RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Synthesis, processing, and physical/mechanical behavior of advanced structural alloys

• Development and application of neutron scattering for structural materials research

RESEARCH Team

Current Research Group Members

Faculty

• Hahn Choo (주 한, 朱 漢)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

• Sheng Cheng (2006 - )

Graduate Research Assistants (under direct supervision)

• Zhenzhen Yu (2006 - )

• Ercan Cakmak (2008 - )

• Harley Skorpenske (2008 - )

Graduate Research Assistants (co-advising with Prof. P. K. Liaw)

• E-Wen Huang (2005 - )

• Feng Jiang  (2005 - )

• Sooyeol Lee (2005 - )

• Li Li (2005 - )

Undergraduate Research Assistants

• Zane Palmer (2008 - )

• Adam Dunaway (summer 09)

• Will McAlexander (summer 09)

Past Research Group Members

(Click the links below to see their pictures when they were young and good looking...before they had to suffer through me.  They look completely 'different' now.)

Visiting Scholar

• Yandong Wang (05-08; Professor, Northeast University, China)

Research Assistant Professors

• Cang Fan (04-07)

• Guojiang Fan (04-07)

• Wenhui Jiang (05-08)

Postdoctoral Research Associates

• Hongqi Li (currently, Director's Funded Postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab)

• WanchucK Woo (currently, Neutron Science Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, South Korea; co-advised with Dr. Z. Feng at ORNL)

• Bing Yang (currently, Shell Corp)

• Cailu Xu

Graduate Students

• Tim Wilson (MS '05 & PhD '08; currently, staff at Citgo Corporation, LA)

• Elena Garlea (MS '05 & PhD '08; currently, staff at B&W Y-12 National Security Complex, TN)

• Wanchuck Woo (PhD '06; 06-08 postdoc at ORNL; currently at KAERI, Korea)

• Kaixiang Tao (PhD '06; currently, staff at Biostatistics Analysis Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, PA)

• Joe Wall (PhD '07; currently, staff at EPRI, NC; co-advised with P. K. Liaw)

• Yinan Sun (PhD '07; currently, staff at Metso, PA, co-advised with P. K. Liaw)

• Jinwoo Jeon (MS '05; currently at BNG Steel in Korea)

Other Graduate Students Supervised in Collaboration

• Mike Benson (currently, at NRC, advisor: P. K. Liaw)

• Tarik Saleh (currently staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory, advisor: P. K. Liaw)

Undergraduate Students

• Ben Lovell (2004-2006, now at Gerdau Ameristeel in Jackson, TN)

• Lindsay VanBebber (03-04)

• Tim Wilson (Graduated with BS in May 2003; Now in UT-MSE graduate program)

Visiting Students

• Sylvain Bodini (From Reims University, France)

• Derek Horton (From University of Virginia; Summer 2003)

• Arnaud Vinon (From Reims University, France)

• Joe Wall (From University of Missouri, Columbia; Summer 2003; Now in UT-MSE graduate program)

Principal Secretary

• Roberta Campbell

Technician

• Carol Winn

Honors and Awards Received by Research Group Members

• Z. Yu: 1st Place Award, Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Paper Presentation Competition, UT (2009)

• S. Lee (co-advised with P. K. Liaw): 1st Place Award, ASM International, Oak Ridge Chapter, Graduate Student Research Poster Competition (2008).

• F. Jiang (co-advised with P. K. Liaw): 3rd Place Award, ASM International, Oak Ridge Chapter, Graduate Student Research Poster Competition (2008).

• E. Garlea: 1st Place Award, ASM International, Oak Ridge Chapter, Graduate Student Research Poster Competition (2007).

• W. Woo: 1st Place Award, 2007 ASM International Graduate Student Paper Contest, ASM International (2006)  

• W. Woo: 2nd Place Award, TMS Outstanding Student Paper Contest - Graduate Division (2006)

• W. Woo: Jerome B. Cohen Student Research Award (2006)

• W. Woo: Finalist of the 2006 SEM (Society for Experimental Mechanics) Annual Student Paper Competition (2006)

• E. Garlea: NSSA (Neutron Scattering Society of America) Prize for Outstanding Student Research, American Conference on Neutron Scattering, St. Charles, IL, June 18-22 (2006)

• B. Lovell: 1st Place Award, Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement, UT (2006)

• W. H. Jiang (Co-advised with P. K. Liaw): 2nd Place Award, ASM International Research Poster Competition, Oak Ridge Chapeter of ASM International (2005)

• J. J. Wall: 2nd Place Award, Sigma Xi Graduate Paper Presentation Competition, UT (2004)

• H. Q. Li (Co-advised with P. K. Liaw): 1st Place, Best Poster Award, ASM International Research Poster Competition, Oak Ridge Chapeter of ASM International (2004)

• L. Van Bebber: Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2004)

• T. A. Saleh (Co-advised with P. K. Liaw): Best Poster Award, Advanced Neutron Scattering Network for Education & Research Workshop (2003)

• T. A. Saleh (Co-advised with P. K. Liaw): Best Poster Award, ASM International Research Poster Competition, Oak Ridge Chapeter of ASM International (2003)

Research Funding

• NASA

• Major Research Instrumentation Program, NSF

• SARIF Award, Office of Research, University of Tennessee

• International Materials Institute Program, National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Tennessee Advanced Materials Laboratory (TAML), State of Tennessee

• Center for Materials Processing (CMP), State of Tennessee

• Joint Institute for Neutron Science (JINS), State of Tennessee

• College of Engineering, University of Tennessee

• UT-Battelle