Associate Professor Nidal Abu-Zahra leads the Materials Science & Engineering department whose faculty are engaged in leading-edge research in areas such as:
- Computational Materials Modeling and Simulations
- Materials for energy storage
- Adsorbents and membranes to remove water contaminants
- Membranes for energy-efficient chemical separations
- Manufacturing processes
- Structural analysis of aerospace materials
- Application of nanomaterials in construction
- Self-healing metals and advanced metal-matrix composites.
- Hong Chang, Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management
- Tom Flanaggan, Vice President, Quality & Metalurgy, Ladish Forging
- Christopher Genthe, Sr. Project Engineer, Materials, Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Rockwell Automation
- Joe Hamann, Sr. Research and Development Engineer, Rexnord Innovation Center
- Edward Hummelt, Principal Engineer, Eaton Corp-Innovation Center
- Susan Kerber, President, Material Interface, Inc.
- Chris Misorski, Technical Advisor, Mercury Marine Materials Lab
- Jim Myers, Technical Director, Metaltek International
- David Palmer, Principal Metallurgist, Modine Manufacturing
- Kevin Pilon, Vice President, Carpenter Brothers, Inc.
- Jerry Wilkinson, Manager, Chemical & Metallurgical Lab (retired), Kohler Company