Professor Nidal Abu-Zahra leads the Materials Science & Engineering department whose faculty are engaged in leading-edge research in areas such as:
- Advanced materials and manufacturing technologies
- Sustainability and circular economy
- Energy storage and battery technologies
- Water treatment and purification technologies
- Materials characterization and computational modeling
- Corrosion and mechanical behavior of materials
- 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