Dr. Amit Bandyopadhyay
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Pullman, WA 99164-2920
Phone: (509)335-4862 Fax: (509)335-4662
Email: amitband@wsu.edu
PERSONAL:
Born in 1967. Wife: Prof. Susmita Bose, Associate Professor, MME, WSU. Sons: Shohom and Aditya.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (March, 1995)
Masters of Engineering in Metallurgy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (January 1992)
Bachelor of Engineering in Metallurgy, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India (June, 1989)
EMPLOYMENT:
Professor, MME, WSU, Pullman, WA 99164-2920 Aug '06 - Present
Visiting Professor, MRSEC, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Jan '08 - June '08
Visiting Scientist & CSIR Fellow, CGCRI, Kolkata, India Sept '07 - Dec '07
Director, Bioengineering Research Center, WSU, Pullman, WA 99164-2719 Spring '04 - Present
Associate Professor, MME, WSU, Pullman, WA 99164-2920 Aug '01 - Aug '06
Assistant Professor, MME, WSU, Pullman, WA 99164-2920 Aug '97 - Aug '01
Research Associate, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855 April '96 - Aug '97
Post Doc Research Associate, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855 April '95 - Mar '96
Graduate Assistant, University of Texas at Arlington, TX 76019 Jan '92 - March '95
Metallurgical Engineer, Bridge and Roof Company (I) Ltd., India Sept '89 - July '90
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS:
Processing of Structural, Piezoelectric and Bio-Ceramic Materials, Solid Freeform Fabrication /Rapid Prototyping of Ceramics, Micro-machined Transducers Using Thin and Thick Films, Surface Modification of Materials, Laser Processing of Materials.
PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS:
Dr. Bandyopadhyay has published over 150 technical articles including journal papers, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He has also edited one book. He holds eight US patents and four more patent applications are pending at USPTO.
Patents
1. US Patent # 5,738,817, “Solid Freeform Fabrication Methods.” (Licensed)
2. US Patent #5,796,207, “Oriented Piezoelectric Ceramics and Ceramic Polymer Composites.” (Licensed)
3. US Patent #5,818,149, “Ceramic Composites and Methods for Producing Same.” (Sold)
4. US Patent # 5,900,207, “Solid Freeform Fabrication Methods.”
5. US Patent #5,997,795, “Process for Forming of Photonic Band-Gap Structures.” (Licensed)
6. US Patent #6,004,500, “Novel Ceramic Composites and Methods for Producing Same.” (Sold)
7. US Patent #6,049,160, “Radial Ceramic Piezoelectric composites.”
8. US Patent #6,571,008, “Reverse Engineering of Polymeric Solid Models by Refractive Index Matching.” (Sold)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Honors
Research Excellence Award, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, WSU, 2008.
Research Excellence Award, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, WSU, 2005.
MSE Faculty of the Year, Teaching Excellence Award, WSU, 2000.
CAREER Award, the National Science Foundation, 1999.
Best Paper of the Year Award, Rapid Prototyping Journal, 1999.
Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, the Office of Naval Research, 1998.
Carl D. Wiseman Service Award '92-'93, the outstanding graduate student in the MSE at UTA.
Affiliations
American Ceramic Society; American Society for Materials; Materials Research Society.
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES:
Member of the Editorial Board
Journal of the American Ceramic Society (www.blackwellpublishing.com/jace)
Research Letters in Materials Science (www.hindawi.com/journals/rlms/)
Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation (www.inderscience.com/ijmatei)
Advances in Materials Science (www.hindawi.com/journals/ams/)
Reviewer: Journal of the Amer. Ceramic Society; J. of Materials Research; Materials Science and Engineering A, Materials Science and Engineering C, Acta Biomaterialia, Biomaterials, Advanced Engineering Materials; Chemistry of Materials, Sensors and Actuators A, Journal of Materials Science, IEEE - UFFC, Biomedical Materials Research A/B; proposal reviewer and panel member for the NSF, and US-CRDF.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Courses Taught at WSU
1. MSE 403: Ceramic Materials (for seniors in MSE)
2. ME 310: Manufacturing Processes (for juniors in ME and MSE)
3. ME 474: Advanced Manufacturing Processes (for seniors in ME)
4. MSE 314: Phase Diagrams (for juniors in MSE)
5. MSE 321: Materials Characterization (for juniors in MSE)
6. MSE 316: Phase Transformations and Kinetics
7. MSE 450: Seminar (for seniors in MSE)
8. MSE 523: Ceramics Processing (Graduate Class in MSE)
9. MSE 506: Biomaterials (Graduate class in MSE)
10. Mat Sci 503: Seminar
11. MSE 514: Thermodynamics (Graduate Class in MSE)
12. MSE 302: Electronic Materials (for juniors in MSE, EE, Chem E)
13. MSE 505: Materials Science (Graduate class in MSE)