on phase diagrams, thermodynamics, diffusion, design of
advanced alloys and coatings for jet engines, and hydrogen
storage materials.
In addition to many materials innovations, he developed
a diffusion-multiple approach for accelerated materials
discovery and development. J.-C. has received several honors
including the Geisler Award from ASM International, the Hull
Award from GE Global Research, and he was elected a Fellow of
ASM International in 2003. He has published about 65 papers
and edited/co-edited two books and two theme issues of MRS
Bulletin and also holds 36 US patents with 26 more pending.
His innovations have been featured in Nature, C&E News, MRS
Bulletin, and Advanced Engineering Materials.
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Doru Stefanescu Named Nice job Mei!

Ashland Professor
Professor Doru Stefanescu has been named to the Ashland
Designated Research Professorship in the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering. In this new position,
Doru will teach and advise students, serve as the Key Foundry
Educational Foundation Professor, and conduct metal casting
research. The Professorship will
allow for the continuation of a metal
casting education at Ohio State.
Doru is an expert in solidification
science and metal casting
technology. He joined Ohio State in
2005 as a senior research scientist in
materials science and engineering
and Foundry Educational
Foundation Key Professor, after a
long career as a metallurgical and
materials engineering professor at
the University of Alabama and in the metallurgical industry in
Romania and England. He holds undergraduate and graduate
degrees from the University Politehnica in Romania.
Ju Li Departing
to University of
Pennsylvania
Congratulations to Mei Wang, Business Manager
for the MSE department! Mei was awarded both
the Above & Beyond Staff Award from the College
of Engineering and the University’s Distinguished
Staff Award for 2006. Every year these awards
recognize staff members who exhibit exceptional
accomplishments, leadership, and service to the
university community.
Mei is described by all who know her as superb,
bright, efficient, reliable and a host of other
superlatives. Colleagues praise her interpersonal Mei with College of Eng
ineering
skills and her integrity. In addition to her hectic Dean Bud Baeslack at the Sept
ember
work schedule, Mei volunteers on weekends 2006 presentation of the “Abo
ve and
Beyond” award.
delivering hot meals through Meals on Wheels.
Welcome New Staff!
Beth Allen
Beth Allen, the department’s Human Resources Officer,
grew up in Columbus and graduated from OSU in 2005
in Business Administration with a specialization in
Human Resources. Upon graduation, she worked for the
Department of Radiology at the OSU Medical Center for
almost two years. Beth is working toward her Master’s in
Labor and Human Resources degree at OSU.

Professor Ju Li will be departing

for a new faculty position in the
Department of Materials Science
Ross Baldwin
and Engineering at the University
of Pennsylvania this Fall. Ju joined Ross Baldwin, the department’s Instructional
our faculty in 2002 and was recently Laboratory Supervisor, graduated from OSU in 2006
promoted to the rank of Associate with a BFA in Art and Technology. In 2004, Ross began
Professor with tenure. Ju has had a strong positive assisting Kenneth Kushner and Gary Dodge in the MSE
influence on computational materials science on campus and machine shop as a student employee. Ross recently
has earned a strong reputation in the broader community for taught Art 552, a computer animation class, in Spring
his scientific contributions in materials theory. We wish Ju and 2007 for the Department of Art. Samples of his work
his family all the best in their new life and new endeavors in are available on Ross’ MSE staff web page.
Philadelphia.

Lloyd Barnhart to Fly into Retirement

The department wishes Lloyd “Barney”
Barnhart all the best in his upcoming
retirement. Barney, who joined MSE 14
years ago from Battelle Labs, set up and
supervised the Mechanical Behavior Lab,
an integral part of the characterization
efforts of the department. Barney has
enjoyed working with students and
watching their skills and confidence grow.
“To use this complex equipment, most
start out having a steep learning curve,”
says Barney. “Guiding them through the
process has been rewarding.”
When asked what he’s most proud of
Barney states, “My relationship with my
wife and children.” He and wife Linda
will celebrate their 40th anniversary next
May. In retirement they plan to
travel and Barney hopes to get in
some flying time piloting single-
engine airplanes.
Thank you, Barney, for your service
to the department!

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Honors & Ohio State Scientists Win Third

Frontier Award and Third

Awards “R&D 100” Award for Sensors

A pollution sensor invented at Ohio State University is
among the top 100 innovations of 2006, according to R&D

Faculty
Rudy Buchheit
NACE Fellow honor at the NACE annual banquet
Jerry Frankel
Named Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and ASM
International
Hamish Fraser
USAF Award for Exemplary Civilian Service
2007 Experimental & Application Research Award
Derek J. Hansford
Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure, effective
October 1, 2007
Winston Ho
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award for
Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology (2006)
2007 Clarence G. Gerhold Award
2007 Advisor Recognition for Graduate Student Award
from the Separations Divisions of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers
Magazine. This is the third time that Prabir Dutta, chair of the
Department of Chemistry, and his research team have earned
a spot on the prestigious “R&D 100”
list, which salutes the best inventions
to emerge from industry, government,
and academia each year.
Dutta designed the sensor, along with
Sheikh Akbar, professor of materials
science and engineering, and former
graduate students Nicholas Szabo
and Jiun Chan Yang. R&D Magazine
will list all 100 winners in its September issue, and will hold
an October awards banquet in Chicago. Contact: 292-4532,
dutta.1@osu.edu, or see researchnews.osu.edu/archive/nosensor.
htm for more information.
Along with a number of prestigious awards, ceramic sensor
research at OSU is pleased to have been selected to host the
12th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS12) in
July 2008 (see mse.osu.edu/imcs12).

MSE Faculty Honored at College Awards ‘06-’07

MSE faculty have received many awards through the College of Engineering’s
2006-2007 awards program. Award recipients have been recognized at the
College’s annual Awards Banquet.
Boyer Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovation, for outstanding
contributions to the improvement of undergraduate engineering education:
Pete Anderson, ‘06 (this is Pete’s second Boyer award).
Charles E. MacQuigg Award, presented by students to faculty members who
have demonstrated their interest in and willingness to help students:
Rudy Buchheit, ‘06
The Lumley Engineering Research Awards, given to researchers successful in
pursuing new knowledge of a fundamental or applied nature:
Kathy Flores, ‘06 Henk Verweij, ‘07
Ju Li, ‘06 Yunzhi Wang, '06
Mike Sumption, ‘07
Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award, recognizing a team from at
least two different departments who has established a record of excellence in
interdisciplinary research:
Jerry Frankel, ‘06
Scott Faculty Award, honoring a senior faculty member who has achieved both
national and international status as a leading educator and researcher:
Rob Wagoner, ‘06
Ju Li
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
Engineers. This award honors the most promising
researchers in the nation within their fields by
providing up to five years of funding to further their
research.
2006 MRS Young Investigator Award
Mike Mills
Appointed Associate Director of the Institute of
Materials Research, imr.osu.edu
Nitin Padture
2007 ACerS Richard M. Fulrath Award for contributions
to advanced ceramics and nanomaterials. This award
recognizes outstanding academic and industrial
ceramics engineers & scientists under the age of 45.
Bob Rapp
Presented the 56th Zay Jeffries Honorary Lecture on
April 17, 2006 to the Cleveland Chapter of ASM
Doru Stefanescu
Honorary Professor, University Politehnica, Bucharest,
Romania (2006)
Appointed Research Professor (The Ashland Designated
Research Professorship) for the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering
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Rob Wagoner Senior Scholar

Distinguished Service Award
Recognition Nominations to Alpha
Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers Awards Sigma Mu MSE Honorary
Recognizing outstanding
Elected Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers
senior students. Alpha Sigma Mu, the international professional honor
Yunzhi Wang
Jonathan Orsborn society for MSE, is pleased to nominate the following
Hsun Lee Research Award, presented by the Institute of
Jennifer Payler students for admission into the society. Students of
Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science, 2006.
Wolfgang Windl Outstanding good character with a GPA placing them in the top
third of their class may be nominated.
2006 Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award, a new joint Junior Scholar
award of the Humboldt and Fraunhofer Societies in Recognizing an outstanding
junior student.
Seniors, ‘06-’07
Germany.
Mark Andio Michael Gram
2006 Mars Fontana Teaching Award Katrina Altman
Ryan Klayman Justine Mahler
George St. Pierre Ashley Manny Jason Matthews
Award Jonathan Orsborn Jesse Rhodes
For scholarship and Danelle Violet
professional activities in the
Students MSE department. Juniors, ‘06-’07
Mark Andio Katrina Altman Michael Baughman
Aysegul Aygun received a $1,000 scholarship to attend and
present her poster at Engineering Conference International Mars G. Fontana Sarah Bertke Beau Billet
Workshop on Thermal Barrier Coatings in Irsee, Germany, Award
Elizabeth Brannon Caesar Buie
To the outstanding senior Karen Domas Kent Pullins
August, 2007.
scholar conducting research Tyler Rolfes Nat Sheppard
Peter Collins received the 2007 Experimental & Application
in metallurgy. Kathleen Sherer Allyson Stahl
Research Award.
Ryan Glamm Zachary Warchol Jessica Wolever
Andrew Gledhill received a $700 scholarship to attend and
present his poster at the Solid State Studies in Ceramics Alan J.
Gordan Conference in New Hampshire, August, 2007. Markworth Memorial Award
Dan Huber won the 2007 Experimental & Application Research To the student who best reflects the personal and professional
Award. talents of Professor Markworth.
Mariano Iannuzzi won first place in the Marcel Pourbaix Justine Mahler
poster competition at the Corrosion2006 NACE meeting.
The Department Chair’s Award
Additionally, Mariano received the NACE Foundation To the outstanding senior scholar in the Materials Science and
Graduate Book Scholarship. Engineering program.
Hong Jin Kim, Andrew Emge et al. won a Silver Award for their Michael Gram
poster in the Ultrafine Grained Materials Symposium at
the 2006 TMS meeting. ASM/TMS Chapter’s Ernie W. Christin
Girdhari Kumar won second place in the Mars Fontana poster Award
competition at the Corrosion2006 NACE meeting. For the student who best demonstrates how industrial
Justine Mahler earned the 2006 Second Team All-Central experience has influenced his or her educational development.
Region Award for Varsity Rowing. Tyler Rolfes
Adam Pilchak was recognized at the quadrennial World Foundry Educational Foundation
Titanium Conference, Kyoto Japan, for having one of Scholarship Recipients
the best posters. The title of his poster was “The Effect Seniors, ‘06-’07 Juniors, ‘06-’07
of Friction Stir Processing on the Microstructure and Stephanie Collins Michael Baughman
Properties of Investment Cast Ti-6Al-4V”. Ryan Glamm Evan Standish
Mike Rauscher won the 2007 ACerS-NSF travel fellowship to Ashley Manny
present at the European Ceramic Society Annual Meeting. Freshmen, ‘06-’07
Additionally, Mike earned the Sapphire Award from the Sammy Merrill
American Ceramic Society.
Billie Wang has been awarded a National Science Foundation
GK-12 fellowship to teach science to
fifth graders in the Columbus Public Thank you for your service! Mike Gram, President-ASM/TMS
Schools. Billie will be developing
Ashley Manny, President-MSE Club
experiments to demonstrate basic The following students have given generously of Mark Andio, Vice Pres.-MSE Club
concepts and mentoring students their time and talents to serve as officers in the Caesar Buie, Treasurer-MSE Club
in the classroom. department’s student organizations: Nathan Andersen, Secretary-MSE Club

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Alumni
News
Alumni updates
1950’s
Howard “Homer” Schomer (BS ‘58)
worked in Materials and Production in
the Aerospace Industry for many years
and retired in March 2000. Remarried
October 24, 2005.
1960’s
Jeff Swank (BS ‘66) is a retired Program
Manager, having provided engineering
support to the US Navy. Jeff now lives
in Ocean City, NJ.
1970’s
Carmine Doddato (BS ‘79) is a
Project Manager with Centrotherm
Photovoltaics AG in Luchu Township,
Taiwan.
Send us your updates!
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What’s happening in your
chil dren and more;
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Charles Morin, Jr. (BS ’72 and MS
‘72) received the 2007 OSU College
of Engineering Dean’s Meritorious
Service to Students Award. This award
is given in recognition of Chuck’s
support of engineering students
through classroom presentations,
internship and co-op opportunities,
scholarships and student organization
or activity support.
1980’s
Diane Albert
(BS ‘82) was
named an
OSU Women
in Engineering
Pioneer in
Spring 2007.
Diane, who
holds a PhD
in materials
science and
engineerng from Carnegie Mellon
University, graduated from the
University of New Mexico School
of Law in May 2007. Having passed
the New Mexico Bar Exam, she was
sworn-in September 27, 2007.
Rowdy Joseph (BS‘86) recently celebrated
his 18th wedding anniversary to wife
Kelly. The couple resides in Marysville,
Ohio with their two children Ethan and
Sydney. Rowdy manages the Vehicle
Research Dept. in the Motorcycle
Division at Honda R & D Americas
located in Raymond, Ohio. Rowdy is
active in the Columbus Chapter of
ASM International having served as
Treasurer, Vice Chair, and Chair. He
has been a member of the OSU MSE
External Advisory Committee since
2003.
1990’s
Mark DeBruin (BS ‘98) lives in Poland,
OH and works as a consultant in
the metallurgical industry. Mark is
studying, as well, to be a high school
math teacher.
Lamda Muchjin (MS ’95) “My materials
science and engineering knowledge
provides a solid basis for addressing
day-to-day operational concerns in
the petroleum industry. “ says Lamda.
He, his wife, and three children are
now living in Muscat, Oman. Lamda
is working for PDO-Shell after having
worked with Unocal and Chevron in
Indonesia for ten years. Lamda wishes
to pass along
many thanks
to all of his
professors
and advisors
in MSE
especially Dr.
Smialowska,
Dr Raul
Rebak, Dr.
Rapp, and Dr.
Wilde and also to the famous Fontana
Corrosion Center (FCC). “Through
the FCC I was provided with the
practical knowledge needed to be
competitive in the global work force.”
Robert Schofield (BS ‘96) Robert is
married and has one daughter. He
recently came on board with Cutting
Dynamics, Inc. of Avon, OH to lead
the development of the automated
thermoplastic composite aircraft seat
facility.
2000’s
Ravi Angal (MS ‘05) is working with
Siemens Power Generation Inc.
in Orlando, FL as a Metallurgical
Engineer.
Richard Delmont (BS ‘05) is currently
working with Armor Holdings
Aerospace and Defense Group in
Phoenix, AZ.
Eduardo del Rio (MS ‘07) is working
with TOSOH in Grove City, OH.
Xi-Yong “Sean” Fu (PhD ‘01) was
awarded the William Oxley Thompson
Award in 2006. The Thompson Award
is presented to young alumni who have
demonstrated distinctive achievement
in a career, civic involvement, or both.
Sean plays a key role in the research
and development of new drugs for
Merck.
Andrew Geiger (BS ’05) works in sales of
digital light microscopy equipment for
Keyence Corp. of America in Rolling
Meadows, IL.
Jon Hedrick (BS ‘07) is working with
ATI Allegheny Ludlum as a Process
Metallurgist.
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Ashish Kapoor (MS ‘01) works as a Consumable Design
Engineer for The Lincoln Electric Company in Cleveland,
OH.
Vincent Kerchenski (BS ‘02) lives in Russellville, KY where
he works with Logan Aluminum (a joint venture between
ARCO & Novelis). He serves as a Process Engineer in the
finishing unit coating aluminum sheet. Vince is pursuing
a MS in Mechanical Engineering at Western Kentucky
University. For any of his classmates who remember
daughter Ellyn accompanying him to class, Vince wants
to let you know she is now a freshman in high school!
Jessica Licardi (MS ‘06) works with GE Aviation in
Cincinnati, OH as a Materials Development Engineer.
Justine Mahler (BS ‘07) works with Procter and Gamble in
Cincinnati, OH.
Ashley Manny (BS ’07) is working with Alcoa Howmet in
their Engineering Training Program.
Greg Thompson (PhD ‘03) is a professor at the University
of Alabama. Greg received an NSF CAREER award in
2006.
Jianfeng Wang (PhD ‘04) moved to Nanjing in Feb 2007
and started working for Ford’s Research & Engineering
Center in Nanjing.
Stephanie (Collins) Will (MS ‘07) is working with the
Timken Company as a Product and Process Metallurgist.
Stephanie is engaged to be married in September 2007.
Jianhui Wu (PhD ‘04) is working with Saint-Gobain
Corporation and is involved in the development of
superabrasives microstructures and tools.
Di Yu (PhD ‘06) is a Research and Development Engineer
with American Water Chemicals in Tampa, FL carrying
out R & D on chemicals for water pre-treatment.
Congratulations to Richard B. Reese
Recipient of the College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award for 2007
Dick Reese received his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical
engineering in 1963 and master’s degree in 1965 from Ohio
State. Reese had a distinguished career as an engineer and
high-level manager at NCR, an international corporation
with headquarters in Dayton, Ohio, and a major
manufacturer with current sales of over $6 billion per year.
At the time of his retirement, he was senior vice president
of Corporate Customer Services and was one of eight senior
executives responsible for running the company.
During his rapid rise within NCR, Reese made a variety
of significant technical contributions. He oversaw the
conversion from mechanical to electronic cash registers
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Happy 20th Anniversary!
Platinum and china commemorate a 20th wedding anniversary;
this is especially appropriate in light of our 20th next year.
2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the merger between
the Metallurgical Engineering and Ceramic Engineering
departments. The formation in 1988 of the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering brought together two
world-class programs. Over the past 20 years both the field of
materials and the department have seen tremendous change.
Plans are in the works to commemorate this anniversary and
reflect on those changes.
How can you help?
If you have interesting photos, anecdotes, or documents related
to the merger or the Ceramic or Metallurgical Engineering
departments, please forward your items to Cameron Lottie,
Assistant to the MSE Chair. Cameron may be reached at
177 Watts Hall
2041 College Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210
614-688-3050
mse@osu.edu
Please monitor the web site for information on anniversary
events, and be sure to keep your contact information
up to date through the Alumni section of the site,
mse.osu.edu/alumni.
and turned a once-troubled division of the company into one of its best-organized
operations. At the time of his retirement, he had responsibility over 21,000 people
in the United States and 130 foreign countries and earned annual revenues for
NCR of more than $4 billion.
In addition to his achievements in industry, Reese served
the Ohio State University as a member of the metallurgical
engineering department’s External Advisory Committee
for three years in the 1980’s. This was a critical period
in the department’s history, as the Metallurgical and
Ceramic Engineering Departments were developing plans
to merge. In 1985 he was honored for his contribution
by being selected as the department’s Distinguished
Lecturer.
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Development
ASM Teacher Camp
Twenty-two high school teachers
made slime, broke apart light bulbs,
and dissolved soda cans at the ASM
Materials Camp for Teachers, hosted
by our department in early August.
Science, math, and technology
teachers from Ohio, Michigan,
and Missouri participated in the
week-long camp whose goal is
to provide teachers with tools to
introduce Materials Science into
their schools.
Two gifted high school teachers, Andy Nydam and
Debbie Goodwin, who teach materials science in
their own schools, served as “master teachers” leading
discussions, lectures, and labs. The participating
teachers learned methods to engage and interest their
students in science and math classes by making slime
and comparing various properties, making nylon from
raw ingredients, heating and cooling assorted metals to
alter their properties, making glass from scratch, and
tearing apart light bulbs to learn why they are made
the way they are.
It makes the link Beth Eddy, a science teacher
that is engineering: from Westerville South High
School, found the camp
science providing so helpful in 2006 that she
useful objects that district curriculum to allow
convinced the head of the
we rely on every her to teach a materials
science class this fall. If this
day. first pilot class goes well,
she hopes the class will be a permanent addition to
the science curriculum in all three high schools in the
district.
“The teachers in the camp do a good job of
showing us how to present effective demos
and how to relate all that we do to ‘real life,’”
said Eddy, one of eight teachers who returned
to the camp this year.
The ASM camp provided teachers with tools
to meet the new Ohio Core high school
curriculum requirements, which, by 2012,
will require all high school students to take
three units of science with inquiry-based
laboratory experience. “We hope this camp
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will inspire more materials science courses to
be taught at high schools as applied chemistry,”
states MSE professor Glenn Daehn. “It makes
the link that is engineering: science providing
useful objects that we rely on every day.”
Daehn says it is the pupils of the teachers
who attend the camp who, in the end, really
benefit, and they are usually Ohio residents
who are likely to look to Ohio State to start
their engineering careers.
The camp is a collaborative effort sponsored
by the ASM Education Foundation, OSU
MSE, ASM-Columbus, NACE, the OSU-Honda
Partnership, and Honda of America.
Recruitment
“A Personal Touch” was the
goal of our undergraduate
recruitment efforts this
year. In an attempt to
connect with prospective
students by introducing
them to real MSE
students, our website A panel of MSE students talked about their decision to
featured stories and choose Ohio State and to study materials science and
photos of undergraduates engineering to a group of prospective students and parents
at the MSE Day, 2007.
highlighting their
activities, interests, and
reasons for choosing MSE as a major. We received
positive feedback for holding panel discussions by
MSE students who gave straightforward answers to
questions from prospective students and parents at
various open houses and information days.
Thirty high school juniors and their parents attended
MSE Day in May. The day-long event featured materials
mini-demos by our faculty and ASM-Columbus
members. Each participant received a department t-
shirt and mug tucked inside a combination backpack/
camp seat generously provided by Honda of America
Mfg. More than thirty MSE student volunteers assisted
in the event, as well.
Recruitment was enhanced by the addition of MSE
graduate students Jon Evarts and Clarissa Yablinksy
to the Student Relations Committee. Jon and Clarissa
took MSE demos to schools in the Columbus area,
provided tours of the department to prospective
students, and assisted with demos at recruitment fairs.
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“generous” \’jen-( )r s\
e e

1. liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish; kind; willing to give and share. For examples, see below.

The MSE department wishes to thank each of its supporters for their generosity. It is by means of such kindness that this program is able to provide our
students with the high quality education that serves them so well. The department wishes to acknowledge each of our donors; if we have inadvertently
left off a donor’s name, please accept our apologies and contact us so we may correct our records. Those donors whose names are listed below in bold
provided funds in both 2006 and 2007.

2006
Millicent M. Adams
AIST Foundation
Sheikh Ali Akbar
John D. & Josephine B. Altstetter
Ashland Inc.
Ashland Specialty Chemical
Dr. Joseph Thomas Bailey
Raymond & Susan Beder
Dr. Burton Dale Brubaker
James A. Clum, Edward Orton Jr.
Ceramic Foundation
Dr. James N. Cordea
Connie Winner Cron
Richard Russell Daniel
Dr. Earl Daniel Dietz
Dr. William T. Ebihara
Edison Welding Institute Inc
Steven Earl Fisher
Ford Motor Company Fund
Carl W. & Martha J. Gartner
Jill Knott Glass
Neil Glick
Le Roy S. & Carrie M. Gordon
Prabhat K. Gupta
Dr. William Herrnstein III
Kristin Harley Hibbett
Dr. James E. & Beverlee B. Houseman Jay. R. Scharenberg, Edward Orton Jr Dr. Peter Martin Anderson
Ronald Lee Hughes Ceramic Foundation Velma M. Beery
Shoji Isobe, Chief Engineer Honda R&D Coulson M Scheuermann CC Technologies
Rowdy Lee Joseph George Scholes, FEI Company Mary R. Callahan
Dr. Mary Catherine Juhas Michael Joseph Sens CompuTherm, LLC
Ronald J. Kegarise Sheperd Chemical Company Cummins Business Services
Robert Raymond Koehler Lawrence A. & Joan E. Siff The Dow Chemical Foundation
Angela Grusd Kramer Foundation Dr. Charles Henry Drummond III
Martha Harrell Kuhn Cecil Darrell Smith Horst J. Emmerichs
Robert Kirker Laird Ron Sorice Foundry Educational Foundation
Dr. David Clinton Langstaff Rachel Spector GE Foundation
Dr. Trent W. Latimer Nicole Ann Spretnak Hope Harley Halleen
Florence Hall Leslie Srico Incorporated Richard C Hannon Jr.,
Roger A. & Beverly W. Litman Madeline S. Stanley Revocable Trust
Scott Edward Livingston Mark James Straszheim Bob Hice
Andrew J. Maykuth Dr. Scott L. Swartz Martha Davis Hirth
David Michael Milam John Allen Varhola Robert Paul Johnston Jr.
Nathaniel Miljus Jr. Michael John Vinarcik Dr. Dalton H. & Irene R. Lowe
Dr. Robert James Miller Dr. Robert H. Wagoner Steven Lewis McGinnis
Joe and Valerie Payer Yunzhi Wang Charles Raymond Morin Jr.
Henry Posner Jr. Roy Louis Wentz Jr. Joseph Frank Nachman
Michael Joseph Reidelbach Sr Courtney Roberts,
Hal Hesser Rice L H Marshall Co
Knight Ridder - Matching Gifts 2007 Dr. Vincent John Russo
Dr. Frederick Karl Roehrig Gregory Fritz Schieleit
David L. Rohe 3M Foundation W. Timothy Weisert
Alcoa Foundation Matching Gift
Nancy A. Ryan Tara Wood, Siemens Power
Dr. Robert Edward Schafrik American Electric Power Generation Matching Gifts
American Honda Motor Car
Paul Joseph Schansney

If you would like to learn more about how you might help support the department’s educational and research efforts,
please visit mse.osu.edu/alumni, contact the department at (614) 292-2553, or e-mail us at mse@osu.edu.

Scholarships
Our students benefit greatly from the generosity of our donors! The funds provided through these scholarships are a key tool used to attract and retain
top-notch students. Perhaps as a student you received one of these scholarships or would like to aid our students as they pursue a degree. If so, please
contact us for information on how you can help (numbers in parentheses indicate the number of students receiving funds in ‘07-’08).

John T. Boyd Scholarship (8)
George D. Brush Scholarship (3)
W. E. Cramer Scholarship (2)
Carl J. Cron Internship
Dana J. Demorest Scholarship (2)
Arthur H. Dierker Scholarship (2)
Roger W. Edmonson Scholarship (1)
Jonathan William Ellinger
Memorial Scholarship (2)
Mars G. Fontana Scholarship (2)
Wendell A. Glick Ceramic
Engineering Scholarship (1)
H.V. Glunz Scholarship (24)
Carrie Maykuth Gordon Scholarship (1)
John Arthur and Theodore H. Harley
Family Scholarship (1)
Honda Research Institute (HRI)
USA Scholarship (2)
Harley C. and Elizabeth K. Lee
Endowment (1)
Charles R. Morin Scholarship (9)
Edward Orton, Jr. Ceramic
Foundation Scholarship (5)
Gordon W. Powell Scholarship (2)
Ralston Russell Undergraduate
Scholarship (1)
Robert L Synder Scholarship (1)
Rudolph Speiser Fund (1)
Joseph W. Spretnak
Memorial Scholarship (1)
George R. St. Pierre Scholarship
Enhancement (1)
Arthur S. Watts Scholarship (3)
Douglas C. Williams Scholarship (1)
Howard Patterson Zeller Scholarship (1)

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Student
News
MSE senior Tyler Rolfes
spent his summer in
Germany at Ruhr Univ-
at the Taj
ersity Bochum, doing Michelle and Ed Herderick
research on steel tool- inte rnsh ip at the Doctoral student Kinga
Mahal during Ed’s Unocic
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resistance (left, Tyler at Lucas Award” for her poster on
India. “TEM
the Brandenburg Gate, Sample Preparation Method
for Grain
Berlin). Boundary Phase Identificatio
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Mg alloys” at the 2007 Inte
rnational
Metallographic Contest .

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Katie Sherer plays
sousaphone in the
OSU Marching
Band and looks
forward to dotting
Ph.D. student Matt Mottern and the “ i “ in 2008!
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his wife Jessica welcomed thei
first son Logan Hewitt Mottern
on Dec. 23, 2006.

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Brittany welcomed
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Forum.

Editors: Cameron Lottie, Rudy Buchheit Design: Mark Cooper Photos: Geoff Hulse, Megan Daniels, Kevin Fitzsimons

Materials Science and Engineering

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