msepostdoc-list Fwd: [msestaff-list] New Head of MSE

[Donna Bystrom]

Colleagues -

I am extremely pleased to announce that David Bahr, currently Director of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University, will be the next Head of the School of Materials Engineering, effective August 16, 2012. With awards recognizing his achievements in research, teaching, and advising, David brings to the position a strong record of excellence and leadership, a strong commitment to collaborative research, and great energy and enthusiasm. I know that MSE will thrive under his leadership.

I would like to thank Tom Shih, chair of the search committee, and the entire search committee for their diligence and efforts in this very important process:

John Blendell
Donna Bystrom
Kevin Chaput
Amanda Cooper
Ryan Elias
Patti Finney
Carol Handwerker
Mary Lee Gambone
Michael Manfra
Carlos Martinez
Patti Metcalf
Joseph Muth
Mark Petri
Pylin Sarobol
Lia Stanciu
Ale Strachan
Rod Trice
Jon Wilker

I also extend my sincere thanks to Elliott Slamovich for his excellent leadership as Interim Head of Materials Engineering.

Prof. David Bahr received his BS and MS in MSE at Purdue University in 1992 and 1993, and a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Minnesota in 1997.  He worked for a short time at Sandia National Laboratories during his PhD before starting as a faculty member in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University in 1997.  While at WSU he supervised 2 Post-docs, 17 PhD students, 27 MS students, and over 50 undergraduate researchers in the general area of small-scale mechanical behavior.  His research spans a range of materials reliability issues, from hydrogen embrittlement to high strain MEMS  to dislocation nucleation in metals.  In addition to work in metallic systems, he has investigated deformation mechanisms and mechanical properties in piezoelectric thin films, polysilicon, molecular organic crystals, and natural and cellulosic composites.

He is a 2000 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his work with Sandia on DOE stockpile stewardship. in 2003 he received the Bradley Stoughton Award from ASM International, and in 2007 received the Robert Lansing Hardy award from TMS (where he currently serves as a member of the board of directors for membership and student development).  He has published over 125 papers in the archival literature, given over 40 invited talks and seminars worldwide, has 5 US patents, edited, co-edited and written eight proceedings and book chapters and secured over $19M in extramural funding at WSU.

Prior to joining Purdue, Dr. Bahr was most recently the Director of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State, and before that served as WSU's campus-wide Director of Undergraduate Research.

Please join me in congratulating Professor Bahr and in welcoming him back to Purdue.

Best,
leah

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Leah H. Jamieson
John A. Edwardson Dean, College of Engineering Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Neil Armstrong Hall		+1 765 494 5346
701 West Stadium Avenue		+1 765 494 9321 (fax)
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN  47907-2045
lhj at purdue.edu
http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~lhj


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