UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Florida invites applications for a non-tenure track faculty Lecturer position dedicated to undergraduate laboratory instruction. This position will be a renewable 12-month appointment starting from the Fall 2012 Term. The main duties for this position include teaching two general laboratory courses for juniors (Materials Lab 1 in Fall, Materials Lab 2 in Spring) and coordinating specialty laboratory courses for seniors. In addition, this Lecturer will coordinate the entire laboratory experimental experience for undergraduate students in the Materials Science and Engineering degree program, which   includes contributing to the curriculum of the Capstone Design course (EMA 4714), student participation in the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program (EMA 4915) and Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), computer software use, etc.

Jennifer Andrew, an assistant professor in the materials science and engineering department has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, NSF’s most prestigious award given to early career scientists, for her proposal, “Structure-property relationships arising from interfacial coupling in bi-phasic ceramic nanocomposites."

Many material properties are mutually exclusive, and are therefore unlikely to exist in a single phase material. Examples of this property dichotomy are high electric permittivity and high magnetic permeability, soft and hard magnetic properties, strength and toughness. However, increasing performance in many real world applications relies on combining these properties, including structural, electromagnetic filters, and magnetic memory applications driving the development of carbon fiber composite materials, multiferroics, and exchange-spring magnets.  In each of these composite materials the interface between the two phases is critical in determining its overall performance.