Metallurgical Engineer/ Materials Engineer

Highly qualified professional with demonstrated abilities in project management, research, and applications development; Strong expertise and 15 years of broad experience in metallurgy, materials processing, testing, characterization in metals (carbon steel, stainless steel, alloyed steel), polymer, polymer composite,carbon materials, nanomaterials.

Technical Skills

•Strong analytical skills •Strong oral and communication skills

•Strong presentation skills •Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

•Strong computer skills •Working knowledge of vacuum technology

•Surface and interface analysis by XPS and AES •Thorough knowledge of metallographic analysis

•Phase transformation of polymer via TGA, DSC •Finite Element Modeling (Abaqus)

•Thorough knowledge of materials characterization in XRD, electron microscopy (SEM, TEM)

•Microstructure and failure analysis by SEM with EDS and metallography techniques

•Morphology and roughness evaluation by AFM, SEM, and XRR

•Magnetic characterization using AGM, VSM, SQUID magnetometer

•Knowledge of lean manufacturing and Design of experiments

•Knowledge of engineering and scientific principles to develop, design, analyze, test, and validate

•Knowledge of wet chemistry, corrosion and prevention

•Knowledge of Matlab, Origin, Labview, Solidworks, JMP

•Generate documents, reports, technical reports and presentations

Professional Experience

University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA Aug. 2007 – present

Research Scientist, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Ctr. for Structural and Functional Materials

Managed projects simultaneously within budget. Supervised graduate students and collaborated with engineers in industry and external researchers. Prepared accurate specifications for purchase of materials for ongoing projects. Coordinated with graduate students and machine shops for project completion;

Worked with NSF and industries on projects involved grain size effect on mechanical properties of stainless steel, investigated the deformation mechanism after nanoindentation using electron microscopy;

Conducted heat-treat, performed tests on hardness, tensile strength and fatigue for microalloyed pipeline steels, performed metallography and microstructural characterization with SEM, TEM, optical microscopy,nanoincdntation, and XRD.

Carried out the investigation of the pressure-induced phase transformation, mechanical properties of Nylon 6,6-carbon nanotube nanocomposites (DSC, XRD), performed the electron microscopy of crystallization of polyethylene on carbon nanotube.

Carried out simulation of phase transformation for FePt-FeRh alloys using OOMMF(NIST) and Alamag. Performed simulations on the exchange constant effect on FePt-FeRh bilayer thin film system. Studied the temperature dependence of exchange coupling between FePt and FeRh systems;

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, Ctr. Materials for Information Technology

Research Assistant, Aug. 2000-Dec. 2006,

Carried out pioneer research in the field of magnetic nanoparticles of FePt-based alloy, which resulted in numerous publications and invited presentations;

Tackled many important research problems encountered in area of FePt alloy for magnetic recording such as significantly reducing phase transformation temperature of FePt, alleviating the agglomeration during annealing, synthesis of ferromagnetic FePt alloys without post annealing, and the easy axis alignment of ferromagnetic FePt nanoparticles;

Conducted literature review and experimental designs, and devised some gadgets used in the experiments and tests; Successfully published numerous technical papers on journals; prepared technical reports, conference presentations, and posters;

Conducted conventional annealing and pulsed infrared thermal processing during the transformation of FePt, performed tests on magnetic properties of FePt-based alloys; performed microstructural characterization with SEM, TEM, EDS, XRR, XRD, and small angle neutron scattering.

Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Research Assistant, Sep. 1996-Jul. 1999

Research on nanometer sized oxides on the flux pinning of high temperature BSCCO superconductor

Undergraduate Researcher, Sep. 1995-Jul. 1996

Carried out research on the high temperature creep behavior of Ni-based superalloy.

Services

Reviewers for Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Transaction on Magnetics, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A and 17 others

Education

Ph.D., Applied Physics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, Dec. 2006

M.S., Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China, 1999

B.S., Materials Science, Shenyang University of Technology, China, 1996

Honors

Travel Award, 2nd American Conference on Neutron Scattering (2004)

NIST Summer School on Neutron Scattering Fellowship (2004)

Graduate Research and Travel Award, University of Alabama (2004)

Travel Award, 49th MMM Conference (2004)

Affiliations

American Physical Society, Member * IEEE and Magnetics Society, Senior Member

Materials Research Society, Member * Sigma Xi Society, Member

Publications (out of Total 40)

1. P.K.C Surya, R.D.K. Misra, Z. Jia, “Texture analyses in X80 Linepipe steels”, Mater. Sci. Eng. A (submitted 2012).

2. R.D.K. Misra, Z. Jia, M. Somani, L. Karjalainen,“Strain Rate Sensitivity of Stainless Steels with Various Grain Size”, Mater. Sci. Eng. A (in press 2012).

3. Z. Jia, F. Zeng, R.D.K. Misra, “Structure-Property Relationship in Carbon Nanotube-Induced Structure and Phase Evolution in Nylon 6,6 Crystallized at Elevated Pressures”, Mater. Sci. Eng. B (in press 2012).

4. R.D.K. Misra, Z. Zhang, Z. Jia, M. Somani, L. Karjalainen, “Nanoscale Deformation Experiments on the Strain Rate Sensitivity of Phase Reversion Induced Nanograined/Ultrafine-grained Austenitic Alloys”, Mater. Sci. Eng. A (in press 2012).

5. R.D.K. Misra, Z. Jia, R. O’Malley, S.J. Jansto, “Precipitation behavior during thin slab thermomechanical processing and isothermal aging of copper-bearing niobium-microalloyed high strength structural steels: The effect on mechanical properties”, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 528, 8772 (2011).

6. R. D. K Misra, Z. Zhang, Z. Jia, M. C. Somani, L. P. Karjalainen, “Nanomechanical insights into the deformation behavior of austenitic alloys with different stacking fault energies and austenitic stability”, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 528, 6958 (2011).

7. Z. Jia, R.D.K. Misra, et al, “Fine-scale precipitation and mechanical properties of thin slab processed titanium–niobium bearing high strength steels”, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 528, 7077 (2011).

8. R. D. K, Misra, Z. Zhang, Z. Jia, et al, "Probing deformation processes in near-defect free volume in high strength high ductility nanograined/ultrafine-grained (NG/UFG) metastable austenitic stainless steels." Scripta Materialia 63, 1057 (2010).

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