News and Announcements

Students enrolled in Professor Nilesh Kumar’s MTE 491/591 Ferrous Metallurgy class visited the US Steel Tubular in Fairfield and CMC Steel Alabama in Birmingham on April 2, 2024.

Congratulations to Dr. Nilesh Kumar, assistant professor of metallurgical & materials engineering, and Dr. Tibor Szilvasi, assistant professor of chemical & biological engineering, at The University of Alabama, for their designation as 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awardees. Per NSF, “The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science…

The College of Engineering and Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering held “Steel Day” on Thursday, February 1, 2024. This event, coordinated by Professor Nilesh Kumar, brings together faculty, students, and industry to discuss new innovations in steel-related activities, research, and products as well as employment opportunities and internships for students. For more information, visit https://eng.ua.edu/steel-day/.

A contingent of University of Alabama materials science graduate students participated in in the annual UA-UAH-UAB Materials Science Symposium held at the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation and Integration Center on the campus of UA-Huntsville.  The symposium hosted both a poster as well as oral presentation sessions. Through this event students, faculty, industrial, and federal laboratory researchers…

A new institute at The University of Alabama will boost efforts from across campus in materials science and materials engineering.

The Alabama Materials Institute will host an open house on Monday, January 8, from 10:00–11:00 a.m. in 1000 Bevill Building. This is a great opportunity to learn about AMI and how to become an affiliate research member, meet staff, and ask questions. For more information, please contact AMI at ami@ua.edu.

Graduate and undergraduate students from any discipline are invited to Huntsville to present their original research related to Materials Science and Engineering. There are options for oral and poster presentations, with cash prizes for the best presentations in both categories.  Event Date: January 26, 2024 Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2023 Location: UAH CTC, Huntsville, AL…

Michael Pavel, a PhD student in materials science, recently won best poster at the Atom Probe Tomography & Microscopy meeting in Belgium.

On September 20, 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced their selection of 37 four-year grants in the highly competitive “Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)” program. The University of Alabama is one of the awardees. Professor Gregory Thompson (Metallurgical & Materials Engineering) will lead a team of faculty and students from…