Faculty
Reza Abbaschian
Distinguished Professor
Dean, College of Engineering
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Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering
UC Berkeley, 1971
A329 Bourns Hall
Riverside, Ca 92521
Phone: 951-827-6374
Fax: 951-827-3188
Email: rabba@engr.ucr.edu
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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.
Awards
Dr. Abbaschian has received numerous awards including the 2003 ASEE
Donald E. Marlowe Award in recognition of "creative and distinguished
administrative leadership in engineering and engineering technology
education" and the 2002 Davis Productivity Award of the State of
Florida. He received the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
Leadership Award in 1999 and in 2000 he was elected a Fellow. He also
received the TMS Educator Award in 1998.
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.
