Reza Abbaschian
Faculty Profile
Reza Abbaschian
Dean, Bourns College of Engineering,
William R. Johnson, Jr. Family Professor,
and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Berkeley, 1971
Bourns Hall A329
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Telephone: 951-827-6374
Facsimile: 951-827-3188
E-mail: rabba@engr.ucr.edu
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Biography
Reza Abbaschian received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. Prior to joining UC Riverside in 2005 as Dean of Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, he was Chairman of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. He has also held the positions of Chairman and Professor at the Pahlavi University in Shiraz, Iran, Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Illinois and Visiting Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Abbaschian has more than 230 scientific publications, four patents and eight books. He is a Fellow and the President of ASM International, the largest materials society in the world.
Research Topics
The emphasis of Dr. Abbaschian's research is the fundamental understanding of the role of interfaces on the processing and/or properties of material. Current projects involve investigations in solidification, high pressure-high temperature growth of diamond crystals, and electromagnetic levitation processing of alloys.
Selected Publications
- R. Abbaschian, and C. Clarke, "Recent progress in Growth of Diamond Crystals" in Innovative Superhard Materials and Sustainable Coatings for Advanced Manufacturing, Edited by J. Lee and N. Novikov, Springer, 2005, pp. 193-202.
- R.E. Reed-Hill and R. Abbaschian, Physical Metallurgy Principles, 3rd Edition, PWS-Kent Publishing Company, Boston, MA, 1992.
- E. Balikci, A. Deal, and R. Abbaschian: "Antimony Doped Germanium Single Crystals Grown From the Melt By The Axial Heat Processing (AHP) Technique", Journal of Crystal Growth, 2004, Vol. 262, pp. 581-593.
- S.V. Bykova, V.D. Golyshev, M.A. Gonik, V.B. Tsvetovsky, E. Balikci, A. Deal, R. Abbaschian, M.P. Marchenko, I.V. Frjazinov, V.N. Vlasov and J.A. Serebrjakov: "The Experimental-numerical Investigation of Instability of Faceted Ge Doped by Sb growth on the Base of AHP Method", Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 275, Issues 1-2, 2005, e229-e236.
- R. Abbaschian: "Materials Science and Engineering Education and Funding Trends in the United States," Facets, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2004, 15-18.
- H. Zhu and R. Abbaschian: "Reactive Processing of Nickel-Aluminide Intermetallic Compounds", Journal of Materials Science, 2003, Vol. 38, pp. 3861-3870.
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