Instructors
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Instructors
Daniel B. Miracle (Lead Instructor)
Air Force Research Laboratory
Dan Miracle is a Senior Scientist in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). His research has covered nickel-based superalloys and intermetallic compounds; metal matrix composites; advanced aluminum alloys; and boron-modified titanium alloys. His current research explores metallic glasses and high-entropy alloys. Miracle received a B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Wright State University, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from The Ohio State University, and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the Institute of Metal Physics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of ASM, International; The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS); AFRL, and is an Honorary Member of the Indian Institute of Metals. Miracle received the AF Basic Research Award and the Presidential Rank Award. He is author or co-author of over 220 peer-reviewed scientific articles and seven book chapters and is co-editor of six books. Miracle has given over 200 plenary, keynote, and invited talks.
Amy J. Clarke
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Amy J. Clarke is a Professor and John Henry Moore Endowed Chair of Metallurgy, Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys, and faculty member with the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center in the George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She holds joint appointments with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her research focuses on physical metallurgy and making, measuring, and modeling of metallic alloys during processing to realize advanced manufacturing. Amy has served on TMS and Association for Iron & Steel Technology Boards of Directors. She is also an Editor for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. She has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the U.S. government, is a TMS Brimacombe Medalist, and a Fellow of ASM International.
Kester Clarke
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Kester Clarke Clarke is an assistant professor in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines (Mines) in Golden, Colorado, and serves as the Forging Industry Education and Research Foundation (FIERF) Professor. He also engages in research on deformation processes in metal alloys with the university’s Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys and the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center. His research interests include alloy development, material deformation and fabrication processes, and the use of experimental and modeling methods to examine the effect of material processing history and microstructure on mechanical properties and performance. Clarke’s experiences prior to this include consulting metallurgical engineer for Engel Metallurgical, senior engineer for Caterpillar, and postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he is also a visiting scientist.
Clarke is currently serving on the Association for Iron and Steel Technology’s (AIST) Board of Directors and is the Chair for the TMS Shaping and Forming Committee and is the past chair of the AIST Metallurgy- Processing, Products and Applications Technology Committee. He received a B.A. in psychology from Indiana University, a B.S. in materials science and engineering from Wayne State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgical and materials engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
Peter Liaw
University of Tennessee
Peter K. Liaw graduated from Chiayi High School and obtained his B.S. in physics from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University, U.S., in 1980. After working at the Westinghouse Research and Development (R&D) Center for thirteen years, he joined the faculty and became an Endowed Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville in March 1993. He has worked in the areas of fatigue, fracture, nondestructive evaluation, and life-prediction methodologies of structural alloys and composites. Since joining UT, his research interests include mechanical behavior, neutron and synchrotron diffraction, bulk-metallic glasses, high-entropy alloys, and processing of high-temperature alloys and ceramic-matrix composites and coatings, with the kind help of his team members and colleagues at UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and throughout the world.
He has been a 2022 and 2023 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate™. He has published one thousand, three hundred, and fifty-six journal papers, including papers in Science, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, etc., edited and written sixty-two books and book chapters, and presented numerous plenary, keynote, and invited talks at various national and international conferences. He was awarded the Royal E. Cabell Fellowship at Northwestern University. He is the recipient of several “Outstanding Performance” awards from the Westinghouse R&D Center. He was the Chairman of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Mechanical Metallurgy Committee, and Chairman of the American Society for Metals (ASM) Flow and Fracture Committee. He has been the Chairman and Member of the TMS Award Committee on Application to Practice, Educator, and Leadership Awards. He is a Fellow of ASM, MRS, and TMS. He has been given the Outstanding Teacher Award, the Moses E. and Mayme Brooks Distinguished Professor Award, the Engineering Research Fellow Awards, the National Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor Award, the L. R. Hesler Award, and the John Fisher Professorship at UT, the TMS Distinguished Service Award, and a 2020 TMS Symposium dedicated to him.
He has been the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program, the Director of the NSF International Materials Institutes (IMI) Program, and the Director of the NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program at UT. Several of his graduate students have been given awards for their research, papers, and presentations at various professional societies and conferences. Moreover, his students teach and conduct research at universities, industries, and government laboratories.
Noah Philips
ATI Specialty Alloys and Components
Noah Philips is a Principal Research Metallurgist at ATI where he leads the development of refractory alloys and their production processes. He is an expert at aluminothermic reduction, additive manufacturing, and powder synthesis of reactive refractory metals. His current work is focused on the development of high-performance refractory alloys for hypersonic flight and space access as well as manufacturing methods for rapid evaluation and scale up of difficult to process alloys. His interests include the translation of academic research to industrial practice and the abstraction of foundational problems from commercially relevant application challenges.
Taylor Sparks
University of Utah
Taylor Sparks is an associate professor and associate chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Utah. He is originally from Utah and an alumna of the department where he teaches. Before graduate school, he worked at Ceramatec, Inc. He did his M.S. in materials at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and his Ph.D. in applied physics at Harvard University and then did a postdoc in the Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB. He is currently the director of the ReUSE NSF REU Site at the University of Utah and teaches classes on ceramics, materials science, characterization, and technology commercialization. His current research centers on the discovery, synthesis, characterization, and properties of new materials for energy applications. He is a pioneer in the emerging field of materials informatics whereby big data, data mining, and machine learning are leveraged to solve challenges in materials science. When he’s not in the lab you can find him running his podcast “Materialism” or canyoneering with his four kids in southern Utah.
C. Cem Tasan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cem Tasan explores the boundaries of physical metallurgy, solid mechanics, and in-situ microscopy, in order to design new alloys with exceptional damage-resistance. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanics of Materials from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Following postdoctoral work at Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Germany, he was appointed as a Group Leader there, leading the Adaptive Structural Materials group until joining MIT in 2016.
His group at MIT mainly focuses on (i) developing new in-situ characterization tools and methods, (ii) improving the physical understanding of transformation, deformation, damage micro-mechanisms in metallic materials; (iii) designing damage-resistant microstructures and alloys.
Michael S. Titus
Purdue University
Michael Titus joined the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in December 2016. He earned his B.S. in Engineering Physics (The Ohio State University, 2010) and Ph.D. in Materials (University of California Santa Barbara, 2015). From 2015 to 2016 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Dusseldorf, Germany. Titus is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2018), and many professional society awards including the TMS-JIM Young Leaders International Scholar (2020), and the ASM Bradley-Stoughton Award for Young Teachers (2021). He has co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications. His current research interests include the accelerated discovery and development of structural alloys via high-throughput experiments and thermodynamic calculations, solute interactions with crystalline defects, process modeling and optimization - particularly related to casting and heat treatment of high temperature alloys, and advanced characterization of alloys and surfaces.
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