Faculty mentors
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is committed to fostering a community of inclusive excellence that promotes everybody's potential without bias. These faculty members are part of our Diversity & Inclusion initiative and welcome students to contact them for support and guidance as you develop into the best engineers possible.

Professor Sheikh Akbar
Focus areas
- Ceramic material
- Electronic materials
- Energy applications

Materials Science and Engineering
Focus areas
-
General MSE
- Metallurgy
- Welding and joining
- Processing/manufacturing

Professor Jon Brown
Materials Science and Engineering
Focus areas
- General MSE
- Polymeric materials
- Computational/modeling of materials

Professor Vicky Doan-Nguyen
Focus areas
- Ceramic material
- Electronic materials
- Energy applications

Professor Carolin Fink
Focus areas
- Metallurgy
- Welding and joining
- Processing/manufacturing
- Computational/Modeling of materials
- Energy applications

Professor Perena Gouma
Focus areas
- Biomaterials
- Ceramic material
- Composite materials
- Processing/Manufacturing
Focus areas
- Electronic materials
- Energy applications

Focus areas
- Metallurgy
- Corrosion/Degradation

Professor Pat Morris
Materials Science and Engineering
Focus areas:
- General MSE
- Ceramic material
- Electronic materials
- Processing/manufacturing
- Energy applications

Focus areas:
- Electronic materials
- Energy applications

Focus areas
- Metallurgy
- Computational modeling of materials

Lincoln Electric Professor Boyd Panton
Welding Engineering
Focus areas
- Welding and joining
- Processing/manufacturing

Focus areas
- Biomaterials
- Polymeric materials

Professor Antonio Ramirez
Director, Ma2JIC
Focus areas
- Welding and joining
- Processing/manufacturing
- Computational/modeling of materials

Focus areas
- Electronic materials
- Energy applications
- Superconductors