Department of Materials Engineering
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA, USA.

EMPLOYMENT
1985-90 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mat. Eng., Drexel U. Phila., PA.
1990-93 Associate Professor, Dept. of Mat. Eng., Drexel U. Phila, PA.
1993-94 Sabbatical Leave, Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany.
1994-1997 Associate Professor, Dept. of Mat. Eng., Drexel U., Phila, PA.
1997-present Professor, Dept. of Mat. Eng., Drexel U., Phila, PA.

RESEARCH PROFILE
Dr. Barsoum's current research interests, among others, focus on developing and characterizing ceramic based materials for very high temperature applications. This work includes the processing and characterization (including extensive high temperature testing) of in-situ formed transition metal carbide/boride/nitride composites. Dr. Barsoum and his research group were the first to successfully synthesize, fabricate and fully characterize an important class of machinable ceramics for high temperature applications, namely the 312 and 211-phases. Since July 1996, when the furst paper on Ti3SiC2 was published, Dr. Barsoum and co-workers published,  or have accepted for publication over 25 refered publications on these ternary carbides and nitrides. Dr. Barsoum has authored or co-authored over 50 refereed publications, a textbook, Fundamentals of Ceramics, published by McGraw-Hill in 1997 and 5 patents. In 1999, Dr. Barsoum was made a distinguished professor at Drexel University, one of two such awards made every year across the University.

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