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Short Biography of Uday Pal, Ph.D.

Education. B. Tech., Metallurgy, Indian Institute of Technology (1980); Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (1984).

Employment. September 2006 – Present, Professor and interim Chair, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University; September 2000 – August 2006, Professor, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University; January 1998 to August 2000, Associate Professor, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University; July 1995 to December 1997, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT; April 1990 to June 1995, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT; December 1986 to March 1990, Senior Scientist, Westinghouse Science and Technology Center, Pittsburgh, PA; February 1984 to November 1986, Senior Engineer, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Company Research Center, Brackenridge, PA.

Research and Teaching Experience. Six years of industrial and seventeen years of academic research in high temperature chemical and electrochemical processes, including fuel cells, sensors, membrane separation, batteries, and metals processing. Have taught courses in materials thermodynamics, process kinetics, physical and solid-state chemistry, chemical processing of materials, transport phenomena and manufacturing processes. Authored/co-authored over 100 publications and 20 patents.

Awards. 2003 TMS Processing Technology Award for best paper in the technical field (2003); 2000 TMS Processing Technology Award for best paper in the technical field (2000); John Chipman Chair at MIT (1990-1997); ALCOA Foundation Science Support Award (1995); Frank B. Lounsberry Award, presented by Allegheny Ludlum Corporation for outstanding technical accomplishment for 1985; Xerox Research Award, presented by the Materials Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, for excellence in research (June 1982); ARCO Award, presented by the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, for academic excellence (May 1981).

Major Services and Memberships. Principal Editor for ‘Journal of Materials Research’, Key Reader for ‘Metallurgical and Materials Transactions’ and Advisor to the ‘Journal of Metals’; Member of ‘Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society)’; ‘Alpha Sigma Mu (National Materials Science and Engineering Honor Society)’; The Metals, Minerals, and Materials Society, Materials Research Society; and Electrochemcial Society.

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