
Research
Teaching and research are linked: the skills and leading edge technology utilized in research projects are transferred to students in the classrooms and laboratories.
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NASA Launches LunaRecycle Challenge; UA Serves as Allied Organization
NASA announced the launch of the LunaRecycle Challenge on Monday, Sept. 30, offering $3 million in prizes for innovations in recycling material waste on deep space missions with The University...

Innovative UA Research Recognized with NSF CAREER Awards
Four professors at The University of Alabama received one of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious honors for early-career faculty.

Ringing in a New Ceremony for the College of Engineering
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Research Opportunities
Metallurgical and materials engineering faculty conduct active research programs in many different topical areas, including solidification science and technology, cold spraying, mechanical properties of materials, development of new materials for information storage, mathematical and physical modeling of materials-processing operations such as solidification and steel making, plasma processing of materials, solar cells, corrosion, oxidation, electrodeposition, resource reclamation, foundry methods, and metal casting.
The Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering operates laboratories for solidification processing, chemical metallurgy, mechanical processing, heat treating, specimen preparation, light and electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, corrosion, and electrochemistry. Specialized facilities also exist for rapid solidification, container-less melting, chemical-vapor deposition, sputtering of thin films, thermo gravimetric analysis, and an atomizer to manufacture metal powders for 3D printing of metal parts.
In addition, the University has a foundry, which provides space and facilities for teaching, research and service to metal-casting and processing industries. The laboratory incorporates basic types of equipment used in operating foundries and permits demonstration to students of most of the practices encountered in making cast iron, steel and nonferrous alloys.


Research Areas
- Additive Friction Stir Deposition
- Additive Manufacturing
- Analytical Microscopy
- Biomedical Alloys
- Catalytical Materials
- CFD Multisclae Modeling in Materials Processing
- Combustion
- Composite Processing
- Computational Materials Science
- Corrosion Science
- Energy Conversion and Storage Materials
- Energy-storage Materials
- Environmental Factors
- Fiber Processing
- Fracture Mechanics
- Friction Stir Welding and Processing
- High Temperature Ceramic Processing
- High Temperature Coatings
- High Temperature Deformation Behavior
- In situ TEM
- Intermetallic Compounds
- Magnetic Materials
- Magnetism
- Materials Characterization
- Materials Chemistry
- Mechanical Behavior
- Metal Fatigue
- Metallic Materials
- Metallic Thin Films
- Metals
- Modeling of Microstructure Evolution in Addtitive Manufactuing Processes
- Molten Metal Chemistry
- Nanocrystalline Metals
- Optical and Medical Technology
- Optical Diagnostics
- Oxidation
- Permanent Magnets
- Plasma
- Plasma Engineering
- Research and Development of High Performance Alloys
- Semiconductor Display
- Solar Cells
- Solidification Science and Engineering of Castings
- Spintronics
- Stress Corrosion Cracking
- Structural Alloys
- Thermodynamics
- Thim Film Multiferroics
- Thin Film Applications to Magnetic
- Thin Film Ferroelectrics
- Thin Film Solar Cells
- Thin films and coatings
- Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramics
- Ultrasonic Processing of Alloys and Nanocomposites
- Welding
- Welding and Joining Processes