Amit Bandyopadhyay - Professor

The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Amit Bandyopadhyay - Professor

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Contact Information:

office Dana 105A
telephone 509 335 4862
e-mail amitband@wsu.edu
Postal mail Amit Bandyopadhyay
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Washington State University
PO BOX 642920
Pullman, WA 99164-2920
Amit Bandyopadhyay

Joined MME in 1997
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington in 1995.

Research Interests:

  • Materials Research Group
  • Processing of ceramics, metals and composites using Rapid Prototyping
  • Load bearing and non-load bearing implants
  • Patient specific implants
  • Laser processing of materials
  • Microwave sintering of ceramics
  • Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs) for medical imaging and therapeutics

Recent Publications:

  • Amit Bandyopadhyay and Susmita Bose, “Materials and Design of Orthopedic Devices,” Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation, 2nd Edition, Edited by John G. Webster, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 187-192 (2006).
  • B. Vamsi Krishna, S. Bose and A. Bandyopadhyay, “Low Stiffness Porous Ti Structures for Load Bearing Implants,” in press, Acta Biomaterialia, (2007).
  • Hongsoo Choi, Jow-Lian Ding, Amit Bandyopadhyay, Susmita Bose, "Finite element analysis of piezoelectric thin film structures," in press, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, (2007).
  • Amit Bandyopadhyay, Sheldon Bernard, Weichang Xue and Susmita Bose, “Feature Article: Calcium Phosphate Based Resorbable Ceramics: Influence of MgO, ZnO and SiO2 Dopants,” Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 89 [9], pp. 2675-88 (2006).
  • K. Das, A. Bandyopadhyay and Y. M. Gupta, “Effect of Crystallization on the Mechanical Properties of Zr 56.7 Cu15.3Ni12.5Nb5.0Al10.0Y0.5 Bulk Amorphous Alloy,” Materials Science and Engineering A, 394 [1-2], pp. 302-311 (2005).

National & International Recognition:

  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (1999)
  • Young Investigator Program Award, Office of Naval Research (1998)

Links:

Thomas Barlow 1957 ME graduate- former president of ASME Thomas Barlow 1957 ME graduate- former president of ASME

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MSE 41
ME 56
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