Adjunct Faculty Directory
Paul L. Bergstrom
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Affiliated Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Micro-electromechanical systems
- Micromachining materials and process technologies
- Inertial pressure
- Nanoscaled technologies enabling banoelectronic devices
- Technologies for the monolithic integration of sensors and actuators with electronics
Debra D. Charlesworth
- Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, Graduate School
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Specialties
- Review of theses and dissertations
- Presents and organizes professional development seminars
- Processes withdrawals
- Manages new student orientation
- Manages the postdoctoral affairs office
Megan C. Frost
- Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Affiliated Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
- Nitric oxide releasing polymers
- Implantable sensors
- Biological response to polymeric materials
Jeremy Goldman
- Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Affiliated Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
- The biology and physiology of the lymphatic and blood vascular systems including vascular regeneration, remodeling and pathology
- Vascular biomaterials, including polymeric, natural, and metallic, for vascular repair and regeneration
John A. Jaszczak
- Professor, Physics
- Affiliated Professor: Materials Science and Engineering, and Cognitive and Learning Sciences
- Adjunct Curator, A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Nanotechnology Education
Research Interests
- Theoretical condensed matter physics
- Theory and modeling of single-electron transport devices
- Modeling and simulation of properties of interfaces and interface materials
- Atomistic computational physics of surface phases and surface dynamics
- Crystal growth
- Mineralogy of natural graphite
Edward A Laitila
- Senior Research Engineer/Scientist II
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Focus on X-ray diffraction techniques
Research Interests
- X-ray diffraction theory and applications
- Mechanical alloying
- Intermetallic materials
- Physical metallurgy
- Nanoscale materials
- Materials characterization
- Powder metallurgy
Gregory M. Odegard
- Richard and Elizabeth Henes Professor of Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics
- Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Affiliated Professor, Materials Science and Engineering and ASME Faculty Advisor
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Mechanics of Materials
- Materials Science
Research Interests
- Computational Mechanics
- Computational Materials Science
- Computational Chemistry
John E. Pilling
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Mechanical behavior of materials
- Composite materials
- Materials characterization
- Kinetics
- Senior design
Research Interests
- High temperature deformation and fracture
- Superplasticity
- Simulation of microstructural development during phase transformations
- Design of composite materials
Reza Shahbazian-Yassar
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Nanotechnology for Electrochemical Energy Storage (Batteries and Supercapacitors)
- Nanogenerators and Piezotronic Sciences
- Nanoscale Degradation of Fuel Cell Materials
- Nanoscale Properties of Low Dimensional Materials for Thermoelectrics and Nanoelectronics
- Mechanics of Bio and Nano Materials and Composites
- In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy
Yoke Khin Yap
- Professor, Physics
- Director, Applied Physics Program
- Osaka University Global Alumni Fellow
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Solid-State Physics
- Optics
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering (Nanotechnology)
- Electromagnetism
Research Interests
- Controlled synthesis of 0D, 1D, and 2D materials (Nanotubes, 2D layered materials, Nanowires, Quantum Dots, and their heterostructures, etc..).
- Exploration of new functional nanomaterials, heterojunctions, heterostructures, nano-hybrids, and nano-systems.
- Creative use of nanomaterials and nano-systems for advanced electronics, quantum switching, energy harvesting, enviromental, chemical and biomedical applications.