Research Areas

• Experimental characterization and constitutive modeling of the deformation of advanced materials
  
• Materials anisotropy
  
• Damage and failure during deformation
  
• Superplasticity and superplastic forming
  
• Advanced metal forming operations
  
• Machining dynamics
  
• Crack initiation under mixed mode loading

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Funding

• Total $2,453,013 (PI: $1,209,223 and Co-PI: $1,243,790)

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Sponsors

• National Science Foundation
• US Department of Energy
• US Department of Education
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• General Motors Corporation
• Caterpillar Inc.
• Secat Inc.
• Kentucky Office of Energy Policy
• Arco Aluminum
• Heraeus Inc., Medical Devices Division
• The Southern Group
• Society of Manufacturing Engineering Foundation Education

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Graduate Advising (Main Advisor)

Completed
1 PhD University of Kentucky

6 M.S. University of Kentucky

Active
5 PhD Students

3 M.S. Students

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Professional Affiliation

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
• American Society of Metals (ASM International)
• The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society,(TMS)
• The mobility society, SAE
• Delta Omicron Kappa Leadership Honor Society
• Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

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Professional Services

• NSF Proposal Review Panel Member , DMI, April 2003 and CMS, January 2002.
• Grand Awards Judge: 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, May 2002, Louisville, KY.
• Technical Reviewer
• International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture (2006-present)
• ASM Journal of Engineering Materials and Performance
• Journal of Materials Science (2004-present)
• International Journal of Plasticity (2002-present)
• Metallurgical Transactions (2002-present)
• American Welding Society, WeldingJournal (2001-present)
• ASME Journal of Engineering Material and Technology (1997-present)
• ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering
• Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering (1997-present).
• Proposals Reviewer , International Copper Association
• Proposals Reviewer , City University of Hong Kong
• Proposals Reviewer, KFUPM and SABIC, Saudi Arabia.
• Proposals Reviewer . University Research Council, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• Symposium Co-Organizer “Superplastic Forming of Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys”, 2005 ESAFORM, Cluj Napoca, Romania, April 2005.
• Symposium Organizer “Recent Trends in Constitutive Modeling of Advanced Materials”, The 2000 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, FL, November 5-10 2000.
• Symposium CO-organizer “Mechanics, Micromechanics, and Processing of Composites and Ceramics, 35 th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science SES98, 1998.
• Member, International Organizing/Scientific Committee of the 35 th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science SES98, Pullman, WA, 1998.
• Member, International Organizing/Scientific Committee of the 37 th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science SES 2000, Columbia, SC, 2000.
• Session chair/co-chair , several international meetings and conferences.
• Chairperson , Industrial Relations Committee, KFUPM.
• Director, Materials Science and Manufacturing Processes Laboratories, AUS

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University and Administrative Services

• Dean-appointed Committee as external reviewer of Center for Aluminum Technology Performance in the period 1999-2005.
• Dean-appointed committee to evaluate the performance of ME Department Chair
• ME Faculty Search Committee: 3 times.
• SME Membership Consultant.
• SME Student Chapter Faculty Advisor , University of Kentucky, 2003-present.
• Served and currently serving on 10 PhD Committees and several MS Committees
• Director of ME Undergraduate Studies Committee
• Member of College of Engineering Undergraduate Studies Team
• Member of the Lab Development Committee.
• Active Faculty in the Center for Manufacturing
• Conduct frequent Co-Op debriefing
• Conducted several EIT reviews
• Served on several faculty committees at KFUPM and AUS

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Community Outreach

• Established partnership with Lexington Children’s Museum to design and build interactive displays for young children to promote science and engineering
• Active participant in E-day and students recruiting efforts.
• Delivered an invited talk to the SME local chapter
• Hosted the SME local chapter for a tour in the Center’s laboratories

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