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Left to right: Ploy (Tittaya), Sarah (Saowaluk), Zhengming, Donghua, Natasha, Madeline, Lei. Szechuan Cafe, Corvallis, 2/18/23.
Left to right: Lei, Olivia, Ploy, Sarah, Zhengming, Donghua, Elijah, Madeline, Angel, Ben (Stewart), Ben (Wyland). Uncle Sun (formerly Szechuan Cafe), Corvallis, 2/16/24.
Donghua Xu (Principal Investigator)
Associate Professor (Materials Science Program), School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University
Education and training
Postdoctoral training, Nuclear Engineering, University of California - Berkeley, 2005-2008
M.S., Ph.D., Materials Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2000-2005
B.S., Materials Science, Jilin University, 1994-1998
Academic Family Tree: https://academictree.org/physics/tree.php?pid=138333
Contact
303C Dearborn Hall
School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
Office phone: (541)737-7027
Email: donghua dot xu at oregonstate dot edu
Courses at OregonState
MATS 321: Introduction to Materials Science
MATS 555: Experimental Techniques in Materials Science
MATS 570: Structure-Property Relations in Materials
MATS 588: Computational Methods in Materials Science
Diversity in classroom:
(MATS 555, class of 2023: 8 female, 3 male, from 9 different countries)
Professional services
Reviewed paper manuscripts for: Physical Review Letters, Science Advances, MRS Bulletin, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review B, Physical Review E, Physical Review Materials, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Nuclear Materials, Acta Materialia, Computational Materials Science, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering (MSMSE), Philosophical Magazine Letters, Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Solid State Communications, Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal of Materials Science, Journal of Materials Research, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Metals, Intermetallics, Vacuum, Thermochimica Acta, International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Journal of ASTM International
Reviewed funding proposals for: 1. U.S. National Science Foundation; 2. U.S. Department of Energy; 3. Romania National Council for Scientific Research, National Council for Development and Innovation; 4. Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
Zhengming Wang (PhD student)
B.E., Materials Forming and Control, Tianjin University
Tittaya Thaiyanurak (PhD student)
B.E., Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
Lei Chen (PhD student)
B.S., Materials Science, Sichuan University
Elijah Routley (undergraduate student, Honors College, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2023 - )
Olivia Gordon (undergraduate student, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2023 - )
Yixian Angel Liu (URSA Engage student 2024)
1st year undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University
Benjamin Stewart (URSA Engage student 2024)
2nd year undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University
Benjamin Wyland (URSA Engage student 2024)
1st year undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University
Past members
Madeline Ayers (URSA Engage student 2023)
1st year undergraduate, Civil Engineering, Oregon State University
Natalia Zaitseva (URSA Engage student 2023)
1st year undergraduate, Computer Science, Oregon State University
John Miska (undergraduate student, Honors College, graduated, Spring 2023)
Annie Duan (research intern, Summer 2023)
Rising 11th Grader, Jesuit High School, Portland, OR
Founder and Executive Director of CrochetForChnge (CrochetForChnge.org)
Jaskaran Singh Saini (PhD student, graduated, Summer 2022; Now: postdoctoral researcher at Univ. Calif. -- San Diego)
B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University
Tzu-Yi Chang (Master of Science student, graduated, Fall 2021, she/her/hers; Now: PhD student in nuclear sci. and engr. at OSU)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Fangzheng Chen (Master of Science student, graduated, Spring 2019; Now: PhD student at Washington Univ. -- St. Louis)
B.E., Welding, Nanchang Hangkong University
Yifan Xu (Master of Science student, graduated, Fall 2018)
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Collin Palian (undergraduate student, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2017 - Fall 2018)
Chang Sun (summer visiting student, 2017)
B.E., Materials Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Siqi Huang (summer visiting student, 2017, she/her/hers)
B.E., Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University