Faculty

Efstathios “Stathis” I. Meletis, Professor and Chair
Surface engineering, plasma processes, thin films and coatings, nanomaterials, nanotribology, biomaterials, corrosion

Pranesh Aswath, Professor and Associate Chair
Ceramics, titanium composites, bioactive materials, tribology, civil structures
   

Ronald Elsenbaumer, Professor and Vice President for Research
Electrically conductive polymers, enhanced lubricants & coatings

Roger D. Goolsby, Professor
Fracture and fatigue of metal matrix composites, thermoplastics, polymer
composites

Yaowu Hao, Assistant Professor
Magnetic nanostructures, micro/nano fabrication, nanobiotechnology

Michael Jin, Assistant Professor
Photovoltaics, CIGS & organic solar cells, conjugated polymers, DNA electronics

Choong-Un Kim, Professor and Graduate Advisor
Thin-film metallurgy, phase transformation, reliability physics of microelectronics

Seong Jin Koh, Associate Professor
Nano-electronic devices, sensors for molecular level detection, surface science

Fuqiang Liu, Assistant Professor
Electrochemical energy conversion and storage


Research Faculty

Jiechao C. Jiang, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Associates

WoongHo Bang
, Ph.D.
Maria Hossu
, Ph.D.
Hongquan Jiang, Ph.D.

Staff

Jennifer Standlee, Administrative Assistant
Lidia Cuauhtli, Administrative Assistant

Affiliated Faculty

In addition to the MSE core faculty, a number of professors from other departments in the College of Engineering and the College of Science at UTA participate in the Materials Science and Engineering Program. They collaborate in research projects with the faculty and mentor Materials Science and Engineering students.


Frank Lu
, Aerospace Engineering

Ali Abolmaali, Civil Engineering

Zeynep Celik Butler, Jung-Chih Chiao, Frank Lewis, Dan Popa,  Harry Stephanou, Meng Tao, Michael Vasilev, Weidong Zhou, Electrical Engineering

Bumsoo Han, Haiying Huang, Seiichi Nomura, Panos Shiakolas, Kamesh Subbarao, Mechanical Engineering

Krishnan Rajeshwar, Dmitry Rudkevich, Richard Timmons, Chemistry

Truman Black, Wei Chen,  Ali R. Koymen, J. Ping Liu, Alex Weiss, Physics