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List of Professors
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Position | |
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Clarence Arnold Siebert |
1936 - 1973 | Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering |
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Frank E. Legg Jr |
1949 - 1975 | Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Wilbur C. Bigelow |
1951 - 1993 | Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Richard A. Flinn |
1951 - 1985 | Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Lawrence H. Van Vlack |
1953 - 1988 | Professor of Materials Engineering |
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Edward E. Hucke |
1955 - 1991 | Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering |
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Robert D. Pehlke |
1960 - 2002 | Professor of Metallurgical Engineering |
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William F. Hosford Jr |
1963 - 2004 | Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering |
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Orville F. Kimball |
1966 - 1974 |
Associate Professor of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering Associate Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering |
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Tseng-Ying Tien |
1966 - 1996 | Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Frank E. Filisko |
1970 - 2008 | Professor |
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David V. Ragone |
1972 - 1980 |
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Dean of Engineering |
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William C. Leslie |
1973 - 1984 | Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Breton L. Mattes |
1977 |
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Assistant Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering |
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J. Wayne Jones |
1978 - 2017 | Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering |
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Ronald Gibala |
1984 - 2004 |
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering L.H. and F.E. VanVlack Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Jay S. Wallace |
1984 - 1985 | Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Albert F. Yee |
1985 - 2003 |
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering Professor of Chemical Engineering |
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I-Wei Chen |
1986 - 1997 | Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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David C. Van Aken |
1986 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Richard E. Robertson |
1986 - 2018 |
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering Research Scientist |
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David J. Srolovitz |
1987 - 2001 | Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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John F. Mansfield |
1987 - 2018 |
Associate Research Scientist Associate Research Scientist Emeritus |
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John C. Bilello |
1989 - 2004 | Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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John W. Halloran |
1990 - 2017 | Professor of Materials Science & Engineering |
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Ann Marie Sastry |
1995 - 2012 |
Professor Arthur F Thurnau Professor |
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John E. Sanchez |
1996 - 2000 | Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Rodney Ewing |
1997 - 2014 |
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering Professor of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences Professor of Geological Sciences |
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Anton Van der Ven |
2005 - 2013 | Associate Professor |
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John R. Smith |
2009 - 2015 | Research Professor, Materials Science & Engineering |
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Qian Yu |
2015 - 2016 | Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering |