Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Alum shoots, scores with new Adidas gig

Prashanth Peketi’s education has taken him from life as a student athlete in Twinsburg, Ohio to a management position at one of the world’s biggest sports equipment and apparel companies in the world. And his time in Ohio State’s Materials Science... | LEARN MORE

Welding engineer tops category in Denman Undergraduate Research Forum

Brett Worrell, a senior in welding engineering , topped the mechanics and materials category in the 22nd annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum . The Centerville native focused on ways to potentially mitigate or solve problems for the automotive... | LEARN MORE

Ohio State engineers and CEMAS essential to research featured on Nature cover

The Ohio State University’s capacity and expertise in high-end microscopy has come into focus on the cover of Nature. Scholars at Ohio State’s Center for Electronic Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS) teamed up with Massachusetts Institute of Technology... | LEARN MORE

Buckeyes earn big honors at “micro” meeting

(from left) Buckeye engineers Gabriel Calderon Ortiz, Bryan Esser and Isabel Boona were honored for their research prowess at the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2017 meeting. This week at the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2017  meeting in St. Louis,... | LEARN MORE

MSE undergraduate earns NSF Fellowship

COLUMBUS, OHIO -- Maria Stang’s graduate school options are wide open, thanks to the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Stang, a student in materials science and engineering at The Ohio State University , was selected... | LEARN MORE

Discovery could lead to jet engines that run hotter—and cleaner

  By Pam Frost Gorder COLUMBUS, Ohio—Researchers here have made a discovery in materials science that sounds like something from the old Saturday morning cartoon Super Friends : They’ve found a way to deactivate “nano twins” to improve the... | LEARN MORE

Ohio State researchers earn $500,000 NASA grant to advance additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing research at The Ohio State University is among 13 university-led proposals to receive an Early Stage Innovations (ESI) grant from NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants Program. ESI grants promote innovative, early-stage... | LEARN MORE

Joining efforts to advance vehicle sustainability

Materials science and engineering researchers at The Ohio State University are working to make vehicles lighter and more fuel-efficient—through the materials used and the way they’re joined—in order to reduce emissions and fuel consumption in... | LEARN MORE

Sniffing out hazards

Columbus, Ohio -- Researchers at The Ohio State University are helping to build better sensors to detect potentially hazardous gases. Professor Sheikh Akbar   and Associate Professor Patricia Morris , both of the Department of Materials Science and... | LEARN MORE

New LEDs may offer better way to clean water in remote areas

  COLUMBUS, Ohio—For the first time, researchers have created light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on lightweight flexible metal foil. Engineers at The Ohio State University are developing the foil based LEDs for portable ultraviolet (UV) lights that... | LEARN MORE

MSE alums honored for excellence

One of the engineering heroes behind the safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts, Honda’s first female chief engineer and a top Columbus architect were among the 16 alumni from The Ohio State University College of Engineering -- two of them from... | LEARN MORE

Betting on bright futures

“There’s a kid out there, going to an inner city high school, who’s smart and willing to work really hard. I want to give him or her a chance,” said Doug Fairchild (’80, ’82, ’95, welding engineering), who believes in paying forward. Yet... | LEARN MORE

Undergrads test astronaut-anchoring device in NASA space challenge

A team of Ohio State engineering students has designed a tool for astronauts that could be used on future spacewalks. The AstroNuts recently became the first Ohio State team to participate in NASA’s annual Micro-g NExT (Neutral Buoyancy Experiment... | LEARN MORE