• Chairperson: Michael Dudley
  Engineering Building 314 (631) 632-8484
• Interim Undergraduate Studies Director: Gary Halada
  Engineering Building 308 (631) 632-8526
• Graduate Studies Director: Dilip Gersappe
  Engineering Building 316 (631) 632-7642
• Departmental Office
  Engineering Building 314 (631) 632-8484

Our department offers two degrees. The undergraduate degree is in Engineering Science (ESG). The graduate degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering (ESM).

Engineering Science is an interdisciplinary study which combines classic engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, etc.... This is the degree program that many employers request, since the undergraduate gains a wide range of knowledge. Recent students have received jobs in a myriad of companies and disciplines. Recent students have good things to say/write about our ESG degree.

Materials Science and Engineering is an interdisciplinary study which combines metallurgy, physics, chemistry, and engineering. Subfields include ceramics, biomechanics, semiconductor processings, polymer science, corrosion studies, and enviromental studies. Your world is made of materials, and that is what we teach and research. Be it i-beams or computer chips or bricks or foam, they are all materials to us. Don't believe it, then ask IBM, GM, ATT, Exxon, Intel, Alcoa, ....... they are all materials companies, who need better materials to make a better product, a better buck, and a better world.

Facilities

Since its inception some 25 years ago, the department has had a strong research component, with a major emphasis in surface science and engineering. Currently the department has eleven full-time faculty members, many of whom hold guest appointments at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The proximity of this excellent laboratory benefits the university's research programs through the availability of major facilities not normally found in university departments.

At Brookhaven, the facilities available to the department include a ultra-hi resolution transmission electron microscope, particle accelerators for carrying out ion beam surface modification experiments, and highly sophisticated surface analysis probes. The National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) is also located at Brookhaven. As one of the participating research teams at NSLS, the Synchrotron Topography Research Group, centered in Stony Brook's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is using special X-ray methods to image nondestructively dislocation microstructures. This enables image-detailed descriptions of dislocation motion and structures attendant to plastic deformation and fracture, as well as to interesting materials behaviors. The topographic method is also being used in department-based study of surface chemical reactivity.

As a result of the university's Engineering 2000 initiative, our ties with industry are growing stronger: faculty are working with industry on joint research projects and submitting cooperative proposals to outside agencies. The Materials Science Department is a member of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing, which is already making an impact on the regional manufacturing base.

Stony Brook's own facilities include state-of-the-art LEED, electron microscope, atomic force microscope, SIMS, and ESCA units, as well as central characterization facilities that include equipment for microanalysis and X-ray techniques. A well-equipped materials fabrication and processing facility within the department boasts a collection of furnaces capable of reaching 3,0000 C in controlled atmospheres or under vacuum, a resist-spinner, ellipsometer, contact angle gomiometers, and a high-resolution Nomarsky metallurgical microscope with image processing capability.

Analytical electron microscopy is well served by a digitally controlled Philips CM12 STEM, complete with EDX and parallel-reading EELS facilities. As well as being a routine research tool for revealing the microstructure and local chemical composition of materials, this equipment is being used in fundamental studies of radiation-sensitive materials, of diffusion-induced grain boundary migration, and of thin-film interfaces.

Other surface-related research involves ion beam modification of the mechanical and corrosion behavior of alloy steels. Using electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA), models explaining corrosion behavior of metal surfaces are being developed. The structure of epitaxial surface monolayers is being studied using low-energy electron diffraction (LEED); extension of this research is also performed at the NSLS. The preparation of thin films of magnetic metals is studied using ultrahigh-vacuum (UHV) molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) processing. These materials are used in the computer industry in disk storage devices. The magnetic properties of these materials are studied using a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) and magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) spectroscopy. A university-industrial-national laboratory effort on microbial-influenced corrosion has been initiated. Also, bacteria-metal ion interactions are being studied with electron spectroscopy for purposes of bioremediation. Research is also being performed on the chemical makeup of the newly discovered high-temperature superconductors. Novel methods of rapidly spraying such materials onto surfaces are being developed.

Several other programs within the department concentrate on applied areas of research. Thermal spray technology (melt-spray formation of protective coatings and free-standing forms) is carried out at the Thermal Spray Laboratory, which is a unique facility containing a vast array of industrial-level plasma and combustion spray devices. The laboratory is developing an infrastructural maintenance center under sponsorship of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the NY/NJ Port Authority. The laboratory is currently working on several spray form manufacturing programs with government and industry, including an NSF-sponsored Strategic Manufacturing Initiative program and a Department of Commerce-sponsored Advanced Technology Program. The laboratory actively collaborates with a wide range of industries to develop applications for thermal spray technology in materials engineering.

Consistent with Stony Brook's designated mission as a research center, the cornerstone of the department's academic program is the graduate work leading to the research-oriented M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. The department has about 39 full-time, fully supported students and as many as 16 part-time students, most of whom work in Long Island's high-technology industries.

-- the London Times Higher Education Supplement ranked Stony Brook 
No. 136 among the more than 8,300 universities worldwide, and in the 
top 50 in North America.

-- the Institute for Higher Education in Shanghai ranked Stony Brook 
among the top 150 universities in the world.

-- in a ranking of the best science universities, the London Times 
Higher Education Supplement ranked Stony Brook No. 76, making it 21 
in the U.S. and 10 among U.S. public universities.

Faculty

• Clayton, Clive R., Professor, Ph.D., 1976, Surrey University, England: Corrosion science; XPS; AES; RHEED; ion implantation; protective coatings.

• Dudley, Michael, Professor and Chairperson, Ph.D., 1982, University of Warwick, England: Synchrotron topography; crystal defects; mechanical properties.

• Jona, Franco P., Emeritus Professor,(2) Ph.D., 1949, Swiss Polytechnic Institute (E.T.H.), Switzerland: Surface physics; LEED.

• Gambino, Richard, Adjunct Professor and Principal Research Scientist, M.S., 1976, Polytechnic Institute of New York: Magnetic thin films; magneto-optical properties; Hall effect and magneto-resistance of magnetic metals; epitaxial growth of magnetic materials.

• Gersappe, Dilip, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 1992, Northwestern University: Polymers; computer modeling.

• Gouma, Perena, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 1996, University of Birmingham: Electron microscopy, sensors .

• Halada, Gary, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 1993, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Electron spectroscopy; electrochemistry; surface engineering; thin films; engineering design.

• Herman, Herbert, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., 1961, Northwestern University: Protective coatings; thermal spray; composites; marine materials.

• Mahajan, Devinder, Research Professor, Ph.D., 1979, University of British Columbia: synthesis of catalytic materials for fuel processing.

• Rafailovich, Miriam, Professor, Ph.D., 1980, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Polymeric liquids; phase transitions; thin film wetting phenomena; atomic force microscopy; ion, X-ray, and neutron scattering.

• Sampath, Sanjay, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1989, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Thermal spraying; protective coatings; intermetallics; spray forming.

• Sokolov, Jonathan, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1983, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Surface and interface properties of polymers and blends; phase transitions; neutron and X-ray scattering; EXAFS; SIMS.

  Off-site:

• Bari, Robert A., Adjunct Professor.(1) Ph.D., 1969, Brandeis University: Condensed matter physics; nuclear waste management; probabilistic risk assessment.

• Chu, Benjamin, Distinguished Professor.(2) Ph.D., 1959, Cornell University: Structure and dynamics of supermolecular and polymeric systems, using laser-light scattering, flourescence recovery after photo bleaching, transient electric birefringence, small-angle X-ray scattering with synchrotron radiation, and other spectroscopic techniques.

• Dorfman, Ben, Adjunct Professor.

• Francis, A.J., Adjunct Professor.(1) Ph.D., 1971, Cornell University: Microbiology; biosystems; process sciences.

• Goland, Allen N., Adjunct Professor.(1) Ph.D., 1956, Northwestern University: Solid-state physics; defects; interaction of radiation with condensed matter.

• Issacs, Hugh S., Adjunct Professor.(1) Ph.D., 1963, Imperial College, London: Corrosion; scanning techniques for surface defects; surface analysis.

• Johnson, Peter D., Adjunct Professor.(1) Ph.D., 1978, University of Warwick, England: Spin polarized photoemission.

• Kim, Man-wan, Adjunct Professor.(4)

• Marcus, Paul, Adjunct Professor.(5) Ph.D., 1943, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Atomic-scale surface structure; electron diffraction; magnetic properties of metals.

• McCleod, K.J., Adjunct Professor.

• Pomerantz, Melvin, Adjunct Professor.

• Powell, James R., Adjunct Professor.(1) Sc.D., 1958, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Applied superconductivity; composite structural materials.

• Schwarz, Steven, Adjunct Professor. (8) Ph.D., 1980, Stanford University: Materials and device characterization by SIMS.

• Seigle, Leslie, Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., 1951, Massacusetts Institute of Technology: Thermodynamics of solids; diffusions in solids; protective coatings.

• Suenaga, Masaki, Adjunct Professor.(1) Ph.D., 1969, University of California, Berkeley: Metallurgy of superconducting materials.

• Srivasta, Arun, Adjunct Professor.

• Tawfik, Hazem, Adjunct Professor. (11)

• Twilley, John, Adjunct Lecturer. Art Conservation Scientist

• Warren, John B., Adjunct Assistant Professor.(1) Ph.D., 1978, University of Florida: Analytical electron microscopy; X-ray fluorescence; semiconductor defects.

• Welch, David O., Adjunct Professor.(1) Ph.D., 1964, University of Pennsylvania: Theoretical materials science; kinetics of diffusion; energetics; statistical mechanics; crystal lattice defects; equations of state phase equilibria; radiation effects.

Number of teaching, graduate, and research assistants, Spring 2005: 63