Welding and Joining Metallurgy Group

The Ohio State University Welding Engineering Program

News and Updates

Welcome to the OSU Welding and Joining Metallurgy Group website. The Group currently consists of one Research Scientist, 5 PhD candidates, 2 MS candidates, and 2 undergraduate students. Within the last few months, 5 students have graduated from the group. Shu Shi (Shell), Seth Norton (BP), and Nathan Nissley (ExxonMobil) have all headed to Houston with their PhDs to work in the oil/gas/energy industry. Jeff Sowards and Matt Gonser completed their MS degrees and are now pursuing PhD degrees at OSU.

Based on his research on welding fume, Jeff Sowards recently received the Henri Granjon International Student Paper Award from the International Institute of Welding. In Spring 2006, Melissa Rubal - one of our undergraduate research associates - won 4th place in OSU's Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. In October, the group will be strongly represented at the AWS Annual conference in Atlanta - presenting a total of 6 papers.

I encourage you to check the website for other activities and research projects within the group. I particularly encourage the group alumni to stay in touch so that we can keep our alumni website current.

Alumni

The following are students who have graduated with Professor Lippold as their Principal or Co-Advisor. Please provide Professor Lippold with any updated information.

Name	Degree	Emploment	E-mail	Other Info
Steve Ernst	MS, 1987	Deceased (2001)
Dennis Harwig	MS, 1988	Edison Welding Institute		PhD from Cranfield Univ., 2003
Jiping Qu	MS, 1989	Lincoln Electric Co.
Sasssan Shademan	MS, 1991
Wangen Lin	PhD, 1991	Edison Welding Institute		Director of Research
Ilhan Varol	PhD, 1992	Automated Analysis Corp.
Murali Tumurulu	MS, 1992	US Steel Research
Thomas Kruse	MS, 1993
Tracy Nelson	MS, 1993; PhD, 1998	Brigham Young University		Assoc. Professor, ME
Eric Barnhouse	MS, 1995
Alex Gutierrez	MS, 1995	GE Nuclear, San Jose
Mark Mehl	MS, 1995	Honeywell, Kansas City		Started at Honeywell, 01/04
Odell McWane	MS, 1996	Consultant in California (?)
Rahul Pathak	MS, 1997	Family business in India
Mark Rowe	BS Honors, 1997	PhD Candidate in Environmental Eng, Michigan Tech
Peter Ditzel	MS, 1997	Siemens Westinghouse, Orlando
Abdullah Al-Rumaih	MS, 1997	Saudi-Aramco
Michelle Atwell	MS, 1998	Somewhere in Kansas
Fabrizio Paletta	MS, 1998	PDVA, Venezuela
Mikal Balmforth	MS, 1998	Sandia California Laboratories
Chris Mariannetti	MS, 1998			Completed PhD at MIT (?)
Qiang Lu	PhD, 1999	Edison Welding Institute
Hamed Nagy	PhD, 1999	Univ. of Suez Canal, Egypt
Anastasios (Tasos) Kostrivas	PhD, 2000	The Welding Institute, UK
Naren Noolu	PhD, 2001	Univ. of Waterloo, Canada		Postdoc
Ming Qian	PhD, 2001	Beijing Technical Univ. – Laser Institute
Troy Finton	MS, 2003	GE Aircraft Engines
Matt Collins	MS, 2002	Conoco-Phillips, Alaska
Matt Robinson	MS, 2003	Caterpillar
Daniel Ryan	MS, 2003	Honeywell, Phoenix
Gustavo Guaytima	MS, 2004	Somewhere in Argentina		Graduated August 2004

The following are visiting faculty or scientists who have worked in the group.

Name	Year	Affilation	Contact	Other Info
Prof. Sergio Brandi	1994-1995	Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prof. Kazuhiro Nakata	1997	Osaka University
Prof. Barry Patchett	1997	Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Prof. Hanqian Zhang	2002	Taiyuan Univ. of Technology
Dr. Antonio Ramirez	2001-2003	Synchrotron Light National laboratory, Brazil
Dr. Boian Alexandrov	2003-2005	Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria		Currently at OSU