Carl Koch Ph.D.
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Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering |
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| North Carolina State University |
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Nonequilibrium processing, including rapid solidification, vapor quenching and mechanical alloying; alloying behavior and phase transformations; amorphization and nanoscale structures by mechanical attrition; high melting temperature intermetallic compounds; high transition temperature oxide superconductors.
Dr. Koch received his Ph.D. in metallurgy from the Case Inst. of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University) in 1964. He joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a staff scientist in 1965. He was the group leader of the superconducting materials and then the alloying behavior and design group before he joined North Carolina State University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, as a professor in 1983. He is a professor of materials science and engineering and associate department head. He has made significant contributions to understanding of mechanical alloying and mechanical attrition for preparation of amorphous and nanostructured alloys. He has published about 240 papers and edited or co-edited 6 books. In October 1995 Dr. Koch was cited in Science Watch for the third highest number of citations per paper in the world for high-impact articles in materials science for 1990 through 1994. He has achieved the prestigious rank of fellow in several professional societies, including the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) in which the membership is limited to 100 living fellows, the American Physical Society (APS), ASM International, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is a member of the Materials Research Society (MRS) as well as Alpha Sigma Mu, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi technical honor societies. His professional awards include a Department of Energy Metallurgy and Ceramics Award, an I–R 100 Award, an NSF Research Award for Special Creativity, the Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Research Award, the North Carolina State University Alumni Distinguished Research Award, and the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal of Excellence (the highest faculty award given at NC State). Highly active in professional associations, Dr. Koch has been national secretary of the Materials Research Society and a National Science Foundation expert on nanostructured materials. He has served on numerous committees for TMS and MRS. He was a former editor of one of the major materials research journals, Materials Science and Engineering A from 1997 to 2003. He was a member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) from 1998 to 2003. He was a member of the 8 person NSF/WTEC Panel which spent 1997 assessing the state of nanoparticle/nanostructured materials research in the world in comparison to that in the U.S. He was one of three speakers at an informational luncheon for the Research and Development Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives entitled “Nanomaterials:Making it Real by Materials Science and Engineering” on May 12, 2005. This luncheon was partly supported by TMS. His research on nanocrystalline materials has focused upon their synthesis, characterization, and their mechanical behavior. His research in this area has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.
Education
Ph.D. Case Institute of Technology 1964
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