Department of Materials
Engineering II, Room 1355;
Telephone (805) 893-4601
Web site: www.materials.ucsb.edu
Chair: Michael L. Chabinyc
Vice Chair: Stephen Wilson
Overview
The Department of Materials was conceptualized and built under two basic guidelines: to educate graduate students in advanced materials and to introduce them to novel ways of doing research in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. Advancing materials technology today—either by creating new materials or improving the properties of existing ones—requires a synthesis of expertise from the classic materials fields of metallurgy, ceramics, and polymer science, and such fundamental disciplines as applied mechanics, chemistry, biology, and solid-state physics. Since no individual has the necessary breadth and depth of knowledge in all these areas, solving advanced materials problems demands the integrated efforts of scientists and engineers with different backgrounds and skills in a research team. The department has effectively transferred the research team concept, which is the operating mode of the high technology industry, into an academic environment.
The department has major research groups working on a wide range of advanced inorganic and organic materials, including advanced structural alloys, ceramics and polymers; high performance composites; thermal and environmental barrier coatings as well as other engineered surfaces; organic, inorganic and hybrid semiconductor and photonic material systems; catalysts and porous materials, hydrogen storage materials; thermoelectric, magnetic, ferroelectric and strongly correlated materials; biomaterials and biosurfaces, including biomedically relevant systems; colloids, gels and other complex fluids; lasers, LEDs and optoelectronic devices; packaging systems; and microscale engineered systems. The groups are typically multidisciplinary involving faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students working on the synthesis and processing, computational analysis, prediction and design, structural characterization, property evaluation, microstructure-property relationships and mathematical models relating atomic, nano- and microscale properties to macroscopic behavior. The department has close collaborations with, and a number of faculty members have joint appointments in, the Departments of Mechanical Engineering (mechanics, design and additive manufacturing), Chemical Engineering (complex fluids, biological systems, polymers), Electrical and Computer Engineering (electronic and photonic devices), Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the BMSE Program.
Five-Year Bachelor of Science Engineering/Master of Science Materials and Bachelor of Science Chemistry/Master of Science Materials Programs
A program combining a bachelor of science in chemical, electrical, or mechanical engineering, or a bachelor of science in Chemistry, with a master of science degree in materials provides an opportunity for outstanding undergraduates to earn both degrees in five years. Additional information about this program is available from the College of Engineering. Interested students should inform the Office of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Engineering or the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of their intention to pursue this program in the beginning of the spring quarter of their sophomore year. Transfer students interested in the combined degree program should contact the undergraduate advising office at the earliest opportunity. In addition to fulfilling undergraduate degree requirements, B.S./M.S. degree candidates must meet Graduate Division degree requirements, including university requirements for residence and units of coursework as described in the section “Graduate Education at UCSB.”
Faculty
Christopher Bates, PhD, University of Austin Texas, Associate Professor |
Matthew Begley, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor |
Irene Beyerlein, PhD, Cornell University, Professor |
Michael Chabinyc, PhD, Stanford University, Professor |
Raphaele Clement, PhD, University of Cambridge, Associate Professor |
Steven Denbaars, PhD, University of Southern California, Professor |
Dan Gianola, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Professor |
John Harter, PhD, Cornell University, Associate Professor |
Craig Hawker, PhD, Cambridge University, Professor |
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, PhD, The Ohio State University, Associate Professor |
Robert McMeeking, PhD, Brown University, Professor |
Shuji Nakamura, PhD, University of Tokushima, Professor |
Daniel Oropeza Gomez, Assistant Professor |
Chris Palmstrom, PhD, Leeds University, Professor |
Angela Pitenis, PhD, University of Florida, Associate Professor |
Tresa Pollock, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor |
Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, Assistant Professor |
Cyrus Safinya, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor |
Jeff Sakamoto, Professor |
Omar Saleh, PhD, Princeton University, Professor |
Rachel Segalman, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor |
Ram Seshadri, PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Professor |
Jim Speck, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor |
Susanne Stemmer, PhD, Max-Planck-Institut, Professor |
Chris Van de Walle, PhD, Stanford University, Professor |
Anton Van Der Ven, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor |
Claude Weisbuch, PhD, Universite Paris VII, Ecole Polytechnique-Palaiseau, Professor |
Stephen Wilson, PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Professor |
Francis Zok, PhD, McMaster University, Professor |
Emeriti Faculty
Guillermo Bazan, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
John Bowers, PhD, Stanford University |
Anthony Cheetham, PhD, Oxford University |
David Clarke, PhD, Cambridge University |
Larry Coldren, PhD, Stanford University |
Alan Heeger, PhD, UC Berkeley |
Evelyn Hu, PhD, Columbia University |
James Langer, PhD, University of Birmingham |
Carlos Levi, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Frederick Milstein, PhD, UC Los Angeles |
George Odette, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Pierre Petroff, PhD, UC Berkeley |
Fyl Pincus, PhD, UC Berkeley |
Galen Stucky, PhD, Iowa State University |
Fred Wudl, PhD, UC Los Angeles |
Affiliated Faculty
Glenn Fredrickson, PhD |