Department of Materials Science & Engineering Faculty
Faculty
| Name | Title |
| Pulickel Ajayan | Adjunct Professor and Director Focus Center, NY |
| Douglas B Chrisey | Professor |
| Chan I. Chung | Professor Emeritus |
| Alan W. Cramb | Adjunct Professor |
| David J. Duquette | John Tod Horton Distinguished Professor in Materials Engineering |
| Glenn Eisman | Adjunct Professor |
| Daniel Gall | Associate Professor |
| Liping Huang | Assistant Professor |
| John B. Hudson | Professor Emeritus |
| Robert Hull | Henry Burlage Jr. Professor of Engineering and Department Head, Materials Science and Engineering |
| Pawel Keblinski | Professor |
| Daniel Lewis | Assistant Professor |
| Robert K MacCrone | Professor Emeritus |
| Robert W. Messler, Jr. | Professor |
| Cornelius T. Moynihan | Professor Emeritus |
| Stephan Mueller | Adjunct Professor |
| Shyam P. Murarka | Professor Emeritus |
| Aleksandar G. Ostrogorsky | Professor |
| Rahmi Ozisik | Associate Professor |
| G. Ramanath | Professor and Director of the Center for Future Energy Systems |
| Linda S. Schadler | Professor |
| Yunfeng Shi | Assistant Professor |
| Mutsuhiro Shima | Adjunct Professor |
| Richard W. Siegel | Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Engineering and Director, Nanotechnology Center |
| Christoph O. Steinbruchel | Associate Professor |
| Sanford S Sternstein | Professor Emeritus |
| Minoru Tomozawa | Professor |
| Roger N. Wright | Professor |
Faculty
Staff
Research Topics
Materials Science and Engineering faculty work across many discipliness, select a research topic from the list below to get a list of the faculty working in those areas:
- Advanced Materials
- Applied Mechanics/Mechanics of Materials
- Biomaterials
- Biomedical Engineering
- Biotechnology
- Cellular Engineering
- Ceramic Materials
- Composite Materials
- Computational Modeling
- Crystals
- Data Mining and Knowledge Acquisitions
- Electronic Devices
- Electronic Materials
- Energy
- Entrepreneurship
- Extracellular Matrix and Tissue Engineering
- Flexible Manufacturing
- Functional Tissue Engineering
- Glass Materials
- Heat Transfer
- High Voltage Engineering and Dielectric Phenomena
- Industrial Engineering
- Integrated Electronics
- Interfacial Phenomena
- Lasers
- Manufacturing and Service Operations
- Manufacturing Processes
- Manufacturing/Design
- Mass Transport
- Materials for Microelectronic Systems
- Materials IT
- Materials Processing
- Metallurgy
- Microelectronics Technology
- Microgravity
- Microstructures
- Modeling
- Molecular Simulations
- Nanomaterials
- Nanotechnology
- Nuclear Science and Technology
- Optoelectronics
- Particles
- Plasma Science
- Plastics
- Polymers
- Process Control and Design
- Radiation
- Reliability
- Semiconductors
- Sensors
- Silicon
- Simulation
- Solar Energy
- Solid Mechanics
- Thermodynamics
- Thin Film
- Tissue Engineering
- Tissue-Implant Interfaces
- Tribology
- Wound Healing
Did you know?
Rensselaer's Department of Materials Science and Engineering...
- one of the oldest materials departments in the country,
- has consistently ranked among the top 15 Departments in the United States,
- committed to the educational process, to individual mentoring, and to academic excellence,
- offers many Undergraduate & Graduate courses in an interactive, hands-on format, and
- provides opportunities for undergraduate research.
Materials Science and Engineering offers students a variety of hands-on design opportunities—even bridge design! See a sample project from Design in Materials Engineering (MTLE – 4910)