UT Dallas Materials Science and Engineering

📣Join the Materials Science and Engineering staff team📣

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One class just graduated… now it’s your turn🎓✨

Spring 2027 applications for Materials Science and Engineering is open!

Start building the future, one material, one breakthrough, one idea at a time!💡

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🎓🎉Congratulations to our 2026 PhD graduates! Wishing you all endless success in your careers! 🎓🎉

Congratulations to Haimanti and Petrit for receiving The Jonsson School recognition award this year!✨🎉

Haimanti won the Teacher Assistant award and Petrit won the Outstanding Staff award!

Thank you both for all of your hard work and contribution to MSE! 📚

🔬 Postdoctoral / Visiting Researcher Opportunity ⚡

Seeking a Postdoctoral / Visiting Researcher with experience in ferroelectric/dielectric thin films, ALD/CVD, and materials characterization.

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🌸✨Spring Fling✨🌸
Good food, great company and even better memories! Thank you everyone who joined us! 🌮

Congratulations to Andrés Aguirre and the RadMap Robotics team for taking first place at the 2026 UTD Draper Pitch Competition!🥇

We are celebrating the exceptional faculty honored at The University of Texas at Dallas’s 2026 Investiture Ceremony, an inspiring tribute to excellence, leadership, and innovation.

Special recognition goes to Dr. Babu Chalamala, named the Jonsson School Distinguished Chair, one of the University’s highest academic honors. This distinction recognizes his outstanding contributions to energy storage systems, lithium battery technologies, and power grid innovation, as well as his lasting impact across academia and industry.

Dr. Chalamala’s work continues to advance sustainable energy solutions while inspiring future engineers and researchers.

Congratulations to Dr. Chalamala and all of this year’s honorees on this well‑deserved recognition.

📚MSE Department Colloquium Series  
  
The Department of Material Science and Engineering is thrilled to welcome Dr. Nicholas Strnad, Materials Science Engineer at U.S. Army Research Laboratory, for an exciting presentation that took place this morning.  
  
Topic: Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric ALD Thin Films for Next-Generation MEMS  
  
🗣️Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Strnad  

Biography:   
Dr. Strnad is a Materials Research Engineer at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and serves as the Army’s subject matter expert in atomic layer deposition (ALD). As a key member of the PiezoMEMS team, his research is focused on advancing a new microfabrication paradigm: “3D Piezoelectric MEMS.” This approach centers on creating highly efficient, high work-density actuators by leveraging sidewall and non-planar device geometries. In recognition of this pioneering work, he received the 2024 Army Research Laboratory Early Career Award. Dr. Strnad is active in the academic community, serving on the steering committee for the International Piezoelectric MEMS Workshop and presenting frequently at the AVS ALD conference. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2019.

📚MSE Department Colloquium Series 
 
The Department of Material Science and Engineering is thrilled to welcome Dr. Arumugam Manthiram, Professor at University of Texas at Austin, for an exciting presentation that took place this morning. 
 
Topic: The Triumph with Oxide Chemistry in Energy Storage 
 
🗣️Speaker:Dr. Arumugam Manthiram 
 
Biography:
Arumugam Manthiram is the George T. & Gladys H. Abell Endowed Chair of Engineering at UT Austin. He served as Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science & Engineering Program (2011–2022). He earned his PhD in chemistry from IIT Madras in 1980, worked as a lecturer at Madurai Kamaraj University, and completed postdocs at Oxford and UT Austin before joining the UT faculty in 1991. His research focuses on batteries and fuel cells. He has 1,000+ publications, 142,000 citations, and an h‑index of 183. He has mentored ~300 researchers, including 81 PhD students, with ~60 now faculty worldwide. He founded ActaCell (2007) and TexPower (2019). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, MRS, ECS, ACerS, RSC, AAAS, and APAIA, an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics, and a member of Sigma Xi. His honors include the ECS Battery Division Research Award (2014), Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching (2020), Battery Division Technology Award (2021), the inaugural Goodenough Award (2023), and the Olin Palladium Award (2025). Additional awards include the IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award (2015), Hocott Distinguished Engineering Research Award (2016), the International Battery Materials Association Research Award (2020), and the Yeager Award (2024). He delivered the 2019 Chemistry Nobel Prize Lecture in Stockholm on behalf of Prof. John Goodenough.