RELEVANT
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Sensor Development: Principal Investigator in a
program to
develop sensors for biological agent detection. Developed phage and
antibody
based MEMS sensors for security and medical application. Currently the
director
of the Auburn University Detection and Food Safety Center that funds
over 25
faculty and 60 post docs, staff and graduate students.
Adaptive Materials: Developed methods of
fabrication and
manufacture for PZT and shape memory alloys. Theoretically and
experimentally
constructed demonstration devices for adaptive systems.
Welding and Joining:
Developed infrared sensing techniques for the monitoring and
control of
the welding process. Developed processes
for welding highly irradiated materials in power producing reactors.
Time Dependent Deformation: Principal investigator in an
alloy
development program to design and tailor alloys for high temperature
applications in advanced reactor cores. Pioneered new test methods,
developed
phenomenological mechanisms and deformation maps to describe data,
characterized failure modes and formulated constitutive materials
equations for
detailed reactor design.
Mechanical Lifetime Prediction: Responsible for the
evaluation and
development of stress to rupture design equations and end of life
criteria for
nuclear core materials.
Environmental Degradation of Materials:
Responsible for
assessing the effects of various gaseous and liquid metal environments
on the
creep and fatigue life of high temperature alloys. Established
mechanisms
describing the influence of environment on the failure of austenitic,
ferritic
and precipitation strengthened alloys.
EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
Director, Auburn University
Detection and
Food Safety Center, 1/2000
to present: Responsible for directing and managing over 11 million in
externally funded research dollars supporting over 25 faculty and 60
staff,
post docs, and graduate students. Center has commercialized 5 products
in the
last five years.
Associate Vice President
for Research,
10/92 to 10/00: Responsible for the
development of overall University research policy and its interface
with
academic functions of the University, Forty-one percent time position.
Chairman, Materials
Engineering,
1/87 - present: Elected Chairman of
Materials Engineering at Auburn
University.
Professor, Auburn University,
10/86 - present
Alumni Associate Professor, Auburn University,
10/81 - 10/83: Assumed Faculty position in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering to conduct research leading to the advancement of adaptive
materials and joining techniques.
Technical Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, MD,
6/80-11/81: Responsible for evaluating and recommendations on advanced
materials for power production systems.
Manager In-Reactor Deformation, Westinghouse Hanford
Company, 02/79 -
6/80: Managed a materials research staff of sixteen professionals
involved in
the characterization of high temperature mechanical properties (creep,
fatigue,
stress rupture, fracture toughness) of base metal and weldments for
fission and
fusion reactor applications.
Senior Scientist, Westinghouse Hanford
Company, 09/78 -
02/79: Lead scientist for a National Alloy Development Program in
materials
deformation.
Advanced Scientist, Westinghouse Hanford
Company, 10/76 -
9/78: Investigated creep and stress to rupture properties of new
materials for
advanced power reactors.
Metallurgical Consultant, Failure Analysis Associates,
10/74 -
10/76: Analyzed and documented metallurgical
failures for corporate and civil litigations.
Research Associate, Stanford University,
01/74 - 10/76: Thesis work emphasized high temperature diffusion and
mechanisms
of metal deformation and failure.
