Faculty Awards and Honors
Honors & Awards
Throughout the year, many of our faculty members are featured in industry journals, recognized as fellows, and invited to give keynote presentations. Each of these opportunities allows the faculty member to showcase their expertise in engineering while representing Ohio State's College of Engineering. These individuals are forever students of their discipline - either materials science and engineering or welding engineering - and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering congratulates them on these recognitions.
2024
Aeriel Leonard - Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award by Society of Women Engineers chapter at The Ohio State University (April)
Salva Salmani-Rezaie - student-nominated Outstanding Teacher in Materials Science and Engineering (April)
Boian Alexandrov - Arata Award by the American Welding Society for advancing welding engineering throughout his career as a welding engineering scientist in industry and academia. (March)
Heather Powell - $2.9M NIH R01 award to advance treatment for burn victims (March)
Winston Ho - $12 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate transformational membrane technology’s ability to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by cement manufacturing and natural gas power plants. (January)
Aeriel Leonard - a five-year, $658,355 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation for her research on understanding the mechanisms of nucleation and growth during recrystallization in magnesium alloys. (January)
2021 Honors and Awards
Jean-Philippe Couzinié - 2024 Acta Materialia Silver Medal for contributions to the field of high-entropy alloys. (announced in November)
Michael Mills (PI) and Steve Niezgoda - using a novel additive manufacturing approach from NASA Glenn to create oxide dispersion strengthened metallic materials with significant improvement to strength at high temperatures for potential applications like advanced turbine engines and power generation systems. National Science Foundation's Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Program. (October)
Ahmad Umar - ranked among the most cited scientists in the world according to Elsevier (October)
Heather Powell - Department of Health and Human Services awards $4.6M to advance prosthetic and orthotic design as part of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center Program on Prosthetics and Orthotics. (September)
Perena Gouma - the Department of Defese (Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Defense Innovation Unit) to develop a handheld breathalyzer capable of detecting early-stage respiratory infections (August)
Elvin Beach - Ralph L. Boyer Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Engineering Innovation. Professor Beach received the award for his innovative and comprehensive teaching accomplishments in materials science and engineering undergraduate laboratory courses. This is part of the college's 2023 Distinguished Faculty Awards. (April)
Maryam Ghazisaeidi - $7.5M MURI Program Award from the DOD for work connecting dislocations of mechanical metallurgy to condensed matter physics for quantum applications. Roberto Myers and Tyler Grassman are also part of the Ohio State MSE research team. (April)
Carolin Fink - Lumley Research Award for establishing a record of excellence in interdisciplinary research as demonstrated by co-authored publications, joint-sponsored research programs and co-advised students. This is part of the college's 2023 Distinguished Faculty Awards. (April)
Jinghua Li - Ohio State's Early Career Innovator of the Year Award for Development of thin-film materials and electronic tools to develop solutions to medical challenges, such as the diagnosis and treatment of chronic neurodegenerative diseases. (April)
Elvin Beach - Mars G. Fontana Award for Outstanding Teaching in MSE. (April)
Sheikh Akbar - 2023 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (March)
Alan Luo - Elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering for the implementation of lightweight aluminum, magnesium, and titanium materials and advanced manufacturing processes for automotive applications (February)
14 members of faculty among top 2% of scientists worldwide: Peter Anderson, Glenn Daehn, Dave Farson, Gerald Frankel, Hamish Fraser, Perena Gouma, Joseph Heremans, Alan Luo, Michael Mills, Antonio Ramirez, Yunzhi Wang, Dean Emeritus David B. Williams, James Williams, Wolfgang Windl
David Williams - appointed to Board of Trustees at Florida Polytechnic University (November 30, 2022)
David Phillips - 2022 AWS Counselor Award in recognition of outstanding and distinguished organizational leadership that has enhanced the image and impact of the welding industry (November 2022)
Menachem Kimchi - Elihu Thomson Resistance Welding Award for outstanding contributions to the technology and advancement of resistance welding (November 2022)
Caroline Fink - Professor Koichi Masubuchi Award for significant contributions in the advancement of science and technology of materials joining through research and development (November 2022)
Wei Zhang - selected to be an editor of the Science and Technology for Welding and Joining (November 2022)
Jenifer Locke - TMS Frank Crossley Diversity Award for overcoming personal, professional, educational, cultural, or institutional adversity to pursue a career in metallurgy (notified in October 2022, accepts award in March 2023)
Hamish Fraser - 2024 Institute of Metals Lecture and Robert Franklin Mehl Award for outstanding scientific leadership in the areas of materials science and the application of metals (notified in October 2022, accepts award in March 2023)
Yunzhi Wang - William Hume-Rothery Award for exceptional and sustained record of scholarly contributions to the science of alloys by inviting Dr. Wang to be an honored presenter at the William Hume-Rothery Memorial Symposium (notified in October 2022, accepts award in March 2023)
Alan Luo - TMS Fellow Award, Class of 2023 for outstanding research and industrial implementation of lightweight alloys and manufacturing processes, innovative teaching and sustained service in materials processing technologies.(notified in October 2022, accepts award in March 2023)
Alan Luo - TMS Research to Industrial Practice Award for outstanding research and practical contributions to light metals technology and applications in the automotive industry. (notified in October 2022, accepts award in March 2023)
Alan Luo - Appointed director role of UCI affiliate (October 2022)
Jinghua Li - NSF grant for research titled Light Addressable Thin Film Sensor System for High Resolution Imaging (October 2022)
Steve Niezgoda - Ohio State engineers team with Steve Niezgoda awarded nearly $500,000 to advance robotic manufacturing from the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute. Intending to design & deploy an artificial intelligent robotic system capable of producing low-volume complex metallic components quickly & cost-effectively. (September 2022)
Glenn Daehn - The FASM and Mars G. Fontana endowed professor received the prestigious Gold Medal by the ASM International Board of Trustees "for creative and impactful development and dissemination of materials science and technology, including impulse welding, joining and forming, and deployment of materials science in numerous K-12 classrooms.” (September 2022)
Hamish Fraser - Recognized for his lifetime work by presenting the 98th Edward DeMille Campbell memorial lecture, "Modern Physical Metallurgy: Important, Use of New Tools, and How to Finance the Metallic Materials Enterprise". Professor Fraser is the Ohio Regents Eminent Scholar and director of the Center for the Accelerated Maturation of Materials at Ohio State. (September 2022)
David B. Williams - Williams, FASM, has been elected the president of the ASM International Board of Trustees for the 2022-2023 term. Dr. Williams is Emeritus Dean and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Williams was the vice president of the ASM Board of Trustees in 2021. (September 2022)
Wayne Papageorge - Wayne took second place in the Light Microscopy Division and the Dubose-Crouse Award with his poster "Development of a Versatile Etchant to Reveal Grain Boundaries in Aluminum Alloys". (September 2022)
Glenn Daehn - The National Science Foundation announced funding today for the Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing, Moving from Evolution to Revolution (HAMMER) Engineering Research Center, for five years at $26 million with the ability to renew for another $26 million for an additional five years. Daehn will serve as the director of the new research center for advanced manufacturing supported by potential $52M by NSF. (August 2022)
Enam Chowdhury - DOE Office of Science Phase IIA SBIR Award to study damage thresholds of interference coatings used in infrared ultra-high intensity lasers (July 2022)
Aeriel Leonard - DOE Early Career Research Program Award (June 2022)
Vicky Doan-Nguyen - Lumley Research Award (April 2022)
Yunzhi Wang - Charles Ellison MacQuigg Award for Outstanding Teaching (April 2022)
Henk Colijn - Chuck Fiori Award from the Microscopy Society of America for significant contributions to microscopy and analysis (April 2022)
Hamish Fraser - $3M to support Lightweight High Entropy Alloy Discovery (LHEAD) initiative; joint research project with Lehigh University to develop novel structural materials for high-strength applications as part of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL). (March 2022)
Michael Mills - Honorary Doctorate from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany for research on the relationship between microstructure and structural properties of materials. (March 2022)
Carolin Fink, John Lippold - first place in 2022 EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award from the TMS-EPD Materials Characterization Committee for their poster, “S/TEM Characterization of Interdendritic Phases in Ni-30Cr Weld Metal 52XL”. The winning team also included MSE doctoral student Cheng-Han Li and former MSE professor Joerg Jinschek who is now with Technical University of Denmark. (February)
Enam Chowdury - Enam Chowdhury and XUV Laser are awarded $1.1M to study damage thresholds of interference coatings used in infrared ultra-high intensity lasers. (July)
Joshua Goldberger - 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) class of Fellows for distinguished contributions to the field of materials chemistry, particularly for developing new two-dimensional and layered materials with applications in electronics. (January)
Grants
The receipt of these highly prestigious awards allows our department to pursue innovative research and novel discoveries that advance the fields of welding engineering and materials science and engineering. Their significance is a testament to the caliber of faculty, research staff and students who work tirelessly in our labs and in the field. Both research and discoveries drive a continuously progressive movement in areas of materials science and materials joining relative to the college of engineering's focus areas. We celebrate and honor those members of our department who channel their expertise into projects entrusted to them. Take a peek at some of the projects that we have publicly announced this year.
Vicky Doan-Nguyen - Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) (November 2021) to design new anisotropic nanostructures and polymer-derived ceramic composite materials for aerospace applications (November 2021)
Peter Anderson, Glenn Daehn - University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) project, Impact Welding and Phase Change Enabled Sealing of High Temperature Metal-Composite Interfaces (October 2021)
Carolin Fink - 2-year, $3M MURI project extension by DoD to explore phase transformations in extreme conditions of 3D printed metals and alloys used by defense forces of the United States and Australia (September)
Jinghua Li - Pilot grant from The Ohio State University Center for Medical and Engineering Innovation (CMEI) for development of sensor used during rehab therapy of traumatic brain injury patients (September 2021)
Jinghua Li - President’s Research Excellence (PRE) Accelerator Grant for developing 3D printing of wireless medical implants with members of the College of Medicine. (June 2021)
Enam Chowdhury - President’s Research Excellence (PRE) Accelerator Grant for studying habitability of terrestrial exoplanets using lasers with members of the College of Arts and Sciences. (June 2021)
Wei Zhang and Desmond Bourgeois - Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy for establishing the experimental and computational foundations for high-speed and high-quality field welding repair based on advanced non-destructive evaluation and numerical modeling. This includes training of STEM students. (May 2021)
Aeriel Leonard - Young Investigator Award by Office of Naval Research for a research project titled, "Systematic Study on Slip Activity and Plastic Strain Accumulation in Wire-Arc Additive Manufactured Nickel-Aluminum-Bronze Alloys". (May 2021)
Alan Luo - REMADE Institute, a public-private partnership established by the U.S. Department of Energy for a research project titled, “Achieving 100% Recycling Aluminum in Die Casting Applications". (March 2021)
Tyler Grassman - NSF CAREER Award to research defects in atomic structures and understand their effect on parent materials' electronic, optical properties (February 2021)
Xun Liu - NSF CAREER Award to study ultrasonically assisted wire arc additive manufacturing (January 2021)
Honors
Throughout the year, many of our faculty members are featured in industry journals, recognized as fellows, and invited to give keynote presentations. Each of these opportunities allows the faculty member to showcase their expertise in engineering while representing Ohio State's College of Engineering. These individuals are forever students of their discipline - either materials science and engineering or welding engineering - and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering congratulates them on these recognitions.
Cheng-Han Li (MSE doctoral student), Carolin Fink, John Lippold, and former professor Joerg Jinschek (currently with Technical University of Denmark) - TMS-EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award (1st Place) for their poster, “S/TEM Characterization of Interdendritic Phases in Ni-30Cr Weld Metal 52XL” presented during the symposia on characterization of minerals, metals, and materials at the previous TMS Annual Meeting. (October 2021)
Antonio Ramirez - named fellow in IAspire Leadership Academy (August 2021)
Elvin Beach - named Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention (August 2021)
Peter Anderson - Fellow of the Society of ASM International for outstanding contributions in the development of dislocation theory in engineered shape memory alloys, multilayers, and nano crystalline metals and as an educator and mentor, who promotes diversity within university engineering undergraduate and graduate programs and department. (June 2021)
Gerald Frankel - Olin Palladium Award by The Electrochemical Society for his contributions to corrosion science (June 2021)
Michael Mills - Heyn Denkmünze (Heyn Memorial Medal) for his scientific contributions to the materials science and engineering field along with his significant efforts to advance scientific relations between the United States and Germany (April 2021)
Alexandrov Boian - Warren F. Savage Memorial Award from the American Welding Society for co-authoring the award-winning paper, “Filler Metal 16-8-2 for Structural Welds on 304H and 347H Stainless Steels for High-Temperature Service”, published in the December 2020 issue of Welding Journal. (April 2021)
Mary Juhas - appointed co-chair of working group on government relations for Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA), National Science Foundation's initiative to convene, catalyze and enable the engineering community to identify nascent opportunities and priorities for engineering-led innovative, high-impact, cross-domain, fundamental research that addresses national, global and societal needs. (April 2021)
Carolin Fink - Warren F. Savage Memorial Award from the American Welding Society for research performed on Filler Metal 16-8-2 for Structural Welds on 304H and 347H Stainless Steels for High-Temperature Service, published in Welding Journal, December 2020. (April 2021)
Carolin Fink, Boian Alexandrov - AWS Warren F. Savage Memorial Award for the paper published in the Welding Journal during a previous calendar year that best represents innovative research resulting in a better understanding of the metallurgical principles related to welding. (April 2021)
Vicky Doan-Nguyen and Tyler Grassman - David C. McCarthy Engineering Teaching Award in recognition of their design and implementation of the innovative undergraduate laboratory, MSE 5532: Harnessing the Power of Materials for Energy. (April 2021)
Vicky Doan-Nguyen - Dean's Award for Distinguished Outreach Achievements for strengthening Ohio State educational partnerships with the Columbus community and beyond, leading to a stronger, diverse pipeline of scientific and engineering leaders. (April 2021)
Perena Gouma - Innovators Award for revolutionary materials processing and use as selective sensing elements for the detection of biomarkers of COVID-19 disease in breath. (April 2021)
David B. Williams - Honda - Ohio State Partnership Award for embodying the best example of visionary leadership to create true university-industry collaboration. The Honda – Ohio State Partnership is stronger today because of his exemplary service. (April 2021)
Carolin Fink - Charles Ellison MacQuigg Award for Outstanding Teaching for being exemplary in developing her students as engineers and professionals. Called “one of the most influential educators I have had," by one of her students, Prof. Fink prioritizes helping and bonding with students. (April 2021)
Hongping Zhao - Lumley Research Award for showing exceptional activity and success in pursuing new knowledge of a fundamental or applied nature. (April 2021)
Alan Luo - TMS Bruce Chalmers Award for outstanding contributions to light metal processing, alloy development and automotive applications (March 2021)
Elvin Beach - Mars G. Fontana Award for Outstanding Teaching in MSE (February 2021)
Grants
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been awarded over $2.3M in grants so far this year. This is an excellent testament to the caliber of faculty, research staff, and students who work tirelessly in our labs and in the field. Their research and discoveries drive a continuously progressive movement in areas of materials science and materials joining. We celebrate and honor those members of our department who channel their expertise into projects entrusted to them. Take a peek at some of the projects that we have publicly announced this year.
Siddharth Rajan - $400,000 from the National Science Foundation (November)
Winston Ho - $4M U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory funding (September)
Enam Chowdhury - $1.1M 2020 STTR Phase II, Department of Energy (July)
Vicky Doan-Nguyen - 2020 Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) Fellowship Award (July)
Perena Gouma - $200,000 National Science Foundation EAGER grant (June)
Enam Chowdhury - $1.056 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (May)
Nate Ames (Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence) - DOD Award for Supply Base Resilience and Diversification Program (May)
David Dean - Ohio State Accelerator Award (May)
Hamish Fraser - TMS-AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award (April)
Jenifer Locke - NSF CAREER Award (January)
Honors
Throughout the year, many of our faculty members are featured in industry journals, recognized as fellows, and invited to give keynote presentations. Each of these opportunities allows the faculty member to showcase their expertise in engineering while representing Ohio State's College of Engineering. These individuals are forever students of their discipline - either materials science and engineering or welding engineering - and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering congratulates them on these recognitions.
Alan Luo - Distinguished Scientist Award (November)
Alan Luo - TMS/LMD Distinguished Service Award (November)
Alan Luo - TMS Bruce Chalmers Award (November)
Alan Luo - The 2020 Best Congress Paper (October)
Glenn Daehn - Technology Commercialization Award (October)
John Price Hirth, Professor Emeritus - Honorary Membership in the ASM International (June)
Suresh Babu - Nominated by President Trump to National Science Board (April)
Distinguished Faculty Awards (April):
- Alan Luo - Ralph L. Boyer Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Engineering Innovation
- Maryam Ghazisaeidi and Wolfgang Windl - Faculty Diversity Excellence Award
- Nate Ames - Honda-Ohio State Partnership Award
- Jenifer Locke - Lumley Research Award
- John Lannutti - Outstanding Teaching in Materials Science Award (March)
Grants
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been awarded over $8,000,000 in grants in the first nine months of 2019. This is an excellent testament to the caliber of faculty, research staff, and students who work tirelessly in our labs and in the field. Their research and discoveries drive a continuously progressive movement in areas of materials science and materials joining. We celebrate and honor those members of our department who channel their expertise into projects entrusted to them. Take a peek at some of the projects that we have publicly announced this year.
- Alan Luo - research group awarded two grants by REMADE Institute
- Enam Chowdhury - DOE grant to study ultra-intense laser material interaction
- Perena Gouma - funded by Ohio Water Resources for project that remediates effluents (wastewater) from unconventional energy sources
- Jinwoo Hwang - NSF CAREER Award
Honors
Throughout the year, many of our faculty members are featured in industry journals, recognized as fellows, and invited to give keynote presentations. Each of these opportunities allows the faculty member to showcase their expertise in engineering while representing Ohio State's College of Engineering. These individuals are forever students of their discipline - either materials science and engineering or welding engineering - and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering congratulates them on these recognitions.
- Glenn Daehn - Charles S. Barrett Silver Medal
- Vicky Doan-Nguyen and Joerg Jinschek - Materials Research Seed Grant Funding
- Hamish Fraser - Henry Marion Howe Award
- Wolfgang Windl and La'Tonia Stiner-Jones - American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Best Diversity Paper Award
- Boian Alexandrov - ASM International Fellow, AWS Adams Memorial Membership Award
- Perena Gouma - Fellow of American Ceramic Society
- David McComb - Microscopy Society of American Fellow
- Dennis Dimiduk - Fellow with The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
- Michael Mills - Oleg D. Sherby Award
- Gerald Frankel - Grande Medaille du CEFRACOR Award
Internal honors
- Perena Gouma - 2019 MacQuigg Award for Outstanding Teaching
- Tyler Grassman - 2019 College of Engineering Lumley Research Award
- Jinwoo Hwang - 2019 College of Engineering Lumley Research Award
- Michael Mills - 2019 College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award
- Wolfgang Windl [(Josh Goldberger (Chem), Jos Heremans (MAE)] - 2019 College of Engineering Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award
These lists are not inclusive of every award and honor received by members of our faculty in 2019.
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