Professor Peter Y. Wong, TAMPL's director, specializes in microscale radiative heat transfer, thermal processing of thin-film structures, and elastic and inelastic stresses in multilayer structures. Professor Wong has developed innovative numerical and experimental tools to predict and measure radiative properties and stresses in thin-film structures for the microelectronics industry. He has co-authored numerous research papers that have appeared in a variety of national and international journals, has presented his findings at numerous conferences, and holds memberships in national engineering organizations.
Professor Mel Bernstein, Tufts' vice president for arts, sciences, and technology and dean of the faculty, has studied the ways in which processing can be exploited to control the microstructure and subsequent mechanical and physical properties of a wide range of metallic alloys, intermetallics, and composites. He has spoken and published widely on these subjects. Professor Bernstein is a member of the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council and was part of the group that helped frame a national agenda for materials science and engineering for the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Professor Charalabos Doumanidis's work has centered on manufacturing processes, specifically on welding and thermal rapid prototyping, systems modeling and adaptive control, robotics and automation, and biomedical engineering. He holds a patent on scan welding. In addition to being granted the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1995), the National Young Investigator Award (1994), and the Research Initiation Award (1992) by the National Science Foundation, Professor Doumanidis has been the recipient of national and international awards form a variety of government organizations and private foundations.
Professor Vincent P. Manno specializes in the computational modeling of thermal/fluid processes arising in power, process, and electronic thermal management systems. This work, supported by government and industry, involves a spectrum of thermal/fluid mechanics,. such as the development of new methods, analysis of manufacturing processes, and simulation of system dynamics in real time. Professor Manno has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles and technical reports, held a U.S. Navy Senior Summer Fellowship, and served as guest editor of IEEE Transactions and general chair of the 1996 IEEE SEMITHERM Symposium.
Professor Ioannis N. Miaoulis, dean of the College of Engineering, is the founder of TAMPL. Professor Miaoulis studies microscale and macroscale heat transfer and fluid phenomena affecting the processing of materials and has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from two divisions (chemical and thermal systems, and design and manufacturing) of the National Science Foundation for his work on thermal analysis of materials processing. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Material Research Society, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.
Professor Livia M. Racz researches surface and interfacial phenomena and microscale materials processing in areas ranging from solder getting to shaping and forming dental restorative materials. Professor Racz was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to measure thermophysical properties of undercooled metallic melts at the German Aerospace Research Establishment in Cologne, Germany. She has authored papers on joining processes in microelectronics and has contributed to a handbook on fine pitch surface mount technology. She is a member of Tau Beta Pi and of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, working actively in the society's Young Leaders Program.
Professor Chris Rogers is an expert on particle-laden flows whose development of advanced diagnostic techniques has led to improved understanding of particle behavior in turbulent air flows. Professor Rogers has applied his image-based diagnostic techniques to a variety of flows, including high-speed jet flows and the low-speed flows in chemical-mechanical polishing. He holds memberships in national mechanical engineering organizaitons and participates in educational programs designed to interest local elementary school students in science and engineering.
Professor Ronald B. Goldner is the co-founder and former Acting Director of the Tufts Electro-Optics Technology Center. He has been on the faculties of MIT and Purdue University as well as a Visiting Scholar in the Quantum Optics Group of the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona. He was a Fulbright Professor in the Physics Department at Ben Gurion University. He has consulted for Duracell, GTE, and Raytheon Company, more than 20 other companies, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the Federal Government, He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of SPIE. His teaching and research has been and continues to be focused on intelligent design and practical manufacture of thin-film materials and active multilayer thin-film devices, especially for energy conversion, storage, and conservation applications.
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