ATRC

Sandip Harimkar

Education

Ph.D. Materials Science & Engineering
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Aug 2004 - Dec 2007

M.E. Metallurgical Engineering
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Aug 2001 - Mar 2003

B.E. Metallurgical Engineering
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Aug 1995 - Jul 1999

Research Interests

Laser Additive Manufacturing: Structural and high temperature metallic materials and composites
Spark Plasma Sintering of Materials: Amorphous alloys, nanoceramics, nanocomposites, coatings
Laser Processing of Materials: Surface modifications, joining, and micromachining
Pulse Electrodeposition: Metal matrix composite coatings, nanocrystalline/amorphous coatings
Surface Engineering: Advanced ceramic-, composite-, and amorphous-coatings.

Awards and Recognition

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Scripta Materialia (2019)
Best Paper Award, Twenty-Sixth International Conference on the Processing and Fabrication of the Advanced Materials (PFAM-XXVI), Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea (2017)
Outstanding Young Researcher Award, College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, Oklahoma State University, 2014
ASM-IIM Visiting Lectureship Award, ASM International and Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), 2013
Young Leaders International Scholar-JIM Award, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS), 2013
NSF CAREER Award, U.S. National Science Foundation, 2012
Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of manufacturing Engineers (SME), 2011
Young Leader Professional Development Award, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS), 2010
Honorary Fellowship, The Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials, 2010
Outstanding Graduate Scholarship, Oak Ridge Chapter of ASM International, 2006, 2007
K.K. Malik Gold Medal, Department of Metallurgy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2003
Best Student Award, Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur University, 1999

Professional Memberships

Member, Awards Committee, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), 2015-2019
Chair, Surface Engineering Committee, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), 2010-2016
Vice Chair, Surface Engineering Committee, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), 2009-2010
Member, Mechanical Behavior of Materials Committee, TMS, 2009-present
Member, Young Leaders Committee, TMS, 2009-present
Member, American Nano Society (ANS), 2010-present
Member, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2011-2012
Member, Materials Research Society of Singapore (MRS-S), 2012-2013
Member, ASM International, 2004-present
Member, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), 2004-present

Courses Taught

ENGR 1111 Introduction to Engineering

MAE 4333 Mechanical Metallurgy

MAE 4313 Advanced Processing of Engineering Materials

MAE 5693 Phase Transformations in Materials

MAE 5543 Modern Materials

Recent Publications

Z. Shi, S. Mandal, S. Harimkar, C. Liu, Surface Morphology Analysis Using Convolutional Autoencoder in Additive Manufacturing with Laser Engineered Net Shaping, Procedia Manufacturing, accepted for publication (2021)
B. Özdogru, S. Padwal, S. Harimkar, Ö. Çapraz, Electrochemical strain evolution in iron phosphate composite cathodes during lithium and sodium ion intercalation by cyclic voltammetry, Electrochimica Acta, 353, 136594 (2020)
A. Walker, C. Walgama, R. Nerimetla, S.H. Alavi, E. Echeverria, S.P Harimkar, D.N. McIlroy, S. Krishnan, Roughened graphite biointerfaced with P450 liver microsomes: surface and electrochemical characterizations, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 189, 110790 (2020).
T. Paul, A. Singh, K. Littrell, J. Ilavsky, S.P. Harimkar, Crystallization mechanism in spark plasma sintered bulk metallic glass analyzed using small angle neutron scattering, Scientific Reports, 10, 2033 (2020)
T. Paul, L. Zhang, S. Biswas, A. Loganathan, M.G. Frith, J. Ilavsky, I. Kuzmenko, J. Puckette, A.K. Kalkan, A. Agarwal, S.P. Harimkar, Quantification of thermal oxidation in metallic glass powder using ultra-small angle x-ray scattering, Scientific Reports, 9, 6836 (2019)