Subhash Mahajan
Citation: "For establishing electronic materials programs at Carnegie Mellon and
Arizona State Universities and major achievements in textbook writing and journal,
handbook, and encyclopedia editorship." Biography: Subhash Mahajan is professor and chair of the department of chemical & materials
engineering at Arizona State University.
His research can be broadly classified into two thematic areas: 1) deformation
behavior of crystalline solids and 2) electronic materials. The common link between
the two areas is the role that microstructures and defects have in determining
properties. At Carnegie Mellon University, he developed an undergraduate option
on electronic materials, the first of its kind in the country. Later on, it was subsumed
by a college-wide minor with the same title. He also developed a unique approach
to teach Introduction to Engineering Materials to the freshman. This entailed the
development of conceptual framework through a set of six questions. He established a
new, two-semester course that emphasized how defects are introduced during growth
and processing of semiconductors and how they affect performance and reliability of
devices, entitled Materials Aspects of Semiconductors and Devices. |
