Michael Ernest Kassner
Dean's Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Professor of Chemical and Materials Science and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Education
- Doctoral Degree, Materials Engineering, Stanford University
- Master's Degree, Materials Engineering, Stanford University
- Bachelor's Degree, Northwestern University
Biography
1981 Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
1979 M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
1972 B.S.S.E., Science-Engineering, Northwestern University
Research Summary
Metal plasticity theory, creep, fracture, phase diagrams, fatigue
Awards
- 2015 TMS Structural Materials Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award,
- 2013 Korean AIrlines Choong Hoon Cho CHair
- 2012 2nd USA Science and Engineering Festival Named One of the “Nifty Fifty”
- 2012 US Navy Meritorious Public Service Medal
- 2009 AAAS Fellow
- 2009 ASME Fellow
- 2008 ASEE AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow
- 2008 ASEE ASEE AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow
- 2003 epartment of Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University Northwest Aluminum Professorship
- 1998 ASM International (formerly American Society of Metals) Fellow
Appointments
- Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Office
- RTH 502
- Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering
- 3710 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089
- USC Mail Code: 1453
Contact Information
- (213) 740-0942
- kassner@usc.edu