The future of a host of technologies, ranging from lightweight fuel-efficient low-emission vehicles and jet engines to safer and effective hypersonic and nuclear capabilities, rests on our ability to design, discover, and develop advanced structural materials with desired properties and performance metrics. This calls for revolutionary advancements in the field of structural materials using advanced processing and manufacturing techniques that can control nano and microscale features, high-resolution material characterization techniques, small-scale & in-situ testing techniques, and large-scale modeling & simulation capabilities. A team of materials science and engineering researchers employ a range of advanced tools – including high-performance research computing, a suite of additive and advanced material manufacturing techniques, state-of-the-art testing techniques, and high-resolution microscopes – to model, manipulate, characterize and visualize new advanced structural materials.
Core Faculty
Raymundo Arróyave
- Associate Department Head for Research, Materials Science & Engineering
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Chevron Professor II
- Presidential Impact Fellow
- Chancellor EDGES Fellow
- Engineering Dean’s Research Fellow
- Affiliated Faculty, Industrial & Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
- Office: RDMC 226
- Phone: 979-845-5416
- Email: rarroyave@tamu.edu
Amine Benzerga
- Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
- General Dynamics Professor in Aerospace Engineering
- Director, Center for Intelligent Materials and Structures (CiMMS)
- Office: HRBB 520B
- Email: benzerga@tamu.edu
Jeffrey Bullard
- Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
- Office: DLEB 503F
- Phone: 979-458-6482
- Email: jwbullard@tamu.edu
Michael J. Demkowicz
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Presidential Impact Fellow
- Chancellor EDGES Fellow
- Office: RDMC 212
- Phone: 979-458-9845
- Email: demkowicz@tamu.edu
Michael Dimitriyev
- Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Office: RDMC 236
- Phone: 979-458-9134
- Email: msdim@tamu.edu
Kaiwen Hsiao
- Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Office: RDMC 201A
- Phone: 979-458-8645
- Email: kwhsiao@tamu.edu
Ibrahim Karaman
- Department Head, Materials Science & Engineering
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Regents Professor
- Chevron Professor I
- Office: RDMC 245
- Phone: 979-862-3923
- Email: ikaraman@tamu.edu
Pavan V. Kolluru
- Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Office: RDMC 217
- Phone: 979-458-6669
- Email: pavan.kolluru@tamu.edu
Enrique J. Lavernia
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- M. Katherine Banks Chair
- Office: RDMC 301A (MSEN), MEOB 404 (MEEN)
- Phone: 979-458-8617 (MSEN), 979-458-7796 (MEEN)
- Email: lavernia@tamu.edu
Don M. Lipkin
- Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Office: RDMC 201C
- Phone: 979-458-6872
- Email: lipkin@tamu.edu
Bilal Mansoor
- Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Office: RDMC 201B
- Phone: 979-458-6887
- Email: bilal.mansoor@tamu.edu
George M. Pharr IV
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Erle Nye ’59 Chair I
- University Distinguished Professor
- Office: RDMC 244
- Phone: 979-458-3182
- Email: pharr@tamu.edu
Xiaofeng Qian
- Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Joint Appointment, Physics and Astronomy
- AZZ Inc. Fellow
- Affiliated Faculty, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Office: RDMC 224
- Phone: 979-458-9843
- Email: feng@tamu.edu
Miladin Radovic
- Associate Department Head
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Director, Materials Characterization Facility
- Office: RDMC 302F
- Phone: 979-845-5114
- Email: mradovic@tamu.edu
Julie M. Schoenung
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
- Wofford Cain Chair III
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
- Office: RDMC 301B (MSEN), MEOB 403 (MEEN)
- Phone: 979-458-8634 (MSEN), 979-458-7810 (MEEN)
- Email: schoenung@tamu.edu
Ankit Srivastava
- Director of Graduate Programs, Materials Science & Engineering
- Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Office: RDMC 302G
- Phone: 979-458-9841
- Email: ankit.sri@tamu.edu
Kelvin Xie
- Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Eugene Webb Faculty Fellow
- Office: RDMC 247
- Phone: 979-458-3184
- Email: kelvin_xie@tamu.edu
