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, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, Journal of Non-crystaline Solids, Materias & Design

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.

Served as Official Nominator for: VinFuture Prize

Zhengming

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

 

Raymond Lee  (research intern, summer 2024)

Rising 11th Grader, Westview High School, Portland, OR

 

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: Intel)

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