Steven Swavely
Phone
814-865-6147
Office Address
542 Deike Building
Title
Research Support Technologist
Unit
Department of Geosciences
Email:
sls71@psu.edu
Jodi Vender
Phone
814-863-5730
Office Address
305 Walker Building
Title
Academic Adviser
Title 2
Coordinator of Undergraduate and Alumni Programs
Title 3
Director of Peter R. Gould Center for Geography Education and Outreach
Unit
Department of Geography
Research Interests
Geography education
Human geography
Women in the history of geography
Geographical societies
Allison Beese
Office Address
307 Steidle Building
Title
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Title 2
Senior Associate Director, National Security Institute
Endowed Title
Wilson Faculty Fellow
Unit
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Webpage
Research Interests
Mechanics of materials
Additive manufacturing
Analysis & characterization
Microstructure
Finite element analysis
Metals
Seth Blumsack
Phone
814-863-7597
Office Address
156 Hosler Building
Title
Professor of Energy Policy and Economics
Title 2
Director, Center for Energy Law and Policy
Endowed Title
MICASU Faculty Fellow in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Unit
John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
Research Interests
Energy and electric power systems
Regulation and deregulation of network industries
Congestion pricing and management
Complex systems and network theory
Green design of products, processes and systems
Antitrust economics and the measurement of market power
Infrastructure management and investment
Cynthia Brewer
Office Address
411 Eric J. Baron Innovation Hub
Title
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in IST and Professor of Geography
Unit
Department of Geography
Research Interests
Cartographic communication and visualization
Map design
Color theory
Multi-scale mapping
Atlas production
Topographic maps
Long-Qing Chen
Phone
814-863-8101
Office Address
N-229 Millennium Science Complex
Title
Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Title 2
Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Title 3
Professor of Mathematics
Endowed Title
Hamer Professorship of Materials Science and Engineering
Unit
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
2D materials
Additive manufacturing
Piezoelectric materials
Sustainability
Ceramics
Composites
Computational materials
Electrochemistry
Energy
Ferroelectrics
Metals
Nanomaterials
Physics
Zi-Kui Liu
Phone
814-865-1934
Office Address
326 Steidle Building
Title
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Endowed Title
Corning Faculty Fellowship in Materials Science and Engineering
Unit
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
Modeling and design of a wide range of materials chemistry and processing through integrating first-principles calculations
Statistic mechanics
Thermodynamic/kinetic modeling
Critically designed experiments for structural and functional applications
Suzanne Mohney
Phone
814-863-0744
Office Address
N-209 Millennium Science Complex
Title
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Unit
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
Electronic and photonic materials, particularly metals and semiconductors for use in electronic and optoelectronic devices
Synthesis and processing of thin films and nanostructures, as well as their materials and electrical characterization
Committee(s)
Faculty Senate
Susan Trolier-McKinstry
Phone
814-863-8348
Office Address
N-227 Millennium Science Complex
Title
Evan Pugh University Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Title 2
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Title 3
Director, W.M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory
Endowed Title
Steward S. Flaschen Professorship
Unit
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Webpage
Research Interests
Piezoelectric materials
Ceramics
Dielectric, piezoelectric, and ferroelectric films
Microelectromechanical systems
Spectroscopic ellipsometry
Templated grain growth
Synthesis
Processing science of thin films
PiezoMEM
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