Faculty
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Efstathios "Stathis" I. Meletis Professor and Chair Office: (817) 272-2559 Lab: (817) 272-0656 Email: meletis@uta.edu Surface engineering, plasma processes, thin films and coatings, nanomaterials, nanotribology, biomaterials, corrosion |
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Pranesh Aswath Professor and Associate Chair Office: (817) 272-7108 Lab: (817) 272-5266 Email: aswath@uta.edu Ceramics, titanium composites, bioactive materials, tribology, civil structures |
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Naiyuen Chen Distinguished Research Professor, member of NAE Email: nychen@uta.edu |
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Ronald Elsenbaumer Professor Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Office: (817) 272-3171 Email: elsenbaumer@uta.edu Electrically conductive polymers, enhanced lubricants & coatings |
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Yaowu Hao Associate Professor Office: (817) 272-0752 Lab: (817) 272-0303 Email: yhao@uta.edu Metal and Magnetic Nanostructures |
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Jiechao C. Jiang Research Associate Professor and CCMB Facility Manager Office: (817) 272-0841 Email: Jiang@uta.edu |
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Choong-Un Kim Professor and Graduate Advisor Office: (817) 272-5497 Email: choongun@uta.edu Thin-film metallurgy, phase transformation, reliability physics of microelectronics |
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Wiley Kirk Research Professor Phone: (972) 742-8856 Email: kirk@uta.edu Growth and design of heterostructure materials for photovoltaic and nanoscale devices, Physics of charge transport and magneto-conduction mechanisms in materials |
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Seong Jin Koh Associate Professor Office: (817) 272-1223 Email: skoh@uta.edu Nano-electronic devices, sensors for molecular level detection, surface science |
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Fuqiang Liu Assistant Professor Office: (817) 272-2704 Email: fuqiang@uta.edu Electrochemical energy conversion and storage |
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Constantin Politis Distinguished Research Professor Email: politis@uta.edu |
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Wolfram Schommers Distinguished Research Professor Email: schommers@uta.edu |
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Harry F. Tibbals Research Professor Email: HFTibbals@uta.edu |
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.
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| Dr. Kytain Nguyen | |||
| Chemistry | |||
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| Dr. Rasika Dias | Dr. Peter Kroll | Dr. Krishnan Rajeshwar | Dr. Richard B. Timmons |
| Civil Engineering | |||
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| Dr. Ali Abolmaali | |||
| Electrical Engineering | |||
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| Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler | Dr. Samir Iqbal | Dr. Weidong Zhou | |
| Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering | |||
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| Dr. Wen S. Chan | Dr. Dragos-Stefan Dancila | Dr. Panos S. Shiakolas | |
| Physics | |||
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| Dr. Wei Chen | Dr. Ali R. Koymen | Dr. Suresh Sharma | Dr. Alex Weiss |
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| Dr. J. Ping Liu | Dr. Samarendra Mohanty | ||































